Official Remake Song better than Original Thread

Gary Jules Mad WorldGears of War/Donnie Darko > Tears for Fears

Richard cheese, Baby!

http://www.richardcheese.com/

ha ha richard cheese... his cover of Get Down With the Sickness by disturbed is just plain great! The montage in the remake of Dawn of the Dead with that cover in it is just plain epic!

Sorry, bad link. Here's this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr7EBuz-2xI

Oh yeah, check out the "Replicants" album. It's all covers. They may not all be better than the originals, but it's a damn good album.

4 Pumpkin Escobar's of fury wrote: I know, I know...blasphemy

Not as blasphemous as the guy who suggested that SRV could even cover a Hendrix song.

The Killer's new album is pretty damn good. (Jerry Lee Lewis not the other Killers)

http://www.myspace.com/jerryleelewis/music/songs/dead-flowers-73232997

4 Pumpkin Escobar's of fury wrote: 5FD and Nickelback, slipvein and mudknot and Daughtry and all the other "new rock" turdholios can stfu thankyouverymuch.

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^^Agreed

Sweet Jane: Cowboy Junkies > Velvet Underground Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHRFZFmEq9o

Six More Miles: The The > Mike Ness = Hank Sr. < The Residents

Cornbread and Butterbeans: The Carolina Chocolate Drops > everybody else Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xOxHyTP91c

Best taking an unfinished song and finishing it: Wagon Wheel The Old Crow Medicine Show for Bob Dylan Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKXFMdyfFgk

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I could probably spend a lot of time thinking of these, but I do have to get some work done today and lunch time is over.

There was a diagram on Cracked that illustrated this:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18898_the-8-things-you-can-do-with-cover-song-5Bcomic5D.html

There's also a whole seris of albums called "Pickin' on...insert band here..."

All bluegrass covers from Zep, The Who, The Beatles etc.

http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/artist/On,+Pickin%27/a/Pickin%27+On.htm

This series of albums is quite entertaining with a few standouts like Automatic 7 doing a cover of pretty in pink that is just awesome.

I'm surprised nobody has suggested any Dread Zeppelin

I thought Run DMC was a collaboration with Aerosmith, not a complete redo.

It was good though.

and +1 for Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine!!!

Not sure if these were mentioned, but here's mine....

Come together: Original - Beetles. Remake - Aerosmith

Knockin on heavens door: Original - Dylan. Remake - Guns n Roses (I like the original, but remake is better)

Live and Let Die: Original - Wings/McCartney. Remake - Guns n Roses

A few people have mentioned the Devo version of "Satisfaction" being better that the original. While I also agree, it should read: Devo>Rolling Stones<The Residents

Grtechguy wrote: I'll start Song: HURT Original: NIN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJKVKglIRs Remake: Johnny Cash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho&feature=related

End of thread is right, that is the worst and stupidest remake of all time.

I would post mine, but I usually find out that what I thought was the original was in fact a remake itself.

pinchvalve wrote:

Grtechguy wrote: I'll start Song: HURT Original: NIN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJKVKglIRs Remake: Johnny Cash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho&feature=related

End of thread is right, that is the worst and stupidest remake of all time.

The best I can figure is that the song is so fitting for Cash's life that people love it despite the fact that it is a pretty poor remake.

MrJoshua wrote:

pinchvalve wrote:

Grtechguy wrote: I'll start Song: HURT Original: NIN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJKVKglIRs Remake: Johnny Cash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho&feature=related

End of thread is right, that is the worst and stupidest remake of all time.

The best I can figure is that the song is so fitting for Cash's life that people love it despite the fact that it is a pretty poor remake.

Sorry Pinchie, your opinion is wrong, thats a pretty stellar cover. Mr. Joshua is right, its greatness lies mostly in the truth in the lyrics. I love NIN, but to be honest, a majority of it was just the precursor to Emo. Johnny Cash really did live those lyrics, and everyone he knew left him in the end. Its as poetic as it is tragic. There are a few good books on his life as a musician and just general Biographies, not to mention the movie.

4 Pumpkin Escobar's of fury wrote:

MrJoshua wrote:

pinchvalve wrote:

Grtechguy wrote: I'll start Song: HURT Original: NIN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJKVKglIRs Remake: Johnny Cash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho&feature=related

End of thread is right, that is the worst and stupidest remake of all time.

The best I can figure is that the song is so fitting for Cash's life that people love it despite the fact that it is a pretty poor remake.

Sorry Pinchie, your opinion is wrong, thats a pretty stellar cover. Mr. Joshua is right, its greatness lies mostly in the truth in the lyrics. I love NIN, but to be honest, a majority of it was just the precursor to Emo. Johnny Cash really did live those lyrics, and everyone he knew left him in the end. Its as poetic as it is tragic. There are a few good books on his life as a musician and just general Biographies, not to mention the movie.

Yep. It sounds genuine and real when Johnny Cash sings it. Trent Reznor sounds like a whiny bitch.

Apparently in GRM world: sympathy for Jonny Cash's drug addicted lifestyle > sympathy for Trent Reznor's drug addicted lifestyle.

Even Trent liked it:

(from Wiki)

I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore… It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure.

-Rob

^yep.

MrJoshua wrote: Apparently in GRM world: sympathy for Jonny Cash's drug addicted lifestyle > sympathy for Trent Reznor's drug addicted lifestyle.

Why, yes. The song sounds a lot less whiny when the guy singing it knows he's not got that much longer to live, versus being still young and having more time to make up for your mistakes.