Battle of the Remakes part 1

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
You need to add Rufus Wainwright Hallelujah option to the poll. Can't stand the others.

:thumbsup:

damn straight. It blows Buckley out of the water.

 

[DrPizza]

Very different versions of "I Will Survive"
Cake: here
Gloria Gaynor: here

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Under Pressure

Queen + David Bowie
My Chemical Romance + The Used

IMO the remake is blah. It takes all of the power and raw emotion of the original song and turns it into alternative crap.

You have put murder in my heart.

LMAO! You're telling me you think "My Chemical Romance" is better than Queen and David Bowie? Wow...

 

[DangerAardvark]

Originally posted by: Kadarin

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Under Pressure

Queen + David Bowie
My Chemical Romance + The Used

IMO the remake is blah. It takes all of the power and raw emotion of the original song and turns it into alternative crap.

You have put murder in my heart.

LMAO! You're telling me you think "My Chemical Romance" is better than Queen and David Bowie? Wow...

No, I meant the My Chemical Romance video pissed me off.

 

[ForumMaster]

as for hallelujah, i prefer Rufus Wainwright's version.

 

[Lonyo]

Hocus Pocus
Forus (original)
Helloween (cover

Black Dog
Led Zepplin (original)
Masterplan (cover)

 

[Eeezee]

How about in part 2 we do a comparison of Weird Al's versions of songs to the originals? I'll vote for Weird Al on almost every single one of them

 

[imported_yovonbishop]

"Dancing Days" - Led Zeppelin vs. Stone Temple Pilots

I choose STP.

 

[BlackTigers]

Smokin in the Boy's Room
Motley Crue
Brownsville Station

Whiskey in the Jar
Thin Lizzy
Metallica

Knockin on Heaven's Door
Guns n' Roses
Bob Dylan

 

[Glayde]

End of the World

R.E.M.

Great Big Sea

(get to see GBS in concert in a couple weeks, they just started a US tour, can't wait!)

 

[SirStev0]

I picked the original of all of them. Esp for the Cure and for MJ.

 

[Injury]

Blue Monday

New Order (Original)
Orgy (Cover)

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Hocus Pocus
Forus (original)
Helloween (cover

Black Dog
Led Zepplin (original)
Masterplan (cover)

Gary Hoey did Hocus Pocus and it was fantastic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCwBiahYcWg

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: BlackTigers
Whiskey in the Jar
Thin Lizzy
Metallica

Meh, Whiskey in the Jar is a much older song than those two bands. I'd honestly take a traditional version of it than either of these. It takes the spirit out of it to have a rock rendition, really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_in_the_Jar

 

[Mucho]

The Letter

The Box Tops v Joe Cocker

 

[MidasKnight]

ballroom blitz

The Sweet (original)


Krokus

 

[Q]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Wow, tough to decide who did the best version of Alone.
original w/ John Stamos
Made very famous by Heart
I like this version by The Zoo/Ariel Pineda Honestly, I think they could have made a studio version superior to Heart's. Pineda's voice is incredible for a male.
Celine Dion did it too
so did Carrie Underwood (w/ Heart) I think she did a much better job than Ann

I rank it Underwood/Pineda/Heart/Dion/Stamos

I didn't know Uncle Jesse was an 'actual' singer/songwriter at one time.

The things ATOT teaches you

 

[Vehemence]

Survivor - Eye of the Tiger

Ten Masked Men - Eye of the Tiger (cover)

TMM has quite a lot of songs they cover in to death metal (that's all they do); some are good while some are pretty bad. :laugh:

Children of Bodom - Oops I Did It Again is a good cover of Britney Spears' song...

Seven Witches has a good cover of Fleetwood Mac's The Chain...

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark

Originally posted by: Kadarin

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Under Pressure

Queen + David Bowie
My Chemical Romance + The Used

IMO the remake is blah. It takes all of the power and raw emotion of the original song and turns it into alternative crap.

You have put murder in my heart.

LMAO! You're telling me you think "My Chemical Romance" is better than Queen and David Bowie? Wow...

No, I meant the My Chemical Romance video pissed me off.

Ahh..

It might not be an official video.

 

[TheVrolok]

Great thread, and I could list many more if I had the time (perhaps later), but one of my favorite covers is:

Tool - No quarter
Led Zep - No Quarter

Originally posted by: SirStev0
I picked the original of all of them. Esp for the Cure and for MJ.

So you're a liar!

 

[queenrobot]

Angie-The Rolling Stones

or


Angie- Tori Amos

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
How about one where the remake is much better than the original?
Nena - 99 Red Balloons
Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons

The Goldfinger version: :thumbsup:

 

[Slick5150]

Ring of Fire
Johnny Cash
Social Distortion <-- Actually a really good cover

 

[acheron]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Korn is one of the WORST things to happen to music, EVER.
EVER.

fixed.

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Voted originals except for Jeff Buckley.

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"All Along the Watchtower" -- Dylan, Hendrix, or Matthews? I vote Hendrix. (At work, can't find links to songs right now, but if you haven't heard these before, you need to crawl out from under your rock.)

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Originally posted by: Glayde

End of the World

R.E.M.

Great Big Sea

(get to see GBS in concert in a couple weeks, they just started a US tour, can't wait!)

Just saw GBS the other day for the first time, they were excellent.

R.E.M.'s original of ITEOTWAWKI(AIFF) is better though.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
Tainted Love
-Shades Apart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsVesOYCe_A
-Soft Cell (famous version): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEh5pWjcWCg

What no Gloria Jones?