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Musical butchery (i.e. some songs don't need a remake, dammit)

NuclearNed

NuclearNed

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I consider "Already Gone" from the Eagles to be a rock anthem that was done pretty much perfectly the first time around. Now I'm here at work listening to some chick group that sounds like Wilson-Phillips belting out their crappy version of it on the muzak system.

Note to aspiring musical geniuses: If you don't have enough talent to bring me something original and fresh, please don't resort to destroying old favorites and thereby showing what a no-talent assclown you really are. I don't care how much you need the money. If you are really starving, please feel free to explore your options in something less offensive than remaking classics, like gay animal porn, but leave my danged music alone.

Your pal,
NuclearNed
 
American Pie-Madonna's remake

:|:thumbsdown:


Edit: Perhaps I should upgrade the :| to a :frown:, because it didn't really make me mad, it just sucks.
 
Sheryl Crow - "First Cut is the Deepest"
Counting Crows - "Big Yellow Taxi" (aka "Repave Paradise")

Not so much awful as utterly pointless and adding nothing fresh or original.
 
I like Manson's version of "Sweet Dreams," Phish or whoever-we-decided-it-was's version of "Gin and Juice," Dynamite Hack's "Boys in tha Hood," and Nina Gordon's "Straight out of Compton."

Dixie Chicks did a decent version of that one song, too. I also liked Ugly Kid Joe's rendidtion of "Cat's in the Cradle."
 
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
The end all answer to this thread is 'Behind Blue Eyes' by the Who as butchered and raped by Fred Durst.
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I'm sorry, the correct answer is "Another Brick in the Wall" as "performed" by Korn. Your answer was considered, but could not compete.
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
The end all answer to this thread is 'Behind Blue Eyes' by the Who as butchered and raped by Fred Durst.
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I'm sorry, the correct answer is "Another Brick in the Wall" as "performed" by Korn. Your answer was considered, but could not compete.
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Oh, come on! As much as I love PF, Korn's version was a decent compliment. It obviously does not surpass the original, but I don't think that's what they were trying to do.

Now, I will agree that their version of Metallica's "One" was pretty bad..
 
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Oh, come on! As much as I love PF, Korn's version was a decent compliment. It obviously does not surpass the original, but I don't think that's what they were trying to do.

Now, I will agree that their version of Metallica's "One" was pretty bad..
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Nope. It actually borders on painful listening to Korn's cover. I haven't even listened to their cover of One yet.
 
Not all remakes are bad. Example: Most of George Thorogood's popular songs are remakes.
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer was a remake. I still don't like the remake, but the original was much worse (IMHO)

My son heard a remake of some song that was popular 4 or 5 years ago. His comment: "I usually hate remakes, but this one is pretty good." My reply "That's because this version is 30 years old and *IS* the original"

Also, didn't some fvcktard comment about Paul McCartney doing a "remake" of "Live and Let Die" after the halftime show this year?
 
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
The end all answer to this thread is 'Behind Blue Eyes' by the Who as butchered and raped by Fred Durst.
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agreed. when i first heard that i wanted to puke my guts out.
 
There is no remake worse than the one I heard the other day of "Sweet Home Alabama." I was helping a guy in the office do something for a video presentation and he had a bunch of mp3s on a CD that somebody gave him for it and he was playing them while I worked. It was some female country singer doing a wretched version. Slowly clawing a keyboard with fingernails would have sounded more pleasant to my ears!
 
Originally posted by: PanzerIV
It was some female country singer doing a wretched version. Slowly clawing a keyboard with fingernails would have sounded more pleasant to my ears!
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Ah. So you too have heard of Martina McBride.
 
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