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U2 Remake of All Along the Watchtower

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U2's cover of All Along the Watchtower is OK. It's on the Rattle and Hum Live CD.

DMB sucks anyway.

Smashing Pumpkin's version of Landslide is better than that goat-lady's original. Not all covers are bad.

How about Dream Theater's cover of Rush's La Villia Strangiato? Now that's good stuff.

 
U2's version is closer to the original than Hendrix's. IMHO, it's not as bad as MB says it is, but Bob's versions (both live with The Band and studio) are better.

FWIW, of the many covers of his songs, Dylan has said that Hendrix's cover of Watchtower is the only one that improves on his version.
 
Originally posted by: dainthomas
Johnny Cash's cover of "Personal Jesus" ftw.

Worst Cover Ever. I thought my ears were going to start bleeding.
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The man was almost dead when he recorded that. Cut him some slack.

Besides The Man in Black had more musical ability than U2 or any of the current crop of musicians ever will.

 
bono thinks he is a god, honestly, if you want to help the starving children why dont you put that money you spend on your attire towards helping them out?
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: Gibson486
I think U2 needs to stop, period.
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A statement that was as true in 1981 as it is now.
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I liked them up to around The Joshua Tree, but think they've gradually metamorphosed into fecal matter since then.
 
Originally posted by: dainthomas
Johnny Cash's cover of "Personal Jesus" ftw.

Worst Cover Ever. I thought my ears were going to start bleeding.
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That title goes to Korn's "Another Brick in the Wall."
 
Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
Originally posted by: dainthomas
Johnny Cash's cover of "Personal Jesus" ftw.

Worst Cover Ever. I thought my ears were going to start bleeding.
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The man was almost dead when he recorded that. Cut him some slack.

Besides The Man in Black had more musical ability than U2 or any of the current crop of musicians ever will.
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Hey 99.9% of his stuff is great, but you can't hit every ball out of the park. Agreed on his musical ability being greater than every member of U2 (and Korn) combined.
 
Originally posted by: Anubis
every remake of that song sucks

the Dylan version is the only one worth listning to
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I like Dylan, and I know that Hendrix is talked about far too much, but it's deserving. When Dylan heard Hendrix's version he was pretty much blown away and admitted it was Hendrix's song now... or then or whatever.

U2 on the other hand, needs to hang it up. I get the feeling though they are going to be making records, political speeches, and annoying ipod commercials for the next 50 years.
 
Originally posted by: Zerohm
Originally posted by: Anubis
every remake of that song sucks

the Dylan version is the only one worth listning to
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I like Dylan, and I know that Hendrix is talked about far too much, but it's deserving. When Dylan heard Hendrix's version he was pretty much blown away and admitted it was Hendrix's song now... or then or whatever.

U2 on the other hand, needs to hang it up. I get the feeling though they are going to be making records, political speeches, and annoying ipod commercials for the next 50 years.
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AND I FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!!!!11!!

I haven't heard their version of the song but based on the crap that's on the radio now I can only shudder...
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: dainthomas
Johnny Cash's cover of "Personal Jesus" ftw.

Worst Cover Ever. I thought my ears were going to start bleeding.
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That title goes to Korn's "Another Brick in the Wall."
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Oh HEYALL no. Korn's ABITW cover is awesome. And this from a big long-time Floyd fan.

Ra's cover of "Every Little Thing She Does" is above average. As a Police fan, they did an OK job.
 
Worst Cover Ever = Madonna's version of American Pie.

My rules of covers are:
1. If you're going to cover it, make it better.
2. Don't cover the Beatles.
3. Don't cover Elvis.
 
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