U2 Remake of All Along the Watchtower

[Modeps]

I love to hate for the sake of hating!

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: meltdown75
there should be certain artists protected by legislation prohibiting remakes of their songs.

Hendrix is definitely among them.

Uhh... he covered that song...

ok well. bad example.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Modeps
I love to hate for the sake of hating!

I hate people like you :|

 

[fjorner]

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.

 

[jalaram]

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.

 

[dainthomas]

Johnny Cash's cover of "Personal Jesus" ftw.

Worst Cover Ever. I thought my ears were going to start bleeding.

 

[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.

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.

 

[Anubis]

every remake of that song sucks

the Dylan version is the only one worth listning to

 

[Mucho]

I wish those pansies would stick to making dance music.

 

[Randum]

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?

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: DougK62

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
:thumbsdown: for Alanis Morrissette's cover of "Crazy" by Seal. Geez, it was like a bad Duran Duran parody or something.

I think it's teh win.

I like it too.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Gibson486
I think U2 needs to stop, period.

A statement that was as true in 1981 as it is now.

I liked them up to around The Joshua Tree, but think they've gradually metamorphosed into fecal matter since then.

 

[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.

That title goes to Korn's "Another Brick in the Wall."

 

[Stifko]

Originally posted by: Anubis
every remake of that song sucks

the Dylan version is the only one worth listning to

nah the Hendrix version is awsome.

 

[dainthomas]

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.

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.

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.

 

[Zerohm]

Originally posted by: Anubis
every remake of that song sucks

the Dylan version is the only one worth listning to

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.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: Zerohm

Originally posted by: Anubis
every remake of that song sucks

the Dylan version is the only one worth listning to

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.

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...

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: broon
Have you heard of that new band called Poison?

ROFL :beer:

 

[Fenixgoon]

the DMB cover was good.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
the DMB cover was good.

:thumbsup:

 

[fjorner]

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.

That title goes to Korn's "Another Brick in the Wall."

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.

 

[Zerohm]

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.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
the DMB cover was good.

Not compared the Hendrix's version.