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Ornery

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Originally posted by: tweakmm
Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow
Sublime - Scarlet Begonias (Grateful Dead)
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No cover can top the Dead's Scarlet Begonias.
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You and I both know most of these covers suck pretty hard, but I think I'll just be glad they're listening to something other than cRap. Maybe there's hope for the future after all...

Somebody mentioned 'Sweet Things' by Manson? I hope to hell it isn't a cover of this fabulous Bowie tune from Diamond Dogs:
  • Sweet Thing

    It's safe in the city, to love in a doorway
    To wrangle some screams from the dawn
    And isn't it me, putting pain in a stranger?
    Like a portrait in flesh, who trails on a leash
    Will you see that I'm scared and I'm lonely?
    So I'll break up my room, and yawn and I
    Run to the centre of things
    Where the knowing one says

    CHORUS

    Boys, boys, its a sweet thing
    Boys, boys, its a sweet thing, sweet thing
    If you want it, boys, get it here, thing
    'Cause hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing

    I'm glad that you're older than me
    Makes me feel important and free
    Does that make you smile, isn't that me?
    I'm in your way, and I'll steal every moment
    If this trade is a curse, then I'll bless you
    And turn to the crossroads of Hamburg, as in

    CHORUS
 
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flxnimprtmscl

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Originally posted by: Ornery
Edit: Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World (David Bowie)

What exactly is better about it? Guitar isn't as good, voice isn't as good, no background vocals... :confused:
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Guitar I'll give you. Voice I wont. Background vocals do not always make or break a track.

Regardless of all that, music is subjective, and a version which might be better to you might not be to me. Certain intangibles, playing styles, singing styles, voice inflection, etc. might resonate stronger with me than they would with your and vice a versa. That's been known to happen from time to time with music...
 
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Ornery

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What are some of the best song remakes?

"Guitar I'll give you. Voice I wont. Background vocals do not always make or break a track."

That certainly isn't as good as the original, and didn't add anything. Bowie's voice is... quality! I don't see the point of doing a cover of a song that's already a big hit, or done very well by the original artist. You can't lose doing a cover of Dylan's tunes. He can't sing for sh|t, but writes awesome stuff.
 
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parsley007

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Originally posted by: shady06
eminem - whatever that aerosmith song dream on was
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off topic, but i've recently noticed that almost all new hip-hop music uses samples from older music. all of kayne west's songs are sampled from older songs. it brings into perspective when people say that most of today's songs are remakes :)
 
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flxnimprtmscl

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Originally posted by: Ornery
What are some of the best song remakes?

"Guitar I'll give you. Voice I wont. Background vocals do not always make or break a track."

That certainly isn't as good as the original, and didn't add anything. Bowie's voice is... quality! I don't see the point of doing a cover of a song that's already a big hit, or done very well by the original artist. You can't lose doing a cover of Dylan's tunes. He can't sing for sh|t, but writes awesome stuff.
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*sigh* I guess you missed my whole point about music being subjective. That's alright though. Your opinion is just that, you're opinion. Maybe it's just a generation gap thing.

Btw, why do you fear the quote button?
 
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edmicman

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Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Dashboard Confessional - Jaime
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
some punk band did a cover of Summer Lovin'...I can't remember who though, but I like it. That's all I got for now...
 
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Originally posted by: makessense
kanye west - through the wire of Chaka's 'through the fire'
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You must be kidding.


I'll also add Van Halen's You've Really Got Me (Kinks)
 
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fizmeister

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Gypsy Kings - Hotel California

Metallica's cover of the Cult's "Astronomy" is splended as well, even though I don't much care for Metallica.
 
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KGB1

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New Found Glory - Back That @ss Up Nesy cover ever :D
Got you working with some ass yeah
You bad yeah
Make a ni&&a spend his cash yeah
His last yeah
Hoes clown when you pass yeah
They mad yeah
You gon' ride in the Jag yeah
With dad yeah
You could smoke or buy a bag yeah
A grass yeah
Got money I confess yeah
And trash yeah
I'm a Big Tymer ni&&a yeah
Pulling trigger yeah
A player hater to flip with, yeah
Gon' head and fill it, yeah
I be slanging wood, yeah
Out the hood, yeah
Let it be understood, yeah
It's all good, yeah
Got a ni&&a screaming large, yeah
On the hard, yeah
A smooth ghetto broad, yeah
I want the broad, yeah
A ni&&a do a trick, yeah
On the dick, yeah
You claiming you want a b!tch, yeah
That ain't sh!t, yeah
The ni&&a with the money, yeah
Don't act funny, yeah
Got birds and I'm running, yeah
'Bout a hundred, yeah

(Chorus)
Girl, you looks good, won't you back that ass up
You'se a fine motherfvcker, won't you back that ass up
Call me big daddy when you back that ass up
Hoe, who is you playing with
Back that ass up
Girl, you looks good, won't you back that ass up
You'se a fine motherfvcker, won't you back that ass up
Call me big daddy when you back that ass up
Girl, who is you playing with
Back that ass up
Girl, you looks good, won't you back that ass up
You'se a fine motherfvcker, won't you back that ass up

(Juvenile)
You got to steel, big ass, yeah
Make me laugh, yeah
Make a ni&&a wanna grab that
Wanna grab that
I'm sweating on the draws, yeah
On hard, yeah
Wanna walk it like a dog, yeah
Break you off, yeah
Get, how you gon' yours, yeah
That's for sure, yeah
You fvcking with my nerves, yeah
To the curb, yeah
I know you b!tches know, yeah
And it show, yeah
But a ni&&a got some more, yeah
I'm 'bout to flow, yeah
Fresh off some sh!t, yeah
In his b!tch, yeah
We be making hit, yeah
After hit, yeah
Them titties sitting nice, yeah
I wanna bite, yeah
I could fvck you right, yeah
All night, yeah
Wanna bring it to my house, yeah
On the couch, yeah
Knock the pvssy out, yeah
Get them out, yeah
I wanna see these hoes, yeah
Bend it low, yeah
Let me run it in the hole, yeah
Let me know, yeah

(Chorus)
Girl, you looks good, won't you back that ass up
You'se a fine motherfvcker, won't you back that ass up
Call me big daddy when you back that ass up
Hoe, who is you playing with
Back that ass up
Girl, you looks good, won't you back that ass up
You'se a fine motherfvcker, won't you back that ass up
Call me big daddy when you back that ass up
Hoe, who is you playing with
Back that ass up

(Manny Fresh)
I know you can't stand it
Big Bandit
Done landed
See the draws handed
We can go get it y'all
Gang split it y'all
Put the bitch on the wall and I hit it y'all
I'm looking kind of lonely
I'm feeling horny
Put the dick in the middle like Monee
Big, thick plumber chick
And a Hummer chick
Beat the dick like a motherfvcking drummer chick
Cinch that putty-cat
Look at that
I love a fvcking hoody-rat
That's a fact
You'se a motherfvcking get it girl
Quit it girl
I'm the ni&&a, the ni&&a, ni&&a
The hit it girl

(Chorus)
Girl, you looks good, won't you back that ass up
You'se a fine motherfvcker, won't you back that ass up
Call me big daddy when you back that ass up
Hoe, who is you playing with
Back that ass up
Girl, you looks good, won't you back that ass up
You'se a fine motherfvcker, won't you back that ass up


Call me big daddy when you back that ass up
Hoe, who is you playing with
Back that ass up

(Lil Wayne)
Na, na, na, na, na
After you back it up, then stop
Then wha-wha-what
Dro-drop it like it's hot
Now after you back it up, then stop
Now, wha-wha-wha-what
Drop it like it's hot
Now drop It like it's hot
Drop it like it's hot
C-M-P make you drop it like it's hot
Drop it like it's hot
Dro-drop it like it's hot
Drop it like it's hot
Dro-drop it like it's hot
Ha

 
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Azoth

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Coil - Tainted Love (Cover of Soft Cell)

Die Krupps - One (Cover of Metallica) <actually the entire Die Krupps Tribute To Metallica is pretty good, but track 9, which is a Dave Ogilvie remix of the Die Krupps cover is great>

Le&aelig;ther Strip - Lullaby (Cover of the Cure)

Razed In Black - SiN (Cover of NiN)

Coal Chamber - The Roof Is On Fire (Cover of ??? Grandmaster Flash?) <found it - Rockmaster Scott>
 
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bmacd

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Jan 15, 2001
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Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
Originally posted by: KGB
New Found Glory - Back That @ss Up Nesy cover ever :D
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it's probably their best song too =D
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Nah...they did a remake of the karate kid song that was originally by Chicago. That song kicked ass!

Other good remakes:

Stars on 54: If you could read my mind, originally by Gordon Lightfoot
Pearl Jam: Last Kiss, originally by J. Frank Wilson
Fugess: Killing me softly, originally by Roberta Flack

There's a handful of good remakes.

-=bmacd=-
 
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