favorite song remakes...

[tami]

what are your favorite song remakes (compared to their originals)?

mine:

the get up kids - alec eiffel (original is by the pixies)
gary jules - mad world (original is by tears for fears)

 

[daniel1113]

Johnny Cash - Hurt

 

[mobobuff]

Metallica - Whiskey In The Jar
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal

 

[b0mbrman]

Portrait - How Deep is your Love
All 4 One - I Swear (Uh...some country singer)
Angelina (or whoever it was) - Tide is High (Blondie...or John Holt before that)
Some random rave music - Imagine (I love the original but the rave version is just ridiculous)
Az Yet - Hard to Say I'm Sorry (Original is also good)

Uh...those are all I can think of offhand

 

[jjzelinski]

Blask Sabath's "war pigs" redone by Faith No More

 

[imported_malcontent]

Five Man Electrical Band's 'Signs' by Tesla.

 

[deftron]

Fudge Tunnel - Cat Scratch Fever (Ted Nugent)

Fu Manchu - Godzilla (Blue Oyster Cult)

Troggs - Good Vibrations (Beach Boys)

Yardbirds - Im a Man (Muddy Waters)

Rolling Stones - Love In Vain (Robert Johnson)

 

[Cobalt]

Live and Let Die and Knockin' On Heaven's Door - GN'R

 

[newParadigm]

Numb/Encore by Jay Z and Linkin Park from tehir nu album 'Collision Course

 

[Kalvin00]

Metallica-Turn the Page

 

[b0mbrman]

Oh, also Rolling Stones - You Got to Move

 

[DaveSimmons]

Concrete Blonde has done a bunch of great covers:
* "Ship Song" - Nick Cave (Heather Nova's version is also good, as is Cave's own of course)
* "Beware of Darkness" - George Harrison
* "Everybody Knows" - Leonard Cohen
* "End of the Line" - Roxy Music
* "Little Wing" - Hendrix

Bryan Ferry (/Roxy Music) has done some nice ones too, including a bunch of old jazz age standards
* "Jealous Guy" - Lennon
* "Sympathy for the Devil" - Stones (a not quite serious version)
* "These Foolish Things"

Jeff Buckley did such a good job on Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" many people don't know it's a cover

Same with Rod Stewart's "First Cut is the Deepest," which is actually a Cat Stevens song.

 

[deftron]

Vanilla Fudge makes the best cover songs

 

[SVT Cobra]

blinded by the light by manford mann....originally bruce springteen

 

[Spooner]

311 - Love Song

 

[midwestfisherman]

Vodoo Chille - Stevie Ray Vaughan (originally by Hendrix)

 

[astralusion]

dynamite hack - boyz n the hood
and lots of the me first and the gimme gimmes
like rufio's version of some madonna song too

 

[ArmenK]

System of a Down - The Metro (Original by Berlin)

 

[Leper Messiah]

Die Die My Darling - Metallica (orginally done by misfits)

Apparently, back in the late 70's early 80's Metallica earned their money redoing misfits and danzig songs...

Alot of the stuff from the garage inc. album is really good, except tuesdays gone. That remake sucks soooo bad.

 

[Leper Messiah]

Originally posted by: ArmenK
System of a Down - The Metro (Original by Berlin)

Their remake of "Snowblind" (orginally a Black Sabbath song) is pretty good too.

 

[Lola]

Elvis did the original "can't help falling in love"
i LOVE the way Eels covered it.

 

[Heckler 5th]

Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Heard it through the Grapevine" (Marvin Gaye)
Black Crowes, "Hard to Handle" (Otis Redding)
Tool, "No Quarter" (Led Zeppelin)

 

[xospec1alk]

Originally posted by: tami
what are your favorite song remakes (compared to their originals)?

mine:

the get up kids - alec eiffel (original is by the pixies)
gary jules - mad world (original is by tears for fears)

mmmm get up kids!

did you goto their last show in ny? awesomeness but very sad.

 

[LeiZaK]

metallica - turn the page
marilyn manson - i put a spell on you
marilyn manson - sweet dreams
marilyn manson - rock n' roll ni#%@*
marilyn manson - tainted love
marilyn manson - personal jesus
korn - word up
limp bizkit - behind blue eyes
limp bizkit - faith
me first and the gimme gimme's - *
ub40 - i can't help falling in love
whitney houston - i will always love you
jewel - somewhere over the rainbow
tori amos - enjoy the silence

and last, but definitely FAR from least....





rage against the machine - ghost of tom joad

 

[murphy55d]

Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams, Tainted Love, Personal Jesus