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01-14-2005, 11:15 AM
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Bad remakes
I was in the gym the other morning and on comes a song in an up tempo beat I knew I recognized. It was "IMAGINE" by John Lennon. I was horrified. The next day same thing. This time it's Pink Floyd's "The Wall". Aren't there any songs sacred?
On another note I thought they fit in the Ska catagorey but when I look up the definition it doesn't fit. What is Ska?
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01-14-2005, 11:47 AM
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Bad remakes: The worst ever (in terms of not understanding the song you're singing)
Wilson Philips' cover of Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way.
A angry, "why are you doing this", breakup song, with the passion and bitterness completely and utterly bled out by this insipid, insulting and, frankly, revolting cover. 
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01-14-2005, 12:31 PM
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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by William Shatner.
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01-14-2005, 12:32 PM
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Ska is Madness, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, as examples. Fast beat, brass, fun 
I really like the APC cover of Imagine, FWIW.
bad remakes? ANYTHING by William Shatner....
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01-14-2005, 01:04 PM
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While I agree that, musically speaking, Shatner's covers are terrible, they at least have the redeeming quality of providing something to laugh at. The Wilson Philips cover I mentioned doesn't even do that.
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01-14-2005, 01:14 PM
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We Will Rock You by that shitty boy band, whoever they were.
The worst part was that Taylor and May were involved with it. Do they have no shame?
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01-14-2005, 01:24 PM
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The best remake that comes to my mind:
Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton covering Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush".
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01-14-2005, 02:34 PM
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Pink Floyd's "Childhood's End" was re-done very well by Becca & Pierre off the Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd album.
As far as one of the worst, Madonna pretty much killed "American Pie" for me.
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01-14-2005, 04:45 PM
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All-time worst: Britney Spears' "I Love Rock 'N' Roll". She doesn't do a damn thing for me in terms of looks or music and this was easily her lowest point. She doesn't know the first thing about rock 'n' roll.
O/T: Why are so many musicians referred to as "rockers" when they are, in fact, teen pop stars or rappers or country artists or other things unrelated to rock as defined by The Beatles or Pink Floyd or Iron Maiden or even Nirvana (I don't like them, but they are rockers)?
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I'd like to see Pink do some covers, though. That's a younge female singer who CAN rock with the best of them.
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01-14-2005, 07:07 PM
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That Jessica Simpson cover of "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin is absolutely atrocious. She completely mangles the chorus hook and overemotes to the point of laughability...
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01-14-2005, 09:16 PM
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As far as one of the worst, Madonna pretty much killed "American Pie" for me.
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I think Maddy's "Pie" is just fine. Then again, I never much liked the original.
However, as much as I love Madonna, I didn't like her cover of "Imagine" on the last tour. Totally lifeless. It's not that I hold the song "sacred" - honestly, it's a decent tune but radically over-rated. It's that her rendition was dull, dull, dull...
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01-15-2005, 06:26 AM
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Best way to discribe SKA is Punk with a reggae type beat plus horns added, at least from what I have or heard.
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