Remakes/remixes

[nachodaddy]

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"A Girl Like You, Wall of Sleep - Smithereens"

Saw them last year in Tacoma. Older, bigger, but they still rock!!!!

"Behind The Wall Of Sleep" is the first bass line I learned.

[Manö'iki]

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My favorite remakes/covers:

Jagged Edge's cover of "All Out Of Love"
Justin Kawika Young's cover of "Leaving On A Jet Plane"
Revival's live cover of "Your House"
The Next Generation's cover of "La La Means I Love You"
Justin Kawika Young & Bitty McLean's cover of "More Than Words"
The Goops' cover of "Build Me Up Buttercup"
Forte featuring Glenn Mederios - "Nothings Going To Change My Love"

[Lei Liko]

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Me First and the Gimme Gimmes is a punk band that exclusively does covers.

I don't think I've ever heard a cover from them I didn't like.

[Erika Engle]

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I'm generally anti-cover, anti-remake but there are exceptions.

I love Def Leppard, but their cover of "Rock On," which I was never too keen on in the first place, bites. Why on earth would such a hot band do covers? Too lazy to write more kick-arse original tunes? The muse didn't strike in time to meet some contractual obligation? Lame.

I do like Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" better than the Dylan version, but I don't like GNR's remake of "Knockin' on Heavens Door" better -- I like 'em equally for different reasons -- but not more.

I was blown away the first time I heard Limp Bizkit do "Behind Blue Eyes." I liked it! I really liked it! (I know lots of people HATE it.) Not better than the original by The Who, but I thought it paid proper respect to the original while Fred Durst also made it his own.

Don't hate me but I do like Bananarama's "Venus." Not as much as the Shocking Blue version in a way, but more than it, in another. I can't explain it -- and shouldn't have to -- hey, it was the 80s!

I can't find reliable information on the original artist who recorded "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody." I've found Louis Prima (who David Lee Roth grew up listening to) and Marlene Dietrich.
Anyway, I adore DLR's version. It was a fun, party song when it came out and that's how I remember it. I'm sure the Louis Prima version was too ... I just don't know that I've ever heard it.

"Europa," written by Carlos Santana and Tom Coster for the 1976 "Amigos" album has been remade many times and I love the versions I previously posted about.

[Fat Jeff]

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Speaking of covers, it's no secret that local recording artists have no fear of them. I recently picked up the new Sammy Hagar cd "Livin it Up". The second song, "Livin On A Coastline" is near perfect for a local style remake. The originals lyric & melody are perfect, and there's even a good "skank" going on.

I'll take credit for the first band to cover it

[GeckoGeek]

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Wot, No one even mentions "I'm a Believer"?? Monkees/Smash Mouth

I hear one time some one (a local artist) did "Sweet Child in Time" of Guns and Roses fame. Much mellower. I could like them both.

[mel]

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The person who wrote and originally recorded "I'm a Believer" is Neil Diamond. So The Monkees already did a remake when they first turned it into a huge #1 hit in 1966.

[Leo Lakio]

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The person who wrote and originally recorded "I'm a Believer" is Neil Diamond. So The Monkees already did a remake when they first turned it into a huge #1 hit in 1966.

You can't really call the Monkees' version a "remake," since Diamond didn't release his own version of it until 1967, on the Bang LP, "Just For You." At the request of Don Kirshner & producer Jeff Barry (who produced Diamond's "Cherry, Cherry"), Diamond submitted several songs for the Monkees TV show - "I'm A Believer" was among them. Diamond himself thought little of the song; it was a throw-away, a happy little piece intended as album filler. He played guitar on the Monkees session, in October 1966.

[Pua'i Mana'o]

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when the Gourds covered Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice", I was mesmerized with it. A hiphop song owned by a bluegrass sound.