What are your favorite song re-makes?

[ABQCOWBOY]

These days you hear so many remakes and most of them I don't really like all that much. However, every once and awhile, I hear one that I like.

What are some of your favorites?

Here's one I recently heard. I really liked the original version as a kid but I gotta tell ya, I really like the remake by Sugarland. Here it is on YT.

Originally cut by Dream Academy in the 80s. Life in a Northern Town.

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[masomenos]

This is one of my favorites just because it's such a drastic departure from the original.

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[ABQCOWBOY]

This is one of my favorites just because it's such a drastic departure from the original.

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I got nothing on that one. Embedding Disabled.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I got nothing on that one. Embedding Disabled.

I Set My Friend's on Fire's re-make of Soulja-boy

 

[masomenos]

Hmm, I changed the link, maybe it's up now.

If not, here's the link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c745E7T_Wvg

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Hmm, I changed the link, maybe it's up now.

If not, here's the link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c745E7T_Wvg

Just checked it out on YT. Yeah, it is pretty different. Listened to Outkast version as well.

 

[big dog cowboy]

VH

"You Really Got Me"

"Pretty Woman"

Well, for that matter a lot of the VH catalog.

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

Nirvana: The Man Who Sold the World (Original Artist: David Bowie) Flat out tops for me.
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311: Lovesong (Original Artist: The Cure).
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Quiet Riot: Cum on Feel the Noize (Original Artist: Slade)
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RunDMC/Aerosmith: Walk This Way (Orignal Artist: Just Aerosmith)
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[bbgun]

Killing Me Softly - Fugees
Turn the Beat Around - Gloria Estefan
The Rose - Westlife

 

[L-O-Jete]

All along the Watchtower - James Marshall Hendrix/Bob Dylan
The Deftones have a cool cover of a Sade song.
I must find my burned "covers" CD...
Radiohead - Nobody does it better (sexiest song ever written)
Tool - No Quarter
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little wing
George Thorogood - One Bourbon, one scotch one beer.
Nothing compares 2 u - Sinead O'connor
There's too many.

 

[Rampage]

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[Jon88]

I Set My Friend's on Fire's re-make of Soulja-boy

Thank you

 

[Temo]

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[L-O-Jete]

You could make a list of only "Hey Joe" covers.
"Bob Dylan" covers.
"Whish you were here" covers.
Pearl Jam loves to cover The Who and does a good job.

 

[masomenos]

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Good call!

 

[Chief]

"Stormy," by Santana (the original by the Classics IV is great, too, and John Legend used the music for "Save Room.")

"Baby, Now That I've Found You," by Alison Krauss.

 

[Faerluna]

George Michael (with Elton John) - Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

VH

"You Really Got Me"

"Pretty Woman"

Well, for that matter a lot of the VH catalog.

Van Halen came first to my mind. They did a lot of cover songs and was one of the things that Eddie did not like.

I think Quiet Riot doing Slade Cover songs did well.

Also I think Metallica does well doing cover songs....Even after the black album when I hated almost everything they did, I still enjoyed the few cover songs they put out.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

the number 12 looks like you -- My Sharona cover

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[dougonthebench]

I have 2.
1.Joe Diffie remade the Charlie Rich song "Behind Closed Doors"
2.Echo and the Bunnymen remade the Doors classic,"People are Strange",its off the Lost Boys Soundtrack.Both are great IMO.