My son who is 13 now loves music,

I enjoy the older stuff, when music was good....



now they are making some interesting stuff that blends the two types, however, i have no idea what the hell they are called


i could have sworn i heard one with "have you seen her" in it..... any idea what the name of that one is called??


i played the sting version of "every breath you take" opposite the one from P Diddy.... that was an interesting conversation


help me out here, what are the names of some of these songs!




oh, and hi btw

so noone can help with this?

Wrong forum.

tracks with bad samples which have perverted the original music. I understand genres change and music changes. But do you really think music has changed for the better?. I dont thinl so there is a level for samples and a line has to be crossed.

Hell naw. That's the shit hop style of remaking songs which is using the actual music from the old song as the background music for the remake. The finished product is usually an embarassment to the original.

When it comes to remakes, the best I've heard are songs that are totally remade from the ground up with harder kick ass instruments that make the asses shake. Jams like.....

Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart
Heard It Through The Grapevine - Roger
I Feel For You - Chaka Khan

I thought the Rose Royce remakes of

"I'm Going Down"//Mary J. Blige
&
"Love Don't Live Here Anymore"//Faith Evans & Mary J. Blige

were pretty damn good
vocally & musically
Chucky Thompson is a beast
word up

IAintTheOne said:

thats what im saying, jake likes these songs that are comming out with bits of old music in them, i am trying to show him the great music that started the stuff that is out now. we have an ongoing debate in our house as to which ones are better of course we know the difference, he doesnt know yet.


i am stuck, as a single mom with the music/sex/girls/do your homework discussion.... i am trying to show him that the classics are far better to know - not so much TODAY mind you - but in the future. you understand what im saying, right?


now damn it, i know you know what im talking about - what are the songs man? you know music, help me out!!

eikonoklastes said:

DirtyChris said:

thanks, i will check those out!!


in fact, i believe that "im going down" is one that he and i discussed! thanks

wait, im wrong, what is it called when the new artists are making songs with just a HINT of another older great song mixed in???



i wish i knew what i was trying to ask

nakedpianoplayer said:

Do u mean sampling?

A group called Intro redid Stevie's "Ribbon In The Sky" back in '92 or '93 and it was impressive. Not as good as the original, mind you, but it was an impressive cover.

On the other hand, Black Box's remake of Earth, Wind & Fire's Fantasy should have landed them in jail for felonious assault on an all time great song.

dseann said:

I thought Profyle
(a group formerly
signed to Motown)
did a great job
with Stevie's
"Overjoyed"

and David Young
(Mary J. Blige's artist)
did a nice version of
"Rocket Love" recently
you guys should check that out
check youtube...

uh... back in the 90's
Jesse Powell did a VERY NICE
rendition of "Gloria"
(not sure who sang the original)

I picked ones that come
this close [] to the original
without jacking, if you can
dig where I'm coming from
[Edited 9/30/08 12:33pm]

DirtyChris said:

I have heard Profyle's version of Overjoyed and I liked it.

dseann said:

WOW!!!

I didn't think anyone
outside of Louisiana remembered
let alone, knew who Profyle were ROTFL

they had a pretty cool debut album
my best friend was what you'd
call a STAN of those guys
we saw em in concert here
(when they were still unknown)
but they were so fine that you had
to gawk at the appearance...

you coulda swore it was H-town
out there the way those broads
were going crazy
I'll never forget that day
it was hot as hell

DirtyChris said:

I gave a lot of groups the ear back in the day, Profyle, II The Extreme, H-Town, Hi Five, Boyz II Men, Soul For Real, Jodeci, Sylk, Jagged Edge, All For One, Process and the Doo Rags, Force MD's, The New Edition, The Time, The Family, Five Star, The Jets, The Aleem, Loose Ends, Soul II Soul, R. Kelly and the Public Announcement, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, SWV, Jade, Ready For The World ... the list goes on and on. They all had at least one good song going for them.

P.S. I pulled all this shit from memory ok.

dseann said:

much like myself
*bats eyelashes*

I'm takin this time tho
to discover the stuff
I slept on like The Chimes
Mica Paris and dot dot dot

Force MD's I FUCKING LOVED!!!
"Here I Go" is dreamy

I think I may have told
the story of how I loved to
watch the record label logos
spin around on my record player
as a youngin'...

well needless to say
the Chillin' album was
one of my favorites

that Tommy Boy emblem
it was like they appeared to be
in one of those spinning tunnel things

DirtyChris said:

The Chimes did "Heaven" right?

If you watched the record spinning on the turntables you had too much time on your hands as a younin.

D'Angelo - Cruisin'
D'Angelo - She's Alays In My Hair
MJB - I'm Going Down
TLC - If I Was Your Girlfriend
Intro - Ribbon In The Sky
TLC - Get It Up
Jordan McKnight - I Can Never Take The Place Of Your Man
Whitney Houston - I'm Every Woman
Envogue - Giving Him Something He Can Feel
Robert Palmer - I Didn't Mean to Turn You On
Jodeci - Lately
Al B. Sure - Killing Me Softly
Black Street - Love's In Need
B2M - It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday

DirtyChris said:

Enchantment

EDIT: Enchantment performing Gloria on Soul Train
http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related
[Edited 9/30/08 21:26pm]

FuNkeNsteiN said:

thanx... I really enjoyed this
I remember hearing the original
back then and being like
"wait a minute!!!
that ain't no Jesse Powell!"

dseann said:

right

and probably so

I usually prefer the original versions of any song, but I do like some of the covers that Rod Stewart has done over the years. He's done a pretty good job of some Sam Cooke tunes as well as Otis.

Stawberry Letter 23

Graycap23 said:

Who redid the Brothers Johnson's tune?

dseann said:

The Brothers Johnson redid Shuggie Otis' tune

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Well fuck me gently with a chainsaw. I never knew that was a remake. Wow. I liked Stomp a lot better though.