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Thread started 11/22/17 10:51am

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remakes WORSE than originals

prince ...everyday is a winding road

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Reply #1 posted 11/22/17 11:32am

NorthC

TLC: If If Was Your Girlfriend. It shows a total misunderstanding of what the song is about.
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Reply #2 posted 11/22/17 12:23pm

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NorthC said:

TLC: If If Was Your Girlfriend. It shows a total misunderstanding of what the song is about.

Prince approved of that remake...and perhaps is the best remake of that song. Also mentioned them afterwards saying they were his favorite group (and took Chili out on a date). B*Slade did a version of it as well.

I was not a fan of Mariah's version of The Beautiful Ones tho.


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Reply #3 posted 11/22/17 12:55pm

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I don't really like these:

Chris Brown - This Christmas

Brian McKnight - Careless Whisper
Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn - If This World Were Mine
Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey - Endless Love
Ellie Goulding X Burns - Midas Touch
John Legend, Melanie Fiona, Common, The Roots - Wake Up Everybody
Otis Redding - Satisfaction

Artists For Haiti - We Are The World 25
René & Angela - Hotel California
Bar-Kays - Return Of The Mack
Monica & Usher - Slow Jam

Gladys Knight - End Of The Road
Destiny's Child - Emotion (I don't like the Bee Gees version without Samantha Sang either)
Michael Bublé & Thalia - Feliz Navidad
Redman, Erick Sermon, Keith Murray - Rapper's Delight
Ariana Grande - Last Christmas
Bill Cosby - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Aretha Franklin & Michael McDonald - Ever Changing Times
After 7 - Sara Smile

Ginuwine - When Doves Cry
Britney Spears - My Prerogative
Roger Troutman - Living For The City
Anita Baker - You Belong To Me
Tiffany - I Saw Him Standing There

No Doubt - Love To Love You Baby
Anthony Hamilton - Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto
Big Daddy - Sussudio

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Reply #4 posted 11/22/17 2:13pm

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Ginuwine "When Doves Cry" and Mariah's "The Beautiful Ones" come to mind. Mariah's sounds like pigeons in heat.

As far TLC, they've done two Prince-penned songs. Both were great covers. "Get It Up" really fit their style musically and adapted easily. With a girl singing "If I Was Your Girlfriend", it obviously takes on a whole new meaning. It could be a lesbian ode, but for them, it was just them pawning for a man that they wanted. It's not quite like Janet covering "Tonight's The Night", which she purposely made into a bisexual menage a trois. (And I dug that cover). So I would not include TLC in worst covers.

I don't like Madonna's "American Pie" cover so much, and I love me some Madge.

I don't like Mariah's "Bringing On The Heartache" from Def Leppard either. It totally misses the vibe of the song. Even the video looks like it was shot to the Def Leppard version, then her coo-y melodrama was dubbed over it.

Frankly, I don't like Cyndi's "When You Were Mine" at all. It's lazy new wave, at best. Lost all the energy that Prince's version had.

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Reply #5 posted 11/22/17 2:23pm

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Alien Ant Farm's version of "Smooth Criminal" is the poster example of a terrible cover. Song's a hot mess.

I never really liked the Blues Brothers' cover of "Soul Man" either. Sam and Dave's version is the only version of that song worth listening to afaIc.
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Reply #6 posted 11/22/17 2:25pm

LightOfArt

George Michael & Mary J. Blige - As

Mary J. Blige - Ain't Nobody (infact every single EDM cover of Aint Nobody)

T.A.T.U. - How Soon Is Now

Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus (I do love his Sweet Dreams and Tainted Love covers though)

Fall Out Boy - Beat It

Alien Ant Farm - Sooth Criminal

Prince - One Of Us

Maxwell - This Woman's Work (good cover but still worse than original)

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Reply #7 posted 11/22/17 2:29pm

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Oh yeah, how could I forget the 2010 version of "We Are The World"?

Worse than the original in every conceivable way. Pure garbage.

Even people who dislike the original have to admit that version is a masterpiece compared to the utter catastrophe that is the 2010 version. feeling ill
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Reply #8 posted 11/22/17 2:32pm

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TrivialPursuit said:


I don't like Mariah's "Bringing On The Heartache" from Def Leppard either. It totally misses the vibe of the song. Even the video looks like it was shot to the Def Leppard version, then her coo-y melodrama was dubbed over it.


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Reply #9 posted 11/22/17 2:34pm

NorthC

The whole point of If I Was Your Girlfriend is that a man wants to be as close to his woman as her friends are, doing girly things like putting on make up, but at the end of the day, he can't because he's just a man. That's the brilliance and the genius of this song and the reason it's one of his best. That gets lost when a woman sings it. Anyone who doesn't get that doesn't understand the song, whether Prince agreed with the release or not.
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Reply #10 posted 11/22/17 4:44pm

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MotownSubdivision said:

Oh yeah, how could I forget the 2010 version of "We Are The World"?

Worse than the original in every conceivable way. Pure garbage.

Even people who dislike the original have to admit that version is a masterpiece compared to the utter catastrophe that is the 2010 version. feeling ill

People who dislike the original are not to be trusted. lol

As someone who utterly adores the original, I have successfully avoided ever hearing that cover. woot!
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Reply #11 posted 11/22/17 5:49pm

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I was forced into the entirety of Adele singing The Cure's Love Song while waiting to deposit a check at the bank recently, felt like hours. I do like her Bonnie Raitt cover and that George Michael tribute cover cool
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Reply #12 posted 11/22/17 6:07pm

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AlexdeParis said:

MotownSubdivision said:

Oh yeah, how could I forget the 2010 version of "We Are The World"?

Worse than the original in every conceivable way. Pure garbage.

Even people who dislike the original have to admit that version is a masterpiece compared to the utter catastrophe that is the 2010 version. feeling ill

People who dislike the original are not to be trusted. lol

As someone who utterly adores the original, I have successfully avoided ever hearing that cover. woot!
As someone who enjoys the original, keep it that way. Don't put your ears through that like I did lol
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Reply #13 posted 11/22/17 7:48pm

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I still have no idea what Chaka, Jam & Lewis were thinking when they decided to cover "Sign O the Times". Horrible!
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Reply #14 posted 11/22/17 8:29pm

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NorthC said:

The whole point of If I Was Your Girlfriend is that a man wants to be as close to his woman as her friends are, doing girly things like putting on make up, but at the end of the day, he can't because he's just a man. That's the brilliance and the genius of this song and the reason it's one of his best. That gets lost when a woman sings it. Anyone who doesn't get that doesn't understand the song, whether Prince agreed with the release or not.

I get that. They were just trying to bring the song to a new generation. They had kids in my class in 8th grade singing to it saying "you know Prince wrote this song Isaiah?" LOL. It was comical for me but cute though.

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Reply #15 posted 11/22/17 9:50pm

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*NSYNC and Britney Spears shouldn't have been allowed to touch these classics!!!!!!

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Reply #16 posted 11/22/17 11:02pm

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Two POS' come to mind

Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams
A Perfect Circle - Imagine



Also

Anything from Joss Stone

And can't forget

Mick Jagger & David Bowie - Dancing in the streets
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Atomic Dog


Props to mention above of John Legend. ..add him to the "anything covered by" list with Joss Stone
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Reply #17 posted 11/22/17 11:38pm

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #18 posted 11/23/17 2:54am

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NorthC said:

The whole point of If I Was Your Girlfriend is that a man wants to be as close to his woman as her friends are, doing girly things like putting on make up, but at the end of the day, he can't because he's just a man. That's the brilliance and the genius of this song and the reason it's one of his best. That gets lost when a woman sings it. Anyone who doesn't get that doesn't understand the song, whether Prince agreed with the release or not.

So agree with this.

when a woman sings it - it just turns into another pleasant R&B song.

completely misses the genius of the track.

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Reply #19 posted 11/23/17 4:56am

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MickyDolenz said:

Shoot, just about every GLEE cover sucks. Completely watered down, bland karaoke-like covers of songs they had no business covering in the first place.
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Reply #20 posted 11/23/17 12:17pm

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MotownSubdivision said:

MickyDolenz said:

Shoot, just about every GLEE cover sucks. Completely watered down, bland karaoke-like covers of songs they had no business covering in the first place.

That being said, I really enjoyed the mashups they did that first season: Halo/Walking on Sunshine and It's My Life/Confessions Part II.

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Reply #21 posted 11/23/17 2:22pm

RJOrion

"September" - Kirk Franklin
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Miley Cyrus
"Walk This Way" - Macy Gray
"You Cant Hurry Love" - Phil Collins
"Lady Marmalade" - Pink, Lil Kim, Christina Aguilera
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Reply #22 posted 11/23/17 4:26pm

NorthC

^ I haven't heard any of those except You Can't Hurry Love (which I like), but simply judging from the titles, they must be pretty awful. But then again, I can't be trusted because I don't like We Are the World. wink
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Reply #23 posted 11/23/17 5:17pm

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Here's a few re-recorded by the original artists. I like the original, but not these later versions so much. I can tolerate a couple of them, but wouldn't go out of my way to listen to them. lol

I don't dig those low budget CD compilations of rerecorded oldies by acts like Little Richard & The Coasters or 1980s "one hit wonder" acts either. Some of those are not labeled as new versions or it's in tiny print. Pickwick Records were known for that kind of thing, and some of the albums were not even the original artists, but anonymous session singers. They did have one by Stevie Wonder (not him singing) I liked. My mom bought it for me when I was in elementary school.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #24 posted 11/24/17 12:49am

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I've always been surprised that no critic ever put out the following about Michael McDonald's MOTOWN tribute work/album

"Ain't nothing like the real thing."

And just left it like that (2 stars or so)

They're nice.....but i really don't get it. They were middle agers at the time as well, so it wasn't like a "modern" recording artist releasing a Motown covers album to bring it to a new audience. It was more likely middle aged people gonna buy this fluff that wasn't exactly even a new "take" on things.

I've always wondered at the notion of a full on covers album there.


"QUEEN+ ADAM LAMBERT" - Dragon Attack, Stone Cold Crazy, Now I'm Here

...this guy has no business singing these songs. He looks absolutely ridiculous trying to pull off these cuts in his boyish voice. Granted he does some songs justice and others get an incredible live treatment (Who wants to live forever, Save me)

But i think Brian May maybe perhaps doesn't have the high treble range hearing anymore to distinguish songs that work and don't work for this kid.

Or maybe it's Adams fanbase of sycophants that create this atmosphere

Additionally:

Anybody covering Roberta Flack's *original COVER* of Killing Me Softly

Tired of hearing that fucking song. Could've done without the endlessly boring Fugees version too.

DISTURBED - The Sound of Silence (crap melodyned garbageshhiit)
Limp Bizkit - Faith AND Behind Blue Eyes....i get it that FAITH was done as a joke but BBE is garbage
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Reply #25 posted 11/24/17 10:15am

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I really don't care for Incognito's cover of Stevie Wonder's "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing". It feels artificial and tasteless.

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I don't want your rhythm without your rhyme
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Reply #26 posted 11/28/17 9:29pm

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Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn - If This World Were Mine

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What???????

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Reply #27 posted 11/28/17 11:39pm

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Harlem Shuffle - Rolling Stones

If You Don't Know Me By Now - Simply Red (yikes...)
Money's Too Tight To Mention - Simply Red (mostly a useless copy cat band)




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Has anyone tried unplugging the United States and plugging it back in?
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Reply #28 posted 11/29/17 7:52am

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Club Nouveau's rendition of "Lean on Me" is trash.
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Reply #29 posted 11/29/17 11:14am

RJOrion

GaryMF said:

Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn - If This World Were Mine


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What?????



luther and cheryl lynn version is better than the original
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