prince ...everyday is a winding road

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.

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

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

People who dislike the original are not to be trusted.

As someone who utterly adores the original, I have successfully avoided ever hearing that cover.

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.

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

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.

MickyDolenz said:

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.

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.

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.

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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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What???????

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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GaryMF said: