Best Remakes

[zamboni]

Some of my favorite song remakes- I think these are all better than the originals:

1. Hazy Shade of Winter- remake by The Bangles, original by Simon and Garfunkel

2.Radar Love- remake by White Lion, original by Golden Earring

3. Boys of Summer- remake by The Ataris, original by Don Henley

4.Mama Told Me Not To Come- remake by Three Dog Night, original by Randy Newman.

Whats everyone elses?

[lookincalifornia]

hendrix's version of all along the watchtower

jeff buckley's version of hallelujah

thourogood's move it on over and who do you love

[zamboni]

I forgot to say just about every song Guns N Roses have redone have all turned out pretty good as well, from Live and Let Die to Knockin' on Heavens Door to Hair Of The Dog to Sympathy For The Devil

[Meaney]

3 words...

"Metallica, Garage Inc."

all remakes done by Metallica. They are all better than the originals!!

[LMITOUT]

Don't ask why or how I thought of this one....

Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the Cradle

[Farley]

Johnny Cash- "Hurt" (Original: Nine Inch Nails)

Johnny Cash- "Personal Jesus" (original: Depesch Mode)

Led Zeppelin- "In My Time Of Dying" (original: ?, Dylan also did this song on an album in 65', but did not write it)

Janes Addiction- "Sympathy for the Devil" (original: Rolling Stones)

Hendrix- "Like a Rolling Stone" (original: Dylan)

Animals- "House of the Rising Sun" (original: Dylan)

Sublime- "Scarlet Begonias" (original: Gratefull Dead")

The Gourds- "Gin and Juice" (original: Snoop Dog)

[LMITOUT]

Foo Fighters - Baker Street

[tonyjor]

Dream Theater - Perfect Strangers (Deep Purple)

[minneman]

Todd snider's version of The Joker-Steve Miller

Channel 12 on XM has some great covers!

[zamboni]

Farley- your Gin and Juice reminds me that the Dynamite Hack remake of Boyz N Da Hood. A+

[Harmonica Bear]

If anyone ever has or had the oppurtunity to hear The Replacements and their limited release tape of "The Sh*T Hits the Fans" you'll hear some of the greatest/worst/funniest covers ever especially Bad Co. "Can't Get Enough of Your Love". They also do killer version of Kiss' "Black Diamond"

[chunkytrout]

I love Black Diamond. That came out originally on Let it Bleed.

[Shack]

Huh?

"I am not a crook" Richard Nixon

"And if you want to, I'll let you bleed on me, all overa" Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones

[Harmonica Bear]

Let it Be, Let it Bleed... wants the difference, it's all good.

[zamboni]

Shackbush- post a pic of your avatar in full size on here on maybe a diff topic- and what happened?

[Shack]

Quote:

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It is an ice shack getting bashed.

I have a group of guys I have been fishing on local lakes with for many years. One night on Martin Lake by Linwood, we were ice fishing late at night during the week. It was very cold and we were in portables that were shut up tight. No one could see we were out there. Well around 1:00 am we heard a truck racing around on ice. All of a sudden, were could hear truck ramming into something. We came out of our porties and watched these crazy kids or men ramming into shacks left and right. This was in the days before cell phones and ice was thin enough were we walked out to fish, so we could do nothing but watch. I was young and the other guys were also, so we thought is was kind of cool then. Now I think different. So our group started a "kind of" urban tale about the shack basher. We also coined other terms while ice fish (I used to ice fish 6-7 days a week, so you think of weird things during this time)like shack back, shack(Contact Us Please),shackbashing and other terms we thought up while ice fishing. It all ended up rolling into "shackbash". When ever we are out at night and we hear a truck racing around on ice, the tail of the shackbasher always comes up and to this day when I hear that racing truck, my neck hairs stand on end.

Oh! the picture was a drunk that bashed a shack, it was e-mailed to me by one of the buddies who was out on Martin Lake with us, that night.

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Above is a what I wrote the last time someone asked my about the picture.

[LMITOUT]

I thought that was a picture of a car that rear-ended a towed fish house a few years back? I remember seeing it on the news. Woman just drove right up the backside of it and I thought she had been talking on her cell phone or something.

[Shack]

When I got it, I was told it was a drunk.

You never know the real story of an E-mail.

Very good remake, Scar face!!!!!!!!!!!! I know it is a movie!

Basically the whole carrier of "Quit Riot", how many songs did they get from Slade?

[zamboni]

Another- Dangerous Toys- Feel Like Makin' Love

[DeBo101]

The Best Remake - Hendrix "All Along The Watchtower"

Honorable Mentions

Metallica - "Turn The Page" The seger version is great as

well

Goldfinger - "99 Red Balloons" They even sing part of it in German

Dropkick Murphys - "Amazing Grace" Pretty cool track. I think one of the new shows on Showtime is using it for the theme song or at least for advertising it.

For laughs you can't beat anything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. You haven't lived until you have heard the punk versions of sings like "Rocket Man", "Take It On The Run", or "Stairway to Heaven".

[McGurk]

For a different take on this subject; "Bennie and the Jets" by Biz Markie. I heard it live on a BBoys disc, pretty funny stuff.

[Shack]

"Ring Of Fire", covered by Eric Burdon and the Animals (Stop/SunSecrets), Orig. Jonny cash

[Coach Dog]

"Brandy" by Kenny Chesney

"Watch Tower"

[zamboni]

I love Brandy, but I prefer the Red Hot Chilli Peppers version- youtube has it in case youre curious

[zamboni]

Forgot another one- Jolene original by Dolly Parton, remade by the best band in the past 10 years- The White Stripes