Movie and TV remakes are often garbage. But covers of songs? Sometimes the remake is a triumph. Some examples:
“My Body Is A Cage” by Arcade Fire, then covered by Peter Gabriel.
“Smooth Criminal” by Michael Jackson… then perfected by Alien Ant Farm.
“Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails. It was good… but what Johnny Cash did with it is astonishing.
“Tainted Love” by Gloria Jones from 1964 was utterly eclipsed by “Soft Cell’s” 1981 cover.
Cylon and Garfunkel’s “Sound of Silence” is peak 60’s pretentiousness. But Disturbed’s remake kicks substantial ass.
David Bowie’s “Heroes” is OK. Peter Gabriels’ cover gives it emotional depth wholly lacking in the original.
And… what the heck. “All Along The Watchtower” by Bob Dyna was meh, the Jimi Hendrix cover was pretty good, but Bear McCreary reworked it into the best season-ending cliffhanger music ever.
6 responses to “Sometimes, just sometimes… remakes work”
Ghost Riders in the Sky covered by Concrete Blonde. First heard it on shortwave years ago, with all the accompanying fading & roaring, and squeaks. Just amazing.
Motorhead did a cover of Heroes that was really good…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J06yQb4lbPk
then there is 1916…by motorhead and then sabaton..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izyDOGpBc40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgGhhnQB1gw
Yeah, that works.
ummm how long does stuff sit “awaiting moderation”?
just wondering.
Looks like… months. The system is supposed to let me know that there are comments awaiting moderation… and it hasn’t done so since September, it looks like. I just manually checked and there were a bunch. I approved the non-spam ones… we’ll see if they magically appear or if approving them actually nukes them.
And I was thinking that I was simply not getting much interest…
oh ok I figured you had just taken a few weeks off, and you’d get to it when you got back.