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RE: Music remakes you think better than original
July 1, 2019 at 6:44 pm
Here's a few:
(Fun fact: I once wrote a list of my five favourite songs and least favourite songs. This version was in the top list and the Britney Spears version was on the bottom list)
Somehow, when I hear this song in my head, it's always with this backing track, but with Willie Nelson's singing voice.
This is a complicated case, because this was originally meant to be on Bat Out of Hell 2, but was rejected for some very complicated reasons. In the intervening 13 years, Jim Steinman gave it to Celine Dion.
There's a load more, (especially for a fan of the blues, a genre which is largely built around lovingly ripping off other people's songs), but, of course, we have the 3-video-per-post limit.
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RE: Music remakes you think better than original
July 1, 2019 at 7:02 pm
(July 1, 2019 at 6:39 pm)Brian37 Wrote: (July 1, 2019 at 6:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Didn't answer because I wasn't interested in playing another one of your stupid fucking trivia games.
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Yet you responded.
Responded, but didn't answer. I answered your question about 'Mony Mony' because I thought you were looking for information, not playing a game.
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RE: Music remakes you think better than original
July 1, 2019 at 7:22 pm
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(July 1, 2019 at 6:37 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (July 1, 2019 at 6:31 pm)Sal Wrote:
Kinda cool the way that video makes that song even more irritatingly pretentious than the original.
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RE: Music remakes you think better than original
July 1, 2019 at 8:10 pm
Krokus cover of "Ballroom Blitz" succeeded in both being truly awful and vastly better than the original by Sweet.
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RE: Music remakes you think better than original
July 1, 2019 at 10:08 pm
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: Music remakes you think better than original
July 2, 2019 at 4:56 am
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Quote:Séamus Ennis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0LAqh3If3w
Dunno who the hell is singing there, but it is NOT Ennis.
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RE: Music remakes you think better than original
July 2, 2019 at 7:08 am
(July 2, 2019 at 4:56 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Quote:Séamus Ennis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0LAqh3If3w
Dunno who the hell is singing there, but it is NOT Ennis.
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Don't know him either, blame google.
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RE: Music remakes you think better than original
July 2, 2019 at 8:08 am
Many moons ago in the quiet Cheshire town of Macclesfield The Macc Lads did a remake of Blockbuster by The Sweet. They slightly altered the lyrics..... WARNING this song has lyrical content that some listeners will definitely find offensive.