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Feeling Very Pink
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by Feeling Very Pink » Sun Apr 13, 2003 12:40 pm
Hmm, my starters:
Good: 'You Can't Hurry Love' (Phil Collins, 1982).
Bad: 'Solsbury Hill' (Erasure, 2002).
Anything to add?
Richter_M.
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by Richter_M. » Sun Apr 13, 2003 6:50 pm
Good: "Landslide" by the Smashing Pumpkins
Bad: "Satisfaction" by Britney Spears.
Is there a difference between a cover and a remake? I've always wondered...
Tommy
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by Tommy » Sun Apr 13, 2003 7:38 pm
Good: Joe Cocker "With a little help from my friends" originally by the Beatles
Bad: Britney Spears "I love rock n roll" originally by Joan Jett i believe, that song isnt too good in the first place.....
Useful Idiot
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by Useful Idiot » Sun Apr 13, 2003 9:04 pm
Good: Tool - No Quarter (Led Zepplin)
Bad: Bob Dylan - Creep (Radiohead)
Tommy
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by Tommy » Sun Apr 13, 2003 9:42 pm
Bob Dylan covered a Radiohead song?
Real Pink in the Inside
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by Real Pink in the Inside » Tue Apr 15, 2003 5:26 pm
Good: Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Good: Roger Waters - Across The Universe
Good: Guns N' Roses - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Bad: Eric Clapton - Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Worst. Cover. Ever.)
Bad: Metallica - Turn The Page
Bad: Class of 1999 (Or whatever) - Another Brick In The Wall Part II
Bad: Foo Fighters - Have A Cigar (I Don't dig it)
Bad: A bunch of other Floyd covers
flashback
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by flashback » Tue Apr 15, 2003 5:35 pm
IMO,I think it is hard for most real Pink Floyd fans to listen & like anybodies cover of a PinkFloyd song because most of them are perfect & can't be improved.I know imitation is post to be the highest form of flattery but not the way most bands preform PinkFloyd it's more like butchery.
Keith Jordan
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by Keith Jordan » Tue Apr 15, 2003 5:44 pm
Real Pink in the Inside wrote: Bad: Foo Fighters - Have A Cigar (I Don't dig it)
I haven't heard that one. I think I will... er... acquire it now...
Keith Jordan
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by Keith Jordan » Tue Apr 15, 2003 5:54 pm
What an awful racket!!!
Feeling Very Pink
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by Feeling Very Pink » Tue Apr 15, 2003 5:58 pm
I'm just wondering how that could be... Foo Fighters... 'Have A Cigar'... Foo Fighters... 'Have A Cigar'... Nope, I just don't get it.
Pugs on the Wing
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by Pugs on the Wing » Tue Apr 15, 2003 6:22 pm
Good: Roxy Music covering Neil Young's "Like a Hurricaine"
Bad: Siouxsie and the Banshees covering The Beatles' "Dear Prudence"
SydsMadcapGirl
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by SydsMadcapGirl » Wed Apr 16, 2003 6:21 am
Bad: The "I Am Sam" soundtrack.
Good: Heart covering "Battle of Evermore" on the "Singles" soundtrack.
Neil
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by Neil » Wed Apr 16, 2003 7:22 am
Bad: Guns'n'Roses - Live and Let Die (You can't improve on the original)
Bad: Phil Collins - The Times Are a Changing (yuck)
Bad: U2 - Helter Skelter (knocked all the life out of it!!!)
Good: Oasis - I am the Walrus (yep - I really like that one
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Generally the originals are the best IMO.
Useful Idiot
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by Useful Idiot » Thu Apr 17, 2003 5:02 am
Real Pink in the Inside wrote: Bad: Metallica - Turn The Page
Hey! I love that cover!
SydsMadcapGirl
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by SydsMadcapGirl » Thu Apr 17, 2003 5:45 am
Yet Another Movie wrote: Real Pink in the Inside wrote: Bad: Metallica - Turn The Page
Hey! I love that cover!
I'm with RPITI on this one. A disgrace, to be sure!