{"id":11,"date":"2005-09-29T00:56:03","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T19:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/?p=11"},"modified":"2021-06-12T03:41:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:41:43","slug":"song-remakes-better-than-the-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2005\/09\/29\/song-remakes-better-than-the-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Remakes Better Than The Original"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sweet Jane<\/strong>
\nRemake: Cowboy Junkies<\/em>
\nOriginal: Velvet underground<\/em>
\nMight be the best remake ever; took a decent tune and without even knowing how to play their instrument, they turned it into something so sopping with melancholy your CD cries every time you play it
\n<\/p>\n

Take me to the River<\/strong>
\nRemake: Talking Heads<\/em>
\nOriginal: Al Greene<\/em>
\nThe Reverand is good, really good. But the Talk Heads managed to give it the New Wave something Al Greene’s old R&B just didn’t have. Very rare to see some white guys remake classic R&B better than the original.
\n<\/p>\n

Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds<\/strong>
\nRemake: William Shatner<\/em>
\nOriginal: Beatles<\/em>
\nBecause its about the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever heard (after Leonard Nemoy’s The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins, complete with late 60s music video).<\/p>\n

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With a Little Help From My Friends<\/strong>
\nRemake: Joe Cocker<\/em>
\nOriginal: Beatles<\/em>
\nBecause you can practically smell the bourbon on his breath, feel every word e grinds out, glory in the delicious 70s-ness of it all. Sit down Ringo.<\/p>\n

Twist and Shout<\/strong>
\nRemake: Beatles<\/em>
\nOriginal: Can’t remember<\/em>
\nBecause I’ve taken 2 from the Beatles already, and their version makes you wan to dance in the middle of a Chicago parade<\/p>\n

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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service<\/strong>
\nRemake: Propellerheads<\/em>
\nOriginal: Soundtrack, Movie same name<\/em>
\nThe original was good (played during the ski chase scene), but every time the Propellerheads version comes on i start uncontrollably drinking martini’s, seducing random women I’ve never met before, and shooting at things from the hidden rocket launchers in my Aston Martin. Good thing I don’t listen to this too often.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Brown<\/strong>
\nRemake: Styles of Beyond<\/em>
\nOriginal: Bob Marley<\/em>
\nClaiming a remake of a Bob Marley tune is better than Bob’s version is asking for trouble, I know. But this is a bit more than just a remake. Good cheesy gansta (so 90s i can’t believe I said it) posing with 40 calibre case of glockoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sweet Jane Remake: Cowboy Junkies Original: Velvet underground Might be the best remake ever; took a decent tune and without even knowing how to play their instrument, they turned it into something so sopping with melancholy your CD cries every time you play it Take me to the River Remake: Talking Heads Original: Al Greene […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parCYG-b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}