# Really Bad Re-makes of Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 2, 2002, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951 "2002-08-02T01:03:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/1 "2002-08-02T01:03:57Z")
I just heard the most hideous version of a re-make on the radio. It’s “Heaven” by DJ Sammy & Yanou f/ Do. This was given a hyper, uptempo, synthesized, girl group, club sound. “Heaven” was originally done and written by Bryan Adams. It was done as a love song, nice and slow, good for dancing, or love-making. I hope Bryan Adams didn’t listen to this awful re-make and hope he got paid really well for this P.o.C. re-make. I guess whoever the hell this is who made this wanted to get a hip sound to get the young people listening to it. All I have to say is YUCK. Why can’t when someone does a re-make, they would have respect for the original version. I wouldn’t have minded a girl version, if it had been a resemblense to the Bryan Adams song. Any comments. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/2 "2002-08-02T01:58:30Z")
You don’t know the half of it. I have XM Radio in my truck. It’s great. But legendary DJ Lou Brutus runs channel 30: “Special X”. And every afternoon he plays a segment (2 hours long usually) called “Cover songs that give you a burning sensation in your esophagus”. That’s right. Heartburn inducing covers. For hours. Every day. You should hear the slow, piano bar version of “All Day and All of the Night” I heard this afternoon. It’s so damn cool. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/3 "2002-08-02T02:08:58Z")
Well, Kylie Minogue’s “The Loco-motion” usually makes most people jam white-hot knitting needles into their ears. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/4 "2002-08-02T02:13:28Z")
Oh, that’s WAY better than the stuff on Special X. WAY better. ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/5 "2002-08-02T04:09:56Z")
Jim Carrey screeching and bleating his way through “I Am The Walrus,” which was on the album of Beatles covers that George Martin produced a few years back. Johnathan, how is XM? Do you like it? Is it worth what it costs? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/6 "2002-08-02T05:03:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\*Well, Kylie Minogue’s “The Loco-motion” usually makes most people jam white-hot knitting needles into their ears. \*\* **Any** version of “The Loco-motion” does that for _me_. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_Hat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@Bad\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_Hat)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/7 "2002-08-02T05:13:56Z")
**Moby** ’s cover of “Thats When I reach for My Revolver” anything on the “Spagetti incident” **Moby** ’s cover of “New Dawn Fades” any lame punk pop bank covering a gansta rap song **Madonna** ’s “American Pie” Madonna’s Evita (does that count?) **Alana Davis** covering Ani’s “32 Flavors” (and adding a f&\*king chorus) **Orgy** ’s “Blue Monday” more later… there’s plenty ---
**Author:** ![Pope\_George\_Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Pope\_George\_Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pope_George_Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/8 "2002-08-02T05:15:18Z")
I swear there used to be a version of Tracy Chapman’s “Sorry is all that you can’t say” (think that’s the title) covered by Neil Sedaka that played daily on the Musak at a store I worked at in college. William Shatner also did some horiffic Beatles covers he sings just like he acts download his version of “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” and you’ll see/hear what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_Hat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@Bad\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_Hat)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/9 "2002-08-02T07:51:14Z")
Totally forgot about shatner **Pope** … and even worse than that… Leonard Nimoy’s version of “Proud Mary” is among the nadirs of western civilization… ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/10 "2002-08-02T08:09:00Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky_ > \*\*Well, Kylie Minogue’s “The Loco-motion” usually makes most people jam white-hot knitting needles into their ears. > \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr. Rieux \* > \*\ ***Any** version of “The Loco-motion” does that for _me_. \*\* Anything by Kylie, cover or otherwise, does that for me :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/11 "2002-08-02T10:09:58Z")
**Tiffany** I Think We’re Alone Now **Madonna** American Pie. Now, I actually quite like Madonna but this song had all its original soul surgically removed. Unbelievably dull. **Atomic Sex Kitten** Eternal Flame - Why? Decent pop love song, but does it really need to be done again? In almost exactly the same style? And somebody is currently doing a remake of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer.” Suffice to say, they’ve done to it what Madonna’s done to McLean’s American Pie, so I guess that’s karma for ya. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/12 "2002-08-02T14:01:41Z")
Someone remade Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” and it was absolutely hideous. There are a couple of great cover song threads on [Fametracker](http://www.fametracker.com)\* if anyone’s interested. \*I have no affiliation with Fametracker…less than 100 posts in over 2 years, for chrissakes. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/13 "2002-08-02T14:41:06Z")
The remake of Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eye’s” was really awful. There was a radio station in town, that had the remake version on heavy rotation, they even had the hack artist in the studio to play a live version. I really wish music industry people would tell a hack artist not to do a remake of a good song, by an artist. ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/14 "2002-08-02T15:12:44Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by Bad Hat_ > any lame punk pop bank covering a gansta rap song Not that i’m disagreeing with you, but who has done this? I’ll be first to nominate All Saints doing _Under the Bridge_ (Red Hot Chili Peppers). The Corrs doing _Everybody Hurts_ (R.E.M.). Limp Bizkit doing _Faith_ (George Michael) - not that the original was any good. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_Hat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@Bad\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_Hat)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/15 "2002-08-02T16:25:57Z")
> [@](#): > > Not that i’m disagreeing with you, but who has done this? I remember some hirrible cover of “Boyz in tha Hood” last year, for one, and a coupld of years ago, Third Eye Blind once did “Today was a Good Day”, and (while i guess this isn’t gangsta)some Ska band did “the Humpty Dance”… I always forget to mention it in these threads , but theres a great website about cover songs at [www.coversproject.com](http://www.coversproject.com). It’s actually one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. great resource. CJ ---
**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/16 "2002-08-02T16:58:23Z")
The cover of Boyz in tha Hood was done by Dynamite Hack. I like it. Especially the allusion to Blackbird at the end. The “remake” of In Your Eyes that I believe you guys are referring to is done by Jeffrey Gaines. It gets a lot of radio play. And I like it too 😃 It’s not so much a traditional cover, IMO. Alot of bands do covers in concert that they have no intention of playing anywhere else (I have the Barenaked Ladies doing “Buddy Holly” by Weezer, for example). I’m assuming that this is what happened to this guy: played it in concert (quite a few bands do requests for this sort of thing), got bootlegged, bam, gets radio play. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/17 "2002-08-02T17:09:18Z")
Who says we like the remake of “In Your Eyes”, we HATE IT, it is awful. I hate this song as much as the remake of “Heaven”. I just hate it when someone takes a good song and CRAP IT up. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/18 "2002-08-02T17:15:49Z")
**Leonard Nimoy** did at least seven or eight albums. You don’t know what wanting to jam white-hot knitting needles into your ears is really like until you’ve heard his version of “I Walk The Line.” ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/19 "2002-08-02T18:23:27Z")
I would rather be dragged around the island of Manhattan by the hair on my scrotum than listen to Heart’s malignant cover of _The Battle of Evermore_. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951/20 "2002-08-02T21:26:18Z")
The London Symphony Orchestra doing _Sympathy for the Devil_ (unless you can see it for its comedic value, like Pat Boone’s Tutti Fruitti). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-re-makes-of-songs/121951.md?page=2)