bah!!

[dreamtrance]

why do artists feel the need to re-make old songs? (and do it badly)

excuse me for a minute while I go off.

this radio station feels the need to torture me with the re-make of Last Kiss (I think its Pearl Jam)

it pisses me off.

first: some of the words have been changed, and I don't mean just little words, I'm talking about significant words.

ex: original - "I found the love I knew I would miss"
new - "I found the love I knew I have/had missed"

hello?!?! change the meaning of the song why don't you.

ex 2: I hate the fact that the new one he says "something warm flowing through my eyes"
the original says "IN my eyes"
um tears don't run 'through' your eyes last time I checked.

second: this song should be a testiment to wearing seatbelts, she went through the windshield and thats why she died. if she had had her seatbelt on it wouldnt have happened.
the original song I have on a 45, I'm not sure of the original year but it was 70s or earlier so people didn't wear seatbelts. that was just normal.

third: I just think its awful. like nails on a chalkboard awful. maybe some people love singing to sound like a dying cat but not me. *cringes*

okay I'm going to stop before I get too upset.

I must say though that Uncle Kracker's re-make of Drift Away is okay. It's not great but not bad.

my advice to anyone who wants to re-make a song: Don't change the freakin words!!!!

Comments

[thebeamiestface.livejournal.com]

I generally don't like covers. If a band is loyal to the original then I'm usually okay. Like, it was really hard listening to More Than a Feeling for a long time just because I have all of Boston's records, some of it on vinyl and More Than a Feeling is a rock anthem. It's not a song for vocalizing. So I find myself giving covers more of a chance than I used to. Eva Cassidy's Fields of Gold. And Jeff Buckley does an amazing cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah (but on that side, I HATE Rufus Wainright's (I think that's who did it for Shrek) cover of the same song). I guess it's just a matter of what you hear first, how the song is covered (dont' get me started on Sixpence Non the Richer's cover of Don't Dream It's Over).

[dreamtrance.livejournal.com]

you do have a good point

and I'm right there with you about More Than A Feeling. the nsync version totally irks me.

especially since the original reminds me of MSU hockey warmups *sigh* I miss my boys.