(Vote) Best and Worst Remakes of Rock Songs

Great choices again Matt (Y), though Creedence is actually the original . Gaye's version is just more well known, but I love CCR's version too (Y) and their original "Proud Mary" (Y).

Oops, It's Whitfiled, Strong and The Funk Brothers that wrote it, not Fogerty . And Gladys Knight and the Pips are the original . It was "Proud Mary" that I was thinking of.

Also, Baron, that's the only song I know from 5ive, but I think I'll take your word for it and keep it that way . And I thought I was the only one bothered by the spelling of the name . Hey Joe's a great choice too (Y). It might even be his best vocal... . Some say they probably should have gotten a lead singer, but I don't know...I kinda like his singing . Even the really bad notes seem right somehow, like they fit the songs .

I wouldn't change the singing in any of his songs myself. I found a Van Halen version of "You Really Got Me" that I kinad like...

^ They also do a good version of "Pretty Woman."

OK now I am finding songs that I like...

I sometimes like Mandy Moore

Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters

Moonshadow

Does finding remakes funny count...

I found these guys are funny...

Hayseed Dixie - Roses (Outkast cover song)

What are your thoughts of the song "Crossroads"

Cream

Eric Clapton

And the orginal sound by Robert Johnson

much different

Here is more randitions of a song... "Summer Time Blues"

I like these guys

Van Halen

Not the best of the best videos but its what youtube had

Alan Jackson

The Who

Eddie Cochran

The orginal

This song has been remade alot.. Rush and Stray Cats also as well as several bands I am not putting in I am too lazy...

I am hitting the 80s UK music now with... "Always Something There to Remind Me "

Naked Eyes

I will say I did not know this was a remake

This is the version I liked.. its been done by Dionne Worwick, All Saints, Sanie Shaw

for the techno mix

the orignal was done by Lou Johnson

Thanks az! I didn't know most of those were remakes .

And yes, funny does count if that's what makes you like it .

One thing about Cream's "Crossroads," I like both versions, but more importantly, in that time, the general white mainstreem audiences didn't know the original black artists, so it was easy for the white artists to pass off those songs as their own , but Cream never did that (Y) .

Thanks az! I didn't know most of those were remakes .

And yes, funny does count if that's what makes you like it .

One thing about Cream's "Crossroads," I like both versions, but more importantly, in that time, the general white mainstreem audiences didn't know the original black artists, so it was easy for the white artists to pass off those songs as their own , but Cream never did that (Y) .

Best = All Along the Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix

Worst = Satisfaction (the Rolling Stones) - Britney Spears

joe, ive always preferred the VH version of 'you really got me'

ive always desperately wanted someone to cover the kinks 'art lover'

though

lolololol

Yeah, I agree , though I like both versions (Y) .

I havan't heard of "Art Lover" though. You got the vid ?

OMG, Joe!! i went through 10 pages of youtube kinks vid and not ONE version of art lover

the song is rather mundane, but its the lyriscs that are twisted and funny as hell.

BUT going through all of the pages made me remember 'waterloo sunset' what a song full of win

heres the lyrics

Sunday afternoon theres something special

Its just like another world.

Jogging in the park is my excuse

To look at all the little girls.

Im not a flasher in a rain coat,

Im not a dirty old man,

Im not gonna snatch you from your mother,

Im an art lover.

Come to daddy,

Ah, come to daddy,

Come to daddy.

Pretty little legs, I want to draw them,

Like a degas ballerina.

Pure white skin, like porcelain,

Shes a work of art and I should know

Im an art lover.

Come to daddy,

And Ill give you some spangles.

Little girl dont notice me

Watching as she innocently plays.

She cant see me staring at her

Because Im always wearing shades.

She feeds the ducks, looks at the flowers.

I follow her around for hours and hours.

Id take her home, but that could never be,

Shes just a substitute

For whats been taken from me.

Ah, come to daddy, come on.

Sunday afternoon cant last forever,

Wish I could take you home.

So, come on, give us a smile

Before you vanish out of view.

Ive learned to appreciate you

The way art lovers do,

And I only want to look at you

:o :o

I think if you play that one out loud, the feds will beat down your door . Why do they say "little girl" so much in B.Invasion songs :| ?

I get it, skin...porcelyn .