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Though they don't deserve half the cred that goes their way, I like Metallica's cover of Seger's "Turn The Page." Great song.
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I don't think Gecko means covers, but I agree with Johnny Cash's "Hurt."
Some people want their songs to remain the same(heh), and some are OK with different versions.
Bob Dylan is famous for never singing a song in concert as he does on a record. Not only his voice, which is mostly inaudible, but the whole arrangement of the song is different.
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I prefer Gnarls Barkley's "Go Go Gadget Gospel" as the instrumental, not with the lyrics. There's something inherently fun about that song. Posts: 3932 | Registered: Sep 1999
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I'm not a big fan of Hole, but I liked their MTV Unplugged set. (Yes, old age is already setting in. What I listened to when I was a teenager is already superior to the rest of the junk on the radio.)
I've heard lots of great remixes, but I doubt that's what you meant.
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The version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps in the 6 disc collection of alternate Beatles tracks released in the late 90s (the name of which escapes me at the moment) is better than the already-excellent version of the song that made it onto the White Album.
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I am just so addicted to live music that it is hard to define a song by how it is on a recording, unless it is a live recording.
I like my music raw these days!
Still, there are certain recording which send shivers up my spine from the first note. "Thunder Road" is one! Springsteen is so tight in the recording studio that every note is predertermined. I love that, and I also love what he does live. But it was really refreshing to hear his latest album of Pete Seeger songs(which are not really Seeger songs, but rather American folk songs). He even talked about how fun it was for him to just let go of the reins and let the music take over.
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quote:Originally posted by Icarus: The original version of "Ghost," by the Indigo Girls, which has a key change.
You know, I never noticed. For that matter, I bought an import single of an acoustic version of "Least Complicated" which was better depending on what mood I was in.
A lot of the songs I have have remix versions. Sometimes the remixes are awful, but sometimes they are significantly better and never get radio airplay.
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quote:Originally posted by Icarus: The original version of "Ghost," by the Indigo Girls, which has a key change.
A lot of the songs I have have remix versions. Sometimes the remixes are awful, but sometimes they are significantly better and never get radio airplay.
have you heard Neon 8's remix of Heart's "These Dreams" its actually pretty good and really hard to find
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quote:have you heard Neon 8's remix of Heart's "These Dreams" its actually pretty good and really hard to find
Do I know you? Considering that Heart's one of, if not the, favorite band of mine, I'm impressed that an apparent stranger knows me so well. You read me like a book there.
I can't find "Neon 8" in my music service. Now I'll have to go hunting for them just to see.
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I would say that acoustic versions on Eric Clapton's Unplugged album are superior to the electric versions of all the songs.
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Have you heard that Linkin Park song "Points of Authority?" The rap part goes: Forfeit the game before somebody else takes you out of the...blah blah...the pace is too fast; you just won't last.
There is another version of that which I can no longer find anywhere. In which the rap part goes: Forfeit the game, stop the talk show, product of what you're taught to know....blah blah...when it's all done, you reap what you sow.
I thought the latter was way better. And that one should have been the one that was released on the CD not the wussy first one.
quote:Originally posted by Carrie: I prefer Gnarls Barkley's "Go Go Gadget Gospel" as the instrumental, not with the lyrics. There's something inherently fun about that song.
Anything with the phrase "Go Go Gadget" must be spectacularly fun. It's in the Bible.
quote:have you heard Neon 8's remix of Heart's "These Dreams" its actually pretty good and really hard to find
Do I know you? Considering that Heart's one of, if not the, favorite band of mine, I'm impressed that an apparent stranger knows me so well. You read me like a book there.
I can't find "Neon 8" in my music service. Now I'll have to go hunting for them just to see.
I had no idea really, glad to be such a great guesser, I guess, if you aren't mocking Heart, which I know people who would. I'm not really a big fan but the remix is pretty hot and was wroth hunting down imo. The song is really hard to find on any online download service. But it is on the Spring Annual 2003, that can be found at amazon.
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Speaking of live recordings, Liz, I like the rendition of "Friends in Low Places" on Garth Brooks's live album which includes the extra verse that he only does in concert (which ends, "and you can kiss my ass!"), the rendition of S&G's "The Boxer" on the Concert in Central Park CD which includes an extra verse, and Harry Chapin's concert version of "I Want to Learn a Love Song" on his Greatest Stories Live album that changes the lyrics of one verse to make them a tiny bit more vulgar. I love it when there are new words to a song I love (by the original artist)--it's like an extra gift.
(Nighthawk, just to be clear, by "original," I don't mean the version on Indians, Nomads, and Saints, but the one on Rarities.)
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Ooh, and speaking of Harry Chapin, his original ending of "30,000 Pounds of Bananas" is far better and more clever than the one he was ultimately talked into going with.
(Though I would kill for a "Harry, It Sucks" T-Shirt.)
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In the 70s George Harrison and Paul Simon performed together on SNL. They played Here Comes the Sun and Homeward Bound, and I prefer their versions of both of these to the recordings on their respective studio albums. I guess that neither of those could really be considered "alternate tracks", though, could they?
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How does the original ending of "30,000 Pounds of Bananas" differ from the one that appeared on the album, Ic?
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His original ending, after the crash, instead of going into the framing device about the guy who first told him about it on a Greyhound bus, goes into the depression era song "Yes! We have no bananas!"
Yes! We have no bananas! We have no bananas today! Yes! We have no bananas-- Bananas, in Scranton, PA!Posts: 13680 | Registered: Mar 2002
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I love all of these Pat Boone covers to rock clasics. They just drive my wife nuts when I put themon in the car. But what's there not to love about these covers?
You haven't lived until you've heard his stirring rendition of Enter Sandman by Metallica. Or Crazy "Choo Choo Choo" Train by Ozzy. (Pat adds the "Choo Choo Choo")
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I'm sorry, but my mind is unable to process the terms "Pat Boone" and "Enter Sandman" as related.
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Argh. Icarus, I wish I could promise to send you a live Harry Chapin show we have, but my promises involve my husband doing all the work.
It is really incredible, though, so I will try.
Another unbelievable live performare is John Hiatt. Also, Nils Lofgren(who is known for working with Neil Young, as well as being a member of Springsteen's band) His show still sits in the top ten of best concerts I have ever seen.
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There is an alternate version of OUT TO GET YOU by James. I know this. I downloaded it back in 2000. It was all different lyrics and much longer. I cannot find it anywhere. I don't know if it was better, but it was awesome. I'd like to listen to it again sometime.
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