The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
#0The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 5:23pmWhat has been the worst remake of a song you've ever done, where it is sung badly. Does that make any since? Anyway, I really hate the Christina Agularia(sp) version of Reflection. I always cringe when I hear it. Lea Salonga is sooo much better.
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#1re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 5:26pm
totally agree with you- I love Lea!
"Rich Girl" or whatever it was called. That song by Gwen Stefani. So, it's not "Rich Man" but I still hated it.
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#2re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 5:26pm
Counting Crows' "Big Yellow Taxi" is pretty horrendous, and I like their music.
Also, some Euro-twit remade "Like a Prayer" as an AWFUL techno-dance song with a hyper tempo. It actually pissed me off, it was so awful.
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#3re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 5:32pm
Eternal flame - I love Bangles. And I hate the new version.
Mandy - I loved the song from Barry Manilow.
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#4re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 5:42pmI love Jessica Simpson, but her "Boots are Made for Walking" is simply... I don't know.
#5re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 5:45pmIf I have to hear a re-make of Miss Sinatra's "These Boots Were Made For Walking" I would much prefer to hear Geri Halliwell's version. She at least gives it the camp that it deserves.
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#6re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 5:56pm
I agree w/ Gwen Stefani's "Rich Girl".
I know I'm probably in the minority, but I despise Tori Amos' "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
#7re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 6:09pm
I don't care what anyone says.
Sure Rich Girl is a complete rip-off, but it is one helluva good song. End of story.
It is impossible to listen to it and not wanna dance.
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#8re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 7:19pm
I agree about Geri Halliwell's "Boots", it's a nicely done cover. I can't say the same for Ms. Halliwell's breathy cover of "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps".
"Perhaps
*BREATHE*
Perhaps
*BREATHE*
Perhaps"
I love her anyway though, lol.
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#9re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 7:19pmI was in starbucks today and the Locomotion came on, but it wasn't the Kylie version It was slow and really dumb. Didn't like it.
#10re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 7:29pm
Frank Sinatra - New York, New York
Eric Clapton - Layla
Paul Anka - Smells Like Teen Spirit
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#11re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 7:40pmPat Boone's rendition of Ozzy's "Crazy Train"
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#12re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 7:46pmJessica Simpson's version of Angels. Its awful! Robbie Williams should be the only person allowed to sing that song in public.
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#13re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 8:02pmanything ever remade by Wing
Was that a fat joke?
#14re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 8:47pm
I agree "Rich Girl" is absolutely terrible.
I think Jessica Simpson's screwed up "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'".
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2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
#15re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 8:51pmLove4Cheno... I am with you the Big Yellow Taxi cover is horrendous! Besides it is a chick song.
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#16re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 9:34pmI think "Rich Girl" is a song, but whenever I hear it I always find myself singing "If I were a rich man diedle digga digga deedle digga deedle diedle dum" while gwen is just going "la la la, etc" and all my friends are sitting there like wtf?
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#17re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 9:34pmSomewhere by Barbra Streisand is pretty horrible.
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#18re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 10:16pm
CM2, I couldn't agree more. That Streisand Woman's rendition of "Somewhere" sounds as though it was recorded in a wind tunnel.
Ever hear Barry Manilow's "Memories"?
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#19re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 10:19pm
Agreed with JS Boots Are Made For Walking. Her version.. I really don't even call that a song.
and there are too many remakes of Aint No Mountain High. 1, maybe 2 is enough thanks!
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#20re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 10:23pm
The thing that just pisses me off about Jessica's remake, and really all of her newer songs, is that she actually has vocal power, and one helluva voice--but she is just dumping it for this sh**acular breathy bull. I say, if you actually have talent, and I believe vocally she does (listen to her earlier songs), use it!
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#21re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 11:06pmRathnait... i'm just curious, when you say Clapton's Layla do you mean the blues version?
#22re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 11:16pmWell, I call it the lounge version, but I believe we're talking about the same thing, yes. The blues shouldn't be mind-numbingly boring.
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#23re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 11:34pmI always picture some old tired stripper doing her routine when I hear the "acoustic" version of LAYLA.
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#24re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/18/05 at 11:37pmWhereas I picture Bill Murray at the Airport Marriott.
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