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The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#25re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 12:11am
Jessica Simpson should be smacked for even attempting to remake "Boots"
Her and her husband also ruined "A Whole New World" from Disney's "Aladdin", they can't hold a candle to Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle's original radio version. (Notice I wrote RADIO version as I am well aware that the song is song in the movie by Lea Salonga and Brad Kane, okay?)
#26re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 12:16am
Pebo and Regina were on the soundtrack as well.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#27re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 12:18am
I am well aware of that I have the soundtrack 
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#28re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 12:53amClapton claims he did the slow version of LAYLA because he can no longer play the guitar licks in the original verison.
#29re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 1:00amany remake of any beatle song (ESP michael buble's terrible "can't buy me love") with the exception of the version of "a little help (from my friends)" that was at woodstock. that was a cool version. also a few years back some rock band tried to remake the 60's classic "last kiss" and it very much angered me. there's also a band called the hippos that takes 60's songs and ruins them. i disagree with the "somewhere" slap- i think babs' version is excellent, really comes at it from a different angle. i supossed i'm bias because i'm such a big fan, but the sound effects really make it feel other-wordly. like they're escaping... somewhere.
#30re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 4:46am
I dug up Charlotte Church's "Enchantmente" today. Ugh...how did I ever like her. Life before Audra, I tell you.
Listen to her version of "If I Loved You," if you dare. "Somewhere" is dull.
She's just a dull singer. Thank God she dissipated into obliteration.
#31re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 5:01am
Madonna's version of "American Pie"
Forester goes to hide now.
#32re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 7:38amThat's a toss up between Brittany's 'My Preogative" or Madonna's "American pie"
#33re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 8:38amForester, I'm with 1000%. Madonna's version of American Pie is by far the worst cover I've ever heard. I'd rather listen to William Hung sing the National Anthem.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#34re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 8:45amSeasons of Love by Stevie Wonder. One critic said that it sounds like he is being castrated.
#35re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 9:03am
OMG, Forester! I totally forgot about that! Yeah, it was pretty wretched.
And I agree to an extent w/ Love4Cheno about CC's Big Yellow Taxi, though the version w/o Vanessa Carlton was significantly less horrendous. Her "mmmm-bop-bop"s made me want to scratch my eyes out! Utterly cringeworthy!
#36re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 9:09amI haven't heard the non-Vanessa Carlton version, but yes, the mmm-bop-bop-bop is horrific!
#37re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 9:13amI've heard it on the radio a couple of times, and I'm always expecting her to come in, but I think they replace her w/ a harmonica! It's so SO SO much better!
NCGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/04
#38re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 10:40amSpeaking of Vanessa Carlton, how about that god-awful cover of “Time Is On My Side” she did for those Time-Warner commercials this past spring, sounding for all the world like a twelve-year old girl in her sixth-grade talent show.
#39re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 10:53am
aw, I ADORE Vanerssa Carlton and her singing in Big Yellow Taxi!!
The WORST would have to be Britney's My Pregorgative (sp?) It's just....gah!! Jessicas Boots cover is pretty bad but not as bad as Brit. I'm sure there's more i'll think of later...
#40re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 12:42pm
Kelly Osbourne - Like a Virgin
The Brady Bunch - American Pie (far worse than Madonna)
The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way (Jimmy Somerville sings flat in nearly all of his awful falsetto)
#41re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 12:44pmNCGuy - you said it!!
NCGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/04
#42re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 1:28pm
“...they replace her w/ a harmonica! It's so SO SO much better!”
Maybe Vanessa’s producers should consider that the next time she’s recording in the studio; just drop her vocals altogether and throw in a harmonica. Can’t hurt!
#43re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 1:32pm
Idina Menzel...On My Own.
#44re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 1:38pm
Leonard Nimoy's "Both Sides Now"
Listen here:
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#45re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 1:45pm
Maybe Vanessa’s producers should consider that the next time she’s recording in the studio; just drop her vocals altogether and throw in a harmonica. Can’t hurt!
I agree! Can't hurt!! 
#46re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 1:51pmLove4Cheno - I wasn't going to go there. All the William Shatner/Leonard Nemoy covers can be listed as one entry. Ditto for Wing and Mrs. Miller.
#47re: The worst remake of a song you've ever heard
Posted: 7/19/05 at 2:09pmWing's covers go beyond badness to inspired and essential. She has invented her own musical language.
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