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From: rsk@pucc-k (Wombat)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Why, oh why, do these remakes?
Message-ID: <1197@pucc-k>
Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 23:49:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: pucc-k.1197
Posted: Wed Jul 24 23:49:17 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jul-85 08:25:11 EDT
Reply-To: rsk@pucc-k.UUCP (Wombat)
Organization: Purdue University
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Keywords: boogie

There are some songs which could be remade to provide a different
perspective on the composition...for example, Manfred Mann's Earth
Band's version of Bruce Springsteen's "Spirit in the Night".

There are some songs which could be remade as a sort of tribute to the
original artist...for example, Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Voodoo Chile",
originally done by Jimi Hendrix.

Then there are some songs which should never have seen the light of day
in the first place, but seem to arise zombie-like from the grave to
haunt us again.  I'm referring, of course, to Motley Crue's "Smokin' in
the Boys' Room", and Power Station's "Get It On (Bang a Gong)".  I had
thought, up to now, that Brownsville Station and T. Rex had done the
definitively awful renditions of these songs, and I had hoped that
nobody else would repeat these mistakes.  I see now that I was mistaken.

Perhaps I'm not clued in to the nostalgic mood that I imagine these
songs are supposed to provoke; or perhaps this new interpretations
don't meet my ideas of appropriate material and presentation in 1985;
but I wonder whether these tunes are aimed at those who've heard them
before, or at those who have no idea that they're hearing (badly)
recycled stuff.  One shudders to think what might come along next;..
perhaps "Echoes" (Pink Floyd) done with a reggae backbeat; maybe a
disco version of "Teach Your Children" (CSNY); or, if we're really
lucky, an acoustic rendition of "Space Trucker" (Deep Purple).
-- 
Rich Kulawiec	rsk@{pur-ee,purdue}.uucp, rsk@purdue-asc.csnet
		rsk@purdue-asc.arpa or rsk@asc.purdue.edu