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From this. To this.

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Tim Buckley: "Song to the siren" 1967



DJ Tiesto; "Did I dream" (Song to the siren.)
Your go! (Find a song from your youth which has been "reinvented / remixed / redone.)
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Not quite as dramatic a difference as the one you posted...
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Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is

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INXS. THIS JUST GRABS ME...

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... and holds me there. Almost spiritual for me. I find both to be appoggiatura in its mesmerizing best form.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TIimigZOgc

And then the "reimagined" version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ERjIhTPQy8
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From the Name That Tune thread:





Also:



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I like Patti Smith's version better.
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ETA: Actually according to the premise of this thread I screwed up on this one since I've never listened to Leadbelly. I have listened to the other two, still a considerable contrast.
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Starts at 1.40



Starts at 14 sec.
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keld feldspar wrote:I like Patti Smith's version better.
Me too. What do you think of these two? Personally, I'm torn betwixt em.



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Also these:






Unlike movies, I find that "re-makes" of songs are very often better than the originals.
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Sue U wrote:
keld feldspar wrote:I like Patti Smith's version better.
Me too. What do you think of these two? Personally, I'm torn betwixt em.



The white stripes but that's kinda unfair cause I'm a Jack White fan... :D
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Sue U wrote:Also these:






Unlike movies, I find that "re-makes" of songs are very often better than the originals.
Both are a little avaunt guard for me but if I had to choose I'd go with the Yo La Tengo version...
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Just because, as someone said, I have some weird musical tastes:



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This is one cover I'm not too enamored with:

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Scooter

I don't know man maybe if it was Hentai...
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Scooter wrote:Just because, as someone said, I have some weird musical tastes:
How can anyone not love Shonen Knife? They're adorable.
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I was referring more to the original.

But I was drawn to the Shonen Knife version from the first time I heard it in some movie soundtrack, and it's become sort of addictive, mangled English and all.
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Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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I must say that from the first time I heard the original version of that Carpenter's song, I thought it was one of the gayest songs ever performed.

I had never given much thought to the Carpenters other than I really liked 'Close to You' - and that was because my girlfriend at the time declared that it was our song.

But later when I saw Richard Carpenter interviewed and heard him sing some song about playing the piano while everyone else was outside doing stuff - I decided he was gay.

And of course being the manly man that I have always been, gay people in the 70's were fun people to talk to, but they weren't cool and they were all perverts.

Since then I've slowly become a bit more enlightened and I now realize that being gay is just being gay. Just like not being gay is just being heterosexual.

But I still think that most gay people are naturally funny.

Have I offended anybody yet?

I hope not.

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