- Turn the Page (Bob Seger) – Metallica. This remarkably straight up remake retains all the road weariness of the original, while replacing the iconic saxophone arrangement with a surprisingly effective guitar line.
- Sounds of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel) – Disturbed. The mix of Paul Simon’s epic lyrics, a sweeping orchestral arrangement, and David Draiman’s powerful vocals makes for compelling musical theater.
- Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana) – Tori Amos Somehow Amos’ striped down, piano arrangement manages to build its own strange sort of tension.
- Solitary Man (Neil Diamond) – The Sidewinders A slightly grittier, more muscular version of a Neil Diamond classic.
- Hurt (Nine Inch Nails) – Johnny Cash Cash’s take on this Trent Reznor lamentation is as emotionally raw as anything you’ll ever hear on the radio.
- Sweet Jane (The Velvet Underground) – The Cowboy Junkies The Junkies seem to transport the urban cool of this Lou Reed tune to a roadhouse somewhere in the Midwest.
- Bad Company (Bad Company) – Five Finger Death Punch The ultra-cool original gets a dose of steroids from this Vegas hard-rock outfit.
- Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder) – Red Hot Chili Peppers Though not a radical departure from the original, the Peppers still manage to leave their distinctive fingerprints on it.
- Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix) – Sting The jazzy recasting of this Hendrix classic makes it almost unrecognizable when compared to the original.
- Careless Whisper (Wham) – Seether. Even those of us who loathed the frothy pop of Wham can appreciate Seether’s roughed up arrangement of this chart topper.
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10 Very Cool Remakes
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10 Profound Thoughts from Song Lyrics
Posted in Entertainment/Music/Sports, Lists, tagged "Be Somebody", "Closing Time", "Fire and Rain", "Freewill", "Lyin Eyes", "New York Minute", "Ship of Fools", "The Sound of Silence", "This is the Sea", Counting Crows, Don Henley, James Taylor, Round Here, Rush, Semisonic, Simon and Garfunkel, The Eagles, The Waterboys, Thousand Foot Krutch, World Party on April 20, 2017| 2 Comments »
“The Sound Of Silence” – Simon & Garfunkel
“Fools” said I, “You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you”
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
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“Lyin’ Eyes” – The Eagles
I guess every form of refuge has its price
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“This Is The Sea” – The Waterboys
These things you keep
You’d better throw them away
You wanna turn your back
On your soulless days
Once you were tethered
And now you are free
Once you were tethered
Well now you are free
That was the river
This is the sea!
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“Round Here” – Counting Crows
Round here we talk just like lions
But we sacrifice like lambs
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“Fire And Rain” – James Taylor
Won’t you look down upon me, Jesus,
You’ve got to help me make a stand.
You’ve just got to see me through another day.
My body’s aching and my time is at hand
and I won’t make it any other way.
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“Ship of Fools” – World Party
Avarice and greed
Are gonna drive you over the endless sea
They will leave you drifting in the shallows
Drowning in the oceans of history
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“Closing Time” – Semisonic
Every new beginning comes from some other new beginning’s end
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“Be Somebody” – Thousand Foot Krutch
We’re all see through, just like glass
And we can shatter just as fast
That light’s been burned out for a while,
I still see it every time I pass
It was lost in the corners of my mind,
Behind a box of reasons why
I never doubted it was there,
It just took a little time to find
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“New York Minute” – Don Henley
He had a home
The love of a girl
But men get lost sometimes
As years unfurl
One day he crossed some line
And he was too much in this world
But I guess it doesn’t matter anymore
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“Freewill” – Rush
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
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