Once upon a time Water Murphy, genuine asshole, totally destroyed Beethoven's 5th Symphony with "A Fifth of Beethoven." It's even worse than YouTube's Mystery Guitar Man's vuvezela version
DJ Tiësto just crapped on Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings." C'MON!!!!
In my opinion, The Beatles completely trashed their own "With a Little Help from My Friends" when they kept playing it after Joe Cocker melted the planet Earth with his soulful rendition
The Black Eyed Peas really take content sampling to a new level. Much of their repertoire stems from putting new lyrics and a catchy beat over long, full samples and only slight remixes of existing music without much deviation at all (see the following track). Generally I think their new take on well known tunes turns out pretty well, but others will strongly disagree with me on this band. Whatever. I think there's enough that is changed from the spirit of the track to make me appreciate both pieces as separate works of art while still making me wiggle in my chair a little so 'good up!' On the other hand, this particular song just ruins "Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing. Cool video though.
Fuck you, Rascal Flatts. How dare you change nothing more than a stupid southern twang on Tom Cochrane's "Life is a Highway" and swing around like it's your own. Guess which part of my body I'm about to ask you to eat.
P.S. It's my dick.
And just for the hell of it. This beauty queen is obviously playing to a track that was unexpectedly altered so it's no longer in the same key as she has practiced (thanks a lot, cassette players). Still I can't help laughing until I cry. I close with "Star Wars Trumped Solo"
Great post! Gave me the idea doing a post about covers that sound so much like the original that, like, what's the point? (l.o.l.)
ReplyDeleteAlso, as I started reading this post, I thought I had stumbled across the worst cover version of all time the other day. Then I listened to the Black Eyed Peas song.
As far as differing personal opinions go, I don't mind the classical music "remixes" here, I like both versions (Beatles, Cocker) of "WALHFMF," and the rest of those videos are equally godawful.