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Remake, Remodel
Posted by Keith Aitken on 1 February 2009 - 9:59pm.
Inspired by Adam and Joe's podcast from the other week, where they invited listeners to suggest possible movie remakes, it got me thinking that while it's commonplace for movies to be re-made, you rarely, if ever, hear of an album (classic or otherwise) being remade... (though there are many attempts to recapture past glories).
So, here's the challenge - what album would you like to hear re-made, and by which contemporary artist/band.
I'll start the ball rolling with "Rubber Soul", to be recorded by Teenage Fanclub...
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That would be too easy
...while I love The Fannies, I think I'd prefer to hear Rubber Soul, or maybe Revolver as recorded by Prince at his prime.
And sticking with 60s classics Blonde On Blonde by a young Aretha, or maybe Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.
And finally Purple Rain re-recorded by The Clash.
Yeah I know it's not quite classic by contemporary, but I'm not mad keen on those Hollywood remakes. I prefer the idea of reimagining classics in a kind of What If...alternative universe!
I wouldn't normally indulge
I wouldn't normally indulge in this sort of thing, but I've always wanted to hear the Belle and Sebastian LP "The Boy With The Arab Strap" re-recorded as heavy metal.
Great concept
I'd pay good money to hear either Prince or the Fannies do a Beatles album.
Booker T & the MGs resurfaced Abbey Road as McLemore Avenue but it's a bit of a curate's egg by all accounts.
no friends here
Voivod play Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Motörhead revisit Red
Megadeth attempt Solid Air
nope
I'd like to hear Hayseed Dixie do a song by song version of
the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, or Rumours.
I find that the more unlikely cover versions are the better they can be.
Elvis does Richard
Given the EC versions of "Withered and Died" and "End of the Rainbow", I'd love to hear the whole of any of the RT (or R<) LPs performed by Elvis Costello. Or the King of America LP performed by RT. Preferably followed by each guesting with the other for encores.
I would love to hear Siouxsie and the Banshees do
a whole CD of Beatles covers. Or even better, Beatles covers with a few of the more Satanic Rolling Stones songs mixed in as well.
How about anything early by The Wedding Present
redone by The Wedding Present? That way I could listen to them and enjoy the songs instead of complaining about how tinny and weak the sound is.
Same goes for a couple of Fannies albums as well.