My music rant for the day.

[Easy Mac]

Felt like ranting after hearing a few songs on the radio today.

1. So I'm listening to the radio, and they play a new song by The Used & My Chemical Romance. These bands combined and completely ass raped Under Pressure by Queen and Bowie. Why oh why do shitty bands always feel the need to remake good songs? Is it just that they can't think of anything original? I mean they completely bastardized the song, turning it into a whiny, shitty pop-punk song. There are certain things that can't be replicated, and thats the brilliance of Queen (Constantine Maroulis be damned).

2. I had known this was coming for a couple of weeks, but a while ago, a group called The Fray came out with a song called Cable Cars. They funded the song themselves, bought studio time and shopped it around, a good story. Once the song started doing pretty well, their record company decided to put some money behind it and re-do the song in a better studio. So they do. I hear the "better, improved" version, and its not nearly as good. There was a lot more emotion in the earlier version. The guitars are incredibly drowned out in the newer version. That was the best part of the first version. It really lent to the emotion of the song. Now, it just feels like another song. I can't get a hold of the original, because only the newer version is available for sale. WHy would a group or even a record company mess with something when its taking off, or in the beginning of it?

Those were my music rants for the day.

[ThunderingHERD]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

These bands combined and completely ass raped Under Pressure by Queen and Bowie ... There are certain things that can't be replicated, and thats the brilliance of Queen

Obviously somebody is forgetting a little tune called "Ice Ice Baby".

[Easy Mac]

Wasn't really a remake though. If you listen to Mr. Van Winkle, its a completely different sound.

[flere-imsaho]

A few weeks ago, when I was listening to the radio (an "alternative" station with somewhat dumb DJs that's recently started to play "older" stuff as well, to show they're "that cool"), they actually played "Under Pressure" by Queen, with Bowie.

The DJ, after it was done, said "and that was Under Pressure, by David Bowie". Full stop.

I couldn't believe it.

[Klinglerware]

Originally Posted by ThunderingHERD

Obviously somebody is forgetting a little tune called "Ice Ice Baby".

What are you talking about? Vanilla says there's an extra "ting" in his song...

[stevew]

Its dum dum dum da da dum "chi"

instead of

Dum dum dum da da dum "dum"

[judicial clerk]

Vanilla Ice was the musical guest on Saturday Night live way back when and of course he "sang" the above referenced song. Dennis Miller was doing Weekend UIpdate then and he used the original Queen/Bowie song for his intro music. It was funny.

[hhiipp]

At least he changed the words and didn't do a shitty remake of a good song.