Examples where the remix/remake/cover is superior to the original?

[osiris]

Tenth Planet - Ghosts (De Moor Mix) The original version is quite something

[ghettosynth]

I have to say, what a great selection of cover and remix tracks.

[Bunny_boy]

More of a case of when it was released, but

Big Mama Thornton's orig Hound Dog (that opening line!!)


Possibly too familiar, so not as good?


Bringing back the spirit of the original (maybeeee?)
Pelvis DHR

[harryupbabble]

according to john lennon...
mother superior is better than the walrus
but inferior to the nowhere man

[harryupbabble]

might be, might not be

[harryupbabble]

i just noticed
elvis has...
are those what is called humbuckers?
and his top one has bass tuning thingies?

and jimmy's top one has 12 strings
and so yup, whatever songs were mixed using jimmy's gear...
is going to be superior?

[harryupbabble]

aarrghh, it's all subjective anyways

[Bunny_boy]

Blimey, that is a real pic of Elvis
https://www.scottymoore.net/ep65EBS1250.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinout_(film)

[harryupbabble]

yeah, surprised me too
thought jimmy page was the first "famous" guitar player to use that

[Bunny_boy]

Some obvious ones courtesy of This Mortal Coil and Elizabeth Fraser.
Sixteen Days / Gathering Dust

Modern English original


TMC



Song to the Siren

Tim Buckley


TMC

[Bunny_boy]

And also


&


(Although the Laura Brannigan version is a much more radical reworking than Patti's)

[osiris]

Don't know about better, but I really like this
Floor Cry

[Dirtgrain]

"What a Feeling" - Drew Ryn

[ghettosynth]

yeah, surprised me too
thought jimmy page was the first "famous" guitar player to use that

By "that," are you referring to a double necked electric guitar/instrument? If so, Larry Collins of the Collins Kids (1956) predates Jimmy by some years as he played a double neck Mosrite.



Now, this may qualify for this thread, but, then again, the Andrews Sisters from 1938 did a pretty good job with the song.



All that said, Larry Collins played the doubleneck guitar because his mentor, Joe Maphis, also played a doubleneck Mosrite.

[osiris]

There's one song I can't find anywhere. Someone put it out as a White Label in the 90's and it was a remix of Kitty Kallen - In the Chapel in the Moonlight. It was glorious but it has disappeared from the face of the Earth.