Music: Covers

Shell writes:

Music Remakes

Categories

1. Cover Band Bad

These unfortunately-too-faithful note-by-note, karaoke winner remakes don't make one say "What or Who is That?" The actual question is "Why bother?"

Examples: Lemonheads cover of "Mrs Robinson" or ??? cover of "Boys of Summer."

2. Vocal Gender Change

What keeps these covers from falling into category number 1 is the vocal gender change,

usually when a woman vocalist covers a song originally crooned by a male.

Examples: Bangles cover of "Hazy Shade of Winter", Bananarama cover of "Venus",

Can't think of a man covers woman song at this moment.

3. Reinvented Greatness

These covers are different enough from the original they aren't immediately recognizeable. Even a bad result is better than the awful category 1 clunker.

Examples: The Cure's wonderful cover of Hendrix' "Purple Haze"

Manfred Mann cover of Springsteen's "Blinded By the Light"