don’t mess with perfection
Remakes are in. This can present a problem.
I’ve already mentioned Stereo Fuse / Fuze / whatever and their remake of “Everything” originally recorded by Material Issue. Which makes me sad, even tho initially I was happy to hear such a good, personally meaningful song on the radio again, they have taken a lovely little gentle love song and buried it under too much guitar and, of course, over-played it.
Then there’s Gwen singing the quitessential Talk Talk number “It’s My Life.” {technically i suppose the quintessential Talk Talk song would be “Talk Talk,” but i think “It’s My Life” was more popular} Surprisingly, this one doesn’t bother me. It’s a good song, I always loved that song, I even own ‘The Best of Talk Talk’ and she did it justice.
But now.. I never thought I’d live to see the day, or at least I hoped I wouldn’t..
311 has released a remake of “Love Song” by The Cure. And in all fairness, it doesn’t sound bad.
But that is not the point! I have already had to accept HP using “Pictures of You,” in a damn commercial.. some things you just shouldn’t mess with. And “Love Song” comes as close as any song could to perfection. At least they didn’t butcher it, which is a major concellation.
I think I’d feel a lot better about all of it if they were required by law, or at least common decency, to acknowledge everytime a remake is aired, a disclaimer.. “the proceeding song is a remake. it’s a good song because some much better group recorded it a long time ago, and the band you should really be listening to is ____”
GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE DAMN IT!
Posted: Thursday, February 5th, 2004 @ 1:52 am
Categories: Music.
Tags: Everything, Fuze, Material Issue, The Cure.
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