The Remix Thread

[Benji]

We always get the usual "best covers" threads, but what about the unsung heroes who remake and revamp songs into something fresh and new, but with all the soul of the original?

This thread is brought to you by me remembering "When Your Heart Stops Beating (Electronic Remix)" from (+44) and Travis Barkers remix of "Umbrella" by Rihanna.

[FireDoughnut]

Travis Barker's remix of Souljah Boy makes it bareable.

[MalaCloudy Black]

I like the 24-artist remix of The Game's "It's Okay (One Blood)". Better than the album original, I'd say.

[YI]

"Drugs Or Me" by Styrofoam (Jimmy Eat World) - so much better than the original it's unreal.

"Nothing Better" by Styrofoam (The Postal Service)

"Along The Wall" by Styrofoam (Leigh Nash of "Sixpence None The Richer")

"Please Sing My Spring Reverb" by Styrofoam (Múm)

"I'm A Realist" by The Postal Service (The Cribs)

Edited March 4, 2008 by YI

[Benji]

"Drugs Or Me" by Styrofoam (Jimmy Eat World) - so much better than the original it's unreal.

"Nothing Better" by Styrofoam (The Postal Service)

"Along The Wall" by Styrofoam (Leigh Nash of "Sixpence None The Richer")

"Please Sing My Spring Reverb" by Styrofoam (Múm)

"I'm A Realist" by The Postal Service (The Cribs)

I wouldn't say it's "so much better", but I agree it's definately a better version <3

[YI]

"Drugs Or Me" by Styrofoam (Jimmy Eat World) - so much better than the original it's unreal.

"Nothing Better" by Styrofoam (The Postal Service)

"Along The Wall" by Styrofoam (Leigh Nash of "Sixpence None The Richer")

"Please Sing My Spring Reverb" by Styrofoam (Múm)

"I'm A Realist" by The Postal Service (The Cribs)

I wouldn't say it's "so much better", but I agree it's definately a better version <3

[Benji]

"Drugs Or Me" by Styrofoam (Jimmy Eat World) - so much better than the original it's unreal.

"Nothing Better" by Styrofoam (The Postal Service)

"Along The Wall" by Styrofoam (Leigh Nash of "Sixpence None The Richer")

"Please Sing My Spring Reverb" by Styrofoam (Múm)

"I'm A Realist" by The Postal Service (The Cribs)

I wouldn't say it's "so much better", but I agree it's definately a better version <3

JEW has this thing with me where they're very hit and miss. And on "Futures" it's particuarly bad, as everything including and after "Drugs Or Me" is a boring pile of turd. I just find the original so incredibly dull. JEW should stop doing slow songs, they always suck.

"Hear You Me" cockslaps you in the face and calls you a filthy pleb

[YI]

"Drugs Or Me" by Styrofoam (Jimmy Eat World) - so much better than the original it's unreal.

"Nothing Better" by Styrofoam (The Postal Service)

"Along The Wall" by Styrofoam (Leigh Nash of "Sixpence None The Richer")

"Please Sing My Spring Reverb" by Styrofoam (Múm)

"I'm A Realist" by The Postal Service (The Cribs)

I wouldn't say it's "so much better", but I agree it's definately a better version <3

JEW has this thing with me where they're very hit and miss. And on "Futures" it's particuarly bad, as everything including and after "Drugs Or Me" is a boring pile of turd. I just find the original so incredibly dull. JEW should stop doing slow songs, they always suck.

[Cactus Drags]

"Drugs Or Me" by Styrofoam (Jimmy Eat World) - so much better than the original it's unreal.

"Nothing Better" by Styrofoam (The Postal Service)

"Along The Wall" by Styrofoam (Leigh Nash of "Sixpence None The Richer")

"Please Sing My Spring Reverb" by Styrofoam (Múm)

"I'm A Realist" by The Postal Service (The Cribs)

[YI]

"Drugs Or Me" by Styrofoam (Jimmy Eat World) - so much better than the original it's unreal.

"Nothing Better" by Styrofoam (The Postal Service)

"Along The Wall" by Styrofoam (Leigh Nash of "Sixpence None The Richer")

"Please Sing My Spring Reverb" by Styrofoam (Múm)

"I'm A Realist" by The Postal Service (The Cribs)

That out yet?

Edited March 4, 2008 by YI

[Cactus Drags]

Well, that was disappointingly average.

[YI]

Well, that was disappointingly average.

Edited March 4, 2008 by YI

[Cactus Drags]

I was thinking it's due in part to my general disinterest in The Cribs, I've not heard their other remixes.

[RPS]

Anything Justice touches is gold. Lovestoned, Me Against the Music... just gold.

MSTRKRFT has a shit load of amazing remixes - Monster Hospital, Two Years, Flux, Woman, Tenderoni, Kennedy Killed The Hat... etc, etc, etc.

Boys Noize also have some ace remixes for My Moon My Man, Personal Jesus, Phantom I & II and Banquet.

[Cactus Drags]

Not so keen on the Monster Hospital remix, it's too repetitive.

[Iain76er]

Never Went to Church- The Guillemots (The Streets)

So much better and more emotional than Mike Skinner's version.

[tristy]

Nine Inch Nails - Last (Butch Vig Remix), Hyperpower! (Saul Williams), The Great Destroyer (modwheelmood)

Porcupine Tree - Shesmovedon (Tim Palmer Remix)

And the entire "Reanimation" album by Linkin Park, for the most part.

Don't get me started on the rap remixes. I have a shitload.

[Dublin]

Probably my favourite cover from them. They have two albums out where they just cover songs from movies, but I haven't heard most of them. I know they do "My Heart Will Go On" (Celine Dion) and "Everything I Do" (Brian Adams) too though.

[Cactus Drags]

...that's a cover, not a remix.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Cover-wise I love Feeder's cover of The Police's "Can't Stand Losing You" - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=G54NNk7EN24

Remix-wise then we've got:

Fischerspooner's remix of Kylie's "Come Into My World" http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YsV310_MGsc (During the two weeks that Fischerspooner were hip and cool over in the UK)

Another Fischerspooner with their remix of "The 15th" by The Wire. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vT2CTGkJ4bk Greatgreat original track though.

Some good Polysics stuff - their remix/cover of The Knack's "My Sharona". While it's coverish for a lot of it there's whole new stuff in there too: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=k6NIJ5r448A

Also, this is the ORIGINAL for the Jose Gonzales remix which everyone knows the song by: "Heartbeats" by The Knife. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zUGyFYUlquo

Also, as an aside, Sophie Ellis Bextor's appearance on Al Murray's Happy Hour singing "Radio Ga Ga" was phenominal: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Vs0r4-JDo Shame Al came in on it really. Sophie, Jodie Kidd AND Buzz Aldrin?! That show had everything ....And Martin Kemp

Also, Bjork and PJ Harvey singing "Satisfaction" - oh yes... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dV4t1rZEYnA