With covers week behind us I thought a great segway would be to look at some Rerecorded tunes. Like cover albums, classic rocks artists seem to be rerecording hit songs from their back catalog. Sometimes with great success, but all the time so that they can control usage and royalties of these songs.
Case in point... KISS. When they released Sonic Boom, they included a disc of rerecorded material. Which they promptly released to Guitar Hero and Band Hero games. Also, it seemed that to strike the "Wal-Mart" deal it was something that made the deal even sweeter. Journey did it as well. So I went back and took a look at rerecorded songs and found a treasure trove of material hidden in Greatest Hits packages and recent releases.
And while this playlist will be more mellow and mid-tempo than what we’ve posted lately, I think you'll love the listening experience. So here's 3 of the coolest!
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These are really very cool! Welcome To My Nightmare sounds fantastic! And Elected is on point as well! His voice is still strong, it truly compares to back when they were originally recorded. Thanks for adding!
The REAL TRUE Styx did a complete album where they re-recorded over 15 songs, including some from Damn Yankees. I will be more than glad to share the whole double album with everyone so they can see how all those songs actually really truly should sound like.
And as for re-records from bands? Not big in my book (unless it's something done by the CURRENT REAL Styx). THey just take away from the originals, no matter that there's better technology (unless it's from the 100% TRULY TRUE MODERN Styx). Take Axe, for example. The re-records just can't hold a candle to the originals.
But like the real, true Styx, there is an "x" in the name Axe.
Some REAL Styx facts since the departure of LEADER Dennis DeYoung
Hmmmmmm.....
For some strange reason, taking Jon's side for just a moment, is Canada still a country?
OF course it didn't make a dent in a country with American Idol obsessed music buyers. People just don't know what great music from an iconic band is, especially an iconic band that because even more iconic when it finally had the TRUE BLUE members it always needed.
It has to be. I can look out a window at work and see it across the river. Plus there's a tunnel & bridge to get to it from Michigan. Right???
Check out "Greatest Hits & More" from Bob Welch. I saw this for a decent price so picked it up, not knowing that they were re-recordings of Welch and Fleetwood Mac songs. I wanted something with both, but when I first listened, it wasn't what I wanted, and then I read the liner notes. And then I saw this comment from Mr Welch himself on Amazon.
I should post this album one of these days and let people decide.
Your opinion? Better?
Norma Jean Fox
(11/30/1945-9/7/2010)
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