Horrible Remakes of Disco Songs

**Bernie** · November 11th, 2003, 04:48 PM

Was just listening to a CD compilation that I haven't heard in ages. One of the songs was "Kung Fu Fighting" by Patti Rothberg. Why was this even done?

Other sorry remakes includes Shreikback's cover of a KC and the Sunshine Band song (Get Down Tonight?). Sold that CD real fast!

**nrgbeat** · November 11th, 2003, 05:00 PM

I always hated Pandella's version of "This Time Baby".

**Forrrce** · November 11th, 2003, 05:06 PM

The Con(dom)unards' mutilation of 'Don't Leave This Way' wasn't in the least bit funny.

**BrunoRepublic** · November 11th, 2003, 05:15 PM

ANY disco cover that involves Jimmy Sommerville is enough to send me screaming from the room.

**Forrrce** · November 11th, 2003, 05:16 PM

Pseudo Echo's 'Funky Town' was a cover without a point.

**Forrrce** · November 11th, 2003, 05:19 PM

Originally Written by Graham_Start

ANY disco cover that involves Jimmy Sommerville is enough to send me screaming from the room.

The mere thought of him makes my brain want to shut down!

**born2disco** · November 11th, 2003, 05:33 PM

Pseudo Echo's 'Funky Town' was a cover without a point.

:lol: :lol:

**K-Bee** · November 12th, 2003, 12:38 AM

Some rock band made a version of Cameo's Word Up that I really didn't like a few years ago. I just can't remember the name of them :-?

**vodkatonique** · November 12th, 2003, 06:58 AM

I've just read about some cover of "Cherchez la femme "by Gloria Estefan ! Anybody ever heard it ? :o

Marcio** · November 12th, 2003, 09:10 PM

Originally Written by vodkatonique

I've just read about some cover of "Cherchez la femme "by Gloria Estefan ! Anybody ever heard it ? :o

Hi Vodkatonique,
"Cherchez La Femme" by Gloria Estefan is just a homenage to Tommy Mottola on the "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" LP (1994) :D . Miss Gloria Estefan writes: To Tommy Mottola, I loved singing your name on Cherchez La Femme. Thank you from the bottom of my heart :D :-? :) .

**Nano** · November 12th, 2003, 09:31 PM

Yes, Mr. Sommerville certainly hit a nerve! :evil: I also remember a house version of "I feel love" which was really awful, with some shrieking high-note bending with a sample-like effect ("I feel lo--o-o-o-o-o-o-o--o-o-o-o-o-ov!") at the end of the chorus... Terrible! :x Don't remember who that female singer was.

**born2disco** · November 12th, 2003, 09:38 PM

I think 'I Feel Love' was a collaboration between Mr Somerville and Marc Almond and they got the lyrics wrong.

Yes, it was shite. Marc Almond hated it at the time and didn't want to do it. (It was a charity record).

Speaking of covers and Marc Almond, has anyone heard Soft Cell's 'Hendrix Medley' from 1983? It was a bonus 12" which came with an album and was a medley of three Hendrix tracks - 'Hey Joe', 'Purple Haze' and 'Voodoo Chile'. I love playing it to a die-hard Hendrix fan and observing the look of distaste appear on their face as this 10-minute synth epic unfolds.... :lol:

**BrunoRepublic** · November 12th, 2003, 10:07 PM

I've heard that wretched cover of "I Feel Love" and man, was it ever baaaaad!

I have always said that if you're going to cover a song, you must either do it better than the original, present the material differently, or both. The resulting sonic holocausts from Jimmy Sommerville's shrill, whiny falsetto and anemic synth productions are so very, very far from either of those goals.

**Forrrce** · November 13th, 2003, 05:53 AM

For the bloodthirsty - a colleague of mine's ex-flatmate (a kick-boxing instructor) once saw Sommerville with his minder in the Old Kent Road, one of London's "pit bull terrier and Lonsdale hoody'' areas - and quite inebriated, floored both said minder and warbling potato head!

**efunk_adelic** · November 13th, 2003, 12:32 PM

Because I am forced to listen to a particular MOR radio station..... this remake comes to mind

Turn The Beat Around - Gloria Estefan...

she just doesn't have the vocal range that Vicki Sue
Robinson did.

**Bernie** · November 13th, 2003, 12:38 PM

Originally Written by efunk_adelic

Because I am forced to listen to a particular MOR radio station..... this remake comes to mind

Turn The Beat Around - Gloria Estefan...

she just doesn't have the vocal range that Vicki Sue
Robinson did.

Thank you, thank you!!! I just hate Gloria A-step-on. Why did she even bother covering this wonderful song? Only thing I liked from her was Dr. Beat with Miami Sound Machine.

**BrunoRepublic** · November 13th, 2003, 01:10 PM

Originally Written by Bernie

Thank you, thank you!!! I just hate Gloria A-step-on. Why did she even bother covering this wonderful song? Only thing I liked from her was Dr. Beat with Miami Sound Machine.

Worse yet, Gloria's version was a hit!

It always saddens me that this is the only song by Vicki Sue that we ever hear today. She did so much more, and so much better.

How about those CDs of cheap knock-offs that you find at Wal-Mart for $4? Greatest Disco Hits, as performed by the Countdown Mix Masters, or something like that. My friend's ex once bought one of these... if you thought the original songs were overplayed and tired, well...

**paul** · November 13th, 2003, 01:29 PM

Originally Written by efunk_adelic

Turn The Beat Around - Gloria Estefan...

she just doesn't have the vocal range that Vicki Sue
Robinson did.

Sadly, I think that's true of many of the new artist I have heard. Then again with all the digital razmataz, who needs a lot of talent.

**efunk_adelic** · November 13th, 2003, 02:51 PM

Originally Written by Bernie

Originally Written by efunk_adelic

Because I am forced to listen to a particular MOR radio station..... this remake comes to mind

Turn The Beat Around - Gloria Estefan...

she just doesn't have the vocal range that Vicki Sue
Robinson did.

Thank you, thank you!!! I just hate Gloria A-step-on. Why did she even bother covering this wonderful song? Only thing I liked from her was Dr. Beat with Miami Sound Machine.

Bernie!!! the most annoying part of the song is the very beginning... she she shouts "Turn it Up, Turn It Up, Turn It Up side down, down, down...."

gag me with a spoon... :P

**nrgbeat** · November 14th, 2003, 06:13 AM

I thought Laura Branigan's version of "Turn The Beat Around" was even worse.

**QUINNY** · November 14th, 2003, 06:39 AM

My oh my, you guys really are purists. :o

I'm waiting for someone to chip in with something along these lines; "what about that awful remake of Wing & A Prayer Fife and Drum Corps brilliant Baby Face by". :lol:

I for one quite liked Gloria Estefan's 'Turn The Beat Around' and was glad a classic disco toon had some exposure to another generation. It was a whole song after all, not just a looped sample.

Why none of the Boy Band remakes of a few years back mentioned yet? They were just wholesale copies.

**NickNack** · November 14th, 2003, 09:21 PM

Originally Written by nrgbeat

I thought Laura Branigan's version of "Turn The Beat Around" was even worse.

She didn't thrill me with her cover of "Dim All The Lights" either.

**SandraDee** · November 15th, 2003, 03:50 PM

There was a fairly recent house remake of Patti Labelle's brilliant 'Music Is My Way of Life' which pretty much sucked plumber's crack (to quote funkydude!). BTW, that story about Jimmy Somerville was awful as, even if u hate his music, that man has done so much for gay people over the years & doesn't deserve to be beaten up.

**born2disco** · November 15th, 2003, 04:30 PM

There was a fairly recent house remake of Patti Labelle's brilliant 'Music Is My Way of Life' which pretty much sucked plumber's crack

Completely disagree, that recent version of 'Music is My Way of Life' is brilliant

**SandraDee** · November 15th, 2003, 04:36 PM

BTW, that house version of I Feel Love that Nano mentioned was by Messiah from 1992, not the Bronski Beat/Marc Almond version that born2disco thought it was.