Bands Who Rerecorded Or Covered Their Own Songs

[aeroplane]

I dont mind a band re-recording their own songs, especially if they are trying out a new sound or engineering tecnique. They can toss these in as bonus tracks

What angers some people is if they buy this stuff thinking it is the original versions.

Sometimes bands who are really long in the tooth will quietly rerecord all of their classic songs for a greatest hits collection on a small label. This means you usually have a band with only one or two original members covering their own songs and if the singer can't quite get it done anymore, well then those versions can get ugly.

Then the label throws it into stores with nary a mention that these songs have been rerecorded.

 

[LG]

Blue Oyster Cult...they had a song off Mirrors, "In Thee" that they added to "Heaven Forbid" as a bonus track, it's a stripped down version compared to the original so it's not a carbon copy or anything.

 

[Odysseus]

Gregg Allman recorded Midnight Rider twice. The original with The Allman Brothers and later on, solo.

The Gregg solo version is more popular or at least well known, but I've always preferred the Allman bros version.

 

[AboutAGirl]

Cheap Trick rerecorded In Color in '98 with the master Steve Albini. It may or may not have been completed, but this track was...



I don't even like Cheap Trick and that's a hell of a killer track.

 

[Fever]

Journey's Revelation had a cd of new material and one of re-recorded hits with new lead singer Arnel Pineda.
Foreigner's latest release Can't Slow Down also had a cd of new songs plus re-recorded hits with Kelly Hansen on lead vocals.

Molly Hatchet released a 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits in 2003.All the songs were re-recorded with Phil McCormack on lead vocals.Why would anybody buy a greatest hits cd without the original singers of those songs(Danny Joe Brown and Jimmy Farrar) on it.
At this point in Molly Hatchet's career not one single original member was in the band.They do have one in the band now since Dave Hlubek rejoined.

 

[taha]

I think REO changed a few tunes when they added Kevin, some people still have the original LP's w/ the original singer.
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[LG]

^^I think I do have one of the first albums before Cronin joined the band, but didn't even look to closely at the track lists and compared them.

As for Fever's comment about Molly Hatchet, I have 3 of their albums with Danny Joe Brown and that will always be the Molly I like...no offense to the other singers.

Odysseus, I agree Gregg's solo version is the one I think of first every time, and I am not a big fan of his solo work anyway. Groovy Man has persuaded me to pick up three essential Allman Brother's albums and I have started to enjoy them more now, than when they were at their peak in the early 70's. My brother saw them live in 1974 that is the first time I ever heard of them.

 

[Fever]

Here is Anytime by Journey with Robert Fleischman on vocals.He was hired to be the new lead singer but never made it on an album and was fired and Steve Perry was hired.Fleischman did help write Anytime and Wheel In The Sky
Embedded has been disabled so here is the youtube link

YouTube - Journey 1977-- Robert Fleischman--Anytime

Here is new stuff from Fleischman from last year

 

[Astrid Kirchherr65]

Would Eric Clapton two versions of LAYLA count as a song for this subject ?

The Original : Derek And The Dominos:




And the Unplugged version ?:

 

[Fever]

Jeff Lynne and The Move recorded Do Ya then later ELO did their own version-not exactly the same band but close


Jackson Browne co-wrote The Eagles song Take It Easy with Glenn Frey-Here is his version