aren't they in violation of copyright laws if they just re-use the music score and put another text under it, or does that fall under the law of the country the music was made originally?

no one can do the songs like the originals although it sometimes is good to hear a different spin of a song.

I work in Wollworths and get to enjoy these f****** covers for hours on end, "The logical song", "Take my breath away", "Flash", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "You were always on my mind", "We are the Champions", "We will rock you" etc..... And then I almost get fired for changing the CD to "Air Guitar 2"

Hah, I wouldn't let anybody pay me to use my music as theirs. It's because of that that rappers are concidered 'artists'.

Their are a few. I havn't heard them personally but I've heard people talk about them.  I couldn't say what songs they where exactly though.

But anyways musicians these days (especually american musicians) are barely musicians at all. Nu metal such as limp bizcuit and lincoln park play the bare minimum of what can be concidered music, rappers use drum machines, and pop music is just music producers who hire a music crew and a young girl so that they can make some albums and some cash real easy off of teeny boppers.

As far as metal goes Scandanavian countries is where the real music is being produced. They actually write 'music'. It's not just a few basic power chords and trying to sound 'kewl' like what nu metal bands do.

But for 80's metal I think the US had most of the best. I don't really listen to the stuff myself but any rapper, or pop star that is going to rip them off is really pathetic.

On the whole remakes tend to be poor imitations of the originals, e.g. I Love Rock 'n Roll by Britney. Dire is too polite a word, but I can't use any of the others as I'm a moderator and Pete would tell me off (rightly so)!
There are however rare occassions when a remake is better than the original e.g. Guns 'n Roses cover of Live And Let Die was just AWESOME!
Alas the majority are just pants though But then they are made for a different audience from those of us that enjoyed the original. It seems the majority of people need to hear lots of 'Oh yeah' in Waterloo Sunsets etc etc............

Ozzy

Limp Bizkit's remake of Faith is awesome!  That song just suits being heavy.

Limp Bizkit also have a remake of Behind Blue Eyes from The Who.  It's almost like the original, but more modern sounding.

I hate rap songs whoever does them...I can't stand some guy standing talking over a tape with the same repetitive beat on every song!  Eeeergghh!!!!!!!

Also, Limp Bizkit released an album full of remixes and it sucked!  12 songs, of which 6 were remixes of My Way.  What a joke.  And only on song on the whole thing was remixed by DJ Lethal of Limp Bizkit.

How can you guys sit here and nuke hip-hop and rap for taking one style of music and changing it to theirs?    I do not like rap or hip-hop or whatever, but come on!  Fully half of Zeppelins songs were re-workings of old blues classics!  What about Aerosmith or the Stones or AC/DC?

Remember the Animals doing 'House fo the Rising Sun?'  That song is not theirs.  Eric Burden did not write it.  I have a copy of Leadbelly singing it in the 20's.  'Train kept a Rollin' is a Blues staple from WAY back!  There are many others, but I'm to angry to think of them right now!

It's not that I like what I hear.  I could kill Maddona for what she did to American Pie.  But indoing so, she was doing no different than anyone who has come before her.  Music builds upon itself.  You take the best elements of one form and transcribe it into another.  To say that one song should be held invioate and never be touched again is contrary to everything Rock and Roll is based on!  Rock and its descendant forms of are based on expirimentation.

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Whitey, you're my kind of guy !....Sorry this one got by me til now, but better late than never.....

I can't stand the banging on tree trunks in the jungle, either  .....not to stereo-type, but thats what that racket reminds me of, from old Tarzan movies  ......and I like Johnny Weis......!