Ruined or Resurrected ?

JD is now in total Indiana Jones mode as he searches the jungles for this 2003 version.


Edited by JD - May 10 2022 at 14:46

Sure. 🙄

^ Except was that not the original introduction intended for Revealing, but left off the original vinyl only because of time constraints? The word used by the band themselves to describe the two minute introduction was “restored”, which certainly implies it was their preference to have it - even if you thought the song was perfect without it.

BaldFriede wrote: I consider the "remake" of "Tales from Topographic Oceans" to be horrible. I especially dislike that material was added at the beginning of "The Revealing Science of God". I found the original beginning with Anderson singing "Dawn of light lying..." perfect.

When you say 'Remake' do you mean Steve Wilson's 'Remix'?

Here's a sequence with Whitesnake "Here I Go Again".

1982 from Saints and Sinners.



1987 version from self titled album.



And then single mix version that made it onto Greatest Hits album.



From Wikipedia:

The original version from the 1982 Saints & Sinners album with Jon Lord on Hammond organ and Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody on guitar (5:03) The most popular version is the re-recorded version that appears on the Whitesnake (aka 1987) album with John Sykes on guitar (solo by Adrian Vandenberg) (4:36) A 1987 "radio-mix" version, asked by Geffen, which was released as a United States single with Denny Carmassi on drums and Dann Huff on guitar, who also provided the new arrangement, which included an intro without keyboards and no Coverdale vocal intro verse. This version topped the charts, and appeared on the Greatest Hits album in 1994 (3:54).

OK, this will probably be the last one from me on this thread.  Would you believe me if I told you there was an officially released album from Sly Stone with the following guest musicians, Ray Manzarek (The Doors), Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge), Johnny Winter and Jeff Beck.  Well, there is.  I am the biggest Sly Stone fan since he came out.  When this album was released (2011) what was available sounded bad.  No credits, just that it was Sly in the studio with other musicians reworking (resurrecting) some of his biggest hits.  It was so bad I said, 'I pass' and left it alone.  When I came back to it a few years later and saw who was officially on the album I nearly sh*t.  For the most part the song reworks are mostly bad.  Sly sounds awful on some (there are some moments but don't hold your breath).  The release is worth having just for the guest, considering a couple of them are no longer with us.

Then there is this classic rock song which was resurrected and brought rap to the white masses.  Again not sure if this is what you have in mind, since I guess technically this is a cover, but the original band did participate in the cover.

In 1961 Del Shannon hit #1 with "Runaway".  Throughout the 60s he had a few more songs, a few more gigs and paid the bills.  As the 70s began 60s music started to be replaced and Shannon started to fade into the background.  Until the 1980s.  In 1985, Michael Mann (of Miami Vice fame) created a new show called "Crime Story".  "Crime Story" is one of my top 10 TV shows of all time, but it had productions issues and never really took off.  Cancel after two seasons.  Any how the show needed an opening theme and Shannon's "Runaway" was selected.  Michael Mann had Shannon reworked the song to give it a more modern (80s) sound and the "Crime Story" theme was created.  I like both versions, but the reworked version is definitely my favorite.

The Walsh example reminded me that the Guess Who put the song “No Time” ( which I always used to think was by CSN ) on two consecutive albums - Canned Wheat and American Woman - in nearly identical versions. Not sure why, but the second one was a hit.