Best Ever Albums

Re: Re-makes of Albums in their entirety

kickerofelves — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:45:21 GMT

Author: kickerofelves

Posted: 06/11/2018 16:45

RIse Above by Dirty Projectors

This is a weird one, supposedly a re-imagining of this :

Damaged by Black Flag

Re: Re-makes of Albums in their entirety

CharlieBarley — Sat, 9 Jun 2018 16:28:35 GMT

Author: CharlieBarley

Posted: 06/09/2018 20:28

The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and Whit...aming Lips

My list

glynspsa — Sat, 9 Jun 2018 08:47:08 GMT

Author: glynspsa

Posted: 06/09/2018 12:47

Some of these are just albums of cover songs but many of them are complete reinterpretations of entire albums:

https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=38709

Re: Re-makes of Albums in their entirety

bobbyb5 — Sat, 9 Jun 2018 07:12:04 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 06/09/2018 11:12

Romanelli wrote:

Rebuild The Wall by Luther Wright And The Wrongs

A track by track bluegrass recreation of The Wall by Pink Floyd, complete with all of the spoken word snippets and between track sounds. I love this album.

Link

I got to hear this. Sounds like a riot.

Re: Re-makes of Albums in their entirety

Liedzeit — Sat, 9 Jun 2018 05:49:55 GMT

Author: Liedzeit

Posted: 06/09/2018 09:49

I knew "The Wall" had some potential. If only done the right way!

Re: Re-makes of Albums in their entirety

Romanelli — Fri, 8 Jun 2018 22:33:46 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 06/09/2018 02:33

Rebuild The Wall by Luther Wright And The Wrongs

A track by track bluegrass recreation of The Wall by Pink Floyd, complete with all of the spoken word snippets and between track sounds. I love this album.

Link

Re: Re-makes of Albums in their entirety

bobbyb5 — Fri, 8 Jun 2018 13:56:50 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 06/08/2018 17:56

These ones are real fun too. They're remakes OK Computer and Sergeant Pepper and the Dark Side of the Moon.

Radiodread by Easy Star All-Stars

Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band by Easy Star All-Stars

Dub Side Of The Moon by Easy Star All-Stars

Re: Re-makes of Albums in their entirety

bobbyb5 — Fri, 8 Jun 2018 13:45:25 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 06/08/2018 17:45

I find this one highly amusing. It's the entire Abbey Road album. About half of it is really good.

McLemore Avenue by Booker T. & The M.G.'s

Re: Re-makes of Albums in their entirety

rkm — Thu, 7 Jun 2018 19:50:49 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 06/07/2018 23:50

I just finished listening to the Kidjo album. It sounds fine, but if anything it highlights how great Remain In Light is, due to the absence of several things, primarily that Kidjo is not David Byrne. For me, the appeal of Remain In Light is the catharsis of Byrne’s nervous energy and anxieties, juxtaposed to those insistent rhythms and grooves, which in themselves speak to me of the inevitable and machine-like demands of a contemporary western life. The brilliance of Talking Heads, Remain In Light, is perhaps not the African influence of Fela Kuti, but that the appropriation means something new against other appropriations: the “preacher on the radio” delivery on “Once In A Lifetime”, for example.

Re: Re-makes of Albums in their entirety

Anonymous — Thu, 7 Jun 2018 19:25:31 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/07/2018 23:25

in a rare hip-hop example, Elzhi covered Illmatic in its entirety. It actually turned out pretty dope

Re-makes of Albums in their entirety

rkm — Thu, 7 Jun 2018 19:12:48 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 06/07/2018 23:12

I’m listening to Angelique Kidjo’s re-make Of Talking Heads “Remain In Light” as I type this.

No verdict as yet. The influence of Fela Kuti on Remain In Light is well known, and so taking the album in a more Afro-beat direction is no stretch. I’m not sure if this works in its favour, or if a re-make has more merit if it’s re-imagined in a completely different context: Ryan Adams covering Taylor Swift for instance (although I’ve never tried to listen either Taylor Swift or Ryan Adams’ album to know how well it worked).

Are there any album re-makes you like?

What makes an album re-make successful?

Do you think this trend will grow into the future, as the canon of great albums from the last 50 odd years becomes more codified?