Post subject: Re-makes of Albums in their entirety
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?
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.
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.
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'Fore the devil knows we're dead...
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.
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