Is it a REMIX or is it a COVER VERSION? I think that a cover version allows the artist full licence to perform the vocals of the song as they wish, with, as has been mentioned before, perhaps only a bare minimum of resemblance to the original song. Look at "HEROES" by David Bowie, and the remix by the Wallflowers, or "IT'S MY LIFE" by Talk Talk or the recent cover by Avril Lavign( I think?) even better is the entire album 50 First Dates, which are cover versions done in a reggae style of 80's hits such as Hold Me Know (thompson twins) redone by Wayne Wonder, Drive (the Cars) beautifully redone by (David)Ziggy Marley. A Remix on the other hand should bear more (easily) noticeable ties to the original version. hence all the samples provided for the Start-ab competition, to help keep the remixes sounding fairly similar to the original, although such things as the tempo, pitch, feeling, can be changed. A remix should still have any vocals performed by the original artist, else it becomes a cover version, since you can no longer tell who is singing the song. a really good example of this is MILK by GARBAGE, there are a couple of really cool remixes in the CDsingle. Laurens van Graft The Grip Guy All your gymnastics grip needs right here! Abolish Daylight Savings Time; its past it's usefulness On Jul 6, 2004, at 12:46 PM, Rory Filer wrote:
Hi Mark,
The Polka track in the remix contest is another example. I can't hear anything in it except Dieter's vocals from the original Soul on Ice. Another example is De Phazz's remix of Squeeze Please. To me it's a different song, except that the vocals from the original track were preserved, allowing the composer to claim that it's a remix. On 3/7/04 10:10 PM, rfiler@SierraWireless.com wrote:
I am happy if a remix track contains at least one recognizable element from the original song, but the rest is up to the composer.
But if it only contains one recogisable idea, is it still Yello, or is it someone else's track with a Yello sample in it? One dire example I can think of is To The Sea (TSWL Mix) that may as well be a completely different song. That's not to say that these 'remixes' are always bad