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Should classic songs be remixed?
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on 11-11-2019 21:25
Now and again I like to listen to a bit of Johnny Cash and I bought a copy of the famous two prison concerts on CD.
Because of the sort of music I listen to in general I also became aware of a Johnny Cash remixed album (I've not purchased a copy as yet)
One of the tracks on the album is a remix of Folsom Prison Blues by Pete Rock which isn't bad I don't think but do you think such tracks should be remixed?
A more well known example is Junkie XL's remix of a Little Less Conversation by Elvis (Presley of course)
So the question is, should such tracks be remixed and does it make people seek out the original?

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on 11-11-2019 23:08
Personally I think it’s sacrilege but if it gets young kids into the old stuff then it’s got to be worth it, just don’t expect me to like it!
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on 12-11-2019 07:43
Mixing up artists works just a ploy to keep you buying slightly different CDs. I like country can get lots to listen too at reasonable cost. Plenty of people selling their collections that's the way I'm going having been ripped off years ago.
I have a large collection of cassette tapes too and still have a Boom Box 🙃

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on 12-11-2019 08:15
Slightly off topic but hey it's my thread so I can but apparently they are releasing a film with James Dean in it (the actor that's been dead for 55 years) which is a just a tad creepy I think but then again a holograhpic version of Amy Winehouse has been touring.
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on 12-11-2019 08:34
you said it @Anonymous
Creepy
where are they going to make money ?
This is not a good road in my view

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on 13-11-2019 00:36
Celine Dion singing All The Way with Frank Sinatra. They used his 1957 track with vocals & added Celine over it.
Which makes it different from ‘mixes’ and far more tasteful in my eyes!
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on 13-11-2019 07:50
Mixing tracks with artists dead or alive singing their own songs in time is ok and living artists singing songs from any era is ok to me.
Obviously much is technically feasible and making it more and more weird to encourage people to spend their "hard earned" because they are curious and it is written off as a laugh only encourages the "evil" ones to concoct more weird stuff.
If it becomes "the norm" to see dead actors being used out of time in films or dead people singing out of time with the living it will be a very sad world.
The Victorians loved it "the weird" don't need to elaborate.

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13-11-2019 10:01 - edited 13-11-2019 10:19
Generally speaking, I think classic songs should be left alone, but I think this version is actually better than the original. I've seen U2 live, and Bono has an incredible stage presence, but Mary J. Blige is fabulous in this reworking of one of their biggest hits.
Not so much a remix, but just giving it the voice that it truly deserves.

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on 13-11-2019 11:23
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on 13-11-2019 11:34