I need painful/unlikely/dumbass/unexpectantly good 90s rock remixes

in the mood. hit me where it hurts. what worked? what was most wtf???? who listened to them? did anyone ever listen to them? who were they for? they are all forgotten. pretty much. bob clearmountain and don was to thead!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boLxLRrLH3g

not actually from the '90s but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fdKfaq1YN8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZgI_dz9SQY

lol

reimagining creed as hot beefcake house is genius. tori as crystal waters though....

I wish I had known about that Creed remix when I interviewed Scott Stapp last year.

like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gSBApR06ig

yes indeed. that one is pretty bad. jesus, is there a 90s "spoonman" remix...*shudder*.

there are a lot of industrial styled bands that did the dance remix thing which i am sure scott knows far more about than me.
for a proper rock band dipping into 90s remix culture, the extra disc that came with Album Of The Year had some cracking time stamped versions eg trip hop, big beat, and even d-n-b

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKxN6UAIAgs

Speaking of bad Moby remixes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE4QRlz16eY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_tW1dClixw

Queen remixed by Rick Rubin^

oh dear god

iirc there is some terrible Bowie remix of "Sound And Vision" like this as well

The Queen remix reminded me of the existence of the Small Soldiers soundtrack which was full of questionable remixes of Classic Rock tunes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsmE_ctjG78
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS31hqRSwhg

The Rick Rubin Queen remix is one of the greatest things ever, and miles better than any actual Queen song.

lol I forgot you hated Queen so much, sorry they rule

i love the queen remix. i have it on CD AND vinyl.

every faith no more song should sound like that dillinja mix because then faith no more would sound nothing like faith no more. works for me!

that really is the working principle here isn't it, obliterate all traces of the rock band that once existed in the mix

citation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DAd4eTNG8M

well i don't know about that. you can still hear the stones in that stones remix i posted. for me it was more like: WHO would ever want to listen to that stones remix? not a stones fan. not a dance music fan. its puzzling.

ok that makes sense! I'm sure I know more of these, they were ubiquitous at the time.

the ones that work best for me are the ones that take the rock vocal and then change everything else. that creed one works that way. the worst ones tend to be the ones that are just the original song with a big beat drum break underneath.

that junkie xl/elvis one is the only one i can remember being an actual hit. though that was a big past the 90s. i'm sure there were other hits like it overseas because lol eurodance fans they corny.

I'm gonna interpret the thread remit narrowly/perversely and nominate the Skunk Anansie remix of Bjork's "Army of Me".

i mean there have always been loads of bootlegs that just use the vocals going back to the 80s. i mentioned on some thread that i have a really good alanis bootleg dance 12-inch. its good! i had a pretty good trance-y pearl jam one. but its more fun to come across totally horrible major label ones. (obviously dance music people are smart enough to make any old song sound sorta cool in a bootleg beat way.)

"a BIT past the 90s"

xxpost

jesus...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDDZX1vDToI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbSQAG19o50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiAfKl-XM98

i mean the more unlikely that a band/artist would even HAVE remixes the better.

Carcass was hired to remix Björk's "Isobel" but instead just recorded their own instrumental version and dropped her vocal in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teNIK_O2MKg

lol @ moby overdubbing his own crappy guitar tone over soundgarden

i remember the original single had a remix that i think? the buttholes did themselves but i just came across this one by the rabbit in the moon people and they just decided to wipe the original pretty much. hey it was the 90s anything goes, man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVko_ptfK-s

there's a whole double LP from 1997 of breakbeat/dnb remixes of Bush songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZXlcN3XAP0

The Goldie remix of Bush is surprisingly (unsurprisingly?) good. See also his "Completely Trashed" remix of Garbage's "Milk". Those plus his remix of "Isobel" are all better than 90% of Saturnz Return.

Cornershop / fatboy slim - brimful of Asher?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0BkP5HDWj0

As with the Motiv8 remix of “Common People”, I think of that as rather too successful for this thread?

Cornershop kinda made for remixing.

11 minutes of skinny puppy crue...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWD83VfQpxs

oof

I remember the Bush remix album because a classmate had a meltdown about them selling out and betraying rock music.

That ‘97 electronica gold rush did produce a lot of trash though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKxu3mX6Rps

i don't hate it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NIZHZw9sAA

what exactly was done to this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLVcOrdzkRc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4D8iaHq7Jw

By Trent, Sean and Chris of Nine Inch Nails

JG Thirwell was pretty in demand in the early '90s as a remixer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-88o8Mn6rP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQUDN4uyzdw

More Thirlwell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IReyWpbEqbM

i'm a matt dike fan buuuuuuut...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkCzQwX2KJs

all about those $$$$

Get these

https://www.discogs.com/release/1258940-Various-The-RemiXfm

https://www.discogs.com/release/255545-Various-The-RemiXfm²

rest in peace: "Marianne Faithfull– Like Being Born (Again By Osymyso)"

most of those comps are dance or dancey people though. no fun in that.

for the purposes of this thread anyway.

I feel I could post a thousand things to this thread (it's so my thing), which is why I'm reluctant to post anything, but I do want to say in response to the OP, my fav 90s Stones remix is Armand van Helden doing Anybody Seen My Baby. Trojan horsely getting Stones fans to buy 11 minutes of patient speed garage a la Professional Widow/Spin Spin Sugar with a bendy Brown Paper Bag lead, now that's the stuff. Tho ofc the parent album itself has a track with subbass on, so. My fac Stones remix full stop is from the 80s though (Arthur Baker's dub of Too Much Blood)

Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80Burul6KaU

The WTF peak of the whole dance remixes of rock tracks on singles glut, at least in Britain, has to coincide with that particular period of the CD1/CD2 phenomenon when the CD2 disc would be lead by a remix that sounds nothing like the original. This was fine enough in dance music already (see for instance the Chems' Life Is Sweet), but take for instance U2's Last Night on Earth. The CD2 of that - which doesn't include the original version(s) anywhere - instead gives you this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbblVmxQ_Q

...which, well I can imagine there must have been a handful of people hearing the single on the radio, going out and innocently buying the CD2 single rather than CD1 and feeling thoroughly ripped off. Forget Spaceman! U2 aren't even on it!*

(*this approach is never a problem for me if the remix is strong ofc. I love the E Smoove mix of PSB's Liberation that their fans love to complain about).

Was there any artistic metric to those "send them an entirely unrelated track" or those 90s remixes, or was it just all just a heap of wank

*of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdnDfu3lJb8

thanks, white horse, nice food for thought! i like those stones 80s remixes too especially the too much blood one. there was some good stuff there. i like springsteen remixes too from that time. U2 in the 90s definitely has some weird moments. good ones too! but i'm sure ilm is all over that on some U2 thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM_WDqQCBqU

i actually have this on vinyl. pricing it now. very obviously the only Bush you would ever need to hear. the goldie one posted above is cool but there are more cool things on it.

https://i.discogs.com/UpwDU7OZSONhr00xmwU5kOHeDtj-teIjaYlMEhqUGPQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:280/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIwNjMw/Ni0xNTA3NTE1NTIy/LTc3MTguanBlZw.jpeg

here is the thread premise in reverse: sum 41 doing a "rock" remix of a ludacris track...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgMMRp4R9Ac

I bought Deconstructed in a charity shop last year tho I've not heard it yet apart from that Tricky remix of In a Lonely Place that sounds like something off Ambient 4 Isolationism. Fun to imagine Bush opting for Albini purism one minute and then shock horror remixing their work with the discophobic man the next!

Carcass was hired to remix Björk's "Isobel" but instead just recorded their own instrumental version and dropped her vocal in.

see also: nearly every Soulwax remix ever

adding to thread, one of those "from the other direction" types: Butch Vig's In The Dirt mix of House of Pain's Shamrocks & Shenanigans (Boom Shalock Lock Boom)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGQDqY-_5w

sadly the label has not uploaded his Buds & Brew mix from the b-side of the "lucky green" 7"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4fGHb3LyCU

in a case of good timing, jim foetus has just dropped a playlist of most of his remixes on YT

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5OpA0dA3CZ4n3WP6d2cGKI8FcecNSL3f

great thread idea. wow this Moby "Dusty" remix stinks. the original has wayyy more actual groove!

i have no evidence, but i imagine one use case for these things would be movie soundtracks where the filmmakers want to depict a nightclub or rave, but either they or the studio's parent corporation wants a recognizable rock-radio voice keeping the audience locked in. the only example i can think of is the use of the big-beat "Dragula" remix in The Matrix though.

re: actual chart hits --- that "Professional Widow" remix was a significant worldwide peeformer, getting to the top 20 in several countries and #1 on the U.K. charts! apparently it also topped the US Dance chart which is more of a head-scratcher - you'd think it'd have a LITTLE more of an afterlife here.

apparently she repeated that latter feat with "Jackie's Strength" and "Flavor" as well. in terms of sheer commercial success, you could make the argument that Tori Amos is an intermittently successful dance remix artist, also known for her long-running side project producing singer-songwriter albums which provide the raw material. it's gotta be big!

that Phil Collins one is okay as an instrumental dance track... good use of the horns... but the vocals really feel like thick plastic decals stuck onto the rhythm track.

lol the Tom Sawyer one from Small Soldiers is like teenaged me trying to play along to a song with the drum-kit options on a Yamaha

Therapy? - Loose (Photek Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P1OjDuSNQA

with its own video???

Black Grape - Fat Neck (Goldie Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdTmEaOvTSY

both these fall into the "good" category IMO, despite/because of ditching nearly everything in the two original songs