Alternative Remakes

In the Alt World there are many remakes that have either defined a band or have given said band a stepping stone into the field. The idea behind a remake of a past song, in most minds, means something along the lines of taking the original lyrics and setting them to different music. This happens so much that we probably don't realize it. The more famous Alt Rock remakes are probably of Don Henley's Boys of Summer redone by The Ataris:

and Go West's King of Wishful Thinking redone by New Found Glory.

These two are just are just an example of the known remakes in society. Greg Lawell, an indie singer took Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want To Have Fun and completely transformed it and put the song on the soundtrack of a couple of movies.

There are also remakes of songs in which people didn't take the lyrics or the music at all, some bands, such as The Limousines, took the concept behind the song and made their own, new song. The Limousines took The Buggles' 80's classic Video Killed the Radio Star and kind of updated it for the modern era with their song Internet Killed the Video Star.

There is also the remake of Jack Hylton's Body and Soul, not necessarily a alternative track, but a song that has been redone many times throughout the years while most recently being redone as a duet by Alt Rocker Amy Winehouse along with Jazz singer Tony Bennett.

The song is by no means an Alt Rock song but there is an Alt Rocker who had, before her untimely passing, broadened her horizons from just being a one act artist, or in this case a one genre artist.