In a variety of art forms, it can be easy to overlook a remake. Year after year, founded the story from the book, television, film, and comics recreated, retold and reboot in new forms, to the point where it's fair to question why ideas that more original is not easily accepted. It can be the same in rock music: new bands tend to imitate their style grew up with until they are able to develop their own style.
But there is still plenty of room in the music to reinterpret the works of the older ones. In another genre-jazz and classic in particular-it is built directly into the framework. The tradition of expecting the artists do their homework and studying singing as a way to master the language of music. Rock less formal about it, but not the same as building and adding to a certain style-canon says, the garage rock. Through artists capable of ending, says a lot about themselves with the history that they choose to return.
There is a general rule when it comes to most of the following: change the original too much, and it never felt right; Do not change enough, and feel more like a pale imitation. Best artistic Reinterpretations are able to draw from the past while shaping up to be something fresh.
I have long been captivated by the ending; as a fan, it's always satisfying to hear something familiar. I'm glad to hear the track was rebuilt in a new genre, speeding up or slowing down, stripped down and exposed, or decorated with new instrumentation. We've all been enabled for some forgotten gems or introduced to a record we might otherwise be ignored after hearing a band that respect one's influence. And we may all have been in the crowd at the occasions when some of the band put out the perfect ending is chosen during the encore. There's something special about that time together.
Each year, many a new ending appear in concert or as part of the year, I have put together a spreadsheet of all the geeky ending I encountered. Here are some of my favorites from 2011. Far from a complete list of all sorts, but all picks points to artists who have been pushing the boundaries of the song, while retaining the spirit that made them great.