Cover vs. Original

Butterfly

In 1999 the American band "Crazy Town" reached a No.1-Hit with the song "Butterfly" in Germany and in the US. But perhaps many people don't know, that the song was already written ten years before. The "Red Hot Chili Peppers" published this song in an instrumental version with the title "Pretty Little Ditty" in 1989. "Crazy Town" only added a text to the melody and the No.1-Hit was ready.
In my opinion the instrumental version is really upgraded with the remake, so my vote goes to "Crazy Town". Nevertheless the song doesn't reflect the true style of "Crazy Town". The rest of the album, which is a mixture of rock, metal and rap, is absolutely awful. "Butterfly" was the only real success.

Crazy Town 1999

vs.

Red Hot Chili Peppers 1989

		28 %	72 %

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Crazy Town

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Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Red Hot Place

Fanpage about the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Lots of lyrics, tabs, pictures and some midis.

Crazy Town Timeline

Not much to find about Crazy Town on the net. Here is a short time line of the band including chart positions and albums.

To be fair ya this is cover, and it pales in comparison with RHCP. It also goes to show you how untalented crazytown is being that the only song they had real success with was written 10 years earlier, and all they did was rap over it, but wait isn't that what all rap is. - Jon, Decatur, United States, 30.03.2006

To be fair this is not a cover. Chilli Peppers had a musical/instrumental version that they suggested Crazy Town use early in Crazy Town's career when they opened for the Chilli Peppers. - Tom, Tucson, United States, 19.03.2006

2 ryt red hot chili peppers wrote this song and crazy town made shit vocals. kiedis could of dun a much beta job - Josh, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 01.03.2006

fuck off, write your own fucking songs! sometimes I like covers, but crazytown wants to pretend they wrote that song bij themselves. (my english is bad :$) I fucking boycot them. I love the red hot chili peppers!!! - Rainbow, veghel, Netherlands, 11.02.2006

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