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[imapiratearg]

So I hope this hasn't already been covered in another thread under a different guise, but this thread is about shitty covers of good songs.

To get things off on the right (or, I suppose, wrong) foot, I submit to you, wise and mighty Internets, this.  It's the Jonas Brothers covering "Hello, Goodbye" by The Beatles.

[Dazed]

Pretty much whenever Phish covers anything live. Especially things that are supposed to be vocally driven.

[the_pied_piper]

It's the Jonas Brothers covering "Hello, Goodbye" by The Beatles.

NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[imapiratearg]

That's what I thought.

[Avec]

The Sex Pistols' Anarchy in the UK by Megadeath.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i1-j1IZEKw

Fuck you, Megadeath.

[Dazed]

Oh yeah, the GnR cover of Knockin' on Heaven's Door.

[Christophe]

Oh hai.

[rynne]

Pretty much whenever Phish covers anything live. Especially things that are supposed to be vocally driven.

Oh, god, their take on Talking Heads' "Take Me to the River" is fucking horrendous.  They're like, Hey, let's take this awesome song, play it at half speed and suck every ounce of funkiness from it.

[Catacombs]

Pretty much whenever Phish covers anything live. Especially things that are supposed to be vocally driven.

Oh, god, their take on Talking Heads' "Take Me to the River" is fucking horrendous.  They're like, Hey, let's take this awesome song, play it at half speed and suck every ounce of funkiness from it.

How about Velvet Revolver covering "Psycho Killer"?

[Catacombs]

Sorry for the double post, but this: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/green_day_announces_bonus_tracks.html has a rightful place in this thread and they're not even released yet.

Also, that Jonas Bros cover is AWFUL.

[JD]

It's the Jonas Brothers covering "Hello, Goodbye" by The Beatles.

NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

I lasted all of 8 seconds

[fish across face]

This is the worst Beatles cover I've heard:

Katie Noonan - Black Bird

It's even worse than the Sergio Mendes / Brasil 77 covers I've heard.

Oh, god, their take on Talking Heads' "Take Me to the River" is fucking horrendous.  They're like, Hey, let's take this awesome song, play it at half speed and suck every ounce of funkiness from it.

Heh, Talking Heads' take on Al Green's Take Me To The River is a bit shit too.   Nah, it's OK, just loses the shit Byrne said inspired him to cover it.

Man, there are so many bad covers. 

Led Zeppelin's When The Levee Breaks
Elvis's Hound Dog
Simply Red's If You Don't Know Me By Now
Phil Collins' You Can't Hurry Love

... I could put in millions of one-hit wonders who did shit pop covers.  Cecilia, Break My Stride, Give It Up, etc.

[nufan]

Any cover the Clash did. Seriously, "Police and Thieves" is HORRENDOUS. Every time he goes "Police and thieves on the stree - eet" I wanna punch Joe Strummer VERY HARD in the mouth.

[rynne]

Oh, god, their take on Talking Heads' "Take Me to the River" is fucking horrendous.  They're like, Hey, let's take this awesome song, play it at half speed and suck every ounce of funkiness from it.

Heh, Talking Heads' take on Al Green's Take Me To The River is a bit shit too.   Nah, it's OK, just loses the shit Byrne said inspired him to cover it.

Ah, I'm an idiot.  I guess I'll forgo slagging on Marilyn Manson's terrible cover of Soft Cell's "Tainted Love."

[Catacombs]

I actually like Social Distortion's cover of "Tainted Love".

[Nodaisho]

How about this?

[JD]

Fallout boy covers Micheal Jackson's Beat it

[WriterofAllWrongs]

Listening to this is like watching Corey Feldman playing Jesus in Passion of The Christ.  Who made this decision?

[Cadeonehalf]

The Fallout cover is ok until he starts SINGING.
There was actually a thread earlier about how Avril Lavigne shouldn't do covers. This one's probably the worst.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfM1U74tMJw

Related note: Paramore covering Foo Fighters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldzl7ijkHac

(Btw noob question but how do you set up text for your links?

[TheFuriousWombat]

There's a couple really awful Sigur Ros covers out there, in particular the ones by We Are Scientists and, I think, Taking Back Sunday. One of many problems: the songs covered are in Icelandic. The vocalists of these bands do not know Icelandic. This is not an equation for success.

[JD]

Here you go Cade

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[spoon_of_grimbo]

There's a couple really awful Sigur Ros covers out there, in particular the ones by We Are Scientists and, I think, Taking Back Sunday. One of many problems: the songs covered are in Icelandic. The vocalists of these bands do not know Icelandic. This is not an equation for success.

i think you're thinking of Thursday.  i love Thursday, but they dropped the ball with that one.

i'm not even going to try and find a video of it, as none of you deserve that kind of abuse, but that shitty pile of monumental make-up-smeared shit-bins Aiden covered the Misfits' "Die Die My Darling."  it was horrific, and not in the way the misfits would approve of...

[David_Dovey]

Ah, I'm an idiot.  I guess I'll forgo slagging on Marilyn Manson's terrible cover of Soft Cell's "Tainted Love."

Soft Cell's cover of Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love" is fucking shit.

Also, am I wrong in remembering "Take Me To The River" as being pretty slow in the first place? How the hell do you slow it down even further? Bad game Phish, bad game.

[Cadeonehalf]

Here you go Cade

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Thanks man, I appreciate it.
to stay on topic:
Sheryl Crow covering Sweet Child o Mine

[imapiratearg]

There's a couple really awful Sigur Ros covers out there, in particular the ones by We Are Scientists and, I think, Taking Back Sunday. One of many problems: the songs covered are in Icelandic. The vocalists of these bands do not know Icelandic. This is not an equation for success.

I suppose the We Are Scientists version would be substantially better if there was no singing, but it's not all bad.

[Zingoleb]

Whisper girls.

What I mean is, these girls who sing in whispery, soprano voices with these gentle, happy feel-good songs. Generally, they take good songs, and take the energy right out of them. This pisses me off.

[Nodaisho]

Like Tori Amos' Raining Blood?

[Catacombs]

Here you go Cade

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Thanks man, I appreciate it.
to stay on topic:
Sheryl Crow covering Sweet Child o Mine

Speaking of "Sweet Child of Mine", find the video of Slash playing and Fergie singing.  Yes, that Fergie.

And Grandaddy's cover of "Revolution" came on shuffle on iTunes today.  It's really not that good.

[WriterofAllWrongs]

Oh God.  The Smashing Pumpkins' take on Landslide was terrible.

[fish across face]

Like Tori Amos' Raining Blood?

Man, that, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Thank You (Led Zep) ... has she ever done a good cover?

Much as I love Kate Bush, her version of Rocket Man is even worse than the original.  Cod-reggae?  Really?

[tyrannis]

My Generation - Hilary Duff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvC6jDrxT-U

[Radical AC]

I'd like to take this moment to mention the entire Kids Bop franchise, and that its an aural abortion and a crime against nature.

[Will]

that shitty pile of monumental make-up-smeared shit-bins Aiden

If I kept a list of my favorite people on this forum, you would have just made it onto that list because of this quote.

On topic, the worst cover EVER in my opinion - in terms of poor quality, poor execution, and just plain should-never-have-been-done:

Limp Bizkit covering The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes"

[Melodic]

hai.

Fuck you so hard for beating me to the punch.

[David_Dovey]

Oh for fucks sake why do so many shit awful bands cover Waiting Room?

Oh yeah also there is this monstrosity

[Johnny C]

Oh yeah also there is this monstrosity

haven't clicked it but if it isn't crazy town covering "new noise" you fucked up, dovey

[Johnny C]

you win this round

[MadassAlex]

The Sex Pistols' Anarchy in the UK by Megadeath.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i1-j1IZEKw

Fuck you, Megadeath.

What on earth are you talking about? Megadeth improved that song tenfold while parodying it.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

that shitty pile of monumental make-up-smeared shit-bins Aiden

If I kept a list of my favorite people on this forum, you would have just made it onto that list because of this quote.

On topic, the worst cover EVER in my opinion - in terms of poor quality, poor execution, and just plain should-never-have-been-done:

Limp Bizkit covering The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes"

haha, thanks! 

oh, and if there's one thing worse than those chumps covering something, it's when a possibly-even-worse band cover them.  ladies and gentlemen, presenting a bunch of welsh cack-wizards called The Blackout, covering Limp Bizkit's "My Generation."  Apparently they've just signed to Epitaph records, so sadly we'll probably be hearing a lot more from them soon 

[JD]

I'd like to take this moment to mention the entire Kids Bop franchise, and that its an aural abortion and a crime against nature.

QFT

[Hat]

how dare a band I don't like cover a band I like I can't ever unhear this entirely forgettable version of a classic song I love

oh, and if there's one thing worse than those chumps covering something, it's when a possibly-even-worse band cover them.  ladies and gentlemen, presenting a bunch of welsh cack-wizards called The Blackout, covering Limp Bizkit's "My Generation."  Apparently they've just signed to Epitaph records, so sadly we'll probably be hearing a lot more from them soon 

Woah this is great it sounds exactly like the original

Seriously though when I was fourteen My Generation was a great song to get really mad to and I think it would be unfair if an entire generation of incompetently furious teenagers were denied the opportunity to get all worked up for no reason to so I am glad this apparently Welsh band has decided to fill that vacuum.

[Hat]

I mean, lets face it, nobody ever got hurt in a Limp Bizkit moshpit

[spoon_of_grimbo]

if you wanted a limp bizkit song to get mad to, surely the best choice would be "break stuff"?  asses being skinned raw with the proverbial chainsaw and all that?

to be fair, i still occasionally listen to LB's more laid back songs.  "rearranged" isn't bad.  i maintain they were a perfectly competent and decent band, but were dragged down by a terrible vocalist/lyricist and entirely pointless DJ.


also, i just stumbled across this:  Scarlett Johansson covering Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye."

i'd question the point of ever covering a Jeff Buckley song anyway, as i don't think it could ever hope to be as good as the original.  i do quite like the piano arrangement in that cover, but it's slowed down a little TOO much, and her vocals really don't fit at all.

[Christophe]

bands cover Waiting Room?

Ska cover of Waiting Room? DICK YOU IN THE MOUTH, DOVEY

No one's clicked on my other link? A link containing a cover of "Stars" so bad that the other members of Hum think to themselves, "What have we done?"

[Hat]

i'd question the point of ever covering a Jeff Buckley song anyway, as i don't think it could ever hope to be as good as the original.

Anyone who hopes for this when recording a cover of a song is a fuckwit, that is not really the point of the exercise.

PS Break Stuff was pretty good when I was twelve but as I matured and entered my teen years I yearned for a more mature nu-metal anthem of rebellion.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

i'd question the point of ever covering a Jeff Buckley song anyway, as i don't think it could ever hope to be as good as the original.

Anyone who hopes for this when recording a cover of a song is a fuckwit, that is not really the point of the exercise.

I guess "as good as the original" isn't the right way to put it - but in doing a cover, you'd aim for it to be as interesting as the original.  And the amount of emotion and mystery in and around Buckley's music more of less makes that goal impossible.

[imapiratearg]

Wait I just remembered Less Than Jake did a cover of Cheap Trick's "Surrender."

It was okay as far as I remember.

[Nodaisho]

The Sex Pistols' Anarchy in the UK by Megadeath.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i1-j1IZEKw

Fuck you, Megadeath.

What on earth are you talking about? Megadeth improved that song tenfold while parodying it.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't intended to be parody. Mustaine was too stoned at the time. He just didn't know all the words.

[E. Spaceman]

That one covers album by Metallica, oh boy was that a laugh.

[Jimor]

One former coworker loved ABBA. One time I played an 80s mix at work with "Safety Dance" on it. He expressed at length how much he HATED Men Without Hats.

So next time I brought in a mix with their cover of "SOS" to torture him.