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A_S00:
Looks like we're bored of the thread about good covers.  Let's talk about shitty* covers!

*The category of "shitty covers" may include, but is not limited to:[*]Covers that are actually shitty.
[*]Covers that are so similar to the original that there is no reason for them to exist.
[*]Covers that are okay, but are so much worse than the original that it's insulting.
[*]Covers that don't suck, but misinterpret the original in an offensive or stupid way so they feel like a betrayal.
[*]Covers that would be good except for some boneheaded lyric change that was made for no reason.
[*]Covers that can't help but suck because the original sucked so hard.
[*]Whatever else you want to whine about, so long as it's a cover.[/list]

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My submissions:
[*]Titus Andronicus covers They Might Be Giants' Birdhouse in your Soul - Seriously, what the fuck happened here?  All the other AV Undercover covers are pretty professional.  This sounds like the guy who's so bad at singing that you always "forget" to invite him out for karaoke night.  And then fucking terrible mixing on top of that.
[*]Pomplamoose covers Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs. Robinson - I actually really like Pomplamoose, but their attempt to cut back on the cool production gimmicks that usually round out their style just doesn't work for this song...it ends up sounding like some guy and his girlfriend busted out the guitar one night and made a mediocre youtube cover, not like an actual band.  Fortunately, they got it right on Single Ladies.
[*]Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover The Rentals' The Love I'm Searching For - Maybe what's going on here is just that I like The Rentals' style a lot better than that of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but I don't see what the point of this cover is.  They've taken a pretty good song, removed the stuff that made it interesting (vocal harmonies, cool synths, rock violin), and (SURPRISE) it ends up being kind of boring.
[*]Walk Off The Earth covers Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know - Okay, so the five-person guitar thing is a cool gimmick.  And it's a really technically impressive cover.  What bugs me is that it's practically indistinguishable from the original if you're not watching the video.  I mean, you can tell the difference if you listen to them back to back, but when one comes on the radio, I don't know which one it is for tens of seconds into the song.  Given that most of their other covers are vast improvements over the originals, I expect better from WOTE.
[*]Los Colorados cover Katy Perry's Hot and Cold - Although, I'll admit, I often find myself singing this and I don't understand why.[/list]
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Now you!

Thrillho:
Any time someone covers a song and changes the gender of who they're addressing. Annoying in general, because fuck it, can't you just be gay this one song? But more annoying in examples where the lyrics have to get clunkily changed. Someone covered 'Big Yellow Taxi' and changed 'old man' to 'girlfriend' which doesn't even approach rhyming with the original fucking lyric.

Bob Dylan covers are a subgenre of their own, but for examples of both good and bad I reviewed a four disc collection for Amnesty International here.

Also, the Lemonheads' cover of Mrs. Robinson is enough to get them locked up.

J:
brittany spears' song Oops, I Did It Again is actually a cover of a little known Louis Armstrong song.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEZRvIq3kkI

Thrillho:
What the absolute fuck!

Thrillho:
No way in hell is that true.

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