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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Dr Jason on 19 Aug 2005, 13:46
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MY friend found the worst song ever. Someone had left a cd in his truck and my friend decided to let me hear one song from it. It was a cover of Purple Haze. It started out sounding really bad, than came the vocals it was all growls. It was so damn horrible.
Anyway does else have any really bad cover songs they would like to share?
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the Pat Boone metal Album is just a travesty:
(http://www.rossetta.com/niceguy.jpg)
including a cover of Metallica's 'Enter Sandman'. holy fuck.
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Avril Lavigne - Chop Suey
The thread is now over. Come back next year.
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her version of metallicas Fuel sucked as well ... to sing that song you need to sound like a big strong MAN ;)
my housemate once played me william hung (i think it was) he was pretty bad, but i think he was meant to suck
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Wannabes < Really big wannabes < Good Charlotte < Avril Lavigne
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311 - Lovesong
The Prodigy - Phoenix (cover of Shocking Blue's Love Buzz)
Will to Power - Baby I Love Your Way/Free Bird
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Machine Head - Negative Creep
People shouldn't've even try to cover Nirvana. I think Velvet Revolver did one as well, and that one wasn't as bad... the music to it was good, but I didn't care for Weiland's vocals.
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Wannabes < Really big wannabes < Good Charlotte < Avril Lavigne
Wrong. In terms of terror level:
Wannabes < Really big wannabes < Avril Lavigne < Good Charlotte < the apocalypse
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the Pat Boone metal Album is just a travesty:
(http://www.rossetta.com/niceguy.jpg)
including a cover of Metallica's 'Enter Sandman'. holy fuck.
Whatever. Pat Boone ist fucking krieg!!
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The worst cover song that I have heard is when Weezer tried to do Brown eyed girl. It made my ears bleed.
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No I have one to beat all: Limp Bizkit covering Behind Blue Eyes by The Who, the biggest musical travesty since I don't know when, it made my ears bleed more than Mars Volta.
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The worst cover song that I have heard is when Weezer tried to do Brown eyed girl. It made my ears bleed.
Dude, EVERYONE has re-done that song. EVERYONE. Well, a lot of people.....
Second'd on Behind Blue Eyes. I'm also throwing in Madonna's American Pie....
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my housemate once played me william hung (i think it was) he was pretty bad, but i think he was meant to suck
a couple kids I know met that guy at a pokemon card game tournament in Salt Lake City and beat the pants off of him, and he got mad and swore at them in chinese.
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When I was at the V festival I found out that British popster Joss Stone has covered The White Stripe's Fell In Love With A Girl. Oh. Dear.
Worse, I found out because she was on the damned stage a few hundred feet away singing it. Grumble.
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Avril Lavigne - Chop Suey
her version of metallicas Fuel sucked as well
I didn't even know she covered those. As I write this, my tears of angst meld with the midnight blue of my keyboard. A great shout erupts from the bowels of my self just thinking of her covering bands that don't suck horribly. "Doubleyou tee eff! You horrid, horrid bitch! Ahhhh!"
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the Pat Boone metal Album is just a travesty:
(http://www.rossetta.com/niceguy.jpg)
including a cover of Metallica's 'Enter Sandman'. holy fuck.
Not that I'm a fan of defending Pat Boone, but you realize that he put that out as a joke, right?
(and hilariously, his fan base was furious with him, because it was un-xtain)
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Fall Out Boy covering the Gorilla Biscuits Start Today.
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I came across some band on purevolume that did the most awful version of Bleeds No More by Silverstein... if you think screamo is bad, try screamo that is being massacred...
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Not that I'm a fan of defending Pat Boone, but you realize that he put that out as a joke, right?
(and hilariously, his fan base was furious with him, because it was un-xtain)
joke or no joke it was still baad.
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http://music.yahoo.com/promo-18684304-53-20050815
I just owned Khar's submission in the ass.
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While I'm pretty sure that Jason Mraz is just a gigantic severed alien mutant clitoris, that still doesn't top this black metal cover of the Doors' "Light My Fire" that I heard one time. Oh man it was bad. At least they got the keyboard track right, but still. Abysmal.
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I'm going to have to vouch for the Chop Suey cover. I mean, you cannot imagine how bad she butchers it.
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But it's not like Chop Suey is a classic by any stretch of the imagination.
How about "Every cover of 'Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2' is entirely unnecessary?"
How about "Every cover by Fred Durst is unnecessary?" (this goes with "Every song by Fred Durst is unnecessary").
How about "Every ironic pop cover by a punk band is unnecessary?" (this goes along with "Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are unnecessary")
You know, just to get things rolling...
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But it's not like Chop Suey is a classic by any stretch of the imagination.
Hush! Don't you know System of a Down are the best thing to happen to music since the transistor?!
And thanks for mentioning Fred Durst, because his cover of George Michael's "Faith" really, truly is the worst cover ever.
EVER.
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I dhbnoi, some covers of another brick in the wall are ok, Alice in Chains for instance, and I've never really heard anyoine who rapes it. it's not like it's even one of their best songs in anything but the publcis sick scik imagination. Not their worst, but not their best. It's not like anyone ever even bothers fucking covering See Emily Play or Astronomy Domine or One of These Days or Wishg You Were Here or Tiume or anyt of the good shgit.
Fred Durst is just unnecesary periuod. I reads some of his liner notes once. DIEDIEDIEDIEDIE.
No, the real reason Avril Lavignes cover of Chop Suey is so band is because it's live, unprocessed etc. and it really does reveal her as the fucking antithesis of any musical talent. I could cover chop suey better, and i'm not bragging, it's not that hard to platy. She doesn't even do the guitar. she can't sing it in tune, she misses hald the words, it's not fast enougj, it's beatle even fucking music the fuckjing candaian skank. I mean, and I liked that song, it's got nostalfuia value for me. Fucking rape. Although I'm sure there's worse. Who covered that I LOVE ROCK AND ROLL song andf it's not even fucking roCK?@!
DIE
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Oh, shit-fuck I forgot about that cover, wasn't that Britney Spears or one of her clones?
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Britney Spears covered 'I Love Rock N Roll'.
Yeah, Avril's Chop Suey is probably the worst song I've ever heard, anyway.
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I dhbnoi, some covers of another brick in the wall are ok, Alice in Chains for instance, and I've never really heard anyoine who rapes it. it's not like it's even one of their best songs in anything but the publcis sick scik imagination. Not their worst, but not their best. It's not like anyone ever even bothers fucking covering See Emily Play or Astronomy Domine or One of These Days or Wishg You Were Here or Tiume or anyt of the good shgit.
Fred Durst is just unnecesary periuod. I reads some of his liner notes once. DIEDIEDIEDIEDIE.
No, the real reason Avril Lavignes cover of Chop Suey is so band is because it's live, unprocessed etc. and it really does reveal her as the fucking antithesis of any musical talent. I could cover chop suey better, and i'm not bragging, it's not that hard to platy. She doesn't even do the guitar. she can't sing it in tune, she misses hald the words, it's not fast enougj, it's beatle even fucking music the fuckjing candaian skank. I mean, and I liked that song, it's got nostalfuia value for me. Fucking rape. Although I'm sure there's worse. Who covered that I LOVE ROCK AND ROLL song andf it's not even fucking roCK?@!
DIE
Actually Khar: I've heard a dance cover of "Comfortably Numb" once. It made me cry. It actually flat out butchered part of what I felt for that song. Definitely my personal worst ever cover. Number one with a bullet.
Also: are you drunk? Man, whenever I type like that, I'm drunk alright :P
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I think I may have heard it. I heard an awdul cover once in a music store anyoway? Female vocals.
and yes
alcohol ftw
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Dance-y cover of Comfortably Numb would be from the Scissor Sisters.
*shudder*
And that song used to bring me to tears everytime I heard it. I saw a Pink Floyd tribute band a few months back and was horrified that most of the people singing along to Comfortably Numb were obviously singing it in time to the cover. *shakes fist*
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Guh, scissor sisters/
pfft
I did a dance cover of 'Deathcrush' by Mayhem, but that was a joke
CRUSHCRUSHCRUSH
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Damn, can't say I saw that one coming!
Luckily the original brings some solace. Some. It's just not the same anymore... Damn you, Scissor Sisters! :(
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My old band covered Chop Suey at a small gig once.. went down quite well..
I'm assuming that none of you have heard the Dance cover of Alice Coopers Poison?
thats gotta be one of the biggest travesties i'v e ever heard
(thankfully i've not heard ANY avril song except the first tiem the Complicated video was on TV, not i hear or see here, and i run a mile)
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Oh sweet god, the dance remixes...
Poison... Sweet Child O' Mine, Boys of Summer, many more I've blocked out of my memory. It always worries me when my local radio station starts playing good, classic rock songs, because it generally means they're trying to hook into the buzz that the new dance version is generating.
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Ugh why dance remix poison? it's already the best stripper song in the universe, why dance it up ehj?
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Anything a chav listens to has to be put through a filter of basic bass beats and catchy electronic tunes, while sung by a woman who sounds like she's having trouble keeping enough breath in her lungs to make it to the end of the line properly.
Otherwise they implode. Or realise their usual music is shit.
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Not only do I actually like the Scissor Sisters cover, I heard it before the original.
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Well, yot LOSE
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Not only do I actually like the Scissor Sisters cover, I heard it before the original.
Well, yot LOSE
Word.
That's the danger with hearing covers: you'll end up liking them, and might find yourself disappointed when they turn out to be "only covers", thereby totally ignoring the awesomeness of the originals.
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True, but if I find out something is a cover I'll seek out the original just to satisfy my curiosity. I used to love the Dixie Chicks' version of "Landslide" before I heard the original. Both versions of "Comfortably Numb" are okay, but I just like disco. (And I hate Pink Floyd in general, but that's another thread.)
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I really like Sum 41's cover of The Scientist, they even stuck in different words. Oh wait.
I'm really not a fan of Bright Eyes version of Mushaboom. Conor Oberst needs to stop whatever he's doing and go back to singing about vampires.
There's also Faith No More's cover of War Pigs. No fun at all.
The Beatles' White Album should permanently be off limits to covers. As should Imagine - I hate, hate, hate A Perfect Circle for even suggesting to cover it, none the less make it depressing like they did. I shall strangle Maynard James Keenan, and all his occult and lachrymology theories. Curses.
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Conor Oberst needs to stop whatever he's doing and go back to singing about vampires.
This statement also holds true for My Chemical Romance, Cradle of Filth, and just about every now crap band that stopped singing about Vampires. Except Atreyu. They just need to stop.
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My Chemical Romance use to sing about vampires?
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Madonna's "American Pie" sucked major ass.
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My Chemical Romance use to sing about vampires?
I specifically remember them mentioning that they will never hurt you. They also used to sing about murder, robbing liquor stores etc. Yes, it was all metaphors and whatnot, but they were cool metaphors and not just sucky crap.
(or, fuck but I hate 'I'm Not Ok')
They've degraded musically as well, but that's besides the point.
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Man, the whole concept of My Chemical Romance ont sucking donkey ass through a straw made of shit totally blows my frgaile mind.
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I liked their first album. I saw them live a couple of years back (omg scene). I thought they were actually pretty fucking good, but it was my first big gig, which may have biased things.
Still, their new stuff is....ugh.
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IM NOT HOAAAKY...
But seriously. some kid seems to really think that I'd like that Helena song if I heard it (apparently, no matter how many times I tell him, I have. it's shit) he thinks that I'll like it. wtf?
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Hey Kai, I bet you'd like this song, it's by this awesome band, they're called like My Chemical Love or something, anyways, they have this single on the radio you'd love cuz its awesome mang!
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SOOOOO LOOOONG AND GAHOOOODNIIIGHT
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No, I mean, what we're talking is:
And now the nightclub sets the stage,
for this they come in pairs she said
We'll shoot back holy water like
cheap whiskey, they're always there
Someone get me to the doctor,
and someone call the nurse
And someone bought me roses,
and someone burnt the church,
We're hanging out with corpses,
and driving in this hearse
And someone save my soul tonight,
please save my soul
Can you take this spike?
Will it fill our hearts with thoughts of endless
Night time sky
Can you take this spike?
Will it wash away this jet black now?
vs.
I'm not okay
I'm not okay
I'm not okay
You wear me out
Forget about the dirty looks
The photographs your boyfriend took
You said you read me like a book, but the pages are all torn and frayed
I'm okay
I'm okay!
I'm okay, now
(I'm okay, now)
But you really need to listen to me
Because I'm telling you the truth
I mean this, I'm okay!
(Trust Me)
I'm not okay
I'm not okay
Well, I'm not okay
I'm not o-fucking-kay
I'm not okay
I'm not okay
(Okay)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/KharBevNor/SELLOUTZ.jpg)
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Gay selloutz!!!!11
I'd have to agree - if you're in a band, and you're not singing about vampires (http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/mychemicalromance/vampireswillneverhurtyou.html), then you might just have a problem. Or be good. Whichever. In that vein, the best band in the world should no doubtedly be Shield - mmm, vampires (http://www.birdnest.se/dfr/skivor/dfr10.html). Here is an impartial list of songs that rock (http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~dancer/vampsong.htm).
And oh god, for a second there I was about to read an Ann Rice novel.
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All the best bands in the world have profuse songs about vampires (http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/skyclad/irrationalanthems.html#6), things that are probably vampires or at least immortal and kill shit (http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/skyclad/theanswermachine.html#4), child vampires (http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/skyclad/theanswermachine.html#12), and of course nazi vampires (http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/skyclad/jonahsark.html#3).
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what the hell is with you and vampires? They don't even exist!
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Not true! I am 12 vampires!
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(http://www.dieselsweeties.com/shirts/tenninjas400.gif)
I am 12 Russian Ex-Mafiamen and a Bucket of Bernie Brains.
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I am thirty eight ex presidents.
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Bands like Me First and the Gimme Gimmes burn my fucking ears!
but it seems like Tori Amos and Smashing Pumpkins do some ok covers. :)
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Britney Spears covering Satisfaction and The Decembrists covring Human Behaviour.
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Bands like Me First and the Gimme Gimmes burn my fucking ears!
I had a chance to go see them tonight, but I passed. I wouldn't've minded going, but I can't afford to spend 20 bucks on a band I'd only go see out of curiosity. And they only do covers (as far as I know), it's their thing, so I think that makes them somewhat better than your average crappy punk rock band who does one cover and call it "irony", or whatever it is they do nowadays.
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I can only stand so much of me first and the gimme gimmes. They get annoying after 1 or 2 songs.
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I am jokermatt999's first post.
Anyway, has anybody heard The Bouncing Souls cover of Kids In America? That deserves a mention, certainly.
Anti-mentions to "Remember Tommorrow" by Opeth and "Oops I Did It Again" by Children of Bodom(or so I've heard...It's suprisingly good).
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The Decembrists covering Human Behaviour.
Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one who hated that cover! They're a good band, it just didn't do it for me.
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Speaking of good covers, there's a lot of Mr. Bungle live bootlegs that are totally great fun. I am pissed that I will never get to see them live.
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Dolly Parton's Stairway to Heaven.
Actually, any cover of Stairway is just retarted, its already overplayed as it is.
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Nah, the Reggae version of Stairway is actually pretty decent. Plus its lots of fun.
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Anyway, has anybody heard The Bouncing Souls cover of Kids In America? That deserves a mention, certainly.
I thought that was Lagwagon? I'm pretty sure that was Lagwagon. Or maybe Bouncing Souls did it too, which would make it definitely worse.
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Dunno about Lagwagon, but yeah, Bouncing Souls did a cover of it.
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Dolly Parton's Stairway to Heaven.
Actually, any cover of Stairway is just retarted, its already overplayed as it is.
That reminds me of Richard Cheese's version, but his was just hilarious.
RICHARD CHEESE DOT COM!
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One, I remember this horrible punk cover of Losing My Religion, which was disgusting.
Two, when Jessica Simpson sings These Boots are Made for Walking, Nancy Sinatra spun in her grave.
Three, Fred Durst is the third worst musician ever, just before Eminem and all of ICP.
Four, I like Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.
Five, Avril Lavigne should just stop.
Six, Britney Spears doesn't even know who originally performed I Love Rock n Roll.
Seven, System of a Down is nowhere near the status of Pink Floyd.
Eight, STOP COVERING PINK FLOYD, it just doesn't work. Especially when you change the words to Wish You Were Here, not just Pink Floyds best song, but one of the greatest songs of ALL time! How can you change the words to Wish you Were Here, especially when you change the title line, I think that pissed me off more than any cover, ever.
Nine, I like ice cream tacoes covered in chocolate, three cheers for Choco Tacos!
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Didn't At the Drive-In cover Pink Floyd? It was on the This Station is Non-Operational. I don't really remember what song they did or how it sounded. XP
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I think Incubus did Wish You Were Here, only they said "So glad you're here" and I dont care if it was a 9/11 tribute, because that song without the lyrics changed would have made a perfectly acceptable 9/11 tribute. that song is just too amazing to try to change. They should have just covered some Beatles song, I mean, there's millions of Beatles songs. As long as you stay away from the Walrus, Im fine.
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Or Lucy in the Sky or While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Unless you're that totally fucking badass guy with the ukelele; someone get me that link again plzkthx) Also, Incubus; Go choke now.
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Speaking of lyric changes, I hate it when a lead singer will change the sex of the love interest of the song. The Counting Crows' cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" is the worst offender - he changed "a big yellow taxi took away my man" to "a big yellow taxi took my girl away". It doesn't even rhyme with the previous line, for fuck's sake. Doofus.
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Yeah, Incubus is basically lame. There are some really good covers of good songs though. Just look at All Along The Watchtower, Dylan may have written it, but Hendrix perfected it. I always thought that covers were a really good way to truly judge a bands skill. In which, good bands, take someone elses song, and make it their own. Like The Dandy Warhols cover of Hells Bells. They transformed it from an AC/DC song to a Dandy Warhols song, but kept the basics of the song alive. Ska covers can be pretty cool too, like Reel Big Fish covering Hungry Like the Wolf.
On another note, listen to Richard Cheese. Lounge covers of popular songs. He's a genius.
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Clay Aiken does a cover of When Doves Cry.
Oh God how I wish I was making that up.
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Richard Cheese.
"Get up, c'mon get down with the sickness,
you mother get up, come on, get down with the sickness.
You fucker, get up, c'mon get dwn with the siicknessss"
I was laughing my ass off fifty times the first time I heard him sing that.
Anything that Britney Spears or her clones have covered is BOUND to be shit.
And since, much to the dismay of many varieties of hipsters, I LOVE System of a Down, I now wish to put a hit out on Avril. I mean...I did before ANYWAY but now I'm thinking I want to do it myself...She sounds like fifty chickens getting stragled and thrown into blenders....with babies. It even sounds like she's saying "GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE" instead of the proper lyrics...