Topic: Worst cover songs (Read 17075 times)

Dr Jason · « **on:** 19 Aug 2005, 13:46 »

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?

Trollstormur · « **Reply #1 on:** 19 Aug 2005, 14:09 »

the Pat Boone metal Album is just a travesty:

including a cover of Metallica's 'Enter Sandman'. holy fuck.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #2 on:** 19 Aug 2005, 14:34 »

Avril Lavigne - Chop Suey

The thread is now over. Come back next year.

soap · « **Reply #3 on:** 19 Aug 2005, 14:45 »

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

Luke · « **Reply #4 on:** 19 Aug 2005, 15:33 »

Wannabes < Really big wannabes < Good Charlotte < Avril Lavigne

JLM · « **Reply #5 on:** 19 Aug 2005, 15:51 »

311 - Lovesong
The Prodigy - Phoenix (cover of Shocking Blue's Love Buzz)
Will to Power - Baby I Love Your Way/Free Bird

Pushover · « **Reply #6 on:** 19 Aug 2005, 16:07 »

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.

Johnny C · « **Reply #7 on:** 19 Aug 2005, 17:25 »

Quote from: Luke

Wannabes < Really big wannabes < Good Charlotte < Avril Lavigne

Wrong. In terms of terror level:

Wannabes < Really big wannabes < Avril Lavigne < Good Charlotte < the apocalypse

Signum_Tenebrae · « **Reply #8 on:** 19 Aug 2005, 18:22 »

Quote from: Trollstormur

the Pat Boone metal Album is just a travesty:

including a cover of Metallica's 'Enter Sandman'. holy fuck.

Whatever. Pat Boone ist fucking krieg!!

stevethepirate · « **Reply #9 on:** 19 Aug 2005, 19:22 »

The worst cover song that I have heard is when Weezer tried to do Brown eyed girl. It made my ears bleed.

MyLordIsInfinite · « **Reply #10 on:** 19 Aug 2005, 19:39 »

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.

Maui · « **Reply #11 on:** 19 Aug 2005, 19:48 »

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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....

Trollstormur · « **Reply #12 on:** 19 Aug 2005, 19:50 »

Quote from: soap

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.

maxusy3k · « **Reply #13 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 06:34 »

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.

Sythe · « **Reply #14 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 07:16 »

Quote from: KharBevNor

Avril Lavigne - Chop Suey

Quote from: soap

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!"

Mnementh · « **Reply #15 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 08:06 »

Quote from: Trollstormur

the Pat Boone metal Album is just a travesty:

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)

ebullientsoul · « **Reply #16 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 09:38 »

Fall Out Boy covering the Gorilla Biscuits Start Today.

Jeridus · « **Reply #17 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 11:33 »

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...

Trollstormur · « **Reply #18 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 12:19 »

Quote from: Mnementh

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.

bucky_2300 · « **Reply #19 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 12:19 »

http://music.yahoo.com/promo-18684304-53-20050815

I just owned Khar's submission in the ass.

La Creme · « **Reply #20 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 12:42 »

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.

Kai · « **Reply #21 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 16:06 »

I'm going to have to vouch for the Chop Suey cover. I mean, you cannot imagine how bad she butchers it.

sp2 · « **Reply #22 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 16:15 »

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...

Not An Addict · « **Reply #23 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 16:21 »

Quote from: sp2

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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #24 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 16:21 »

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

happybirthdaygelatin · « **Reply #25 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 16:24 »

Oh, shit-fuck I forgot about that cover, wasn't that Britney Spears or one of her clones?

maxusy3k · « **Reply #26 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 16:24 »

Britney Spears covered 'I Love Rock N Roll'.

Yeah, Avril's Chop Suey is probably the worst song I've ever heard, anyway.

Everest · « **Reply #27 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 16:41 »

Quote from: KharBevNor

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

KharBevNor · « **Reply #28 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 16:47 »

I think I may have heard it. I heard an awdul cover once in a music store anyoway? Female vocals.

and yes

alcohol ftw

maxusy3k · « **Reply #29 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 16:50 »

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*

KharBevNor · « **Reply #30 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 16:52 »

Guh, scissor sisters/

pfft

I did a dance cover of 'Deathcrush' by Mayhem, but that was a joke

CRUSHCRUSHCRUSH

Everest · « **Reply #31 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 16:57 »

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!

Mister Ash · « **Reply #32 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 17:03 »

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)

maxusy3k · « **Reply #33 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 17:07 »

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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #34 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 17:09 »

Ugh why dance remix poison? it's already the best stripper song in the universe, why dance it up ehj?

maxusy3k · « **Reply #35 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 17:11 »

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.

Not An Addict · « **Reply #36 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 17:57 »

Not only do I actually like the Scissor Sisters cover, I heard it before the original.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #37 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 18:01 »

Well, yot LOSE

Everest · « **Reply #38 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 02:53 »

Quote from: Not An Addict

Not only do I actually like the Scissor Sisters cover, I heard it before the original.

Quote from: KharBevNor

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.

Not An Addict · « **Reply #39 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 08:58 »

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.)

Bob McBob · « **Reply #40 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 15:57 »

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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #41 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 16:11 »

Quote from: Bob McBob

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.

maxusy3k · « **Reply #42 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 16:12 »

My Chemical Romance use to sing about vampires?

edwartica · « **Reply #43 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 16:36 »

Madonna's "American Pie" sucked major ass.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #44 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 16:48 »

Quote from: maxusy3k

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.

maxusy3k · « **Reply #45 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 16:51 »

Man, the whole concept of My Chemical Romance ont sucking donkey ass through a straw made of shit totally blows my frgaile mind.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #46 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 18:11 »

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.

Kai · « **Reply #47 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 18:25 »

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?

sp2 · « **Reply #48 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 18:30 »

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!

Kai · « **Reply #49 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 19:23 »

SOOOOO LOOOONG AND GAHOOOODNIIIGHT

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Author Topic: Worst cover songs (Read 17075 times)

Dr Jason

soap

Luke

Pushover

Signum_Tenebrae

stevethepirate

MyLordIsInfinite

Maui

Mnementh

ebullientsoul

Jeridus

La Creme

sp2

Not An Addict

Everest

Everest

Mister Ash

Not An Addict

Everest

Not An Addict

Bob McBob

edwartica

sp2