Worst...Cover...Ever
 

Actually I don't know the answer to that, that's why I am making this thread. What are some awful covers you have heard, made even worse if you love the original? When you slap your head and wonder how they ever got the song rights?

I had found out there was a cover of "Hey Hey What can I do?" (Led Zeppelin, and I love the song) by Hootie and the Blowfish (hey now, admit it, you can sing along with Hold My Hand). So I downloaded it...and blah. I mean, musically it was not necessarily horrible, but just so....dull. I have never heard such a lifeless rendition. And here I was thinking I might find some new found respect for Hootie. :hmm:

scissor sisters do a cover of comfortably numb...........fuckin' sucks major ass

There is a cover of Summertime Blues that plays on our background music at work that is the most horrid piece of shit noise I've ever had the misfortune to listen to. They play guitar during the chorus instead of singing...well, it sounds like they break a few strings and rub them together or something....

Not one anyone will think of but "My Favorite Things" done instrumentlly for 15 minutes. It goes on and on and on at work!

Puff Daddy - Kashmir

As quoted on fark.com

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Sevendust's Cover of Hurt by "Johnny Cash."

WHO THE HELL DOES A TRIBUTE BY SINGING A COVER OF A COVER?! AGH! KILLMAIMRAPEDESTROY!

GBH did a cover of "I feel alright" by the damned which was a cover of 1970 by the stooges.

Iggy does the worst cover of "Real Wild Child" which I actually used to like until I heard the original.

Styx has a cover out there of "I am the Walrus" that makes me shudder when it plays.

That one fuckin' belongs to the Beatles and nobody else.

Madonna's cover of Don McLean's American Pie - Some things are best left alone...

David Bowie's Cover of God Only Knows

Sheryl Crow's version of Sweet Child of mine is painful

and her version of Behind Blue Eyes by the Who makes me want to rip my blue eyes out of my head...

...and Iron Man - Busta Rhymes.

Three classics, all butchered horribly.

I have you all beat hands down.

All Saints doing Under the Bridge by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Words cannot describe how much they fucked up that song. I have never been moved to tears by a song so horrid until I listened to this.

Speaking of shitty covers of "Behind Blue Eyes," how about Limp Bizkit's?! Fucking balls.

Wyclef does a horrible cover of "Another One Bites The Dust" on Queen's Greatest hits volume 3. It is absolutely terrible.

311 did a cover of "D'yer Mak'er" on their 311 Day DVD that hurts to hear. Now I like 311 and I love Zeppelin, but the two didn't mix well at all. Nick just couldn't hit the notes he needed to, but SA did pretty well.

I have to agree with Spec. That's the only song on either of the NIB CDs that I just can't listen to.

Faith no mores version of warpigs is pretty bad on NIB 1
the singer is just so bad.

all of the motorhead covers by metallica on garage inc
and if you are in safeway enough, you might catch the jazz instrumental version of the "titanic theme". a bad cover of a terrible song.

No, no, no. I read once that Puff Dad...excuse me, P-Diddy said he 'samples' songs, he doesn't 'cover' them.

That being said everything he 'samples' sounds like 'shit.'

Britney Spears covering the Rolling Stones "Satisfaction" was one of Dante's stages of Hell, I believe.

I have to second the worst cover being "Behind Blue Eyes" by Limp Bizkit! How Fred Durst sleeps at night knowing he killed something soooo beautiful I will never know!

Actually, Oasis did a very nice live cover of "I Am the Walrus". Probably doesn't beat the original, but it's cool.

311 - Lovesong - The Cure

So incredibly lifeless and dull.

My high school garage band's cover of Little Wing was fairly wretched. I'm planning to digitize the cassette I recently came across, so you can look forward to it!

Speaking of I am the Walrus, I have a copy from a concert of Frank Zappa covering the song, and he introduces it saying "Okay ladies and gentleman, we are going to do some severe damage to a Beatles song" And it does suck, but Frank liked to have his fun. And this one has walrus noises!

I swear I heard the solo from Another Brick in The Wall in some random annoying rap/pop song yesterday... anyone know who's responsible for this?

Poison tried to cover "Rock and Roll All Night" and failed miserably. Just like everything else they tried.

And yes, Fred Durst needs to die a miserable death for what he did to "Behind Blue Eyes". He should be sentenced to listen to Madonna's "American Pie" for eternity. :lol:

I'm a huge fan of tool, and love maynard... but I'd have to say almost all of A Perfect Circle's Emotive CD.

also Six Feet Under (hardcore death metal band) does a horrible cover of TNT by AC/DC.

the absolute most disgusting, most horrid, most eye bleeding, vomit inducing, death inviting cover is Avril Lavigne covering Chop Suey.

Oh sweet mother of god! I downloaded and listened to this, and i think my ears started bleeding. I mean shit, that really sucked. This needs to be heard as some sort of PSA so people can truly appreciate good musicians. Or even decent musicians.

I think this is the winner.

How can anyone miss:
http://www.counterpoint-music.com/sp...s/patboone.gif

In A Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy by Pat Boone!! Check out this track listing, every song worse than every other song. I own it, purely for the shock value.

1. You've Got Another Thing Comin'
(Downing/Halford/Tipton)
2. Smoke on the Water
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
3. It's a Long Way to the Top
(If You Wanna Rock 'N Roll) (Scott/Young/Young)
4. Panama (Roth/VanHalen/VanHalen)
5. No More Mr. Nice Guy (Bruce/Cooper)
6. Love Hurts (Bryant)
7. Enter Sandman (Hammett/Hetfield/Ulrich)
8. Holy Diver (Dio)
9. Paradise City (Guns N Roses)
10. The Wind Cries Mary (Hendrix)
11. Crazy Train (Daisley/Osbourne/Rhoads)
12. Stairway to Heaven (Page/Plant)

Korn- Another Brick in the Wall

made me puke

Whole-heartedly agree with both of you.

Ah yeah, that reminds me of another one: Avril covering Fuel by Metallica. *shudder*

Avril Lavigne-Fuel
Limp Bizkit-Behind Blue Eyes-when I first heard this, I thought, "Wow, Limp Bizkit actually has a song with potential." Then I found out it was a cover (The Who not being in my regular rotation), and then I listened to the original. Now I have a KOS policy for Fred Durst.
Korn-Another Brick in the Wall
Any cover that Jessica Simpson ever attempts-I cry when I watch Top Gun now remembering what she did to "Take My Breath Away", which says nothing for the new cover she did of "These Boots are Made for Walking." I don't even like that song and she butchered it.

God damn it people, stop fucking up perfectly good songs.

FNM's cover of War Pigs is better than the original!!! Even if you don't like Patton's voice for the song, Jim Martin shreds the guitar work and Puffy's drums are unrelenting.

I'll second Korn's "Another Brick in the Wall"

Actually, I was holding that one to make a second post by... damn.

Instead, let me say that there was a godawful cover of Big Yellow Taxi playing in Kohl's today that mad me want to tear the speakers from their brackets... but I have no idea who was singing it. Lucky them.

It was probably Counting Crows. Feel free to go apeshit on them.

Sounds like SOMEONE has a case of the oldies. :P I personally like "Mo money, mo problems" a hell of a lot more than "I'm comin' out".

The best worst cover ever is most definitely Rocketman by William Shatner.

My vote for worst (or one of the worst) covers: Guns n Roses - Knocking On Heaven's Door

Sadly, I find Eric Clapton's version lacking as well. Too upbeat. :(

Dave Matthews Band - All Along the WatchTower isn't too great either.

Yeah! It's on the Wonderwall maxisingle. They've done a couple of good covers (and some good rip-offs too). I mean, honestly, if anyone can cover the Beatles effectively it's Oasis :)

they better be, those fucekrs are suck beatles wannabes

Amy Grant just did a cover on Big Yellow Taxi, too, not nearly as good as Counting Crows version, which I actually liked, but I like the original better.

It baffles me that within a year of the Counting Crows releasing their cover of it, that Amy Grant would release a cover of it as well....wtf Amy, do a cover of something else, like Mr. Brownstone, by Guns 'n Roses.

Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and The Beatles should never be covered... IMHO. the only good cover of Led Zeppelin I heard was No Quarter by Tool, and the only semi-descent yet still pretty bad cover of a Pink Floyd song was Another Brick in the Wall by Marilyn Manson...

I agree with you on Floyd and the Beatles, but some Zeppelin songs could be done better by other people I think.

Oh, Out of Your Mouth's cover of "Beautiful When You're Mad" is pretty suck too.

Another bad one: The Ataris - Boys of Summer

and

Britney Spears - My Prerogative

After hearing it again today, I'm pretty sure it was the Amy Grant version. I mentioned the song to a co-worker and she responded, "I dunno... I kinda like it."

She no longer will be the one I go to to point out shitty music.

What the...? When did Manson ever do Floyd??

her version of I Love Rock n Roll is far worse...

(There was a Rolling Stone interview a few years back, and Brit was asked why she covered the song.. Her response - -because she loved Pat Benetar... Ummm - ok... but Joan Jett sang it - Pat didnt...)

... and while it's probably more nonsense than anything else... (god forgive me for doing this, but Pat Boone was mentioned, you cannot have a discussion about really bad cover songs without including the lovely Wing.

http://www.wingtunes.com/public/samples.aspx
If you are brave, give a listen to I want to hold your hand... and if your ears don't start bleeding, you are a better person than I am - But you have to listen to the end of the sample -because her back up singers and her hitting that high note are worth the giggles you will get...

Wow. Just wow.

Also, from her "About" page, "I have worked hard and I hope you have all found I am improving." Right, that sample was from her 8th disc. I will NOT click on the sample from her first disc.

Sorry, TA, but I've got you WAY beat for second post.

Everyone, please observe the single WORST cover of ALL TIME, my high school garage band's interpretation of <a href="http://www.danray.net/snf/12%20-%20Comfortably%20Numb.MP3">Comfortably Numb</a>.

It's not just bad. It crosses the line into wretched. I'm the poor schmuck on lead vocals (the lower line) and guitar. My kid brother is on drums, my friend Garrett playing bass, and my friend Rudi doing his best with a harmony line that's just too damn high for him. Oh, and a keyboard line that requires him to quit listening to the rest of the band and concentrate. :lol:

I had forgotten entirely we created this monstrosity until I was digitizing the tape last night. I actually still have no memory of it--I must have repressed this whole song. There was some really good stuff on that tape... And then there was this.

My hat is off to you-- you are a brave man for showing that off... every so often y'all manage to find the melody and play together... ya just needed more practice...

That scream towards the end is priceless... :)

Y'all were probably cute and got all the chicks :)
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But Wing, is still by far the worst ever... She was given money by her country to record those tracks (Kinda makes a really good argument against the NEA :) and she does t hat professionally (Ok to deaf people in rest homes and people in comas in hospitals... but she still gets paid.

Ratbastid...

YOU WIN

That was the most horrible thing I've ever heard :lol:

You tried man, I give you credit for that, but I'm glad you didn't quit your day job.

Amy's cover came out a long time ago. She released it on 1994's "House of Love" Counting Crow's release come out in 2003.

An extremely generous assessment. I sent it to the harmony singer this morning, and he AIMed me one line: "ears... bleeding...." :lol:

"There'll be no more.. AAAAAAAAA!!!!!" Heh.

Yeah. That was pretty much the point. :thumbsup:

Ratbastid, I've never loved you more than I do at this very moment.

Oh man, I HAVE to download this now...

I'm beginning to think I've double-dipped in the awfulness department. World's Worst Cover and Worlds Biggest Threadjack! Excellent! :high five:

fuckin' eh ratbastid..........that was great......good for you man.

Smashing Pumpkins covered Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide" and oh dear god, it was worse than the Dixie Chick's cover that was similiar.

Both made me shudder in disgust.

Colonel, you are referring to John Coltrane's version. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and mine is: you mis-understand this music. It's not Julie Andrews, that's for sure, but it's not supposed to be.Spend some time listening to John Coltrane before passing judgement on this amazing work of art.

Or don't
...whatever.

Peace.

To be fair, I've heard EXTREMELY lengthy and repetitive muzak versions of My Favorite Things that leave me cringing. I agree that Trane's My Favorite Things is virtuosity itself, but that may not be what the Good Colonel is talking about.

ratbastid, you are referring to the Muzak (TM) version. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and mine is: you mis-understand this muzak (TM). It's not John Coltrane, that's for sure, but it's not supposed to be.Spend some time listening to Muzak (TM) before passing judgement on.... O.K. if it's Muzak it definitely sucks. :) :) :) :)

ratbastid, the only problem with that song is that there is entirely no where near enough ride cymbal. :lol:

...or cowbell.

Aha! You wouldn't be thinking of the John Coltrane version would you? In which case, shame on you! SHAME!!! Edit: Dang, you think I'd know better than to post without reading the whole thread.

What about all those ska-punk covers that emerged a couple of years back, that whole fad for reviving shit 80s songs with a wink of irony and the parp of a trumpet? Load of fucking shit.

That said, the Vandals' cover of 'So Long, Farewell' is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

I love my ska, and I love my bad 80s music. I saw nothing wrong with that at all. :D

Lol, I'm not sure I see much to love in either... In my opinion they are two worlds that should remain disconsolately separate, both from each other, and from me.

Ratbastid's confession has reminded me of the covers band I was in once upon a time. We butchered all kinds of stuff - Janey Jones by the Clash, Ruby Soho by Rancid, Screamager by Therapy?, White Jesus by Everlast, a couple of Green Day songs, and there was even an ill-advised cover of Last Nite by The Strokes, that just fucking bit.

But yea, we also did Comfortably Numb. Oh the horror...

what he said. (add bad '70's ballads a la Will Ferill too)

i dont find anything at all wrong with your cover of Comfortably Numb. sure it sucked balls, but the point is you guys were amateurs. now as far as these other artists go (avril, britney, counting crows)....they are professionals (or at least they claim to be) and their music is still a steaming pile of pony loaf. anywho, no one gets anywhere without the guts to try, and you guys were tryin, so i give you points for that.

as far as the worst covers, well....i've heard some pretty bad punk covers of "take on me" by A-ha, "love song" by the cure, etc. i'm a big fan of covers if they're done correctly, but hell, people these days just don't know how to do justice to songs anymore. *shakes head*

I totally agree, also I don't like the Buddy Holly cover "Everday," that James Taylor did. It is so supermarket music! :D

Mindless Self Indulgence does a horrible cover of Tom Sawyer by Rush.

Foo Fighters did a cover of Stairway to Heaven on Conan O'Brian and yea.... when you stop in the middle of the song and ask what the next line is.... you suck. Other than that.... I love the foo fighters.

You sir are a brave man.... hats off to you. And hey, any attempt at something is better than nothing.... and soon to come, my cover of heart of gold, dream on, and thunderstruck.

All this hatred for Limp Bizkit's "Behind Blue Eyes", I'm suprised no one hates their rendition of "Faith" even more. I don't even like the original, but want to kill Durst for that monstrosity.

I courteously disagree with you about the Corgan version. The Dixie Chicks version, however, sucked donkey nuts. It was SOOO SLOW!