~WORST~ performance on this 2005 Grammys All-Star Rendition of The Beatles' "Across The Universe"

OK I didn't make it 2 seconds into Stevie before I started cracking up. I don't know if I can watch the whole thing.

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weiland's vocal is definitely the most hilarious

yeah i voted weiland

that was said based on memory - watching again i was kinda knocked out just how BAD the singing is on the whole, Weiland's ground-control-to-major-bowie pipes are lolgasmic but actually one of the stronger sets here. woof. arguments could be made for so many of these people.

alicia sure likes stevie's harmonica solo

I've always thought that behind these sort of things there's a bunch of marketing executives laughing their asses off.

would love to go back in time to 1989 and hand billie joe a vhs copy of this at gillman st

finally settled on "all of the above" because jesus fucking christ

billy joe is def the most embarrassing

OK I didn't make it 2 seconds into Stevie before I started cracking up.

Seriously, what the fuck was that?? Voted Stevie.

K, let me attempt a live review.

Slash: Uhm... things just getting started but this isn't that offensive yet. Bunch of phaser pedal.
Bono: Wow. Has been years since I last saw Bono perform anything live. He's really lost his voice, you can see him gasping for air, in what? two sentences?
Stevie Wonder: His intro is hilarious. It seems like he tried to sound soulful but couldn't follow the arrangement.
Norah Jones: She sounds and looks really ashamed of how things are turning out so far.
Brian Wilson: Probably the least offensive so far, but shabby either way.
Alicia Keys: Over the top as all of her performances. She's alright I guess.
Scott Weilland: When John Seroff reviewed Mika's We Are Golden on the Stylus jukebox he wrote that every decade gets the Bowie they deserve. I still don't fully understand whatever he tried to say but I suppose that means Scott Weilland is our 90's Bowie.
Billie Joe Amstrong: I don't think he sounded that bad but the 'all stars' kept interrupting and they completely ruined his thing. Not that he was going to save anything at this point.
Tim McGraw: I have no idea who he is but he looks drunk. Can't really judge his voice, only had the mic for like 5 secs.
Steven Tyler: Not bad I suppose.

At this point I got bored and closed the vid. At least they were kind and didn't chose 'yellow submarine' or 'all you need is love'. My vote goes for Bono but Stevie was pretty bad too.

Stevie Wonder: His intro is hilarious. It seems like he tried to sound soulful but couldn't follow the arrangement.

He also scores about 50% on lyrical accuracy, I won't even go into melodical...

Norah Jones is doing a sprinkler impersonation?

That's a different video.

This reminded me of the "Bad Cover Version" video, it's that bad. I think the most out of key was def Norah Jones. But everyone's terrible (with the surprising exception of Steven Tyler) so voting for everything.

she's up against some pros that know how to hold their shit, but norah sure looks the most high.

camera one? camera two? camera one?

Jai guru deva OMG!!!1!
Goes from hideous to laugh-out-loud funny (around 3.45 - 4.00) to just... depressing

"Somethings gonna change my world"? wtf?

Norah Jones gets props for her "why the fuck am i involved in this?" look.

Bono most embarrassing.

i think tim shellacked his hat

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"Somethings gonna change my world"? wtf?

Tsunami fundraising coming into play there.

Kaaaangaroooo dayyyyyss, yeah!

Stevie puts himself into first by not only screwing up his lines but then breaking out the harmonica for a cheese-tastic solo.

made it halfway through

fucking billie joe all the way

Norah Jones. She doesn't try anything fancy yet still misses all of her notes.

No one who had to sing the "nothing's gonna change my world" solo line actually knew how it went! Alicia and Steven appear to be the only ones who can hear themselves.

also what the hell did Stevie attempt to sing at the beginning of his solo

and exactly how drunk/crazy is Brian Wilson

norah jones is one of the only people whose voice actually suits the song, so on that alone she's above average

steven tyler might actually be my favorite, first line sounds surprisingly good and then he managed to do the alley cat screech in a way that's not nearly as embarrassing as a lot of the more earnest performances

would love to go back in time to 1989 and hand billie joe a vhs copy of this at gillman st

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he'd shoot himself on the spot

lol alicia keys actuallys SAY "break it down" right after stevie's blues traveller solo

Watching this makes me want to jump out my window at work.

"All Of The Above" - this is dreadful. Special mentions to Stevie Wonder for not remembering at least half the words, and BJA.

I will admit to being incredibly impressed at how Allison Krause made her violin sound like a harmonica until the camera panned over.

This reminds me of a team building retreat my office went on once.

A look into the thought processes of Slash: "hmmmm, maybe for this song I should play a 12 string through a phaser". I couldn't tell if he was playing the right notes, or the wrong notes, or just a bunch of random notes.

I will admit to being incredibly impressed at how Allison Krause made her violin sound like a harmonica until the camera panned over.

lol i did this too

steven tyler: "I got shotgun on the marachas"

he is playing those things like someone told him his colon would shoot out of his ass if he stopped, but someone is beheading a puppy in front of him on every shake

between Billie Joe and Steven Tyler....went with Tyler I think but this is so inconsequential that I can't remember even 20 seconds after the fact. The ending is absolutely dreadful, the best caterwaul money could buy in 2005, I guess.

stevie w ruins a perfectly decent duff mckagan backing track

I would love to see footage of the rehearsal -- maybe we'd discover whose idea it was to alter the lyrics to "something's gonna change my world". (Although this could have transpired while they were waiting backstage at showtime, considering all the evidence that no serious rehearsal took place.)

he is playing those things like someone told him his colon would shoot out of his ass if he stopped, but someone is beheading a puppy in front of him on every shake

This made me LOL IRL so hard.

hard to say if Bono's silence at the end is because he's just really feeling it or if he thinks the whole thing is lame. okay not that hard.

weiland

I just watched this again, and cant believe it actually happened. Oh, the humanity.

lol this is hilarious. OTM that it's basically 'bad cover version' IRL

voted for "something's gonna change my world" btw

man they did this shit the year BEFORE too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9nxUZTsLfc&NR=1

god these two covers are awful...

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Had to vote Bono, cos during the second line he just looses his breath and goes "uni-veerse" in some godawful way. I'm sure there is worse stuff on here, but opening up a song like that is a good way to win this.

Yay when Stevie comes on w the harmonica it feels like an incidental piece from "Family Matters" soundtrack.

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Someone actually voted Brian Wilson? That's fucking cold.

I mean, at least he has an excuse, being partially deaf and all.