would love to go back in time to 1989 and hand billie joe a vhs copy of this at gillman st
― da croupier, Friday, 16 October 2009 03:51 (fourteen years ago) link
finally settled on "all of the above" because jesus fucking christ
― da croupier, Friday, 16 October 2009 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
billy joe is def the most embarrassing
― no hongro (J0rdan S.), Friday, 16 October 2009 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link
OK I didn't make it 2 seconds into Stevie before I started cracking up.
Seriously, what the fuck was that?? Voted Stevie.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 16 October 2009 04:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Friday, 16 October 2009 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 16 October 2009 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Norah Jones is doing a sprinkler impersonation?
That's a different video.
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 07:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― one boob is free with one (daavid), Friday, 16 October 2009 08:05 (fourteen years ago) link
she's up against some pros that know how to hold their shit, but norah sure looks the most high.
― da croupier, Friday, 16 October 2009 11:35 (fourteen years ago) link
camera one? camera two? camera one?
― da croupier, Friday, 16 October 2009 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Jai guru deva OMG!!!1! Goes from hideous to laugh-out-loud funny (around 3.45 - 4.00) to just... depressing
― superflyguy, Friday, 16 October 2009 11:42 (fourteen years ago) link
"Somethings gonna change my world"? wtf?
Norah Jones gets props for her "why the fuck am i involved in this?" look.
Bono most embarrassing.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 11:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i think tim shellacked his hat
― da croupier, Friday, 16 October 2009 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.gwmc.org/images/AA%20-%20Maracas.gif
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 16 October 2009 12:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Tsunami fundraising coming into play there.
― Thijs, Friday, 16 October 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Kaaaangaroooo dayyyyyss, yeah!
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Stevie puts himself into first by not only screwing up his lines but then breaking out the harmonica for a cheese-tastic solo.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 16 October 2009 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
made it halfway through
― rent, Friday, 16 October 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
fucking billie joe all the way
― ban moves that you suggest (some dude), Friday, 16 October 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Norah Jones. She doesn't try anything fancy yet still misses all of her notes.
― abanana, Friday, 16 October 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― RETARTED (HI DERE), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
also what the hell did Stevie attempt to sing at the beginning of his solo
― RETARTED (HI DERE), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
and exactly how drunk/crazy is Brian Wilson
― RETARTED (HI DERE), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― loath (some dude), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
― da croupier, Friday, October 16, 2009 3:51 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
he'd shoot himself on the spot
― headroom (max) (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
lol alicia keys actuallys SAY "break it down" right after stevie's blues traveller solo
― headroom (max) (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Watching this makes me want to jump out my window at work.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
"All Of The Above" - this is dreadful. Special mentions to Stevie Wonder for not remembering at least half the words, and BJA.
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Friday, 16 October 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I will admit to being incredibly impressed at how Allison Krause made her violin sound like a harmonica until the camera panned over.
― RETARTED (HI DERE), Friday, 16 October 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
This reminds me of a team building retreat my office went on once.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 16 October 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Friday, 16 October 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i did this too
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 October 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
steven tyler: "I got shotgun on the marachas"
― sofatruck, Friday, 16 October 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― RETARTED (HI DERE), Friday, 16 October 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Euler, Friday, 16 October 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
stevie w ruins a perfectly decent duff mckagan backing track
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 16 October 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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.)
― Paul in Santa Cruz, Friday, 16 October 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
This made me LOL IRL so hard.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 16 October 2009 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 16 October 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
weiland
― goole, Friday, 16 October 2009 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I just watched this again, and cant believe it actually happened. Oh, the humanity.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 16 October 2009 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
lol this is hilarious. OTM that it's basically 'bad cover version' IRL
― mark cl, Friday, 16 October 2009 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― headroom (max) (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 16 October 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
god these two covers are awful...
― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 17 October 2009 09:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 8 July 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
ooo can't wait!
― Mark G, Friday, 8 July 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 July 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
Yay when Stevie comes on w the harmonica it feels like an incidental piece from "Family Matters" soundtrack.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 July 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 9 July 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Someone actually voted Brian Wilson? That's fucking cold.
― Pheeel, Sunday, 10 July 2011 09:26 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, at least he has an excuse, being partially deaf and all.
― Pheeel, Sunday, 10 July 2011 09:30 (twelve years ago) link