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I agree with the Tori Amos comments..... I find her toe-curling at the best of times, but her cover versions, whilst not including any of the 6th form exercise book poetry of her own lyrics, are utterly shocking.

― russ t, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

The entire Pop Idols "Big Band" album!!!! And any "ironic" punk or indie cover of a popular song. (Espcially if it goes into a thrashy bit juast to show that they're not really serious...)

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:47 (twenty years ago) link

Will To Power's "Baby I Love Your Way" cover which turns it into a duet and incorporates the lyrics of "Freebird" as the male verse.

The whole white trash slant (think Nicks/Henley) makes it even more excruciating.

It's easy to badly remake a good song ... but to desecrate originals that were bad in the first place is a true sign of a horrible cover.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

Easily.. EASILY

"God Only Knows" by Captain & Tenille

(Wasn't there several "worst covers ever" threads here?)

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:32 (twenty years ago) link

Will To Power's "Baby I Love Your Way" cover which turns it into a duet and incorporates the lyrics of "Freebird" as the male verse.

This song is a CLASSIC and it is an injustice that it should be listed in this thread.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

Will To Power's "Baby I Love Your Way" cover which turns it into a duet and incorporates the lyrics of "Freebird" as the male verse.

Chuck Eddy to thread! I would not however call it a classic...more an experience.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

An experience in genius!

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:39 (twenty years ago) link

How about "God Only Knows" by David Bowie? Or Elvis Costello?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

All Saints: 'Under The Bridge'
Wet Wet Wet: 'With A Little Help From My Friends'
Puff Daddy: 'Public Enemy No. 1'
Nikolaj Steen: 'The Message'

― Jay K (Jay K), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

Wet Wet Wet: Love is All Around.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

I like David Byrne, and I love bossanova, but Byrne's version of "Waters of March" is atrocious.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:32 (twenty years ago) link

Mick Jagger & David Bowie "Dancing in the Street"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:51 (twenty years ago) link

U2's techno version of 'Happiness is a Warm Gun'

― jl, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

yes, curtis, yes. thread over.

― praying mantis (praying mantis), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

Kickaxe did a quite reverential reading of Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help"

― dave q, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

This morning I had the misfortune to hear Mick Hucknall murdering Positively 4th Street :(

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

jeezus, people, have you all forGOTTEN the Wallflowers' version of "Heroes"?

and they fucking licensed that arrangement for a Visa commercial, to be covered by an ever MORE pantywaste/pussy-ass band!

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:47 (twenty years ago) link

Candyflip.
the whole of 'Pin-ups'.
bananarama doing 'help'.
wet wet wet being no1 forever with that troggs song.
tom jones sweating all over 'burning down the house' etc.

just remembering these has put me in a bad mood.
grr.

― joni, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

Love and Rockets' "Ball of Confusion"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

Will To Power is the kind of crap that you hear in the supermarket that has everyone running for the doors.

― blutroniq (blutroniq), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 19:01 (twenty years ago) link

some band calling themselves Bestial Vine has a god-awful cover of Big Black's "The Big Payback."

http://www.geocities.com/bestialvine

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 20:41 (twenty years ago) link

The entire Pop Idols "Big Band" album!!!! And any "ironic" punk or indie cover of a popular song. (Espcially if it goes into a thrashy bit juast to show that they're not really serious...)
-- Old Fart!!! (oldfart_s...), July 2nd, 2003.

this guy is genius and cracks me up consistently..

― doom-e, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 20:52 (twenty years ago) link

he just seems to be so shocked at how rubbish some music is!!

― doom-e, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 20:59 (twenty years ago) link

Linda Ronstadt owns this thread!

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 21:07 (twenty years ago) link

You have clearly never encountered the horror that is James Last.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

I'm sorry, Charlie's a smashing bloke but it does need to be said:

http://www.panx.net/ep/0394.jpg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 21:42 (twenty years ago) link

some band calling themselves Bestial Vine has a god-awful cover of Big Black's "The Big Payback."

Er...you do know that THAT'S a cover in turn, yes?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 21:47 (twenty years ago) link

Oh. I wasn't aware of that. Who did the original?

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

Love and Rockets' "Ball of Confusion"

I am officially NEVER talking to JBR again. Not only is this a fucking BRILLIANT cover, it's also among my favorite songs OF ALL DAMN TIME!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 23:10 (twenty years ago) link

Who's the Fuxor that took The cover of Song to The Siren and made it a trance trax. Light him or her on fire now.

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 3 July 2003 00:38 (twenty years ago) link

it's gone this far w/o a mention of Madonna's "American Pie"? wow.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 3 July 2003 00:44 (twenty years ago) link

r.e.m. - "academy fight song"

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 3 July 2003 00:45 (twenty years ago) link

I loved Bananarama's version of Help (with, of course, the lovely Kathy Burke and French and Saunders)...

― russ t, Thursday, 3 July 2003 08:30 (twenty years ago) link

Blount, what was wrong with R.E.M.'s "Academy Fight Song"? I liked it well enough.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 July 2003 08:38 (twenty years ago) link

r.e.m. - "crazy"

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 3 July 2003 09:06 (twenty years ago) link

Re:Covered to thread!

Some of Re:Covered's "finest" moments:

Mis-Teeq do a note for note cover of Alanis' "Ironic"
Liberty X tackle "High and Dry" by Radiohead
Athlete, yes, that's Athlete, offer their own interpretation of Prince's Kiss. It contains no discernable tune.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 3 July 2003 09:16 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

Elton John sings Nick Drake's "Way To Blue"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 2 November 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

(though this was actually recorded BEFORE Nick's version)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 2 November 2003 20:54 (twenty years ago) link

In the past, I have heard dreadful club-mix covers of the Smith's "how soon is now" and U2's "pride in the name of love" but I haven't a clue who did those.

I like Tori Amos's Steely Dan cover... Or I used to. Haven't listened to her for a while.

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Sunday, 2 November 2003 21:21 (twenty years ago) link

John Eddie's version of The Cure's "In Between Days" from Rubaiyat. No contest.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Sunday, 2 November 2003 21:32 (twenty years ago) link

I'd love to hear the first two, actually. If I ever heard the third, I would probably succumb to the temptation to do violence to someone. Athlete, for preference. Though it cannot be as bad as the horrible, horrible Stereophonics murdering 'Nothing Compares 2 U'.

Tori Amos's covers are generally all excellent.

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 2 November 2003 21:47 (twenty years ago) link

Phish does Snoop Dogg's Gin and Juice.

Shit times shit equals shit-squared. Fucking hippies DIE!!!!

― sucka (sucka), Sunday, 2 November 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

Billy Idol's "Heroin" from Cyberpunk

EC has done some terrible covers live; "Many Rivers To Cross" (I think, mighta been "Sitting In Limbo), "Pop Life", etc...

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 2 November 2003 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

motley crue mentioned upthread but not what i had imagined: "anarchy in the uk"

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 2 November 2003 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

Sheryl Crow's massacring of "The First Cut is the Deepest" makes me want to throw my radio out of a window.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 2 November 2003 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

Braids killed "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the most sadistic way imaginable.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 2 November 2003 23:48 (twenty years ago) link

That was the Gourds, not Phish. I really love it.

My vote: Britney Spears - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

Most disappointing cover ever: Squarepusher - 'Love Will Tear Us Apart." I thought a drill-n-bass version of LWTUA would be SO FUCKING COOL, but the Pusher played it totally straight. WHY!?!?

― Mister Snrub (MisterSnrub), Monday, 3 November 2003 00:23 (twenty years ago) link

not only that, his attempts at the lyrics were shamefully bad. it's not like they're difficult to track down or particularly obscure.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 3 November 2003 01:15 (twenty years ago) link

Moby fucks up the lyrics in his covers of "That's When I Reach For My Revolver" and "New Dawn Fades"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 3 November 2003 01:20 (twenty years ago) link

Moby fucks up the lyrics in his covers of "That's When I Reach For My Revolver" and "New Dawn Fades"

If you mean changing the former to that's when I realize it's over, blame his record company and MTV, not him.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 3 November 2003 01:28 (twenty years ago) link

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Here's Hard-Fi doing "Toxic" by Britney Spears

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 13 November 2008 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Here's Hard Fi doing "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 13 November 2008 00:38 (fifteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KntktTJkk

― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link

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