Worst cover of a song ever?

[LeftyMom]

I have never heard a radio DJ apologize for the song he just played before. Let alone apologize, talk about how much he thinks it sucks and promise not to play it again.

Korn's live cover of Metallica's One was definitely that bad though. :scared: My previous nominee for cover suckitude, Faith Hill's cover of Peice of My Heart, deserves a fucking Grammy by comparison. :puke:

So what's the worst cover you've ever heard?

[Guy Fawkes]

1. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, By William Shatner...

voted Worst Cover Ever by Rolling Stone.

[WeRQ4U]

59. It's a parody for pete's sake.

It's hardly an attempt to cover it musically. He talks on all of his songs. I kind of liked it.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Are Nimoy and Shatner covers valid answers?

Or are they disqualified from the question, as being unfair to other bad covers?

[LeftyMom]

4. Those are kinda cheating, I mean Shatner's not really a singer

Hell, he's not really an actor.

[Guy Fawkes]

6. Bah...

Shatner's latest album, Has Been, is suprisingly good. (More suprising, Brent Spinner did a great album called "Old Yellow Eyes is Back")

[LeftyMom]

10. I have to go look for that now.

:D Gee, I really am a geek.

[Coventina]

3. Yikes, there are so many worthy candidates.....

Tiffany's cover of the Beatles comes to mind, but I'd be hard-pressed to pick an all time "worst".

[Ekirh]

5. I forgot all about

Korn's One Cover. . . . ugh . . . then again if I'm thinking of the same night there was quite a few bad covers that night. . .

But if we are going to count live covers.. Papa Roach's live cover of Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion was even worse.

[AlCzervik]

7. Madonna-American Pie.

not that i love the original but her cover was sucktacular.

[Guava Jelly]

8. Rock on covered by Michael Damien

talk about terrible

[devilgrrl]

9. Venus covered by Bananarama

Truly heinous

[flvegan]

11. If Pat Boone covering "Enter Sandman" (Metallica) sucked any more

than it did, the universe would stop expanding.

[gollygee]

12. Tiffany's version of "I Saw Her (or Him) Standing There"

followed up by My Perogative by Britney Spears.

[LeftyMom]

13. Thank your for mentioning Britney Spears

Up until now I had repressed the memory of her cover of Satisfaction. :scared:

[djeseru]

14. Gwen Stefani covering "It's My Life."

My favorite TalkTalk song so horribly cheapened. :cry:

[jpgray]

20. Ooh that one hurt

Mark Hollis's sweetly twerpish croon replaced my Gwen Stefani's incredibly average warble.

[HughBeaumont]

45. Desecration beyond words.

They took a beautiful song and stomped it to death with her ska-whore vocal emetics and cheap Fisher-Price midi.

[blue neen]

15. You Shook Me All Night Long by "ahem" Celine Dion.

I actually saw this on TV on some kind of "Worst Covers Ever" thing on MTV or VH1. It was HIDEOUS.

[tigereye]

19. you aren't serious!

That's scary. How are ya, Blue Neen? :hi:

[blue neen]

24. Oh, it was awful.

My son had seen it before I did. He made sure I watched it, because he wanted there to be a witness to what he had seen!

I'm doing well. How have you been, tigereye? We should all get together again. :hi:

[tigereye]

28. I think we should have a picnic this time

I'd be willing to do some legwork on it...

I'm good - work, kid, enjoying the weather and some gardening. I love summer.

[blue neen]

30. A picnic would be great.

This has been a fantastic spring.

[libnnc]

52. Oh No She Didn't !!!!!

:puke:

[Initech]

16. Two words: Kidz Bop

:scared:

:puke:

[LeftyMom]

18. Well, most of those songs suck anyhow (being pop tunes)

Sure, they suck more when sung by tone-deaf children, but they'd suck either way.

[tigereye]

17. I heard a woman doing a cover of Comfortably Numb

last year. It was TERRIBLE. I kept wondering, why, oh why. And I'm not even a huge Pink Floyd fan.

[LeftyMom]

23. Okay, I think we've established a rule here.

Don't cover one of a superior performer or band's best songs. It's just a bad idea. The only way to really do a good job with a cover is to take a song that was a bit underutilized and really make it your own (ie Johnny Cash doing NIN's Hurt.)

[Initech]

26. This thread really makes me want to hear Dream Theater's cover of DSOTM

I'm curious to know if they completely butchered it or they did a good job.

:popcorn:

[argyl]

21. I just heard a cover "White Rabbit." It was awful. Can anyone tell me who

did it?

[HughBeaumont]

47. Sanctuary did a cover of White Rabbit long ago

And it sucked mightily.

That's probably not the one you heard.

[jpgray]

22. Fiona Apple doing "Across the Universe" comes to mind

I -like- the version with the girls off the street, although I think Paul was probably trying to piss all over John's song. But bringing Yoko into the studio was an act of war anyway.

edit: (I said Tori Amos originally--but was it Fiona Apple? Did both of them do the song? Who knows.)

[stlsaxman]

25. The current cover of Supertramps "Give A Little Bit"... who is that by?

it's awful. sung without feeling at all. i loved the original. it took me some time to warm up to Supertramp but now that i have, hearing a lame cover of that song just fills me with rage. heard it 5 or 6 times over the in-store music at the hardware store within the last couple months.

kill ugly radio.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

33. The Goo Goo Dolls.

:grr:

It's an insult to a great bunch of musicians (Supertramp)!

:grr:

[stlsaxman]

68. The next lame Supertramp cover- "Crime Of The Century" by Uncle Cracker?

or how 'bout "Even In The Quietest Moments" by Metalica...?

"Bloody Well Right" by Toby Kieth....?

"Babaji" by Brooks And Dunn?

... or the best would be "School" done by Les Claypool! :headbang:

[laheina]

27. The R&B cover of Extreme's "More Than Words."

I don't know who it was by, but I know that it was done fairly recently, and it sucked *bad.*

[WritingIsMyReligion]

34. That was, oh, what's his name!

"Frankie J," that's it. :grr:

HORRID rendition of a truly fantastic song.

:scared:

[laheina]

62. Exactly!

The elegance of the original stemmed from its simplicity and feeling, not from high notes and vocal acrobatics.

Leave well enough alone already. :)

[Broken_Hero]

29. speaking of

Metallica cover songs...Snoop Doggs rendition of Sad But True, was abysmal, and I believe, it was so bad, that after a minute of Snoop butchering the song, they cut to commercial. I have heard Korns cover of One, but not a live version...the version I heard was done in studio, and it sounded good to me, not as good as the original, but it wasn't bad...:)

[TallahasseeGrannie]

31. Michael Bolton

When a Man Loves a Woman. Makes me want to snatch him baldheaded.

[LeftyMom]

32. Oh, there's another one I was repressing.

I had the misfortune of seeing him in person once, when he was an unknown, opening for Heart at a small venue here in Sacto. Only time I ever saw somebody booed off a stage, but it's a fond memory indeed. :D

[WritingIsMyReligion]

35. *whimpers*

Oh gawd.

:scared:

That is a HELLISH song.

[Left Is Write]

36. Mariah Carey should be arrested and jailed...

for daring to think that she could sing a Def Leppard song.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

37. Which one was that, again?

:shrug:

[Left Is Write]

38. Bringin' On The Heartbreak.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

39. Oh jeesum.....

:banghead:

[Left Is Write]

40. Of course it doesn't really matter...

she's not worthy of ANY Def Leppard song.

[Ekirh]

41. Kid Rock's

Feel Like Making Love was nothing special either. . .

Neither was Limp Bizkit's version of Behind Blue Eyes.

[BulletproofLandshark]

42. Duran Duran's cover of "White Lines"

by Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel. From an entire album of songs they butchered.

[Gatchaman]

43. Limp Bisquit - Faith

Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)
Madonna - American Pie

[HughBeaumont]

44. Avril Lavigne and her band trying to do "Chop Suey".

Debacle of mass proportions.

Others -

Korn's cover of One. Kids, play within your talent range. That is, making mookcore for frat boys.
Pat Boone's In A Metal Mood. The whole album.
Mean Gene Okerlund. Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo. Hell. No.
Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling. As much as I like that song, the Oogah-Chakah chorus is about the goddamned DUMBEST idea ever to make it to a #1 song.
Mariah Carey - Without You. Damn it, leave Nilsson alone!
Duran Duran - Thank You. The whole album.
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You. Without question the most annoying and caterwauling song ever recorded. In the words of Ford Fairlaine - "I've heard cats fuck with more harmony!"

[RedCappedBandit]

50. That is definitely horrible

Then Limp Bizkit tried to cover Opiate by Tool. Disgusting!

[Ava]

46. britney spears - i love rock n' roll

:puke:

[LeftyMom]

54. Britney has three nominations to this thread

For somebody who's so young to have mangled so much music seems, oddly enough, almost like an acomplishment.

[speedoo]

48. Pat Boone covered several Little Richard songs.

Including Long Tall sally and Tutti Frutti.

There are videos of him "performing" them.... hilarious.

[TroubleMan]

49. Johnny Cash's cover of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song"

http://sg1.allmusic.com/cg/smp.dll?link=xildgp562gpu2d8s3qy15gy&z=MP3&r=20.asx

I like Johnny, but that didn't work.

[Robbie Michaels]

51. I don't remember the artist

But I hated whoever covered "Stairway to Heaven" about fifteen years ago.

[kwassa]

53. The disco version of anything, the hiphop theft , er samples,of funk tunes

Amii Stewart's remake of Eddie Floyd's "Knock On Wood" a disco disaster.

Various PFunk tunes stolen by different rappers.

[CPMaz]

55. There was an R&B cover of Tupelo Honey

in the mid-90s (or thereabouts). I don't remember the artist, but it was worse than bad - it was so lifeless it was sterile.

As far as Faith Hill's cover of Piece of my Heart goes, the biggest problem there was that is was so jarringly different that anyone who loved the original automatically hated her version.

[MissMillie]

56. Anything spoken by William Shatner

right?

[tishaLA]

57. Ella singing "What's Goin' On" and..

Streisand doing "A Little Help From My Friends"

[PittPoliSci]

58. johnny cash's version of hurt.

his voice sucked all the emotion out of that song.

[JCMach1]

61. You are soooo wrong-- one of the best covers ever!

and one of the most unexpected...

[ScreamingMeemie]

67. Trent Reznor disagrees with you. He says it is not even his song anymore.

He found it amazing that Johnny could bring even more pain and suffering to the song. I have never heard or seen a more emotional performance.l

[WeRQ4U]

60. Yellowcard's version of "Don't You Forget About Me" had me in tears..

It was criminal.

[Bruden]

63. The P-Diddy Led Zeppelin cover (barf)

[Skittles]

64. Gwen Stefani's It's My Life

her breathy, little-girl voice just sickens me and how DARE she touch THAT song

[Hissyspit]

65. Will To Power: "I'm Not In Love"

10cc's song.

[China_cat]

66. 'Memory' from Cats

done by Barry Manilow. :thumbsdown: