Cover songs worse than the originals?

[Tom Kitten]

If this has been already done then I apologize...!

I'd start with Jimmy Page and Puff Daddys' version of "Kashmir" from the Godzilla soundtrack...

[Skittles]

1. that f***ing insipid wench Gwen Stefani singing IT'S MY LIFE

in that f***ing whiny, insipid voice - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: BLASPHEMY.

[tuvor]

4. I like it better than Talk Talk's version.

I know, that's sacrilege in some circles, but still.

[Skittles]

27. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

nt

[jdots]

7. Me thinks the Qweneth weareth the knee pads

She is a low grade Madonna who is a low grade Maralyn Monroe
impersonater...that probably offended people.....okay gee i love them both ?

[NDFan]

29. Hey! Take that back!

ND's version is much better than Talk Talk's. :P

Not that Talk Talk's It's My Life was horrible, it was just flat sounding, vocally and musically, especially when compared to No Doubt's version.

The song went to #3 on Billboard, and will probably win the band their third consecutive Grammy award in the Best Song by a Group/Duo category.:D

The video for ND's IML rocks my socks also.B-)

[Skittles]

33. F*** NO I WON'T TAKE IT BACK

I WANT TO PULL MY EYEBROWS OUT ONE HAIR AT A TIME WHEN I HEAR THAT WHINY, BREATHY LITTLE GIRL VOICE. I absolutely DESPISE hearing it - like when I was in a department store the other day. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[tuvor]

2. Too many.

I think we're alone now by Tiffany
Knockin' on heaven's door by Avril

And that's all I can think of right now.

btw, coversproject.com is a great place to source stuff like this.

[Dolphyn]

3. The Fugees. Killing Me Softly With His Song.

:puke:

I love Roberta Flack's original, though.

[jdots]

5. Lawrence Welk's cover of James Brown's " Sex machine "

Brittany Spear's version of anything.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

6. I saw them play that live on SNL (I think it was)

Jimmy Page was good
... but Puff Daddy (screaming in a mic)--->it was AWWWWWWWWFUL.

as far as covers,
nearly all covers I've heard recently that made it on radio playlists suck bad.
Jimi hendrix, Beatles, Doors,---I've heard all bad covers
none good.

[WCGreen]

8. Korn's Pink Floyd tribute

is just the exact same as the original.....

What's the point...

Also, Linda Rondstant's version of Poor Poor Pitiful me was the most popular version of Warren Zevon's song, but WZ did it better and with a lot more passion......

[donheld]

9. Rod Stewarts cover of anything

:puke:

[Tom Kitten]

13. I liked his version of the Temptation's ....

"I Know (I'm Losing You)"...not as much as the original but better than Rare Earth's hit version!
Actually I like early Rod...."Morning Dew", done when he was with the Jeff Beck Group, was a cool song....

[bucknaked]

15. No Shitte!

His cover of Van Morrison... HORRIBLE! My first thought was "Somebody please get that bastard a lozenge."

Sad part is, by design, these more popular label-profit-machines tend to get credit for a lot of those remakes to the ignorant "top-40" consumer masses.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

19. i do like blur's cover of maggie may, though

a b-side worth seeking out

[Ruffhowse]

10. Didn't Pat Boone do a whole album of heavy metal covers a while back?

[Tom Kitten]

14. yeah, but it was a "joke" album...

I didn't list him much like I didn't list William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy's versions of the "hits"...

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

20. a joke the religious right couldn't handle

poor pat was on the bad side of his fundie fans for a while there

[Tom Kitten]

21. I guess the joke was on him!

His planned rap album never saw the light of day, and his career was left in tatters....

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

25. he's always got newsmax

who run his insipid columns

shut up and sing (badly), pat!

[Tom Kitten]

26. why does that not surprise me?

I did not know that ...What do they call it, "Boone Doggeral"? Ick!

[KDLarsen]

11. Band Aid 20..

.. seriously though - yuck.

Heard the original while at the gym earlier this morning, and I still can't see why anyone would want to 'update' it.

[Seldona]

12. For the most part covers suck.

I have heard a few good ones, but for the most part, blah.

Like a recent cover of 'Imagine' by John Lennon.

Ack! Don't really wanna know who that was.

I liked Guns n Roses covers mostly.

Then again at the time they came out, I was blown away by the band, so I might be a bit biased.

Even if Axel is an eccentric control freak, and that is being nice.

I think Stevie Ray Vaughn did a great cover of Voodoo Child.

And I always loved the Grateful Dead.

I can tell I am out of the mainstream as most of what I listen to is 'classic rock' now.

Don't go for much newer stuff.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

16. that teen pop girl currently butchering the go-gos 'our lips our sealed"

gets a big fat "ugh!"

give me belinda and jane over that any day!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

17. 311's version of the cure's love song

the kind of idea hatched in a nightmare

"let's take a shitty, one hit wonder frat band, have them cover a classic band's biggest hit and...get this, we'll have them imitate the vocal note for note and not be original in any way shape or form! and if that's not a enough, we'll throw a shitty ska beat behind it in parts, too!"

god, i hate the music industry

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

18. Orgy doing New Order's "blue monday"

it's bad enough to be a one hit wonder, but even worse when your one hit is someone else's song.

the original is a beutifully cold and mechanical pop song. i could have done without a third rate marilyn manson trying to look spooky and growling over the music.

[WildEyedLiberal]

22. The Ataris version of "The Boys of Summer"

Suck, suck, suck, suck, suck. I hate, loathe, and detest "pop punk" - especially when it thinks its good enough to cover the most popular single from the solo career of one of the EAGLES. No, The Ataris. You suck. Shut up.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

24. 'i saw a black flag sticker on a cadillac"

oh, how clever! they updated it and made it "punk!"

that may be the most cringe-inducing lyrical change in history

[donheld]

23. Then there's that God Damned Michael Bolton's Covers

When a man loves a woman(he doesn't make her listen to michael)
Reach Out/I'll be There
etc

[Sandpiper]

28. Guns n Roses cover of Live and Let Die

Axl Rose sounds awful.

[Mike Niendorff]

30. Metallica : "Turn the page"

What a waste of a great song.


MDN

[proudbluestater]

31. Dixie Chicks singing Landslide, better by Stevie Nicks!

[Sandpiper]

32. Madonna - American Pie

crap, Crap, CRAP!!!!

[WildEyedLiberal]

34. Oh God, that was hideous

A wrong darker than death or night.