Name cover songs that are really bad.

[coloradodem2005]

Limp Bizkit-Behind Blue Eyes (Who Cover)
Brittany Spears-Satisfaction (Rolling Stones cover) Why God? Why?
Puff Daddy-Come With Me (Led Zeppelin-Kashmir cover)


I can't think of any more at the moment.

[GainesT1958]

1. Axel Rose doing Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain"...

It's pretty bad!:puke:

B-)

[InvisibleTouch]

2. I haven't heard it, but I can imagine.

Ouch!!

[Atlas Mugged]

15. Worse than Axel's hatchet job of 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door'???

That's gotta' be in the Top Ten of any list of bad covers.

And speaking of mangled Stones' classics - Blood, Sweat and Tears did a version of 'Sympathy For The Devil' that was utterly cringe inducing.

[phusion]

3. That new Simple Man cover...

Skynyrd cover. Vocals are way overdone...I think it sucks.

[AwakeAtLast]

14. I hate that one, too. n/t

[LostInAnomie]

4. Take My Breath Away - Jessica Simpson

That being said I would put it to her anytime, anywhere.

[coloradodem2005]

8. Just a plastic platinum blonde woman who has no personality.

Fuggetaboutit. I could think of better women out ther.

[LostInAnomie]

10. That's how I likes 'em.

eom

[coloradodem2005]

28. TO each their own. I guess.

But I don't need some prissy stuck up plastic no-talent vapid hack.

[Atlas Mugged]

12. I'd love to hear her sing....

...the Sex Pistols' 'Pretty Vacant'. Sans the irony, of course.

[givemebackmycountry]

5. Oh God

Time Warner cable has a commercial that they run endlessly.

It's some talentless young woman named Vanessa Carlton warbling her way through her version of the Stones classic "Time is on my side"

It's horrible.

But, let's face it.
Today everything is a re-make.

God forbid anyone should come up with an original idea.

Right now, the TV in the background is advertising the re-make of the great Henry Fonda - Jimmy Stewart movie "Flight of the Phoenix" that premiers on DVD on Tuesday.

I think it was in the theaters for about a minute.

I rest my case.

[MnFats]

33. Henry Fonda wasn't in 'Flight of the Phoenix.' Was he?

it was one of my favorite flicks from when i was a kid.
i don't remember Fonda in it.
am I losing my mind?

[Twillig]

48. Jimmy stewart, Attenborough, Finch, Borgnine

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059183/

A remake of this makes me about as displeased as the coming "Longest Yard" remake. (Adam Sandler FFS!) :puke:

[General Zod]

6. The Kenny Rogers, Sheena Easton cover of ....

....Bob Seger's "We've Got Tonight"

[MissMillie]

47. Bad songs usually make for bad covers (n/t)

.

[elshiva]

7. Bad Covers

Olivia Newton-John doing Dylan's "If Not for You."

Bob Dylan's cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" is hilarious instead of singing the real line "A big yellow taxi took away my man" he sings "A big yellow bulldozer took away the house and land.

[punpirate]

9. Umm, Pat Boone...

... doing anything.... :P

[Richard Steele]

19. Just to EXPAND on that:

EDIT: LongStoryShort: Pat Boone makes me ashamed of my whiteness.

Original post deleted because I'm really goddamn DRUNK!

[punpirate]

20. Just the condition...

... in which to listen to Pat Boone. :P

[xmas74]

11. Madonna's

version of American Pie.

[opiate69]

13. The Dixie Chicks - "Landslide", Hole - "Go Your Own Way" more:

Staind - "Sober"
Madonna - "American Pie"
Metallica - "Turn the Page"
Faith HIll - "Piece of my Heart"

[Atlas Mugged]

16. Joplin's 'Piece Of My Heart'???

Did she yodel it?

[opiate69]

17. Even worse, my friend..

the arraigment was sped up a bit, and she basically took a mad, empowered "fuck you" song and turned it into this "happy, I'm an idiot for love" kinda thing.. absolutely un-fucking-believable.

[Floogeldy]

21. You are dead wrong about Dixie Chicks

Their cover of "Landslide" is great.

[opiate69]

23. Feh.. the harmonies were ok, but

the performance and arraingment were about as sterile as an operating room.

[Floogeldy]

24. How did the performance and arrangement differ from Fleetwood Mac's?

[opiate69]

25. Well, basically..

it sounded like they were singing and playing to sheet music, and not finding the emotional tenor of the song.

[Floogeldy]

26. You're entitled to your opinion

But, frankly, Fleetwood Mac was one of the most sterile bands ever.

When they were in the studio, they would record one good version of the drum and bass track for a verse, and a perfect vocal chorus, and then splice it/drop it in to the following verses and choruses, without actually recording the tracks again. It is an artistic cheat.

This is why the Eagles went to lengths to change up the harmonies in the choruses to "Lyin' Eyes," to prove that the vocals weren't dropped in, and advertise that "Victim Of Love" was recorded five piece live.

The Dixie Chicks are much more likely to have recorded "Landslide" with more live tracks, and I certainly do not sense any lack of emotion in the performance.

[opiate69]

30. Fleetwood Mac, Sterile??

Please.. all of the shit going on behind the scenes during the recording of Rumors bled through every track on that disc. That's why it was such an enormous hit. Splicing takes does not inherently kill the artistic or emotional tenor of a song.. if my singer nails the emotion of the chorus on take 4, but really gets the second verse on take 7, we splice. (Well, now-a-days we cut and paste.. )The end result is that the emotional connection he was trying make gets made. ) I know people who can go into the studio and belt out songs in one take while completely missing the point of the song.

[Floogeldy]

31. Fleetwood Mac was horribly sterile

Any experienced musician, producer, engineer, whatever, knows that individuals performing together, as opposed to separate takes, are much more likely to transfer emotion into a recording.

It is a fact of art!

[opiate69]

32. So let's evolve that idea..

was the Sistene Chapel painted non-stop, by all the same people, with no corrections (or, more aptly, if a mistake was made, did Michaelangelo scrub the entire thing and start over from scratch?) ?

[opiate69]

34. Oh, and also..

any producer/engineer/musician/whatever, who has worked inside a recording studio in, say, the last 3 decades will tell you that you never record everybody together anymore.. multitracking is the way it has been since the late 60s. Unless you're recording a local punk band who has no budget.. then just plug it in, mic it up and cut hte track before the bars close.

[HeyManThatsCool]

54. Rumors is one of the best CD's... ever

IMHO

[derby378]

49. I actually liked the DC's take on LANDSLIDE

I can see where some Stevie Nicks/FM fans would consider the song off-limits, though - but if Judas Priest can successfully pull off a cover of a FM song, so can the Dixie Chicks.

[Archae]

18. Try this version of "The Time Warp."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2713948

:wow:

[Floogeldy]

22. You are dead wrong about Limp Bizkit

Their cover of "Behind Blue Eyes" is great.

[coloradodem2005]

27. Well, I hate Limp Bizkit.

That may be part of my problem. The only Limp Bizkit song I like is "Break Stuff" if I am in an angry mood, but I hate them and I hate Fred Durst. And I hate the cover they did of "Behind Blue Eyes".

[Floogeldy]

29. I knew that

I dare say that you probably hate everything that was recorded after 1979.

It is pretty obvious.

[coloradodem2005]

35. I like Rage Against the Machine.

I like U2. I think a lot of Dave Matthews Band's stuff is cool. Collective Soul, Blues Traveller, Van Halen, Sevendust and they are a new band. I like Tool, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Audioslave and I could go on about bands that put out albums after 1979. I may talk about a lot of bands 1979 and before, but I do like stuff that came after 1979. Stuff that came after 1999 may be a different issue. But don't lambaste me as a relic just because I think Korn, Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock are the biggest waste of space bands/assclowns that have ever existed.

[biscodawg]

36. Heres 2

Orgy-Blue Monday (ummmm this song is about confusion not blatant anger)
Frente- Bizarre Love Triangle (WEAK!)

The fact that most people my age know Blue Monday as an Orgy song makes me cringe.

[blondeatlast]

43. Welcome to my world. That Blue Monday cover is PAINFUL.

Anything Motown that is covered by any White performer.

By Motown I INCLUDE Teena Marie and Rare Earth.

I heard a new version of "Car Wash" from Shark Tales yesterday. I told my husband to turn the damn thing off or I would leap from the moving car.

[biscodawg]

37. Uncle Kracker-Drift away NT

SSIA

[last_texas_dem]

39. I actually didn't mind that one

Only 'cause it seemed like nothing much was altered from the original arrangement of the song. Like Smash Mouth's take on "I'm a Believer"; both are totally pointless remakes because of this, but neither really did much of anything to alter what the original versions had sounded like. That's just my take, though...

[biscodawg]

40. good point,

but the cheesy adult contemporary station that is played at work would play that song 3 times a in 8 hours.

[blondeatlast]

45. That's where I differ--if it isn't an original arrangement in some way,

I'm bound to hate it even more.

Many of the covers of Motown tunes are nearly note for note, but they lack something the originals had (talent, I suspect, though I can't say exactly!).

[last_texas_dem]

38. Let's see...

Some of these have already been listed, but here's a few travesties:

"Piece of My Heart" by Faith Hill (one of the worst, most ill-conceived covers ever)
"American Pie" by Madonna
"Faith" by Limp Bizkit
"Knock on Wood" by Amii Stewart (disco remake of Eddie Floyd classic)
"Venus" by Bananarama
"The Loco-motion" by Kylie Minogue (Grand Funk's isn't horrible, but wasn't exactly necessary, either)
"Stars on 45" by Stars on 45 (early-eighties medley of a bunch of Beatles songs)
"Without You" by Mariah Carey
"When a Man Loves a Woman" by Michael Bolton
"Only Sixteen" by Dr. Hook (I actually like quite a bit of their stuff (seriously :-) ) but never liked what they did to this Sam Cooke song)

That oughta be enough for now...

[u2spirit]

41. I have 2 words

WILLIAM HUNG!

[Kire]

53. he should do 'Richard Hung Himself" by DI

only instead of Richard, he should say William

[drumwolf]

42. The entirety of Annie Lennox's "Medusa"

Remaking classis like the Clash's "Train in Vain" and Bob Marley's "Waiting in Vain" as Lennox-style ballads? :wtf: :puke:

[jandrok]

44. Pat Benetar's version of Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights"

Awful. Maybe the worst cover song I've ever heard.
She just slaughters it.

[derby378]

51. It would be hard for ANYONE to cover a Kate Bush song

Here's some folks I'd secretly like to see try, no matter how sucky the result:

Green Day
Skinny Puppy
Laibach
Ashlee Simpson
Ludikrus with Sum 41

[JimmyJazz]

46. Take My Breath Away - Jessica Simpson - originally done by Berlin

[HeyManThatsCool]

55. its so horrible!!! everytime I hear it I want to puke

she kills the song

[Dukkha]

50. "You Shook Me All Night Long" by Celine Dion

AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL!!!!

oh and the entire album by Pat Boone In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy


He's going to Rock & Roll Hell for that blasphemy!

[coloradodem2005]

52. What possessed Celine Dion to do that song?

I don't care much for her as it is, but God. That isn't even in her style. That is just wrong.

[FourStarDemocrat]

56. Dancing Days by STP

sucks, they improved nothing over Led Zeppellin.

Same goes for 'Black' covered by Staind. No changes at all from the classic Pearl Jam song. Why do they bother?

[immoderate]

57. Clapton: "I Shot the Sheriff"

Can't touch Marley.

Pat Boone's "Tutti Frutti" will forever be hard to topple, "wopbopalulopalopbamboo"

--IMM

[CO Liberal]

58. Sinatra's Version of Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"

And Ol' Blue Eyes' cover of Petula Clark's "Downtown".

:puke::puke: