Worst Cover you ever heard?

[lilfizz177]

Hi everyone

I don't know if this has been done before but what is the worst cover you ever heard? I think all Westlife's covers are terrible.

[problem child]

I dont know the band name but i herd a really crappy cover for under the brige on the radio.

[Zackron Goldago]

Unlike problem child I can remember the band but not the song.
Remember steps?[shudder]
Well they did a terrible cover of a song, and then a few years later towards the end of their carreer, They covered the cover! And no it wasn't just a re-release it was actually a cover of a cover!

[fishymcfish]

All right now - Atomic kitten

I actually wanted to kill that band when I heard it on the TV, they mutialted a classic, it made me :(

also whoever did fell in love with a boy, originally by the white stripes (but about a girl) that was pretty depressing to hear

[Piedude]

Have you ever on the offspring tribute album, just a terrible cover!Most of them on that album are though...thats what happens when u try to change their genre...

[Shazzy]

Originally posted by problem child
I dont know the band name but i herd a really crappy cover for under the brige on the radio.

was it by the All-Saints?

[Stemes]

A few years ago there was this manufactured bubblegum pop 'singer' call lolly. I remember that she did an AWFUL cover of 'Schools out' by Alice Cooper. I mean, Alice is one of the greatest metal artists ever, and he didnt deserve a terrible cover like that. Having said that, alot of covers are quite good like Marilyn Mansons 'Tainted love'.

[JTDemon]

Avril lavigne - Chop Suey

*shudders* was absolutely horrid.

[Gin&Tonic]

All Saints Under The Bridge was just dire. They even changed the lyrics, the heathens! How dare they try and cover a chilis song. :evil:

Apart from that; there was a christmas album where all the stars did a christmas song. Britney's was atrocious.

The Pop Idol cover CD was crap. Covers rarely work.

(Manson's Tainted Love was great though and I dont particularly like him :D)

[klonkku]

I don't remember who did it but at one point I heard a really crappy punk cover of Duran Duran's "Ordinary World". I'm not normally a fan of punk, but this was especially awful. They completely sapped the song of its sincerity and meaning.

Damn you punkers, whoever you are!!!

[rabid_amoeba]

Originally posted by fishymcfish
also whoever did fell in love with a boy, originally by the white stripes (but about a girl) that was pretty depressing to hear
That song was awful for so many reasons.

Also, "schools out" was by Daphne and Celeste, not Lolly - she did Mickey (equally bad).

I know people will call me unoriginal, but I really thought Busted's cover of Teenage kicks was awful - as they pretty much ignored the solo and Skunk Ananse had done a far superior version a few years before.

I haven't heard it, but aparently the Manic Street Preachers tried to cover Pennyroyal Tea (nirvana) and got booed off stage.

[Cynic]

The terrible Amy Studt cover of "All I wnna do is have some fun"

How can you screw up a song like that I ask you?

[therhino]

There's a live cover of Weezer's "Say it Ain't So" by the Deftones, where they play it like heavy metal. It's pretty funny, but it's a serious injustice to the song. (I love Weezer, they're one of my guiltiest pleasures. They're also wildly misperceived and underrated)

If I can venture offtopic, I think the soft cell version of "tainted love" was one of the best covers of all time. There was also a song which was covered so well by Hendrix (I can't remember which song or who it was by...) that the original artist now plays it in the style of the cover version.

All Saints- if there was a God, they wouldn't all still be alive, after what they did to Under the Bridge.

[astral]

Goldfinger tore apart The Cure's "Just Like Heaven", that was pretty nasty.

edit: Oh, and Marilyn Manson's Tainted Love. Someone keep him out of the studio! :mad:

[Flack]

How can you be forgetting Busted *Shudders* - Teenage Kicks?

Ya know... the one that they did at The Brits?

Gives me nightmares just thinking about it...

[weeling bad?]

if you are from australia, u will know what i mean when i say "what about me"

if u haven't heard it, consider yourself lucky

[problem child]

I have to sit on the school bus every day an d listen to crappy bands ruining decent songs!
cradle of filth did do a good cover of one of maidens songs.

[BigEgg]

Worst cover version I have ever heard - Britney Spears - I love rock and roll.

[Comic-book guy]Worst cover version ever[/Comic-book guy]

Hilarious cover versions of Indie and Rock are best left to the wonderful Richard Cheese who has done several albums, re-works are best left to Weird Al

[Shave]

joss stone's cover of 'fell in love with a girl' (i know it has already been mentioned but i just hate it so much)

[flyingmonkey]

Jessica Simpson's cover of "Take my breath away". It was such a beautiful love song, and then she got hold of it and turned it into absolute crap.

[TaterSalad]

I didn't like the original version that much to begin with, but the Duff sisters really crap-ified (that's my new word) the GoGo's "Our Lips are Sealed."

[vampiress]

i like the joss stone song. i'm a huge cure fan and i don't remember not liking that cover. oh well to each his own.

the 3 biggest travesties in my eyes are le anne rimescover of prince's purple rain. i worked in a record store, and we played it and actually had customers begging us to stop the torture.
i also just want to cry when i hear sheryl crow cover led zeps d'yer ma'ker. it takes great personal restraint not to jam broken sporks in my ears when i hear this song.

[Lessthancosby]

Originally posted by therhino
There was also a song which was covered so well by Hendrix (I can't remember which song or who it was by...) that the original artist now plays it in the style of the cover version.


All along the Watchtower, originally by Bob Dylan im guessing, im not sure of any of his other covers, or if there are any others, but his was very good.

Worst cover? Probably the cover of fell in love with a girl.

[donkey_pie]

Alex Parks did covers of Imagine by John Lennon and Yellow by Coldplay.

I can honestly say that these make me cringe, she just seems to have taken the songs and ripped them apart... then stuck them back together upside down and back to front. It's also bad because I love the originals.. they seem perfect as they are :nana:

[Spacemonkey]

Atomic Kitten - Ladies Night.

I love the version by Kool and the gang, it's a real party anthem, and now they've just ruined it :mad:

[Snoon]

Originally posted by Gin&Tonic
All Saints Under The Bridge was just dire. They even changed the lyrics, the heathens! How dare they try and cover a chilis song. :evil:

Didn't Anthony Kiedis say himself that the All Saints' version was better than the Chilis original?

Worst cover... Hmm... Any punk covers I guess.

[Flea]

Originally posted by Snoon
Didn't Anthony Kiedis say himself that the All Saints' version was better than the Chilis original?

Yes, i believe thats true.

I actually quite liked the All Saints version anyway, not better but good to hear a variation.

[Lovely_Donkeh]

avril lavigne-chop suey

She totally fucked it up. Destroyed the song.
And the joke after, "choppy" is horrible.

[Nobody]

scissor sisters, cant remember name of song but it starts 'Hello, Hello'

[pie-full tower]

the opera version of bohemian rhapsody EEEW, made my skin crawl basicly it was a crap cover of one of the best songs ever written(ever)

[Unreal]

Worst cover i heard was Avril's cover of Knockin on Heavens door a classic by Bob Dylan and she messed it up in my opinion.

[Mittwoch]

it was will youngs (blee) cover of hey ya by outkast... he tried to turn it into soul! :confused:

[Wolverine]

oh- that maria carey one, what song was it? it was like............. something by def leppard or something, i cant remember what song it was

[GorillaBearBear]

Originally posted by Unreal
Worst cover i heard was Avril's cover of Knockin on Heavens door a classic by Bob Dylan and she messed it up in my opinion.

Hell, I even hate the guns and roses cover of that song. I'm not a huge fan of the Bob Dylan version, really. He's done much better.

[Magpie]

the live at budukan veresion of it is probably the best one I've heard.

but i actualy quite like the avril cover, I think her young voice contrasts quite well with his tired bitter croakiness.

[Dingbat]

Will Young doing Hey Ya - I believe LilMissPie mentioned it?

[mr jones]

Originally posted by Dingbat
Will Young doing Hey Ya ?
how can i off forgotten this. He turned my fun tune of the summer to the most depressing pile of crap ever :(

[Cjw]

Will Young doing Hey Ya ?

:eek:

I think i should be thankfull that i have not heard that.

[Psychokilla]

Anything covered by a boy/girl band is always stomach churningly awful, yet they still insist on releasing the crap.


Grrrr i hate em all

[rabid_amoeba]

Gene Simmons (ex kiss frontman) has just released a cover of Firestarter.

If it was an orignal, it would probably be bearable, but it can't with the Prodigy. He just doesn't have the voice for it.

Still, theres some nice ladies in the video...

[Flack]

Originally posted by Nobody
scissor sisters, cant remember name of song but it starts 'Hello, Hello'

Comfortably Numb originally done by Floyd is what you're thinking of.

[problem child]

Tenacious d did a cover for s.o.a.d's chop suey that was pretty crap but i supose thay were just taking the piss.Thay did do a good cover for flash though.

[FiL]

my old band did a fairly dire cover of salt n pepper's "Push it" :)

[donkey_pie]

Originally posted by Unreal
Worst cover i heard was Avril's cover of Knockin on Heavens door a classic by Bob Dylan and she messed it up in my opinion.

I disagree, the original will always be there and well.. original, however her cover was for charity and overall not a bad attempt. I found it quite sweet or something of the such.

[smiley clown]

Schools out by Daphne and Celeste. THey make me soo angry:evil:

[jonffm]

This must have been said before, but..

Avril lavigne's slaughtering of Chop Suey. Damn you Avril. Damn you to hell.

[ShortFuse]

Originally posted by JonnyFFmaster
This must have been said before, but..

Avril lavigne's slaughtering of Chop Suey. Damn you Avril. Damn you to hell.

Good lord. I have just listened to that cover and all I can say is why god why.

She is either taken the piss out of System of a Down or she is the most tone deaf person to walk this planet.

So Avril Lavigne's cover of chop suey by System of a Down is the worst cover I have ever heard.

[Justin Sane]

Poser's cover of stairway to heaven that we asked them to do on stage live at the Ely Maltings Junction Fiver On Tour in May.

[Jimmeh]

If you can try to hear evanescenes(sp?) cover of heart shaped box...It makes baby jesus cry..

[rabid_amoeba]

Originally posted by Jimmeh
If you can try to hear evanescenes(sp?) cover of heart shaped box...It makes baby jesus cry..
That is an understatement. It is truly terrible *weeps*.

[Hannisburg]

'fell in love with a girl' - originally by the white stripes; covered by joss stone under the new name of 'fell in love with a boy' - that wman should be shot 'cos the cover was shit and if i was jack/meg white i'd have hired a hit man already

[rabid_amoeba]

Originally posted by Hannisburg
'fell in love with a girl' - originally by the white stripes; covered by joss stone under the new name of 'fell in love with a boy' - that wman should be shot 'cos the cover was shit and if i was jack/meg white i'd have hired a hit man already

That's already been mentioned several times, but yes, it is poor to say the least. For a start the rhymes are wrong 'cos she changed it from girl to boy.

[Empty Pie Dish]

Originally posted by JonnyFFmaster
This must have been said before, but..

Avril lavigne's slaughtering of Chop Suey. Damn you Avril. Damn you to hell.

i can't find that cover anywhere..I've even searched kazaa for it!

[maxxy_p]

a third Atomic Kitten one; they completely gypsied 'the tide is high' from Blondie. quelle domage!

[Empty Pie Dish]

yup avril's chop suey is yucky...
She didn't even sing the lyrics well..

My favorite cover is Korn:one probably but it's not as good as the original