Criminal cover versions

[Squarewheels]

Please excuse my language...I'm not quite sure I can even bring myself to say it...onedirectionhavebutcheredaBlondiesongbutIcan't
rememberwhichoneitis.

[mattc]

IIRC Kathy started a whole new thread for that monstrosity!

[search for One Way Or Another. ]

[Squarewheels]

[search for One Way Or Another. ]

I really don't think I want to...

[Cudzoziemiec]

Slade's "classic", only, yes it IS possible, worse...

I dunno, it manages to sound quite "genuine" - exactly like a pub full of drunkards on Christmas Eve.

But as for the Soft Cell version of Hey Joe a couple of posts above that - Marc Almond deserves to be fed into the presses of the Didcot Daily Mail.

[Pedaldog.]

Madonna's American Pie.

Oh no, I had buried that one deep in my subconscious in the hope that only therapy would release it again.

Now you've reminded me of something equally bad

A Whiter Shade of Pale - Annie Lennox

I just heard the Lennox thing. She must have done it so boredom filled on purpose!  No way anything that bad could be done without trying.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Joan Baez is a beautiful singer and Bob Marley had some great songs. But oh dear...
https://youtu.be/E-ooty9vcBo

[Mr Larrington]

Among the TV shitverts doing the rounds at the moment is one for some variety of Volvo wankpanzer.  The music is a drippy acoustic version of “Born To Be Wild”.

No.  Just no.

[Legs]

Time to exhume this thread again, I think.

Alyssa Reid's funked-up version of Heart's "Alone", called "Alone Again".  The original wasn't particularly meaningful to me but even I can see that the rehashed one is embarrassingly bad.

Even Heart's version is a cover.  The original is by i-Ten (and is quite good, IMHO).

[citoyen]

Among the TV shitverts doing the rounds at the moment is one for some variety of Volvo wankpanzer.  The music is a drippy acoustic version of “Born To Be Wild”.

Utterly dreadful. Born to be lulled asleep at the wheel.

I blame John Lewis - I think it was them who started the trend for putting drippy girly acoustic versions of pop-rock classics on adverts. The novelty value of this kind of thing wore off about 10 years ago. And there are some truly egregious ones out there at the moment.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I haven't seen the advert and therefore haven't heard said drippy accoustic version, but I do remember a couple of decades back Mercedes used (the original of) Janis Joplin's "Oh lord won't you buy me a mercedes benz", thus displaying unforgivable but unsurprising lack of self-awareness. Quite possibly drippy accoustic version of "Born to be Wild" is more appropriate to the actual vehicle being advertised? Which is more of a reason to take the advert off the air and the Wankpanzer off the roads than to approve it...

[Mr Larrington]

The Renault shitvert featuring a similarly drippy version of “Wonderwall” is only less of a crime because The Manchester Eyebrow Monsters' original was no great shakes to start with.  Someone did it to an Iron Maiden track for the closing credits of ITV4’s coverage of the TT.  No.  Stop it.  The absolute nadir was one they played in Lt. Col. Larrington (retd)'s local “Country Pub & Eating House” a year or two back.  The victim?

“Seven Nation Army”

To the Reëducation Camps with them.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Last week I walked past a cafe/pub from within which wafted some (non-acoustic) cover of Wonderwall. That was enough Wonderwall without drippy acoustic Renaults.

[Mr Larrington]

Last week I walked past a cafe/pub from within which wafted some (non-acoustic) cover of Wonderwall. That was enough Wonderwall without drippy acoustic Renaults.

Drippy acoustic hybrid Renaults…

[Cudzoziemiec]

That explains the hybrid music. Acoustic heavy metal, Albinoni on Stratocaster, choral music in sign language (solo, obvos)...

[Mr Larrington]

And acoustic pirate metal like The Dread Crew Of Oddwood

[Mr Larrington]

DJ Random just served up Roy Buchanan's cover of Neil Young's “Down By The River”.  Mostly harmless until the outro, when it inexplicably turns into cod-reggae.  Please do not do this.

[fd3]

Just heard Duran Duran's insipid version of Lay, Lady Lay. I think we have a winner!

Have you heard their version of White Lines? 

That whole cover album of theirs was mostly miss, but White Lines was very political when they did it, they didn't need to do it well.

[citoyen]

Mary Anne Hobbs on 6music is currently playing a dirgesome cover by Nick Cave of T-Rex's Cosmic Dancer.

Someone really ought to take it outside and shoot it to put it out of its misery.

[fimm]

Mary Anne Hobbs on 6music is currently playing a dirgesome cover by Nick Cave of T-Rex's Cosmic Dancer.

Someone really ought to take it outside and shoot it to put it out of its misery.

Couldn't someone just do that with everything Nick Cave ever wrote? 

[Mr Larrington]

Mary Anne Hobbs on 6music is currently playing a dirgesome cover by Nick Cave of T-Rex's Cosmic Dancer.

Someone really ought to take it outside and shoot it to put it out of its misery.

Couldn't someone just do that with everything Nick Cave ever wrote? 

I have a soft spot for “Red Right Hand”, probably because it got used in an episode of “The X-Files”.

[citoyen]

I like Nick Cave, but it's over 20 years since he made a really good record.

[Mr Larrington]

Nice chap, apparently; not at all prone to murdering people utterly to DETH.  My erstwhile chum Meestah Blah used regularly to chat with him outside the skool their offspring attended in Brighton.

[ian]

Nick Cave is one of those artists that I'd tried to like and failed. I can give Mercy Seat about 30 seconds, but after that, it's diminishing returns.

[perpetual dan]

Nice chap, apparently; not at all prone to murdering people utterly to DETH.  My erstwhile chum Meestah Blah used regularly to chat with him outside the skool their offspring attended in Brighton.

I remember seeing him outside school fairly often, but mine was at nursery there rather than secondary school. I lacked the nerve to start a conversation on that basis.

[Legs]

If you ever thought that the River City People's cover of California Dreamin' was bad, just wait till you've heard Jose Feliciano's.