I'd first like to nominate the cover version of Fairytale of New York perpetrated by Ronan Keating and someone else (I shan't google it, as I don't want to know who decided that being the other half in this duet would further their career).
Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar. Oh, lordy...
Some years ago I heard on the radio a cover of The Waterboys Whole of the Moon .It was like supermarket music and a total abomination no passion or venon ,it might have well have been done in speaking clock mode. .It could never be so bad as to put me off the original though.
Whitney Houston murdering 'I Will Always Love You' in The Bodyguard.I was stunned when I heard the Dolly Parton original. Real emotion, real hurt.
It was almost enough to make me want to rip my own ears off... >:(
That was done for the BBC live lounge and it was actually a rather spiffing live performance IMHO.
Jamelia - 'Numb' - Linkin Park
Anything with feckin Ronan Keating doing it.Oh yes. Or should I say oh noes? Also anything by Westlife, particularly when they get up off their stools for the key change.
Madonna's American Pie.
That cover of 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' by some god awful 'RnB' type warbler.
Mrs Torslanda, she of the horned helmet and heavy metal breastplate, has just suggested -
Wonderwall - by Teh Mike Flowers Pops :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:
I've listened to some sh1te in my time but by Christ! That's almost a full packet, never mind the sodding biscuit . . .
I quite enjoyed Mike Flowers' version of Wonderwall. My sister truly believed that was the original version, dragged out of obscurity by Oasis ::-)
...anything by Westlife, particularly when they get up off their stools for the key change.
Also anything by Westlife, particularly when they get up off their stools for the key change.
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 am going to risk a trial for heresy here and say Jeff Buckley's version of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'. Sure he has a beautiful voice, but his reading of the song misses all the irony and darkness that are essential to it. Having said that, I don't think it's as clever a song as many people think, anyway...
That is, of course, the change from one mismatched set of wrong keys (one each) to another....Anything with feckin Ronan Keating doing it.Oh yes. Or should I say oh noes? Also anything by Westlife, particularly when they get up off their stools for the key change.
"Run" by that X-Factor contestant/winner.
Aaaarrrggghhhhhhh, and now it's in mine :hand:"Run" by that X-Factor contestant/winner.
Leona Lewis. I had almost managed to remove that from memory. :sick:
Michael Bolton
i personally find will young singing the doors light my fire to be offensive to the point that if i saw him in the street i would consider decking him.Hate Crime!
YouTube
- The X Factor 2009 - Michael Buble: Cry Me A River - Live Results 3 (itv.com/xfactor)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmiSrSDBIA)
It's not a Bond theme.
YouTube
- JULIE LONDON - CRY ME A RIVER
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXg6UB9Qk0o)
Damon.
Time to exhume this thread again, I think.
I've yet to hear a decent cover of a Rush track
I've yet to hear a decent cover of a Rush track
To be fair, they can only work with the material they're given. ;)
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Oooo if we are talking about WHOLE albums worth of shite, try this one on for size:That could quite easily be the soundtrack to some of my worst nightmares.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairway_to_Heaven/Highway_to_Hell
Floyds comfortably numb by the scissor sisters, they should be shot on siteScissor Sisters are eleven billionty times better than the Floyd.
If I knew what that meant, I am pretty sure I'd strongly disagree with it.Floyds comfortably numb by the scissor sisters, they should be shot on siteScissor Sisters are eleven billionty times better than the Floyd.
Scissor Sisters are eleven billionty times better than the Floyd.
Floyds comfortably numb by the scissor sisters, they should be shot on site
ESL, you are too unkind. This version is streets ahead of the original: they can all play and you can't hear any inadequate vocals or inane lyrics. And the choreography is superb - men with legs apart, women with knees together, so imaginative!
You are just a revisionist paper tiger (but thanks for drawing our attention to this video!)
Floyds comfortably numb by the scissor sisters, they should be shot on siteScissor Sisters are eleven billionty times better than the Floyd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgLpfMJT7w4
How can you manage to sanitise such a dark song? Nasty.
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? :facepalm:
I am currently being subjected to the Wurzels Christmas album on the office stereo. Yes, that's right - all your favourite festive classics, with a rollicking West Country twist. .That sounds fantastic. SRSLY.
I am currently being subjected to the Wurzels Christmas album on the office stereo. Yes, that's right - all your favourite festive classics, with a rollicking West Country twist. .That sounds fantastic. SRSLY.
[search for One Way Or Another. ]
Slade's "classic", only, yes it IS possible, worse... (http://hesmybrothershesmysister.bandcamp.com/track/merry-christmas-everybody)I dunno, it manages to sound quite "genuine" - exactly like a pub full of drunkards on Christmas Eve.
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
Time to exhume this thread again, I think.Even Heart's version is a cover. The original is by i-Ten (and is quite good, IMHO).
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.
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”.
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.
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.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? :facepalm:
Mary Anne Hobbs on 6music is currently playing a dirgesome cover by Nick Cave of T-Rex's Cosmic Dancer.Couldn't someone just do that with everything Nick Cave ever wrote? :demon:
Someone really ought to take it outside and shoot it to put it out of its misery.
Mary Anne Hobbs on 6music is currently playing a dirgesome cover by Nick Cave of T-Rex's Cosmic Dancer.Couldn't someone just do that with everything Nick Cave ever wrote? :demon:
Someone really ought to take it outside and shoot it to put it out of its misery.
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.
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.
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.
Toyah - Sweet Child of Mine
https://youtu.be/iJ1svLRb9EQ
Toyah - Sweet Child of Mine
https://youtu.be/iJ1svLRb9EQ
I'm not even going to click on that link. The mere idea of it is quite horrific enough.
Toyah - Sweet Child of MineDon't like that?try this version:
https://youtu.be/iJ1svLRb9EQ
Toyah - Sweet Child of Mine
https://youtu.be/iJ1svLRb9EQ
Top improvised percussion!Toyah - Sweet Child of MineDon't like that?try this version:
https://youtu.be/iJ1svLRb9EQ
https://twitter.com/elamin88/status/1354929695750561801?s=19
(Made me laugh a lot. But that is not a musical endorsement. I think I'd rather have a drink with them than Axl Rose. )
Toyah - Sweet Child of Mine
https://youtu.be/iJ1svLRb9EQ
I actually prefer that to the original!
Has anyone seen her Sunday lunch videos? Her and Robert belting out a cover or two. Well worth a watch.
A Dylan recording is a complete thing not simply a song that he is performing.
Yebbut that Lulu thing was still an abomination.
Yebbut that Lulu thing was still an abomination.
I don't think anyone's disagreed, have they?!
Unless you're Joan Baez - her covers of Dylan are both respectful and beautiful.As was everything she sang.
Sorry, I've used both sides of the paper!
Rockollection. It's not truly a cover - more of a tribute medley, but it's utterly woeful... In this performance the diaphoretic M Voulzy is accompanied by the Gallic Legs & Co.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9y8yB5ckzs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9y8yB5ckzs)
We’re you brave enough to listen to it all the way through, Peter? There’s an extended 18-minute version out there somewhere…
Of all the songs that no purveyors of guitar-based rock should even think about contemplating covering, His Bobness' All Along The Watchtower must be very close to the top of the list.
Take a bow, Swedish doom metal bozos Candlemass.
Of all the songs that no purveyors of guitar-based rock should even think about contemplating covering, His Bobness' All Along The Watchtower must be very close to the top of the list.
Take a bow, Swedish doom metal bozos Candlemass.
Presumably you would make an exception for Jimi Hendrix.
Bob did, but I don't agree with Bob in preferring Jimi's version - not that either would be bothered by my preference for the original! That album was so spare, it was just perfect for that collection of particularly stark songs.
Of all the songs that no purveyors of guitar-based rock should even think about contemplating covering, His Bobness' All Along The Watchtower must be very close to the top of the list.
Take a bow, Swedish doom metal bozos Candlemass.
Presumably you would make an exception for Jimi Hendrix.
Perhaps I should have made it clearer that no-one post-Hendrix should attempt to cover it.Bob did, but I don't agree with Bob in preferring Jimi's version - not that either would be bothered by my preference for the original! That album was so spare, it was just perfect for that collection of particularly stark songs.
So that's you and Noel Redding who prefer His Bobness' original ;D Anyone else?
Needed to listen to the Half Man Half Biscuit version to recover.