Forgot about Word Up, agree that's not a good cover. Every1's a Winner, on the other hand, is. So it balances out.
Oh and I had the misfortune of hearing the Guns ‘n’ Roses version of Live and Let Die the other day. I’d forgotten just how shitty that is as well. Mostly I think because you just know Axl clearly thought he could do better at the singing parts. No Axl, no you can’t; you turgid little prick.
You have that the wrong way round, the original was shite, they did the best of a bad job and made it good.
@Boardinbob
Stitches 😂😂😂
Or check anything recent by Elton John
I was going to say. Elton singing his early stuff versus Old Elton singing his earlier stuff is like a terrible club singer cover version of himself.
the original was shite
whaaaa? Best album of the 80s! (seriously.) Either way, you don't argue with a man wearing a flasher mac and a flurescent codpiece
Anyway, more so bad it's probably still bad, but something made me remember the great larry sanders
I love The Hold Steady.
I love Wilco and I'm the Man Who Loves You is one of my favourites from their back catalogue.
But The Hold Steady's cover of I'm the Man Who Loves You completely fails to hold together as a song. I don't know if they just aren't the right band to cover it or if they just needed a lot more rehearsal before playing it live but it's a massive shame.
They genius of Tongo can never be overlooked
Not sure about some the Wedding Present have done. Their own songs are fantastic so seems strange to bother
That version of 'Come up and see' me is Steve Harley's favourite and the TWP version of Falling is sublime.
whaaaa? Best album of the 80s! (seriously.) Either way, you don’t argue with a man wearing a flasher mac and a flurescent codpiece
I was talking about Maccas version of Live and Let Die. What were you talking about? 🤨
The Corrs covering Hendrix's Little Wing
Any cover that Mark Ronson has ever done, especially the cover of Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before by The Smiths.
Johnny Cash’s rendition of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” is a little painful.
Even as an enormo-Cash, and especially Hurt, fanboi, I have to agree. And to be honest, as an enormo-SiandGarf fanboi, I’m not that mad on the original either.
The original was a miserable dirge that seemed to be everywhere through my childhood. I like a lot of their work but can't stand this song.
Walk On By, especially compared with The Stranglers masterpiece.
I heard the Dionne Warwick version recently and said out loud, 'God, I love this song', to which my wife gave me a look and said that it's an odd song for me to love. I quickly pointed out that The Stranglers' version is the best cover ever and Dionne can bask in the reflected glory of that. 😀
Ah, the Corrs. They're so...... beautiful
Any cover that Mark Ronson has ever done
Good point. I'd erased him from my mind. (didn't he [s]do[/s] dare a [i]Radiohead[/i] cover once??)
Two more to add in:
Brian Ferry - Sympathy for the Devil
Rod Stewart - Street Fighting Man
- Madonna's version of American Pie
- Miley Cyrus' cover of Smells like Teen Spirit.
I'm not linking either.
This cover is so cringeworthy, the RHCP version was a major reason why I bought Blood Sugar Sex Magik all those years ago.
Missed it being mentioned already due to lack of pictures, took reading the whole thread quickly two times to finally spot it... I'll go back under my sleepy rock. 😆
Keep up fella...
So bad it's been mentioned twice. I didn't actually mind All Saints last time I heard it. Probably cos pretty gurlz
Biffy Clyro are massive Weezer fans. One of the first times I saw them, was supporting Weezer and they spent the entire day geeking out about it. But when they decided to cover one of their songs, this happened...
Apparently it's about 50% another song that they'd have written and then discarded as being a bit shit, then they just sort of ruined Buddy Holly over the top of it. But it's a proper released studio recording and everything
You have that the wrong way round
It still amazes me that people think that G'n'R are in any way a good band. Proof enough I suppose that millions of people can in fact, be wrong after all.
Anything song Elle Goulding covers! Modern disease of covering a song by taking all the joy out of a song and being all whispery.
This also goes for the bloke playing songs at King's x Station yesterday, desperately wished I had a rifle while waiting for a delayed train!
It still amazes me that people think that G’n’R are in any way a good band.
Probably not half as much as it does me that folk still sycophantically lap up the shite Macca has been producing for years. At least GnR fans can admit Axl is a ****ing tosser.
George Michael’s cover of New Order’s True Faith. He’s sucked the life out of that tune by turning it in to an auto tuned dirge
It is as if the Great Man phoned that in from the pub. Any trauma about that was quickly remedied with this. George was an effing 'ledge.
As for terrible covers I'm torn between this and this absolute jobby.
Probably not half as much as it does me that folk still sycophantically lap up the shite Macca has been producing for years. At least GnR fans can admit Axl is a **** tosser.
I'm not sure being a tosser or otherwise has any bearing on the quality of music an artist produces.
Most covers are shite.
Not true, because there are an awful lot of great songs that most people don’t realise are covers.
My choice of a really shit cover is Madonna’s version of ‘American Pie’. She’s never done anything that I consider worth listening to anyway, but that version is excruciatingly bad.
saw SEB once
Thought she was OK, but then she was the lead singer with theaudience, who made the mistake of thinking that a bunch of boring looking blokes didn’t need everyone looking at a cute girl at the front, and got ride of her. What are theaudience doing with themselves these days, I wonder?
It still amazes me that people think that G’n’R are in any way a good band. Proof enough I suppose that millions of people can in fact, be wrong after all.
G’n’R are a horrid MOR dadrock monstrosity; while the band are good musicians, Axl’s strangled caterwauling sets my teeth on edge, they’re just unlistenable.
This is the biggest pile of shite!
@nickc forgot to add 😉
@squirrelking, no need, this is daft thread to say daft things, all taken in the spirit they were meant.
This is the biggest pile of shite!
Keep up fella.
Not true
It's true cos its my opinion and you can't change it. Duh
there are an awful lot of great songs that most people don’t realise are covers.
Cos they are shite.
Not heard it this year thankfully. Jess Glynne's gratingly awful cover of "This Christmas"
I’m not sure being a tosser or otherwise has any bearing on the quality of music an artist produces.
Well obviously not because if it did then Macca would actually deserve the plaudits.
G’n’R are a horrid MOR dadrock
Maybe today but back then, definitely not. Anyway, you're all just salty cos Axl is a better piano player.
G’n’R are a horrid MOR dadrock
Maybe today but back then, definitely not. Anyway, you’re all just salty cos Axl is a better piano player.
They totally were. 🙂
but any pop/rock song slowed down and sung by someone drippy and female over an acoustic guitar. John Lewis’s. All unremittingly awful.
Well as some of the above show, it can also be done by blokes. I would generalise from this, basic tactic for doing an attention seeking cover version - if it is fast, do a drippy piano/guitar ballad version, if it already is one of them, do a punk version. Punk versions at least have the merit of keeping you awake and must be more fun to actually do. Trigger alert: involves both Jimmy Saville and Rolf Harris content
The live version might be shit but at least they haven’t put that out for sale.
Indeed
Ever Fallen in Love as covered by the fine young cannibals is about as bad a cover there is. Take a song that's full of energy and youth and remove all the energy and try to croon it badly. No forgiveness for that.
greyspoke
Free Memberbasic tactic for doing an attention seeking cover version – if it is fast, do a drippy piano/guitar ballad version, if it already is one of them, do a punk version.
You are Frank Turner and I claim my £5.
The singing, the music, the 'dancing', the clothes*. The nerve of two past-it, middle aged, white guys believing they can do this - taking one of the most genuinely joyous moments of pop and clod-hopping their way through it.
It makes me want all dancing to be banned forever if this is what it sounds like.
* Bowie is worse. Jagger has always looked like he stole his clothes from the back of his grannies wardrobe, but Bowie is supposed to be some sort of style icon.
The singing, the music, the ‘dancing’, the clothes*. The nerve of two past-it, middle aged, white guys believing they can do this – taking one of the most genuinely joyous moments of pop and clod-hopping their way through it.
It makes me want all dancing to be banned forever if this is what it sounds like.
* Bowie is worse. Jagger has always looked like he stole his clothes from the back of his grannies wardrobe, but Bowie is supposed to be some sort of style icon
To be fair, it was for live aid, which for all the money and awareness it raised, the whole thing was pretty much a cringey dad rock festival
Almost forgot about this brilliant sendup
https://twitter.com/themarisjones/status/1271504573501526018?s=19
Machinegun Kelly's version of Ariels by System of a Down is on a truly awful level all of it's own.
That girl who covered Bon Iver’s Skinny Love. Don’t know her name and not Googling it.
two past-it, middle aged, white guys
If they were past it then, imagine the next 30 years of their careers
The video of Dancing In The Street with the music taken out is incredible, somehow makes it all even worse
