surely this thread should just have a link to the current hit parade/chart thingy/whatever you call it these days, guaranteed to have a handful in there, oh and can i just add anything done by Cowells Cronnies/X Factor. (havent tried the GM one above yet, I was going to then read the comments and got worried for my ears!!)
There are loads...a little more obscure but Annie Lennox doing the Ash song (Shining Light I think?) - FFS, it wasn't even a good Ash song.
DezB - I agree with and listened to all the covers in the thread.... And perhaps my choice was rash (esp. after the Take That number). Its just that Im a big fan of both Junior Murvin and the Clash, but find the Clash's version just kinda awkward and embarrasing. In the words of Junior Murvin imself... "They have destroyed Jah work!" Seen-I. One love. 8)
Ellie Goulding covering Elton John.End of thread.
Exactly. I actually liked her stuff before she did that.
There is a awful version of Tainted Love out there at the moment. Not sure who it's by but it's horrible!
the worst ever for me and i can't believe no-one else has mentioned this yet was rolf bloody harris slaughtering led zep's stairway to heaven, he should have been dismembered for that.
mmb- Damn it!! Was just finding that on youtube too slow! I think i have it on tape somewhere, i bought it! Though i was only about 10 at the time i think!
Didn't Will Young slightly kill Light My Fire in a sort of lounge singer stylee a while back?
ah yes, but that's a pretty faithful cover of Feliciano Lopez' (?) god-awful cover of it, so in a way it's not that bad*. as covers of covers go.
* I still don't like it, but it's not exactly his fault. I bet he's never heard the original...
The OP's version is awful, truly awful. Nearly as bad as Paul Young's (was it him? yes it was) version of Love Will Tear Us Apart:
i think worst cover versions are by those who should know better, such as bowie doing the alabama song.
why David? why?
is that Nosferatu behind Mr B?
Exactly. I actually liked her stuff before she did that.
The Elton John cover is nothing compared to this travesty she put out
and how it SHOULD sound
It happily kill her for ruining one of my favourite songs of all time
This has to be up there with the worst
I think this is terrible but my lad loved it when he was smaller , it's only saving grace for many of you is the small antipodean singer in it.
Wow. That Paul Young Joy Division cover is something else. Jesus.
I would like to nominate the Jessica Simpson version of These Boots Are Made For Walkin'. Horrific.
I would like to nominate the Jessica Simpson version of These Boots Are Made For Walkin'. Horrific.
Video's not bad though...
Ye gods 😆
ah my ears! pass the earbleach!
The thing is, the Shatner stuff is a bit tongue in cheek, people actually think Ellie Horseface Goulding is a credible artist. Just what is happening with her mouth?
That Bowie cover of Alabama Song is absolutely horrendous.
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whoaaa neddy, that shatner thing is genius. 8)
but that's a pretty faithful cover of Feliciano Lopez' (?) god-awful cover of it
Jose Feliciano
close 😉 I got one of the names right 😆
Wing does AC/DC, not too serious though(I hope):lol:
There are some very strong contenders up there but this one really should be mentioned as it is pure MURDER!!!
EDIT: Goddam it, how do you know if embedding is disabled before you post?
sounds a bit like GuitarPro backing there
gggrrrrrrrrrrrr 👿
sorry but in a perverse kind of way I sort of like that 😯
sorry but in a perverse kind of way I sort of like that
I was going to post the Cure's butchering of 'Foxy Lady', but on listening to it again I rather enjoyed it too. 😳
And i thought I hated this at the time, but listening to it again it's aaaaawsome 😀 . But I will put it up anyway as a nod to the 90's rave thread.
The story behind the Rolf Harris - Stairway to Heaven cover is pretty interesting. It was some TV show which had every guest do a cover of that song at the end of the show (a sort of running gag). Rolfs was so good it was later put out as a single and I'm sure he appeared at Glastonbury doing it too.
I think it's brill!
yes yes yes all these ghastly songs but my personal threshold was reached with emma buntons rip off of edi brickels 'what i am'. She didnt even make any attempt to change it. Just a note for note copy. Pathetic. And a whole genration grow up thinking it was hers.
Its a crime against humanity
i didn't think i could dislike Disturbed more, but then they did this.
ye gads, there's some atrocities on here! bookmarked this thread for whenever CRC do a sale on stabbings...
Please stop suggesting Shatner covers. The man is a genius. Every waking second he spends creating an artisic parody of himself. It's beautiful. Zap Brannigan couldn't do it any better.
For me the worst cover has to be Will Young's light my fire. Will and that version should have been hung at birth for that one.
any cover i attempt on guitar 😆 but i'll have nothing bad said against the shatner (a genius in my opinion 😉
Yeah another Shatner fan here too, no one else could have pulled it off, somehow he does.
[i] Just a note for note copy. [/i]
Yeah, they usually are the worst offenders.
But for some reason I can forgive Emma Bunton. 😳
I know some people on here might like this one but it misses the song by a mile and stands for most things I despise in music.
THAT!
just the opening note is too much!
Anything covered on Glee is terrible.
+3(or is it 4) for that Will Young massacre of light my fire, I don't care if it's a cover of a cover, it was an insult to the Doors. However, it's just been totally trumped by that horror^ by David Bowie. I'm hoping, for his sake, he'd been heavy on the sherry back stage. I'm assuming he didn't attempt it in the studio, just a badly rehearsed live effort.
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Glee? Why would anyone know anything about Glee????
sorry and all, but Johnny Cash - Hurt
it's OK, I'm leaving already ! 😳
(I slightly agree with The Clash's Police & Thieves, too - on the grounds that they did some really great other stuff and that wasn't up to the same mark)
so bad, it's almost good
actually this is pretty f*cking awful: