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Moby slogs his way through New Order's Temptation, at maybe 12 BPM.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Thurston Moore - "Here Today"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Who's the Fuxor that took The cover of Song to The Siren and made it a trance trax. Light him or her on fire now.
That would be Messiah. My father owned the record.

I've heard D2's "911 is a Joke" -- it's actually rather non-descript and tame, if silly. It's not violently atrocious by any means, nor is anything else on Thank You. Hell, Lou Reed actually thought their cover of "Perfect Day" outdid his original!

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Pretty much anything from this (except maybe the Shonen Knife track):

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf700/f759/f75977qv18p.jpg

i mean seriously, half of these people should be slaughtered as painfully as possible for the atrocities committed on this disc

Sonic Youth's "Superstar" in particular (funny how they keep popping up in this thread, huh?)

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

this is the most cringeworthy thread ever. i nominate tori amos's smells like teen spirit.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Jessica Simpson's "These Boots Are Made For Walking" deserves a mention.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Do people really hate Sonic Youth's Superstar? I really like it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

^^least constructive sentence ever^^

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I like that Carpenters comp, probably because I had never heard any Carpenters before.

Re:Snow Patrol, hearing is believing.

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Bowie doing "God Only Knows." Blech!

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Power Plant's ham-fisted massacre of T. Rex's "Bang a Gong." Utterly repulsive.

― whim cycle, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Dennis De Young - "Fire" by Jimi Hendrix

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 30 June 2005 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link

311 - Love Song. I hated them enough BEFORE they went & recorded this stain.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:00 (eighteen years ago) link

"Let's Go All The Way" (Sly Fox) - covered by the Insane Clown Posse.

I'm not making this up, folks.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I haven't read the whole thread, but I searched it and didn't find Lou Reed and Sam Moore's version of "Soul Man" so I win.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh christ, never mind my suggestion. I just listened to the Snow Patrol cover and it is indescribably awful. Especially the "rap", and the ensuing "breakdown". I declare a winner!

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I listened to it too, and it's pretty goddamn bad. But man - Lou Reed 'singing' Soul Man...

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I was about to post Counting Crows version of Big Yellow Taxi, but then I realized I posted it above, back in October. I guess I just really hate that cover.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I once saw William Shatner, Joe Jackson and Ben Folds butchering Pulp's "Common People" on the Tonight Show. I still gag at the thought of it.

Special mention: Joss Stone "Fell In Love With A Boy"

― Carlos C., Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Kelly Osbourne doing Human League's "Sound of the Crowd". Completely butchered one of my favorite songs.

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:08 (eighteen years ago) link

lemonheads doing "mrs. robinson"

not butchered but just like what was the point?

― Declan Zimmerman, Thursday, 30 June 2005 06:19 (eighteen years ago) link

what! No UB40? "Red, Red Wine"?

― cicatrix, Thursday, 30 June 2005 06:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Soul Asylum - "Sexual Healing"

― flinck, Thursday, 30 June 2005 08:27 (eighteen years ago) link

no way, sexual healing is just funny in that context. it has some redeamable laughing value.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 30 June 2005 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Redemption Song by NOFX.
Bad. Really bad. But as funny as it's bad.

― C11 (C11), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I CANNOT believe "Behind Blue Eyes" by Limp Biskit has not been mentioned.

― JAS, Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, the Snow Patrol cover isn't that horrible. The rap is hilariously bad, and the singing is no cop, but the music is decent (albeit overly clinical and stripped of 97% of the funk that was in the original).

"Let's Go All The Way" (Sly Fox) - covered by the Insane Clown Posse.

John -- YSI?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 1 July 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, but I apologize in advance and bear no responsiblitity for it's effects.

YSI is slow. I will report back later w/the link.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 1 July 2005 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Done. Embrace the horror...

http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2CRQSVJMGJYZC2QB50WXIWPMMZ

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 1 July 2005 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Frente's cover of "Bizarre Love Triangle" totally misses the point. I despise it. Tailor-made cutesy shite for 14 yr old girls to write diary entries to.

I just don't get it.

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Friday, 1 July 2005 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

See, you post a YSI of an Insane Clown Posse cover, and the thread dies.

Pretty fucking horrible, eh?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 1 July 2005 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Now THIS is an awful cover version.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 1 July 2005 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Huh?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 1 July 2005 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link

The ICP cover. It is truly awful.
In comparison, the Snow Patrol cover had some "redeemable laughing value". The ICP cover just had me shaking my head throughout its entire running time.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 1 July 2005 03:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, thanks for the YSI link, John, although now I have to ask myself what I'm going to do with this mp3. It's too much of a trainwreck to merely delete, but I have no desire to hear it unless I'm trying to make a point about bad cover versions (i.e. the purpose it just served for you).

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 1 July 2005 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, boggles the mind, huh? When I was trying to YSI it, I realized that it had somehow registered in my audioscrobbler and imagined people across the internet thinking "John Justen...never speak to him again..."

So I'm starting to reevaluate my position, having listened to both, and I'm going back to the ICP as my top choice. Perhaps the Snow Patrol was so new and awful that my judgement was clouded...then I listened to "Let's Go All The Way" again, and was galvanized in my hatred.

Who can topple the ICP? I call you out. Links/YSI are requested...

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 1 July 2005 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I haven't heard everything named on this thread, but *the worst* for me is still the Stars on 45 version of "If You Could Read My Mind" that I cited upthread.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 1 July 2005 04:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I shudder to ask, but any possibility of a YSI/gmail of that?

MUST KNOW MORE EVIL!

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 1 July 2005 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I just d/l'ed and listened to the Stars on 54 cover for the first time in about two years ... woof.

However, "If You Could Read My Mind" is a giant among songs. Lots of artists could try to cover it and not be up to the task (I'm sure many have tried). On the other hand, how hard can it possibly be to pull off a half-decent cover of "Let's Go All the Way"? How could ICP screw it up so badly (besides the fact that they're, you know, ICP). They definitely score points for that "achievement".

Uploading to YSI is slow here for some reason but I'll post something as soon as I can.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 1 July 2005 05:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Stars on 54 - "If You Could Read My Mind"

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 1 July 2005 05:12 (eighteen years ago) link

hang on,

Stars on 54 - If You Could Read My Mind

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 1 July 2005 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link

huh?

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=05TMK0IU4V0QA3G9W62W45N1UP

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 1 July 2005 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link

not butchered but just like what was the point?

the point was that they were commissioned to do the cover for TV ads for the video release of The Graduate.

Frente's cover of "Bizarre Love Triangle" totally misses the point. I despise it. Tailor-made cutesy shite for 14 yr old girls to write diary entries to. I just don't get it.

the Frente one is pretty much a cover of the Even As We Speak version, incidentally

― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 1 July 2005 05:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Ooohhh. That Stars on 54 cover is pure and beautiful evil.

Yuck.

I'm so torn...I'll cast my vote later.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 1 July 2005 05:49 (eighteen years ago) link

How did we get this far without a mention of Atomic Kitten's cover of Tide Is High?

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 1 July 2005 09:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Sheer lack of effort award to The Vines lumbering through "Miss Jackson" - they just repeat the chorus over and over again for three minutes. Okay, so I didn't expect them to rap, but missing out the verses makes the whole thing kind of pointless.

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Friday, 1 July 2005 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link

"Seven Nation Army" by The Flaming Lips?

― C11 (C11), Friday, 1 July 2005 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sticking with the ICP cover...horrendous and humorless, two great tastes that go great together.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 2 July 2005 02:39 (eighteen years ago) link

This is *exactly* how I feel about the Snow Patrol cover. Though when I can, I'll have to download the ICP track just for comparison.

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Saturday, 2 July 2005 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Only if you promise not to blame me for the pain...

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 2 July 2005 02:47 (eighteen years ago) link

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