Worst cover version ever

Re:Snow Patrol, hearing is believing.

I'm not making this up, folks.

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

not butchered but just like what was the point?

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

John -- YSI?

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

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

I just don't get it.

Pretty fucking horrible, eh?

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...

MUST KNOW MORE EVIL!

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.

Stars on 54 - If You Could Read My Mind

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

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

Yuck.

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

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.

Coldplay doing Kylie is the latest in the long line of indie covers of pop hits, I hate the sense of smug satisfaction they give off, as if they're elevating the original to their deep and meaningful level of rock. Likewise Travis doing Hit Me Baby a few years back and Jo WHiley gushing over it.

The Vines' Miss Jackson - absolutely criminal.

Still not heard this Snow Patrol thing. Thank goodness.

Christ, I've never heard the Stereophonics Nothing Compares 2U. Sounds ghastly.

I once heard some bar band do Waiting For The Man as a good time blues rock number. Oh dear oh dear...

The execrable Kerbdog, however, managed to release a single with two utterly pointless and ham-fisted covers on the B-side ("Kennedy" and "Debaser").

While on the subject of the Weddoes, much as I love them they've murdered their fair share as well (notably "I Found that Essence Rare").

Japan's version of I second that emotion is dreadful. David Sylvian look so sad in the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rhsA3uIG3Q