Worst cover version ever

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

Sheryl Crow's version of "Sweet Child O' Mine" sucks more balls than I heretofore imagined possilble. Search Luna instead.

Don't know if it's worst ever but i was never so CRUSHED by one when when I heard Lior (folksy dude with a voice smoother than butter) singing Neil Young's "Needle and the Damage Done". Niel's shaky delivery is what made that sone so agonisingly beautiful and hand made. Lior turned it into something that sits on a supermarket shelf.

The Vines - Ms Jackson

i wonder what polkadots00 really means it when she\he says that song "gets under my skin and seeps into my viens lol" . it made me feel kind of sick while listening.

You wouldn't necessarily expect it, but Nine Inch Nails' cover of Soft Cell's "Memorabilia" is a joke

I'm sure that some of the covers mentioned here are in fact worse, but if you're only considering those cover versions undertaken by bands that are actually better than the artist they're covering, I'd bet NIN's "Memorabilia" takes the cake.

It also occurs to me now that the Stones' "Dancing In The Streets" would be up there in this category as well.

http://liveaid.free.fr/rewind/bbc/images/047dancing/03.jpg

L-R: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards

Is that dude Australian? If not why does he dress like that?

Here's Hard-Fi doing "Love Is Gone" by David Guetta:

Here's Hard-Fi doing "Toxic" by Britney Spears

Here's Hard Fi doing "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KntktTJkk