― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 12:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 12:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 12:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 13:23 (twenty years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 13:34 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 13:37 (twenty years ago) link
― tacit (tacit), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 13:38 (twenty years ago) link
GREAT BAND NAME ALERT!!!!!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 13:42 (twenty years ago) link
― abeta, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 14:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 14:25 (twenty years ago) link
I also seem to remember that around about 1994 there was a eurodance cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by some woman who was called Melanie (no surname, just Melanie). I remember my friends talking to me about it at the time, and apparently she got onto Top Of The Pops with this thing. I never heard it, and still haven't to this day. I would imagine that would be pretty bad, tho.
― Chriddof (Chriddof), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 14:35 (twenty years ago) link
Hmmm... this page claims that a band called Melanie's Breast covered "Heart Shaped Box"...
― Nick Mirov (nick), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 14:44 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 14:48 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 14:50 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 14:51 (twenty years ago) link
For some reason I've always thought it would be entirely comprised of synths and drums and that it would have ditched the guitar.
― Chriddof (Chriddof), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:22 (twenty years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:36 (twenty years ago) link
― russ t, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
The whole white trash slant (think Nicks/Henley) makes it even more excruciating.
It's easy to badly remake a good song ... but to desecrate originals that were bad in the first place is a true sign of a horrible cover.
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:17 (twenty years ago) link
"God Only Knows" by Captain & Tenille
(Wasn't there several "worst covers ever" threads here?)
― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:32 (twenty years ago) link
This song is a CLASSIC and it is an injustice that it should be listed in this thread.
― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link
Chuck Eddy to thread! I would not however call it a classic...more an experience.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Jay K (Jay K), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
― jl, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
― praying mantis (praying mantis), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:13 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:18 (twenty years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:37 (twenty years ago) link
and they fucking licensed that arrangement for a Visa commercial, to be covered by an ever MORE pantywaste/pussy-ass band!
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:47 (twenty years ago) link
just remembering these has put me in a bad mood.grr.
― joni, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:54 (twenty years ago) link
― blutroniq (blutroniq), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 19:01 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.geocities.com/bestialvine
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 20:41 (twenty years ago) link
this guy is genius and cracks me up consistently..
― doom-e, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 20:52 (twenty years ago) link
― doom-e, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 20:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 21:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 21:36 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.panx.net/ep/0394.jpg
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 21:42 (twenty years ago) link
Er...you do know that THAT'S a cover in turn, yes?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 21:47 (twenty years ago) link
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 22:16 (twenty years ago) link
I am officially NEVER talking to JBR again. Not only is this a fucking BRILLIANT cover, it's also among my favorite songs OF ALL DAMN TIME!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 23:10 (twenty years ago) link
― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 3 July 2003 00:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 1 July 2005 09:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Friday, 1 July 2005 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― C11 (C11), Friday, 1 July 2005 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― 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
― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 2 July 2005 02:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 3 July 2005 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link
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...
― Stew (stew s), Sunday, 3 July 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 3 July 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
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").
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Sunday, 3 July 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― ConnieXX, Sunday, 20 April 2008 10:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Sheryl Crow's version of "Sweet Child O' Mine" sucks more balls than I heretofore imagined possilble. Search Luna instead.
― Pillbox, Sunday, 20 April 2008 10:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― fantasimundo, Sunday, 20 April 2008 13:04 (sixteen years ago) link
The Vines - Ms Jackson
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 20 April 2008 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― fantasimundo, Sunday, 20 April 2008 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― SecondBassman, Sunday, 20 April 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
http://liveaid.free.fr/rewind/bbc/images/047dancing/03.jpg
L-R: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 20 April 2008 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
― and what, Thursday, 13 November 2008 00:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Is that dude Australian? If not why does he dress like that?
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 13 November 2008 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Here's Hard-Fi doing "Love Is Gone" by David Guetta:
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 13 November 2008 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Here's Hard-Fi doing "Toxic" by Britney Spears
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 13 November 2008 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Here's Hard Fi doing "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 13 November 2008 00:38 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KntktTJkk
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link