I heard Alanis Morrisette covering "King of Pain" on the radio and until I finally lost my patience and changed it I was the king of pain in my ears at least.
Avril Lavigine - “Oh Holy Night”. Oh holy crap is more like it. Bowling For Soup - “Hit Me Baby One More Time”. Travis’ “Hit Me Baby One More Time” is quite preferable. Michael McDonald's "Ain't No Mountain" ain't nearly as good as Tammy Terrell and Marvin Gaye's.
I still cringe for about two seconds every time Lenny Kravitz's train wreck of "American Woman" comes on the radio. Two seconds is about how long it takes me to change the station.
Ike & Tina turner -- PROUD MARY (C.C.R.) Ike & Tina turner -- GET BACK (The Beatles) Pat Boone -- LONG TALL SALLY (Little Richard) (?? who was it?) -- RHYTHM OF THE RAIN (The Cascades)
I know, hopelessly behind the times... "And-- LOVING it!"
most of the songs on the Bridget Jones two soundtrack. Why didn't they just use the originals and be done with it, I mean Jamie Cullen doing Everlasting Love? wrong, it's just wrong I tell you!
Originally posted by DrakeB3004: That hard rock, nine-inch-nails sounding cover of "Imagine" that's playing now (I don't remember who did it).
That would be Maynard James Keenan and A Perfect Circle. I actually have started to like this version of it. Wasn't my favorite the first time I heard it though.
Originally posted by DrakeB3004: Smashmouth's cover of "I'm a Believer" - I'm not that crazy about the song to begin with, but their version annoys me.
I didn't mind that one, because that song fits in with the sort of thing that they do.
But their version of Steely Dan's "Do It Again" was really weak.
More bad covers... anybody that has ever re-made a Beatle's tune. For example... Tiffany and "I Saw Him Standing There" or Joe Cocker's version of "She Came in Through The Bathroom Window". Well let's face it... anything by Joe Cocker is fairly worthless. He sings with a lot of emotion, but that is one rough voice. Don't get me started on Tiffany... she didn't even have the range for the song. She should have just stuck to singing along with it while driving or in the shower or something. Ugh!
Originally posted by minesurfer: Tiffany... should have just stuck to singing along with it in the shower or something.
VIDEO! VIDEO!
And Joe Cocker's gospel-tinged "Get By W/ A Little Help..." was great. Made up for having to watch Fred Savage go through puberty... that and "Winnie"...
Minesurfer, I haven't heard the Tiffany Beatles cover - thankfully!! Cocker certainly has the gravelly voice of all time (although Tom Waitts might give him a run for his money), but I kind of liked the uniqeness of it. There's something that's still refreshing about it - especially in this segment of rock history where seemingly every single female feels the need to channel Whitney and Mariah, and every pop male sings like - well, whoever the male equvilent would be...I can't bear to listen to any of it!
Sure, American Idol is a collection of technically proficient but boringly repetitive clones, but the show is just representing the dearth of truly unique voices in the pop/rock arena. Give me someone who can't trill pointlessly up and down every octave on every line of a song - maybe they'd be forced to actually read the lyrics and sing them like they cared!
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Brainiac 5: [QB]Celine Dion BUTCHERING AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long".
Brainy, if this isn't some fevered nightmare of a joke, you've GOT to tell me where to find Celine Dion doing AC/DC! That could be the most hilarious recording since Shatner's "Lucy In The Sky (With Diamonds"! I must have it!
Originally posted by Brainiac68: Celine Dion [b]BUTCHERING AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long". After hearing that steaming pile for about2.5 seconds, I wished I was on the Titanic!! [/b]
Never heard it, but OH MY GAWD!!! springs to mind at the very thought!
I seem to remember some little shitty boy band who couldn't find denims that fit properly doing a cover of Strawberry Fields.
And some bunch of people with more nasal hair than sense voted Westlifes cover of Mandy as the best song of last year. Twats. Or was it the year before? I've lost track - I must be getting old. Please excuse me, I must go and pluck my nasal hair.
That's a great find, Starbucks Kid - what a hoot! I'll have to check out her site to see whether she was deliberately doing something funny or...
For purposes of this thread, I'd assume that we're talking about people who make honest attempts, however misguided, to do a good cover, rather than people trying to be humorous.
I recently had the misfortune to hear Eric Burden doing covers of his own classic songs with The Animals - he sung like Tom Jones after drinking a quart of whiskey and the arrangements were a horrible collection of violins and flutes and (shiver)...
I imagine this 'music' playing in the elevator down to hell...
I recently heard - I believe it was Korn doing "Another Brick in the Wall." Oh, the agony...
I'm probably in the minority here, but I actually liked Tiffany's covers of "I Saw Him Standing There" and "I Think We're Alone Now." I liked ITWAN better, I think, than the Tommy James original. Go figure...
The only one I don't agree with so far is the 'Imagine' cover by A Perfect Circle. For some reason the doominess of it appeals to me and transforms it into a totally different song.
Shinedown should make a public apology for the 'Simple Man' cover- a terrible exercise in the singer making his vocal style more important than the theme of the song.
I have a 'Metal Tribute to ABBA' on my hard drive. Thread over.
Originally posted by rickshaw1: Marilyn Manson's "Sweet Dreams"
That's a great one for us little goth children... dude's a freak, gotta love him.
No, a really really bad one was "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" originally made by the almighty LEPPARD, tragically re-made by Mariah Carey (at least I believe that was the screechy ass voice that ruined one of the best hair-metal ballads of all time).
It's not exactly something you can buy on CD (yet)... but Philly's KENN KWEDER does covers of a LOT of songs in his live shows. One of my favorites was "Hotel California", a song I always HATED with a passion-- depressing music, lyrics, singing-- and Kenn turned it into a hysterically funny riot by continually interrupting the song to psycho-analyze the lyrics. He also did the same thing with "Oops! I Did It Again". (The nerve of some people...heeheehee)
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare: I like a bunch (definitely not all) of the covers others here don't: Joe cocker, the Beatles, Smashmouth, Manson, and a few others.
I don't like Madonna's "American Pie," Puff Daddy's "Every Breath You Take," or any cover (or anything) by Michael Bolton, off the top of me head.
I agree on Madonna's cover of Don McLean's "American Pie" it has to be the worst cover of all time.
"sorry, Prof., but i still gotta go with any. Never really cared for the stones."
I like their 60's stuff... and the odd song here and there in the 70's. Other than that... EHH!
Be thankful if you've never had to sit thru some radio marathon at work where some station plays nothing BUT Stones songs ALL-- DAY-- LONG-- and at least 50% of them are the ones I can't stand! (Please, dear God, play someone else-- ALMOST ANYONE ELSE!!!)
The only Linda Ronstadt albums I have in my collection are the 3 where she does covers of "standards" with Nelson Riddle & his orchestra! On that score, she did a much better job than, say... Cher!
One more by The beatles I really can't stand... "PLEASE MR. POSTMAN". (I have 4 versions of that song, and 3 of them SUCK-- and one of those is the original version!! The only band that did it where I got to like it was Mike Sheridan & The Nightriders, from Birmingham, England.)
The funny thing about the Stones is how comically awful their blues covers are. Mick Jagger's hard-man wanna-be-black posturing is just as ridiculous as that of the average 21st century white rapper. I heard a live recording of one of their pre-fame club shows and they do a hilarious cover of some Bo Diddley song I can't remember the title of.
I like several of their early self-penned hit singles, but those are just pop songs that over-earnest rock critics put on undeserving pedastals.
Early on for me (mid-70's, thanks to the "rock & roll oldies" station) I always figured The Rolling Stones were best looked at with a hefty sense of humor. This was confirmed when I read the interview Mick Jagger did to promote the outrageous SOME GIRLS album (which apparently had something on it to offend everybody!!), and moreso when Mick turned up as himself in Eric Idle's brilliant MAD-magazine style history of The Beatles-- er, RUTLES-- ALL YOU NEED IS CASH. "We saw these blokes on TV-- playing, singing-- all those birds-- an' we figured, this can't be too difficult, so we thought we'd give it a go." No hint that any talent whatsoever was involved... And legend would seem to support that Decca signed them mostly because they realized their mistake of NOT having signed The Beatles! Unfortunately, while Capitol in America successfully remixed several early Beatles tracks and made them sound BETTER than the original UK versions (the Capitol CDs available for the last 2 decades, sadly, contain the UK mixes-- OY!), Decca / London took The Stones' MONO mixes and created awful, horrible, painful-to-the-ears "electronically reproccessed stereo" versions (all the bass on one channel, all the treble in the other). They did the same thing with the Denny Laine MOODY BLUES tracks. Horrible!
I've only managed to get ONE "mono" version of an early Stones album from a fan in France-- but for whatever reason, they're just not easily available in the US. It's like they're trying to keep DOWN the standards...
Shawn Colvin's cover of "Every Little Thing" (the Police song) remains a gold standard of futile pandering to radio tastemakers, even after all these years. Debbi Boone in her heyday only dreamed of reaching such transcendent levels of White-lady blandness.
Shawn Colvin's cover of "Every Little Thing" (the Police song) remains a gold standard of futile pandering to radio tastemakers, even after all these years. Debbi Boone in her heyday only dreamed of reaching such transcendent levels of White-lady blandness.
I once wrote a toilet-humor parody of Colvin's hit "Sunny Came Home" called "Smelly Made Poop."
Thought you might find that particularly amusing, Cleome.
I don't even think it's a terrible song. Not Best Ever, but not bad. There are so many songs on that same disc where she sounds like she's trying to out-nasal Tom Petty, though.
It did have that neat looking George Tooker-eque art on the cover, at least.
Funny, how the most recent post on THIS thread was in the Spring of *this* year, while the GOOD covers thread petered out EIGHT years earlier... so NEGATIVE, Legion Worlders! *tsk*
Funny, how the most recent post on THIS thread was in the Spring of *this* year, while the GOOD covers thread petered out EIGHT years earlier... so NEGATIVE, Legion Worlders! *tsk*
Ms. Cleo- As a longtime Police fan, I was *HORRIFIED* by the Colvin Every Little Thing "cover"!
To be honest, I'd rather hear full-blown butchery of a good song than something that half-baked/timid. As a licensed jazz snob, I just don't see the point of recording a cover song if you're not gonna' take some interesting liberties with it.
