Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine Bad cover songs

Never heard it, but OH MY GAWD!!! springs to mind at the very thought!

I had a few contenders ready to list, but the thought of Celine Dion covering AC/DC has just buggered up my thought processes totally.


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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.

Then again, maybe I voted ...... no not a chance.

...and let's not forget The Beatles' doing "You've Really Got A Hold On Me"

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.

http://www.ninagordon.com/audio/straightouttacompton.mp3

caution - naughty words, if you object to those things...probably not work safe.

If you don't want to click, just imagine N.W.A, done as an acoustical folk song. It's really, really bad (and by bad, I don't mean in a good way)

Howzabout Creedence Clearwater Revival's version of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"?

Or Rod Stewart's take on "(I Know) I'm Losing You" from back when he was good?

Nope, didn't like 'em.

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.

James,

What if:
Golgoth had that NWA cover played as an endless loop in the chamber where he had imprisoned Endymion?

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)

Heh - Starbucks Kid, after a few days of that sort of torture, Endymion would be begging to be dismembered!

Linda Ronstadt -- You're No Good (Betty Everett)

Linda Ronstadt -- Blue Bayou (Roy Orbison)

Linda Ronstadt -- Tracks of My Tears (Smokey Robinson)

Linda Ronstadt -- Ooh Baby Baby (Smokey Robinson)

Linda Ronstadt -- Heat Wave (Martha and the Vandellas)

Linda Ronstadt -- Living in the U.S.A. (Chuck Berry)

Lind...oh, you get the idea.

I agree on Madonna's cover of Don McLean's "American Pie" it has to be the worst cover of all time.

Do you at least like this Linda Ronstadt song?

Plow King Jingle

Linda Ronstadt: When the snow starts a-fallin'
There's a man you should be callin'
That's KL5-4796,
Let it ring!

Mr. Plow is a loser,
And I think he is a boozer,
Barney & Linda: So you better make that call to the Plow King!

and we never did hear the full Spanish version Mr. Plow Jingle (Spanish version)

Linda Ronstadt: Senor Plow no es macho,
Es solamente un borracho...

Thanks, Quis. I needed a good laugh.

Another cover I can't stand: Power Station's ham-handed, lead-footed version of T. Rex's sexy and sublime "Get It On."

"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!!!)


I like variety...

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...

No Doubt, "It's My Life." (original by: Talk Talk.)

A great new-wave pop song mutated into a mall-ternative rock screech-fest. Gwen Stefani's voice always makes me cringe, but especially here.