Worst. Cover. Record. EVER.

[CO Liberal]

I've got a Big band station on my office radio right now. They're playing Frank Sinatra's cover version of Stevie Wonder's "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life".

Can you think of any that are worse than that????

[jeff30997]

1. I agree with you.

[tjdee]

2. Avril Lavigne doing that Metallica song, Jess Simpson doing the Robbie Wil

liams song...

I actually mentally blocked out the Metallica song Avril performed during the MTV awards, I think?--oh it hurt, seeing Metallica in the audience being polite about it...and I don't even like Metallica's music.

And Jessica Simpson shat all over the Robbie Williams song "Angels". Wailing, and wailing.....it burns, it burns.

[lindsayg]

8. Avril covered a Metallica song???

Her version of System of a Down's "Chop Suey" was one of the worst things I've ever heard...

Another bad cover is "a Perfect Circle" doing John Lennon's Imagine.

[tjdee]

13. Yup, it was Fuel....

I found it, it was a tribute to Metallica on MTV....the looks on the Metallica guys' faces...oh......

[Kire]

50. links?

clips?

[tjdee]

54. Here ya go:

http://www.mtv.com/onair/icon/metallica/live_performances.jhtml

They only show 30 seconds or so... you have to scroll down & click on the Avril/Fuel link.

Looks to me like they got the best 30 secs of the whole thing--but Kirk's face says it all! It burned, it burned!!!

[Kire]

78. thanks, you're right

that was lame

[Progressive420]

64. I totally agree with you on the Avril cover of Chop Suey I want to shoot

her in the face for that one but I totally disagree A perfect Circles cover of imagine was good

[Biased Liberal Media]

68. See now I have NOT heard that and I'm a HUGE SOAD fan

I cannot believe she did a cover of Chop Suey!

Oh yeah, she's SO punk!

[tuvor]

28. She did "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," too.

I don't think I've heard anyone less "into" singing a song.

Maybe she thought she was sounding sombre, but she just sounded bored to me.

[tjdee]

39. Maybe she doesn't get it?

I hate saying that, because I know very many younguns (hehe, I'm not even 30!) are very passionate and with it.

But Bob Dylan had seen a mite more of life when he wrote that song...maybe she "gets" it but doesn't really *get* it, and it shows?

[RevolutionaryActs]

46. Bob Dylan is god! She has no right do that!

[Taverner]

3. Madonna doing "American Pie"

But then again, everything she does is crap

[motely36]

4. Blasphemer!

Now I admit American Pie by Madonna was bad, but how dare you criticize the rest of her music!

[Beaverhausen]

7. I agree with Taverner- everything that no-talent, one trick pony does

is crap.

[motely36]

11. Now you're gonna make me cry!

I would agree that she's not the greatest singer ever, but I really like her.

[Beaverhausen]

29. I'm sorry - please don't take my distaste for Madonna personally

I know lots of people love her...I just can't stand her.

Hey- there is a reason Baskin Robbins makes 31 flavors, right?


:pals:

[motely36]

31. Ok, I fogive you

:hug:

[Taverner]

40. Don't get me wrong...

She is a feminist icon...and I do think she's a positive role model.

However, as a singer, she blows...

[AlCzervik]

14. horrible

[donheld]

52. everything she does is NOT crap

but "American Pie" she shoulda known better :spank:

[mac56]

5. Besides the usual suspects (Shatner et al)

and the Ray Conniff Singers and their godless ilk -

for pure misguided crap it's hard to beat the Hollies' cover of "Blowin' In The Wind".

[hobbit709]

6. I can't remember the song

but Jack Webb from the original Dragnet did it.

[billyoc]

9. Please don't ever remember it.

Please? :scared:

[Groggy]

10. YES!!

Bruce Springsteen's "I'm on Fire" sung by Johnny Cash. He sounds like a creepy pedophile! "Hey little girl is your daddy home..." It is hilariously CREEPY!!!!! LOL

(no disrepect to the deceased of course...but it really was bad!)

[Nag Champa]

12. Johnny Cash singing "Personal Jesus"

It drove me to drugs.

[Phillycat]

94. Are you high? Oh, right. You are.

That was a brilliant cover.

[procrastinator]

15. 2 nominations:

Dixie Chicks cover of "Landslide"

Kenny Rogers' cover of "We've Got Tonight"

[mac56]

18. I thought the Dixie Chicks' version was quite good.

nm

[donheld]

53. Dixie Chicks' version was quite good

So was Smashing Pumpkin's version

[tuvor]

24. Who originally did Landslide?

I like the Chicks' version, too.

[Beaverhausen]

26. Stevie Nicks on the Fleetwood Mac album in 1975 (?)

or was it 1974.

anyway I like both versions

[Nicole]

27. Fleetwood Mac

& it was the best IMHO.

[Nicole]

16. Tiffany 's cover of "I think we're alone now"

by Tommy James & the Shondells sucked pretty bad.

[Nicole]

23. New Kids on the Block

did a cover of "Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time"

The Delfonics should have kicked their ass over that sorry piece of audio crap!

[blondeatlast]

73. EEEEEEEEUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

:puke:

[mac56]

17. Just wait till you hear Perry Como's cover of that song.

nm

[wysi]

19. That...

... horrible electronic dance version (sorry can't remember the name of the 'artist') of 'Venus' originally by The Shocking Blue. Loved the original, hated the cover.

[tuvor]

21. Bananarama?

[mac56]

22. Bananarama, was it not?

nm

[MotownLew]

43. Awful, Venus, but decent, Long Train Running...

I DJ'd in Monaco in 1991 and we played that until the grooves were flat. They went downhill after the girl that looked like a Collie got preggered and quit.

[tuvor]

20. Fantastic Plastic Machine's cover of Joe Jackson's "Stepping Out"

Great albums, but that was a stinker of a song, especially with the flat vocals.

They made up for it with their beats-the-original version of Eurythmics "There Must Be an Angel".

[MrScorpio]

48. I like that version

It's on my Hotel Costes 5 and it's nice and laid back. Besides, I 've never heard a break beat that i didn't like.

[tuvor]

49. Guess I'm too fond of the original.

[CO Liberal]

25. Of Course, Some Covers are INTENTIONALLY Bad

Like Mrs. Miller's cover of Petula Clark's "Downtown". And pretty much every other song she recorded....

[tuvor]

30. I don't think she knew she was bad.

Maybe under different circumstances, she'd have ended up with a career like Ethel Merman's.

[name not needed]

32. Pat Boone

[Nicole]

34. My eyes! My eyes!

They are damaged now!

[arwalden]

33. Oh... There Was A Compilation Of Karen Carpenter Covers...

... that was authorized by Richard Carpenter and they where ALL just horrendous!

What I'd love to see happen is for Richard Carpenter to stop being so pissy about HIS (stale and dated) arrangements and let someone ELSE put together some modern arrangements to Karen Carpenter's original vocal tracks.

-- Allen

[mac56]

36. Was that called "If I Were A Carpenter"?

I thought that was a pretty good album.

[gmoney]

58. It's a damn good album, actually...

there were five or six clinkers, but there were real winners, too:

American Music Club's "Goodbye to Love" -- could be the most deliciously depressing performance ever.

Sonic Youth "Superstar"
Bettie Serveert "For All We Know"
Shonen Knife "Top of the World"
Cracker "Rainy Days and Mondays"

[blondeatlast]

74. I so agree... He doesn't give a crap about her talent;

just Dick, Dick, Dick.

She was an incredible talent that was never, ever put to good use.

[NoPasaran]

35. Shatner's "Mr. Tambourine Man"

[MotownLew]

41. No, no, no, no, no. MTM was GOOD. Lucy in the Sky SUCKED! nt

[Eugene]

60. "Rocket Man" was even worse. n/t

[GOPNotForMe]

79. And he's still at it!

He just covered one of my favorite songs, "Common People." Ugh, I love how the man has embraced his over-the-top campy persona, but couldn't he have covered a Britney song or something? Argh.

[Kat45]

37. Celine Dion doing AC/DC's "You Shook Me (All Night Long)"

Yup, she really did it!

[Frogtutor]

96. WHAT??!! Now I've heard everything! Except the song, thank God! n/t

[MotownLew]

38. The Cure covering Foxy Lady by Hendrix. BLECH!

Awful. Just awful. And I really dig the Cure. As with Madonna's horrible rapping a couple CDs back, someone in the studio should have taken the bullet for both of those "good ideas."

[MotownLew]

42. I like to play Aztec Camera's version of VH's Jump at weddings.

...During cocktail hour only, of course. Always gets a chuckle from the hipper people invited, which tells me who to play for later in the night. Heh.

[gmoney]

61. That one's brilliant, too...

Especially the tough-to-find extended version with the tremendous guitar solo at the end...

[MotownLew]

80. I almost spit beer (don't tell *) at the word "tremendous." Good on ya.

[-..__...]

44. Anything by Hayseed Dixie

They did a whole album of AC/DC and KISS cover songs; hillbilly style.

http://www.hayseed-dixie.com/mercantile.html

Also covers of...

My Best Friend's Girl
Centerfold
Walk This Way
Feel Like Making Love
I Love Rock & Roll
Fat Bottom Girls
Big Bottom
Cat Scratch Fever

[NightTrain]

45. I take it you've never heard Jim Nabors doing that song.

Compared to Gomer Pyle, Sinatra's take on Stevie's song was the epitome of soul!

[MrScorpio]

47. David Byrne - THE WATERS OF MARCH

On the otherwise most excellent Red Hot and Rio CD

Dah Horrah. Dah Horrah

[timtom]

51. John Ashcroft's version

of the Rolling Stones' "Where the Eagle Soars". It sucked.

[Khephra]

55. Tori Amos' version of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

Please make the pain go away.

And, although I love most of his covers, Marilyn Manson's version of "Like A Virgin" was so bad it made me want to convert to Christianity just to get back at Manson.

Both Devo and--except for the song above--Manson both have pretty good track records for covers. DEVO's "Satisfaction" is one of the best covers ever made.

[KDLarsen]

90. I thought Nirvana liked it..

.. or was it just out of bad taste they used it as an intro during their 1992 tour? Just curious, because I have a video of their performance at Roskilde Festival in 1992 & it's used as an intro there.

[Khephra]

91. They may have liked it

But it drove me to pull out the little hair that I had left on my head.

:evilgrin:

[Jose Diablo]

56. Let me tell ya bout the birds an da bees

An the flowers in da trees
An da moooon uppp abooove
An a ting called loooove.

[Left Is Write]

57. Any remake of any Led Zeppelin song. (nt)

[hippiechick]

62. OMG - I've heard Led Zepp on beethoven.com

:wow: Some orchestra has turned it into elevator music !! :wow:


:hippie:

[gmoney]

63. "Stairways to Heaven" was a brilliant project

An album of largely unknown bands covering "Stairway to Heaven" in a bunch of different styles, including early Beatles, early Elvis Presley, B-52s, Souixie and the Banshees, the Doors... tremendous fun. Even includes the skiffle version by Rolf "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" Harris. Originally released in Australia, Zep's own label bought the US rights to it and barely released it (probably so as to not piss of Robert Plant), so it sank without a trace here.

Also, it's said that Robert Plant is so tight with money that when he opens his wallet, the queen squints.

[Left Is Write]

65. I just can't take any Led Zeppelin song performed by

anyone other than Led Zeppelin themselves. Their sound was unique, and, I think, just can't be duplicated by anyone else. It's hard for me to imagine the songs in any other style.

[asm128]

85. Dolly Parton's remake

of Stairway to Heaven.

Ugh.

Should never have happened.

:puke:

[hippiechick]

59. Eddie Vedder - 'Our Last Kiss' (that 50's song)

:puke:

[name not needed]

71. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

I hate that song.

[blondeatlast]

76. Major stinker. Eeeeeewwww... nt

[mac56]

98. I really like that version.

Used to play it on my oldies radio show. The kids loved it, their parents went berserk.

[malmapus]

104. Yeah I kinda liked that one too hehe

Forgot about it till I saw the mention to it here, but I thought it was alright

[Biased Liberal Media]

66. Anything Jessica Simpson has covered. I hate that girl

more than anything else in this world...and I'm hella pissed that she redid "Take My Breath Away". Stupid wench! She also re-did "A Whole New World"....GRRRR!!!

[Left Is Write]

67. I thought of another I just LOATHE.

Rod Stewart doing Van Morrison's beautiful "Have I Told You Lately." What Van Morrison did so handily and made so wonderful, Rod just butchered.

For that matter: Rod Stewart IS NOT A CROONER. His voice is not suited for those standards he's been recording on his American Songbook albums. It's like fingernails on a blackboard to me, and yet those CDs seem to be flying off the shelves. I just don't get it.

[ND_Democrat]

69. Kid Rock doing...

Bad Company's "Feel Like Making Love"

[artv28]

70. Cover songs:

Anything covered by Michael Bolton, I celebrate his entire collection! For my money it doesn't get any better than when he sings 'When a Man Loves a Woman'!

[Strawman]

72. When metal bands cover their own songs on a later album

Is that considered a cover or not? Whatever it is, it really blows and is also amusing to me. I think the Bullett Boys did "Smooth Up in Ya 2000" or something like that. Motley Crue did "Shout at the Devil '97."

[FreedomFry]

75. Sebastian Cabot doing "It Ain't Me, Babe" was pretty sad. n/t

[opiate69]

77. "Piece of my Heart".. I think it was Faith Hill...

Took a timeless classic full of anger and defiance, and turned it into a happy little countrified jig...horrendous..

[Left Is Write]

84. In defense of Faith Hill...

She wasn't trying to "redo" Janis Joplin. She had never heard the song before it was pitched to her to record (and given her smalltown girl, church choir upbringing, I can believe that), and so she just made it her own way, not realizing it was such an iconic song.

[mac56]

88. If that's true...

and I'm a bit skeptical...

somebody (like her manager) should have clued her in.

[Left Is Write]

93. They didn't "clue her in" because

they WANTED the song to have a unique "Faith" sound.

[mac56]

97. Kind of a dirty trick, wouldn't you agree?

She's a naive country singer. Through no fault of her own, unaware of vast expanses of pop music history. Suddenly she's handed a song, one of the most myth-infested songs from one of the most myth-infested woman singers in all the rock pantheon, and she's told to sing it. No foreknowledge of who and what she's likely to be compared to.

Yeah, I'd be finding a new manager, or at least a new A&R guy.

[Left Is Write]

103. Actually, no, I don't agree.

Her rendition was a huge hit for her. From a hit-making-machine perspective, they did everything right. Whether I personally like the version or not (I don't, particularly), I can see that it worked for her.

[Flammable Materials]

81. Jim Nabors doing "Sunshine Of My Life"

[Spirochete]

82. All those Pat Boone covers

of songs by AC/DC, etc.

[sub.theory]

83. Hymns Of The Worlock

One of the worst records I have ever heard. Every single last track is nothing short of a complete and total insult to Skinny Puppy. If you like Skinny Puppy at all, don't even think of listening to this. Will likely result in physical pain. Don't say I didn't warn you.

[azoth]

86. Michael Bolton whimpering though When A Man Loves A Woman. OUCH.

[Dukakis88]

87. Britney Spears's cover of the Rolling Stones's "Satisfaction"

Who the hell thought that would be a good idea?

[Crankie Avalon]

89. Tom Jones doing Prince's "Kiss"...

...although I admit I used to get a big laugh out of it. :D

[Khephra]

95. I liked that one

But not because of Tom Jones. The Art of Noise were the instrumentalists on that one, and I've always loved their work.

[Crankie Avalon]

100. Well, for me Jones's vocals overwhelmed the instrumentals...

...and I thought it was hilarious how he took sultry and sexy lyrics and belted them out like a male Ethel Merman. :7

[BigMcLargehuge]

92. White Lion taking all the testosterone out of Golden Earring's Radar Love

blech...

[Frogtutor]

99. No offense to country music fans, but...

I cannot stand country music, but being in Texas, I'm forced to endure it from time to time. I absolutely HATE when country music stars cover rock songs!! And they seem to do it A LOT. I always figured it's because they don't have the talent to come up with their own stuff.

Frogtutor

[malmapus]

101. Sorry but Sheryl Crow doing "Sweet Child of Mine"

Ugh, nobody but Guns N Roses should play that, just isn't right without Slash at the lead guitar and Axel on vocals.

[CBGLuthier]

102. I heard a musakish version of Zep's Kashmir

Actually, it almost didn't suck. :-)

[pintobean]

105. Richard Nixon

Most Time Magazine Covers
Since it was first published, the most cover appearances upon the world renowned Time magazine has been by Richard Nixon (37th President of the United States) with 55 covers.

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/

[JimmyJazz]

106. Jessica Simpson's version of "Take My Breath Away"

originally done by Berlin

[blondeatlast]

109. A new standard...

to sink below.

God, I hear it in malls and restaurants and I HAVE TO LEAVE. It has honestly ruined a delicious meal.

[Dzimbowicz]

107. My vote is

"Under the Boardwalk" by the Rollings Stones (LP: 12x5).

:puke:

[malmapus]

108. OIY! How was William Shatner never mentioned yet...

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Tambourine Man hehe remarkably bad but I still put em on for the sheer enjoyment of the badness :D

[name not needed]

110. Lucy... inthe... sky... withdiamonds

:)