Worst song covers

[youtalkfunny]

Devo doing "Satisfaction". I get angry when I hear it.

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Queensrÿche - Scarborough Fair

[jcmack13]

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I'll tell you what doesn't suck. Eric Cartman's rendition of "Come Sail Away."

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he speaks the truth.

[Pocket Trips]

This one topps them all... a horrible cover of a horrible song by one of my favorite groups from the early 90's

Ned's atomic Dustbin was "contractually obligated" to do a cover of the Bay City Rollers "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night"

unfortunately theynever recovered.. they had 2 or 3 good cds before that [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[Kyo Souma II]

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William Shatner, "Mr. Tambourine Man"


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The scream at the end of this one rocks.

-kyo

[thatpfunk]

A pet peeve: A band "covers" a song but doesn't change it.

Example: Yellowcard (god i hate shitty "emo-punk" bands) covered Don't You (Forget About Me) the theme song from Breakfast Club. It isn't an amazing song but should be a fun song to play and cover. Of course they played it the exact same way and it sounded like [censored].

[James Boston]

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Michael Bolton's stirring rendition of "When A Man Loves A Woman."


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Sorry but that goes in the "Best song covers" thread.

jk

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I celebrate the guy's entire catalogue.

[Kyo Souma II]

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A pet peeve: A band "covers" a song but doesn't change it.

Example: Yellowcard (god i hate shitty "emo-punk" bands) covered Don't You (Forget About Me) the theme song from Breakfast Club. It isn't an amazing song but should be a fun song to play and cover. Of course they played it the exact same way and it sounded like [censored].

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It sounds to me like the chordings are entirely different in the cover, and it's entirely sterilizing in its effect.

This trend of altering the best parts of 80's pop/rock started with Alien Ant Farm's cover of 'smooth criminal,' although the little inversion they do to the melody for 'annie, are you okay...' is passable and almost original.

Still a shameful way to make a quick buck with a radio single, if you ask me.

-kyo

[The Stranger]

Most of the answers, and Sponger's "These Boots are Made for Walkin'" example seem to show that the question is worst cover compared with the original. But my answer invovles remaking a song that was terrible to begin with.

Last week I defended my love for Willie Nelson. But one thing he did that was completely inexcusable was his cover of "Time After Time" by Tiffani, Cyndi Lauper, the Bangles, Wilson-Phillips or something.

[thatpfunk]

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This trend of altering the best parts of 80's pop/rock started with Alien Ant Farm's cover of 'smooth criminal,'

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No. You couldn't be more wrong.