Awful Covers

Hxc · 21 Mar 2008 at 17:19

What covers do you think are truely horrific?

Personally it's got to be Linkin Park's cover of Nine Inch Nails' Wish. The lead vocalist of LP just doesn't have the right voice to pull it off, especially if you compare his live performance with that of NINs, the emphasis sounds all wrong, and it just sounds...bad.

How about you?

BillytheImpaler · 21 Mar 2008 at 17:23

Any cover performed by Marilyn Manson.

loltim · 21 Mar 2008 at 17:27

Scissor sisters - Comfortably numb.

romperstomper · 21 Mar 2008 at 17:34

Tim said:
Scissor sisters - Comfortably numb.

I thought that was good

Johnnytoxic · 21 Mar 2008 at 17:37

Everything in Jo Whileys live lounge. She just brown noses everything.

loltim · 21 Mar 2008 at 17:44

romperstomper said:
I thought that was good

You thought wrong.

Jokester · 21 Mar 2008 at 17:48

Tim said:
You thought wrong.

Never, they do it in a completely different style to the original and I think it's a great cover.

There's nothing worse than someone doing a cover and basically just doing it the same.

K.C. Leblanc · 21 Mar 2008 at 17:56

Wonderwall - Mike Flowers Pops makes me want to kill the cheesy little pilock.

I'm also incapable of staying awake through Cake's version of I Will Survive.

Beerguzzler · 21 Mar 2008 at 17:58

This is definitely one of the worst covers ever, prepare to get depressed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfM1U74tMJw

Slinky1989 · 21 Mar 2008 at 18:09

Beerguzzler said:
This is definitely one of the worst covers ever, prepare to get depressed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfM1U74tMJw

ARGGGGGHHHHHHH!!! MY EARS!!

I'm sad now you poo.

But seriously that is now in my opinion the worst cover ever.

Volcs · 21 Mar 2008 at 18:13

Speaking of the wrong voice for a song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnmNpNLjMVk

Sic · 21 Mar 2008 at 18:17

BillytheImpaler said:
Any cover performed by Marilyn Manson.

you're wrong. his cover of Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) is great! Didn't like Personal Jesus, though - it was too obvious.

I'd like to throw in Ronan Keating - Iris

Steedie · 21 Mar 2008 at 18:26

Beerguzzler said:
This is definitely one of the worst covers ever, prepare to get depressed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfM1U74tMJw

I........well...........it's.....

Yeah you're right, even I don't like that

semi-pro waster · 21 Mar 2008 at 18:31

Sic said:
you're wrong. his cover of Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) is great!

That is a pretty decent cover, better than I expected certainly.

Beerguzzler, I think you've just ended the thread with that. I've got a few covers that I dislike but none are quite so horrifically out of tune or just plain wrong.

spirity · 21 Mar 2008 at 18:40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu_BqvJfbrs

I know this wasn't a serious cover, but Shane Ritchie is so incredibly bland passionless and hammy in this it's just hideous. By contrast, I thought Jill Halfpenny wasn't too bad.

v0n · 21 Mar 2008 at 18:44

Jokester said:
Never, they do it in a completely different style to the original and I think it's a great cover.

There's nothing worse than someone doing a cover and basically just doing it the same.

I agree, cover should bring something new to the original (see my "best cover" nomination below as example). But in case of Scissor Sisters the Bee Gees disco version is completely inappropriate to the lyrics and the message of the song. It's a little bit like trying to do a cover of Joy Division song in Sabrina's Boys Boys Boys wet t-shirt in a pool Eurodisco style. There are boundries one should not cross with a cover...

Worst cover ever - Mariah Carey "Against All Odds". It makes you hate her, Phil Collins, Jeff Bridges and Rachel Ward in one go.
Best cover ever - Laibach - Life is Life

Grandmaster Fap! · 21 Mar 2008 at 18:49

Ronan Keating - Iris......if ever anyone was deserving of bumming till death it's him for blandest cover evar.

Beerguzzler · 21 Mar 2008 at 19:02

Another couple of horrid covers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeMDvCdrtc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbr38RQSBuM&feature=related
I thought this was comedy,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkTRV7vz06k&feature=related

loltim · 21 Mar 2008 at 19:02

Jokester said:
Never, they do it in a completely different style to the original and I think it's a great cover.

There's nothing worse than someone doing a cover and basically just doing it the same.

I like loads of covers, just not the one I've posted. Possibly because I think the originial is so good, or possibly because the lead singer has an annoying voice, or both.

Nitefly · 21 Mar 2008 at 19:10

Tim said:
Scissor sisters - Comfortably numb.

I'm a big Floyd fan and thats an AWESOME cover. It takes it and makes it something completely different which works. Really doesn't belong in this thread.

Limp Bizkit - Faith, for being the best and worst cover ever, at the same time!

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