Bad covers.

bazzabear said:
I haven't heard that yet. I'm sure I will be appalled when I do. Anyone covering a Carpenters song is just asking to sound like a caterwauling idiot by comparison to her voice.
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I can't find it on youtube, but this site gives amazon links to Bats for Lashes on Amazon, so if you can get it free via Prime it might be possible to hear it that way. https://www.tvadvertmusic.com/lloyds-bank-forever-forwards-video-location-just-begun/

there's this but's it's a cropped version, gives the gist though:
 
JonnyT said:

5 pages in and no-one has mentioned this abomination
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It took me a google - it's originally OCS. Definitely not as good as the original, but so long as you ignore the intro and the cheesy vid it's just about passable, provided you're in the right mood. I guess I'm not against changing how a song works just so long as it fits and doesn't massacre the thing. I saw someone butcher JL's Imagine the other day on you tube - at a JL memorial concert no less. Just Don't!

Ps just found this version by the original writer from OCS and it's kind of how he does it. Wiki says CD2 of the single release also led with an official acoustic version so it's hard to criticise the JS cover if they are kind of just cribbing what the band did themselves to start with!!

 
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ik9000 said:
It took me a google - it's originally OCS. Definitely not as good as the original, but so long as you ignore the intro and the cheesy vid it's just about passable, provided you're in the right mood. I guess I'm not against changing how a song works just so long as it fits and doesn't massacre the thing. I saw someone butcher JL's Imagine the other day on you tube - at a JL memorial concert no less. Just Don't!

Ps just found this version by the original writer from OCS and it's kind of how he does it. Wiki says CD2 of the single release also led with an official acoustic version so it's hard to criticise the JS cover if they are kind of just cribbing what the band did themselves to start with!!

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I'm not against it being done acoustically, as in the video you found it almost emphasises the lonely grip of the lyrics better done that way, especially live. It is just the execution by JS that annoys me; an overly glossy, airbrushed production and sung without any real feeling for the meaning of the song.
 
JonnyT said:
I'm not against it being done acoustically, as in the video you found it almost emphasises the lonely grip of the lyrics better done that way, especially live. It is just the execution by JS that annoys me; an overly glossy, airbrushed production and sung without any real feeling for the meaning of the song.
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Fair.
 
I think this is by far the best version of this song, the lyrics, the drums, the nice and simple production, the original is the best version of this song to the extent that I consider all other versions bad by comparison, and there's been a lot of them. Not so much bad covers but just pointless covers of a classic. I've misremembered a Mariah Carey cover of this but seems it doesn't exist.

 
PC777 said:
I think this is by far the best version of this song, the lyrics, the drums, the nice and simple production, the original is the best version of this song to the extent that I consider all other versions bad by comparison, and there's been a lot of them. Not so much bad covers but just pointless covers of a classic. I've misremembered a Mariah Carey cover of this but seems it doesn't exist.

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wiki says Bonnie Tyler covered it, as did Rod Stewart. are you thinking of one of those?

The worst CCR cover I ever heard was in a bar in the Lake District where some 50 yr old guy was massacring Bad Moon Rising. Completely unable to syncopate and with ooh-ah backing from his besotted lady friend they rocked up in a pub and started playing, much to the chargrin of everyone else trying to have a nice meal/pint.
 
Yeah it must be the Bonnie Tyler version I thought of, but to be fair I do still like her version, so maybe this song's not the best example, the original is just a classic they got 100% right first time. I can't see how any can improve it, though many have tried. I'm sure there's some bad ones among the dozens of covers of this including various Got Talent shows.
 
@ik9000

Dunno if it is applicable,but I think I prefer the original version of Self Control by Italian artist,RAF,as opposed to the cover done by Laura Branigan. I only realised the famous version was a cover,and it seems to lack the urgency of the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_TQjEn6cpQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP0_8J7uxhs

Another one. The original version of Der Kommissar by Falco instead of the cover by After the Fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-bgiiTxhzM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfFDTPPlaM

I supposed just its the WTF coming from an Austrian rapping,but again the cover seems a bit toned down.

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Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town. Dario G essentially turned into dance music. The original song has deep emotion to it - the cover lacks any of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXnulANF8g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PADegE6gNR4

Toto - I won't hold you back.Roger Sanchez sampled it as a Another Chance,and seems to lack any gravitas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iCQ56Qbkj0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdlvPe959Ck
 
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The phenomenon of advertising executives having massive hard-ons for utterly insipid covers which are a travesty of the original strikes again.

The latest Airbnb advert featuring a shockingly meaningless cover of Sweet Child Of Mine.

It'll make your ears bleed.
 
bazzabear said:
The phenomenon of advertising executives having massive hard-ons for utterly insipid covers which are a travesty of the original strikes again.

The latest Airbnb advert featuring a shockingly meaningless cover of Sweet Child Of Mine.

It'll make your ears bleed.
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Is that the one with the girl more speaking than singing? Sounds like she might be talking to her cat or something?

What about bands covering their own songs? :D

I’m no even sure if it’s the full band doing this...seems ridiculous but I actually quite like it!

 
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