Cover tunes that should have NEVER been recorded

[half-fast]

stevie wonder covered a beatles song-for the life of me I can't remember which one-but I liked his version better

[mildbill.]

the most recent cringe-inducer i've heard is the slightly stoopid cover of 'leaving on a jet plane.' they make up for it with the cover of the 'just cause she dances go-go, that don't make her a ho, no' song.

[glademaster]

I dont know the artist who covered it, but some reggae group made of cover of "Somebody to Lean on" a few years ago. Turned a peaceful, calming melody to shit.

[rightcoast]

what about the Dixie Chicks landslide cover??

[horizon]

Will Young's cover of 'Light My Fire'.

And if you don't know who he is or never heard the cover (both impossible in the case of UK-based minions), consider yourselves lucky.

[Zittel]

Originally posted by dipstik
limp bizkit: behind blue eyes

'nuff said

Truly, stunningly bad. It sounds like a high school student messing around with Apple Soundtrack software. I thought it was a joke the first time I heard it.

[CantDog]

Originally posted by Woodsy
MUSIC FORUM JONG!

worst cover:
ANY Beatles cover.

False. Listen to Richie Havens. You'll hear what I mean.

[powpig]

Iron Maiden's version of Jethro Tull's Cross Eyed Mary.
Two Great bands, one classic song, but God this sucks!

[teleee]

You guys are forgetting perhaps the most recently released "Worst cover ever." That dubious honor belongs to the assclown Kid Rock. He took a great song by Bad Company (I think) called "Feel Like Making Love" and transformed it into a song like everything else that comes out of his mouth . . . . . which is a steaming pile of crap.

I have to agree with this statement! I heard this for the first time this morning. Worst thing I have ever heard. I am hoping the covulsions stop soon. Did somebody actually tell him that he sounded good in this song?

[irul&ublo]

Originally posted by KQ
Bad: Leonard Nimoy doing "Proud Mary" and "The Bilbo Baggins Song*"


*no one should sing this song

heh

[TomK]

Originally posted by half-fast
stevie wonder covered a beatles song-for the life of me I can't remember which one-but I liked his version better

"We Can Work It Out" is probably the one you're thinking of,
on the album "Signed, Sealed & Delivered".

There is also an obscure Stevie WOnder cover of "Love Me Do" that he did at a Montreux JazzFestival in Japan, but I don't think it was ever released.

Here's an interesting source for covers.
http://www.coversproject.com/

[365wp]

You guys heard Richard Cheese? Think lounge-style covers of Nirvana, Radiohead and RATM...hilarious.

Best:

Hendrix - Like a Rolling Stone (Live)
SRV - Little Wing

[drdirt]

Originally posted by bagtagley
Tom Jones struggling w/ Black Betty. Terrible.

yeah but check out his cover of Kiss by Prince. My nomination for the strange prize, Richard Thomson doing "whoops I did it again".

[KQ]

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Originally posted by KQ
Bad: Leonard Nimoy doing "Proud Mary" and "The Bilbo Baggins Song*"


*no one should sing this song
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Originally posted by irul&ublo
heh

Actually check this out - 10th item down on the left side "Spock's a Hobbit"


Spock's a Hobbit

[bagtagley]

Good cover: Gin and Juice by The Gourds.

[irul&ublo]

Originally posted by KQ
quote:
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Originally posted by KQ
Bad: Leonard Nimoy doing "Proud Mary" and "The Bilbo Baggins Song*"


*no one should sing this song
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Actually check this out - 10th item down on the left side "Spock's a Hobbit"


Spock's a Hobbit

That is fucking sad.

[365wp]

More good covers...I heard Yonder Mountain String Band cover some Floyd at the Fox in Boulder...and it was good.

Still haven't made up my mind about Jack Johnson's version of "Badfish." Neil Young at Red Rocks KICKED ASS!!! Even though he played Greendale.

[Pinner]

Voodoo Chile, by Stevie Ray Vaughn.

What a hack.

[Woodsy]

Originally posted by powslut
i disagree. You ever hear Johnny Cash cover "In My Life"?

worst song on that great album
Cocker I will give you
Havens could sing the phone book & it would sound cool

[CantDog]

Havens is incredible in concert, so must emotion and passion in his music, the guy is awesome.

[grrrr]

Originally posted by Woodsy

worst cover:
ANY Beatles cover.

One exception: Joe Cocker.

edit: Had I read further, I would have seen that I am nOT aLOOOOOnnne...

[el_jefe]

Originally posted by TomK
Here's an interesting source for covers.
http://www.coversproject.com/

well, i've never heard it myself but that site says that vanilla ice covered PE's "fight the power"...

that's GOTTA be bad.

[Samwich]

Originally posted by bagtagley
Tom Jones struggling w/ Black Betty. Terrible.

I was watching High Life in the basement. My mom comes down right at the Collins Bros/Cattabriga kicker Eurotour segment where someone is doing that song justice. My mom exclaimed, "Hey, I know this song, it's on my Tom Jones cd!"

I heard it a couple days later, and it's absolutely awful. It's painful. He puts no passion into it at all.

Tom Jones: "Oh. Black Betty. Ba lam. Ba lam. Oh."

What a dumb ass.

[The Reverend Floater]

I love Sublime, but their cover of Scarlet Begonias makes me want to wretch and stab myself with a dull plunger.

[PaSucks]

Come on Mettalica doing Turn the Page was not bad, hell I liked it. Of course I used to be a Metallica nut so I guess my view is kind of skewed. Also, Mettalica's Tuesdays Gone is awesome. John Rocker on Harmonica and Les Claypool on banjo, plus the vocalist from Alice in Chains makes on hell of a combination.
And what the hell is this about American Pie? That is one hell of a drinking song, although you are right Maddona raped it pretty bad.
The Kid Rock cover mentioned earlier is one of the most hidieous things I have ever heard, someone put him out of his misery.
One of the best covers I have ever heard is Weezer doing Hit Me Baby One More Time, if they had done it originally instead of Britney Spears It would be so much easier to listen to.

So now that we are all once again aware of the worst covers of all time, someone needs to start a best drinking song thread. I vote for Jimmy Buffet and Alan Jackson, " Its Five o'Clock Somewhere" or maybe Eamon "Fuck It." Come on you know you all have those songs that you have to hear/sing when your shitfaced. What are your's?