I know that these days the chart thrives on singers miming along with a real singer off stage as the backing singers try to cover the good-looking ones awful singing but what is really, truly, the absolutely worst cover version of a well known song that you have heard (or will admit to buying)?
I am forced to ask this after hearing Joy Divisions fantastic anthem ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ as murdered by Paul Young… Horrific, just horrific.
Please remember that something like The Doors ‘Light My Fire’ has been covered nearly as much as ‘My Way’ or ‘Let It Be’, so coming up with some different dross would be great.
Knock yourselves out, people.
Flood.
By: Flood - 24th March 2004 at 21:32
Argh!
Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t ‘ve) by The Buzzcocks – classic.
Ever Fallen in Love by Fine Young Cannibals… Even now words fail me!:mad:
Flood.
By: Mark9 - 20th March 2004 at 13:45
All covers are crap;) Anna:D 😀
By: Nermal - 20th March 2004 at 09:57
Originally posted by steve rowell
What the hell is “charsima”, i’m with Ashley on this one
Record label, wasn’t it?;) – Nermal
By: steve rowell - 20th March 2004 at 02:51
Originally posted by Snapper
The Beatles were a bunch of poncy scouse poofs with no talent but a fair amount of charsima (once Epstein was in charge). Bloody useless hippies.
What the hell is “charsima”, i’m with Ashley on this one
By: SOC - 20th March 2004 at 00:03
Live and Let Die by Guns’n’Roses. Axl always sounds like he’s been kicked hard in the nuts 😀
By: duxfordhawk - 19th March 2004 at 23:13
Worst covers i can think of are The corrs doing Fleetwood Macs “Dreams”or when they did “Everybody hurts” by REM,The ruining of “Comfortably numb” recently,All the Pop idols/fame academy covers they lack any emotion and add nothing to the songs.
Don Henleys “Boys of Summer” was destroyed by Dj Sammy.
By: duxfordhawk - 19th March 2004 at 23:04
Originally posted by Snapper
The Beatles were a bunch of poncy scouse poofs with no talent but a fair amount of charsima (once Epstein was in charge). Bloody useless hippies.
Sorry to disagree but i am going to anyway,They had shed loads talent and changed the face of music forever,John Lennon is one of the greatest song writers ever to walk this earth and George Harrison should be given more credit than he got,Paul annoys me a little now and its a pity a hole generation remember Ringo for Thomas the tank engine,But they do deserve the place in history they have and i love them along with the Rolling Stones,The Who and th Kinks they rocked the world,Pity there stuff gets ruined by the modern talentless idols.
By: Flood - 19th March 2004 at 22:50
Not sure they could quite be classed as hippies… Not the ‘everything is love and flairs’-type hippies.
Flood. (Bet Snapper has a pair of flairs hidden somewhere in his sordid past…:D:D:D)
By: Snapper - 19th March 2004 at 19:43
The Beatles were a bunch of poncy scouse poofs with no talent but a fair amount of charsima (once Epstein was in charge). Bloody useless hippies.
By: Arthur - 19th March 2004 at 17:21
Don’t know why it hasn’t been mentioned yet, but…
‘Behind blue eyes’ was already a pretty terrible song from The Who, but the nag-and-whine version of Limp Bizkit makes a perfect background noise to me throwing up. Dis-gus-ting.
By: Flood - 19th March 2004 at 15:52
Just flicking through an old copy of the Guiness Book of British Hit Singles and it is funny how so many versions of one song were released by different artists in the 50s and 60s – at the same time! Point in hand: there were 3 versions of ‘Walk Hand in Hand’ in the charts in late July/early August 1956 by Tony Martin, Ronnie Carroll, and Jimmy Parkinson (don’t know the song or those singers…); can you imagine that happening today? Then it got covered by Gerry and the Pacemakers in 1965…:rolleyes:
Anyway.
Flood.
By: EAL_KING - 19th March 2004 at 15:36
walk of life attomic kitten
By: Ashley - 19th March 2004 at 15:03
Bloody hell…the original version of Long Haired Lover From Liverpool sounded squeaky enough before the piggy pair got their trotters on it…
By: Flood - 19th March 2004 at 15:00
Originally posted by kev35
‘Let’s twist again’ by the inimitable (and let’s face it who’d want to) Pinky and Perky has to be a real serious contender.Regards,
kev35
The Holly and the Ivy, While Shepherds Watched, Pushbike Song, Jack-in-the-Box, Long Haired Lover From Liverpool, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, and Yellow Submarine were amongst those also covered by the piggy puppets…
Have to agree with Comfortably Numb, though – abomination!
Flood.
By: Arthur - 19th March 2004 at 14:27
Score 1 for Kev!
(Arthur trying desperately to make this ever so annoying mindgame more populair :p )
By: Ashley - 19th March 2004 at 13:15
~Throws my now empty yoghurt carton at Kev~ Grrrrrrrrrrrrr! Thanks Kev, now I’m going to have “let’s twiiiiiiiiiiist again, like we did laaaaaaaaaaast summer” in my head ALL afternoon ~GLARE~
😉
By: kev35 - 19th March 2004 at 13:11
‘Let’s twist again’ by the inimitable (and let’s face it who’d want to) Pinky and Perky has to be a real serious contender.
Regards,
kev35
By: Super Guppy - 19th March 2004 at 13:02
Madonna’s attempt at ‘American Pie ‘ was pretty hideous
By: Arabella-Cox - 19th March 2004 at 11:34
Originally posted by Ashley
Ashley-who-thinks-the-Beatles-are-the-best-band-ever-in-the-history-of-the-universe-and-if-you-want-to-argue-with-me-over-that-let’s-take-it-outside-shall-we? :p
Bloody hell Ashley, you’re one scary bird when you’re angry! 😮
But I’m brave when I’m twenty miles away, so I’ll nominate Pink Floyd as the finest band, Comfortably Numb as their finest track, and therefore that recent awful abberation of a cover version as the worst act of musical murder ever committed. 😡
By: Ashley - 19th March 2004 at 11:00
I have to say actually, that Sam and Mark cover of With A Little Help From My Friends is quite possibly the ****test cover version I have ever had the misfortune to be subjected to.
If you MUST cover a Beatles song, you must:
a) be able to sing, and at that, sing well
b) have some real credibility
c) Try and do something different with it, make it your own
Not being a muppet helps too.
Ashley-who-thinks-the-Beatles-are-the-best-band-ever-in-the-history-of-the-universe-and-if-you-want-to-argue-with-me-over-that-let’s-take-it-outside-shall-we? :p
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