Worst Cover Songs

[St. Jimmy]

Yep.

Anything off of Tori Amos's "Strange Little Girls" album is a definate contender.

[Silent]

Zwan - Number of the Beast

[Kane Knight]

Durst. Faith.

[CSL]

Sheryl Crow-Sweet Child O' Mine
Atreyu-You Give Love A Bad Name

[OssMan]

dunno some chick who did an acoustic cover of i'll stop the world n melt for you

[OssMan]

not-so-coincidental feminine theme to this thread no?

[Blitz]

Plain White Ts-Song 2

[O.G Loc]

Avril Lavigne covering Fuel on Metallica's MTV Icon. Lawd it was bad.

[Silent]

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lol

[Skippord]

Staind - Sober(Tool)

[Juan]

Atreyu-You Give Love A Bad Name

:mad:

[ct2k]

Any 'alt' band cover of a Britney Spears etc-esque pop song, a) its not original, b) its not cool, c) get a proper haircut

[Cactus Sid]

dunno some chick who did an acoustic cover of i'll stop the world n melt for you

You sure that wasn't the Nouvelle Vague?

If that was the one you were thinking of, you are a fool

If not....proceed

[MVP]

My Chemical Romance and The Used - Under Pressure
Green Day - Working Class Hero
Shinedown - Simple Man

[ron the dial]

OMG Working Class Hero is soooooo bad.

[Kane Knight]

You sure that wasn't the Nouvelle Vague?

If that was the one you were thinking of, you are a fool

If not....proceed

I loved their Bauhaus cover, BTW. Downloaded the album for that reason.

[Theo Dious]

Anything off of Tori Amos's "Strange Little Girls" album is a definate contender.

Well since anything Tori Amos does is shit, that isn't really surprising.

Also, Johnny Cash doing Hurt makes me want to vomit. And I LIKE Johnny Cash.

[Stickman]

Avril Lavigne covering Fuel on Metallica's MTV Icon. Lawd it was bad.

[Kane Knight]

Also, Johnny Cash doing Hurt makes me want to vomit. And I LIKE Johnny Cash.

Quite possibly the worst cover ever. Though it usually gets worshipped because people think Cash can do no wrong. He can. That song was a good example. It doesn't shit on his career, but it certainly was shit.

[Theo Dious]

Quite possibly the worst cover ever. Though it usually gets worshipped because people think Cash can do no wrong.

And a lot of those people actually think he WROTE the song, so...

[Mercury Bullet]

I don't hate it with a passion, but "Hurt" is definately up there with the worst ever...I dunno what it is, thats a hard one to pick out.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Cash's cover of "Personal Jesus" was worse.

[Silent]

Quite possibly the worst cover ever. Though it usually gets worshipped because people think Cash can do no wrong. He can. That song was a good example. It doesn't shit on his career, but it certainly was shit.

I'm glad someone agrees with me on that, I never liked that song.

[Stickman]

So reading this debate about "Hurt" I watched the videos for both on youtube, and Cash's version is much better than the original.

[Theo Dious]

I must assume that you are on crack, cocaine, or crack cocaine.

[Cactus Sid]

And a lot of those people actually think he WROTE the song, so...

I think that is the biggest reason people love it so much, they think it was him, they saw the video, they understood the link and the majority of them have never even heard of Nine Inch Nails.

[Cactus Sid]

I loved their Bauhaus cover, BTW. Downloaded the album for that reason.

If you ever get the chance to see them I would highly recommend going.

Saw them at Reading Festival last year and it was like a massive party packed into 45 minutes, I'd never heard of them at that point and it was just brilliant waiting to see what cover they'd pull out next.

[Cactus Sid]

Oh and my contribution is Poison The Well's version of Today by the Smashing Pumpkins. Anyone who can fuck up Corgan's vocals even more has got to be a complete retard.

[Kane Knight]

And a lot of those people actually think he WROTE the song, so...

I've noticed people think Cash wrote a lot of his biggest hits, personally, so the fact that Johnny Cash fans might not know who wrote the song doesn't surprise me. If they can't figure out that he's covering a country song, imagine how hard it'd be to figure out he's covering an industrial song.

Cash's cover of "Personal Jesus" was worse.

I can't say I've heard that one. If it's worse than "Hurt," I'm not sure I want to.

[Bad Company]

uh, any techno remix, but ever time I hear boys of summer by DJ Sammy I wanna cut my ears off

[Kane Knight]

Techno doesn't count as music. If it does, my album of Acme sound effects from Warner Brothers cartoons also counts.

[Skippord]

Any 'alt' band cover of a Britney Spears etc-esque pop song, a) its not original, b) its not cool, c) get a proper haircut
Children Of Bodom's cover of Oops I Did It Again is amazing

[ron the dial]

CoB also do a great cover of "The Final Countdown."

[DRBailey]

KD Lang - Hallelujah...ugh

Mike Flowers Pop - Wonderwall

[Kane Knight]

KD Lang....There's the problem.

[ron the dial]

My Morning Jacket - Take My Breath Away

Listening to it right now, and it hurts.

[ct2k]

I fucking hate that fucking latest cover of Wonderwall, not the spoof one from that camp pleb around the same time as the original, but the one that gets played on all the US teen dramas, fucking cunts:foc:

[ron the dial]

The one by Ryan Adams? If so, your opinion on this matter is very wrong.

[ct2k]

Ryan Adams should slit his wrists in a nice warm bathtub, alternitively I will stab him in the throat and fuck his mother, for a price ofcourse.

[ron the dial]

ct2k, you have accurately described what I wish would happen to you. The only detail that you left out was that I wish for the knife that slit your wrists to also stab you in the asshole repeatedly. Preferably before you are dead so that you feel the pain.

[ct2k]

Weapon X you are no longer my boy, take your bitchez and your drugs and gtf out of my crack den

[ron the dial]

THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

[Kane Knight]

Ryan Adams is usually shit.

He did bring us Jesse Malin, though, so the wrist-slitting is a bit harsh.

[KingofOldSchool]

Seether - Immortality

[The Gooch]

Ataris -- Boys of Summer

[Kane Knight]

Fuck, their cover is good.

[Arnold HamNegger]

Sheryl Crow- Sweet Child O' Mine.

Fucking brutal.

[Russenmafia]

All Saints - Under The Bridge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA_c1o5Y95o

Complete utter shite

[Xerzes]

Korn - Another Brick In The Wall

[Kane Knight]

Korn - Another Brick In The Wall

In the grand scheme of things, I have to disagree. I can think of probably 50 worse covers. IT's not good, but worst? I have to disagree.

On a related note, Godhead's cover of Elenor Rigby would be another one worth throwing out. I like Godhead. I like ER. But their version was pretty bad.

[Blue Demon]

Techno doesn't count as music. If it does, my album of Acme sound effects from Warner Brothers cartoons also counts.
:rofl: :rofl:

[Theo Dious]

Ataris -- Boys of Summer

STFU, that was a good one. :mad:

[steveironcity]

Anything on those kids bop albums has got to be awful. Ive only seen the commercials, but thats bad enough

[Theo Dious]

Anything on those kids bop albums has got to be awful. Ive only seen the commercials, but thats bad enough

Kids Bop > Sheryl Crow doing Guns N Roses.

[St. Jimmy]

STFU, that was a good one. :mad:

YOU LYING SON OF A BITCH. :rant:

[Goulet]

Chris Cornell - Billie Jean

[Arnold HamNegger]

Korn - Another Brick In The Wall

Come on now, Word Up is 1000 X's worse than that one IMO.

[Arnold HamNegger]

Anything > Sheryl Crow doing Guns N Roses.

[DRBailey]

Come on now, Word Up is 1000 X's worse than that one IMO.

The TRUTH!

[Impact!]

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:shifty:

[St. Jimmy]

lol, impact - that's more of an improvement.

[Shisen Kopf]

lol, impact - that's more of an improvement.

Hell yeah!

[Blue Demon]

actually, that version of Hey Ya is relatively good.

[#1-norm-fan]

lol. That was awesome.

Can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet. Three words...

Madonna... American Pie.

[The Lone Wolf]

Sheryl Crow - Sweet Child O' Mine
Korn - Another Brick in the Wall

[OssMan]

The Lone Wolf, if your user name was not I can't finish this post

[WestNZ]

Cradle of Filth doing Temptation
Cradle Of Filth doing Hallowed be thy name
Cradle of Filth Doing Mr Crowley

This is hard for me to write as i am a huge Filth fan, but they spoilt perfectly great songs with crappy renditions

[darkpower]

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lol

Seriously...


WHAT IN THE FUCKING HELL DID I JUST LET RAPE MY EARS?!! GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!!

Even by Spears standards (which isn't much), that sucked giant portions of ass. Whose idea was that, anyway?

[Nark Order]

I like Cash's cover of Hurt

[Nark Order]

Although, his cover of "Personal Jesus" isn't the greatest.

[Kane Knight]

The Scissor Sisters covering Comfortably Numb.

I may have mentioned this before in this thread but just in case.

[Blitz]

The Scissor Sisters covering Comfortably Numb.

I may have mentioned this before in this thread but just in case.
Insanity. Amazing cover.

[Kane Knight]

If by "Amazing," You mean "Utter tripe," yes.

[WestNZ]

Alien Ant Farm doing Smooth Criminal was pretty bad too

[El Fangel]

I like Cash's cover of Hurt

As did I, everytime I hear it I think of Eddie.

Viva La Raza

Alien Ant Farm doing Smooth Criminal was pretty bad too

:y:

[WestNZ]

Generally they were awesome, but Iced Eart's version of Screaming for Vengance on the Tribute to the Gods CD was aweful, 12 covers on one CD and only one bad one.

[El Fangel]

Oh sweet jesus, worst cover ever...

Behind Blue Eyes - Limp Bizkit.

[WestNZ]

that girlband i cant remember doing Blondies The Tide is High

[Rob]

Any 'alt' band cover of a Britney Spears etc-esque pop song, a) its not original, b) its not cool, c) get a proper haircut

Blowsight - Toxic is more than alright too.

[Rob]

Oh sweet jesus, worst cover ever...

Behind Blue Eyes - Limp Bizkit.

Bizkit covers aren't even close to the worst ever. Although I did see them do "You Know You're Right" live and it wasn't good at all. Heard a lot worse. Like every person who covers Motown songs to start their careers or some Simon Cowell revamped shit.

[OverTaker]

The Scissor Sisters covering Comfortably Numb.

I may have mentioned this before in this thread but just in case.

DUDE! I u tubed this right after I read this post. I thought maybe it didn't sound so bad, but no, what do I get? a crazed, high pitched techno shit.

[Kane Knight]

DUDE! I u tubed this right after I read this post. I thought maybe it didn't sound so bad, but no, what do I get? a crazed, high pitched techno shit.

One of the most annoying covers ever.

[Blitz]

Amazing cover.