Worst Cover Songs
 

Yep.

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

Zwan - Number of the Beast

Durst. Faith.

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

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

Plain White Ts-Song 2

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

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lol

Staind - Sober(Tool)

:mad:

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

You sure that wasn't the Nouvelle Vague?

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

If not....proceed

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

OMG Working Class Hero is soooooo bad.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Children Of Bodom's cover of Oops I Did It Again is amazing

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

KD Lang - Hallelujah...ugh

Mike Flowers Pop - Wonderwall

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

My Morning Jacket - Take My Breath Away

Listening to it right now, and it hurts.

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:

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

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.

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.

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

THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

Ryan Adams is usually shit.

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

Seether - Immortality

Ataris -- Boys of Summer

Fuck, their cover is good.

Sheryl Crow- Sweet Child O' Mine.

Fucking brutal.

All Saints - Under The Bridge

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

Complete utter shite

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.

:rofl: :rofl:

STFU, that was a good one. :mad:

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.

Chris Cornell - Billie Jean

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

The TRUTH!

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:shifty:

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

Hell yeah!

actually, that version of Hey Ya is relatively good.

lol. That was awesome.

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

Madonna... American Pie.

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

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

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

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?

I like Cash's cover of Hurt

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

The Scissor Sisters covering Comfortably Numb.

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

Insanity. Amazing cover.

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

Alien Ant Farm doing Smooth Criminal was pretty bad too

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

Viva La Raza

:y:

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.

that girlband i cant remember doing Blondies The Tide is High

Blowsight - Toxic is more than alright too.

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.

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.

Amazing cover.