Post a GODAWFUL cover of a great song

[Withywindle]

This'll be hard to top:


Billy Idol - "Heroin" (original - Velvet Underground)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tMFs-5FlWk

[Ken Burch]

1. Here ya go...

Sarah Brightman's version of "Dust In The Wind":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHAj1MLV2NY

[CBGLuthier]

12. Why is the guitarist putting those accents in the wrong place

Oh god now the singing is starting. That's enough.

[progressoid]

55. What the hell was that?

[Heidi]

2. Gail Farrell and Dick Dale sing "One Toke Over The Line," on The Lawrence Welk Show.

http://youtu.be/t8tdmaEhMHE

[Ken Burch]

6. I think it makes quite a statement that NOBODY ever tries to cover anything by War

Some original versions simply can't EVER be beat.

[musette_sf]

42. Could have sworn I saw Nick Winters do it

[Ken Burch]

45. Really? I'll check that out.

He might be the first.

(Of course it would be just my luck that, having said THAT, dozens of War covers would suddenly be brought to my attention).

(on edit)

Have you got a link for that? And did you mean Nick Winters the weightlifter?

[musette_sf]

50. I meant Nick Winters

of "Star Wars" alternate rendition fame

"Aww..Star Wars, Nothing But Star Wars
Give Me those Star Wars
Don't let them end"

[Ken Burch]

56. You got me...but I meant War as in the band that did "Low Rider" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?"

Did Nick sing any of THEIR stuff?

[musette_sf]

57. It was a "JK"

(just kidding)

Nick Winters was Bill Murray's "lounge singer" character on SNL, and he massacred all kinds of tunes in his skits.

But there are a lot of covers of "Low Rider" out there...

Korn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUzfsproxAM

Gary Hoey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0O057Z3jD4

Vanderbilt University Trombones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keu2gHS9ERg

DC & Co:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbSQ-898e6c

Latin Alliance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S__COc2WWc

[Ken Burch]

58. I got it that it was a joke.

Thanks for the links to the "Low Rider" covers.

Interesting exchange we've had here.

[eShirl]

7. !

:wow: :rofl:

[frogmarch]

47. hahaha!

Awful, really awful.

What did they think a toke was? They remind me of my sweet, pious Aunt Bee-like mother-in-law, may she rest in peace, who used to cheerfully say "c-cksucker!" at the drop of a hat, till one of her daughters finally took her aside and clued her in as to what it meant. She would use it like this: "The gravy is being a c-cksucker and thickening up too fast" and "I adore those frilly curtains, but I'll bet they're c-cksuckers to iron."

I suppose because the lyrics include "sweet Jesus" and "sweet Mary," Gail and Dick think it's a fine religious song. Dumb asses.

[Heidi]

49. Too funny!

I was raised in Oklahoma and tend to pronounce the word "naked" as "nekkid." I'm afraid I'm a bad influence on my Swiss mother-in-law, who speaks pretty good English...except for the word "naked." :rofl:

ETA: My MIL is also now prone to outbursts of "Goodness gracious!" and "Good lord!"

[Iggo]

51. '...Gail and Dick think it's a fine religious song...'

You're right. In fact, during the intro Lawrence Welk called it a "modern spiritual" if I remember rightly.

[frogmarch]

52. LOL

A modern spiritual. :smoke:

[astral]

73. Now, now, Casey Casum set us straight when it was in the Top 40.

I tell you this because I remember. I was around ten and didn't know what a 'toke' was yet, had never heard of pot . . . . it's true!!!


It was something to do with a subway token or a bus token.

Of course I don't believe it but he really did say it.

[progressoid]

54. OK, that's going in my favorites.

I bet my Grandparents watched that. And loved it!

[EnviroBat]

68. The Lawrence Welk show was the reason for grandpa's drinking problem.

[Tabasco_Dave]

3. Velvet Revolver - "No More No More"

I like velvet Revolver But this sucks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWG7D9dJjj0

[mucifer]

4. 1986 band "Chicago" covering the 1969 band "Chicago"

in their new version of "25 or 6 to 4" . Wow did that suck.

[Ken Burch]

5. ANY Rod Stewart cover

But it's hard to beat(if you want to call it that) his "versions" of Tom Waits' "Downtown Train" and the Persuaders' "Some Guys Have All The Luck".

[TuxedoKat]

19. Agreed

that guy is so overated.

[Tikki]

30. Agreed further....n/t

Tikki

[fishwax]

32. have you heard his cover of Waits's "Tom Traubert's Blues"

Downtown Train is bad, but not as bad as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8SGsgM-1rU

[Brickbat]

8. Miley Cyrus covering "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8r45usSKXg

[kentauros]

9. William Shatner - Rocket Man

mp3 link on U B U W E B:

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/DP/2003/02/365-Days-Project-02-24-shatner-william-rocket-man-1978.mp3


:evilgrin:

[Ken Burch]

59. Although Bernie Taupin introduces his live performance of it on YouTube

(Then again, maybe Bernie was just mad at Elton that week...)

[astral]

74. but I love his cover of Rocket Man.

I am DEAD SERIES about that. It really cracked me up, but I love it.

[TheCanadianLiberal]

10. The Very worst cover ever, The Final Countdown

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


My ears! They bleed!

[Dr. Strange]

13. Hello...is there anybody in there?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7pDNDuoJ0

[Ken Burch]

27. I got through 20 seconds of that.

Did somebody post that on YouTube because the band owed them money?

[EvilAL]

61. hahahahah

holy fuck dude...

[CBGLuthier]

11. Mariah Carey does Ham/Evans Can't Live

Nillson's version is possibly the greatest cover ever and hers just plain sucks. From the lame ass voice doubling to the incessant warbling vibrato on the chorus. True suckfest.

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

[abq e streeter]

14. Rita Coolidge sucked the life out of one of the most exciting and high energy soul songs ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DJXeglQgkc


Nothing personal against Ms.Coolidge...She had a very pleasant voice and I'm sure was a very nice person, but man, was this the WRONG song for her.

[Ken Burch]

34. "I'm sure she WAS a very nice person"?

Dude...Rita may have done a bad rendition of that song, but she's not actually dead.

[abq e streeter]

39. Oops-meant in terms of back when she did that song, but yeah, didn't come out right at all.

[Ken Burch]

41. I did have to hit Google to make sure, though.

n/t.

[abq e streeter]

15. The Stones (proving even the great ones can misfire sometimes): Just My Imagination

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bqjjF6yuXA

[musette_sf]

33. I thought their nadir was "Ain't Too Proud To Beg"

[abq e streeter]

40. yeah , might have been even worse; forgot they did that.

Big Stones fan here, but yeah, both of those were pretty weak .

[Bennyboy]

66. Wow, I love this...

Loved it on the album and especially loved it sa a live tune on the "Some Girls" tour.

[LynneSin]

16. Anyone remember the band "Will to Power"?

They did a one song that was a DOUBLE remake of both "Baby I love Your Ways" by Peter Frampton and it Segued into "Freebird". All song in easy listening stylings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby,_I_Love_Your_Way/Freebird_Medley

[Ken Burch]

35. I still get involuntary muscle spasms even THINKING about that one.

It's surprising that Frampton and the surviving members of Skynrd didn't take a contrac out on "Will To Power" for that one.

[hifiguy]

69. Gads, even contemplating that

makes me want to reach for a couple of ice cold double vodkas and a set of earplugs. The horror, the horror....

[speedoo]

17. ALL the Pat Boone covers of Little Richard, Fats Domino and others.

There can be no doubt. And they are even worse on video.

[Ken Burch]

28. But Pat's METAL album was epic.

So epic I won't even link to it here.

[guitar man]

18. Shania Twain ruins AC/DC

x(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTucA0IpOhk

[progressoid]

53. How about Leslie Gore: "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqoygpAvy3k

Didn't shania's ex produce AC/DC?

[Arugula Latte]

20. Any butchering of soul song by Michael Bolton.

[mickdp]

21. Snoop Dogg doing Metallica's Sad But True

I think this contest is over...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v-MdQLRFcw

[mcollins]

22. anyone doing Red Red Wine. nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

71. I saw UB40 live.

They opened for THE POLICE on the Synchronicity tour in 1983.

Then the Police broke up, just as they were getting really good.

I gave up on rock n roll after that.

[valerief]

23. Classic Strangers in the Night by Mrs. Miller

http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=Mrs.+Miller&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz35&fr2=tab-web&tnr=20&b=1

[Arkansas Granny]

24. Faith Hill - "Piece of My Heart"

If you can bear to watch it:

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

[pink-o]

25. Ticket to Ride, The Carpenters...

I'm probably in the minority, but I can't stand Karen's voice. You gotta remember in the 60s, white middle-class parents hated Rock 'n Roll because it sounded too black. We'd gotten past the "race music" phase of the 50s, with Elvis and such putting a paler face on it, but the subtext was still that if you sang a certain way and used too much syncopated rhythm, it was as unacceptable as curly hair and sexy full lips.

So the scared middle-class white folks would hang onto anyone whose voice had been dipped in a vat of chlorox, who's beats were straight on 4/4 and who wrung all the "soul" out of every song they did. Karen Carpenter was their poster girl. And she was a DRUMMER, WTF???

Bad enough ANYONE covering Beatles songs (leave perfection alone, 'kay?) but this is Music in Hell. Don't believe me???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgj4xcxXyA

Honestly, I almost think Sarah Palin would be a better lead vocalist.

(edited cuz I wrote "who's" instead of "whose" Would've needed to arrest myself, being the grammar police 'n all)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. John Mayer - Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Ov0cDPZy8

:puke:

[Gabi Hayes]

29. tiny tim.....highway to hell. on second thought, that goes on the other cover thread.

then there's this....good GOD!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n86dSssBSmA&feature=related

[fishwax]

31. Rod Stewart's cover of Tom Traubert's Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8SGsgM-1rU

:puke:

[Ken Burch]

36. The Natalie Merchant version of "Because the Night" from MTV Unplugged!

I like a lot of Natalie's stuff...but covering Patti Smith? No...just...no...

[chollybocker]

43. It's just completely unnecessary.

I loves me some Natalie Merchant too, but...

This one is also unnecessary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgJq6v6gA_4

Of all the great songs in the world, Natalie chose to cover Space Oddity? I just don't get it. A real clunker.

[Ken Burch]

46. I think part of the problem with the "Because the Night" cover

is that Natalie and Patti come from entirely different environments and radically different places in the class system-Natalie's family, unless I miss my guess, were at least comfortably middle-class and Patti's were proles.

[Ken Burch]

37. I'm not sure if this was godawful or brilliant

But the Jack Webb version of "Try A Little Tenderness" always sticks in my mind, for some reason.

As do Sebastian Cabot's recitals of Dylan lyrics.

[musette_sf]

44. RTV hss Dragnet on every day

I love it, it is so bad.

:rofl:

[Ken Burch]

38. The Carpenters' version of "Ticket To Ride"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgj4xcxXyA

(especially since, in the promotional film, they partially re-created the original "Ticket To Ride" sequence from HELP!-as it would have looked if the Beatles had been on codeine instead of pot).

[bluesbassman]

48. My Generation - Hilary Duff. People try to put you down?

No Hillary, people try to turn you off. :rofl:

http://youtu.be/ue5kotMLjws

[EvilAL]

60. Tori Amos - Raining Blood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpOAXIgF9U

Arguably the greatest thrash metal song of all time reduced to a fucking cat walking on a piano and retarded vocals. It fucking kills me to hear it while I type this...

[Quantess]

64. You mean Reign in Blood? Slayer?

oh wait, now I have to listen to it.

Edit to add: I gave it 10 seconds and I am giving up.

I sort of liked her stuff from the 1990s. I really liked the "cornflake girl" song, have no idea what she's doing now.

I am actually more familiar with Slayer, believe it or not.

[jmowreader]

62. This...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkTRV7vz06k&feature=related

[Heidi]

63. Oh, dear.

Do you suppose he couldn't hear himself? :yoiks:

[jmowreader]

70. I don't think he can hear at all

[Bennyboy]

65. Grateful Dead...BLACKBIRD...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXz7GcSkMIM

[PassingFair]

67. "Ken Lee" (Toleebodeewidoubttsu)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LTLEVC-sfQ

[kid shelleen]

72. Van Halen/Hagar/Rehab

Whateverthefuck....You Really Got Me. :puke: