Worst Cover Songs

[spring90]

Worst cover songs you've ever heard?

 

Mine would have to be...

Nana - Anarchy In The U.K.

Panic! At The Disco - Karma Police

 

 

The first one is a J-Pop cover and I had an extremely horrified look on my face when I first heard it.

I love the song Karma Police, but for that one, I just couldn't listen to the whole thing...

[primetime_deliverance]

Fall Out Boy - Love Will Tear Us Apart

 

this one is an absolute hilarious disaster.

 

edit: ohh, and even worse

 

The Darkness - Street Spirit

 

how can you possibly sleep at night having completely and utterly butchered one of the best songs ever?

Edited September 25, 2007 by primetime_deliverance

[Crusader]

the entire new found glory cover album is a joke

[sodamntired]

Crazy Town - New Noise

 

New Noise by the band Refused is the most incredible song.

 

Crazy Town butchered it.

[Some Random]

madonna doing american pie was pretty fucking awful.

[sodamntired]

shit, i forgot that one

[Some Random]

shit, i forgot that one

lucky you.

[borntohula]

blaqk audio - "girls and boys"

 

there are very few cases where making an exact copy of a song is excusable, fake gothic posturing or not. this song does not fall into that category. fuck davey havok. fuck afi. fuck hot topic.

[sodamntired]

in my view, if you're going to do a cover, don't just make it sound EXACTLY like the original. Him - Wicked Game is a good example of how to do it right.

 

same with Throwdown - Baby Got Back. Hardcore version of Sir-Mix-A-Lot??? HELLS YEAH!!!

Edited September 25, 2007 by sodamntired

[soundless_space]

Mark Kozelek - Star Spangled Banner

[Guest Prosis]

For some reason, a lot of bands covering Oasis sound like shit...the only good one I've heard was Lyla by the Foo Fighters...the rest sound like crap:

 

Maroon 5: Don't Look Back In Anger

Sum 41: Morning Glory

Paul Anka: Wonderwall (well the whole record sucks...)

 

And a band covered Acquiesce some time ago but I can't remember who. They did it badly anyways.

[LonelyWreckage]

And a band covered Acquiesce some time ago but I can't remember who. They did it badly anyways.

Good Charlotte. ;)

 

Smiths - Golden Lights

Kasabian - Heroes

Morrissey - That's Entertainment

Mark Ronson - Stop Me (If You Think You've Heard This One Before)

Magic Numbers - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out.

Edited September 25, 2007 by LonelyWreckage

[Guest Prosis]

Ahh yes the "very talented" Good Charlotte...it was horrible

 

Eddie Vedder's You've Got To Hide Your Love Away was absolute shit as well...he sounds like a goat on sleeping gas

 

Edit: Actually, a lot of songs off the I Am Sam soundtrack are really bad Beatles covers:

 

Stereophonics - Don't Let Me Down (you'll fall asleep before the end)

Heather Nova - We Can Work It Out

The Black Crowes - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

Howie Day - Help

Grandaddy - Revolution

 

And worst of all:

 

Nick Cave - Let It Be

Edited September 25, 2007 by Prosis

[sodamntired]

Jessica Simpson - these boots are made for walking

 

Lenny Kravitz - American Woman

Edited September 25, 2007 by sodamntired

[HoboFactory]

"Imagine" and "The Nurse Who Loved Me" by A Perfect Circle and any cover done by Marilyn Manson.

[sodamntired]

any cover done by Marilyn Manson.

i'm a fan of Manson's covers. Tainted Love, I Put A Spell On You, Highway To Hell. love 'em.

[spring90]

Tori Amos - You Shook Me All Night Long

 

It's just too... too.. wierd.

[sodamntired]

every Tori Amos cover I have just sounds like Tori Amos. Same Voice, Same Piano. Nothing original.

[HoboFactory]

i'm a fan of Manson's covers. Tainted Love, I Put A Spell On You, Highway To Hell. love 'em.

I guess someone has to.

[borntohula]

i'm a fan of Manson's covers. Tainted Love, I Put A Spell On You, Highway To Hell. love 'em.

except for making the songs louder, what exactly does he change?

[AnOceanPearl]

Brown Eyed Girl by Everclear

[Zaino]

For some reason, a lot of bands covering Oasis sound like shit...the only good one I've heard was Lyla by the Foo Fighters...the rest sound like crap:

 

Maroon 5: Don't Look Back In Anger

Sum 41: Morning Glory

Paul Anka: Wonderwall (well the whole record sucks...)

 

And a band covered Acquiesce some time ago but I can't remember who. They did it badly anyways.

eh eh now, Wonderwall done by Ryan Adams was a fantastic rendition.

 

I'd have to agree with the post about the New Found Glory cover album.

[Audio of Being]

Avril Lavigne - Fuel

[spring90]

Actually I'd have to say ANYTHING Avril Lavigne covers is horrible.

[bishopx]

Sarah, you are so damned awesome. Avril is the suckiest of the suck