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Copy Clerk  Posts: 55 Joined: 6 Jan 2009     | |
Anonymous Source Posts: 1 Joined: 7 Jan 2009 |
actually, thats one of the few covers i can stand due to the well done haunting style of it. if i had to choose the worst cover of all time, i probably couldn't do it. the reason for this is that EVERYTHING by dj sammy angers me. good techno does not need to use covers. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 985 Joined: 22 May 2008     |
what about the imperial march? |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 3 Joined: 25 Dec 2008   | hmmm slightly strafing from the subject but what about good covers of good songs ? and can i suggest the Deftones cover of Duran Duran's "the Chauffeur" |
Paperboy  Posts: 11 Joined: 22 Jul 2008     | Scissor Sisters cover of Pink Floyds Comfortably Numb. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 104 Joined: 30 Dec 2008   | @ OP Was it this song? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ei-vs3ent9M if so, the band in Mylo, they're a really good band. I like that cover, although it's not a patch on the original Any of the Tainted Love covers, especially the Marilyn Manson cover. And Kayne West, not only for ruining an awesome Daft Punk song, but now millions of kids think that Daft Punk ripped off Kayne, it makes me want to ram my foot up their collective arse and wear their colon as an ankle bracelet. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 55 Joined: 6 Jan 2009 | Contrary to the original topic, my favourite cover is the Dropkick Murphys rendition of "Fortunate Son," originally done by CCR. Even though absolutely nothing can overcome the awesomeness of the original Fortunate Son, but DKM comes closer than most other groups. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1434 Joined: 7 Jan 2008     |
I honestly think their version of Ecstasy of Gold isn't bad. I prefer Ennio Morricone, but there's not too much wrong with it. Mostly, covers of Kraftwerk suck. I'm looking at you, Rammstein. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 832 Joined: 3 Jun 2008   | That Leona Lewis thing. Her cover of "Run" Originally made great by Snow Patrol. |
Time Lord  Posts: 10073 Joined: 13 Feb 2008     |
Rolf Harris - Stairway to Heaven? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IPOIy4Kb9M4 |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 678 Joined: 28 Oct 2008  |
but of course you could never be a megadeath fanboy if you tried to contradict anyone ripping on them? i like both bands and yes metallica have made truly horrible covers but i do <3 whiskey in a jar and last caress/green hell |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3263 Joined: 3 Aug 2008    |
It burns! It burrrrrnnnnss! It's worse than Barry Manilow's! When I first heard Girls Aloud and Sugababes cover Walk This Way, I literally stared at the TV, with my mouth open until it finished. It was awful. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2368 Joined: 14 Sep 2008     |
Some artists really need to understand that you shouldn't touch such songs. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 71 Joined: 2 Sep 2008  | Kate Nash on florescent adolescent by arctic monkeys. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 743 Joined: 4 Jul 2008 | No one has mentioned The Jonas Brother's god awful cover of Take On Me? Also, if we're talking about any cover in general, the cover of 'Heart-Shaped Box' by Nirvana in Guitar Hero II. I'm OK with them mucking up Sweet Child O' Mine, it's Axl Rose, he gets kicked in the balls before he goes on stage. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 2 Joined: 27 Dec 2008 | Fall Out Boy - Beat It Fail |
Muckraker  Posts: 263 Joined: 22 Oct 2008 |
TO be fair Leonerd Cohens version is a bit crap, it to overblown you cannot hear the melody. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1176 Joined: 26 Jun 2008  | Celine Dion's cover of You Shook Me All Night Long http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l6pF-ku77M EDIT: Oh and this one too: |
Paperboy  Posts: 14 Joined: 18 Jul 2008    | The latest UK Pop Idle tart's (I never bothered to learn her name) butchering of Hallelujah. Madonna's American Pie. Sheryl Crow's Sweet Child O' Mine. The list is nearly endless, but it's Hallelujah that has my priority right now. It finishes with a key change and a gospel choir, FFS. It's not a worshipful song, it's entirely the opposite. It's saying "gee, thanks for nothing, God" so singing it like you're praising him is not only stupid, but blasphemous! I know that these reality show people are merely puppets for the industry, but in this situation the producer is as much to blame as her, if not more. After all, he decided how to arrange it. There should be some kind of law where you don't get to cover a song if you don't understand what it's about. And if you try, you get beaten with a sock in a brick. |
Paperboy  Posts: 23 Joined: 20 Aug 2008 |
Do they? I always knew them for their speed punk version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow." Not bad, but I can see how their style got them booed out of PNC Park a few years ago. |
BANNED  Posts: 1201 Joined: 18 Sep 2008  |
AHHHHHH MY EARS!!!!!! THERE BLEEDING!!!!! Yeah.... .... pretty bad. User was banned for: WOW: a wtf moment. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1054 Joined: 14 Dec 2007  | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FONt47Z0KZg Words can not express how much I want to shove an ice-pick up her nose. And for the record, Shinedown needs to be slapped in the face for messing with perfection. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1289 Joined: 18 Jun 2008    |
Awful... Just awful. This isn't nice either http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CnX8BFuyQ8 Groove Coverage - Poison. *shudder* |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1086 Joined: 25 May 2008  |
Pretty sure my balls shrank when I was listening to this. Yep. Thanks a lot. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 743 Joined: 4 Jul 2008 |
I just died a little - no - A LOT. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1086 Joined: 25 May 2008 |
I like the beat actually. Also I think Depeche Mode did a great cover on Tainted Love really. I agree with you on Kanye West's Harder Better Faster Stronger, though, the asshole. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1373 Joined: 31 Mar 2008  |
Oh hell, this. I rarely get angry at covers because (a) I don't care that much and (b) sometimes it's nice to hear a different artist putting their own spin on a song. But this. When I heard this, I was actually shaking with rage. Simple rule, to any fuckwit artists out there who are considering such things: there are two songs you just don't touch: 'Hallelujah' and 'Imagine'. They've both already been done to absolute perfection and any attempt to cover them will result in a colossal failure. |
On the Record  Posts: 5946 Joined: 7 Mar 2008    |
yeah i know a few songs that ppl don't realize are covers. another one that not a lot of ppl realize is a cover is Tainted Love by Soft Cell, it's actually a 60s soul tune as for bad covers NiN's cover of Dead Souls by Joy Division |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1086 Joined: 25 May 2008 | Honestly I don't like anyone who covers Nine Inch Nails. I'm cool with some of the remixes but their sound couldn't be done well by anyone else actually. That said I prefer NIN's original version of Hurt more than the one of Johnny Cash. |
On the Record  Posts: 5758 Joined: 7 Jan 2009 | Bowling for Soup's murder of "Summer of 69" It's just plain wrong |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 768 Joined: 9 Apr 2008 |
Oh god, I just remembered that monstrosity.
As for this, well its interesting. It took an already bad song and made a new version that violated my ears. I like electronic music as well. Hell, I like electronic britney and this, this... Cover wise, I thing perhaps the only really good covers COF have ever done have been 'Fear of the Dark' (as it resolutely stayed true to the origional) and Heaven 11s 'Temptation'. Oh and the X factor 'thing' that reared its ugly head this year. Great, you managed to kill all that made the other versions good. |
Time Lord Posts: 10073 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 | |
Beat Writer  Posts: 129 Joined: 1 May 2008  |
dude, a dj on my local rock station played the original version and some dumb bitch called in asking why he would play such a terrible cover of an awsome VH song I just wanted to go find her and slap her upside the head Dont know if its been said yet but Maddona's cover of american pie is horrid |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1054 Joined: 14 Dec 2007 |
I don't know, John Cale does, in my opinion, the best version of Hallelujah out there. |
Paperboy  Posts: 39 Joined: 5 Jan 2009  | There's actually a series of albums called Punk goes(so far I heard 80s, 90s, metal, pop, and Crunk) which are truely terrible. All it is is a bunch of pop-punk bands covering classic songs. This leads to so many problems, such as some band I've never heard of playing "Breaking the law" with a terrible screaming voice and way too fast. It just offends me that a bunch of "Punk" bands who think it all started with Green Day have to cover someone else's masterpiece so badly to get even a little attention. I don't want to hear "Enter Sandman" with a whiney voice, or "the Beautiful Poeple" sung completly out of key. It's just sad. |
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When I heard that Rockband had Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills" on it, I was fucking pumped.
Then I played it at a friends house. I was sorely disappointed.