Best/Worst cover versions?

[mank!]

Iiiiiiiiiiii sleep all night and I work all day

 

[MYstIC G]

Originally posted by Scooba Da Bass
She can sing, and live, in fact she has an amazingly good voice.

I love you & all scooba, but on top of the pops she was god damn awful.

 

[mank!]

Originally posted by MYstIC G
...on top of the pops she was god damn awful.

I agree with that. It was quite funny actually. She just hid behind her hair and 'sung', I couldn't tell if she really just didn't want to be there or whether she was just a spaz.

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Originally posted by MYstIC G
I love you & all scooba, but on top of the pops she was god damn awful.

Yes, I agree, I saw her on TOTP and she was beyond dire. However she did a live gig that was broadcast on Radio1 and after her voice had warmed up she sung amazingly well, especially in light of the TOTP debacle.

 

[stu]

Decent:
Guns n' Roses - Sympathy for the Devil

Shit:
Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love

 

[doh_boy]

Shit :- Will & Gareth - Long and winding road

 

[hoggsboss]

Originally posted by Munkey-
Worst: that robbie williams and nicole kidman one.....you know it

i would like to nominate the entire albumn

swing when your winning, to think i wasted good bandwith getting that

 

[Moving Target]

Originally posted by Scooba Da Bass
She can sing, and live, in fact she has an amazingly good voice.

I saw her on CD:UK (please ignore this), and she sung live, albeit very poorly. One of the things was that she was jumping around and was going off note whenever she did.

 

[.cage]

i would like to beat off in her face

 

[Munkey-]

Originally posted by hoggsboss


i would like to nominate the entire albumn

swing when your winning, to think i wasted good bandwith getting that

and to think i bought it :/

*burns*

 

[bodhi]

For worst cover version I'll nominate:-

Papa Roach - Gentle Art of Making Enemies.

An FNM classic, ruined by some nu-metal fag0ts.

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

oh god I forgot about Papa Roach their cover of Gouge Away is deffo my worst cover

 

[echo]

Best:

Beach Boys & Brian McGuinn (of the Byrds, on 12-string guitar) - California Deamin' (Mamas and the Papas)
Guns N' Roses - Live & Let Die (Wings)
Manics - Charles Windsor (McCarthy)
The Clash - Police on My Back (the Equals)
Nirvana - Love Buzz (Name escapes me..)

Worst:

Will & Gareth's back catalogue (Elvis et al)
Super Furries - 4st 7lb (Msp)
Elastica - DaDaDa... (Some electro european bloke...)
Will Smith (I think) - Rock The Casbah (Clash)
Ian Brown - Billie Jean (Jackson)

 

[mank!]

Originally posted by .snoopy
Ian Brown - Billie Jean (Jackson)

Did you see him performed it live?

 

[echo]

I did... iffy :/ Nice moonwalk, good band, shit frontman :|

he was so good in the stone roses too

 

[mank!]

I thought he was a good laugh tbh, I've heard some bad stuff about his treatment of Manics fans on the tour but nothing happened at Birmingham that I noticed :\

He was utter piss compared to the Manics though

 

[bodhi]

Ian Brown is a cocklord.

 

[leggy]

same goes for all the stone roses

 

[bodhi]

Aye. I bought the Complete Stone Roses last year. 3 good (ish) songs, the rest were utter turd.

 

[maxi--]

Neil Hannon & Yann Tierson - Life On Mars?
better than bowies

Belle & Sebastian - Poupee De Cire, Poupee De son
is also super, a sacha distel cover, better than the original!

Neil hannon also covered There Is a Light that never goes out...
better than the smiths version,


Will Young - Light my fire

is almost as cringeworthy as Scoob's reviews

 

[*Kornholio*]

Worst - Will Young, light my fire; Marilyn Manson, Tainted Love; Britney, I love rock n roll

Best - Disturbed doing Shout (tears for fears), they do a good cover of Elenor Rigby too

 

[maxi--]

oohooh

and Camera Obscura (the scottish indie pop band) - Sugar town

its so sickly sweet the first few times, but its great after that!

 

[Summo]

Best - REM covering U2's One. Only available live, I believe.

 

[echo]

I have a new favourite, a few nights ago I went to see Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (best gig EVER) and they did the Blues Brothers' theme, but made the intro a nice long anti-george bush rant

I NEED YOU! YOU! YOU! etc..