Great Songs Ruined !

[Zede]

My Vote has to go to :

William Shatner for "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

Amazingly terribe

Anyone got any more ?

 

[tris-]

anything done by any pop band that took the song from the person who sang it first.

 

[Amanita]

All those CDs which slaughter TV or movie themes on some neutral sounding instrument. Find 'em haunting restaurants and stuff.

 

[Ezteq]

On the radio tonight heard toyah wilcox (ask your mum) doing sweet child o mine.... dear god sounded like she'd popped a hemmeroid was nasteh.

to be fair though some cover versions are as good if not better than the origional.

But that one wasn't. It was just, it was, how shall i put this? umm listening to it made me think i'd rather slide bare arsed down a cheese grater in to a pool of lemon juice than hear it again.

 

[Glacier]

Im probly gonna get killed for this. but here goes:

I thought KoRn's version of One > the Metallica One.
And Rage Against the Machine's How I Could Just Kill A Man > Cypress Hill's version :/

2 Examples where the covers is better than the originals imo

 

[[HB]Jpeg]

My Vote has to go to :

William Shatner for "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

Amazingly terribe

Anyone got any more ?

Madonna covering American Pie

Used to love that tune till she sang it and killed it for me.

 

[chretien]

Rolf Harris's cover of Stairway to Heaven.
Britney Spears' cover of I Love Rock and Roll


I win.

 

[Eeben]

Avril Lavigne - Knocking On Heaven's Door really dont get much worse then that, oh wait yes it does when she sings it live

 

[chretien]

Avril Lavigne - Knocking On Heaven's Door really dont get much worse then that, oh wait yes it does when she sings it live

Reminds me of watching Jessica Simpson sing Angels (the Robbie Williams song) at an MTv event. I'm not by any stretch a Robbie fan but she really hashed it up, she couldn't carry a tune in a bucket and I don't think she hit a single note. I still don't know which version I prefer though. Robbie can actually sing which is to his advantage but Jessica has breasts, it's a very tough call.

 

[Eeben]

Reminds me of watching Jessica Simpson sing Angels (the Robbie Williams song) at an MTv event. I'm not by any stretch a Robbie fan but she really hashed it up, she couldn't carry a tune in a bucket and I don't think she hit a single note. I still don't know which version I prefer though. Robbie can actually sing which is to his advantage but Jessica has breasts, it's a very tough call.

Robbie williams is a man an can sing, Jessica is a stupid hot blond with good breasts... hmmmmm im going for jesscia

 

[Marc]

All saints murdering under the bridge. Why the chili peppers let them cover it is beyond me.

 

[Lamp]

anything done by any pop band that took the song from the person who sang it first.

Repped

Edit: You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to tris- again.

 

[Dakkath]

From the Album "Spaced Out" - The Best Of William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy (isn't that a contradiction in terms?)

I bring you such delights as:

If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song)
Mr Tambourine Man
Music To Watch Space Girls By
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Everybody's Talkin'

And my personal favourite...

Ballad Of ***** Baggins (Gotta love FH censoring B I L B O)

Available from 101cd.com for the amazing price of £3.99 plat £1 postage and packing. Reserve your copy today!!!

 

[Lamp]

On the radio tonight heard toyah wilcox (ask your mum) doing sweet child o mine.... dear god sounded like she'd popped a hemmeroid was nasteh.

ROFLMAO

Rep

 

[griralith]

Nothing beat Michale Hasselhoff - Umbaja or whatever its called.... still laughing this day, after i saw it on some german channel some while ago...

 

[cHodAX]

Madonna covering American Pie

Used to love that tune till she sang it and killed it for me.

Yep that was a travesty, the bitch should be shot for mudering a classic.

 

[cHodAX]

All saints murdering under the bridge. Why the chili peppers let them cover it is beyond me.

Yeah but I would shag 3 of the All Saints girls, not one of the Chilli's I would wave the magic wand over!

 

[Ezteq]

who the hell's michael hasslehoff? is he like a cousin or the slightly uglier brother (ref see f. stallone, e. roberts, any of the baldwins) to david or just unrelated?

 

[Dantares]

A1's - Take On Me
Five - We Will Rock You
Mariah Carey - Against All Odds


Some remakes though are brilliant. Best one is easily:

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

 

[tris-]

another one.

sitting on the dock of the bay - pearl jam

omg, its sux ass

 

[UrganNagru]

Blazing squad- Children of the revolution, feckin' disgrace.

 

[Marc]

Blazing squad- Children of the revolution, feckin' disgrace.

Pete Doherty murdered that one as well at live 8. The dirty baghead.

 

[cHodAX]

Pete Doherty murdered that one as well at live 8. The dirty baghead.

Yeah, got no time for that twat anymore, how he ever got so famous is beyond me.

 

[Outlander]

that dance version of Comfortably Numb imo is just not on!

Leave good songs alone!

 

[Azurus]

Another great cover is 'Hounds of love' by the Futureheads, 124981928 times better than the Kate Bush version.

 

[Dantares]

In no way is that a better version of Kate Bush's song. They just simply tuined it. I cannot bear it at all.

 

[rawr]

The Darkness's cover of Radiohead's 'Street Spirit'

 

[rayzor]

that stupid boyband [/edit westlife?]that ripped the heart out of Extremes' "more than words"
will youngs version of the Doors "light my fire"
and as posted above, all saints ruining under the bridge.

depressing

 

[pjuppe]

anything done by any pop band that took the song from the person who sang it first.

are you serious? there's loads of great covers. the flaming lips version of "can't get you out of my head", the white stripes version of "jolene", "some velvet morning" by slowdive, "five years ahead of my time" by primal scream, "by your side" by the beachwood sparks. the songs on nirvanas unplugged album. the list goes on.

Another great cover is 'Hounds of love' by the Futureheads, 124981928 times better than the Kate Bush version.

In no way is that a better version of Kate Bush's song. They just simply tuined it. I cannot bear it at all.

sounds interesting. i have have a listen

The Darkness's cover of Radiohead's 'Street Spirit'

damn, i'd manage to forget that one. that one is really horrible

 

[Blackjack]

Made the mistake of watching some american idol.
Some guy with long fairy hair named Ace or something completely murdered one of the best songs ever Drops of Jupiter by Train.

I wanted to stab him to death... with a blunt object, for destroying the song