Worst Cover Tunes

[calgaryred]

Jennifer Love Hewitt "me and bobby Mcgee" I never laughed so long in all my life

[troutman]

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http://www.inthe80s.com/covers/index.shtml

http://www.improvisation.ws/mb/showthread.php?t=19779

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1025646

I nominate Nickleback for "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting"

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally posted by Reaper+Aug 5 2004, 04:44 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Reaper @ Aug 5 2004, 04:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-nfotiu@Aug 5 2004, 01:27 PM
Do things like Ice,Ice baby and Puff Daddy's Every Breath you take songs count as covers?

No, they don't count because Vanilla Ice didn't do a cover of 'Under Pressure' and Puff Daddy didn't do a cover of 'Every Breath You Take.' They used samples of the songs in their own. [/b][/quote]
well it wasn't really sampled was it? They used the EXACT same music, just lyrics were different (in Puff Daddy's case similar)

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally posted by Five-hole@Aug 5 2004, 02:29 PM
Any time anybody's covered the Beatles, ever.

I'm open to being proved wrong but I have my doubts.

Jeff Healy.. that blind Canadian guy.. does an amazing cover of while my guitar gentley weeps. I for one love it.

[calf]

Originally posted by MrMastodonFarm+Aug 5 2004, 03:12 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (MrMastodonFarm @ Aug 5 2004, 03:12 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Five-hole@Aug 5 2004, 02:29 PM
Any time anybody's covered the Beatles, ever.

I'm open to being proved wrong but I have my doubts.

Jeff Healy.. that blind Canadian guy.. does an amazing cover of while my guitar gentley weeps. I for one love it. [/b][/quote]
Aerosmith's cover of Come Together isn't horrible either

Nickelback's version of Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting


...anybody hear songs off Pat Boon's "In a Metal Mood" Album???

[dirk diggler]

pat boone did manage to destroy a lot of good metal classics... it is funny though in a sick way. i like crazy train

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally posted by Five-hole@Aug 5 2004, 08:29 PM
Any time anybody's covered the Beatles, ever.

I'm open to being proved wrong but I have my doubts.

Aerosmith's version of "Come Together" was pretty good IMHO.

[Alexandria]

I don't know the band, but someone covered a cure song and they played it over and over on the radio. It sucked! If your going to cover something, at least put your own twist to it and make it worth listening to. It wasn't even as good as the original, so it would just p*ss me off every time it came on the radio.

Oh, just got the name off the web.. 311 covering Love Song (Cure)

For an example of a new twist on an old song, listen to Cake's cover of I will Survive (Gloria Gaynor). I like that one.

Edit: Oh yeah, I am not sure if this was the joke song of all times on the radio, but some band did a cover of the Annie song, the sun will come out. It hurt my ears.. Really it did.

[Reaper]

Originally posted by Maritime Q-Scout+Aug 5 2004, 03:10 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Maritime Q-Scout @ Aug 5 2004, 03:10 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

No, they don't count because Vanilla Ice didn't do a cover of 'Under Pressure' and Puff Daddy didn't do a cover of 'Every Breath You Take.' They used samples of the songs in their own.

well it wasn't really sampled was it? They used the EXACT same music, just lyrics were different (in Puff Daddy's case similar) [/b][/quote]
Actually, for "Ice, Ice Baby" only 2 bars of music were sampled from "Under Pressure" by Queen. The verse structure and chorus are different for each song.

The Puff Daddy/Police thing is a bit different in that "I'll Be Missing You" was arranged in a manner very similar to "Every Breath You take." The bridge section was not included in the arrangement. The lyrics were not similar for "I'll Be Missing You." The only real comparison is the chorus which is sung in the same pattern.

Neither song was a cover of the songs that they sampled. Only a sample of the original song was used. Hence, the term sample.

[Reaper]

Originally posted by MrMastodonFarm+Aug 5 2004, 03:12 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (MrMastodonFarm @ Aug 5 2004, 03:12 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Five-hole@Aug 5 2004, 02:29 PM
Any time anybody's covered the Beatles, ever.

I'm open to being proved wrong but I have my doubts.

Jeff Healy.. that blind Canadian guy.. does an amazing cover of while my guitar gentley weeps. I for one love it. [/b][/quote]
A very good cover. George Harrison even contributed backing vocals and acoustic guitar to the Jeff Healey Band's version.

[Ktulu]

Avril singing Metallica....doesn't get any worse than that.

[peter12]

Originally posted by nfotiu@Aug 5 2004, 02:06 PM
Both Camper Van Beethoven's of Van Halen's Jump and
Teenage Fanclub's Like a Virgin
were kind of bad, and kind of good at the same time.

Shane McGowan and Nick Cave's turned a perfectly happy "What a Wonderful World" into the most depressing song ever, although I still kind of liked it.

Hahah are you really surprised that a Nick Cave was really depressing?
Murder Ballads was an unbelievable album.