Covers that make you cringe....

as Ibram said.....


Few things are radder than a great cover of a great song........


but then again there are those that made you wonder why they bothered.

like The Doors version of Gloria
Banarama's cover of Venus

Jessica Simpson's utter bastardisation of Robbie Williams' 'Angels' makes me want to scratch someone's eyes out :) (preferably hers)

Jay - I quite like Bananarama's Venus...but then....my taste might of sucked big time back then.

ah, the folly of youth...... check out the original by Shocking Blue, and then search and download others from them...

Hey Ducks I'll hold Jessica down by the large lumps on her chest if you go for her eyes LOL

Green Day doing We Are The Champions takes the cake for worst ever, I think.

Nirvana's Man Who Sold The World comes close.

Oh, and David Bowie and Mick Jagger's cover of Dancing in the Streets.

Elvis Costello - Ship of Fools
Cindy Lauper - Another Brick in the Wall
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jinx wrote:

Cindy Lauper - Another Brick in the Wall
:greenface

Surely you are making this up, nobody would let Lauper try that, would they?

Ew, nobody is worthy of covering ABitWII. Gilmour is a god, and the only person worthy of playing guitar in that song. I doubt that any of the "anti-establishment" bands who cover that song to make an extra few bucks know anything about the song, or what it means.
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Griff wrote:

Surely you are making this up, nobody would let Lauper try that, would they?

Yeah, I have the track on my pc somewhere, listened to it once. If I'm not mistaken, it was at a concert at the recently downed Berlin Wall, with Pink Floyd playing. Sinead sang Mother at the same event and its pretty good...

Call me a fag, but I think Cyndi has a powerful voice. I heard her do True Colors live on Howard Stern's show one morning, and had NHO's for an hour.

anything by William Shatner

mmmmm.....Shatners's covers fall into the 'they're so bad they're worth hearing' category.

I will mercifully euthanize this thread with the cringeworthy cover that cannot be topped. I'll further explain that DaughterofV actually thought this performer wrote this song. I don't know which hurt me more, her ignorance or my bleeding ears.

Click here AT YOUR PERIL to hear Britney Spears' desecration of (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.

Sacrilege.

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:shock:
:sick:
:vomit:
:vomit:
:vomit:
:dead3:

*hurk*
Excuse me for a moment...

Someone wanna hold her down and I will scratch her eyes out too??

omfg, that was really bad though!!

Shatner's Lucy was pretty bad.
Oh, Frankie Goes To Hollywood coverd... I can't say it...

BigV wrote:

I will mercifully euthanize this thread with the cringeworthy cover that cannot be topped. I'll further explain that DaughterofV actually thought this performer wrote this song. I don't know which hurt me more, her ignorance or my bleeding ears.

Click here AT YOUR PERIL to hear Britney Spears' desecration of (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.

Sacrilege.

If we turn the volume down, I'd rather stare at Britney than Mick :eek:

You have a lot of company.

In May 2000, Britney Spears covered "Satisfaction" on her album Oops!... I Did It Again. At the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, Spears performed a medley of the aforementioned album's title track and "Satisfaction". She began by singing "Satisfaction" in a suit, but soon she stripped off the suit in favor of much more revealing attire beneath and began singing "Oops", displaying a more provocative image than she had before. In response to criticisms of her "striptease", Spears said: "I just wanted to look really sparkly and fun. I'm not the kids' parents. I can't tell them what to do, I just go up and do my own thing." [11]

So awful it's kinda good.

The Residents' 1986 cover of Hank Williams' "Kaw Liga":

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The bass line is from "Billie Jean". Williams was once married to a woman named Billie Jean.

lumberjim;232536 wrote:

Call me a fag, but I think Cyndi has a powerful voice. I heard her do True Colors live on Howard Stern's show one morning, and had NHO's for an hour.

In 2006, we forgot to call Lumberjim a fag. We are deeply sorry for the lack of offense.

Particularly cringe-worthy cover:

Yeeeeaah, no.

cableguy;232538 wrote:

anything by William Shatner

Not so.

His rendition of 'Common People' by Pulp is quite good.

And, Griff.... In 2006, no one wanted to get told to eat a dick.... So...

3foot, It depends on who's under those covers. :blush:


Jim...

Seeing that name next to the thread title just brought back a whole lot of memories. It was JMcG that introduced me to the Cellar very nearly ten years ago.

Did you get a quiz when you joined?

Having grown up listening to Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, I have this to say...

I will NEVER forgive Metallica.

I knew the words to 'Turn The Page' by the time I was EIGHT. It did NOT need a cover, especially that one.

DucksNuts;232316 wrote:

Jessica Simpson's utter bastardisation of Robbie Williams' 'Angels' makes me want to scratch someone's eyes out :) (preferably hers)

Jay - I quite like Bananarama's Venus...but then....my taste might of sucked big time back then.

I like that version of Venus as well. My favorite cover of all time thus far is a tossup; if I'm feeling all 'vintage' (aka feeling my ACTUAL age) it's 'Mercury Blues' as done by the Steve Miller Band, and if I'm feeling more modern it's definitely the 2007 digital remaster of 'Running Up That Hill' by Placebo. (I still have the Kate Bush original on 7" single, because I'm VINTAGE dammit...)

Most covers I just don't like, including many I didn't know were covers when I started not liking them.

Ibby;232506 wrote:

Oh, and David Bowie and Mick Jagger's cover of Dancing in the Streets.

The only excuse I've been able to come up with for that one is a blend of "they had contract issues to deal with" and "well, there was that time Jagger's sig-o of many years caught them naked in bed together..."

Altho' I wasn't wild about the Van Halen cover either.

Griff;232509 wrote:

Surely you are making this up, nobody would let Lauper try that, would they?

NINE MONTHS after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd put together what is still one of the most ambitious outdoor concerts ever. Today it'd take 2 years to plan and fall apart before the first rehearsal!

The Wall Live At The Wall. Thomas Dolby, members of The Band, Bryan Adams (rockin like the 80s never let him), The Scorpions, Joan Baez doing 'Goodbye Blue Skies' still gives me goosebumps, and of course a zillion others I can't remember offhand.

It's on DVD. Cyndi did a surprisingly good live take on her part! Sinead O'Connor, who sang 'Mother', not so much...and if you watch the extras, you'll discover in one of the interviews that Roger Waters does NOT like her.

Hey, not that it's the WORST cover ever but possibly one of the weirdest...anyone else ever see the video for Pet Shop Boys covering 'You Were Always On My Mind', guest starring Joss Ackland.

This is Joss Ackland:
http://tinyurl.com/yambqalr

If he looks familiar in a "creepy military/diplomat" way, my 3 favorites from his acting career are performances in Lethal Weapon 2, The Hunt For Red October, and, if you're into good movies made from true stories, Citizen X.

Snakeadelic;990048 wrote:

Having grown up listening to Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, I have this to say...

I will NEVER forgive Metallica.

Then I'll bet you do NOT want to hear Queensryche's cover of Scarborough Fair. I like it, but I love Queensryche.

I can see where a Seger purist wouldn't like Metallica's cover of Turn The Page, but I really like it. But, then again, I love Metallica.