Worst song covers EVER! — Page 2

Author: Yoda Is Your Father
Time: 21-Feb-2006 7:43 AM
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Best Covers Ever:

Jimi Hendrix: All Along The Watchtower
Guns N' Roses: Knocking On Heavens Door
Guns N' Roses: Live and Let Die

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Author: sean wookie
Time: 22-Feb-2006 12:58 AM
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Best Cover Ever was William Shatner singing Rocket Man.

Author: segaflip
Time: 22-Feb-2006 1:01 AM
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damn I need to check that one out sean

Author: ADigitalMan
Time: 22-Feb-2006 10:15 AM
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Oh, and don't forget the entire William Hung catalog.

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Author: GundarkHunter
Time: 22-Feb-2006 6:07 PM
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Originally posted by: Moth3r
Will Young - Light My Fire (2002, orig. The Doors 1967)
Mariah Carey - Without You (1994, Nilsson 1971)
Westlife - Uptown Girl (2001, Billy Joel 1983)
A1 - Take On Me (2000, A-Ha 1985)
East 17 - West End Girls (1993, The Pet Shop Boys 1985)
N Trance - Paradise City (1998, Guns'n'Roses 1989)
Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love (2002, Soft Cell 1981)
Whigfield - Last Christmas (1995, Wham 1984)
Atomic Kitten - Eternal Flame (2001, Bangles 1989)

[waits for some smart arse to point out that a couple of the artists I've named as original were actually also covers...]

Here comes the smart arse: Nilsson's 1971 Without You was originally a Badfinger tune.

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Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

Author: sybeman
Time: 22-Feb-2006 6:11 PM
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What about Hilary and Haylie Duff with their cover of the Bangle's "Alice the Seal"

Even the video was a total rip-off!

Author: GundarkHunter
Time: 23-Feb-2006 8:59 AM
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Actually, that was the Go-Go's Our Lips Are Sealed, and it was a pretty lame approximation of the original.

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Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

Author: sybeman
Time: 23-Feb-2006 10:44 AM
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Oh, you're right. The Go-Gos, not the Bangles....my bad. The Eighties' girl-bands were all the same.

And I know it was "Our Lips are Sealed", but I will continue to call it "Alice the Seal" because it's funny to me.

Author: Moth3r
Time: 23-Feb-2006 11:00 AM
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And for deliberately humourous rather than unintentionally crap, how about:
Hylda Baker & Arthur Mullard - You're The One That I Want

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Author: GundarkHunter
Time: 23-Feb-2006 3:20 PM
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Originally posted by: sybeman
Oh, you're right. The Go-Gos, not the Bangles....my bad. The Eighties' girl-bands were all the same.

And I know it was "Our Lips are Sealed", but I will continue to call it "Alice the Seal" because it's funny to me.

Is that like "Scuse me while I kiss this guy"?

Oh, and Tainted Love was originally recorded by Gloria Jones, but I still consider Soft Cell's version as definitive, Moth3r.

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Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

Author: PSYCHO_DAYV
Time: 23-Feb-2006 7:09 PM
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I DON'T KNOW THE NAME OF THE BAND, BUT THEY DID A HORRIBLE COVER OF NIN'S "HEAD LIKE A HOLE."

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Author: GundarkHunter
Time: 23-Feb-2006 10:37 PM
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You've got me frightened, DAYV. What on earth is someone doing covering Head Like a Hole?

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Author: sean wookie
Time: 26-Feb-2006 6:17 PM
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Never been that big of a fan of Lenny Kravitz American Woman.

Author: Rotten Johnny
Time: 26-Feb-2006 6:19 PM
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Aerosmith's Baby Please Don't Go.....ug

"KILLING IS MY BUSINESS, AND BUSINESS IS GOOD."

Author: sean wookie
Time: 26-Feb-2006 6:23 PM
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Sweet Child o' Mine by Sheryl Crow

Author: Rotten Johnny
Time: 26-Feb-2006 6:24 PM
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Gotta agree at last she didn't cover Ninja Rap

"KILLING IS MY BUSINESS, AND BUSINESS IS GOOD."

Author: sean wookie
Time: 26-Feb-2006 6:29 PM
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Well she did screw up the point of the song.

Author: Rotten Johnny
Time: 26-Feb-2006 6:31 PM
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She always changes the genders when she covers a song thhat pisses me off, sang as it is or don't

"KILLING IS MY BUSINESS, AND BUSINESS IS GOOD."

Author: sean wookie
Time: 26-Feb-2006 6:34 PM
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It was made for the movie Bigdaddy so you can guess what the point is for.

Author: GundarkHunter
Time: 27-Feb-2006 2:05 PM
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Originally posted by: Rotten Johnny
She always changes the genders when she covers a song thhat pisses me off, sang as it is or don't

Unlike Andy Bell of Erasure, but there are obvious reasons for that.

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Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

Author: sybeman
Time: 27-Feb-2006 3:31 PM
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I also disliked her cover of "First Cut is the Deepest"

Author: Stinky-Dinkins
Time: 27-Feb-2006 5:54 PM
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
William Shatner's version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds is absolutely atrocious, but if looked at from a comedy standpoint it is absolute bloody genius.

If by atrocious you mean fantabulous then I absolutely agree with you, it is fucking fantabulous.

Shatner touched the face of God.

Author: sean wookie
Time: 27-Feb-2006 6:27 PM
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Yeah, but I thought shatner was god!

Author: ADigitalMan
Time: 27-Feb-2006 8:29 PM
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Excuse me... Excuse me... I just wanted to ask a question. What does God need with a starship?

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Author: sean wookie
Time: 27-Feb-2006 11:31 PM
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Doughnuts.