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Worst song covers EVER!

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Okay, I need everybody's help with finding the collection of the worst song covers ever done. A little background:

Every year my sister and I trade gag gifts for Christmas. Some examples: a garden sculpture made of elephant dung, testicles for an SUV, lead remover pads (my sister is a very slow runner/skater). This last Christmas my sister gave me a homemade David Hasselhof (sp?) calendar, which was laughingly horrendous (sorry if there are any fans in the house - I like Knight Rider when I was a kid, but that was a long time ago.) Anyway, my family and I listened to some of the songs he had on Itunes and laughed about how bad they were (These Boots Were Made for Walking was especially atrocious). Anyway, I know it's really early, but I'm thinking about putting together a CD for her for next Christmas of the worst covers ever, including some of "The Hoff's" work.

So if you know of any really bad examples that might be useful, please let me know. I've already got an eye on Pat Boone's "No More Mr. Nice Guy" CD and Richard Cheese's "Lounge Against the Machine." I don't necessarily want intentionally bad - unintentional humor is much better.

Anyway, thanks for reading the long post, and for any contributions you might have to make.
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Mr Personality by Gillette.
one of the funniest songs ever!

~* you know you love me... xoxo *~

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underware on the outside (for get who its by man that song is priceless)
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In 2002, There was UK band named Blazin Squad who did a disgraceful cover of the Bone Thugs N Harmony classic " Crossroads". how that cover got to #1, i'm really confused

In the same year Gareth Gates did a bastardization cover of the Elvis Presley song "Suspicious Minds".
"Yub Knub" by Warrick Davis
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Britney Spears' cover of Satisfaction
Britney Spears' cover of My Prerogative
Dixie Chicks' cover of Fleetwood Mac's Landslide
Guns n' Roses desecration of Live & Let Die

That's all I can think of right now. I'm sure I'll find more later.

Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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Celine Dions cover of She shook me all night long.
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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.

War does not make one great.

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I recall that "We Built this City (of Rock and Roll)" by Jefferson Starship was rated #1 of the worst 100 songs in rock history on VH1.

Oh, you might want to add "Pipeline" by Depeche Mode.

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<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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How about Marilyn Manson's cover of "Personal Jesus"? Now, don't call me a hater, because I like most of Manson's other work, including his covers, but that one was cra-ap.
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Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
How about the time when he sung "Rocket Man."


That was just geinious.
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How about Korn's cover of "Just Another Brick in the Wall"? I almost vomited all over the inside of my car the first time I heard that on the radio.

http://i.imgur.com/7N84TM8.jpg

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Originally posted by: Nanner Split
How about Korn's cover of "Just Another Brick in the Wall"?


*vomits at the thought*
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On the other hand, I really love how Scissor Sisters' cover of Comfortably Numb pi$$es off all the hardcore Floyd fans.

Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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You gotta love Tom Jones, but did you ever hear his rendition of Prince's "Kiss?" Wretched.

Britney Spears "I Love Rock and Roll" is another. Her dumb ass was quoted as saying she covered it because she really loves Pat Benatar. Think about it.

There's some awful version of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" that's been on Lowes' muzak system for about a year now every time I go in. It sounds like Celine but it isn't. I don't know who it is, but that one is just vomitocious. It's probably somewhere on here.
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Not the Annie Lennox version?

Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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Originally posted by: Nanner Split
How about Korn's cover of "Just Another Brick in the Wall"? I almost vomited all over the inside of my car the first time I heard that on the radio.


Or the cover of the same song by Luther Wright and the Wrongs
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Yeah, but the Luther Wright and the Wrongs version is bluegrass, like Hayseed Dixie. It is designed to evoke a specific reaction.

Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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not really a cover but...

Some new song that uses Tainted Loves music in the back ground, makes me mad!
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I hated that hip-hop song that used Slayer's "Raining Blood" in the background.

And that hip-hop song that had Ozzy's "Crazy Train" intro....

http://i.imgur.com/7N84TM8.jpg

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bwlag this topic sounds almost like some crapy VH1 special, 'Most Awesomely Bad Cover Songs, I Love the OTs'
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I wonder if you could set "Raining Blood" to the tune of "It's Raining Men." You could really freak people out on Karaoke Night with that.

Kinda like when, on my 21st Birthday, two of my best friends and I got up and sung, in three part harmony, to the horror of the entire bar, "Shiny Happy People F'ing Dogs." Uncensored, of course.

Meet me at the pound
Puppies, puppies
Spread your love around
Puppies, puppies

I am NOT kidding.
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
You gotta love Tom Jones, but did you ever hear his rendition of Prince's "Kiss?" Wretched.

There should be a law that nobody should be allowed to cover his royal badness.

War does not make one great.

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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...]

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