Worst cover tunes - ever!

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-06-11 01:40am

Master of Ossus wrote:William Shatner for something.

Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds except that it's absolutely hilarious.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-06-11 01:47am

Britney Spears' I Love Rock and Roll.

Plus some girl band who's name I can't remember did School's Out, a somewhat brilliant Alice Cooper song. They made it into shit thta violated the Geneva Convention.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-06-11 03:48am

Gandalf wrote:Britney Spears' I Love Rock and Roll

Her, of all people, covering that song, is one hell of ironic.

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-06-11 04:35am

New Found Glory \ Bryan Adams' Everything I Do. NO CONTEST.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-06-11 06:44am

Tsyroc wrote:
Master of Ossus wrote:William Shatner for something.
Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds except that it's absolutely hilarious.

i laughed so hard that i almost crashed into a utility pole the first time i heard that. it was so funny it hurt.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2004-06-11 08:50am

Anything sang by Westlife. Serriously these boys are an embarassment to all that is Irish and good in the world.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-06-11 09:11am

Nothing, NOTHING you have ever heard William Shatner cover can prepare you for his version of Rocketman. It has to be heard to be believed - and try and find the video that goes with it to get the full effect.

IndustrialNoise · Post by **IndustrialNoise** » 2004-06-11 10:21am

Oy, forgot about all of Richard Cheese's covers. I don't know whether to put those in the worst or best thread, though. It's a guy covering popular songs big band style. Hilarious. Here's a few..

Down with the Sickness-Disturbed=probably Richard Cheese's funniest
Closer-Nine Inch Nails
More Human than Human-White Zombie
Baby Got Back-Sir Mix A Lot

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-06-11 11:36am

Col. Crackpot wrote:
Tsyroc wrote: Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds except that it's absolutely hilarious.
i laughed so hard that i almost crashed into a utility pole the first time i heard that. it was so funny it hurt.

It's funny, the first time I heard it I was driving as well. Luckilly I didn't have to go far because I was laughing pretty hard.

IndustrialNoise · Post by **IndustrialNoise** » 2004-06-11 11:56am

lmfao, I just heard Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

Also, before I forgot to add Richard Cheese's Last Resort

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2004-06-11 12:04pm

Fighter of Foo wrote: Also, before I forgot to add Richard Cheese's Last Resort

His cover of down with the sickness is pretty classy though

IndustrialNoise · Post by **IndustrialNoise** » 2004-06-11 12:27pm

Fighter of Foo wrote:Oy, forgot about all of Richard Cheese's covers. I don't know whether to put those in the worst or best thread, though. It's a guy covering popular songs big band style. Hilarious. Here's a few..

Down with the Sickness-Disturbed=probably Richard Cheese's funniest
Closer-Nine Inch Nails
More Human than Human-White Zombie
Baby Got Back-Sir Mix A Lot

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2004-06-11 12:29pm

damn. missed that post

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-06-11 12:34pm

There was one R&B singer who covered The White Stripes' "Fell in Love With a Girl," which is NOT A FUCKING R&B SONG, AND FALLS APART IF SUNG LIKE ONE. Even worse, something like 90% of the people who've heard it think the R&B version is the original.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-06-11 01:02pm

Deathstalker wrote:Vanilla Ice using Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure" for "Ice, Ice Baby" I shudder even to type this!

That's a sample, not a cover. A cover is a new version of an old song by a different artist. A sample just takes one part of an existing song and incorporates it into a new one. When done right, sampling can be very effective--the one that comes to my mind right away is Eminem's "Dream On", which uses the original Aerosmith chorus between original (and rather dark) lyrics (it can be argued that "Dream On" is a semi-cover rather than a sample, but since the chorus is sung by Steven Tyler alone, I think it counts as a sample). Too often, though, it's used by hacks to give their songs more weight than they deserve--such as when Vanilla Ica sampled "Under Pressure".

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2004-06-11 02:04pm

Joe wrote:Nothing, NOTHING you have ever heard William Shatner cover can prepare you for his version of Rocketman. It has to be heard to be believed - and try and find the video that goes with it to get the full effect.

I just loved when "Futurama" had him doing a spoken word version of Eminem's "My Name is." I just wish he would do the whole thing, since that part alone was so funny.

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2004-06-11 08:08pm

Joe wrote:Nothing, NOTHING you have ever heard William Shatner cover can prepare you for his version of Rocketman. It has to be heard to be believed - and try and find the video that goes with it to get the full effect.

I've heard it, it's a life changing experience, to say the least. I won't say I've never laughed that hard, but it is at least in the top fifty.

Anyways, worst covers...

Metallica: Turn the Page. Okay, when you do a cover, I think it should be a rule that you cover a *bad* song in an attempt to make it better. Good songs should not be touched, it's like trying to repaint the Mona Lisa, what's the point?

Limp Bizkit: Anything they've done. I once thought they were halfway decent, then I heard...ick. It hurts. The *worst* though, was when they had the audacity to do Pink Floyd's 'Wish you were Here'...gah, I swear I wanted to murder my brother for actually having that travesty of a cover.

That's all I can think of for covers, but there is just one sample that irks me beyond all belief...

I don't know the artist that did the song, but I think the song's name is "I think I'm in Love," and it uses the chorus from John Mellancamp's "Jack and Diane", and I swear, that song (the sample, not Mellancamp, he rules), more than anything else, turned me off of pop music forever.

-Damien

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-06-12 02:48am

Oni Koneko Damien wrote:I don't know the artist that did the song, but I think the song's name is "I think I'm in Love," and it uses the chorus from John Mellancamp's "Jack and Diane", and I swear, that song (the sample, not Mellancamp, he rules), more than anything else, turned me off of pop music forever.

-Damien

That would be Jessica Simpson's "I Think I'm In Love With You."

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2004-06-12 10:13am

Zaia wrote:That would be Jessica Simpson's "I Think I'm In Love With You."

Yes! That's it! Icky...that's all I have to say.

-Damien

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2004-06-12 10:31am

Back in the 80's Conway Twitty made a habit of covering pop/rock hits from artists such as Bob Seger, the Pointer Sisters, and Karla Bonoff, among others.

Listening to him cover Slow Hand is an exercise in masochism, and I say this as a country music fan.

That would be Jessica Simpson's "I Think I'm In Love With You."

To show you how out of touch I am with today's pop culture, I first heard of Jessica Simpson through a porno spam ad and thought it referred to seeing Lisa Simpson nude.