Best/Worst Cover

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-11-12 03:01pm

What do you think it the best cover song you've ever heard? Worst?

(as in cover a song by another artist)

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-12 03:04pm

Tough call. I'd say best is 'Lonely Grill' by Lonestar, and 'Seinsucht' by Rammstein.

Worst would be Papa Roach's 'Infest'. All the other songs on the album are better than that one.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-11-12 03:08pm

Ok, maybe I should clear this up a little more... Best Cover, as in song done originally by one artist and redone by another. ie

Aerosmith/Run DMC - Walk this Way

vs.

that godawful idiot who redid When A Man Loves a Woman

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-12 03:10pm

Oh. In that case,

The DJ sammy remix of 'We're in Heaven' is one of the best.

KMFDM remix of 'Mortal Kombat' is lame as hell.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2002-11-12 03:14pm

worst: there was this eurotechnodancfloorwhateveritscalled version of tnt by a band whose name i´ve forgotten.

best: depends on.

if you take the absolute result doreen shaffer did a damn good job on laurel aitkens "sugar, sugar". "ghost riders in the sky" by johnny cash was damn cool too.

if you look on the improvement span TM i´d say marilyn manson scored on tainted love. the original sucked man tit wheras MMs verson was quite ok.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-12 03:16pm

salm wrote:if you look on the improvement span TM i´d say marilyn manson scored on tainted love. the original sucked man tit wheras MMs verson was quite ok.

Yeah. I'm not a big fan of MM, but that was good.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2002-11-12 03:27pm

There's so many good ones I don't know where to start, so I'll just put up a nice long list. I'll count all the live concert ones too.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix)
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane (Lou Reed)
Tori Amos - Daniel (Elton John)
Tori Amos - Angie (Rolling Stones)
Tori Amos - Imagine (John Lennon)
Chantal Kreviazuk - Always a Woman (Billy Joel)
Chantal Kreviazuk - Redemption Song (Bob Marley)
Chantal Kreviazuk - Stay(Faraway, So Close!) (U2)

Tori and Chantal do some amazing covers on their live concerts, you never know which ones they'll pull out of the magic bag.

It's been confirmed that Christina Aguilera will be doing a cover of "Stairway to Heaven". It's not out yet but I don't need to hear it to know that it'll be about the worst thing ever in music. It makes me sick just thinking about it.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-11-12 03:29pm

aerius wrote: It's been confirmed that Christina Aguilera will be doing a cover of "Stairway to Heaven". It's not out yet but I don't need to hear it to know that it'll be about the worst thing ever in music. It makes me sick just thinking about it.

OMG, NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

irishmick79 · Post by **irishmick79** » 2002-11-12 03:44pm

Best Covers:
Metallica - Turn the Page (originally by Bob Seger)
Aerosmith - Love me two times (originally by The Doors)
Beatles - Twist and Shout (originally by the Isley Brothers?)
George Thorogood - One Scotch, One Burbon, One Beer (originally a blues standard by some blues artist I can't recall)

Worst Covers:
Madonna - American Pie. Madonna deserves to rot in hell for this debacle. The song is cheesy enough, thank you.

Britney Spears - I love Rock n' Roll. Nobody embodies the female rock n' roll vocalist like britney! Yeah, right. The cover has everything but the hard rocker attitude that Joan Jett actually had.

anybody other than Stevie Ray Vaughan doing Superstition - for some reason, just about every small time band feels the urge to do this Stevie wonder number....and do it poorly.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2002-11-12 03:46pm

It gets worse, Christina Aguthingamabob is also doing a cover of "God Save the Queen", and Mariah Carey is gonna do a remake of Def Leppard's "Bringing on the Heartbreak". Please excuse me while I go puke in the toilet...

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-11-12 03:50pm

aerius wrote:It gets worse, Christina Aguthingamabob is also doing a cover of "God Save the Queen", and Mariah Carey is gonna do a remake of Def Leppard's "Bringing on the Heartbreak". Please excuse me while I go puke in the toilet...

Somebody shoot them, please! Put them out of our misery!

salm · Post by **salm** » 2002-11-12 03:52pm

aerius wrote:It gets worse, Christina Aguthingamabob is also doing a cover of "God Save the Queen", and Mariah Carey is gonna do a remake of Def Leppard's "Bringing on the Heartbreak". Please excuse me while I go puke in the toilet...

god save the queen as the british na
or
god save the queen by the sex pistols or exploited

RadiO · Post by **RadiO** » 2002-11-12 03:59pm

Best: The King's take on Come As You Are by Nirvana. Oddly tasteful.

Worst: Chain Reaction by Steps, which was absolutely fucking appalling.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-11-12 04:02pm

It's been confirmed that Christina Aguilera will be doing a cover of "Stairway to Heaven".

SHE SHALL DIE!

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2002-11-12 06:08pm

I like Motley Crüe's version of Helter Skelter as well as Ugly Kid Joe doing N.I.B., and White Zombie's version of Children of the Grave isn't bad.

Van Halen and You Really Got Me

Type O Negative's version of Cinnamin Girl is interesting.

The worst cover I've ever heard had to be Pat Boone doing Enter Sandman.

William Shatner doing Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds was really bad but very hilarious.

I also heard a Death Metal version of Iron Maiden's The Trooper. The music was great but the "singing" was horrible.

Phil Skayhan · Post by **Phil Skayhan** » 2002-11-12 06:20pm

Best: I agree with aerius on SRV/Little Wing

Worst: The same idiot Kelly mentioned doing Otis Redding's "Sittin' on the Dock"

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2002-11-12 06:24pm

SRV doing Vodoo Chile is great. He performed it on Austin City Limits.

Post by **Zaia** » 2002-11-12 06:31pm

Best:
Tori Amos "Thank You" (Led Zeppelin)
Indigo Girls "Tangled Up in Blue" (Bob Dylan)

Worst:
Madonna "American Pie" (Don McLean)
techno version of "Carmina Burana" (Carl Orff)

That's all for now....

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2002-11-12 06:47pm

Jimi Hendrix, "All Along the Watchtower." Classic.

Worst is Madonna's "American Pie" or Britney Spears's mutilation of "I Can't Get no Satisfaction."

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-11-12 07:01pm

Ah, yes; All Along the Watchtower is truly a magnam opus. Smash Mouth's 'I'm a Believer' was pretty good.

Aaron Carter's mutiliation of pretty much every song he's ever sung comes to mind as 'worst cover'. I hope that little shit dies.

Post by **Zaia** » 2002-11-12 09:46pm

Oh, that reminds me--I think version of "Watchtower" by the Dave Matthews Band is totally kickass.

And Tori Amos' version of "She's Leaving Home" is lovely.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2002-11-12 09:53pm

The Dickies' version of Knights in White Satin may be the funniest............

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-12 09:58pm

Best: Metallica - Turn the Page (Bob Seger)

Worst: Britney "fake titties" Spears - Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)

She has to have slept with every last Stone to get them to allow that.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-12 10:02pm

The Britny Spears version of "Respect" was also pathetic.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2002-11-12 10:04pm

Britney Spears should be acting in porn movies instead of singing.