Worst song covers

[Rapscallion]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O36mQUPbG08 - Uniting Nations' version of Ai No Corrida.

Blech.

Rapscallion

[Ginger Tea]

I've been meaning to start this thread ever since my other one as a flip side to the coin, but I keep well away from crap covers as a rule.

It's not bad bad, just I couldn't listen to it with headphones on
Rold Harris' version of walk on the wild side, the first chorus of do do do was replaced by his "uhh ehh ahh ooh" trade mark sound, considering the context of the song, it felt like I was being violated in the ear and threw the headphones across the room (long cord) and got out a q-tip.

[Rageaholic]

Hillariously bad cover of Final Countdown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkMWdI2IKiw)

[telecom_goddess]

I was going to post a link to jose feliciano doing a cover of light my fire...but then I discovered he did a BUNCH of covers....I dunno I find it kinda weird.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jose+feliciano&aq=0

[Ginger Tea]

Will Young's Light my fire deserves to be set on fire

[Lace Neil Singer]

Atomic Kitten massacred "The Tide Is High"; not content with singing it in their stupid simpering voices, they also added a pointless verse right in the middle where the instrumental is. Guess they couldn't stand not listening to the sound of their own voices for long.

Also, this girl group who's name escapes me did a crappy cover of "Walk This Way"; not only was it sung badly, but that's a song that only makes sense if a guy sings it. There's a few Aerosmith songs they could have murdered which can be unisex, but I guess they wanted to sing that one cuz it's well known.

[Ginger Tea]

Sugarbabes* vs someone else I forget who also
I'm thinking of a trio an not a lager (as in members) group like girls aloud or saturdays, iir that was a red noes day single too.

Any old shit will sell if its for charideeeeeeeeee

*And Sugarbabes sans any original members at that

[XCashier]

Oh, there are so many bad song covers!

Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton covering Bob Seger's We Got Tonite.
Dolly Parton and Neil Diamond covering the Righteous Brothers' You Lost That Lovin' Feeling.
Alan Jackson's massacre cover of the Steve Miller Band's Mercury Blues.

I heard another horrible one this morning. My coworker was playing her tunes and amongst them was some country group (I found out later it's Sugarland) doing an awful cover of one of my favorite songs from the 80's, the Dream Academy's Life In A Northern Town. Here's the original (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5uxQElYu68&feature=fvsr), and here's the cover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mte9nMEF_WQ). Maybe it's my own personal taste, but...yuck. I think they missed the point.

[fireheart17]

Belle Stars covering "Iko Iko". Sounds wayyyy too whispery and horrible.

[blas87]

Any of those idiot rappers who take older songs and add it in as the background to a new rap song. They did that with "Forever Young" and another song or two I can't think of right now.

[telecom_goddess]

Any of those idiot rappers who take older songs and add it in as the background to a new rap song. They did that with "Forever Young" and another song or two I can't think of right now.

Under Pressure by Queen/David Bowie....the distinctive hook of the song was used in Ice Ice Baby.....great example of that kind of thing.

[blas87]

Yes, thank you, that's a good one. Along with "Forever Young" most recently by Jay Z using that hook line. I think another dumb hip hop group took over Journey "Don't Stop Believin"..........

Do you mean to say, rappers, that you've ran out of songs about money, cars, bitches, hos, beating up women, killing cops, smoking pot, getting crunk, doing shots, stabbing people....????????

Really???

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Under Pressure by Queen/David Bowie....the distinctive hook of the song was used in Ice Ice Baby.....great example of that kind of thing.

Not necessarily!

I saw Ice sing his tings on TV. Not exactly the same. But about the most pathetic attempt at justifying a complete rip-off I've ever seen in my life.

[ExRetailDrone]

Any of those idiot rappers who take older songs and add it in as the background to a new rap song. They did that with "Forever Young" and another song or two I can't think of right now.

Ugh, this annoys me, too. Don't get me wrong, there are some rap songs I enjoy, but the ones like this... no. I got so pissed when Jimmy Page allowed P Diddy (or whatever he was known as at the time) to use the guitar riff from Kashmir for one of his songs. Bleh! First of all, I hate P Diddy, I think he's a jackass. Second, I love Zeppelin. Them joined together was insulting :p

[Ginger Tea]

That one could have been a purely financial move, once all Zepp fans have all Zepp releases, then there is no chance of any money coming in again without touring or generating new fans. So what he asked for per play/sale in royalties would be large enough with someone who is 'big' at the time.

Using samples is ages old, without the source sampling whatever Candi Statton song for "you got the love" (assuming it wasnt a brand new composition) and the later now voyagers remix, what would florence and the machines have for their big hit?

One DJ oop norf used to play prodigies out of space but actually play the original track for a while instead of what was sampled, it threw the dance floor at first, then it became expected that we would get 2 minutes of it here and there.

And the look on everyones face when another nightclub played the intro to jump around by house of pain, that has a blairing trumpet, only for another song to play instead, turns out that trumpet blair was from another song from the 60's or 70's, but I don't recall if that was the song played, it could have been swapped for something like itsybitsyteenyweeny, but I think I would have remembered that one.

Utah Saint's sampling "ooh I just know that something good is gonna happen" from cloudbusting for their track "something good" love that song, but none of these examples copied the lyric of another remix/sample song like "forever young" although I think 3 remixes of boy meets girl's "star to fall" came out within a week of each other.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Yet another crappy girl group, the Pussycat Dolls, sampled "I Will Survive" for their "song" "Hush Hush". It seems to be the in thing at the moment to take an old disco style song (another group did the same for "The Time Of Your Life") and add bits of it to your vapid song to make it sound better. I know it's a stupid idea, but they could always try getting off their fat backsides and writing a song of their own to do that. Tho, seeing as most of these groups are just plastic people who can't sing and can't write and can't really do anything save dance with hardly any clothes on and grin stupidly, that's probably too much to ask from them.

[Skunkle]

As to sampling, Will Smith. "Men In Black" is a direct, blatant ripoff of Patrice Rushen's "Forget Me Not", a great song. A fair number of Smith's songs, especially his film songs, were based directly on older songs.

My BF despises Queen so much that he claims, whenever he hears the "Under Pressure" riff begin, he sincerely hopes it's "Ice Ice Baby".

[Lace Neil Singer]

He must be jealous of Freddie's utter fabulousness. XXD

The really sad thing is that it is possible to remake a song and not have it end up as noise pollution. Run DMC's collab with Aerosmith on Walk This Way was fantastic, in my opinion.

[Ginger Tea]

As to sampling, Will Smith. "Men In Black" is a direct, blatant ripoff of Patrice Rushen's "Forget Me Not", a great song. A fair number of Smith's songs, especially his film songs, were based directly on older songs.


I prefer that song's use in George Michaels Fast Love more than the MiB one.

[Ginger Tea]

god I listened to T.A.T.U's cover of the smiths song "how soon is now" awful

[mikoyan29]

I'd have to go with the Sheryl Crow remake of Sweet Child of Mine.

Now I can't say the same for the Tori Amos covers of different songs. She made 87 Bonnie and Clyde downright creepy because it sounds like the little girl singing it.