Worst Cover Songs: Maim That Tune : "Beat It" by "Fall Out Boy"

"River Deep, Mountain High" covered by Erasure.

Bleah.

 

She killed that one too?

No...

That's not true...

THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!

 

Green Day covering The Who's classic anthem "My Generation". Disgraceful.

 

Song: "The Tide is High"

Original: Blondie

Bad Cover: Atomic Kitten

 

Oh. My. God. There is apparently an entire album of collected Bad Beatle Covers, called: "Golden Throats 4: Celebrities Butcher the Beatles":

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000033XB/ref=ase_abbeyrdsbeatlesp/104-8446960-3862309?s=music&v=glance&n=5174&tagActionCode=abbeyrdsbeatlesp

Here's the song list:


1. In The Beginning/With A Little Help From My... - George Burns
2. She's Leaving Home - Joel Grey
3. Spleen/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - William Shatner
4. Something - Telly Savalas
5. Day Tripper - Mae West
6. Hey Jude - Bing Crosby
7. Michelle - Xavier Hollander
8. Mission: Impossible Theme/Norwegian Wood - Alan Copeland
9. Let It Be - Tennessee Earnie Ford
10. Got To Get You In My Life - Little Joe (Pesci)
11. Revolution - The Brothers Four
12. She's A Woman - Noel Harrison
13. Jealous Guy/Don't Let Me Down - Claudine Longet
14. Piggies - Theo Bikel
15. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - Jan & Dean
16. A Hard Day's Night - George Maharis
17. Hidden Track #17 - Various Artists


Jan and Dean sing "Norwegian Wood?"

 

More recent version:
http://tinyurl.com/f9w6u

 

Goldie Hawn? Sean Connery? That'd seem like one of those old SNL 'Jeopardy' threads...

 

Kid Rock "Fortunate Son"

 

Tina Turner, 1984.

Ick! Ick! Oh, ick!

 

The Goo Goo Dolls' version of Give A Little Bit by Supertramp. They manage to completely gut the song of its emotional power!

To quote William Hurt from A History Of Violence: "How do you **** that up?!"

 

The Residents did a whole album of bad Elvis covers...

 

The Dandy Warhols cover of "Brown Sugar". Oh wait, that was plagiarism, wasn't it, not a cover? hmm.

 

Yeah, the A Perfect Circle cover of "Imagine" is pretty amazing...


But I can't believe no one has thought of this yet:

Puff Daddy's cover of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" with Jason Bonham (son of John) on drums. It's utterly terrible!

 

Puff Daddy's got some hubris, there.

 

Puff Daddy didn't cover "Kashmir"; he was gonna sample the riff for "Come With Me" (with rap lyrics that have nothing to do with "Kashmir") but Jimmy Page offered to play it himself. I don't think Jason Bonham was on drums, though.

 

Yeah, Jason Bonham was on drums.

 

Heard Gordon Lightfoot's "That's What You Get For Lovin' Me" on the radio...sung by Elvis Presley. Given his talent, it was godawful. Arranged way too low for him, you could barely hear him on the verses.

 

Celine Dion & Anastacia's "You Shook Me All Night Long" I have only heard it once and it was one of them most painful things I have ever had to sit through.

 

Bowling for Soup - London Bridge

 

Listen to Lacuna Coil's version of Enjoy The Silence. It's pretty awesome and probably one of the best DM cover's ever.

Worst cover ever:

Anything ever sung by those idiots on American Idol.

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Curse you, Zaz. I actually fell to my morbid curisity and listened to the samples.

Now my childhood is raped!!!

I have my own instrumental version of Michelle which I play on the piano, and my Dad (a big Beatles fan) is particularly fond of it. The version on that album sounds like from some lesbian porn... Now I'll never be able to play Michelle without thinking about it!

 

I second that.
WORST. COVER. EVER.

 

This from EW:

The Worst Cover Song
Categories: Music, Ouch! That was my ear!
By Michael Slezak.

"Total Guitar magazine recently named Celine Dion and Anastacia's rendition of AC/CD's "You Shook Me All Night Long" (from 2002's Divas Las Vegas concert on VH1) as the worst song cover of all time. (Thanks to Popeater for the heads up.) As a rabid Anastacia fan who still can't understand the American songbird's lack of success in her home country -- the uninitiated should go directly to "Paid My Dues" without passing 'Go' or collecting $200 -- I had no choice but to write a blog item in her defense.

My pick for the world's worst cover would have to be Jessica Simpson's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" (embedded after the jump). Bad enough that the Newlyweds star commits attempted sexy against Nancy Sinatra's 1966 classic using a wheeze/speak that's about as erotic as an asthma attack, but she also treats the song's saucy lyrics with all the care of a dock worker gutting a freshly caught tuna. Thus, genius turns of phrase such as "You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'" and "I just found me a brand new box of matches" get replaced with bland references to Simpson's role in the related big-screen remake of TV's Dukes of Hazzard. Add an unfortunate "rap" interlude, the sullying of legend Willie Nelson's good name, and a video that pairs one of my favorite old-school female-empowerment anthems with footage of Simpson writhing suggestively against a suds-soaked motor vehicle, and, well, clearly I've done my duty of expunging the offending title from Anastacia's record.

Then again, perhaps you all have your own nominees for the all-time worst cover. List your choice in the comments section below, and because I like to be a little evil (especially on Mondays), I must insist that you limit yourself to one song, and one song only. Ready, set, reveal!"

And they go on to make some nominations...

 

The two mentioned there are both pretty awful. Celine Dion covering You Shook Me is, to quote a previous post in this thread, a total mismatch between artist and song. And chalk me up as just thinking the song sounds idiotic when it's a woman singing it to a man (or is this a lesbian thing? I doubt it).

These Boots by Jessica Simpson isn't as bad, but it's just incredibly boring.

 

Oh God, I just vomited in my mouth a little bit after reading that... I've never heard this version, but I can only imagine the slaughter it must be.

I forget who it was but someone covered Dramarama's Anything, Anything and ruined the **** outta it.

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