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Worst covers ever
2004-01-11, 10:49 AM #1
Me and my friend were discussing the worst musical covers...
You know how it goes, a band do a cover of an old song because it's easier than writing your own. Saddest thing about this is that people often keep it quite that it's a cover and thus make it out as there own work.

Korn - One ( Metallica )
Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes (The Who)
Limp Bizkit - Sober (Tool)
Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
Avril Lavinge - Chop Suey (System of a Down)


Does anyone else hate the fact that people make crappy covers of good songs? Or even worse make crappy covers of songs that were bad to start with?

What other covers suck?
I'm just sticking with songs I liked in the first place but it doesn't really matter.

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2004-01-11, 10:50 AM #2
Avril did a cover of Chop Suey.. Hmm.. I almost WANT to hear that. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-01-11, 10:58 AM #3
William Shatner - Mr. Tambourine Man
2004-01-11, 11:00 AM #4
NOOOOOO! YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT HAPPYDUD!!!!!!!!! It is so horrible. BTW Korn didnt do that bad a job. (Actually to tell you the truth...I really liked it :P ) anyways back to Chop Suey.. Oh god it sucked she DIDNT EVEN SAY THE WORDS! she didnt get psat the whole song and she didn't say the words. "Wake up! wagagagagagagag make up!" "hahaha lolz omfgz make up ANGELS DIEEE!" *cracks up laughing* "Wake up! Grab a shagwgwgwgwgwg make up!" *laughs* .. Oh god it made me cry.

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2004-01-11, 11:01 AM #5
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">William Shatner - Mr. Tambourine Man</font>
You must be mistaken. This thread is for the "worst covers ever", not the "BEST. COVERS. EVER."
2004-01-11, 11:02 AM #6
Seal did a Reggae cover of Lips Like Sugar by Echo and the Bunnymen. I haven't heard it, but I'm positive it sucks.

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2004-01-11, 11:11 AM #7
In jazz, there is no such thing as a "cover".

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2004-01-11, 11:19 AM #8
Here's my list:

1. Johnny Cash - One (U2)
2. Howie Day - Help (Beatles) - ok, it's not bad, but it just sounds weird acoustic with no back-up singers
3. KMFDM - Mysterious Ways (U2)
4. Somebody did an awful cover of Uptown Girl awhile back... forgot who.

and the most adulterated cover ever:

5. Noel Gallagher - Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen, in which case, the Buckley version is the best)

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2004-01-11, 11:22 AM #9
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
Avril Lavinge - Chop Suey (System of a Down)</font>


Words cannot describe how glad I am that I've never heard either of those covers.

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2004-01-11, 11:23 AM #10
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by TheJkWhoSaysNi:
Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit
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My Hot American Lover made a bad song???

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2004-01-11, 12:03 PM #11
Actually, its quite good. Shaddap your face.
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2004-01-11, 12:30 PM #12
Dave Matthews - Sweet Home Alabama.

I like Dave's own stuff, but this one just sucked.

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2004-01-11, 12:51 PM #13
Anything Britney Spears or any other pop trash teen crap has done to a perfectly good song.

I heard the Avril cover live in Boston. It wa very long and drawn out and just as incomprehenisble. I didn't like.

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2004-01-11, 12:59 PM #14
Kid Rock - Feel Like Making Love...worst cover ever.
I thought Limp Bizkit did a really good job on Behind Blue Eyes
2004-01-11, 2:15 PM #15
Avril Lavigne - Fuel (Metallica)

*shudder* Never want to hear that ever again.

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2004-01-11, 2:23 PM #16
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by clan ruthervain:
My Hot American Lover made a bad song???

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Gimme a sec, then I'll tell you if I agree</font>


*cough*

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2004-01-11, 3:06 PM #17
Marilyn Manson butchered "Highway to Hell"
...and the Osborn kid's massacre of her dad's "Changes."

I kinda like them, but Pantera did a bad job on "Cat Scratch Fever," not really a great song to begin with, but...

I liked Behind Blue Eyes, though I hate Limp Bizkit. I'd have to hear the original.

The best, in my opinion, was Nirvana's cover of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World."

I must never hear Avril's covers or I will destroy.

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2004-01-11, 3:19 PM #18
any cover made by limp bizkit only because THEY ARE LIMP BIZKIT

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2004-01-11, 4:01 PM #19
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by TheJkWhoSaysNi:

Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes (The Who)
Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
Avril Lavinge - Chop Suey (System of a Down)

</font>


I thought Behind Blue Eyes was decent enough. Limp Bizkit is major suckage though. That cover is the best I've ever heard them do.

Tori Amos should be shot at point blank with an RPG launcher. If I go any further I'd get censored.

Avril Lavinge (lmao, I typed "Latrine" just now...) should also be shot. She can't sing, never could sing, and never will be able to sing. Chop Suey is a great song. You can't have some really lame teenage pop singer redo it. It just doesn't work.

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2004-01-11, 4:16 PM #20
Graveworm's cover of Losing My Religion is unspeakably awful.

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2004-01-11, 6:44 PM #21
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by TheJkWhoSaysNi:
...Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)...</font>


The original sucked, so the cover probably sucks as much.

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2004-01-11, 6:50 PM #22
Anyone who thinks Limp Bizkit's version of Behind Blue Eyes was anything but blasphemy has the worst taste in music ever and I hope that I never meet them. It's The Who. The Who! It's Limp Bizkit. Limp Bizkit!
Enough said.

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2004-01-11, 7:08 PM #23
You want good covers. Listen to music done by musicians, not the amateurs you see on MTV.

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2004-01-11, 10:07 PM #24
Basically anything on the radio. There's a shockingly awful version of that "I don't have enough now I want my share" song (which was awful to begin with) by that Afro-Man (having an afro outside of a 70s blaxploitation film is just pointless) that won Australian Idol (plus he's a bit of a chump).

Also apparently there's this creature called "DJ Sammy" that likes to take classics and murder them, such as Don Henley's fantastic "Boys of Summer".

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Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
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Are you kidding? That's by far superior to the drunken rambling of Cobain.
2004-01-12, 4:28 AM #25
Actually, here's time when I have to say Cobain made the song. I heard Tori Amos' version on Organic X, a Sunday morning radio program on the local rock station that plays more mellow music, and it was worse than the original.

Also, another suck cover is Metallica's cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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2004-01-12, 4:33 AM #26
Let's see...

DJ Quicksilver - Equinoxe 4
I hate this trance version of the electronic heaven by JMJ. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/rolleyes.gif] It doesn't have anything of the original magic of analog synthesizers left, only digital, digital, digital, crap, crap, crap. I don't want to hear any of JMJ's songs sound trance or techno, during the times of analog synths everything was better.

Vertigo - Oxygene Vocal Remix
Instrumental song...with vocals? Oh My F****** God...

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2004-01-12, 5:38 AM #27
I actually like Korn's version of Metallica's One.

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2004-01-12, 9:49 AM #28
At a push, Zebrahead's Wannabe. It's kinda dodgy, but still remotely tolerable.

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2004-01-12, 12:11 PM #29
Madonna-American Pie

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2004-01-12, 12:55 PM #30
Anyone who thinks Kurt Cobain sucked is just afraid to like something that was popular.

That's fine, though. Its just your missing out, because a lot of popular stuff is good. If you listen to enough Nirvana, you'll see why it was popular.

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2004-01-12, 1:38 PM #31
I happen to be a huge Cobain fan. However, I can see why some people wouldn't like him. I don't think it's just because they're afraid to like something popular.

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2004-01-12, 8:41 PM #32
I dislike Cobain because he couldn't write, couldn't sing, couldn't play, whined a heap, and singlehandedly killed off actual rock by luring all the braindead sheep out there into clamouring for more of the same for the next decade...
2004-01-12, 9:05 PM #33
his girlfriend was an evil talentless whore. I hope she burns in hell.
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