There are some shockers about but Rod Stewart's utter destruction of the Tom Waites song Downtown Train takes some beating.
Dire cover versions
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There seems to be an annoying trend of covering songs with a breathy, weedy female voice backed by just a piano. Strip a song down to to the basic elements by all means, but don't bore the shit out of everyone with a saccarine-sweet, soppily inane redition of it. Prime example (not that I'm a fan of the original):
That is dire but wasn't Carey's version a dire cover version of the original? Bad Company was it?
Guns and Roses have butchered a song or three in their time. Yet I can't bring myself to hate them any more than I can bring myself to hate Cheryl Crows version of one of their songs. Weird.
Madonna -American Pie.
How could you make a cover more cringeworthy than the original?
How could you make a cover more cringeworthy than the original?
This one too. Way to render this song totally uninteresting, guys:
That is a truly shit Radiohead cover
It is indeed painful. I still think if Jamie Callum decides to reproduce it will just turn out to be some sort of root vegetable. He looks like that kinda guy.
Jamie Callum can burn for his cover of 'Lover You Should Have Come Over'.
Phil Collins raping 'The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love'
Fred feckface Durst ruined 'Behind Blue Eyes'
Tina Turner killed 'Proud Mary'
Whitney Houston massacred "I will always love you."
....
Apart from Nirvana "The Man who Stole the World" And Muse "Feeling Good" I can think of no non-dire cover's
Has anyone else noticed how every single Bob Dylan cover is way better than the original? Guns n Roses-Knockin on heavens door
Jimi Hendrix-All along the watchtower
Neil Young-Just like tom thumbs blues
The white Stripes - one more cup of coffee
and hundreds more
Jimi Hendrix-All along the watchtower
Neil Young-Just like tom thumbs blues
The white Stripes - one more cup of coffee
and hundreds more
Like every other Beatle cover. Or pretty much those who aren't the most famous ones when the Beatles performed them.
Eddie Vedder - You've got to Hide your love away.
This one is just awful
Girls Aloud - Walk This Way
Megadeth - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Megadeth - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Awwww be nice.....Im having a rough day
It'll get worse ya carry on like that ya joker
To be fair Dylan is an outstanding songwriter................He just shouldn't perform them
To be fair Dylan is an outstanding songwriter................He just shouldn't perform them
When's your next game?
That's a piss take surely?!
Honestly one of the worst things i've ever heard in my life
The originals a great song.
As long as you don't listen to the lyrics which are very silly indeed. Complete and utter bollocks if you will.
Yes.
It wasn't that bad. CCR's version is better of course.
Michael Bolton murdered some classic motown stuff but anything he sings is fecking tripe.