Butchered covers

[veggiepatch1959]

There was a crappy girl group that did a cover of the Chili Peppers' Under The Bridge a while back.
All Saints I'm pretty sure they were called. It was a terrible, terrible version.

Correct.

 

[Evil_Mush]

Haha, I had cast that from my mind but you've gone and dredged that up from the deep dark depths of my brain. Will always regret buying that CD for my sister's birthday, hated that version so very very much.

Then was reminded again of it last year when the main singer (Mel Blatt) was a judge on the NZ version of X Factor. God, I hate that cover.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You (Dolly Parton). Dolly's original is a sweet, simple country ballad. Whitney tramples all over it with zero restraint, singing about 15 different notes every time one would have sufficed and sounding like a pack of howling sled dogs. Of course it sold millions.

 

[butchmcdick]

Metallica's cover of turn the page

Nikki minja f**king up sir mix a lots baby got back

Any rod Stewart, David Campbell or human nature Motown tribute album

Jessica simpson's version of Robbie wiiliam's song angles

 

[Red Bear]

I like the Lemonheads cover, and like the original song.

 

[Red Bear]

Fall at your Feet by boy and bear was rank

 

[LESStar58]

I heard a cover of You Shook Me All Night Long by a rockabilly band called The Eskimo Brothers at Layla's Blurgrass Inn in Nashville. The ingeniously changed the lyrics from "she told me to come but I was already there" to "she told me to cum, but not in her hair".

Absolute gold!

 

[LESStar58]

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You (Dolly Parton). Dolly's original is a sweet, simple country ballad. Whitney tramples all over it with zero restraint, singing about 15 different notes every time one would have sufficed and sounding like a pack of howling sled dogs. Of course it sold millions.

That pissed me off when Whitney Houston died and people were making Dolly out to be an evil bitch because she stood to make a shit ton of money off all the royalties from people downloading that song that she fecking wrote.

On a related note I have stood in the room where Dolly recorded that song.

 

[Nugget10]

Scissor Sister absolutely murdered Comfortably numb by pink Floyd.

 

[roofromoz]

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This is so bad... but still quite like it.

 

[madunit]

Every cover song by UB40

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Every cover song by UB40

Lol ub40... 'Reggae' for white suburbanites who're scared of black people.

 

[madunit]

hahaha

shit reggae at that.

 

[butchmcdick]

I saw them in concert at the townsville entertainment centre in the mid nineties

 

[Red Bear]

They had a big song didnt they? Ive got a general beat stuck in my head, think it was by them, no idea of name though

 

[DB]

Red Red Wine
I got you babe (With CHrissy Hynde)
Kingston Town

to name a few

 

[Red Bear]

i think i might be thinking of a completely different group

 

[Skinner]

I like UB40 - Red, Red Wine was a winner. Saw them in the UK a bit.

 

[veggiepatch1959]

Digging through some unlistened to stuff last night and came across Helmet's cover version of "Army Of Me" by Bjork.

Thinking the song would have suited Helmet's style...how wrong was I!! Paige Hamilton...hold your head in shame...you have truly killed a great original song.

 

[T.S Quint]

Red Red Wine
I got you babe (With CHrissy Hynde)
Kingston Town

to name a few

They had a massive number one hit with a cover of Elvis' Can't Help Falling In Love With You.
Was top of the charts for weeks.