Awful Cover Songs

[flackbait]

What cover songs you guys hate?
For instance I hate Celine Dion Singing AC/DC's you shook me all night long

[LilCerberus]

Just about anybody's cover of music by The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan or Jimmy Hendrix.

With the exception of Devo. Rather than trying to capture/recreate the energy & style of the original, they're able to completely deconstruct a song into something that sounds completely their own, without making the song sound mutilated.

[Pilgermann]

Disturbed's covers of Tears for Fears' Shout and Genesis' Land of Confusion

[LilCerberus]

I think I'll have to recant on Devo.
This afternoon, someone reminded me about their cover of Head Like a Hole.
Too close to the original, & just not Devo-ey enough.

[Oldskool138]

"Fell in Love with a Boy" by Joss Stone.  I'm a huge White Stripes fan and I HATE this cover.  Not only did they change the lyrics and the name of the song but they also turned a great punk rock tune into a hippie-dippy pop song.

However, the Richard Cheese version is funny.

[Amontillado]

I was none too happy with Orgy cloning New Order's Blue Monday. It really aggravates me when a band gets popular (i.e. makes a lot of money) from digging up an old song and carbon copying it. Especially when it's a band with a cult following because people like us are supposed to give the said offenders credit for knowing who they were (well, are in this case). It's the same thing with Alien Ant Farm. They get wicked big with a cover song. Their original material really sucked hard, too. I remember being at the Warped Tour one year, and I had just run into an old friend of mine. We were talking in front of the bike ramp (which was next to a B stage) and our conversation kept going back to, "Who the hell is that god-awful band over on that stage?" Sure enough, they went into the opening riff of Smooth Criminal. Dean and I peaked around the ramps and saw that moron with his stupid hair cut, and just laughed. I actually really like what Amy Winehouse does. See doesn't exactly covers songs, but puts her own twist on her favorites. Call it a guilty pleasure.

[trekgeezer]

Pat Boone doing Smoke on the Water - nuff said.

[AnubisVonMojo]

I'm one of the oddballs who actually enjoys a number of cover songs (Johnny Cash doing "Hurt" and Guns 'n' Roses covering "Sympathy for the Devil" especially), but I think the one that's bothered me most in recent memory was that f*ck awful cover Fred "Limp D!ckburger" Durst did for "Behind Blue Eyes" for the equally worthless movie Gothika. I thought someone had started sodomizing my ears with cotton swabs, only to realize that I was the one doing it to myself in an attempt to never ever have to hear this monstrocity again.

[flackbait]

I'm one of the oddballs who actually enjoys a number of cover songs (Johnny Cash doing "Hurt" and Guns 'n' Roses covering "Sympathy for the Devil" especially), but I think the one that's bothered me most in recent memory was that f*ck awful cover Fred "Limp D!ckburger" Durst did for "Behind Blue Eyes" for the equally worthless movie Gothika. I thought someone had started sodomizing my ears with cotton swabs, only to realize that I was the one doing it to myself in an attempt to never ever have to hear this monstrocity again.

What really annoys me is he keeps repeating the chorus of the song and doesn't go into the other bit.

[AnubisVonMojo]

And what really annoyed me was the fact that Fred Durst was covering a Who song. Uggh.

[flackbait]

And what really annoyed me was the fact that Fred Durst was covering a Who song. Uggh.

Well, that too.

[zombie no.one]

Tin-Tin Out's cover of The Sundays "Here's Where The Story Ends" completely does my head in.

[HappyGilmore]

Britney Spears version of "I Love Rock and Roll."

[CheezeFlixz]

This has to be one of the worst ever ... but it's like a train wreck you can't help but watch it.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN3MGN899yE

[Allhallowsday]

This has to be one of the worst ever ... but it's like a train wreck you can't help but watch it.

Okay, after radio station KUNT and that, I gotta give you karma!     
Y'know?  I remember Shatner doing that!