cover songs that really murder the original

[dieselgrunt]

Stuck in the middle by Louise

https://youtu.be/TScOHSAR7Ec

[Robmarriott]

dieselgrunt said:

Stuck in the middle by Louise

https://youtu.be/TScOHSAR7Ec

That’s reminded me of Under the bridge by All Saints. Also horrendous.

[Old Man Peabody]

Rough Boy

Original by ZZ Top
Abomination by Wyclef Jean

[Fermit]

Robmarriott said:

That’s reminded me of Under the bridge by All Saints. Also horrendous.

I came here to nominate that one. made 10x worse that it was written by Anthony Kiedis, remembering times with his deceased bandmate.

[tribalsurfer]

DJ Sammy - The Boys of Summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5abvDHvNzaI&ab...

[Super Sonic]

Bauhaus' version of 'Telegram Sam',
Massive Attack's version of 'Bela Lugosi's Dead'

[oldagepensioner]

I know its not quite what this thread is about but Skala & Kolacny Brothers at the MaDiWoDo VrijdagShow 12 years ago is brilliant and the stereophonics version is better than The Rod Stewart version.I have also just listened to the Chris Farlowe version from 1966 which is also brilliant.

[Yahonza]

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Covered by William Shatner (Captain Kirk).
A very strange cover.

[Voldemort]

Common People by William Shatner.

Close the thread.

[itcaptainslow]

‘Sailing’ by Rod Stewart

[paulmakin]

smn159 said:

Russ Abbott's cover of Atmosphere was nothing like the original either

This is very funny, well played sir

[Nickp82]

Florence + The Machine doing ‘You Got The Love’

The Candi Staton original is an absolutely classic vocal which is sung with soul, subtlety and feeling - Florence just goes ahead and shouts all over it.

[GiantCardboardPlato]

R Kelly cover



Edit - oh, I thought you meant do a much much much better job. Sorry.
Not a st one.
The cover above is fking awesome.

Edited by GiantCardboardPlato on Thursday 15th December 21:37

[Amused2death]

Rolf Harris..... Stairway to Heaven

[and31]

Paul Young’s version of wherever I lay my hat-
The Marvin Gaye original is fantastic

[underwhelmist]

paulmakin said:

smn159 said:

Russ Abbott's cover of Atmosphere was nothing like the original either

This is very funny, well played sir

Agreed, nicely done.

I don’t like Nouvelle Vague’s cover of LWTUAA either but I think their version of Bizarre Love Triangle is great.

https://youtu.be/aki75C7rxl0

[craigjm]

underwhelmist said:

Paul Young's cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart Again. Heinous.

https://youtu.be/SPBzmn8bcyk

The version by fall out boy is worse

To add a few more

The happy Mondays cover of boys are back in town

Travis version of baby one more time

Jagger and Bowie dancing in the street (at least it was for charity)

Korn version of another brick in the wall

[konark]

The album Pinups is just Bowie murdering other peoples songs, except Sorrow which is quite good

[budgie smuggler]

Puddle of Mudd's cover of Nirvana's About A Girl is something to behold.

https://youtu.be/yTh9qiXEy4Q

[Desiderata]

Musically, I think that Johnny Cash absolutely murdered Roberta Flack's beautiful "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", but somehow , in spite of his tuneless grumble, he managed to pull it off and produce something even more stirring...so it shouldn't really be on this thread.