Right then, let's see what stinking abominations you lot can come up with. Here's a few starters:

All Saints - Under The Bridge
Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love
Madonna - American Pie
Stereophonics - Don't Let Me Down
Candy Flip - Strawberry Fields Forever
Doctor And The Medics - Spirit In The Sky
Gareth Gates - Spirit In The Sky
Gareth Gates - Suspicious Minds
Gareth Gates & Will Young - The Long And Winding Road
Scooter - The Logical Song
Atomic Kitten - Eternal Flame
Atomic Kitten - The Tide Is High
William Shatner - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
A1 - Take On Me
Crazy Frog - Axel F
Wyclef Jean - Another One Bites The Dust
Fine Young Cannibals - Ever Fallen In Love

Plus any of those risible townie dance rip-offs of classic 80s pop, the most recent example I can think of being "Dr. Beat".

It's heavily based on Dick Dale's Miserlou but won't count as a cover but Black Eyed Peas annoy me to the point of despair with their current hit.

I don't agree with the cover of Ever Fallen In Love. I treasure the original, I have all Buzzcocks singles and this one isn't better but it's not crap. Replace that with Elton John and The Futureheads' cover :yes:

And I loved The Logical Song. I hate Supertramp with a vengeance but I love how Scooter trashed it!

Toots & The Maytals - Take Me Country Roads
- crap track from a great artist!

Paul Young - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Elton John and The Futureheads covered it too? Good grief.



Paul Young - Love Will Tear Us Apart
:runaway:

They were hoping on the Peel Is Dead Bandwagon with that cover to be released around the first anniversary of John Peel's death last October but it didn't make the Radio1 playlist. In Austria I heard an ever worse cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart, and this was in 1981 already but I reluctantly forgot by who it was.

Tatu - How Soon is Now. An abomination.

^^ One of the greatest guitar riffs of all time. Tatu rings a bell but I won't need to check now, will I?

They were hoping on the Peel Is Dead Bandwagon with that cover to be released around the first anniversary of John Peel's death last October but it didn't make the Radio1 playlist. In Austria I heard an ever worse cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart, and this was in 1981 already but I reluctantly forgot by who it was.

Paul Young?

Basically any cover version done by any boy/girl band.

For instance, How Deep Is Your Love by Take That...It's just wrong.

It always amuses me how these boy bands rely on covers so much to cover up the fact they have no real writing talent in the band, and before anyone tells me that "actually Gary Barlow is a talented song writer," I disagree.

Human League - Don't You Want Me (1995 Version), their 1981 one was much better :D

Unfinished Sympathy by Tina Turner.

However much I love Ms Bullock, that was just wrong. :gaah:

...
Plus any of those risible townie dance rip-offs of classic 80s pop, the most recent example I can think of being "Dr. Beat".

HOW VERY DARE YOU!!!!! ;)

The Mylo bootleg of Under Pressure and Doctor Beat is genius!

Unless you were on about something else?

:)

the she goes by Six pence noen the richer.

Actaully i thinkhte Gates - suspicous minds one was the worst ever.

Kinda of lenjoyed atomic kittens version of the tide is high- it was a harmless fun cover of one of blondies weaker singles.

Oh I forgot the Boyzone guy's version of fairytale of NY.

it wasnt bad but seal's non-adamski cover of Killer must be one of the most pointless ever.

Without a doubt, it would have to be Puff Daddy's cover of Sting's "Every breath you take".

HOW VERY DARE YOU!!!!! ;)

The Mylo bootleg of Under Pressure and Doctor Beat is genius!

Completely agree!

i remember a few years back some crappy band released a cover album of all Madonna's older stuff............pretty naff stuff

Kinda of lenjoyed atomic kittens version of the tide is high- it was a harmless fun cover of one of blondies weaker singles.


It was one of Blondie's weaker singles, mainly because they didn't even write the thing to begin with - John Holt did. Blondie have had three huge hits which were actually cover versions: Denis and Hanging On The Telephone being the other two. But it's very easy for people to assume that they wrote all three cos they're so easily identifiable as theirs.

Without a doubt, it would have to be Puff Daddy's cover of Sting's "Every breath you take".

it's pretty bad as is the case with most of puffy's songs...hacked up remixes of older tunes.


William Shatner - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

:laugh:

it wasnt bad but seal's non-adamski cover of Killer must be one of the most pointless ever.

Wasn't the non-Adamski album version the original and the Adamski version a remix/re-recording??

HOW VERY DARE YOU!!!!! ;)

The Mylo bootleg of Under Pressure and Doctor Beat is genius!

Unless you were on about something else?

:)
Nope, that's the one. I just don't like the way pretty much every song from the 80s will soon be only remembered as some rip-off by DJ Twatface or someone. I mean, even "Bette Davis Eyes" got the remix treatment. :(

I mean, even "Bette Davis Eyes" got the remix treatment. :(

That wasn't exactly a remix, the Mylo choon was just based on it. You can still listen to the Kim Carnes original without thinking of Mylo unlike the original Dr Beat by Miami "Gloria" Sound "Estefan" Machine where it now sounds weak compared with Dr Pressure. Grrrrah!!! :bash:

the original Dr Beat by Miami "Gloria" Sound "Estefan" Machine where it now sounds weak compared with Dr Pressure.

Sorry I've got the 12" Miami "Gloria" Sex "Estefan" Machine
& totally disagree

I also totally disagree! :sly:

Uh uh uh! Mylo "filled" out the song, adding a new dimension to it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't.

Yes, and I happen to think it doesn't work. It's called an opinion.

Robbie Williams - Freedom.

^^ forgot about that one Charlie..wrong wrong wrong! The original was so much better and how it should be done.

it wasnt bad but seal's non-adamski cover of Killer must be one of the most pointless ever.

Well he did write the song, so fair play to him.

The 'Adamski' version was just Adamski playing keyboards for Seal.

Most Westloife singles :puke:

^^ forgot about that one Charlie..wrong wrong wrong! The original was so much better and how it should be done.

Whereas the cover just highlighted Robbie's lack of singing ability...

Marylin Manson did a cover of Another Brick in The Wall part 2 as part of the soundtrack for the Faculty. Its not bad but nothing compared to the original.

Micheasl Jackson did a cover of Come Together: Not good.

Not very tactful either :D

Will Young - Light My Fire
Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Steve Winwood's Valerie was better, though can't fault the video!)
Girls Aloud - Jump (For Your Lvoe)
M People - Itchicoo Park
Rolf Harris - Stairway to Heaven
Sheryl Crow - Sweet Child O' Mine
Vic Chestnut - It's The End Of The World As We Know It
Hilary Duff - My Generation
All Saints - Under the Bridge

Rolf Harris - Stairway to Heaven
Thanks, didn't know about that one, must be awful :drool:

Chevvers - Tie Me Kangaroo Down
http://shitmat.adverse-camber.net/mp3/rolf/004.%20chevvers%20-%20tie%20me%20kangaroo%20Down.mp3

Thanks, didn't know about that one, must be awful :drool:

Chevvers - Tie Me Kangaroo Down
http://shitmat.adverse-camber.net/mp3/rolf/004.%20chevvers%20-%20tie%20me%20kangaroo%20Down.mp3
Just think of a bearded Aussie, with a wobble board and no other instruments, singing that guitar classic. It makes me want to hurt things :bash:

:D
I knew he was up to no good but had no idea he mangled about every classic track from ther sixties and seventies. Well, he gets a bit of his own treat on that Shitmat project, called "Rolf' on Wrong Records.

Whereas the cover just highlighted Robbie's lack of singing ability...

You're quite right, makes you wonder who told him he could pull it off lol :bash:

Just think of a bearded Aussie, with a wobble board and no other instruments, singing that guitar classic. It makes me want to hurt things :bash:
its truly painful, I've heard it

M People - Itchicoo Park
Confession time - I heard this version long before the original and quite liked it. Can you people ever forgive me? I was only 10 or 11 at the time! :cry:

Hilary Duff - My Generation
I despair...

Bombalurina featuring Timmy Mallett: Eensy weensy teeny weeny yellow polkadot bikini

Well he did write the song, so fair play to him.

The 'Adamski' version was just Adamski playing keyboards for Seal.


No -as far as I know he wrote the lyrics. I wouldn't say Tim Rice wrote Joseph or Jesus Christ superstar.

Not that its all that relevant even if he'd just hired adamski for the day to play the keyboard score I just dont see what the second version added to msuic.

It was one of Blondie's weaker singles, mainly because they didn't even write the thing to begin with - John Holt did. Blondie have had three huge hits which were actually cover versions: Denis and Hanging On The Telephone being the other two. But it's very easy for people to assume that they wrote all three cos they're so easily identifiable as theirs.

well I never and i also wrongly assumed that Mr Manson's tainted love was a cover of a song originally by soft cell

Confession time - I heard this version long before the original and quite liked it. Can you people ever forgive me? I was only 10 or 11 at the time! :cry:


I despair...


YOU despair? Oh my god. Robbie - were you feeling all right? I mean, you actually preferred the honking goose with the pineapple on her head's "interpretation" as opposed to the very fine and dandy original? :runaway:

No -as far as I know he wrote the lyrics. I wouldn't say Tim Rice wrote Joseph or Jesus Christ superstar.

Not that its all that relevant even if he'd just hired adamski for the day to play the keyboard score I just dont see what the second version added to msuic.

I think the lyrics and the melody... But I'm not disputing that it would have been a poo song without Adamski's keyboards and Seal owes everything to Adamski. The memorable thing about 'Killer' is Adamski's keyboard riff, not the lyrics or melody. After Adamski launched him he wrote some fantastic songs though whilst Adamski floundered.

The re-recorded verson of Feed The World by Band Aid. Totally fucking pathetic.

Anybody heard Rustie Lee's version of 'Barbados'?

The memorable thing about 'Killer' is Adamski's keyboard riff, not the lyrics or melody.

So I take it you don't remember these lyrics??

So you want
to be free?
To live your life
the way you wanna be
Will you give
if we cry?
Will we live
or will we die?

Tainted hearts
heal with time
Shoot that love
so we can stop the end

Solitary brother
Is there still a part of you that wants to live?
Solitary sister
is there still a part of you that wants to give?

If we try
and live your life
the way you wanna
yeah

Solitary brother
Is there still a part of you that wants to live?
Solitary sister
is there still a part of you that wants to give? (x3)

Racism in among future kings can only lead to no good
and besides
all our sons and daughters already know how that feels
yeah yeah yeah yeah

I love everything about this song, it was one of my first singles. I think I learnt how to speak thanks to these lyrics! It was the first time I'd ever heard the word 'racism'.

Bombalurina featuring Timmy Mallett: Eensy weensy teeny weeny yellow polkadot bikini

Woh... woh... Woh YEAH!

The re-recorded verson of Feed The World by Band Aid. Totally fucking pathetic.

To me, that song just highlighted to me what a waste of space all these manufactured modern pop acts are - nobody's personality ever threatened to come out on the track at any point (and don't even get me started on the rapping)...

It was that good that I don't remember hearing it once last Christmas, compared with the original which you have heard EVERY Christmas since 1984. :yes:

well I never and i also wrongly assumed that Mr Manson's tainted love was a cover of a song originally by soft cell

Do you think Mr. Manson knew that Soft Cell hadn't written it? Stupid fake tosser. And Remember his cover of Seven Seas? bloomin awful.


Another Rubbish cover Guns'n'Roses version of Love and Let Die, the only time a Paul McC*nty cover was wimpier than the Orginal.

Do you think Mr. Manson knew that Soft Cell hadn't written it? Stupid fake tosser. And Remember his cover of Seven Seas? bloomin awful.


Another Rubbish cover Guns'n'Roses version of Love and Let Die, the only time a Paul McC*nty cover was wimpier than the Orginal.


Oops, I meant of course, Sweet Dreams by the Eurthmics.

Another terrible Cover Version Metallica's version of Thin Lizzies (yes, I know, but I bet they Metallica didn't) Whiskey in the Jar, Metallica please meet subtly, groove, rhythm, SWING. All the Things that make the Orginal...

Backstreet Boys-Last Christmas

it's a stinker!

Backstreet Boys? Backpassage Boys more like.

Welcome back to the skybar Martin. :)

Britney Spears - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Donna Summer - MacArthur Park (it takes a special form of genius to make that song worse)

Of course, the single worst of all time was mentioned in the first post - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds as performed by Shatner.

http://eil.com/newGallery/Rolf-Harris-Stairway-To-Heave-162036.jpg

Britney Spears - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Not heard that one, but I bet it's about as good as all those "IRONIC" Pop covers by Coldplay/Travis/Starsailor blandies.

Louise - Stuck In The Middle

Paul Young - (I'm Gonna Tear Your) Playhouse Down
Eruption - I Can't Stand The Rain
Boney M - The Rivers of Babylon - that cheeky monkey Farell first too credit for writing that song
Glenn Miller Band - In The Mood - uncredited original from South Africa, late 19th Century, Belgian national radio has the original

Have you ever heard XTC's version of "All Along The Watchtower"? :runaway:

celtic supporters singing you'll never walk alone. it's a liverpool FC song - get your own.

Have you ever heard XTC's version of "All Along The Watchtower"? :runaway:

Do you know the original? Not that great really. I don't like that man who did the original.

Bob Dylan never did have a good voice.

Doobie Brothers - Listen to The Music, bweh

Beatles - Twist And Shite.

Staying with Live Aid, did anyone see the G8 opening duet of Bono and Paul McCartney doing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? It made me wanna chuck! :puke:

Everything makes you wanna chuck Gareth! ;)