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Thread Author: Crankcase Replies: 15
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 Fri 22 Jul 11 11:03 
 Worst cover versions - Crankcase
We've had lots of good music threads. Time for a really bad cover version thread.

My first candidate is:

www.last.fm/music/Palast+Orchester+mit+Max+Raabe/_/There+Must+Be+An+Angel

You get a 30 second preview for free, and that is possibly 29 seconds more than you need.

Worst cover version you know of is...?
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 Fri 22 Jul 11 11:20 
 Worst cover versions - BiggerBadderDave
George Michael's recent attempt at New Order's True Faith. Done entirely on a vocoder. Comically awful.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF4hEhAcSCw

and the brilliant original

www.youtube.com/watch?v=og1HAkjOuL0&feature=related
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 Fri 22 Jul 11 12:23 
 Worst cover versions - spamcan61
>> George Michael's recent attempt at New Order's True Faith. Done entirely on a vocoder. Comically
>> awful.
>>
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF4hEhAcSCw
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Sheesh that's awful.
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 Fri 22 Jul 11 12:36 
 Worst cover versions - Focusless
>> George Michael's recent attempt at New Order's True Faith. Done entirely on a vocoder. Comically
>> awful.
>>
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF4hEhAcSCw

The original version is on my funeral list. That one isn't, although if they played it it would be drowned out by the sound of me spinning.
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 Fri 22 Jul 11 11:21 
 Worst cover versions - Iffy
My joint winner would be every cover I've heard of Beatles songs, particularly Yesterday.

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 Fri 22 Jul 11 11:26 
 Worst cover versions - Robin O'Reliant
Led Zepplin's dreadful cover of the Rolf Harris classic, Stairway To Heaven.

Wonder he didn't sue.
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 Fri 22 Jul 11 11:30 
 Worst cover versions - Crankcase
I don't think we're trying.

www.last.fm/music/Alvin+And+The+Chipmunks/_/Swing+Low+Sweet+Chariot

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 Fri 22 Jul 11 11:47 
 Worst cover versions - CGNorwich
"every cover I've heard of Beatles songs,"

Most of the originals were tosh though.
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 Fri 22 Jul 11 12:02 
 Worst cover versions - Zero
Actually

I think this is a superb cover version


original

www.youtube.com/watch?v=csTNcH-7rVs

Cover

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxUwSiiiBYI
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 Fri 22 Jul 11 12:30 
 Worst cover versions - Focusless
>> My joint winner would be every cover I've heard of Beatles songs, particularly Yesterday.

Have you heard this one Iffy? I've got it on a Supremes anthology and I quite like it, especially when they switch from unison to harmony. But it's got a good sort of raw groove to it as well.

EDIT: sorry www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIXeSP4YLb8
Last edited by: Focus on Fri 22 Jul 11 at 12:31
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 Fri 22 Jul 11 18:05 
 Worst cover versions - Ian (Cape Town)
Where do we start? I won't. It will get me too wound up.

Most annoying is when a great riff from a great song is used in some hip-hop or pop version. Recently, some scum used Valerie by Steve Winwood as a 'base' for a track. Sacrilege.

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 Fri 22 Jul 11 22:10 
 Worst cover versions - zippy
Anything by William Shatner!

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 Fri 22 Jul 11 22:12 
 Worst cover versions - Lygonos
How about the Bilbo Baggins song by Spock? Not a cover, I know, but it shows just how drunk Nimoy used to be!
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 Fri 22 Jul 11 22:19 
 Worst cover versions - RattleandSmoke
Paul Young's version of Love Will Tear Us Apart is very bad. He completely took away of all of Joy Division's brilliant music and rifts and replaced it with a bland Casio style 80's one.

I still haven't heard Michael's version of True Faith yet, I am worried it will murder one of my favourite songs.
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 Wed 3 Aug 11 01:19 
 Worst cover versions - wotspur
Scissor Sisters awful version of the classic Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" - how could they murder this classic song
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 Wed 3 Aug 11 16:35 
 Worst cover versions - Zero
ISnt numb what you feel after any Pink Floyd dirge?

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