Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 I know there are many, many crappy covers out there, but I had some shitty concert from Twickenham on in the background and Beyonce has just "performed" an inexorably bad version of "Come Together", all in the name of equality for wummin. This concert is apparently being held to promote education for women, a laudable concept, but the audience seems to consist of dayglow permatanned orange women who are happy to bop up and down and scream at the "artistes" as they mime their latest hit. Where are the strong female artistes like Melissa Etheridge,Tori Amos, Jewel, Michelle Shcoked, Brandi Carlile, Mary J Blige and the ilk? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordieBoy80 Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 I remember the Daily Record promoting some God awful cover of "Into the Valley". It made me so angry I wanted to smash everyone involved with a sledgehammer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brightside Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 One Direction's cover of One Way Or Another with Teenage Kicks mixed in was cancer inducing. As was Busted's cover of Teenage Kicks and McFly's cover of Don't Stop Me Now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted June 1, 2013 Author Share Posted June 1, 2013 There are songs that just should not be covered. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Everyone other than Jeff Buckley that has covered Hallelujah. Ronan Keating Fairytale of New York. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Rip your ears off bad cover of Street Spirit (how can you f**k up a song so good?) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted June 1, 2013 Author Share Posted June 1, 2013 I like Peter Gabriel, but now have plans to kill him. That should be played at funerals. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Peter Gabriel's version of Elbow's 'Mirrorball' is also terrible - not as bad as the above abomination, though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Leonna Lewis covered the song "Hurt" a few years back. It genuinely hurts me to listen to it, dreadful song when the artist has no emotion 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted June 1, 2013 Author Share Posted June 1, 2013 Good call - it was fucking awful. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Good call - it was fucking awful. I know. I enjoy the Nine Inch Nails one, and bloody love the Johnny Cash version. I physically threw things at the TV when she started singing it, before staring dumbfounded as I watched a song die 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted June 1, 2013 Author Share Posted June 1, 2013 I'm afraid Cash made that song his. Reznor should be gutted/delighted. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Robson & Jerome: Unchained melody Florence & Machine: You've got the love (may be controversial) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Will Young: Light my fire. Wheatus: A little respect. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Will Young: Light my fire. Wheatus: A little respect. There's the real controversy. That's a quality cover. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brightside Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 There's the real controversy. That's a quality cover. I agree! Much better than the original. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Wheatus were a tremendous band 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie95 Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Leona Lewis- Run, was quite a bad cover of the Snow Patrol song. Matt Cardle- Many Of Horror, it sounds like a bad karaoke cover. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Hate the Cash version of Hurt, and I hate the way people somehow associate the lyrics to being about Cash and his impending death (which I think was just a matter of weeks after it was released). It's not about a guy looking back at life, it's all about someone falling into a spiral of drug abuse. Cash did a lot of covers before his death, Rusty Cage (Soundgarden) being another. I detest anything Country and Western and for me any of those covers is like pulling my own teeth. Recently I heard a couple of cover versions of Bowie songs, one of them Ziggy Stardust the other The Man Who Sold The World, both of which were incredibly bad. I didn't catch who they were by but from the way they were presented by the radio it was by a modern and fairly recognisable X-Factor style teen success. I didn't try to find out who they were by, it was just too depressing that Bowie had allowed people to cover his song so badly but if anyone recognises this, add them to the bad covers list. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewartyMac Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 it was just too depressing that Bowie had allowed people to cover his song so badly It's not his call. Anyone can cover anyone else's songs, they don't need permission. As long as the writer of the song gets the credits and the royalties, there's nothing they can do about it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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