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Post by songstarliner on Jan 24, 2016 15:11:00 GMT -5
First time I heard this I got so angry that I had to leave my friend's house, walk home, and listen to the original all alone in a dark room.
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 24, 2016 15:26:28 GMT -5
I refuse to link to them, even if I could get the videos to embed, but a few years ago Suggs (from Madness - not sure if they made any impression in the US) seemed all-set to smear his cack on a string of classics with some chirpy cod-reggae bollocks. He got as far as Waterloo Sunset and Cecilia before taking a long hard look at himself and cutting his own throat.
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Post by moimoi on Jan 24, 2016 22:36:58 GMT -5
Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxicab
The Wallflowers - Heroes
Sixpence None the Richer - There She Goes (makes me want to stab the band and its fans more than myself, but...)
anything covered by Smashmouth
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 24, 2016 23:14:57 GMT -5
songstarliner From a whole album of covers. I actually don't mind it too badly, but I recall she covered 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' on there as well, which, while not a great cover, is a masterpiece compared to the hard-to-fathom schlock of this:
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Post by monodrone on Jan 25, 2016 4:13:56 GMT -5
Kurt Cobain died in 1994, one year later British boy band Take That did this touching, perfectly enunciated tribute:
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 25, 2016 4:51:06 GMT -5
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Post by monodrone on Jan 25, 2016 5:16:40 GMT -5
The Hulkamania style ripping of the vest, the gutless guitar tone, the shaky drumming, the one finger bass playing, the shiny trousers, the guitar solo. Someone thought all that was a good idea. |
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Post by Hugs and Hisses on Jan 25, 2016 10:14:01 GMT -5
The Hulkamania style ripping of the vest, the gutless guitar tone, the shaky drumming, the one finger bass playing, the shiny trousers, the guitar solo. Someone thought all that was a good idea. Don't overlook the singer's strategic butt waggling, and the faces the guitarist makes during that amazing, face-melting solo! Jesus. This video is amazing. |
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Post by moimoi on Jan 25, 2016 11:38:52 GMT -5
The Hulkamania style ripping of the vest, the gutless guitar tone, the shaky drumming, the one finger bass playing, the shiny trousers, the guitar solo. Someone thought all that was a good idea. Don't overlook the singer's strategic butt waggling, and the faces the guitarist makes during that amazing, face-melting solo! Jesus. This video is amazing. I couldn't make it to the guitar solo - I only lasted about 2 minutes before I felt too embarrassed for Gary Barlow (?) and his "stchewpid" dance moves. |
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Post by songstarliner on Jan 27, 2016 3:02:33 GMT -5
Oh for the sake of Christ - this fucking cover has 37 MILLION VIEWS on youtube
sorry you guys, but I really can't stand Guns N Roses. Just awful.
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Post by songstarliner on Jan 27, 2016 3:08:16 GMT -5
I don't ... I mean ... I just .... ? But why??
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 27, 2016 5:27:01 GMT -5
Don't overlook the singer's strategic butt waggling, and the faces the guitarist makes during that amazing, face-melting solo! Jesus. This video is amazing. I couldn't make it to the guitar solo - I only lasted about 2 minutes before I felt too embarrassed for Gary Barlow (?) and his "stchewpid" dance moves. 1.32 was my breaking point, just past the most feeble drum-fill-into-chorus I've ever heard. It was starting to curdle music as a whole for me. And yeah, it's Gary Barlow. Tax-dodging Tory shitlord. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Jan 27, 2016 9:19:21 GMT -5
This is for everyone who bitched about the comparatively bearable Canadian YouTube star Shawn Mendes' cover of this on The 100 last week...
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Post by Pops Freshenmeyer on Feb 5, 2016 22:52:50 GMT -5
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Post by ganews on Feb 11, 2016 16:14:04 GMT -5
Oh hey, it's my favorite Nirvana song from the radio. I was pretty disappointed with them when I found out it was a cover and heard Bowie's far-superior original (the radio always cut off the mention at the end of the song that it was a cover). Now this one below, ugh. Every time I hear someone talk about the exquisite pain in Cobain's vocal here, I just roll my eyes. |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Feb 11, 2016 16:18:32 GMT -5
I would also like to nominate literally every cover of John Lennon's "Imagine" (I won't torture myself or you by posting any links) The original is bad enough!
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Feb 12, 2016 1:00:21 GMT -5
First time I heard this I got so angry that I had to leave my friend's house, walk home, and listen to the original all alone in a dark room. Weird. This was the first version of the song I ever heard. I can't imagine hating it, just 'cause it's so ingrained in my early memories of getting into music.
Now this one below, ugh. Every time I hear someone talk about the exquisite pain in Cobain's vocal here, I just roll my eyes. What?! That cover is brilliant! It's Nirvana's "Hurt"! Pistols at dawn!
Here's an utterly unnecessary abomination, though: I mean, I like Muse! But why gut the rawness and beauty and sincerity of this song by turning it into an alt-metal jam? And turning that incredibly emotional solo into a "rawwwwwwwk" moment qualifies as blasphemy. |
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Feb 12, 2016 8:45:29 GMT -5
First time I heard this I got so angry that I had to leave my friend's house, walk home, and listen to the original all alone in a dark room. Weird. This was the first version of the song I ever heard. I can't imagine hating it, just 'cause it's so ingrained in my early memories of getting into music. Strangely enough, while it’s one of my favourite Neil Young songs and I generally don’t care for Annie Lennox… I don’t mind this version. I’ve never heard it before now, but it’s not bad and it kinda lends itself well to her overstuffed arrangement. |
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Post by Hugs and Hisses on Feb 12, 2016 9:56:26 GMT -5
I finally did it, Hugs and Hisses . I found a song so inherently abysmal that not even Mark Lanegan can save it. This feels like an accomplishment, though one of those ones you feel shitty about rather than proud of. I give you: Screaming Trees, John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" --This is probably the least bad cover of this shitty, shitty fucking song, if that takes any of the sting out of it ::runs away sobbing:: Seriously, that is shit. A shit song and a shit cover. I can't deny it. I was going to turn it off in disgust at the 30 second mark, but I soldiered on and am now worse for it. Thanks ever so much for sharing it.  (I'm actually not a Screaming Trees fan at all. Shocking, I know, considering my otherwise completionist devotion to Mr. Lanegan, but he didn't have enough artistic input on the Trees stuff to make it interesting to me. I like "Gospel Plow" but other than that? Meh.) And now I feel Lanegan needs some defending, and since it was brought up above, for those who don't like the Nirvana cover of "Where Did You Sleep", may I suggest the live Gutter Twins version which mashes it up with Massive Attack's "Live With Me"? |
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Feb 12, 2016 11:03:18 GMT -5
One of my favourite games is to listen to ‘90s-era solo Lanegan and predict the point at which the drums and distorted guitars would kick in if it were a Screaming Trees song!
Here’s a completely dreadful cover of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5’s “The Message” by Irish punks Stiff Little Fingers. I was introduced to this last year on Record Store Day when I picked up an exclusive 7” featuring the original on one side and the Stiff Little Fingers cover on the other. What I wasn’t taking into account was that it had been recorded by the late-90s iteration of SLF who were very much not good:
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Post by nowimnothing on Feb 12, 2016 11:09:02 GMT -5
I would also like to nominate literally every cover of John Lennon's "Imagine" (I won't torture myself or you by posting any links) Hey now, I do enjoy the dark take on it from A Perfect Circle. So here is some torture for you. |
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Post by Pops Freshenmeyer on Feb 16, 2016 20:24:00 GMT -5
I would also like to nominate literally every cover of John Lennon's "Imagine" (I won't torture myself or you by posting any links) There comes a point where the original isn't any better, neither. Usually, that's the time when people use the song as an anthem post-whatever latest tragedy befalls America. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Feb 19, 2016 18:00:34 GMT -5
Not quite covers, but the Official Star Wars EDM album Star Wars Headspace is deplorable shite and Ben Burtt is probably weeping in a corner somewhere on Skywalker Ranch.
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Post by Paleu on Feb 19, 2016 19:26:58 GMT -5
Kurt Cobain died in 1994, one year later British boy band Take That did this touching, perfectly enunciated tribute: 'Ello 'ello 'ello 'ello... |
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Post by monodrone on Aug 28, 2017 7:53:45 GMT -5
I don't know what's going on here. Some sort of attempt to piggy back the success (commercial rather than artistic) of Disturbed's cover of The Sound Of Silence? A cry for help?
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Aug 28, 2017 10:44:10 GMT -5
In middle school I downloaded a mislabeled version of this song on Limewire, and as a result I thought this was The Who's original for years |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 10:54:56 GMT -5
Found out about this one from the great "Least Essential Albums" lists at the A.V. Club. It's so surreally misguided that it's kind of amazing.
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Post by fab on Aug 28, 2017 11:02:41 GMT -5
I don't know what's going on here. Some sort of attempt to piggy back the success (commercial rather than artistic) of Disturbed's cover of The Sound Of Silence? A cry for help? Disturbed did a cover of The Sound of Silence? ohhhhhh god. nope. not even gonna check that out of morbid curiousity. is any of that footage of their old bandmate? didn't the drummer die a number of years ago? it's schmaltzy, but that cover could've been so, so much worse. be careful what you wish for... besides, it's the Beach Boys. keep it mostly intact, and Brian Wilson's incredible knack for songcraft will crush pretty much every time. In middle school I downloaded a mislabeled version of this song on Limewire, and as a result I thought this was The Who's original for years yeah, that version could pretty much end the thread right there. Rosa, you are much braver than I am. I'll cop to a begrudging persistent appreciation of some Sugar Ray songs from my adolescence... Someday has a nice guitar lick in it, at least? *sighs* I've definitely confused thought certain covers were the de facto version due to lack of familiarity with the original. it's a bit easier to track these days with the internet though.  |
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Post by moimoi on Aug 28, 2017 21:52:27 GMT -5
Found out about this one from the great "Least Essential Albums" lists at the A.V. Club. It's so surreally misguided that it's kind of amazing. FUCK, is this a joke? I was willing to suspend my prejudices, having given in to the idea that Simple Minds is capable of making good music (as Dellarig has tirelessly argued for some time). But what the flying fuck!? That was some blissed-out Ibiza late 90s trance shit. Gah! Choking on my own rage here! |
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(I'm actually not a Screaming Trees fan at all. Shocking, I know, considering my otherwise completionist devotion to Mr. Lanegan, but he didn't have enough artistic input on the Trees stuff to make it interesting to me. I like "Gospel Plow" but other than that? Meh.)
