It’s a pity that the Lawrence Welk Show went off the air before rap. I can so easily imagine two middle aged dancers broadly smiling and playfully shoving each other while singing an accordian fueled mashup of “Get back motherfucker! You don’t know me like that!” before going through the audience singing “Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?”
How about an accordion rendition of I Like Big Butts and I Cannot Lie?
The two worst I’ve ever encountered:
The Frank Sinatra version of “Mrs. Robinson”. First, he tried to make it sound upbeat and cheerful, and then he somehow managed to edit out the references to Jesus (I can’t remember what he replaced them with).
Wayne Newton doing “Gangster Paradise”. It was some sort of New Year’s Eve thing in Las Vegas, and he was doing covers of all of the big musical hits of the year. I don’t think I even need to explain why it was awful.
To get a sense of perspective, click on the Wilson Pickett Live 66 link in Sampiro’s link.
Nina Simone can do no wrong.
How about “Unforgettable” as sung by Ani DiFranco and Jackie Chan? :eek:
You need you some Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine. Seriously. It’s killer shit.
Dick Cheese doing Baby Got Back. Probably NSFW.
Now that is intriguing to imagine.
Another Floyd cover that had me retching was used in the movie Class of '99. A supergroup of various Seattle grunge artists performed Another Brick in the Wall for the soundtrack. The cover itself isn’t so bad, but when they get to the chorus where the school children pipe in, it’s all nice and lovely and charming voices singing along, not angry and scary voices like the original’s. It’s like topping a gun with whipped cream before putting it in your mouth to make suicide taste better.
I knew I’d get an answer like that.
Mmm, pistol whip.
Anybody remember Dueling Tubas?
No, but now I want to. There’s no way that could possibly be bad.
I cannot listen to the Five Finger Death Punch cover of Bad Company. I love FFDP, but they seriously f’ed up one of my favorite songs. I pretty much exclusively listen to Octane on XM, and I have to change stations when it comes on. :shudder: Since they play it so much I’m certain I’m alone in my loathing.
This thread had so frightened me that I haven’t clicked on a single link. The descriptions alone will give me nightmares.
Brady Bunch covers “American Pie”.
Although this isn’t as bad, it’s still regrettable in many ways. Nickelback cover “Love Will Keep Us Together” (yes the Captain and Tenille song)
Duran Duran covers Public Enemy.
'nuff said.
Stairway to Heaven by Rolf Harris usually comes up. But it was deliberately intended as an absurd blend of performer and song.
You’re telling me you don’t like this? :dubious:
You obviously meant to post this in the “Most Awesomest Things EVER” thread.
Ah, that In a Metal Mood album. Back in the time, I used that album (which I borrowed from the public library, I’m not brainless enough to buy it) to haze new members of our heavy-metal posse.