Let’s see…The Wall came out about three years before I was born. I had never heard of the Scissor Sisters before someone on this board mentioned the cover in a previous thread. I also don’t mind covers that try to do something different (after all, look at All Along the Watchtower) but I’ll admit that some work better than others. That said, I rather like the cover of Comfortably Numb, because it’s humorous because of the juxtaposition.
Then again, I’ve also got Paul Anka’s Rock Swings album, and various other odd covers such as Jonathan Coulton covering Baby Got Back, the Connells covering Insane in the Brain, William Shatner covering Common People, Johnny Cash covering Hurt, Tomoyasu Hotei doing an odd remix of Immigrant Song, and some odd covers more along a trance line, such as Jes’s cover of Love Song. So I’m probably not the best person to be talking about bad covers. Also, I’ve got Springsteen covering Viva Las Vegas, I think I have Pearl Jam’s cover of Last Kiss, and I’m sure looking through my iPod would bring up several more.
Sorry but I can’t respect your wishes. What you probably heard was the Italian disco group Pink Project doing a cover of “Another Brick in the Wall,” from 1982.
and I’ve got the video tape to prove it. I listened to more than half of it just knowing it had to be a joke. Nope! Absolutely, positively, no doubt about it the worst rendition EVER. I thought the two co-hosts were gonna go into cardiac arrest.
And I can remember working for Service Merchandise one Christmas season and the muzac was running some Jimi Hendrix and Doors music all muzaced up. :dubious::eek: All Along the Watchtower does not work as muzac. [Though mrAru does a hysterically funny AC-DC Highway to Hell, and at one point back in 1983 the band I was in were at a gig and something happened to the guitar so we hammed up a muzacy keyboards/drums/bass riff of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here while they got the guitar back up.]
Now THIS is the kind of thread that needs to get resurrected every once in a while!
Loved watching the video again, if only to understand that when SNL goes over the top, it’s really just a documentary. I mean, can’t you just picture Will Ferrell “dancing” in that video (it was a lot like his cheerleader character).
Oh, and I see I missed someone asking me if the Welk cast were really like this:
YES! They’d be all bubbly when they met you, but it was so fake. They were so psychologically scarred. One guy was super-upbeat (yes, he used words like suuuper-UPbeat!), but his friend told me he’d been having an affair with another (married) guy on the show, and had attempted suicide.
Imagine a used car dealer/evangelist the day before he gets up in a tower with a rifle.
I only spent ten minutes with these people, and I wasn’t exaggerating that it still haunts me.
I like or don’t mind a good portion of the covers here, but that Lawrence Welk one…wow. That may be the worst I’ve ever heard.
(I’m surprised to see the Rolf Harris Stairway to Heaven mentioned as coming up often in these threads–it seemed clear to me to be a tongue-in-cheek cover.) I don’t like the Richard Cheese ones–too gimmicky–but they’re meant to be fun and tongue-in-cheek, so I’ll give them a pass.
I never heard of this guy and now I can’t stop watching his youtube videos. Check out his Nine Inch Nails cover: 
:dubious::eek: All Along the Watchtower does not work as muzac. [Though mrAru does a hysterically funny AC-DC Highway to Hell, and at one point back in 1983 the band I was in were at a gig and something happened to the guitar so we hammed up a muzacy keyboards/drums/bass riff of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here while they got the guitar back up.]