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Coxhill can be found here. Again, scroll down. You won’t be disappointed.
That was by a band called The Arrows originally.
While watching TV the other night, I saw a commercial for some movie and a really crappy white-boy-suburban-ska-mallpunk version of The Cure’s “Friday I’m In Love” was playing in the backround. Ugh. I Don’t much like that new Cypress Hill song that uses The Clash’s Guns Of Brixton as its foundation either. I only heard it once, but that was one time too many.
Unlike most remakes out there, I liked The Ataris take on that song.
How about the new, annoying version of “Your Eyes”
That was actually Bi-god 20
I love me a good cover.
However Tori AMos’s Heart of Gold was awful, oh and I think it was Courtney Love who did Gold Dust Woman… ugh.
DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING!! We have a winner! Johnny, tell him what he’s won!
SHUDDER…the mere idea of Pat Boone even humming Enter Sandman under his breath is enough to give me the heebie jeebies. I’m a huge Metallica fan. I had to get the ipod and listen to this song 3 times just to erase the sounds my overactive imagination was making.
I have yet to hear any cover worse than Crispin Glover’s constipated rendition of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”.
Yes they called it the "Free Baby Medley". I called it justification for homicide! I once walked out of someones house at a party when they insisted on playing it.
How about Metallica's "Whiskey in the Jar". I realize that Metallica were covering Thin Lizzy, but I wonder if they knew how old the song really is. Still I prefer the tradition versions.I cannot top these! I was going to nominate Santana’s version of the Zombies “She’s not there” (complete with the obligitory “Soul Sacrifice” breakdown in the middle) but I realize now that it is in a slightly higher ring of Hell the the above mentioned pieces of “music”.
Why, but WHY would anybody cover “In the year 2525”? Thank god I haven’t heard it!
I like Tori a lot, but the majority of her covers sound alike.
Are you sure that isn’t 311’s cover of “Lovesong”? Just the thought of it makes me want to punch people. The reality… Let’s just say I’m not too fond of that particular cover by that particular band.
No, I’m sure it was “Friday”. Damn, I hope I never hear the Lovesong cover.
I didn’t see the Limp Bisquick cover of “Behind Blue Eyes” mentioned. I don’t much like the original version, but The Who were cool. There’s nothing cool about Limp Bisquick.
Ladies and gentleman, I give you, in ascending order:
The Talking Heads’ “The Book I Read” by David Cassidy
Klaatu’s “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft” by The Carpenters
Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” by Rolf Harris
Truly, the desperate musical lightweight searching for serious artistic cred is more dangerous than a wounded buffalo.
Oh, how could I forget?
Jon Anderson & Vangelis’ “State of Independence” by Donna Summer
I once heard Sammy Davis Junior doing a cover of Isaac Hayes’ “Theme from Shaft”.
It’s pretty much what you would expect: The Candyman, he’s one baaaad muthafuckah.
Thing is, I have a hard time calling that one an unholy cover because A) It’s just such a trip, and B) It made me laugh my ass off, and that’s never a bad thing.
Hey, how 'bout that country cover of “I Want You To Want Me”? Now THAT is about as unholy as it gets. Don’t get me wrong, I’m punk, but I respect and like a lot of country. REAL country. But this was a corporate country version of a fucking CHEAP TRICK song done purely in the interest of making a buck from worn out 40 year old bar hogs who haven’t listened to rockandroll since 1983, who play it on the jukebox when they pick up white trash assholes wearing cowboy boots and wifebeater shirts. At least, that’s the impression that I got when I herd it.
Easy-
Paul Young’s cover of Joy Division’s “love will tear us apart.” Considering that JD made some of the most beautifully dark music ever recorded, Paul Young’s Michael Bolton by way of Richard Marx version of it is vomitous.
Apparently, he later raped the Chi-Lites’ “Oh Girl.”
Crispen Glover? Singing?
The mind bogglers…
Um…i mean:
the mind boggles…
sorry…drunk on Crown Royal at this moment…
Unholy as in BAD: Eddie Vedder’s cover of the Beatles’ “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away.” There is a special circle of Hell reserved for people who violate Beatles songs that badly.
Unholy as in AWESOME: Kompressor’s cover of “The Girl From Ipanema.” Imagine a cheesy MIDI-esque version of the song with vocals by a yelling German robot. So cool.