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Okay, I will absolutely second Madonna covering American Pie. That was dreck. Horrible. Worst cover ever.
I will also put forth Rufus Wainwright’s Halleluja. I mean, it wasn’t terrible, I suppose. He, however, also wins the award for a note-for-note cover. And his cover covered another cover! Plus, Jeff Buckley was smart enough to realise that “outdrew ya” makes more lyrical sense than “outdrew you.”
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In a circular karmic sort of way, both Bono and Don Henley come up again - Bono for his wretched cover of “Hallelujah” on a Leonard Cohen tribute album the name of which escapes me, and Henely for his even worse hatchet job on “Everybody Knows” from the same album. The only mitigating factor for anyone covering “Hallelujah” is that next to John Cale’s version, even Leonard Cohens is crap.
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[QUOTE=mamboman]
The only mitigating factor for anyone covering “Hallelujah” is that next to John Cale’s version, even Leonard Cohens is crap.
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I considered Leonard Cohen’s okay… Jeff Buckley sang the definitive version for me. It’s so sad that it makes me ache.
To prevent hijacking this thread, I will also nominate Tiffany’s I Saw Him Standing There. The reason? Well, epinions.com said it better than I could. They had a hip, young teenager cover a song released before she was born in order to sell tickets to both teenage girls and their mothers. Smart marketing, bad reason to cover.
I’ve called the Guns ‘n’ Roses cover of Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door a crime against humanity. I stand by that. As for Molly Hatchett’s cover of Dreams (Allman Brothers Band)… well, I think the word Hatchett pretty much takes care of it.
[QUOTE=Jeep’s Phoenix]
And Sheryl Crow’s cover of Sweet Child O’ Mine was pathetic.
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This is clearly the winner. I was gonna post it, and thought it would have been ranked higher, much higher. Clearly the most blasphemous cover ever. End of discussion. She shat on rock. Damn her to hell.
I know it’s wrong to speak ill of the dead, but try as I might I just can’t forgive Johnny Cash for his risible version of ‘Hurt’.
gotcha!
[QUOTE=George Kaplin]
I know it’s wrong to speak ill of the dead, but try as I might I just can’t forgive Johnny Cash for his risible version of ‘Hurt’.
gotcha!
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No, you were right in your first sentence. I just don’t get the love for his version (even from Reznor) - the NIN version at least doesn’t sound like a drunken geriatric wino in a back alley crooning to his bottle of meths as he pisses his pants. The Cash version does.
Oh, and Britney Spears doing Joan Jet. That was bad.
And that’s where they went wrong 
[QUOTE=George Kaplin]
And that’s where they went wrong
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No, not the good sort of wino - not Tom Waits. The bad kind of wino, like Aqualung…
Boney M’s cover of Neil Young’s Heart of Gold.
Shaggy’s desecration of Angel of the Morning, Angel.
What a gal! :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=Blanche]
I thought I heard “Frankenstein” on the radio the other day, and was singing along with the guitar solo when my version and the version on the radio diverged suddenly…there was this twiddly bit that spoiled the flow of the song and didn’t fit in at all. Up until then it was note-for-note and close enough I didn’t realize it was a cover. I don’t know who did the cover, though.
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That would be Overkill’s cover of the song. Really good rhythm players they are, but could never do leads all that good.
Mary J. Blige also mangled “One” on the most recent American Idol. They should have let Elliott Yamin sing it on his own instead of forcing a duet with her.
No mention of Celine Dion’s cover of ACDC’s ‘You shook me (all night long)’?
[QUOTE=MrDibble]
Oh, and Britney Spears doing Joan Jet. That was bad.
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CITE! CITE! I NEED A CITE!..Oh, you mean musically?
[QUOTE=Lochdale]
No mention of Celine Dion’s cover of ACDC’s ‘You shook me (all night long)’?
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You are making that up!
umm… all this time and no mention of “imagine” by a perfect circle? sounds like a damn funeral dirge…
[QUOTE=bloo-bird]
You are making that up!
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I’m afraid not.
http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/64191.html
[QUOTE=bloo-bird]
You are making that up!
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I’m afraid not.
http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/64191.html
That’s unbelievable. Celine Dion covering any AC/DC song would be in contention for the most horrific cover of all time, but YSMANL adds blasphemy to the monstrosity.