# Wow, that's a great cover of that song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [April 12, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596 "2020-04-12T02:35:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 58
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1145 "2026-05-01T07:48:35Z")
Worst cover ever: Celine Dion does AC/DC ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Mo8VylC4IUE/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mo8VylC4IUE?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PL7MCQTo_W-BG82Uj5lQ-dJx213rwZxRCR ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1146 "2026-05-01T07:50:38Z")
OK, yes, that’s also up there. I submit this cover of “The Final Countdown” by an unnamed band that was posted WAAAAAAAY back in the earliest days of Youtube. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FjeMDvCdrtc/hqdefault.jpg "worst cover ever! \*the final count down\*") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeMDvCdrtc) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2026, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1147 "2026-05-02T02:58:03Z")
IMNHO I think the best post-Beatles number is George’s “What is Life”. It really works me up, that one, (not too many songs, period, do), so, my expectations are through the roof if a cover is attempted of it, and, amazingly, Al Yankovic does a faithful, bang-on job (the vox similairity!) onstage somewhere on youtube. Also, just simply performs it well, with lots of spirit and conviction. Three thumbs up somehow. Another song that made me bounce off the walls when I was kid was Rufus/Chaka Kahn’s “Tell Me Something Good”, which I thought Pink belted out a hot cover of it. Lots of gusto in her delivery. ---
**Author:** ![stopnonstop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@stopnonstop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stopnonstop)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1148 "2026-05-11T03:00:05Z")
[Dinosaur Jr - Show me the way](https://youtu.be/as6pXqWYE4U?si=TH-ByNTgQL-RnXu8) I used to listen to this on cassette in a broken down car with my windows rolled down in the unbearable heat of Korean traffic and it always brought a smile to my face. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1149 "2026-05-14T07:15:27Z")
Here’s Canadian electro-pop singer Dragonette, accompanied by an American electronic duo called the Knocks, performing a cover of Pete Townshend’s “Let My Love Open the Door” which is clearly influenced by the Final Fantasy prelude. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/SBCJ7NM1j7o/maxresdefault.jpg "The Knocks & Dragonette - Let My Love Open The Door [Official Visualizer]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBCJ7NM1j7o) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1150 "2026-05-14T14:49:20Z")
Jewels **Leaving on a Jet Plane** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPQx6GB3Thc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPQx6GB3Thc) is all about the mixing. I don’t know another song that reverberates in your skull so pleasently. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1151 "2026-05-16T21:55:53Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cU5yuMqHNG4/maxresdefault.jpg "Joe Walsh & Steve Earl - Honey Don't (1993)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU5yuMqHNG4) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1152 "2026-05-17T00:55:12Z")
Yola did an amazing cover of Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/dWePiTJcBEw/maxresdefault.jpg "Yola - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road [Official Video]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWePiTJcBEw) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1153 "2026-05-17T18:51:08Z")
How about a tremendously poo-ridden cover of a song? Badfinger did a perfectly ok song called “Without You” and then a year or two later Harry Nilsson (whom the Beatles probably should have just ignored) took it and made it into an exercise of pathetically pleading, paltry, pitiful pain that yeah, got my goat. Can’t _give_ any-mooorrrrrrre. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1154 "2026-05-17T18:54:02Z")
And then Mariah Carey topped it with her even more execrable version 20 years later, which was modeled after Nilsson’s. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2026, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1155 "2026-05-18T18:32:43Z")
Rockpile w/special guest Robert Plant covering _“Little Sister”_ with some tasty guitar work by Dave and Billy. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q5XJX8sjYDE/hqdefault.jpg "Rockpile w/ Robert Plant - Little Sister") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5XJX8sjYDE) ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2026, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1156 "2026-05-19T01:48:10Z")
Loved it! ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2026, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1157 "2026-05-19T23:37:39Z")
Does this count? Rick Astley with the Foo Fighters covering his own song in the style of Smells Like Teen Spirit: > **[Foo Fighters & Rick Astley, Never Gonna Give You Up, Multi-camera, Tokyo,...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GE0AiC-mi8%2F)** > > Rick Astley joining Foo Fighters on stage at Summer Sonic 2017 in Tokyo. Live multi camera edit with improved audio. Thanks to Tatsunori Tanaka, Bixbiz, Dais... ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2026, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1158 "2026-05-19T23:52:21Z")
Wow, I have to say that was the best way I ever gor rickrolled! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2026, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1159 "2026-05-19T23:59:03Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Rockpile w/special guest Robert Plant covering _“Little Sister”_ with some tasty guitar work by Dave and Billy. That was very nice. Ry Cooder also had a fine cover of “Little Sister”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zeUUye3TMhI/maxresdefault.jpg "Little Sister") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUUye3TMhI) ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1160 "2026-05-20T01:22:39Z")
It was produced by Robbie Robertson’s son, also Willy Nelson’s son is in there singing and playing guitar. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1161 "2026-05-20T03:36:26Z")
The Warning cover Alanis (the radio friendly version) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/B1zZA72GWl4/maxresdefault.jpg "The Warning - You Oughta Know!! Cover SiriusXm") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1zZA72GWl4) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1162 "2026-05-20T21:46:31Z")
Might be better than the original! ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1163 "2026-05-22T18:18:25Z")
The bassist handles Fleas’s bassline and looks bored doing it. Not that she’s changed much since she started. The attitude seems to be her nature. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/P-IuRNVMsx0/maxresdefault.jpg "Hysteria Muse Cover Practice Dany, Pau & Ale") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-IuRNVMsx0) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1164 "2026-05-31T20:24:02Z")
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