Worst cover ever: Celine Dion does AC/DC
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jewels Leaving on a Jet Plane 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.
Yola did an amazing cover of Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”.
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.
And then Mariah Carey topped it with her even more execrable version 20 years later, which was modeled after Nilsson’s.
Rockpile w/special guest Robert Plant covering “Little Sister” with some tasty guitar work by Dave and Billy.
Loved it!
Does this count? Rick Astley with the Foo Fighters covering his own song in the style of Smells Like Teen Spirit:
Wow, I have to say that was the best way I ever gor rickrolled!
That was very nice. Ry Cooder also had a fine cover of “Little Sister”.
It was produced by Robbie Robertson’s son, also Willy Nelson’s son is in there singing and playing guitar.
The Warning cover Alanis (the radio friendly version)
Might be better than the original!
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.
