Worst song covers ever

[Axewielder]

Some great covers are done on the Metal Tribute to Abba (flame away lol), some great catchy tunes given the metal treatment

Yngwie ruled on that Gimme Gimme tune!

[eakinj]

Anything by Wing.

Click if you dare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmijZEpV1_A&feature=related

One of my favorite covers is Type O Negative's Summer Breeze. Too cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ZMRk8hcWk

fuckin hell man! Why oh why god in heaven did you let me click that fucking link. Isn't that the same "artist" they had on south park on an episode? Holy crap I thought they were kidding with that shit...

Holy fuck, NOW I have something to bash you for on your thread (lol) how could you do that to people man!?! hehe

[eakinj]

Every cover song Tori does is amazing! She rules!!!!

I completely agree with you.

Is it Raining blood? I thought it was Reign in blood. Oh well... I never read the song titles anyway..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz0Q91VFsOk

[VitaminG]

Flotsam and Jetsam's cover of Saturday Night's Alright was pretty lame. When a thrash band covers Elton John, the result should be more rocking than the original.

should be, but often isn't. A lot of hard rock and metal covers will suck all the swing and swagger out of the original tune & replace it with a crappy straight 8 chug chug instead. Check out Winger's version of Purple Haze. Love the song, love the band, some great guitar playing from Reb & Dweezil. But they somehow sucked the life out of the song.

Of course, some bands get it very right. Sinergy did with Hanging on the Telephone. I liked The Living End's version of Tainted Love. Firewind were good with She's a Maniac (that Flashdance song). Coroner did a great job of I Want You (She's So Heavy)

[dg]

Probably nowhere near the worst, but I always hated GnR's covers. Axl usually drove me up the fukkin' wall to begin with, but "Live & Let Die-yie" and "Knockin' on Heaven's Do-a-woah" took it to a whole different level of annoying.

[joelayres]

Axl usually drove me up the fukkin' wall to begin with, but "Live & Let Die-yie" and "Knockin' on Heaven's Do-a-woah" took it to a whole different level of annoying.

Ain't that the truth (spitting drink over keyboard).

[guitarsjb]

Worst-Metallica's Turn the page or Whiskey in a Jar

Best- Johnny Cash-Hurt

[guitarnut1980]

most likely those two fuckin chicks, don't know there names, one did Paul McCartneys Maybe I'm Amazed, and the other one did Aerosmith's Dream on. I felt like i was going to bleed out of every opening in my body

[Ripley7t]

Anything by Shatner. I think the Pat Boone covers were better than anything Shatner has ever done. I keep trying to think of a song where pausing after every word would be good, but I cant think of any, lol.

[eakinj]

Say your ........ prayers ...... little..... one
Dont forget! ..... my son.....
To include .................... everyone
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNN NNNNNNNN!

[VitaminG]

Probably nowhere near the worst, but I always hated GnR's covers. Axl usually drove me up the fukkin' wall to begin with, but "Live & Let Die-yie" and "Knockin' on Heaven's Do-a-woah" took it to a whole different level of annoying.

oh, good call!

One of my favourite covers is Cold Chisel doing Knockin' on Heaven's Door on their Swingshift live album. One of my least favourite is G'n'R's version of the same. I hate that anytime that song comes on the radio, someone listening is going to sing along "hey. hey. hey, hey, yea" regardless of which version is playing. :p

[toejam]

I completely agree with you.

Is it Raining blood? I thought it was Reign in blood. Oh well... I never read the song titles anyway..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz0Q91VFsOk

The song is Raining Blood, the album it was from was Reign In Blood.

[mr426]

The Dixie Chicks destroyed Landslide by Fleetwood mac.

[necrotechno]

There's some new R&B guy who did a cover of George Benson's "Love Theme" a couple of years ago. But it's slower, some of the lyrics are moved around, and... THERE'S NO GUITAR ON IT! I mean, what the HELL??? George singing along with his guitar is the only thing that makes his music worth listening to! And it just ends with the dude going "And what we have is much more than they can see" over and over again into a quick fade.

Although George Benson himself once did a really lame version of "Last Train to Clarksville"...

ELP (Emerson, Lake and POWELL) did a horrible instrumental of "Do the Locomotion."

Johnny Cash's version of Soundgarden's "Rusty Cage" is pretty wince-worthy.

Celtic Frost's version of Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" is hilarious, but it's really not very well done. GWAR's version of "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" is similarly jokey.

I always liked Zoetrope's version of "New World Order" until I heard the original Megadeth demo version. Dunno how they worked that deal to get that song. Their version of The Animals' "It's My Life," on the same album, was pretty bad.

I also like Hall & Oates version of "Family Man" until I heard the origninal Mike Oldfield version. The H&O version is still listenable, but it's just so watered down, the guitar and bass parts having lost all of their freakiness.

There was a weak version of XTC's "Dear God" playing over the sound system at the record store last time I was there. I've no idea who it was.

Iron Maiden's version of Jethro Tull's "Cross-Eyed Mary" is pretty much unlistenable.

Laszlo Bane's version of Men At Work's "Overkill" only comes to life in the last minute when Colin Hay comes in for a duet.

Elvis' version of "You Lost That Loving Feeling." He'd lost a lot more than that by that point in his life...

I've got a small-label KISS tribute record around here somewhere that includes a cover of Russ Ballard's "Voices." Uh, what? Yeah, Russ wrote "New York Groove," but I think putting "Voices" on a KISS tribute record is a bit of a stretch.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' version of "Detroit Rock City" sucked much ass, also.

[Snoogans]

Gene Simmons' cover of Firestarter sucks at every conceiveable level. If you've never heard it, be thankful, and please don't go Googling for it!