Appalling Cover Version by A list Artists

Dominic

The Mike Flowers thing is great ........but of course, it is a Parody

EricTheWeary

ICBM said:

DannyP said:

[t.A.T.u - How Soon Is Now]

Yes, that's dreadful. I've got the album and there's actually some very good stuff on it, but that track really spikes it.

Trevor Horn though - often a genius, but it remains to be seen what his new 'reinventing the 80s' album is like... I've heard the Robbie Williams cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World from it, and although not quite as bad it's still pretty poor.

Oh I heard Blue Monday off the Trevor Horn album. Just a cheesy rework, I didn't like it. 

Fretwired

DannyP said:

That's appalling ... ahh

chrisjac2

Some songs you shouldn't even try. I like RW but this is truly awful

Axe_meister

Celine Dion doing ACDC shook me all night long.

Jonathangus

bingefeller

JerkMoans

Stretching ‘A-List’, but perhaps the most cringingly bad, ill-advised cover in the history of ever.

Take That doing ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’.

https://youtu.be/Sc2m4w9h0cw

darthed1981

ICBM said:

Amy Winehouse doing Valerie - it's a man's song to a woman. She sings it with no reference to that or apparently any feeling for the song at all. It may be Mark Ronson's fault though, to be fair.

The terrible tragedy of Amy Winehouse, that after Back to Black conquered the world everyone expected a stunning third album, but she just drank herself to death and did the odd cover version in the meantime.

Mark Ronson's whole covers album "Version" there is very nicely done, but it's more an experiment in production, none of the covers come close to bettering the original.

The documentary "Amy" is required viewing for even the most casual fan (unless you are her Dad, he does not come out of it well).

darthed1981

stimpsonslostson said:

Sugarbabes Vs Girls Aloud covering Walk This Way springs to mind. (Though "A list" might be stretching it a bit). 
It was a charity single for Comic Relief... A song that's about a boy losing his virginity as a children's charity single? That's before you even get to listening to it. 

...

Apparently they claimed not to know what it was about! 
"Backstroke lover always hidin' 'neath the cover
'Till I talked to my daddy he say
He said, you ain't seen noting
'Till you're down on a muffin
Then you're sure to be a-changin' your ways"

I wouldn't criticise it too much, that Amele who was in the Sugababes back then (for a bit) is the type to have you killed, allegedly.

Edit:  That's a JOKE, should make that clear, she has had some unsavoury associations though.

thecolourbox

What about Sam Smith's cover of I Won't Back Down by Tom Petty?

On a more literal note, I'll offer up Bowie and Jagger doing Dancing in the Street

darthed1981

thecolourbox said:

On a more literal note, I'll offer up Bowie and Jagger doing Dancing in the Street

Certainly comfortably one of the worst videos ever made.

A lot of gay sex backstage on that set...

rlw

Nazareth - This flight tonight.

It was just on the radio and still effing dreadful

ICBM

JerkMoans said:

Stretching ‘A-List’, but perhaps the most cringingly bad, ill-advised cover in the history of ever.

Take That doing ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’.

Absolutely A-list - they've probably sold more records than most of the other artists mentioned here put together.

I actually think it was a brave attempt and quite good, given that they're not really known for being instrumental musicians. (Assuming that what you hear is actually them playing, of course... I'm not convinced.)

chrisjac2 said:

Some songs you shouldn't even try. I like RW but this is truly awful

[Robbie Williams | Bohemian Rhapsody live in Paris | LMEY Tour]

That's definitely less good though...

darthed1981 said:

thecolourbox said:

On a more literal note, I'll offer up Bowie and Jagger doing Dancing in the Street

Certainly comfortably one of the worst videos ever made.

I love that! Probably the thing that most captures the spirit of Live Aid for me, even though it obviously wasn't actually part of the concert.

JerkMoans

Oh yes: I’d forgotten this gem. Kanye West covering Bohemian Rhapsody 

https://youtu.be/Sh_xie0hcBw

Teetonetal

Sherly crow doing sweet child o mine springs to mind.

Thin lizzy doing whiskey in the jar is also a crock of shit.

Sleepyscholar

Kilgore said:

A complete travesty or vast improvement on the original.

You choose. 

That is the original!

(I don't care that it was recorded after Oasis, it'll always be the original for me.)

vasselmeyer

There's a 1980s version of All Right Now by Rod Stewart which is really terrible, with electronic production. He really should have known better.

CeeJay

bingefeller said:

Looks like Sting doesn't know whether to laugh, cry or leave! 

pmbomb

Octafish said:

Cols said:

Metallica covering When Doves Cry by Prince.  I honestly can’t tell whether or not they’re massively taking the piss.

https://youtu.be/FgQ57Gv7W7k

Add to that their horrific cover of Thin Lizzy's version of 'Whisky in the Jar', none more shitter....

I'm liking it (video does help). I'm very quickly developing an aversion to the Lizzy version tho. Just drags on for bloody ever. FFS get on with it lads.



My contribution (since someone else nabbed Crow/Sweet Child) is Madonna doing American Pie.