Worst Cover Songs

[Alex Mogilny]

U2 - All along the Watchtower
Concrete Blond - Everybody Knows
Pearl Jam - Gimme some truth
Guns N Roses - Knockin' on heaven's door

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Originally posted by Alex Mogilny
U2 - All along the Watchtower
Concrete Blond - Everybody Knows
Pearl Jam - Gimme some truth
Guns N Roses - Knockin' on heaven's door

Gotta disagree on Concrete Blonde - They did pretty decent covers of Castles Made Of Sand and Shout (tears for fears) as well

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I'm going to stomp on a sacred cow and say I don't like Tina Turner's Proud Mary at all. Way to f'in fast.

I'm on the fence about Megadeth's Anarchy In The UK, but I liked their No More Mr. Nice Guy

[mako_kimura]

Let's see:

1. Van Hagar-Won't be fooled again
2. Metallica-Turn the page
3. Marilyn Manson-Sweet Dreams, Tainted Love, Highway to Hell
4. Run DMC-Walk This Way

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Originally posted by mako_kimura
Let's see:

1. Van Hagar-Won't be fooled again
2. Metallica-Turn the page
3. Marilyn Manson-Sweet Dreams, Tainted Love, Highway to Hell
4. Run DMC-Walk This Way

I don't think you can even consider sweet dreams a cover anymore. Manson owned that one, the eurythmics version is the cover at this point

[Soul Reaper]

McFly's chicken strangling version of Pinball Wizard.....

[RuzDNailz]

Pearl Jam cover of 'Last Kiss'. Still playing on the radio to this day.
Spamuel Hagar covering 'Running With The Devil'.
Creedence Clearwater Revisited because IMO they ARE a coverband!
Pat Boone (YIKES!!!)

Hey, what about GOOD covers?
Disturbed doing a cover of Genesis song 'Land Of Confusion'.
Blind Guardian doing Dio's 'Don't Talk To Strangers'.

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Sheryl Crow's Sweet Child Of Mine should be mentioned, as should 311's raping of Love Song

[Loons The Great]

Pearl Jam does the best Who covers...some of the best covers period.

"Taxman," by Stevie Ray Vaughn is awful. Any R.E.M. cover(or original) is terrible. Same with Creed, Hootie, and Extreme.

[Big Fat Sammy]

Originally posted by Unchainme

Britney Spears Covering Satisfaction and I Love Rock And Roll

Not to mention Britneys version of My Perogative by Bobby Brown.

Mr. Vengeance already beat me to the worst cover ever though, Purple Haze by Winger...

[FORD]

Originally posted by RuzDNailz


Hey, what about GOOD covers?
Disturbed doing a cover of Genesis song 'Land Of Confusion'.
Blind Guardian doing Dio's 'Don't Talk To Strangers'.

One of those "nu-metal" bands covered Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" a few years ago. Forget which one it was, since they all sound pretty much alike to me.

What Disturbed should have done is to get in touch with Spitting Image, the British Company that did the puppets for the original Genesis video, and updated the concept with Chimpy taking Reagan's place.

[Unchainme]

Originally posted by FORD
What Disturbed should have done is to get in touch with Spitting Image, the British Company that did the puppets for the original Genesis video, and updated the concept with Chimpy taking Reagan's place.

You thought that too? That was my first thought when I first heard that version, is that they got to do an updated version of the video.

[Terry]

Originally posted by Mr. Vengeance
One that I like but others really HATED was WASP covering the Who's The Real Me.

One WASP cover that does suck is Paint it Black

Oh...and I hated the GnR Sympathy for the Devil.

WASP fucking KILLED on The Real me. I never cared for that band (Blackie Lawless was always a talentless buttwipe IMO), but THAT cover version smoked.

[Terry]

Originally posted by fe_lung
I'm going to stomp on a sacred cow and say I don't like Tina Turner's Proud Mary at all. Way to f'in fast.

I'm on the fence about Megadeth's Anarchy In The UK, but I liked their No More Mr. Nice Guy

Stomp away. Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburgers.

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Originally posted by Terry
WASP fucking KILLED on The Real me. I never cared for that band (Blackie Lawless was always a talentless buttwipe IMO), but THAT cover version smoked.

I dug that one as well. Damn, now I need to go get it again - I haven't heard it in a decade