Bad cover versions

[CaledonianGonzo]

3 hours ago, WestCountryGirl said:

It's not recent! This has been my number 1 pet peeve for at least 10 years now. 

That Jose Gonzalez covering The Knife advert is now 15 years old.

[WestCountryGirl]

9 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

That Jose Gonzalez covering The Knife advert is now 15 years old.

Yup. And Gary Jules' cover of Mad World was 17 years ago. Admittedly, I may have caused this problem as I actually bought that single... I was a very, very sad 12 year old. 

[Homer]

Surely no one can beat this. What's the prize for winning this thread?
 

 

[Quark]

36 minutes ago, Homer said:

Surely no one can beat this. What's the prize for winning this thread?
 

 

Jesus, Joseph and all their carpenter friends. What the holy hellfire have I just heard?

[Homer]

9 minutes ago, Quark said:

Jesus, Joseph and all their carpenter friends. What the holy hellfire have I just heard?

Exhibit A in the court case if the prosecutor had any sense.

[Quark]

11 minutes ago, Homer said:

Exhibit A in the court case if the prosecutor had any sense.

Officially there's no reaction to the post, but that's because I have both up and down voted you at the same time. Nightmare fuel but also a clear winner.

[crocodiles]

Little mix cannonball

Mel b word up 

[hfuhruhurr]

20 hours ago, Homer said:

Surely no one can beat this. What's the prize for winning this thread?
 

 

Flippin heck, so I click to watch this on Youtube and now my recommended playlist includes a Jimmy Savile remix.

[priest17]

I've tried my best to stay away from these cover threads coz they recur pretty often and I always post the same shite but I've just had this introduced to me (never seen the cat in the hat no) and its actually gotten worse

 

[maelzoid]

On 11/23/2020 at 8:36 PM, crocodiles said:

Little mix cannonball

Rubbish, I'm sure. But at least it wasn't the Breeders they were desecrating.

[a6l6e6x]

On 11/22/2020 at 9:05 AM, rubenz said:

I see your take that and raise you a Coldplay! 

Jesus that is dreadful. I usually defend coldplay as an alright band but that is just awful.

Whenever bad covers comes up I always remember this from a iron maiden covers album kerrang gave away

Also if you love bad covers just listen to the punk goes x series of albums. Some absolute howlers on those. No idea how they are still going

[rivalschools.price]

Somebody save us

 

 

 

 

 

[priest17]

4 hours ago, rivalschools.price said:

Somebody save us

 

 

 

 

 

wrong covers thread mate, absolute supergroup

[mattiloy]

Can someone help me, is this a good cover or a terrible cover?

[maelzoid]

3 hours ago, mattiloy said:

Can someone help me, is this a good cover or a terrible cover?

Without listening to it, I'm going to go with terrible.

[maelzoid]

This one is far better

And I really like this one. Despite it being Sting, Gil Evans and Orchestra provide the backing and the guitar solo is sublime.

 

[priest17]

3 hours ago, mattiloy said:

Can someone help me, is this a good cover or a terrible cover?

Neither. Its weird, the guitar is obviously magic on the original but its the drum fills I missed more.

[guypjfreak]

Found this today thought it worth sharing 

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[Gnomicide]

HOLD THE FRONT PAGE!

 

 

[danbailey80]

On 11/22/2020 at 9:05 AM, rubenz said:

I see your take that and raise you a Coldplay! 

Although an interesting addition - I'm no sure this counts as a proper cover. It's actually the intro to their own song 'Christmas Lights'. He's just slotting in a few of the lyrics into the intro of a Coldplay song - probably relatively on the cuff. He was mates with Adam Yauch who died that year so I think we can forgive him. 

 

Edited December 8, 2020 by danbailey80

[Quark]

17 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

HOLD THE FRONT PAGE!

 

 

Finally given up and listened to this.  It's quite a thing. It's somewhere between Vic Reeves' club singer, Elton John's lockdown version of I'm Still Standing and Bob Dylan's completely unintelligible period.

Take a bow Jon. You've created a little slice of Christmas magic.

[Ayrshire Chris]

On 11/23/2020 at 10:57 AM, Homer said:

Surely no one can beat this. What's the prize for winning this thread?
 

 

[maelzoid]

On 11/22/2020 at 9:05 AM, rubenz said:

I see your take that and raise you a Coldplay! 

So I avoided this for a good couple of weeks and now watching it, it's not so bad. 

If you want to see a properly awful version, I've got you covered:

I saw them do the same thing at IOW that year. Just as inept. Not sure what's going ion, but the band obviously couldn't be arsed to learn the song for the tribute and just look on vaguely embarrassed. Shit.

[philipsteak]

23 hours ago, Quark said:

Finally given up and listened to this.  It's quite a thing. It's somewhere between Vic Reeves' club singer, Elton John's lockdown version of I'm Still Standing and Bob Dylan's completely unintelligible period.

Take a bow Jon. You've created a little slice of Christmas magic.

That's a lot more eloquent than my reaction, which was simply "fuckin' hell"

[priest17]

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