I've skimmed through Vespers and don't see a thread regarding really bad covers. If one exists, I'll start off by apologizing for dredging up an old topic.
I'm mainly posting this because I went to bed last night really pissed! Was watching SNL and their "musical" (yeah, right!) guest, Scissor something or something Scissor was SQUEAKING AND SCREECHING out a cover of Comfortably Numb. I am still in shock over these Bozos.....they should be tarred and feathered or drawn and quartered....SOMETHING!
May they be stricken with permanent vocal cord numbness! That would teach 'em.
Anyway, now that I've got that off my chest, are there any covers out there that any of you feel the same way about?
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Sheryl Crow - Sweet Child o' Mine
Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit (though her covers are usually pretty good)
Rammstein - Stripped (from the Depeche Mode tribute album. couldn't stop laughing)
Madonna - American Pie
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Whoever covered "Boys of Summer" a few years ago gets the chipper/shredder. Whoever juct covered Queen's "Under Pressure" goes in feet first.
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Cail wrote:Whoever covered "Boys of Summer" a few years ago gets the chipper/shredder. Whoever juct covered Queen's "Under Pressure" goes in feet first.
That was the Atari's and I agree with you completely. Was going to add that one in anyway. Also, Bananarama's butcher job of Venus and Lenny Kravitz' cover of American Woman. They all pop immediatly into mind.
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Mr. Tambourine Man - William Shatner
Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town - Leonard Nimoy
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Guns N' Roses
Eminem – Take On Me
Neil Diamond – (Hit Me) Baby One More Time
GNR - Live and Let Die. They DESTROYED the Paul McCartney song.
and Knockin' On Heaven's Door with the "Hey-hey-hey-yeah".
Not to get me wrong, I like Guns N Roses, but they should have not done cover tunes.
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"Live and Let Die" really didn't annoy me that much. It's pretty much a straight reading of the Wings version, with guitar replacing the horns.
But "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" was Gawdawful.
Then there's Kelly Osbourne's version of "Changes".
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Never cared for the original Live and Let Die, so the remake was an improvement in my book (lucky Foul's not around; he'd kill me). Read somewhere that that was the number one covered song of all time. Knockin' on Heaven's Door is a very good GnR song. It fits perfectly into the album and is completely fitting to their style. That said, it's not a good cover.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
Syl wrote: Knockin' on Heaven's Door is a very good GnR song. It fits perfectly into the album and is completely fitting to their style. That said, it's not a good cover.
'Knockin' On Heaven's Door' is a brilliant song.
But it's not a 'Guns And Roses song'. And it doesn't fit their style, because it's not commercial crap.
The only album it 'fits perfectly into' is Dylan's 'Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid'.
They deserve a special place in Hell even though I don't believe in hell...how would you like it if you were stuck in the never opening elevator of hell and this was the music that was piped in?
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Edge wrote:Britney Spears' cover of 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll'
I'm glad I missed it. (shudder)
Didn't she also make a tru ly horrid cover of a Rolling Stones song? Maybe Satisfaction? I seem to vaguely remember it, but I think that my brain has mercifully blocked out most of the details.
danlo wrote:They deserve a special place in Hell even though I don't believe in hell...how would you like it if you were stuck in the never opening elevator of hell and this was th music that was piped in?
Please stop. You're scaring me!
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I'm glad I missed it. (shudder)
Maybe Satisfaction? I seem to vaguely remember it, but I think that my brain has mercifully blocked out most of the details. 
