The discussion thread of Devo's "(I can't Get No) Satisfaction" under the previous post got me thinking about the worst cover. Here goes:
Hands down, the worst cover ever is Mission U.K.'s "Tomorrow Never Knows."
And then there's a close second in Motley Crue's "Anarchy in the U.K."
Both are fucking godawful. Just try to listen to them all the way through...
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I nominate Stevie Wonder's version of "Redemption Song"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_FNgeiY0ts
Check out Donnie & Marie Osmond covering Steely Dan's "Reelin' in the Years." I'm not sure they really understood the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDeVAF58jPg
From the YouTube comments:
Sweet mother of David!!! How you will know you went to hell and not to heaven!
I'm stabbing myself in the nuts with an ice pick while Im listening to this..
I'll be curious to hear what folks think of Rolf Harris's cover of "Stairway to Heaven" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBzJQ6ZA6oA&feature=related.
Sheryl Crow - Sweet Child O' Mine
I couldn't even bear to click on the second link Spiros!
My God! No less than *two* umlauts in their name couldn't even save them from that level of suckitude. Maybe if they'd added another one over the final e or the y perhaps?
Their main songwriter (the bassplayer; I don't know his real name) is a huge David Bowie and New York Dolls fan. Once you get this, many of their sins against art are vastly more forgivable. At their best (meaning the albums recorded when the bassplayer was less than normally strung out), the influence shows through clear as day and some nice melodies are born.
But that cover. I'm stumped. I honestly can't think of a worse cover song in all recorded history.
Even Megadeth's horrible, horrible, no good treatment of the same song ("Anarchy in the U.S.A.") isn't nearly as bad. And that's saying multitudes.
Listen to the first guitar solo! Mars plays note for note the original one, and then overdubs a few extra Marsy scales on a completely different track to go with it. W.T.F.? [Remember Angus Young on metal guitarists, "I'm not a heavy metal guitarist. Heavy metal guitarists play scales as fast as they can up and down the fretboard during performances. To be fair, I can also play scales fast as I can up and down the fretboard, but I call that practicing."]
And the background vocals here of course sound like sub-par versions of that irritating Van Halen barbershop quartet thingy.
I actually think the gratuitous use of the f word are in some sense a tacit admission of just how horrible the whole thing is.
Off the bat the only performance that I can think of that comes close to this level of awfulness is Celine Dion's legendary take on AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULmC8JTTVy0 ). Since I'm a fan of Nicki Sixx and friends, I want to say that Dion does more violence to the Brothers Young, but she doesn't!
All friends of umlauts need to help me here. There has to be a worse cover version of a song at some point in recorded human history. There must be, else all our faith in umlauts is for naught.
You're on, Cogburn: William Shatner's cover ("cover"?) of Rocket Man = that than which none worse can be conceived.
Anon 5.46pm: you made my day. This is the greatest thing I've seen in some time.
Beatle's song in general seem resistant to being covered well, but this is especially awful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9DrHBI1lkI
Here's what drives me especially nuts about this. The beauty of Norwegian Wood is in its melody (at least during the verse). This guy flattens it out in such a way that song's entire appeal is list.
I hate this with a passion.
Oh my word. Beatles'. Not "Beatle's". Yikes.
Wow. Tomorrow never knows. What the hell were they thinking? The drumline alone destroys the song and shows how deep the misunderstanding goes. I couldn't get through the first verse of singing.
Paul Anka's entire album of covers is appalling and fun. But I think I hate Lovecats the best. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfOdaZ6LVVg
Surely Scarlett Johansson has done something here to earn a place on the list:
http://www.amazon.com/Anywhere-I-Lay-My-Head/dp/B0014IH1N6
How about Train's cover of Sugar's "If I Can't Change Your Mind"?
I don't know if this is a cover of "Tomorrow Never Knows" or "Jingle Bells", but it manages to be both funny and disturbing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oy5_NW_zP0
Nothing can beat Shatner's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". It makes his Rocket Man seem sane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-yy2URAYqU
Law of the Academy #69
The lazier and more unproductive the tenured faculty member, the the greater the moral outrage expressed about the exploitation of adjuncts.
What? That's not a law. In my previous department, the lazy and unproductive were totally self-absorbed and oblivious to the problems that others faced. The only people who almost gave a shit about the adjuncts were the ones who published. (The only exception to the general rule was that the department's only socialist was very productive and he didn't give two shits about the NTTs.)
About the Celine Dion cover- you do have to give her that she does look a bit like a coked-out 80's male hair-rocker.
While maybe not exactly a cover, this is the coolest thing I've seen in some time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzoWNQqnEQ&feature=related
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