People like to play Alien Ant Farm's "Smooth Criminal" on the juke box at my work 3-4 times as much as often as the original, wow I hate it.
I'm also not a fan of the Rod Stewart version I don't have anything against Sheryl Crow or Rod Stewart, they just suck at covering this song. Side note: most of these bad covers seem more popular than the original on YouTube based on predictive search. By most I mean 'All I've searched for.'
Good call. I heard Rods version first and then, when I heard Tom Waits version I was floored. What a great song it actually is. I have similar feelings about the song Bird on a Wire -Leonard Cohens version is amazing but the cover by The Neville Brothers falls way short of the originals emotional depth. I mean way short.
Easy one! Britney Spears - I Love Rock and Roll. It's not just bad because Britney Spears is awful, which she really shows off for the whole song. It's bad because it is just such a crass and commercial version of what the song was as Joan Jett made it. And I don't say originally because Joan Jett covered the song after hearing Arrows do it on a teen pop TV show in 1975.
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Fuck Gary Jules, everyone he's ever met, everyone he'll ever encounter and every fucking overly tragic fucking sorority girl (OF ANY FUCKING GENDER YOU SACKLESS SIMPERING SONS OF BITCHES) that thinks watching Donnie Darko three times makes you deep. Instagram filters do not make you an artist and singing Tears for Fears like an emotionally retarded poetry major on an open mic night in Chillicothe OH simply displays that you have the depth of a reflecting pool, the insight of a Bush and the poetic heart of Dane Cook. You know what comes up THIRD when you type "Youtube Mad World" into Google? THE FUCKING ORIGINAL SONG Know why? 'cuz it's got 1.1m hits. Fuckin' Gary Jules? 94 million. I feel sorry for goddamn Millenials because they have no prospects, they're doing free internships and they're retreating into hipsterdom because it's the only way to make poverty cool and then someone says something about Gary Fucking Jules and I wish upon them a lifetime of Ikea and shitty vinyl records that they think matter for some stupid reason. Your life is tragic because you choose to be emotionally stunted, you choose to surround yourselves with mediocrity and you choose to hand over your spiritual allegiance to the kid that would have been Jeremy speaking in class today if he wasn't so hopped up on cloves and prozac that he failed to notice his life was actually pretty good even if Mommy didn't buy give him her old BMW when he turned 16 because you know what, he's going to private college, he gets to hang at the mall and when he tore his flannel in that skateboarding accident he could afford another on his debit card. Fuck EVERYTHING about that song. EVERYTHING. ____________________________________________________________________________________ God DAMN that felt good.
No cover has shit on the original more than Cee Lo's cover of Imagine by John Lennon. In the cover he changes the lyrics from "nothing to kill or die for / and no religion too" to "nothing to kill or die for / and all religion's true." I actually flipped of the television when I saw it live. Musically the cover is a shitshow as well.
I am Absolutely not going to link to it because it is an abomination that can summon the elder gods and drive humans to madness. I am talking of course about Hillary Duff's cover of 'My Generation'
I think in general it's highly inadvisable to cover Cash. Cash can cover everyone, but most no one can cover Cash and do him justice. My pre-existing bias now noted, this cover was featured in a Levi's or Target or something commercial, and I just hated it. I think it takes every ounce of bite that was in the original, and removes it. The song is de-fanged. And while "Walk the Line" is in ways a romantic song, there should be a current of danger in it. This version has none of that. It's one-dimensional. It might as well be a lullaby.
Why, why would anyone think this was a good idea Also pretty much any cover of Creep.
So much so. The only cover I found I liked (and I've listened to a lot of them, because I thought, "well, maybe this one will be good") was Damien Rice's and that's partially because I believed him. I actually forgot Damien's name and tried to find it on youtube by just searching through creep covers and I couldn't. God damn are there a lot of them.Also pretty much any cover of Creep.
Even Radiohead can't make it work consistently, and never could. There are plenty of songs that don't want to be covered, but Creep is pretty unique in not wanting to be played at all.
All these comments and no mention of Madonna doing American Pie? Does not compute.
This, and almost all the other covers they did for this monstrocity :
It was very traumatic to a young teenager like me who had just recently discovered the Fab 4.
A newcomer comedian named Steve Martin covered "Maxwell's Silver Hammer".
I hope that one day, he decides to cover Nickelback. Look at this... photograph.
Every time I do, it makes... me laugh
What the hell, is on Joey's head?
And how did our eyes (long drag on cigarette)... get... so red?
I heard that version long before I heard the original. At the time I thought it was pretty good. I have since changed my opinion.
A friend of mine recently told me she has been mis-hearing the lyrics to this song for years -
"Now that the poisoned summer has gone"...