Especially Robbie Williams when he changes some of the words and claims that he ... I'll stop right there for fear of a lawsuit for defamation of character.


As long as you say it's in your opinion, they cant sue you for libel ;) On my radio show at uni, I slag off loads of artists, and then wack on, 'but that's just what I think' - and your fine :P.

But yeh, I hate Robbie Williams music. The only song I like of his was 'No Regrets', but that's probably beacuse of the Neil Tennant, Paul Wellar input!! :)

I haven't heard the whole cover version of "Take My Breath My Away" but I have heard some of it and it wasn't done right. I am not a big fan of the original either.

I actually like the original, but HATE Jessica's cover. I can't listen to even ten seconds of it. Heck, I can't even listen to five seconds of DJ Sammy's mess-up of "Heaven." :P It's so awful!!

I'm a Depeche Mode fan myself, but I think MM did a reasonable job. It's not like it's completely butchered.
(This doesn't make me a MM fan, however... :P)



The version of PJ you gotta hear is by the late Johnny Cash!  It's awesome!
There was a blasphemous rumor George Michael was going to cover "A Question of Lust" about 15 years ago.  THANK GOD it never materialized!

I love the original, but I hate all covers of the Rolling Stones "Paint It Black."

The Human League's version of James Brown's "Rock Me Again and Again and Again And Again And Again and Again (Six Times)

The version of PJ (Personal Jesus) you gotta hear is by the late Johnny Cash!  It's awesome!


I've never heard his rendition...when did he do it? ???

I've never heard his rendition...when did he do it? ???

Let's see PJ was on "The Man Comes Around," which was released in 2003.  Cash did tons of covers, most of them as good or better than the originals. For instance, I like his covers of U2's "One" and Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" better than the originals.  Just not S&G "Bridge Over Troubled Waters," which I said before just didn't work of his voice.

Bad '70s bubblegum covers:

Shaun Cassidy: Da Doo Ron Ron (original artist: The Crystals)
Leif Garrett: Run Around Sue (original artist: Dion & The Belmonts)
Samantha Sang: Emotion (original artist: The Bee Gees)
Yvonne Elliman: If I Can't Have You (original artist: The Bee Gees)
The Beatles & Peter Frampton: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With A Little Help From My Friends (original artist: The Beatles)*
Peter Frampton: Long and Winding Road (The Beatles)*
*just make it the entire Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band motion picture soundtrack

Let's see PJ was on "The Man Comes Around," which was released in 2003.  Cash did tons of covers, most of them as good or better than the originals. For instance, I like his covers of U2's "One" and Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" better than the originals.  Just not S&G "Bridge Over Troubled Waters," which I said before just didn't work of his voice.


So he must've done it shortly before he checked out then... I don't know a whole lot of his stuff though. :-\\

American Pie - Madonna
The entire Sgt. Peppers 1977 soundtrack :P
Stairway To Heaven - Dolly Parton :o
You Shook Me All Night Long - Celine Dion

I second that, along with Club Nouveau's "Lean on Me" and The Fugees "Killing Me Softly..."


Hey, I actually liked those!

But, I agree to what's been posted!

Brittany Spear's, "I love Rock N Roll"   If I were Joan Jett I'd shoot Spears!

No.

Seriously, Britney Spears does not mix with rock and roll.

Sheryl Crowe's "Sweet Child of Mine"  Now don't get me wrong, I love Sheryl Crowe, but Sweet Child of Mine has to be done a certain way to hold true to Guns N Roses and Crowe did not do that.

Brittany Spear's, "I love Rock N Roll"  If I were Joan Jett I'd shoot Spears!

Brandy's, "Everything I do, I do it for you"  Bryan Adams made this song out of true love and such truth in singing.  Brandy's version is more about a gang bang sorta deal where the guys just after the girl for her body and they "THINK" they love eachother.
I agree. Did you know that Brittany was once asked Why she wanted to do that particular song and her reply was "Because I just love Pat Benatar" ::)

Totally awful (in my opinion)

Endless Love ~ Mariah Carey, Luther Vandross (original done by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie)

Total Eclipse of the heart by Nicki French (original done by Bonnie Tyler)


A couple remakes that were ok (tolerable):
Drift away by Uncle Kracker (original done by Dobie Gray)

Just the two of us by Will Smith (original done by Bill Withers or Grover Washington Jr. (Don't know who did it first)

Everytime you go away by Paul Young (done by Hall and Oates)

American Pie - Madonna
The entire Sgt. Peppers 1977 soundtrack :P
Stairway To Heaven - Dolly Parton :o
You Shook Me All Night Long - Celine Dion

Horrors on all counts!
You should hear Tiny Tim's version of "Stairway To Heaven" with Brave Combo.  It's awesome!

More people who shouldn't have done the songs they did:
Duran Duran: 911 Is A Joke (original artist: Public Enemy)
David Bowie & Bing Crosby: The Little Drummer Boy (xmas carol)
Kevin Rowland (of Dexy's Midnight Runners): The Greatest Love of All (original artist: Whitney Houston)
Michael Hedges: Come Together (o.a: The Beatles)
Fiona Apple: Across the Universe (o.a: The Beatles) (The Laibach version is great, though)
Laibach: In The Year 1995 (o.a: Zager & Evans, "In the Year 2525") (Laibach changed the song to reflect Yugoslavian war)
No Doubt: It's My Life (o.a: Talk Talk)
Puff Daddy-P.Diddy-Diddy: Every Breath You Take (o.a: The Police)
U2: Helter Skelter (o.a: The Beatles)
David Bowie & Mick Jagger: Dancing In The Streets (o.a: can't remember, don't care)
Limp Bizkit: Behind BLue Eyes (o.a: The Who)
Black 47: Sam Hall (traditional)*
The Cure: Hello I Love You (o.a: The Doors)
Dinosaur, Jr: Just Like Heaven (o.a: The Cure)
Whatever that goth band was with the female singer who covered RS "Paint It Black" and changed
"Like a newborn baby, it just happens every day" to "Like a STILL-born baby, it just happens every day,"
showing once again that some goths have only a comic book sense of the macabre and cannot understand juxtaposition,
irony, or subtlety of any kind
*Sam Hall was kind of 19th century gangsta rap about a chimney sweep who murders a guy ("I killed a man they said...yes, I bashed 'is bleedin' head with a great big lump of lead, and left 'im lying dead...d@mn his eyes") and goes to the gallows hateful to the end (Me name it is Sam Hall, and I hate youse one and all, D#MN YOUR EYES!).  It's fine with me for an artist to change lyrics in a folk song, but not the message.  Black 47 made "Sam Hall" about a guy who kills his oppressive landlord, and makes himself a martyr for justice.  If Sam Hall is no longer a thug and a nihilist, he's not Sam Hall anymore.  For the best version ever recorded of "Sam Hall" seek out Frank Tovey's Tyranny and the Hired Hand album

Horrors on all counts!
You should hear Tiny Tim's version of "Stairway To Heaven" with Brave Combo.  It's awesome!

;D Indeed!

Thanks, I'll try and give it a listen sometime ;)

Dolly Parton did "Stairway to Heaven"!?  :o >:(

Dolly Parton did "Stairway to Heaven"!?  :o >:(
Yep...I tried to turn it off FAST...like I do for ALL Pariah Carey songs, but it did some damage :D :P

Yep...I tried to turn it off FAST...like I do for ALL Pariah Carey songs, but it did some damage :D :P

At least Dolly didn't do "Misty Mountain Hop," I can hear her now in a hoedown-style singing "Baby, baby, baby, baby, do ya like it?"
:P

Billy Idol: Mony Mony (original artist: Tommy James & The Shondelles)
Because it's Billy frickin' Idol, 'nuff said!

At least Dolly didn't do "Misty Mountain Hop," I can hear her now in a hoedown-style singing "Baby, baby, baby, baby, do ya like it?"
:P

Billy Idol: Mony Mony (original artist: Tommy James & The Shondelles)
Because it's Billy frickin' Idol, 'nuff said!
;DThanks for that, Max. BTW, did you know that "Get Smart" premiered along with "I Dream Of Jeannie" on this very day in 1965 ;)

Oh, and as for Idol's version....yuk :P

Drift away by Uncle Kracker (original done by Dobie Gray)




I wouldn't exactly call that a cover, since Dobie Gray actually does sing a little bit on there. Kracker doesn't sing it by himself. I think it's more of a revival than a cover. Just like RunDMC's "Walk This Way" (originally by Aerosmith; Steven Tyler and Joe Perry do provide backing vocals and guitar, respectively, on the RunDMC version).


Anyway, here's another cover that should have never been done: Ace Of Base's rendition of "Cruel Summer" (originally by Bananarama). Now I like Ace of Base and their music, but they did NOT have to ruin a good 80's song in order to have a hit. ::)

here's a crappy one from 1986:  Far Corporation - Stairway to Heaven.

Far Corporation was a production of Frank Farian, the man behind Boney M and Milli Vanilli.  Their cover of Stairway to Heaven wasn't bad, but you can't mess with Zepplin

Any good song butchered from a teen pop act

Like "I Love Rock & Roll" from BS, "Take My Breath Away" from Jessica Simson, "Our Lips Are Sealed" the Duff sisters, "Do You Believe In Magic" Aly & AJ, etc.  :P

;DThanks for that, Max. BTW, did you know that "Get Smart" premiered along with "I Dream Of Jeannie" on this very day in 1965 ;)

Oh, and as for Idol's version....yuk :P

Thanks for that bit of trivia.  Did you know they couldn't show Don Adams' navel either?

Bookmistress wrote:
Endless Love ~ Mariah Carey, Luther Vandross (original done by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie)

Total Eclipse of the heart by Nicki French (original done by Bonnie Tyler)
It's even worse when the original (Endless Love) was totally godawful, and then covered by someone even more godawful.  Nicki French's version of T.E.O.T.H. was rotten, but the Bonnie Tyler version is still a guilty pleasure after all these years.  Jim Steinman, yeeesh!

funny squiggles guy wrote:
here's a crappy one from 1986:  Far Corporation - Stairway to Heaven.

Far Corporation was a production of Frank Farian, the man behind Boney M and Milli Vanilli.  Their cover of Stairway to Heaven wasn't bad, but you can't mess with Zepplin
Uhhh, I forgot about that one.  Let me correct you.  You can mess with Led Zep, and Farian's cover of "Stairway" blew!

The Pet Shop Boys: Always On My Mind (Elvis, Willie Nelson)
That song doesn't work at high speeds with a drum machine going thump thump thump!

David Bowie & Bing Crosby: The Little Drummer Boy (xmas carol)
Michael Hedges: Come Together (o.a: The Beatles)



eh...I kinda liked old Bing and David's collaberation.  One of the few Christmas songs I can tolerate.

Speaking of Come Together, Aerosmith did a surprising good rendition of that song in the movie, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely hearts club band", also liked Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees version of "Golden Sluber" in the same movie.  Alice Cooper's version of "Because" was just plain creepy in that movie.  And lastly, George Burns "Fixing a hole" was a sweet rendition.

Thanks for that bit of trivia.  Did you know they couldn't show Don Adams' navel either?


lol, Max!

Anywho, I can't stand any remake of "Big Yellow Taxy" by Joni Mitchell.

Thanks for that bit of trivia.  Did you know they couldn't show Don Adams' navel either?


;D

Groovy Kind Of Love originally by Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders blows Phil Collins' remake away :)

Although I haven't heard the original, I just LOVE Paul Weller's version of the Rose Royce classic "Wishing on a star"

http://www.blastro.com/player/paulwellerwishingonastar.html&artist=Paul+Weller?bitrate=_300&mediatype=rm&x=34&y=11

Rose Royce clip of same song:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002KH1/qid=1127353082/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/103-4626943-2932608?v=glance&s=music

Although I haven't heard the original, I just LOVE Paul Weller's version of the Rolls Royce classic "Wishing on a star"

http://www.blastro.com/player/paulwellerwishingonastar.html&artist=Paul+Weller?bitrate=_300&mediatype=rm&x=34&y=11


I like his version too.  Paul Weller is a fantastic singer :)

It's a shame that he isn't more popular here in North America  :\'(