worst covers of all time

**bill** · September 23rd, 2003, 01:20 AM

so what do you think the worst covers of all time are.
1 helter skelter u2
2 all along the watchtower u2
3 american woman lenny kravitz.
those are my votes and i feel kinda bad for dissing u2 as i do like a lot of thier music a lot,but those two songs were horrific

**Electroswank** · September 23rd, 2003, 03:45 PM

oof... so many to choose from...
i'll go with "hello i love you" by Missing Persons to be safe from flames.

**Jupiter 4** · September 23rd, 2003, 04:02 PM

I did an awful cover of "Rio" that left one of my dogs deaf!

**Strasser** · September 23rd, 2003, 08:09 PM

Too many to list, but Slayer's cover of Ina Goda Divida was terrible.

**VNV Demon** · September 24th, 2003, 03:02 AM

Don't know if anyone has heard of this one, but my vote goes to Siavash "Only You"

Of course, there are a multitude of horrid covers in all the tribute albums released every year. It's rare for a tribute album to have more than one or two good tracks.

**spektron** · September 24th, 2003, 03:41 AM

I really hate those covers which just follow the melody, doing nothing really creative, yet totally misinterpret the mood of the song. Mark'Oh's cover of "The Sparrows and the Nightengales" is one of the worst offenders, especially since it is more well-known (at least in Europe) than the original. Die Krupps' cover of "Isolation" (Joy Division) is also quite bad in this way.

**d3lions** · September 24th, 2003, 05:26 AM

Originally posted by VNV Demon
[b]Don't know if anyone has heard of this one, but my vote goes to Siavash "Only You"

Actually that cover is not bad. But we will leave it at that. Don't want you to get all excited and start another SARCASTIC war. lol.

Seriously speaking, in my opinion; the cover of Barrel of Gun by Diesel Christ.

**raisinlove** · September 24th, 2003, 11:36 AM

Well just off the top of my head and completely unrelated to electronic music is that video which covers The Door's Light my Fire (I may have the title wrong...not a big fan)
Seeing it, I was picturing Morrison himself turning over in his grave at how gay that singer/band made the song...

test · September 24th, 2003, 01:43 PM

Originally posted by bill
so what do you think the worst covers of all time are.
1 helter skelter u2
2 all along the watchtower u2
3 american woman lenny kravitz.
those are my votes and i feel kinda bad for dissing u2 as i do like a lot of thier music a lot,but those two songs were horrific

there are toooooooo many bad covers, but i agree with your choice...

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**intervox** · September 24th, 2003, 02:51 PM

I did a terrible cover of Clan of Xymox's "Imagination". Ugh, still gives me nightmares...

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**Jonna** · September 24th, 2003, 02:58 PM

The Cure's cover of Hello, I love you. I'm a Cure fan and even I wanted to shut Robert up.

**fiftypercent** · September 24th, 2003, 03:54 PM

I spent a long time looking for Act's cover of "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" and wish I hadn't bothered. The original was jaunty, sparkling and witty. The cover sounds like Claudia Brucken was recorded while vomiting at 4 a.m. in some tacky Luxembourg nightclub.

**seraphim** · September 24th, 2003, 04:40 PM

I'm not going to win any friends on this one but when have I ever cared about winning friends? The quite possibly worst cover I have heard recently is Martin Gores cover of Nick Caves "Loverman". Upon hearing that, even I felt insulted and embarrassed. Poor, poor Nick.

**NullDevice** · September 24th, 2003, 06:26 PM

I remember there was a truly hilarious cover of Barrel of a Gun by X-Act. The music wasn't bad, and the vocals weren't terrible, but the lyrics were *all wrong*. They must've been trying to interpret it from a bad bootleg or something -"do you win these horny trees set upon little feet" and "lives with Michael Caine right here in inside."

It's painful, and yet funny.

**Human Clone** · September 24th, 2003, 06:50 PM

There is no shortage of horrible Depeche Mode covers, the majority of Depeche Mode tribute albums suck arse!

**cliffwalk** · September 24th, 2003, 06:58 PM

I thought the Loverman cover was pretty decent... although, probably the weakest on the album.

OK... I may catch hell for this but I don't think The Cure had any business covering Hendrix (Purple Haze). That song mixed with the production values they had at the time were a bad mix. It sounded WAY too canned.

Dave

**seraphim** · September 24th, 2003, 07:34 PM

Originally posted by cliffwalk
I thought the Loverman cover was pretty decent... although, probably the weakest on the album.

Have you heard the original? Meh. To each their own ear though.

[i]OK... I may catch hell for this but I don't think The Cure had any business covering Hendrix (Purple Haze). That song mixed with the production values they had at the time were a bad mix. It sounded WAY too canned.[/b]

Oh yes, I remember this and yes, it was quite bad.