Best And Worst Cover Songs

eclipsedmoongoddess482 · Elder In Training Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 3703

Bands and singers at some point do a cover song and sometimes it sucks but sometimes the most that a band can hope for is a good cover song. For those of you who don't know a cover song is a remake of an older song done by another band. So name the best and worst cover songs ever done. You can put them in an order or not. However you like. Smile

I'll give a start.

Best Covers:

Knockin' on Heaven's Door-Guns N' Roses
Smokin' in the Boy's Room-Motley Crue

Those are the only two I can think of right off the top of my head in terms of good covers. It will take me awhile to think of some bad ones because I tend to forget about them.
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fallenangel · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject:

Best covers:

"I Love Rock N' Roll" - Joan Jett
"Cum On Feel The Noize" - Quiet Riot
"Ziggy Stardust" - Bauhaus
"California Girls" - David Lee Roth
"Live And Let Die" - Guns N' Roses
"Helter Skelter" - Motley Crue
"Your Mama Don't Dance" - Poison
"Move Over" - Cinderella
"Mony Mony" - Billy Idol

Worst Covers:

"Imagine" - whatever band did that recently
"I Love Rock N' Roll" - Britney Spears
"Tainted Love" - Marilyn Manson

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Sephir0th666777 · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:12 pm Post subject:

Worst: Under Pressure by My Chemical Romance and The Used Grr!

Best: Mad World by Gary Jules
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eclipsedmoongoddess482 · Elder In Training Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 3703

Some more I just remembered.

Best Covers:

Hurt-Johnny Cash
Mama Kin-Aerosmith (could be wrong on this. I know GnR did a cover on this too but I'm not sure who wrote the song originally.)

Worst Covers:

Personal Jesus-Johnny Cash
Personal Jesus-Marylin Manson
Anything covered by the American Idol singers
Knockin' on Heaven's Door-some chick from Rock Star INIX

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Beatlechick90 · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:26 pm Post subject:

Best:

Respect- Aretha Franklin
Me and Bobby McGee- Janis Joplin
With a Little Help From my Friends- Joe Cocker
Twist and Shout- The Beatles
Over the Rainbow- Eva Cassidy
ANYTHING Joan Baez ever did
Leavin' on a Jetplane- Chantal Kreviazuk
Working Class Hero- Marianne Faithfull
Baby It's You- The Beatles

Worst:

My Generation- Hilary Duff
Sweet Child O Mine- Sheryl Crow
Dancing in the Street- Maya
Anything by Kidz Bop *shudders*
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BrainDead · Forum contributor Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 740

you're right i wish i could murder those wetoddid kids bop kid : P

i dont know but any beatle covers are usually not that awesome, : (

and sometime s good....

fallenangel · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:26 am Post subject:

[quote]Sweet Child O Mine- Sheryl Crow[/quote]

Ah, I forgot that one. Painful.
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fallenangel · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 12:07 am Post subject:

Worst:

"Fame" - Tommy Lee. "T-Dawg" covered David Bowie's fame. Just think about that for a second. And yes, he "pimped it out" to be rap/techno and threw in a sprinkling of the word "fuck" to make it cooler...I guess. It's just painful.
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Achilles · Newb Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 23

I cant believe nobody said this yet, but Jimi Hendrix's cover of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower. Its just incredible. AC/DC's cover of "Baby please dont Go" is a very good one. A bad one is Sympathy For The Devil covered by GnR. I love GnR, but they can do way better than that.

BrainDead · Forum contributor Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 740

i just thought of the gayest one i heard

achy breaky heart (?) by william hung

GAYER THAN GAY! : (

eclipsedmoongoddess482 · Elder In Training Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 3703

[quote]Worst:

"Fame" - Tommy Lee. "T-Dawg" covered David Bowie's fame. Just think about that for a second. And yes, he "pimped it out" to be rap/techno and threw in a sprinkling of the word "f**k" to make it cooler...I guess. It's just painful. [/quote]

If its anything like the raps he wrote in prison then say no more.

Worst Covers:

You Shook Me All Night-Celine Dion (Need I say more? Even she didn't want to cover this song because it was talking about sex.)

Behind Blue Eyes-Limp Bizkit (Crappy cover of a really nice song and the fact that the music video is just two minutes of the frontman making out with Haley Barey doesn't make it any better.)
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fallenangel · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:45 pm Post subject:

You can hear a sample of it Here

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caitlinwonder-girl · Newb Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 5

I've always been fond of Megadeth's cover of "Paranoid".

Peanut673 · Rookie Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 32 Location: Pittsburgh

[u]Best[/u]

1. L.A. Woman - Billy Idol.
2. Anything by Weird Al.

[u] Worst[/u]

1. Every Breath You take - Puff Daddy (butchered it)
2. Rio - Goldfinger (horrible)

Nachtwind · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:38 am Post subject:

Best:
1. Iced Earth - Electric Funeral (Black Sabbath)
2. Crematory - One (Metallica)
3. Blind Guardian - To France (Mike Oldfield)

Worst:
1. Martin Kesici - Nothing else matters (Metallica)
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Red_Quatre · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:27 am Post subject:

Good ones: Phantom of the Opera: Nightwish
Thoughtless : Evanescence

Bad one: Don't fear the Reaper: H.I.M. (It's not that bad....but the original is way better....)
The BEat Goes on: Britney Spears....ughh...
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Teeny · Newb Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 11 Location: London

Great cover: Yngwie Malmsteen - Gimme! Gimme! Gimmie!
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Ogrim_Doomhammer · Oldbie Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2116

Mr Crowley- Yngwie
Dream on- Yngwie......

This guy has great covers of great songs
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Zekk · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:45 pm Post subject:

Best - The Man who sold the world (Nirvana covered... uh.. forget his name)

Worst - "heart Shaped box" (Evanessence covered Nirvana. Sucked)

Teeny · Newb Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 11 Location: London

[quote="Ogrim_Doomhammer"]Mr Crowley- Yngwie
Dream on- Yngwie......

This guy has great covers of great songs[/quote]

And not to mention his amazing talent with the guitar!