Worst cover songs

[rayoflightboy]

I thought Dancing in the moonlight by Top Loader was bad.
Along comes the cover version.
My God it's awful.

For your listening pleasure

@Patsypie

Duran Duran's whole covers album was shocking and in a fan. 'White Lines' and 'Perfect Day' are particularly shite.

I nearly wet myself the first time I heard their White Lines "interpretation"

@DrDavidBanner

Any weedy, breathy, emo John Lewis type covers make me want to stick nails in my ears.

There's a versin of Tears for Fears Mad World that takes all the soul out of it, I don't know who sung it but they suck, and there was a really shitty version of Ain't Nobody for some advert that was just horrific. Neither of those songs need covering they're both perfect just as they are.

I have to ride the monorail eat Gatwick South Terminal on a regular basis and they have that shitty version of Ain't Nobody on a fucking loop

Sometimes I just like the original and any cover sounds wrong.

Hence Prince singing Manic Monday makes me cringe so hard I get a stitch.

Even though he wrote it.

@squashyhat

William Shatner's Lucy in the sky with diamonds. I think it was a joke.

Does anyone remember Kenny Everett's world worst record show? There were some corkers on that

I remember it well. Kick out the Jams and what was the one where someone is singing about drunk driving and getting in a horrible crash where his GF gets mangled. Awful.

Gwen Stefani mangling Talk Talk's It's My Life.

Britany Spears "I love rock and roll"
The irony...

Jonas Blue cover of Fast Car. Some things should not be allowed.

That All Saints version of Under the Bridge was fucking dire.

I agree with all the breathy advert songs. You're Not Alone by Olive has been butchered by some woman on the Lloyds bank advert with all the horses on the beach.
And there's some shite version of Blue Monday by new order on an advert for a PlayStation or Xbox game.

At the beginning of lockdown my local Sainsbury's would play that cover of You'll Never Walk Alone by Captain Tom and Michael Ball on an endless loop. I really felt for the staff.

The breathy bullshit covers do my frigging head in. Learn to breathe and phrase properly. And your fix mockney accents complete with missing vowels is not cute or edgy. Bloody Simon Cowbell and his parade of X factor nonentities has a lot to answer for.

Worst cover has to be Madonna's American Pie.

@AristotleAteMyHamster

Yes to William Shatner murdering Common People!!!

*squashyhat

William Shatner's Lucy in the sky with diamonds. I think it was a joke.

Does anyone remember Kenny Everett's world worst record show? There were some corkers on that*

A friend recently leant me a whole William Shatner album for a laugh. Couldn't finish listening to it.*

We had a Kenny Everett World's Worst Record Show album at home in the 1970s, on turquiose vinyl. I've been googling some of the songs & lyrics- very amusing!