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covers that should never had been done

123 replies

Samcro · 31/05/2019 23:02

for me susan boyle should NEVER have done wild Horses
and Will young should have LEFT the Doors alone.
what are yours??

OP posts:
megletthesecond · 31/05/2019 23:07

McFly - Don't stop me now.

I've had to stop attending a certain aerobic class because the teacher plays it every week and I can't bear it.

PrincessLen · 31/05/2019 23:20

Sympathy For The Devil - I don't really like It by The Rolling Stones, but Bryan Ferry's oily version is IMO execrable. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OJFe5eG4d8M

Tartyflette · 31/05/2019 23:22

Geri Halliwell's desecration of 'it's raining men'.
(Homer Simpson's favourite record. True)

Tartyflette · 31/05/2019 23:24

Bryan Ferry also murdered Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.

30not13 · 31/05/2019 23:25

Tainted Love

Pp.. I actually prefer geri's version of IRM Blush

Absolutepowercorrupts · 31/05/2019 23:25

Madonna's version of American Pie. Total shite

Tartyflette · 31/05/2019 23:25

To clarify, Homer liked the original Weather Girls version, of course.

MissLadyM · 31/05/2019 23:25

I love Duran Duran but their cover of White Lines was chronic. There was a whole album of shite covers ..Gwen Stefani It's My Life was fucking horrible- I hate her voice!

BeckyAnnLeeman · 31/05/2019 23:26

This entire album

covers that should never had been done
Wearywithteens · 31/05/2019 23:27

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Tartyflette · 31/05/2019 23:28

But geri's version had nothing of the sheer life and energ of the original. It was just... blah.
Much like Madonna's American Pie.

BeckyAnnLeeman · 31/05/2019 23:30

Wearywithteens, I so agree! People wang on about the Florence version as though she wrote the bloody song!

Candi 4 eva!

MooBaaLaLaLa · 31/05/2019 23:30

Anybody covering Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, especially Alexandra Xfactor-Twat

womanvsfood · 31/05/2019 23:31

Calum Scott's version of Dancing On My Own.

mamamilkmachine · 31/05/2019 23:35

The version of Tracy chapman's fast car that can out in the charts a while back....not even sure who sang it.

Defenbaker · 31/05/2019 23:37

Another vote here for Madonna's version of American Pie - just awful.

7Days · 31/05/2019 23:39

Oh jeez that horrific Daniel O'Donnell album cover.

I'm getting strong flashbacks of those ads that used to be on late at night aimed at old people, full of golden oldies Buy this album and get these 47 bonus discs absolutely free!

Curlyshabtree · 31/05/2019 23:43

There was a horrid, breathy cover of Ain’t Nobody by Chaka Khan a while back. Can’t remember who by. Bloody awful.

Tillygetsit · 31/05/2019 23:47

The Byrds cover of Bob Dylan's Tambourine Man. Used to work at an oldies radio station and it set my teeth on edge.

MuddlingMackem · 31/05/2019 23:48

mamamilkmachine Fri 31-May-19 23:35:43
The version of Tracy chapman's fast car that can out in the charts a while back....not even sure who sang it.

I complained how lacking in oomph it is compared to the original every time I heard it. Grin

elizabethdraper · 31/05/2019 23:51

Grace by rod Stewart

Really disrespectful

lovelychops · 31/05/2019 23:51

Brian Ferry covering anything to be fair..

BeckyAnnLeeman · 31/05/2019 23:54

Why is it disrespectful, elizabethdraper?

BeckyAnnLeeman · 31/05/2019 23:55

The Byrds cover of Bob Dylan's Tambourine Man

NO. THIS IS AN AMAZING COVER!

joystir59 · 31/05/2019 23:55

I like Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallelujah

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