covers that should never had been done

[Samcro]

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

Auntie , I see the William Shatner Common Peole on the tble and raise you.

Hey! Mr Tambourine Man by William Shatner . (He has a theme . He also murdered Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)

It is seriously awful

Anything that M&S use to promote their over engineered food. Putting Carlos Santana to cream dripping over sugary stodge is the worst defilement ever.

A1’s Take on Me (sacrilege)

The Corrs version of “Dreams” ( twiddly violin bit, no just no )

Lily Allen covering “Somewhere only we know (stab stab kill).

HOWEVER the master of the cover IMHO is Bryan Ferry, best one being his version of “Jealous Guy”.

Won’t hear a word against Bry

#bryan4lyfe

Cher killing Walking in Memphis.

I don't feel so bad now, upon googling I've found that Sinead did Nothing Compares 2 U first.

I can definitely claim I'm too young to know the Bob Dylan version of Male You Feel My Love

Leona Lewis and basically any song from her early post XFactor days. I’ll never forgive her wailing versions of Run and Stop Crying Your Heart out. Actually, that show us a lot to answer for in terms of horror cover version of songs.

Paul Young's massacre of Love will tear us apart.

I hadn't heard the Matt Willis destruction of Crash until today, nor Shatner's Common People. That's 5 minutes of my life I won't get back.

Most covers - bog off and find original songs! Off now to listen to William Shatner (he's the only exception as I love him)

Joe McElderry's version of the Climb

Take That's Smells Like Teen Spirit Is hilariously awful

How TT have ever been so successful is one of life's mysteries

Elvis Presley has recorded:

The Last Farewell - Roger Whitaker,

I Can Help - Billy Swan,

My Way - Frank Sinatra.

He should not have. On the plus side, his rendition of Love Letters by Ketty Lester is fine.

Brian Ferry on Later ....

I agree with PP. Dylan is a brilliant song writer but I cannot listen to him as he 'sings'

Ferry is one of his best interpretors

Are we all just forgetting the slaughtering that Five delivered of We Will Rock You??

Have a vague memory (which I have tried to erase) of Girls Aloud doing a ‘version’ of Walk This Way. Think it might have been a Conic Relief thing, which still does not exonerate them.
That said, when Aerosmith and Run DMC teamed up for said song, it was genius.

i love disturbed's version of sound of silence and prefer BF's jealous guy to lennons.

Not a cover as such, but I hate the Armand van Helden remix of Tori Amos' Professional Widow. Just dire.

There are some excellent covers though - I'm a huge fan of Kate Bush and The Cure, but love The Futureheads version of Hounds of Love and Dinosaur Junior's version of Just Like Heaven.

Are we all just forgetting the slaughtering that Five delivered of We Will Rock You??

I have never heard the Five version and I'm not about to go and find it. Nobody should be allowed to cover We will rock you but to do so badly should be a hanging offence.

Atomic Shitten's version of The Tide is High was a crime against humanity

I opened this thread with Susan Boyle/Wild Horses in mind, only to see its the OPs original suggestion!

Amy Winehouse's version of Valerie. The original by the Zutons was far better.

The Futureheads version of Hounds of Love Oh! Yes!

Though I think I have Garage raj raj stuck in my head now

Have to say I'm rather partial to Bryan Ferry's covers.
Whoever covered Kate Bush's Running up that hill needs locking up.

All of them! Make up your own damn song!

Shola Ama’s Cover of Randy Crawford’s You might Need Somebody.

Take a song and do a pale imitation of the original? Ok

Any cover of Unchained Melody that isn't by The Righteous Brothers. Just leave it, nobody is going to do it better, most are just embarrassingly bad.