ok we've had the best -now the worst cover versions EVER!!

[upahill]

It pains me to put forward one of my favourite bands for the title of Worst Cover version but I have to say Janes Addiction did a truly bad cover of 'sympathy for the devil.'

Who else has done a hatchet job on a perfectly good song?

natto - we are living parallel lives - I have two boys the same age as yours - next time I'm listening to Bongo Bong I'll think of your two bopping around to it too.

upahill - was going to mention that too, but didn't want to seem like I was having a go at EC - she had a nice voice, just hate the arrangements.

It would be overly harsh to call them the worst cover versions, but I'm not keen on the Birdy version of Skinny Love or the Annie Lennox version of No More I Love Yous- much prefer the original in each case.

Agree with iridium about that cover of There She Goes too.

Florence and the machine- You got the love.

The most accurate description I've read of her singing is that it's like a sack of mangy cats being thrown into a ravine.

Billie Piper - Last Christmas (I kid you not, it does exist!)

Leona Lewis- Stop Crying Your Heart Out. I fucking hate her.

ruining my favourite song

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Tin Tin Out are responsible for ruining not just one, but 2 of my favourite songs-

'What I am' (by Edie Brickell- hideously sung on the cover by Emma Bunton)
and
'Here's where the story ends' (The Sundays- as shrieked by some one called Shelly Nelson).
Tin Tin Out are EVIL.

My other hated cover, though it isn't a bad one as such, is Robbie williams singing 'She's the One'. Because- It is NOT HIS SONG, it is World Party, yet no one ever mentions them. [grin

I just found this on youtube I was looking for the Amy Winehouse version of Monkey Man and I found this My ears!

Harlem Shuffle by the Stones

a great band, but not in thus instance

*this