God-awful covers

Yesterday while I was at work, I heard the most god-awful cover of Radiohead's 'High and Dry' come on. I sat in awe for the enitre 4 minutes of blasphemy and it stayed in my head all day. Finally, I looked it up this morning and I am now proud to attribute this horrible rendition to Jamie Cullum. Thanks, Jamie, for thouroughly f-ing up a great song and turning it into pop crap!

Anyway, I thought it'd be interesting to open a forum to horrible covers and renditions of great songs. Heard your favorite band in Musak recently? Let's hear it!

If you're having trouble finding out who's covering a song, I found The Covers Project to be extremely helpful. And I found some good covers in the process!

I'm actually quite fond of Marilyn Manson's cover of 'Personal Jesus' by Depeche Mode.

Best cover ever is of course Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower"

Worst cover is a tie between Marilyn Manson's rendition of "Sweet Dreams" and William Shatner's take on "Common People"

Speaking of bad covers, i was in borders the other day and some talentless prick was covering some genius jeff buckley songs, i left immediately. i'm glad i dont know who it was, but it sounded like a band that'd open for maroon 5.

Britney Spears doing 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll'

yuck!

Blazing Squad's (for those who are fortunate not to know of them, they're a horrible wannabe, poppy "rap" group) cover of Crossroads by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is truly shameful.

for the australians that saw the tsunami concert on tv...how bad was kasey chambers? she absolutely molested 'true colours'.

I;d have to say the best cover has to be Johnny Cash doing "Hurt" second to that Pixies covering "Lady in the Radiator Song" originally done by Peter Ivers

Tori Amos' version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - striking, beautiful.
Brad Mehldau's versons of Radionhead's "Everything in it's Right Place", "Paranoid Android", "Exit Music" - for a jazz musician of his reputation to give such (well-deserved) accolades to a rock band is unusual enough, but he put his money and his talent where his mouth is - and did very good versions to boot.

Speaking of Jamie Cullum, I think his cover of Jimi Hendrix "Wind Cries Mary" is possibly one of the biggest blasphemies ever..

When I heard Jessica Simpson's (or whoever it was) cover of These Boots Are Made For Walking, I wanted to hurl something. I also don't like that Allan guy's cover of Best I Ever Had by Vertical Horizon or Britney Spears doing I Love Rock and Roll. I can't think of a single country or jazz cover I liked. Neither of them do it for me. On a related note, the sampling in pop/hip hop/r&b songs drives me to tears. Write something original and GOOD!

I did like Letters to Cleo's cover of I Want You To Want Me, Puff Daddy's I'll Be Missing You (can't think of why, but I like it), Alkistis Protopsalti's cover of Nickelback's How You Remind Me, Rachid Taha's Rock el Casbah, and I thought Somegirl did a nice version of I Only Have Eyes For You.

I thought t.A.T.u. did rather well, but then I do have a thing for Russian girls.

In my opinion the worst cover version has to be Far Corporations version of Stairway to Heaven. I think it should have been renamed "It makes me wonder" as that is all the seem to sing throughout their version.