Worst Covers Ever?

[adorshki]

Just stumbled over this:


He's in "Wild On The Beach" this AM. Wondering if he was related to Tony Randall, looked him up. Sorry, my bad.

Great one-liner in that flick from '65, though, when young co-ed Sherry Jackson shows up at the beach house being used by Randall. She's the owner's niece who inherited the house from her uncle, who'd lent it out to Randall before he died and she wants him out but she has to explain why.
Randall: "The old man's dead?!? What happened?"
Jackson: "He was killed in a private plane crash in Peru"

Peru? Private planes in Peru? Gosh, whatever for?

Ok we know it's '65 and coke isn't quite the real thing yet but it is Hollywood and they did stuff the rest of us hadn't quite caught up to yet.......


OK. Whadda you got? Oh, and before it's too late, William Shatner covers are disallowed for having an unfair advantage.
Nimoy's OK though.

 

[Guildedagain]

It's a shocker of a cover, but still pretty good, seen as how good the original was, despite the dubious lyrical intent/content.

I'll see your cover with this, hard to top.

 

[twocorgis]

This one. And the only good thing that I can say about it is that I can share the link without actually having to listen to it.

And their other Springsteen covers are no better, along with the rest of their covers, come to think of it.

 

[Bill Ashton]

It's a shocker of a cover, but still pretty good, seen as how good the original was, despite the dubious lyrical intent/content.

I'll see your cover with this, hard to top.

I think we have a winner! And the thread has just started! There just could not be anything worse than this...well, mayb having Vic Damone try to cover it? Would love to have to seen the studio cats' faces when they realized they were playing Tony Iommi's lick

 

[GGJaguar]

It's a shocker of a cover, but still pretty good, seen as how good the original was, despite the dubious lyrical intent/content.

I'll see your cover with this, hard to top.

Yikes! A lounge lizard version!

 

[Neal]

How about this one?

 

[awagner]

 

[Bill Ashton]

Is Axl's voice any more irritating than Dylan's is?

 

[Bill Ashton]

But isn't disco supposed to be a whole 'nother category of hate?

Gotta agree, pretty bad, but try this...you go into a restaurant, are tucking into a nice prime-rib, and Pat Boone comes out launching into Crazy Train...GAAAACK!

 

[awagner]

But isn't disco supposed to be a whole 'nother category of hate?

Gotta agree, pretty bad, but try this...you go into a restaurant, are tucking into a nice prime-rib, and Pat Boone comes out launching into Crazy Train...GAAAACK!

I can at least find humor in the Crazy Train cover. It is campy. But the Comfortably Numb cover is just painful to listen to.

 

[awagner]

How about this one?

Some consider this one of the best covers. I am not one of them, but far from the worst, IMHO.

I do like their cover of Live and Let Die.

 

[jp]

I'm kind of surprised no William Shatner or Leonard Nimoy covers have surfaced yet.

 

[twocorgis]

I think we have a winner! And the thread has just started! There just could not be anything worse than this...well, mayb having Vic Damone try to cover it? Would love to have to seen the studio cats' faces when they realized they were playing Tony Iommi's lick

I think this would give Pat a run! LOL

 

[GGJaguar]

Ouch.

 

[fronobulax]

I'm kind of surprised no William Shatner or Leonard Nimoy covers have surfaced yet.

OK. Whadda you got? Oh, and before it's too late, William Shatner covers are disallowed for having an unfair advantage.
Nimoy's OK though.

 

[adorshki]

Is Axl's voice any more irritating than Dylan's is?

Now that'd be a contest for the ages: The Great Rose-Dylan Sing-Off.

Axl leads off with "Lay Lady Lay", Dylan counters with "Paradise City".
Rose comes back with "Rainy Day Women", Dylan counters with "Patience".

Rose finally pulls out all the stops with "Like A Rolling Stone", giving himself a hernia in the process,

while Dylan brings the house to tears and has fans swooning in aisles in the mad rush to exit when he absolutely destroys "Sweet Child O' Mine".

 

[Rocky]

How about this one?

Axl, the worst famous voice in rock. He sounds like the off-key yelpings of a kicked toy poodle.

In fact there is an even worse version of this song, a live version that got played to death on our at the time local rock station. Mr. Rose gets into the 'audience participation' part of the night's festivities and, uh, it's just really ugly.

 

[Rocky]

I do like their cover of Live and Let Die.

I was disappointed when he didn't go "live and let die-i-i-i-i."

 

[Rocky]

It would be hard to top this

 

[GGJaguar]

It would be hard to top this

With the baroque pop background music, he should have narrated with his natural English accent. His Marlon Brando vocals don't work here.