Worst cover version of all time?

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Paul Young - Love will Tear us Apart.

I've got nothing against Paul Young, but hearing the song by someone other than Joy Division just makes me cringe.

 

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ray70 wrote:

Paul Young - Love will Tear us Apart. I've got nothing against Paul Young, but hearing the song by someone other than Joy Division just makes me cringe.
I could just imagine Shatner doing it though...
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:lmao:I don't know Will Young but I've heard a new version of Light My Fire on the radio a few times and laughed in disbelief, so I know what you're on about there.

It's so limp isn't it ? It's like he can't be bothered singing it. The timing seems off too.
Not so much leather trousers and mescaline Cloffo (like the original) more GAP and a nice cup of tea. Wrong.

 

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Cloth-Ears wrote:
:lmao:I don't know Will Young but I've heard a new version of Light My Fire on the radio a few times and laughed in disbelief, so I know what you're on about there.

It's so limp isn't it ? It's like he can't be bothered singing it. The timing seems off too.
Not so much leather trousers and mescaline Cloffo (like the original) more GAP and a nice cup of tea. Wrong.
The Jose Feliciano version isn't exactly dripping with testosterone either I think that was the version Will Young was using as a refrence point rather than the Lizard Kings version.

 

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ray70 wrote:

Paul Young - Love will Tear us Apart. I've got nothing against Paul Young, but hearing the song by someone other than Joy Division just makes me cringe.
All the others mentioned are dire, but I'm with Ray on this one: it isn't just appalling , but is also sacriligeous.

And: Sweet Jane by Dead Fingers Talk is a close second.

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boxer wrote:

ray70 wrote:
Paul Young - Love will Tear us Apart. I've got nothing against Paul Young, but hearing the song by someone other than Joy Division just makes me cringe.
All the others mentioned are dire, but I'm with Ray on this one: it isn't just appalling , but is also sacriligeous.
Come on now - the Nouvelle Vague version is ace!
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Lucie Silvas covering Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters". Awful. Truly Awful

 

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Matt J wrote:

Mike Flowers Pops - Wonderwall :minikiev:
Dunno, preferred it to the original myself. I never liked Wonderwall but Mike Flowers Pops' Val Doonican-esque cheesey pisstake version seemed so outrageously naff that it actually worked. Wouldn't buy it of course.
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Leonard Smalls wrote:

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Two Worst for me where Atomic Kittens (IIRC) cover of "under the Bridge"
I think it was All Saints...

Either way, the chillis should have told them to fcuk off - but the chillis aren't what they used to be.
you ae prolly right, some manufactured female "band" really cringed when I heard it, the way they turned the most angst ridden part of the original song into a sickly rap stylee, shocking, have to say put me off the chillis since, if they allowed this to happen, they are as bad as the Louis Walshes of this world.

At least some of the others mentioned did reasonable covers (in a technical, musician ship way I mean)even though folks didn't like them.

 

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I have just had the great misfortune to hear Burt Bacharach/Hal David's classic "Close To You", once memorably performed by the Carpenters in the style for which it was written, but now totally massacred by Paul Weller

 

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That Girls Aloud vs Sugababes cover of 'Walk This Way' that's on the radio at the moment turd.

And it's not a cover, but that godawful remix of 'The Wall' that's being played a lot on the radio at the moment makes me want to go on a killing spree. Utter rubbish.

 

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meninblack wrote:

boxer wrote:
ray70 wrote:
Paul Young - Love will Tear us Apart. I've got nothing against Paul Young, but hearing the song by someone other than Joy Division just makes me cringe.
All the others mentioned are dire, but I'm with Ray on this one: it isn't just appalling , but is also sacriligeous.
Come on now - the Nouvelle Vague version is ace!
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No it's not it's dreadful, turned a classic in to a supermarket jingle. They should be shot at dawn for what they did to that song.

 

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