A Bit More About Covers

[sirpaulsbuddy]

Been thinking a little more about covers and the idea crossed my mind" "What about bad covers?"

My great and good friend acrosticunivers got me to thinking about this with his comment mention of Vanilla Fudge's epic psychedelic treatment of The Supremes' hit "You Keep Me Hangin' On." I remembered The Fudge's version of Junior Walker's "Shotgun," a much less

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[carless_sam]

Well, I like Shatner's cover of "Common People" even if most other people don't... I'm sure if you look around the Coverville archives you can find some not-gems.

Shatner

[sirpaulsbuddy]

Shatner doesn't count. He's so bad, he's good. ;-)

Re: Shatner

[carless_sam]

Actually, he's perfect for "Common People". At least for me. Perfect cadence and inflection and everything.

[patrick_vecchio]

Barry Manilow's cover of Ian Hunter's "Ships" was a war crime.

BM rapes IH

[sirpaulsbuddy]

I think only one word comes to mind:

Eeeeyowww....

[katana1]

This one!

Glad she's in Britain

[sirpaulsbuddy]

Madonna's your cross to bear now, I fear.

In this country, she'd probably be "renditioned" to Guantanamo...

You know, now that I think about that... ;-)

Re: Glad she's in Britain

[katana1]

She spends more time in New York now...

Be thankful I didn't link you to Celine doing the worst cover ever! Much as I like her (and I do) she should have left 'You Should Me All Night Long' alone. ;)

Dead rock stars must have spun in their graves when she happened upon that track.

Typo

[katana1]

Shook!

[cwmackowski]

I remember when Sheryl Crowe covered "Sweet Child O Mine" by GnR a couple years back. I don't know if it was bad, but I just couldn't wrap my head around it. Psychologically, I wasn't ready for that song to get covered and rereleased as a single since the original was so interwoven into my own college years.

Speaking of GnR, their cover of "Live and Let Die" was overbloated rock indulgence excess. They deserved to break up after that one.