Bad Cover Tunes

To be fair, they nailed the "there'll be no more AAAAAHHHHHHHH".

 

Actually, I like the Rolling Stones' covers of Under The Boardwalk and My Girl, and also Come On, Fortune Teller, Poison Ivy, I Can't Be Satisfied...

However, ONLY ONE of us can be correct, according to that thread that insists "good music" can be determined objectively...

 

I agree. A remarkably stiff outing from a band that has a really good singer and a great drummer. Seems they just phoned this one in. Their own music usually has a lot better groove and sound than this.

 

Could there possibly be a more boneheaded idea than making a recording of this tune without it's defining riff?

 

Smash Mouth's cover of "I'm A Believer" is horrible, IMO - sounds like a mediocre bar band. Stupid lyric changes ("The more I gave the less I got...oh, yeah") and awful arrangement/playing. Nothing in their version adds anything new:

 

Never knew James Taylor recorded any disco.

 

"Gentle On My Mind" by Leonard Nimoy

One of my favorite songs (I've got 12 different versions of this song). There's an outstanding version (Roger Miller), good versions (Glen Campbell and Foster & Allen)...and then there is this...

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Uhh... anything by William Shatner

 

Rod Stewart/ You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Man (?)
Patti Smith/ Gloria
Metallica/ Turn The Page
Guns and Roses/ Live and Let Die
Guns and Roses/ Knockin On Heavens Door
Cat's In The Cradle - Done in the 90's cannot remember the band. Yes is was that bad!

 

"Wild Horses" (or should I say "Wild Horsey") as a fast foxtrot.

 

If it wasn't Corey Feldman but rather a deep cut cover on some relatively known R&B artist's album it wouldn't be too bad.
This is coming from a Lennon fan.

 

Is this supposed to suck?

 

Cheap Trick
Don't Be Cruel

Tiffany
I Saw Him Standing There

 

I doubt it. They weren't exactly known for their sense of humour, were they?

 

You posted it under my same response.
Man it was bad in 87/88 but it's gotten worse.

 

Hendrix's cover of Dylan's "Drifter's Escape" is just atrocious.

 

Sorry about that.......overlooked your response. Just an atrocious version.

 

The Carpenters "Ticket to Ride" ... could be an ad for Prozac

 

I think that Paul Simon is singing on this (somewhere)

 

You know I never even checked the credits. I'm not even going to try and explain why I have this compact disc...

 

James Taylor's cover of Day Tripper
He leaves out the best part (the guitar riff) and tries to make it into some kind of "jazz scat" song and it is just awful.