Cover versions we don’t need.

I just heard a cover of Crowded House’s Don’t Dream It’s Over and I just could not fathom why anyone would release such a bland version of the original song. I could find nothing unique or compelling about the cover. Nothing. The original was perfect. This cover: homogenized, uninspired, blah. Can’t even be bothered to look up who the artist was. Ugh.

 

Hey now. Hey now.

 

Any version of Drift Away
that ain't John Kay or Dobie Gray.

 

#8 in the UK.
#89 in the US.

 

Any cover (or anything else) by Limp Bizkit - Faith, Bitter Sweet Symphony, etc

 

Ticket to Ride by the Carpenters.

 

No need for anyone to cover "Born To Be Wild".
Impossible for the original to be improved upon.

 

Pat Boone's interpretation of "Smoke on the Water." It's Ian Gillan's story to tell, buddy!

 

Celine Dion and Anastacia singing You Shook Me All Night Long. The video is not worth posting.

 

If someone tries to remake "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" there's going to be trouble.

 

I never cared for Peter Frampton's cover of Jumpin' Jack Flash. It isn't horrible but it doesn't add anything to this already fine song. Frampton was writing so many fine songs at that time so this cover was unnecessary.

Scott

 

Oh it is so worth posting, it's hilarious!

 

A few months after it was released Bob Dylan asked Slash to appear on his Under the Red Sky album. So perhaps Bob liked the cover.

 

Who's "we?"

 

Natalie Merchant - Because The Night

A side that it was for charity, she didn’t do anything different with it.
It was dull.

 

This is a really good cover.

 

Sugar Ray - Abracadabra
Goo Goo Dolls - Give A Little Bit

 

I believe the Under the Red Sky cameos were arranged by Don Was. I wouldn't be surprised if Bob didn't know who Slash was.

 

Wow! Never heard this cover version! This is really heavy stuff...

 

You might be right. Although in Slash's autobiography he says Bob Dylan didn't like his guitar parts and said they sounded too much like Guns N' Roses. So Bob must have been aware of who Slash was and Guns N' Roses' music to make a comment like that.

 

Even worse is their cover of "Live and Let Die"...

 

I agree. However, I do really like Johnny Winters raucous version of the song.

Apropos to this thread:

 

Fleetwood Mac ?

That's a good one ! substantially reinterpreted.

 

I actually like their cover. Then again I heard it first (then again I heard Knockin by them first and yeah, that one is bad) and I don’t add ass kiss everything Paul McCartney puts his name on.