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Title: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB on February 02, 2011, 08:17:12 pm: Nah.

I wouldn't inflict them on anyone, but...

Tight Fit - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: DaveC on February 02, 2011, 09:41:16 pm: Anything by Steps!! (http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/wuerg/vomit-smiley-014.gif)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB on February 02, 2011, 10:35:05 pm: You do know Ian Watkins is dead, don't you?

[oldjokeshardlyworthrepeating]

(http://www.pluckyfish.com/pluckyfish//wp-content/uploads/2009/09/riphfromsteps.jpg)

[/oldjokeshardlyworthrepeating]
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: robertostallioni on February 02, 2011, 11:10:29 pm: Dolly P on lead vocals. Momma take these guns from me........

Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Knocking on Heavens Door (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zkr6kb8L58&feature=related#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: SA Chris on February 03, 2011, 08:37:33 am: Oi don't knock Mambazo!
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: metal arms on February 03, 2011, 10:43:18 am: Chili's 'Under The Bridge'

It's got nothing on the All Saints original. ;)

Or in all honesty that fucking godawful noise that was Celine Dion's 'You Shook Me All Night Long'

Cant Link to it I'm at work, wouldn't if I could.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Jaspersharpe on February 03, 2011, 11:01:45 am: Jamie Cullum And Katie Melua - Love Cats (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmVL4VGhN9c#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Jaspersharpe on February 03, 2011, 11:14:52 am: Franz Ferdinand - Womanizer (Britney Spears Cover) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldhdNBvqDNg#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Jaspersharpe on February 03, 2011, 11:16:08 am: And not forgetting!........

Pendulum Violet Hill Radio 1 Live Lounge (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXqrY7k6LTM#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Jaspersharpe on February 03, 2011, 11:29:52 am: Shooting fish in a barrel but........

Boys Don't Cry (Lyrics) - Lostprophets Cover of The Cure (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwJ7lJF7rUc#)

:spank: :rtfm: :furious: :wank:
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: SA Chris on February 03, 2011, 11:36:51 am: Quote from: Jaspersharpe on February 03, 2011, 11:01:45 am
Jamie Cullum And Katie Melua - Love Cats (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmVL4VGhN9c#)

Aaargh. What a combination. Makes me want to take a screwdriver to my ears.

Love Cunts more like.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: fried on February 03, 2011, 11:38:56 am: This depresses me for so many reasons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WJpQJWpVJds# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WJpQJWpVJds#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Grubes on February 03, 2011, 12:08:29 pm: some one please cut her mike
Avril Lavigne CHOP SUEY cover! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXofYXDwRK8&feature=player_embedded#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Johnny Brown on February 03, 2011, 12:33:00 pm: Quote from: SA Chris on February 03, 2011, 11:36:51 am
Quote from: Jaspersharpe on February 03, 2011, 11:01:45 am
Jamie Cullum And Katie Melua - Love Cats (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmVL4VGhN9c#)

Aaargh. What a combination. Makes me want to take a screwdriver to my ears.

Love Cunts more like.

Wow. Not often I find Cullum amusing but it so bad its... awful.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: JamieG on February 03, 2011, 01:27:50 pm: Quote from: Grubes on February 03, 2011, 12:08:29 pm
some one please cut her mike
Avril Lavigne CHOP SUEY cover! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXofYXDwRK8&feature=player_embedded#)

I stopped the video at 13s, couldn't handle anymore. :'( Truly appalling, have a wad!
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: andybfreeman on February 03, 2011, 08:02:58 pm: Quote from: JamieG on February 03, 2011, 01:27:50 pm
Quote from: Grubes on February 03, 2011, 12:08:29 pm
some one please cut her mike
Avril Lavigne CHOP SUEY cover! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXofYXDwRK8&feature=player_embedded#)

I stopped the video at 13s, couldn't handle anymore. :'( Truly appalling, have a wad!

ditto! as soon as her voice kicked in I ripped my headphones from my ears. i don't know why I even pressed play but somehow i didn't think anything could sound that bad!
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB on February 03, 2011, 08:21:51 pm: Quote from: fried on February 03, 2011, 11:38:56 am
This depresses me for so many reasons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WJpQJWpVJds# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WJpQJWpVJds#)

Oh there are much, much worse versions of that out in the wild.

This cunt came within 150 or so votes of being one of the bastards bastards in the Tory government.

As it is, he's the leader of Sheffield City Council. At least until the spring that is

http://sheffieldpolitics.com/2010/12/22/sheffield-council-leader-scriven-sings-for-hotel-chain-promo/ (http://sheffieldpolitics.com/2010/12/22/sheffield-council-leader-scriven-sings-for-hotel-chain-promo/)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Grubes on February 03, 2011, 08:29:07 pm: I hate biffy to start with but this is just shit
Biffy Clyro - Buddy Holly (Weezer Cover) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdcQaaXZIsU&feature=related#)

And this
Biffy Clyro - Killing In The Name Of (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKWBmnI1QH4&feature=related#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Fultonius on February 04, 2011, 07:06:25 pm: Quote from: JamieG on February 03, 2011, 01:27:50 pm
Quote from: Grubes on February 03, 2011, 12:08:29 pm
some one please cut her mike
Avril Lavigne CHOP SUEY cover! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXofYXDwRK8&feature=player_embedded#)

I stopped the video at 13s, couldn't handle anymore. :'( Truly appalling, have a wad!

I found it highly amusing :lol:
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Andy B on February 04, 2011, 08:38:05 pm: Quote from: Grubes on February 03, 2011, 08:29:07 pm
And this
Biffy Clyro - Killing In The Name Of (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKWBmnI1QH4&feature=related#)

The audience start to give their appraisal around two minutes in, but I think the band assumes they're singing along?
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Jaspersharpe on February 16, 2011, 04:03:11 pm: I'm not sure why I didn't think of this before (it's quite plausible that my brain has tried to erase all memory of ever hearing them) but this thread wouldn't be complete without an offering from the "cast of Glee". Never in the history of cover versions has one group of people managed to butcher so many well known tunes. Every week another pile of vomit inducing shite leaks it's way onto the radio and I'm woken from my "shutting out the boredom of radio 1" bubble because I hear something so bad that it pops it.

I only remembered their existence because I was just subjected to what might well be the worst thing I have ever heard, tried to work out what such awfulness could be and then realised.

Click if you dare but don't say I didn't warn you....

Glee - Livin' on a Prayer / Start Me Up (FULL STUDIO VERSION) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiF002NI9XA#)

These people need to be murdered in a horrible manner.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Will Hunt on February 20, 2011, 08:02:28 pm: The Killers covering Romeo and Juliet. Dia-fucking-bolical.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Serpico on February 20, 2011, 08:04:11 pm: Quote from: Will Hunt on February 20, 2011, 08:02:28 pm
The Killers - dia-fucking-bolical.

That's all you had to say.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: mrjonathanr on February 20, 2011, 10:56:40 pm: Quote from: fried on February 03, 2011, 11:38:56 am
This depresses me for so many reasons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WJpQJWpVJds# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WJpQJWpVJds#)

A song Reed refuses-to-confirm-but-so-obviously-is-about bumbling around Central Park smacked out of his head doesn't really seem like an appropriate choice for Children in Need somehow.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: fried on February 21, 2011, 10:04:55 am: One of the best love songs to a drug ever written and Heather Small is singing part of it. I mean does the 'M' in M people mean mashed or something?

I've heard plenty of worse cover versions of this song but they are usually funny, this is just sterile and sad.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB on June 15, 2011, 07:55:18 pm: Make it stop!

MAKE IT STOP!!

MAKE IT FUCKING STOP!!!!!

Love of the Common People - Leonard Nimoy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiy3OC2JiYk&feature=related#ws)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Duma on June 17, 2011, 12:46:33 am: Good fucking god ARFK, that is hideous. Only got 30 sec in, but on the plus side I've now been forced to go and find Nicky Thomas - Love Of The Common People - Trojan Reggae 45rpm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnuKSz2nRDQ#) to cleanse myself.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: DaveC on June 17, 2011, 11:22:41 am: Quote from: aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB on June 15, 2011, 07:55:18 pm
Make it stop!

MAKE IT STOP!!

MAKE IT FUCKING STOP!!!!!

Love of the Common People - Leonard Nimoy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiy3OC2JiYk&feature=related#ws)

For some reason I didn't take you seriously and hit the play button....... :blink:........ :sick:
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: mrjonathanr on June 22, 2011, 02:59:12 pm: At last! Now I know how Scott Walker would have sounded had he been tone deaf.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: iain_cbr on June 27, 2011, 11:29:53 pm: Quote from: aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB on June 15, 2011, 07:55:18 pm
Make it stop!

MAKE IT STOP!!

MAKE IT FUCKING STOP!!!!!

"What can you do? Oooh hoo hoo?"

I thought it was sexy.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: robertostallioni on September 19, 2011, 09:57:37 pm: Rolf's cartoon club - Wild thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp6qR6sVQlY#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: robertostallioni on September 19, 2011, 11:23:16 pm: BARCELONA!

Barcelona (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzAUV5MfenU#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Grubes on December 10, 2011, 10:02:11 pm: made it about half way through to the part where this starts going upbeat :blink:. This is shit
Leona Lewis - Hurt (New Song 2011) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkWo2srE7nY#ws)
Rezner What were you thinking you do not need the money pull the fucking plug!
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Serpico on December 11, 2011, 11:31:28 am: Quote
Rezner What were you thinking you do not need the money pull the fucking plug!

Why would you think Rezner had anything to do with it? You don't need permission to cover someone's work as long as you're not altering the lyrics or arrangement.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: mrconners on December 11, 2011, 03:03:56 pm: What next?

Little Mix covering "Needle and the Damage Done"?
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Grubes on December 11, 2011, 05:47:31 pm: Quote from: Serpico on December 11, 2011, 11:31:28 am
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Rezner What were you thinking you do not need the money pull the fucking plug!

Why would you think Rezner had anything to do with it? You don't need permission to cover someone's work as long as you're not altering the lyrics or arrangement.
I thought that to commercially release a song which is someone else itellectual property in this case the lyrics. They need the permission of the owner of the song. In this case Rezner. Is this not the case?
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Serpico on December 11, 2011, 05:58:32 pm: Quote from: Grubes on December 11, 2011, 05:47:31 pm
Quote from: Serpico on December 11, 2011, 11:31:28 am
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Rezner What were you thinking you do not need the money pull the fucking plug!

Why would you think Rezner had anything to do with it? You don't need permission to cover someone's work as long as you're not altering the lyrics or arrangement.
I thought that to commercially release a song which is someone else itellectual property in this case the lyrics. They need the permission of the owner of the song. In this case Rezner. Is this not the case?

No you just need to obtain a 'Mechanical License' for whatever country you intend to release it in; from MCPS in the UK, and Harry Fox (http://www.harryfox.com/public/MechanicalLicenseslic.jsp) in the US. If you can be bothered registering on the Fox site you can see online how much it would cost you to release your own version of Hurt based on the amount of copies you release.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Bubba on December 11, 2011, 06:29:20 pm: Good lord. Sounds horribly over-produced/processed to me. It's a shame because Lewis can actually sing - but even given that... why? It's worthless compared to Johnny Cash's heart-rending version so why even bother?
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: mrconners on December 11, 2011, 07:04:28 pm: [size=-webkit-xxx-large]$£$£$£$£[/size]
The only thing they care about
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Serpico on December 11, 2011, 07:32:18 pm: Quote from: Bubba on December 11, 2011, 06:29:20 pm

Good lord. Sounds horribly over-produced/processed to me. It's a shame because Lewis can actually sing - but even given that... why? It's worthless compared to Johnny Cash's heart-rending version so why even bother?

:shrug: I suspect it was chosen for to make her a bit more 'edgey'...
This is a far better version, and a lot truer to the original sentiment.

kermit sings hurt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: SA Chris on December 12, 2011, 09:08:50 am: That should be in the "Quality" thread. Kermit for Xmas No 1.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Jaspersharpe on December 12, 2011, 09:16:57 am: Leona Lewis "edgy"? My sides.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: SA Chris on December 12, 2011, 09:30:16 am: Leona Lewis and a horse walk into a bar....
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Grubes on December 12, 2011, 10:51:29 am: Quote from: Serpico on December 11, 2011, 05:58:32 pm
No you just need to obtain a 'Mechanical License' for whatever country you intend to release it in; from MCPS in the UK, and Harry Fox (http://www.harryfox.com/public/MechanicalLicenseslic.jsp) in the US. If you can be bothered registering on the Fox site you can see online how much it would cost you to release your own version of Hurt based on the amount of copies you release.
Cheers for that good knowledge!
So how does this work with Glee getting stopped from using foo fighter songs?
Quote from: Jaspersharpe on December 12, 2011, 09:16:57 am
Leona Lewis "edgy"? My sides.
I saw in the comments the person who posted that vid on youtube wrote "leona had a rough year last year?"
I just think her label thought it was a good idea and she did not realise what she was doing
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Serpico on December 12, 2011, 11:02:31 am: Quote from: Grubes on December 12, 2011, 10:51:29 am

Cheers for that good knowledge!
So how does this work with Glee getting stopped from using foo fighter songs?

I don't know I haven't heard about that case, but at a guess they possibly wanted to alter the lyrics and/or arrangement, in which case they would need permission.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Grubes on December 12, 2011, 11:10:18 am: there part of it here does not really go into detail
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/dave-grohl-blasts-glee-creator-ryan-murphy-20110318 (http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/dave-grohl-blasts-glee-creator-ryan-murphy-20110318)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Serpico on December 12, 2011, 11:12:09 am: Here's some info from MCPS/PRS regarding copyright in the UK:
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"Does registering my works with PRS for Music mean my copyright is protected?

Currently, no official form of copyright registration is available. In the UK, all original music is protected by copyright from the time it is recorded/written down in some format. Registering your works with PRS for Music enables you to be correctly paid for the broadcast or performance of your songs".

"Do I need prior approval from the copyright owner to release a cover?

No, provided that you obtain a mechanical licence from MCPS prior to release, a separate prior approval from the copyright owner is not required. If you are to alter any of the arrangement please contact the publisher of the works".

"Arrangements based on copyright material

The copyright owner of the original copyright material must give their permission for the arrangement. Once permission is granted the original copyright owner, not the arranger, will register the arrangement with PRS for Music".

Let's not got get into the irony of what copyrights I've infringed in copying and pasting all that...
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Jaspersharpe on December 12, 2011, 11:14:47 am: Joe McElderry - Driving Home For Christmas (Live performance) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LybAWkLpjUA#ws)

AAAAARRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: DaveC on December 12, 2011, 11:54:29 am: :chair: I'm now frantically trying to find something on my itunes to blot that out!! ::)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Jaspersharpe on December 12, 2011, 12:58:37 pm: Let me see if I can help.....

All I Want For Christmas Is You (SuperFestive!) (Shazam V... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGFNmEOntFA#ws)

OH NO!!.... AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: SA Chris on December 12, 2011, 02:01:47 pm: When it comes to Xmas, all dignity goes out the window

Bing Crosby & David Bowie - The Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXjbI3kRus#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB on December 16, 2011, 05:55:37 pm: Quote from: SA Chris on December 12, 2011, 02:01:47 pm
When it comes to Xmas, all dignity goes out the window

Bing Crosby & David Bowie - The Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXjbI3kRus#)

The worst cover of that?

Oh come

Terry Wogan & Aled Jones: Little Drummer Boy - BBC Children in Need (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AWdrUUMsYU#ws)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Jaspersharpe on December 19, 2011, 04:33:40 pm: What is it this year with reality TV gimps doing covers of this classic:

Stacey Solomon Driving Home for Christmas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weeTHVzOEmo#)

PACK IT IN!!!!
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB on February 22, 2012, 07:55:38 pm: Jeybus!

Did the woman have no fucking pride?

Status Quo - All Around My Hat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsEJytTP2U#)

Multiple levels of wrong.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Jaspersharpe on February 23, 2012, 10:31:13 am: This has caused a bit of a fuss on the internet:

Marcus Collins - Seven Nation Army (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxevD8-bG9k#ws)

I don't actually have that much of a problem with it as the original is shit anyway and The White Stripes are one of the most over rated bands ever.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Grubes on February 23, 2012, 10:45:33 am: Quote from: Jaspersharpe on February 23, 2012, 10:31:13 am
The White Stripes are one of the most over rated bands ever.
I don't know I am sure I saw a video I enjoyed with meg white in it ... oh wait, that did not have anything to do with music
:-[ :doubt:
Nothing to see here
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: robertostallioni on March 20, 2012, 06:22:23 pm: Don't speak English? Have a go anyway.

Eilert pilarm - Jailhouse Rock (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MiJTxlEdtQ#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: clm on March 20, 2012, 06:29:12 pm: I win, i win.
Bizarre Love Triangle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hh1unH0U78#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: robertostallioni on March 20, 2012, 06:35:55 pm: Oh yeah?

Eilert Pilarm - Green, green grass of home (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZwGjfLxCME#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: fried on March 20, 2012, 07:30:30 pm: Quote from: clm on March 20, 2012, 06:29:12 pm
I win, i win.
Bizarre Love Triangle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hh1unH0U78#)

I don't like the original much either but fucking hell the lyrics are just something else (if you've been there).
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: slackline on April 01, 2012, 01:21:01 pm: Arrested Drunk Guy Sings Bohemian Rhapsody (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqymcJRSbxI#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: Serpico on April 01, 2012, 05:18:35 pm: Time to roll out the big guns:

worst cover ever! *the final count down* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeMDvCdrtc#)
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: SA Chris on April 20, 2012, 02:38:17 pm: Paul Young- Love will Tears Apart (Original Cover) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrc1GB7YVe0#)

Go on - listen to the whole thing, I dare you.
Title: Re: Worst Cover Versions?
Post by: aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB on November 10, 2012, 05:06:38 am: What, exactly, is "drorering" supposed to mean, you illiterate, fat, Manc twat?

Gary Barlow - Forever Autumn ( The War of The Worlds) RADIO Version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmoR8tpO1KQ#ws)