[Music] Cover versions that should never have seen the light of day

Wozza · Feb 18, 2020

Im fairness to Take That, it was a bit of fun on tour, and not released.

FamilyGuy · Feb 18, 2020

That absolute abomination by some already-forgotten "winner" of X Factor (or some similar no-talent show) cover version of "Forever Young".

A wonderful song destroyed.

studio150 · Feb 18, 2020

pearl said:
What was Siouxsie thinking of ....
https://youtu.be/gGH_16SICL0

But was this a cover or just a song with the same title of an earlier 60s song?

pearl · Feb 18, 2020

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
We normally see eye to eye about music, but I have to take exception to this. I swear that at one point he sings the line: "You c***, I'm not a queer". What's not to like? I have been know to do a karaoke version of this when drunk. It's not a patch on another cover of a silimar vein that's just sprung to mind though....one for the other thread.

[MENTION=205]Tom Hark, Preston Park[/MENTION] must have missed this one then
https://youtu.be/VN3DVYT1Sqw

I agree with you btw ... think Sid adds the f word too

bhafc99 · Feb 18, 2020

carlzeiss said:
A proper tragedy from Steps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiwDHHcHPh0

Lisa Scott-Lee’s daughter was in the same class as my son for a couple of years. Even at age 7/8 she was showing signs of being a right little madam. Lisa and her husband were actually alright though.

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DumLum · Feb 18, 2020

Is it PotG? said:

Wrong thread?

Nothing to see here.

Driver8 · Feb 18, 2020

Wet wet wet’s cover of The Troggs Love is All Around made me cringe whenever I heard it, which was far too often.

It made Reg Presley very rich though.

Icy Gull · Feb 18, 2020

There are many who have murdered a Dylan song, this is just one twee example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVRu6Dlwzg0

Garry Nelson's teacher · Feb 18, 2020

Phil Collins' act of vandalism on You Can't Hurry Love might warrant a mention?

brakespear · Feb 18, 2020

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
This is hideous. At least try to make it sound different, FFS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s-SHrzXbU8

I really liked this version

GT49er said:
...and this one I believe, unbelievable as it may seem, was a minor hit ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVuSYUNAekc

do prefer this to he original :thumbsup:

zefarelly · Feb 18, 2020

If you want full on audio torture, just listen to virgin radio for a morning.

Bladders · Feb 18, 2020

Absolute shithouse version

https://youtu.be/5eDwGwLPn7c

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PoG · Feb 18, 2020

Icy Gull said:
There are many who have murdered a Dylan song, this is just one twee example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVRu6Dlwzg0

George did it best imo.

Garry Nelson's teacher · Feb 18, 2020

PoG said:
George did it best imo.

I'm afraid that c 1972, my mate - who was far cooler than me - asked me what I was trying to sing. When I replied that it was the Olivia Newton-John (later know as Neutron-Bomb I believe) song, he gave me a look of such withering contempt that I still remember it some 50 years later!

lawros left foot · Feb 18, 2020

I love David Bowie, I love most of the music he made, but, Let’s Spend the night together, is just wrong in so many ways.

I bought Aladdin Sane the day it was released, as a fresh faced naive 14 year old. It is still my least favourite Bowie recording, and yes, I have listened to Tin Drum.

Gwylan · Feb 18, 2020

lawros left foot said:
I bought Aladdin Sane the day it was released, as a fresh faced naive 14 year old. It is still my least favourite Bowie recording, and yes, I have listened to Tin Drum.

Worse than Little Drummer Boy? :ohmy:

lawros left foot · Feb 18, 2020

Gwylan said:
Worse than Little Drummer Boy?

Yes, you only get to hear that a couple of weeks in December. :smile:

Is it PotG? · Feb 18, 2020

DumLum said:
Wrong thread?

Nothing to see here.

Cover versions? Check.
Should have been binned? Check.

Seems right thread to me.

Pogue Mahone · Feb 18, 2020

lawros left foot said:
I love David Bowie, I love most of the music he made, but, Let’s Spend the night together, is just wrong in so many ways.

I bought Aladdin Sane the day it was released, as a fresh faced naive 14 year old. It is still my least favourite Bowie recording, and yes, I have listened to Tin Drum.

What!?

Clearly not one of his best albums, but it's got Watch that Man, The Jean Genie, Drive in Saturday and Time on it. All stone cold classics.

I bought this album, aged 12, after seeing him doing Starman on TOTP. It was my first album purchase. I was enormously disappointed that Starman wasn't on it, so Ziggy Stardust became my second album purchase.

He later produced some FAR inferior albums, IMHO.

Barham's tash · Feb 18, 2020

studio150 said:

Amazed it took until post #39 tbh

GT49er said:
Yep, that is unequivocally shit.

Nobby Horton's Knob said:
WS also crucified 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' . Its too hideous to post. NSC would never recover

Balls. This was going to be my opening/winning gambit.

In all it’s beauty:

https://youtu.be/AB3uVARNhmM

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