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

[marlowe]

Fine Young Cannibals: Ever Fallen in Love

https://youtu.be/MMERPNrprkk

 

[studio150]

Should have just left it to the Stones and Chris Farlowe

 

[studio150]

 

[OzMike]

Good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzIAiyxS-nk

Crap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyOnxPc1VdM

 

[OzMike]

Good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cXrEPNvRO8

Crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrUoDdS8lBc

 

[OzMike]

Good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3VqAsMXE7o

Crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L98sMny2x4Y

 

[OzMike]

Good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ooj-y3LLuE

Crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbeH9GCtShE

 

[OzMike]

Brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5tr_L31StI

Utter, utter crap, what were they thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97ZbiemJ1KU

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

 

[colinz]

Dolly Parton: Stairway to Heaven

https://youtu.be/o4DC1QLxiY4

I have to confess I quite enjoyed that version by Dolly, it's up there with Rolf's cover version.

Maybe Dolly can donate some royalty bucks to these guys.

 

[Peteinblack]

Excrutiatingly, embarrassingly, awful - a band (Mark I version) which had clearly run out of ideas and steam.

 

[NooBHA]

This - The irish cant pronounce ''Toosers''

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2fizeoT22g

The only real version

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...90F80969F467F59FE74690F80969F467F&FORM=WRVORC

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Leona Lewis - Run.

She chewed it up, spat it out and absolutely destroyed a wonderful song.


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I have eclectic taste (cue different adjective options) but I really like her version.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

OK, we've had the thread on great cover versions - and there were some truly excellent ones.

But what about the other side, cover versions that were so awful that the master tape should have been taken straight to the nearest incinerator?

I can think of four off the top of my head

Madonna - American Pie. Why, oh, why?
Eric Clapton - I shot the sheriff. Bob Marley's song is suffused with anger, Clapton's has the world-weariness of a commuter who's missed the 8.32 from Dorking.
Vanilla Fudge - You keep me hanging on. H-D-H's song is a mini pop masterpiece. A tale of love gone wrong in three sprightly minutes, Vanilla Fudge's take has zero emotion, zero spark and zero understanding

The worst of all though has to be Bryan Ferry's Hard Rain's Gonna Fall. Dylan's song about the possibility of a nuclear war (written at a time when such a thing was a real possibility) becomes a merry pub sing-a-long in Ferry's hands. It's a disaster all right.

I'm sure there are many, more that should never have been released.

I like Ferry's version...

 

[hart's shirt]

Great.



And this time without guitars....

 

[Peteinblack]

I like Ferry's version...

I must confesss, so do I

 

[marlowe]

The Pistols should never have touched this Max Bygraves classic...Sacrilege!

https://youtu.be/-eu1KYe3sc8

 

[studio150]

 

[marlowe]

............

And this time without guitars....

I was expecting that to be much more horrible than it actually was