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Old 05-12-2006, 07:32 PM   #1
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Covers that make you cringe....

as Ibram said.....


Few things are radder than a great cover of a great song........


but then again there are those that made you wonder why they bothered.

like The Doors version of Gloria
Banarama's cover of Venus
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Old 05-12-2006, 08:58 PM   #2
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Jessica Simpson's utter bastardisation of Robbie Williams' 'Angels' makes me want to scratch someone's eyes out (preferably hers)

Jay - I quite like Bananarama's Venus...but then....my taste might of sucked big time back then.
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Old 05-12-2006, 09:42 PM   #3
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ah, the folly of youth...... check out the original by Shocking Blue, and then search and download others from them...
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Old 05-12-2006, 11:28 PM   #4
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Hey Ducks I'll hold Jessica down by the large lumps on her chest if you go for her eyes LOL
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Old 05-12-2006, 11:37 PM   #5
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Green Day doing We Are The Champions takes the cake for worst ever, I think.

Nirvana's Man Who Sold The World comes close.
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Old 05-13-2006, 01:17 PM   #6
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Oh, and David Bowie and Mick Jagger's cover of Dancing in the Streets.
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Old 05-13-2006, 01:23 PM   #7
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Elvis Costello - Ship of Fools
Cindy Lauper - Another Brick in the Wall
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Old 05-13-2006, 01:33 PM   #8
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Cindy Lauper - Another Brick in the Wall
Surely you are making this up, nobody would let Lauper try that, would they?
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Old 05-13-2006, 01:33 PM   #9
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Ew, nobody is worthy of covering ABitWII. Gilmour is a god, and the only person worthy of playing guitar in that song. I doubt that any of the "anti-establishment" bands who cover that song to make an extra few bucks know anything about the song, or what it means.
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Old 05-13-2006, 01:40 PM   #10
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Surely you are making this up, nobody would let Lauper try that, would they?
Yeah, I have the track on my pc somewhere, listened to it once. If I'm not mistaken, it was at a concert at the recently downed Berlin Wall, with Pink Floyd playing. Sinead sang Mother at the same event and its pretty good...
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Old 05-13-2006, 03:53 PM   #11
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Call me a fag, but I think Cyndi has a powerful voice. I heard her do True Colors live on Howard Stern's show one morning, and had NHO's for an hour.
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Old 05-13-2006, 03:55 PM   #12
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anything by William Shatner
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Old 05-13-2006, 06:41 PM   #13
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mmmmm.....Shatners's covers fall into the 'they're so bad they're worth hearing' category.
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Old 05-13-2006, 09:37 PM   #14
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***Threadkiller Alert***

I will mercifully euthanize this thread with the cringeworthy cover that cannot be topped. I'll further explain that DaughterofV actually thought this performer wrote this song. I don't know which hurt me more, her ignorance or my bleeding ears.

Click here AT YOUR PERIL to hear Britney Spears' desecration of (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.

Sacrilege.
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Old 05-13-2006, 10:00 PM   #15
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