What Is The Worst Remake Of A Song Ever

[Parche]

I say....Leanne Rimes 'Blue'
Of course she had to remake all her songs, as she cant write her own....:grr: :grr: :grr: :hi:

[Mike 03]

1. Difficult to answer. My gut reaction is "Smells like Teen Spirit" by Tori

Amos.

Maybe her heart was in the right place, but it came out all wrong.

[Orrex]

3. I love that cover!

It was like the second song I heard by her. In fact, to hell with you--I'm going to listen to it right now!

:grr:

[cemaphonic]

64. Nah, that's a good one

[Tommy_Carcetti]

91. No way!

I actually like that version better than Nirvana's.

[NewJeffCT]

101. Is it worse than Paul Anka's version?

or others of his ilk?

[Danger Mouse]

2. "Big Yellow Taxi" by Counting Crows. Adam Duritz could've saved himself some time...

and simply spat in Joni Mitchell's face instead. It would've had the same effect, with a lot less suffering on our parts.

[Orrex]

5. A truly wretched cover of a truly sublime song

Horrendous.

[Danger Mouse]

11. When I first heard it I was in absolutely disbelief.

I simply could not believe that Duritz had the gall to think he could do that song justice.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

41. I totally agree

:puke:

[dubeskin]

76. Flame me, but I prefer the cover better

[Danger Mouse]

135. Look, I love some of Counting Crows' songs, but how can you prefer...

Durtiz to Joni? I just don't get it.

[old mark]

88. I never heard it, or was aware that it was done. Just the idea makes me

want to punch him in the face.


mark

[Orrex]

4. Downtown Train by anyone except Tom Waits

Rod Stewart should have a soccer ball shoved up his mullet.

[lightningandsnow]

6. Westlife's cover of "Uptown Girl".

Do not want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpU6jfVfOKM

[Guava Jelly]

7. Rock on - Michael Damian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAmLxwhuBcA

[Parche]

8. the original

sucked also

:woohoo: :hi:

[liberalhistorian]

120. LOL, Amen! I've always

hated that stupid song, no matter who did it.

[CBGLuthier]

9. Easy question. well maybe

Either Mariah Carey's version of the Nilsson (Ham and Evans composed I think) classic, Without You or Whitney Houston's butchering of Dolly Parton's I will Always Love You.

Both are examples of songbirds trying to show off and destroying a melody.

[Danger Mouse]

10. I will Always Love You FTW. That song is terrible.

[PassingFair]

48. Guess you haven't feasted your ears on THIS version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo

Warning: Eternal, silly earworm...

[CreekDog]

55. but you have to admit that Whitney Houston's version was

louder.

[Liberal Veteran]

12. The Boys of Summer by The Ataris.

Sucks so hard that it produced a black hole which immediately destroyed the band.

[Liberal Veteran]

13. Oh, and also....Live and Let Die by Guns and Roses.

Puke puke puke

[cemaphonic]

63. hmm, that's the only GNR song I actually like.

[DarkTirade]

65. That's because it was written by somebody else.

:P

[cemaphonic]

67. True, but a *bad* cover of a song I like is downright enraging.

Rod Stewart still owes the world an apology for "Downtown Train."

[Danger Mouse]

14. The Ataris attempted to cover The Boys of Summer? I'm glad I missed out on the Musical Fail.

[Liberal Veteran]

15. Here's a youtube for your listening displeasure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIfiQePVbqU

[Danger Mouse]

17. That's one of the most absurdly pretentious music videos I've ever seen.

It fails on so many levels it's almost a win. Almost. Instead, it just sucks. Sucks like nothing has ever sucked before. If Don Henley were to punch that douchey lead singer in the nuts with a spiked gauntlet, nobody would blame him. I'm sure he'd even win a medal. From me, at least.

[Lyric]

16. Anything remade by UB40.

Every time I hear that singer's whiny voice ruining some song or another, I get an urge to cock-punch the radio.

[Rhythm]

84. I was thinking that, too hon... *L*

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[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. That "Comfortably Numb" cover from "The Departed."

Horrible.

[Danger Mouse]

20. Some songs should not be covered. That is one of them.

[mitchum]

25. It can be covered well if Gilmour is still involved...

Mister Bowie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM0Pl80Zf00

Kate Bush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKuRvBCuwkE

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

27. Speaking of Bowie....

That "We Could Be Heroes" cover from a few years ago stunk. Can't remember the band. Don't care.

[Danger Mouse]

29. Wallflowers, fronted by Bob Dylan's sonny boy. From 'Godzilla' a shitty remake which also featured..

Puff Daddy completely butchering Led Zeppelin's best song, "Kashmir," with some assistance from Jimmy Page, which makes it even MORE failtastic.

[mitchum]

34. I had forgotten about that butchering of "Kashmir"...

The Firm, Page/Coverdale, and the Led Zeppelin Trubute Band With Bonham DNA from earlier this year are minor offenses in comparison to that

[Danger Mouse]

35. A shitty remake featuring shitty cover songs. It's kind of appropriate.

[mitchum]

30. That was Dylan's kid's band...

and it did suck

[Chorophyll]

47. Yes. That was just WRONG. nt

[Danger Mouse]

28. Yes, if and only if Gilmour is on guitar.

That song is as close to perfect as it gets, in my book.

[frogmarch]

19. Pat Boone singing the Exodus theme song. UGH!

[Danger Mouse]

31. Pat Boone is the king of shitty covers. Let it not be forgotten...

that he stole the fame away from more talented black artists, using racism to his advantage. What a piece of shit. He's the Eric Bauman of the music world.

[Kat45]

53. And of course there's Pat Boone's "Crazy Train"

from his album covering metal songs. :rofl:

[Danger Mouse]

60. 'In a Metal Mood'...he was sick of shitting all over rock, so he decided to move on to metal.

He was all out of shit so he had to puke on it instead.

[Burma Jones]

99. Pat Boone singing Tutti Frutti

He could suck the sexy out of Scarlett Johansson....so to speak

[underpants]

21. Wait for it..... if we haven't reached the reverse apex of cover song suck

Rod Stewart will soon set the bar even lower

He has some god awful covers of late.......and he sells millions of copies

[Liberal Veteran]

23. Better that than ANY remake by Michael Bolton.

[liberalhistorian]

121. Oh, hell, you just had to make me think of his

unspeakably bad version of "How am I supposed to live without you?" My teeth hurt just thinking of it. Actually, my teeth hurt just thinking of ANY song of his; ANYTHING he does is unspeakably bad. His voice is just hair-gratingly bad and annoying.

[kwassa]

104. Reverse apex is called the nadir,

Rod Stewert is the nadir of covers.

Ralph Nader is the nadir of presidential candidates.

[mitchum]

22. That Miley Cyrus cover of "Cock In My Pocket" is pretty lame

[Orrex]

45. But her version of 'The Curse of Milhaven' was incredible

Even Nick Cave thought so.

[mitchum]

114. I'm not arguing with Nick (especially if he still has that scary mustache)

[Symarip]

24. Every song Sublime covered

Especially 54-46 by The Maytals.

[mitchum]

26. Agree with you...the same can be said for the freaking Red Hot Chili Peppers

they have butchered some great songs

[peruban]

42. Slow that train down a second.

I have to comment that when the Chili Peppers ended Lollapalooza 2 with their encore, covering Jimi Hendrix's "Crosstown Traffic", they blew Bayfront Park in Miami the fuck up. It was wilder than anything else they played in that set.

[BulletproofLandshark]

32. Some REALLY shitty local band covering Europe's "The Final Countdown"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeMDvCdrtc

[Schema Thing]

33. I heard a truly miserable country version of "Life In The Fast Lane" today

I didn't wait around to find out who was doing it however.

[mitchum]

36. This Vanessa Paradis cover of "Waiting For The Man" is LOTS better....

with the audio turned off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZQHA62VrE8

[peruban]

37. Madonna's "American Pie"

What a total piece of unnecessary shit.

And did Lenny Kravitz really need to do another version of "American Woman" by The Guess Who?

[Danger Mouse]

38. Madonna covered "American Pie"? Well, that's not surprising, she's the most pretentious asshole EVER

Bar fucking none, it is impossible to be more pretentious than Madonna.
And Lenny Kravitz couldn't possibly do "American Woman" justice...the song already sucks. All you can do is possibly make it suck a little less. He failed.

[BulletproofLandshark]

39. True that.

Seriously Madonna, John Mayer, and Kanye West need to embark on a world "We're Completely Up Our Own Asses" tour.

[Danger Mouse]

40. I friggin hate John Mayer, he's a smarmy sack of shit.

:rofl:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

96. John Mayer butchering Tom Petty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wJ-VPqFzy0

Pure evil, I tell you. Pure evil.

[DarkTirade]

68. I dunno, he does repetitive and boring pretty well...

:P

[Danger Mouse]

112. He might as well have covered 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat'

it's about as exciting.

[DarkTirade]

116. Yeah, but he would have done a FANTASTIC job of it.

:P

[Drunken Irishman]

85. I was sooo going to post this!

[JCMach1]

97. That REALLY Sucked... yes

[JCMach1]

98. -delete-

[QMPMom]

133. Totally agree with Madonna's version of American Pie.

It is the most horrid piece of crap ever recorded.

[dawgmom]

43. That horrible remake of "Killing Me Softly" from a few years back

Awful, awful, awful. Sort of a reggae beat, way too slow, and sung off-key. It make me ill everytime it came on the radio.

[AwakeAtLast]

44. That would be the Fugees

I sorta dug it then, don't know if I would now.

[kwassa]

105. I like that version, of course.

brought attention to the lovely voice of Lauryn Hill, who later became a solo star before she went all wacky.

[dawgmom]

108. Sorry...I hate her voice

She consistently sings off-key.

But...to each their own.

[kwassa]

110. actually, she doesn't

you might be mistaking her for Mary K. Blige, who always is off-pitch and somehow extremely successful.

[dawgmom]

111. We'll have to agree to disagree

I'm a singer, and I know bad pitch when I hear it. If you google Lauryn Hill and "off-key" you'll find there are others who agree with me.

However, I DO agree with you about Mary K. Blige. Always off-pitch, and I could never understand why everybody goes so ga-ga for her singing.

[Chorophyll]

46. There are so many but two come immediately to mind:

Talk Talk's "It's My Life" covered by Gwen Stefani

The Waterboys' "Whole of the Moon" covered by Jennifer Warnes.

Both have made me flee the supermarket in tears.

[Skittles]

49. Gwen Stefani "It's My Life"

that whining little girl voice - :puke:

[TommyO]

50. Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé, Black Hole Sun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hZmWjQjHg0

[Chorophyll]

52. Wow...

:rofl: and :scared: at the same time.

[peruban]

54. WOW, that's putrid.

The only word that comes to mind, putrid.

[Danger Mouse]

61. I lasted about a minute before I could stands no more.

[DarkTirade]

70. ... WTF did I just listen to?

:scared:

[TommyO]

89. It is chilling, isn't it?

I'm so glad that I could introduce some of you to this musical monstrosity.

[foxfeet]

51. Satan's cover of "You're Havin' My Baby," as sung to Rosemary.

[coyotespaw]

56. Oh, I could go on and on with this list...

Sugarland's remake of Life In a Northern Town...
Tim McGraw's remake of... well, anything he's talentlessly barfed over, but lately his cover of Suspicions irks me most...
311's horrid attempt at Lovesong...
Celene Dion's remake of I Drove All Night
and while I could spend another eight or nine hours at this, I'll leave you with the song that makes me think of beating a talentless hack to death with a red cap...

Limp Bizket falling flat on their faces with Behind Blue Eyes...

[Danger Mouse]

59. Limp Bizket covered Behind Blue Eyes? Fred Durst should have his nuts crushed with tweezers for that

[coyotespaw]

62. You'd think of worse punishments

had you actually heard his remake...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pp38SR1lMU

sterilize your ears afterwards

[DarkTirade]

66. Damn, you beat me to it.

I was 'bout to post that one. :)

[Danger Mouse]

71. While it could've been worse...

it was pretty damn awful.

[coyotespaw]

75. Dude, it had a Speak and Spell solo...

I can think of no way it could possibly be worse...

[Danger Mouse]

77. yeah, WTF was that???

[DarkTirade]

117. It's because shitting on a classic rock song wasn't enough.

He had to shit on it WITH THE NAME OF HIS BAND. So everyone knows exactly who shit on it.

[liberalhistorian]

124. Holy Christ on a cracker, that is

a damned disgrace to a truly great classic! Makes me glad for at least one minute that my stepdad now has dementia and won't ever hear that, he loved that song.

The line should be "but this song it's not as empty as my version makes it seem to be." Kee. Rist.

[coyotespaw]

130. If there is a hell

Fred Durst's hell will consist of Pete Townshend kicking him in the sack until the end of days...

[elshiva]

69. It's at the end of the movie "Gothika."

I like "Gothika," but that cover is awful. Why couldn't they play the original?

[geomon666]

57. This is the worst remake EVER.

Britney Spears - Satisfaction

[CreekDog]

58. egads, maybe it just started out bad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQtyJZhV2lQ

[Liberal_in_LA]

82. HA HA! Leonard Nimoy singing! The dancing is hilarious

[liberalhistorian]

125. WTF was

THAT????

[DarkTirade]

72. Then there are the ones that are purposely bad and end up being amusing, I.E. Richard Cheese.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCv2cgIlnHA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Ft2msosjA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhaQlFLXK4c

[Tommy_Carcetti]

95. Actually, Cheese makes the songs sound better.

Disturbed's "Down with the Sickness" is just a horrible, horrible, unlistenable song. Yet, when Cheese sung it, it was somewhat enjoyable and fun.

[Iggo]

73. "Shout" by Disturbed.

What the fuck?!?!?!?!?!

[meegbear]

86. The Otis Day and the Knights or the Devo song?

[Iggo]

92. Tears For Fears.

Ouch, my brain!

[meegbear]

93. Oh God -- I forgot about that song ...

:puke:

[pokerfan]

74. Dock of the Bay

Michael Bolton :puke:

[jobycom]

122. If you aren't joking

if there is such a thing, you just ruined my life!

[pokerfan]

126. The horror... the horror.....

I find Michael Bolton , completely revolting...



http://www.youtube.com/v/90NsO02Qy38

[jobycom]

127. He doesn't impress me enough to revolt me, but thinking of that masterpiece

flowing through his vacuous vocal chords... ARGHHH!!!! :cry:

[pokerfan]

128. Me neither but wanted something to rhyme with 'Bolton'

[jmm]

78. Any remake by William Shatner ties for worst ever.

Here's the proof-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7oU9cdBHd8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0GAjK64VZg&feature=related


Honorable mentions go to Duran Duran's "911 is a Joke" and Hillary Duff's "My Generation."

[rcrush]

80. William Shatner spoken word is awesome.

!

[Liberal_in_LA]

83. OMG!

[Danger Mouse]

113. William Shatner's covers are awesome. They suck so much they rock.

[MrSlayer]

79. Tori Amos' cover of Slayer's "Raining Blood".

Beyond hideous.

[Orrex]

118. Didn't like that one so much either, but...

On that same disc, her cover of Eminem's '97 Bonnie and Clyde is goddamned chilling.

[Sebastian Doyle]

81. Van Hagar - "Won't Get Fooled Again"

DISCLAIMER: I am not responsible for any violent physical reactions you may have by listening to this shit....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQxDW_-pz1o

[Danger Mouse]

136. What douchy pretentious twaddle.

[SoxFan]

87. Mandy Moore's entire "Coverage" album

OK, you can cover songs by XTC, Joan Armatrading, and The Waterboys. That's nice. But you're still Mandy Friggin' Moore.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

90. It isn't even close. Korn's crime against nature cover of "Another Brick in the Wall"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI629JmkvW8

Only if you're brave.

Honorable mention: John Mayer murdering Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" Yuck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wJ-VPqFzy0

[BurtWorm]

94. There's a new dance version of "Because the Night"

that rips all the mystery and darkness out of the Patti Smith version it's based on. It even adds a clumsy Numa Numa beat to drive its awfulness home.

[JCMach1]

100. Manilow Singing this song on the Today Show

last Friday?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HrSN7176XI

Not joking, Manilow really sucked on this one.

Here is the Manilow Version: http://tv.popcrunch.com/barry-manilow-today-show-november-28-video/

[Arkansas Granny]

102. "Piece of My Heart" by Faith Hill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBjdBChj3gg&feature=related

[Jokerman]

103. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Guns & Roses

Makes me want to introduce my ear drum to an ice pick.

[MrsBrady]

106. "Blue" wasn't really a remake.

She wasn't the first to record it, but she was the one that made if famous.

It's considered "her" song.

[otherlander]

107. A Perfect Circle doing Imagine.

[LynneSin]

109. Will To Power did a remake of 2 songs into 1 and it was HORRIBLE.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_to_Power_(band)

Will to Power is an American dance music group led by music producer, remixer, and DJ Bob Rosenberg. The group had several chart hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s, most notably 1988's "Baby, I Love Your Way / Freebird Medley (Free Baby)", a medley of Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird", which was a Billboard #1 hit in 1988.<1>

[El Fuego]

115. Any twangy country version of a pop/rock classic.

There are too many to count. All are cringe-worthy.

[liberalhistorian]

119. There's so many of them. However, the one that

really jumps to mind right away is that unbearably horrible version of Bob Seger's "We've Got Tonight" by Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton. First of all, it was never, ever meant to be a duet at all. And second, the interpetation, music, singing, and every single other thing about it was just ear-splittingly painfully horrible. YUCK!

[jobycom]

123. I was going to post something else, but you persuaded me. That just might be the worst.

[Adsos Letter]

129. This one, hands down...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

131. New Order's absolutely perfect "Blue Monday," as butchered by nu-metal one-hit wonder hacks Orgy

pretty sad when your one hit is someone else's song

[CreekDog]

132. this one (and it's not a Rick Roll)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eek-XeZvHn0

[mikeytherat]

134. The Cannibal Corpse cover of Lulu's "To Sir, with Love."

OK, I'm kidding. But that would be so bad, it would be cool.

mikey_the_rat