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Worst Covers ever
Disgustipater wrote: For some reason the forum wont let me post this embedded (it deletes my post) in this thread, so here's a link to Fred Durst and the guy from the Goo Goo Dolls doing a cover of Wish You Were Here, complete with changed lyrics for the 9/11 tribute they are doing:
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That was a turdball. Lol at all the effects on Durst's vocal.
Good news, apparently I have latent limited precognitive powers developing. As I was driving into work this morning, I was slightly peeved..borderline pissy for no apparent reason. I must have had a glimpse of you linking that and me watching it.
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I had to hear it for myself. Wow. Many levels of bizarre going on here...Michael Barnes wrote: It's really hard to top PJ Proby's cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart". I don't even know what the hell is going on with it. Obscure/cult-ish 1960s rocker taking on a post-punk masterpiece...sort of like a cock-rock song but with orchestral hits in it. And the lyrical change "Why is the bedroom so dad-gum cold?". For extra WTF, listen to the live version where he also uses a racial slur and rides out the song hollering "eat your heart out, negro". I had heard about this version for years and never heard until it- amazingly- turned up on Spotify. It is really dreadful.
I can't even
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(OK I admit, I like it a little bit)
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I'll be damned if his "Love Will Tear Us Apart" isn't stuck in my head. "...emotions won't grow- ha!"
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Hex Sinister wrote:
I had to hear it for myself. Wow. Many levels of bizarre going on here...Michael Barnes wrote: It's really hard to top PJ Proby's cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart". I don't even know what the hell is going on with it. Obscure/cult-ish 1960s rocker taking on a post-punk masterpiece...sort of like a cock-rock song but with orchestral hits in it. And the lyrical change "Why is the bedroom so dad-gum cold?". For extra WTF, listen to the live version where he also uses a racial slur and rides out the song hollering "eat your heart out, negro". I had heard about this version for years and never heard until it- amazingly- turned up on Spotify. It is really dreadful.
This has to be a reference to Jerry Lee Lewis who was once so upset about being lower on a bill than Chuck Berry, he lit his piano aflame on stage while performing great balls of fire, then pushed past Berry backstage yelling "follow that ni----."
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Chapel wrote: Here is a travesty!
(OK I admit, I like it a little bit)
She also has the best trolling, predatory, cover ever!
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Hatchling wrote: Anything from Ryan Adams's album covering Taylor Swift's 1989.
I agree. The original is fine as is and doesn't need some dude with a guitar and very sincere hair giving us his take.
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The other cover that was a true low point was Last Kiss by Pearl Jam, an insipid cover of a song that sucked in its original form.
Alanis doing My Humps makes me love her even more than normal.
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It's so bad I have actually managed to avoid thinking about it for at least a decade.
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