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You know how there's a thread for great covers? Here's the opposite!

 

Want a good laugh, or feeling masochistic? Listen to this shit!

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You know how there's a thread for great covers? Here's the opposite!

 

Want a good laugh, or feeling masochistic? Listen to this shit!

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

 

I think that cover is wonderful. I love her voice on that song, especially towards the end!

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Tiffany's bad attempt at I Saw Her Standing There makes me want to redecorate my shoes... Edited by librarian
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I like Living Colour but this is a tough song to try and remake.

 

http://youtu.be/RKUy4_l1CB4

 

They also murdered Back In Black.

 

I didn't know they covered that one. Just checked it out. Well, not entirely...I stopped it at :33 and now I need a drink. Awful. And it's not like the original sounds dated now and was crying out for a remake.

 

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Queensryche has a covers album called Take Cover, which is full of wrong choices...

It was okay, but they could've chosen better songs.
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I went through all my GP music (roughly 20K songs) and couldn't find a single clunker of a cover. It goes without saying that, since I'm a Rush fan, I have preeminent taste in music. :)
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I like Living Colour but this is a tough song to try and remake.

 

http://youtu.be/RKUy4_l1CB4

 

They also murdered Back In Black.

 

I didn't know they covered that one. Just checked it out. Well, not entirely...I stopped it at :33 and now I need a drink. Awful. And it's not like the original sounds dated now and was crying out for a remake.

 

The guitar tone in both those songs is terrible

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This cover of Fly By Night is a bit painful

 

https://ents-music.bandcamp.com/track/fly-by-night

I didn't mind that. I did think it was interesting to tone down the music from the original but keep the vocals basically in tact. Not sure why they changed some of the lyrics. The different guitar solo works. Definitely not terrible.

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I like Living Colour but this is a tough song to try and remake.

 

http://youtu.be/RKUy4_l1CB4

 

They also murdered Back In Black.

 

I didn't know they covered that one. Just checked it out. Well, not entirely...I stopped it at :33 and now I need a drink. Awful. And it's not like the original sounds dated now and was crying out for a remake.

 

http://youtu.be/_alGWFwxSiQ

The guitar tone in both those songs is terrible

 

Vernon Reid is a good player, but I've never liked his tone.

 

This is his rig from back in the day. Very impressive looking. But none of that gear helps give him a good tone -- in fact, the combination of all that stuff probably acts as a tone suck.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/1001001/Guitars/vreid_racks.jpg

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Not a cover by a "professional" band by any means...but check out this cover of "Comfortably Numb". These guys must have just heard the song once, bought instruments, and thought "We got this..." :facepalm:

 

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Smashing Pumpkins (essentially just Billy Corgan in this song) cover of Landslide (yeah, that Landslide). It's dreadful.

 

Also most of the songs played at the John Lennon 75th birthday concert (totally just a thing Yoko did to be in the spotlight or something of that nature) were done pretty poorly. Willie Nelson looked like he didn't even know what he was doing on stage, let alone attempting to sing Imagine.

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