Milkshake - Goodnight Nurse

Careless Whisper
 

Seether did a cover of Careless Whisper by Wham!.

Giant Drag - Wicked Game gets my vote.

Faith No More did a great cover of "Easy" by Lionel Richie

The original is by no means bad, that defeats the whole purpose of this thread.

Franz Ferdinand covering Britney Spear's Womanizer.

drain sth covered motorhead's ace of spades, and made it better than the original (imo) and judas priest covered fleetwood mac's green manalishi much better than the original. in both cases the original wasn't awful but the cover pwned

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That cover was horrible. Even more horrible than the original.


This I agree with, 100%. That is one of my favourite songs!

Oh my god, I just heard The Devil Wears Prada's "Still Fly" cover.

Amazing.

That's why I used the qualifying term "slightly". It wins by the simple fact that it's not Britney Spears.

yeah, i said that the original was good, but tbh, that was the only song i could think of

So then you shouldn't have posted.

The thread has a specific purpose.

yeah, probably.

hell, if you mods don't approve, go ahead and delete my post

Delete it yourself you lazy sod

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haha fine then, give me a sec




there ya go, Urban, feel free to read my reason for it too ;)

Dynamite Hack's cover of Boyz In The Hood. Eazy E can suck it.

Sublime's coverof "The Ballad Of Johnny Butt"
originally by secret hate.

Nirvana's cover of "Son Of A Gun" origiginally by the Vasselines..

Angry Samoans cover of "Buddy Holly" originally by weezer,although i don't like Weezer's music much i respect them..

I think you've got the thread title backwards. This is for good covers of bad songs, not bad covers of good songs.

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Both that song and The Vaselines were great.

i'm just waiting for him to come back and say how much better the Unplugged version of Plateau was too.

I can't think of any. I despise ironic covers even by bands I enjoy.

Well, I guess we disagree because I think Nirvana did a great cover of Son Of a Gun, I'm just not into the vasselines as much, I definitaly wouldn't call them bad but Nirvana's cover is more my taste.

And no, I don't hink Nirvana played Plateau better than the Meat Puppets, nor did they do Oh, Me and in my opinion, which differ from many, I like the original Lake of Fire more.

Crappy original: Snowblind - Black Sabbath

Great cover: Snowblind - System Of A Down

Yeah, leave it to System of a Down to make gold out of crap like Black Sabbath.

To me, the definition of this thread.

Blah, the Dead Kennedys version dude.

Not heard it, surely ZZ Top's version cant be surpassed, they totally made it their own.

EDIT: I checked out the Dead Kennedys version & I like it, but it still doesnt surpass ZZ Tops cover.

Mushroomhead's cover of Crazy is amazing. The original is by Seal, which is in my opinion horrible.

listen to it now then ;)

Yeah, but still doesnt beat ZZ Tops version man!

I like Seal's work including that song. Hes an excellent soul singer. 'Kiss From A Rose' is one that I heard from a very early age.

This song was by no means bad in the first place, but the cover version is ten times better than the original.

"It's a pity Neil Young can't be here"

Much better than the original.

I'm not a huge fan of that MM song but that version doesn't sound like much of an improvement to me. It's pretty annoying actually. But I think all you're trying to say is that you hate the song and anything is better than the original. Right? ;)

Running Up That Hill - Placebo original by Kate Bush
Toxic - A Static Lullaby original by Britney Spears

Sexyback - Rae, Corrine Bailley (Original by Justin Timberlake, god I hate that man)

Running Up that Hill is a BAD song? Even if you don't like Kate Bush there is no way that it is a bad song.

I agree. It's a good song. Especially in that time. I remember everyone was blown away by it.

You're having a giraffe. The Placebo cover was good enough but Kate Bush's original is just mind-blowing, i never get tired of it.

Maybe it's just me then, but for some reason the Kate Bush version just really annoys me.

System of a dwn covered 'The Metro' and it sounded really good

Queens of the Stone Age - White Wedding.