The Best and Worst Covers in Music. -

[Midlife Sperglord]

 

[Spunt]

Worst cover? I challenge any of you to get to the end of this:

I don't know what's more obnoxious, the interview before the song that makes you want to punch everyone in the face, forever, or the actual butchering and dismemberment of Cypress Hill's best work by four infuriating, talentless hipsters whose only knowledge of black people comes from watching Lenny Henry re-runs.

This may well be the end of music.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Best cover:

Frankie Lymon- Goody Goody

Originally by Johnny Mercer

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

This is definitely one of the more bizarre covers out there.

 

[HaldolJunkie]

Whatever this is it's awful.Comment section is a goldmine.

 

[ShittyRecolor]

Best:

Worst:

To think there used to be a time I though Metallica was the best Metal band ever... then again, teenage me was pretty stupid.

 

[Shick]

System Of A Down's guitarist Daron Malakian did a couple covers on his solo album that came out in July, one of a Greek song (Gie Mou by Stamatis Kokotas if you want to look it up), and one of Assimilate by Skinny Puppy which I think came out pretty well.

Spoiler

Cover:

Original:

 

[The Great Citracett]

Everything's better with metal:

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Cibo Matto's cover of Nirvana's About A Girl.

I love it.

 

[BradyBunchFan]

This wasn't a great rendition of the National Anthem:

 

[Pozzingmyfilthyneghole]

Sisters of Mercy covering Dolly Parton. Fuck, yeah!

 

[Timecube]

I really like this cover of King Crimson's "I Talk to the Wind".

 

[ShittyRecolor]

Pretty awesome and bizarre dark acapella-swing cover of Who Will Know, a piece of music from Shin Godzilla:

 

[The Great Citracett]

I like both versions of this. This cover:

And the original:

 

[Tardevoir]

This is a cover of a song by The Sugarcubes, the band Bjork was in before her solo career. The original is actually one of my favorite songs, but this cover frankly... sucks.

Now I'm sure many will disagree, but...

It had the potential of sounding really nice, but it comes off as very crowded and obnoxious. The vocals are actually pretty good, but they're drowned out by the instrumentation and effects. (usually I don't mind that sort of thing, since I like shoegaze... but this ain't Cocteau Twins or My Bloody Valentine)

Also, yeah, the "chorus" (if you can call Bjork's "AaaaaAAAaaaaas" in the original a chorus) sounds really weak.

It's not the worst cover out there, but the execution could have been so much better.

 

[Winnie the Poohnani]

Some of my favorite covers:

Lambchop doing Sisters of Mercy's This Corrosion.

His Name Is Alive does Rainbow's Man on the Silver Mountain.

Luna's take on Guns 'n' Roses Sweet Child o' Mine.

 

[Capital Punishment]

I cannot stand Pearl Jam's cover of Last Kiss. The original just has so much more charm and soul.

 

[The Shadow]

This cover might be better known than the original. Which is great in its own right.

Remember when this happened? I apologize for reminding you.

 

[Winnie the Poohnani]

This cover might be better known than the original. Which is great in its own right.

I agree. I'd also say that their version of Joan Baez's Diamonds and Rust actually IS far better than the original. But that might partly be because in general I can't stand Joan Baez.

 

[Milk Mage]

This cover makes me feel things. Good things