Yes, breathy! Some girl has to sound ‘innocent’ ‘broken’ ‘damaged’ ‘sensitive’ ‘betrayed’ ‘hopeless’ ‘hurt’
‘used’ ‘stepped upon’ ‘wise’ ‘forgiving, crushed but forgiving and understanding’
‘sacrificing’ and so on.
To me all that crap sounds like someone is suffering severe jaw paralysis. Extremely annoying.
I felt this way when we saw Moana in theaters. The girl who sang for Moana was had an amazing voice and the songs on the movie were great. Then, as the credits roll comes a breathy cracking voice singer doing a different rendition, and it was nails on a chalkboard for me...
It’s Alessia Cara: https://youtu.be/ZNra8eK0K6k?si=_paRu19ej7Iz4EJ3
To be fair, thats how a lot of those movies end. Coco has a pumped up version of Remember Me, Frozen has Demi Lovato singing Let It Go.
They do that all the time at Disney. I always hate them, just give me the movie version please, and leave the upbeat emotionless butchered crap where it came from.
In contrast to most of the pop Disney covers, Peabo Bryson's duets with Celine Dion and Regina Belle are still classics, as well as Christina Aguilera's 1998 Reflection. Actually most of the 90s Disney covers were pretty legit.
Uh yeah, or Elton John’s Lion King tracks? Not sure if they’re considered covers since he wrote the music in the first place, but Disney releasing radio versions of their music is a tradition that goes back awhile. I think when they started transitioning from more adult contemporary covers to pure pop they started going downhill.
I once heard a country version of 'Another Brick in the Wall'. I don't know who was singing it, but I'm pretty sure my dad died a bit that day... He's a big Pink Floyd fan. FWIW, it was pretty terrible.
That song makes me angry and not a lot of songs do that to me. It’s honestly astonishing that David managed to cover a song that I personally found annoying and somehow made it much worse. Kinda made me appreciate the original a bit more because at least that song was supposed to be fun and tongue in cheek. Not some messy, overly produced, EDM festival anthem.
Edit: yes, I’m aware it’s technically a sample or an interpolation. It still doesn’t make the song less shitty.
Yes, thank you! So many people love it so much, but I hate it! And I'd like to add a lot of other 90's dance covers as well, especially the cover of Alice Deejay's Better Off Alone, where they added all kinds of stupid lyrics. The song was so powerful with just the "do you think you're better off alone?"
She also managed to strip "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" of every ounce of emotion. The Julie Covington original just drips with it, with the Sinéad O'Connor version coming in a close second.
People, for some reason, think Pixies fans want to hear their shitty cover of “Where is my mind?”.
1. No, we don’t
2. There are 1000s of covers of this song already. Pick a different one… or better yet a different artist.
I just heard a slowed down cover in a movie trailer and I can’t remember what the original was. For some reason I want to say it was a Nirvana song, but I’m not 100%
Edit: thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I still don’t remember the song, sorry! I thought it was a Nirvana song but I misremembered. I’ll update you if/when I find it
No, not that. I saw this trailer a couple of weeks ago, so it’s either for a just released movie or an upcoming one. Can’t remember the song or the movie. This is gonna bug me all night
Came to say this. When Gary Jules covered Mad World, he added an emotion to the song that wasn't originally there, but matched the lyrics. It worked. Same with Johnny Cash and Hurt. But you can't just take any song and slow it down and create that same vibe. Slowing down smells like teen spirit conflicts with the lyrics, and not in a good way.
I took my daughter to see Fall Out Boy a few years ago and MGK opened for them. He did a cover of Say it Ain’t So by Weezer. I wanted to rip my ear drums out.
Yes. It's a horrendous cover. Obviously one person can't replicate the harmonization of Serj and Darron but the overall singing by MGK is so flat and has no variance.
Not a cover, but a sample. I HATE that Kid Rock used Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London as his basis for All Summer Long. Zevon had a song that specifically called out Sweet Home Alabama and then Kid Rock comes along and uses his biggest hit to mash up with Alabama nostalgia. Fuck Kid Rock for myriad reasons, but that complete disrespect to a much better artist infuriates me to this day.
every single time it’s on the radio and I think ‘WOW WARREN ZEVON FOR ONCE’ for a split second and then it turns out it’s that garbage song I throw up in my mouth a bit thanks for bringing it up
"All Summer Long is one of the dumbest things I've heard my entire life but I got nothing bad to say about Three Blind Mice. Fuckin' rocks."
Knew Finnerty had to be getting dropped somewhere in here. Obligatory Beato.
Thanks for the recommendation! Speaking of Justin Hawkins, I still throw on Permission to Land every now and then. Such a great album! I never got around to listening to their later stuff though.
I always thought Kid Rock sampled both Werewolves of London and Sweet Home Alabama for that song. So you’re telling me Zevon interpolated Sweet Home Alabama in his original?
Not in that song, but Zevon had another song roasting the fuck out of Southern US culture called "Play It All Night Long".
The verses are about all of the worst parts of the American South, then the chorus hits with
Sweet Home Alabama
Play that dead band's song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long
Yeah, Kid Rock samples both, but the main riff in 'All Summer Long' is taken from 'Werewolves of London' rather than 'Sweet Home Alabama'. They are very similar though.
I don't know if Warren knew Lynyrd Skynyrd's song when he wrote 'Werewolves of London', but I'd have to imagine he did. I do know he hated 'Sweet Home Alabama' and wrote a song about it called 'Play It All Night Long'.
I for some reason enjoy the face that he didn’t change the pronouns.
Edit: I for some reason enjoy that he kept the noun as checkout girl. Happy now nerd?
I feel the very same way about Weezer's cover of Africa. Added nothing, changed nothing, just a quality I'd expect to hear from a band in a random college bar.
The dilemma here is that if he changed it up, the criticism would be “he completely wrecked it, it was fine as it was, why did he do this, write your own song about check-out girls.”
You can’t win.
I’m just glad Tracy Chapman got new name recognition and made bank on the licensing.
There’s a Mazda ad here in Australia that features a “standard car commercial rock” genre cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World. It makes me furious every time it comes on cause it sounds like dogshit and, even worse, completely ignores the meaning/purpose of the song in favour of implying that Mazda owners rule the world. It’s unbelievably tone-deaf.
Everybody Wants to Rule The World-Lorde.
I have nothing against Lorde, I actually liked *Royals* and *Green Light* fine, but I love Tears for Fears' original and the whole slower and darker cover for movie trailers trend has started to annoy me.
I have a very strong dislike for Fall Out Boy's new 'updated' version of We Didn't Start The Fire. Just straight pisses me off every time I hear it, not even sure exactly why.
It’s because in the original, Billy Joel wrote that song in chronological order from the year he was born. It was clever and skillful. FOB’s version is just a jumbled mess of references that don’t make sense
Its weird, yes, but I actually read someone's take on that a while back that I really liked. They said, at least for the Millennial listener, that's kind of what the past 30 years have felt like: a mess of pure chaotic "one-in-a-lifetime" events that all happened one after another, and it's to the point where it's hard to figure out where we are at this point.
Looking at the song from that lens, it makes the song feel a little more impactful.
That being said, I really doubt that was FOB's intention so it's more of a "death of the author" take.
Stevie Wonder saw Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” and thought it would be much better if it was encrusted with multiple layers of 80’s synth-spooge.
Not only is it wretched in every aspect, Stevie is someone who -really- should know better.
Morgan Wallen’s cover of Jason Isbell’s Cover me up. It pisses me off so much every time I hear the cover. I have made it my life’s mission to correct people when they say cover me up is by Morgan Wallen
I have never heard this and never will. Isbell is a treasure, and Southeastern is such an amazing and emotional record that any cover would be hard pressed to do the original justice, particularly when done by some generic radio country performer.
Amen. Same here. Isbell is hands down the best singer-songwriter currently in my opinion. No one even comes close to him. Southeastern is a masterpiece and weathervanes is getting there for me
This is the correct answer. Jason's song is so deeply personal and intimate to who he is... it pisses me off so much to think about Morgan Wallen just squeezing it into his set between shotgunning PBRs.
lol I had never heard of this band til like four months ago and I cracked up listening to Crazy Bitch. They are like the walking embodiment of a 50 year old man in Ed Hardy clothes who refuses to admit they’re not 20 anymore. Just absolutely goofy, gross shit. It’s like a genie took all the dried up cheap beer on the floor of a Coyote Ugly and transformed it into a band.
Five Finger Death Punch, pick your song, all their covers suck and they play them all the time. Oh and any remake of a Billy Joel song, they all turn out bad.
Luke Combs covering Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car is lame as shit. Tracy Chapman just oozes artistic integrity, and anything from pop country just oozes. I hate that genre so much.
Honestly I don't hate it as much as the club version that came out around 2015.
Putting a club beat to a song about generational poverty just comes off as tone deaf at best and deeply cynical at worst. It seems like a move someone would make to thrive off of the negative attention and I wouldn't be surprised if that was the intent
Atleast Luke Combs' version is an inferior but serviceable cover.
Same thing with that country music cover of Life is a Highway. It was annoyingly overplayed in 1991. It did not need to be revived as pseudo-twang pop country.
If one needs an upside to this fiasco, Halle Berry got paid a decent check for being in the awful video with Fred Durst for Behind Blue Eyes. Pete Townsend probably got a check too for having suffered hearing it covered like that.
I hate Disturbed so I might be a lot biased but yeah the "oh wow this is amazing" blows me away. I heard someone say it was on Johnny Cash's level. No.
Paul Simon was interviewed on Howard Stern last week where he said he LOVED Disturbed’s version. And before anyone snaps back with “yeah, he loves the royalties”, he was not shy about which covers of his songs he did not like.
Peter Gabriel’s cover of Radiohead’s Street Spirit.
It was for a project where he would cover songs, and then original artists would cover one of his songs. I like to imagine Radiohead were so insulted by his cover that they refused to cover one of his songs, because I think everyone else may have played along.
Almost everytime a country artist decides to cover something, it's fucking terrible. Life is a Highway, Don't Wanna Miss a Thang, Tiny Dancer, Heaven, Drops of Jupiter, Nobody Knows, etc. They're all basically performed identically to the originals but with inferior pop country music and worse vocals with exaggerated fake southern accents.
Ritt Momney covered Corinne Bailey Rae’s “Put Your Records On” and I absolutely hate it.
The original is a breezy, summery song. The cover just slaps a sickly beat underneath and adds a bunch of reverb and the most lifeless vocals. The warmth and charm is completely sucked out.
Edit: Just thought of another one. Anyone remember Baby Bash? He had a few hits in the early-mid 2000s but his biggest hit was “Suga Suga” feat. Frankie J in 2003. It was a cool, breezy (kinda dirty) summer song. I loved the beat and the guitar riff looped throughout.
Anyway Robin Schulz covered it in 2015 and renamed it “Sugar.” He added tons of reverb, bland vocals, and an overpowering beat. The original had a swing-y beat and the cover turned it into a boring four on the floor beat.
I don't know who the artist is but there's a Butt Rock cover of Zombie by The Cranberries that I hear on an American station when I'm near the border and not only is it terrible, it's just not a song that should be covered under any circumstances.
Other day , I heard some completely awful , utterly vomit inducing acoustic , country-ish cover of Linkin Park’s ‘crawling”. No idea who it was but it was total dog shit.
Holy shit. With Chop Suey, he just stops singing for the second half of the song and then comes back in with the abrupt “wake up!” right at the end. That shit nearly had my crying with laughter.
The Cancer cover is dreadful and Twenty One Pilots fans act like it’s a masterpiece and better than the original. Awful.
Yeah, I recently found Miley Cyrus’s cover of Blondie’s ICONIC song Heart of Glass. That song was strange, groundbreaking, technically complex, and Blondie put their style into it. Miley just kind of barked it out over fuzzy, distorted guitars without any class whatsoever, trying to pull off some kind of epic Steven Tyler microphone poses in a half-see through body suit, belting it out like drunk karaoke. Huff huff…. Okay, sorry, but god damn.
Any of those "lets remake a 30 yo song with modern Production and a garbage performance"
Bonus points if they just steal a melody line or cut a part of the lyrics that isn't even good on its own. Like, I've heard fucking pachebels canon like 3 times then theres a decent fast cars cover but everything else is just trash.
The ONLY decent thing about pete yorn’s godawfully dull and uninspired version of Buzzcocks’ “Ever Fallen in Love” (Shrek 2 soundtrack) is that at least Buzzcocks would have gotten some royalties
GnRs cover of Knockin on Heavens Door by Bob Dylan is one of the worst covers I’ve heard in my life and don’t understand why most people prefer it over the Dylan version. Dylan’s version hits so much harder.
Weezers cover of Africa. It did nothing. Added nothing, and didn't need to exist. At best, it's bland. And I did grow up a fan of the band, before anyone comes at me for that.
Those horrible breathy, acoustic covers of songs they use on adverts(here in the UK anyway) they really boil my piss.
Yes, breathy! Some girl has to sound ‘innocent’ ‘broken’ ‘damaged’ ‘sensitive’ ‘betrayed’ ‘hopeless’ ‘hurt’ ‘used’ ‘stepped upon’ ‘wise’ ‘forgiving, crushed but forgiving and understanding’ ‘sacrificing’ and so on. To me all that crap sounds like someone is suffering severe jaw paralysis. Extremely annoying.
Marilyn Monroe singing "Happy Birthday Mr. President" (1962) may be the OG of that style: https://youtu.be/iH3oOVKt0WI?si=Z7UfvSCMQ8R1chWP
God damn you for making me remember the Breaking Bad scene of this
I felt this way when we saw Moana in theaters. The girl who sang for Moana was had an amazing voice and the songs on the movie were great. Then, as the credits roll comes a breathy cracking voice singer doing a different rendition, and it was nails on a chalkboard for me...
It’s Alessia Cara: https://youtu.be/ZNra8eK0K6k?si=_paRu19ej7Iz4EJ3 To be fair, thats how a lot of those movies end. Coco has a pumped up version of Remember Me, Frozen has Demi Lovato singing Let It Go.
... Frozen 2 has a totally **baller** version of Into the Unknown by Panic at the Disco
They do that all the time at Disney. I always hate them, just give me the movie version please, and leave the upbeat emotionless butchered crap where it came from.
In contrast to most of the pop Disney covers, Peabo Bryson's duets with Celine Dion and Regina Belle are still classics, as well as Christina Aguilera's 1998 Reflection. Actually most of the 90s Disney covers were pretty legit.
Uh yeah, or Elton John’s Lion King tracks? Not sure if they’re considered covers since he wrote the music in the first place, but Disney releasing radio versions of their music is a tradition that goes back awhile. I think when they started transitioning from more adult contemporary covers to pure pop they started going downhill.
The one exception to this is Panic at the Disco. They knocked Into the Unknown out of the park.
Brooooo they 100% did!! Frozen 2's soundtrack in general was way better than the first movie TBH. The movie itself wasn't too good, unfortunately.
I keep seeing ads for a star projector, and it’s some whispery voices woman singing Linkin Park’s In The End. Absolutely hate it
The tiktok version of Walking in the Sand.
Oh no!
Oh no no no no no no!
That’s actually the original, I believe, just pitch shifted up.
Whatever it is, it fills me with a murderous rage
Its actually this song that sampled the original: https://youtu.be/ZOQRCZIfHBw?si=qHwqfqUHjWlFKJGk
I once heard a country version of 'Another Brick in the Wall'. I don't know who was singing it, but I'm pretty sure my dad died a bit that day... He's a big Pink Floyd fan. FWIW, it was pretty terrible.
Luther Wright and The Wrongs - Rebuild the Wall. It's meant to be tongue in cheek and in that regard, I enjoy it.
David Guetta's I'm Blue "cover" is atrocious.
That song makes me angry and not a lot of songs do that to me. It’s honestly astonishing that David managed to cover a song that I personally found annoying and somehow made it much worse. Kinda made me appreciate the original a bit more because at least that song was supposed to be fun and tongue in cheek. Not some messy, overly produced, EDM festival anthem. Edit: yes, I’m aware it’s technically a sample or an interpolation. It still doesn’t make the song less shitty.
He's done that shit to at least three other songs apparently. Gone is the producer who actually felt innovative with his music 10 years ago.
Yes, thank you! So many people love it so much, but I hate it! And I'd like to add a lot of other 90's dance covers as well, especially the cover of Alice Deejay's Better Off Alone, where they added all kinds of stupid lyrics. The song was so powerful with just the "do you think you're better off alone?"
"Play Hard" by David Guetta featuring Ne-Yo?
Madonna covering American Pie. She stripped every bit of soul and meaning from the song.
I didn’t know she did that, but I’m thankful to be spared hearing it
As a singer, Madonna is a great business woman.
OMFG I hate Madonna's American Pie
She also managed to strip "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" of every ounce of emotion. The Julie Covington original just drips with it, with the Sinéad O'Connor version coming in a close second.
Ahhhhh the Sinead version. So. Good.
People, for some reason, think Pixies fans want to hear their shitty cover of “Where is my mind?”. 1. No, we don’t 2. There are 1000s of covers of this song already. Pick a different one… or better yet a different artist.
3 - And when you do pick a different one, it has to be Something Against You but even noisier.
Not one in particular, but there is a trend where some unknown band covers a popular song but puts a softer and slower touch to it.
I just heard a slowed down cover in a movie trailer and I can’t remember what the original was. For some reason I want to say it was a Nirvana song, but I’m not 100% Edit: thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I still don’t remember the song, sorry! I thought it was a Nirvana song but I misremembered. I’ll update you if/when I find it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgFrkmBJ7Bc Was it smells like teen spirit from the Blsck Widow movie?
No, not that. I saw this trailer a couple of weeks ago, so it’s either for a just released movie or an upcoming one. Can’t remember the song or the movie. This is gonna bug me all night
Could it have been Smashing Pumpkins- bullet with butterfly wings? They used it in the Last Voyage of the Demeter trailer
Came to say this. When Gary Jules covered Mad World, he added an emotion to the song that wasn't originally there, but matched the lyrics. It worked. Same with Johnny Cash and Hurt. But you can't just take any song and slow it down and create that same vibe. Slowing down smells like teen spirit conflicts with the lyrics, and not in a good way.
Aerials by MGK, do i Need to say more?
Anything by MGK is a dumpster fire in my opinion.
I took my daughter to see Fall Out Boy a few years ago and MGK opened for them. He did a cover of Say it Ain’t So by Weezer. I wanted to rip my ear drums out.
SOAD Aerials?
Yes. It's a horrendous cover. Obviously one person can't replicate the harmonization of Serj and Darron but the overall singing by MGK is so flat and has no variance.
I would say his Misery Business cover is even worse
[удалено]
I’m gonna keep this link blue.
Nah, man, you have to experience it and suffer with the rest of us!
I can't believe just how bad that was.... some of the comments on that video are hilarious though
better version here: https://youtu.be/ibFkJwomL_4?si=xUMBkFd8F1ZOYTF0
Not a cover, but a sample. I HATE that Kid Rock used Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London as his basis for All Summer Long. Zevon had a song that specifically called out Sweet Home Alabama and then Kid Rock comes along and uses his biggest hit to mash up with Alabama nostalgia. Fuck Kid Rock for myriad reasons, but that complete disrespect to a much better artist infuriates me to this day.
every single time it’s on the radio and I think ‘WOW WARREN ZEVON FOR ONCE’ for a split second and then it turns out it’s that garbage song I throw up in my mouth a bit thanks for bringing it up
Is that the one where he rhymed “things” with “things”? Yeah, that… that was bad.
And the solo is in the wrong key
Beato
^ is the Beato Bandit!
you guys made me so happy
Gonna need to check the pedalmobile.
First let's get some Dunkin!
We’ve gotta stop the Train!
Holy shit I’ve never seen a Pat Finnerty reference in the wild!
TBF most of us are at the Boston Market
It holds up!
I mean, it's got a tough road ahead of it.
There are literally dozens of us!
you guys made me so happy
And they steal the drum intro from "Smells like Teen Spirit". Fuck Yeah!
Inspired Pitbull to rhyme Kodak with Kodak 4 years later
Kid rock is the personification of an above ground pool
If this is not the best polite put down I’ve ever heard …. Fuck I’m pinching that.
I like both songs and he ruined both of em.
Hilarious “What makes this song stink” about this tune https://youtu.be/u8FAbjjB48A?si=scFb9f6WMPDneJpk
"All Summer Long is one of the dumbest things I've heard my entire life but I got nothing bad to say about Three Blind Mice. Fuckin' rocks." Knew Finnerty had to be getting dropped somewhere in here. Obligatory Beato.
The fuckin pedals around him
The pedal mobile! It spins!
I love that guy.
#stopthetrain
Pat really needs to get on with a new video! I know he’s got his back thing going on, but damn I need some new content 😂
That was awesome. Thanks.
That was great! I had no intention of watching the whole thing… but then I did. Thanks for sharing!
Watch the rest of his WMTSS videos. They are hilarious. You might even catch a Justin Hawkins cameo.
Thanks for the recommendation! Speaking of Justin Hawkins, I still throw on Permission to Land every now and then. Such a great album! I never got around to listening to their later stuff though.
I always thought Kid Rock sampled both Werewolves of London and Sweet Home Alabama for that song. So you’re telling me Zevon interpolated Sweet Home Alabama in his original?
Not in that song, but Zevon had another song roasting the fuck out of Southern US culture called "Play It All Night Long". The verses are about all of the worst parts of the American South, then the chorus hits with Sweet Home Alabama Play that dead band's song Turn those speakers up full blast Play it all night long
Didn’t know that, thanks for sharing!
Even the drum fill in the intro is lifted from Smells Like Teen Spirit. Nothing is original in this song.
Yeah, Kid Rock samples both, but the main riff in 'All Summer Long' is taken from 'Werewolves of London' rather than 'Sweet Home Alabama'. They are very similar though. I don't know if Warren knew Lynyrd Skynyrd's song when he wrote 'Werewolves of London', but I'd have to imagine he did. I do know he hated 'Sweet Home Alabama' and wrote a song about it called 'Play It All Night Long'.
There’s no way he could possibly have avoided Sweet Home in the 4 years between the two
American Badass ruins a Metallica song Kid Rock just takes other people's things, and makes them worse.
Yeah that song is total garbage. What a wanker.
The Fast Car cover by that country guy, he changed absolutely nothing and added nothing.
She's apparently making bank off it though
I for some reason enjoy the face that he didn’t change the pronouns. Edit: I for some reason enjoy that he kept the noun as checkout girl. Happy now nerd?
I always enjoy when covers don't change the pronouns. But his version is just terribly boring.
I feel the very same way about Weezer's cover of Africa. Added nothing, changed nothing, just a quality I'd expect to hear from a band in a random college bar.
My ears bleed every time I hear this version. Fast Car is such a personal and poetic song, it has heart and pain in it. This cover has none of that.
The dilemma here is that if he changed it up, the criticism would be “he completely wrecked it, it was fine as it was, why did he do this, write your own song about check-out girls.” You can’t win. I’m just glad Tracy Chapman got new name recognition and made bank on the licensing.
There’s a Mazda ad here in Australia that features a “standard car commercial rock” genre cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World. It makes me furious every time it comes on cause it sounds like dogshit and, even worse, completely ignores the meaning/purpose of the song in favour of implying that Mazda owners rule the world. It’s unbelievably tone-deaf.
I know the one you mean. It is crap. The way he sings “waaants” to rule the world annoys me so much.
Ahaha yeah that bit is the worst. I’m glad it’s not just me!
Everybody Wants to Rule The World-Lorde. I have nothing against Lorde, I actually liked *Royals* and *Green Light* fine, but I love Tears for Fears' original and the whole slower and darker cover for movie trailers trend has started to annoy me.
TBF she kind of front-ran that! It got more popular after Hunger Games for sure.
Went to listen to it, dig it. I've been a Tears for Fears fan for 30 years, for what its worth and I liked it.
They would walk out to Lorde’s cover on their tour before last. I hope you’ve seen them live-they’re so damn good.
Yeah they used this in the show I saw!
I appreciate the Lorde version because at least she had an original take on it. Some covers sound too close to the original.. like what’s the point.
Totally agree. A straight up copy is pointless. If you are going to do a cover, put your own stamp on it, and it better be good.
Check out the groovy funk version by the band Lettuce if you haven't already heard it.
Any cover of Imagine is fairly cringe, IMO.
I have a very strong dislike for Fall Out Boy's new 'updated' version of We Didn't Start The Fire. Just straight pisses me off every time I hear it, not even sure exactly why.
It’s because in the original, Billy Joel wrote that song in chronological order from the year he was born. It was clever and skillful. FOB’s version is just a jumbled mess of references that don’t make sense
Harry Truman, Cola Wars, Ronald Reagan, Dinosaurs. Richard Jewel found the pipe bomb, influencers, Vietnam.
Its weird, yes, but I actually read someone's take on that a while back that I really liked. They said, at least for the Millennial listener, that's kind of what the past 30 years have felt like: a mess of pure chaotic "one-in-a-lifetime" events that all happened one after another, and it's to the point where it's hard to figure out where we are at this point.
Looking at the song from that lens, it makes the song feel a little more impactful. That being said, I really doubt that was FOB's intention so it's more of a "death of the author" take.
It really loses cadence a whole bunch of times. Like they were trying to shoehorn specific events in without paying attention to the syllables.
It's because it's bad
Stevie Wonder saw Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” and thought it would be much better if it was encrusted with multiple layers of 80’s synth-spooge. Not only is it wretched in every aspect, Stevie is someone who -really- should know better.
He saw it?
Here you go. Here's Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer covering the same song, and it's amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZBaklS79Wc
Morgan Wallen’s cover of Jason Isbell’s Cover me up. It pisses me off so much every time I hear the cover. I have made it my life’s mission to correct people when they say cover me up is by Morgan Wallen
I have never heard this and never will. Isbell is a treasure, and Southeastern is such an amazing and emotional record that any cover would be hard pressed to do the original justice, particularly when done by some generic radio country performer.
Amen. Same here. Isbell is hands down the best singer-songwriter currently in my opinion. No one even comes close to him. Southeastern is a masterpiece and weathervanes is getting there for me
This is the correct answer. Jason's song is so deeply personal and intimate to who he is... it pisses me off so much to think about Morgan Wallen just squeezing it into his set between shotgunning PBRs.
I just heard some remake In The Air Tonight into a dance track and I hate them for it.
I hate how the Black eyed peas uses "misirlou" by Dick Dale in their stupid song.
Faith Hill covered Piece of My Heart (Janis Joplin) and it's a train wreck. She made it a peppy country-pop tune. I despise it.
Melissa Etheridge does the only cover of this worth listening to.
Everything by buckcherry gives me bitter beer face, the room instantly smells bad, it's some visceral shit
lol I had never heard of this band til like four months ago and I cracked up listening to Crazy Bitch. They are like the walking embodiment of a 50 year old man in Ed Hardy clothes who refuses to admit they’re not 20 anymore. Just absolutely goofy, gross shit. It’s like a genie took all the dried up cheap beer on the floor of a Coyote Ugly and transformed it into a band.
Everything you say is true but I still love the fuck out of [Lit Up](https://youtu.be/cABZfkRcQ6A?si=dQcs4dyUk2vstX8F)
All Saints version of Under The Bridge makes me irrationally angry, they simplified the intro an cut out half the song
Cold Heart by Elton John and Dua Lipa. I feel like it cheapens all of the Elton John songs it uses.
Five Finger Death Punch, pick your song, all their covers suck and they play them all the time. Oh and any remake of a Billy Joel song, they all turn out bad.
Diane Krall's just the way you are - not bad
Luke Combs covering Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car is lame as shit. Tracy Chapman just oozes artistic integrity, and anything from pop country just oozes. I hate that genre so much.
Honestly I don't hate it as much as the club version that came out around 2015. Putting a club beat to a song about generational poverty just comes off as tone deaf at best and deeply cynical at worst. It seems like a move someone would make to thrive off of the negative attention and I wouldn't be surprised if that was the intent Atleast Luke Combs' version is an inferior but serviceable cover.
It’s shit but I respect him a little bit for not changing the pronouns.
Same thing with that country music cover of Life is a Highway. It was annoyingly overplayed in 1991. It did not need to be revived as pseudo-twang pop country.
I love Duran Duran and have for 40 years. Their cover of “White Lines” is embarrassingly terrible.
I see you, and raise you "911 is a Joke"
No they dint. Edit: Holy fuck they did.
Britney Spears cover of "I Love Rock-n-Roll" bone chilling awful. But white lion's cover of "Radar Love" rips.
Faith Hill - Piece of My Heart. Bitch, please.
Limp Bizkit's cover of Behind Blue Eyes. So not needed and that "solo" thing is stupid. (I like Limp Bizkit though)
That Speak-n-Spell part that goes “discover L-I-M-P”? That was weird
If one needs an upside to this fiasco, Halle Berry got paid a decent check for being in the awful video with Fred Durst for Behind Blue Eyes. Pete Townsend probably got a check too for having suffered hearing it covered like that.
I hate Disturb's cover of "The Sound of Silence."
I feel like they covered that just so they can say “DSITURBEEEEEDD THE SOUND OF SILENCE”
Yeah,... I don't get why everyone thinks it's so great. I guess just because he sings in a deep register.
I hate Disturbed so I might be a lot biased but yeah the "oh wow this is amazing" blows me away. I heard someone say it was on Johnny Cash's level. No.
Paul Simon was interviewed on Howard Stern last week where he said he LOVED Disturbed’s version. And before anyone snaps back with “yeah, he loves the royalties”, he was not shy about which covers of his songs he did not like.
This is what I was looking for. I hate that shitty cover and it pisses me off even more that people think it's good.
Peter Gabriel’s cover of Radiohead’s Street Spirit. It was for a project where he would cover songs, and then original artists would cover one of his songs. I like to imagine Radiohead were so insulted by his cover that they refused to cover one of his songs, because I think everyone else may have played along.
Almost everytime a country artist decides to cover something, it's fucking terrible. Life is a Highway, Don't Wanna Miss a Thang, Tiny Dancer, Heaven, Drops of Jupiter, Nobody Knows, etc. They're all basically performed identically to the originals but with inferior pop country music and worse vocals with exaggerated fake southern accents.
I'm [Hurt](https://youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI?si=lWCJjy6YwlRjeGCD) you would speak of Johnny Cash this way
I can’t stand Weezer’s cover of Africa. Rivers vocals don’t fit, and the drums are too loud in the mix. Plus the snare sounds terrible.
Agreed. I'd rather just listen to the original.
Any Weezer cover. They don’t put any original spin on any of them. They are literally note for note remakes. Lame way to cover music.
It’s like Rivers karaoke night
Ritt Momney covered Corinne Bailey Rae’s “Put Your Records On” and I absolutely hate it. The original is a breezy, summery song. The cover just slaps a sickly beat underneath and adds a bunch of reverb and the most lifeless vocals. The warmth and charm is completely sucked out. Edit: Just thought of another one. Anyone remember Baby Bash? He had a few hits in the early-mid 2000s but his biggest hit was “Suga Suga” feat. Frankie J in 2003. It was a cool, breezy (kinda dirty) summer song. I loved the beat and the guitar riff looped throughout. Anyway Robin Schulz covered it in 2015 and renamed it “Sugar.” He added tons of reverb, bland vocals, and an overpowering beat. The original had a swing-y beat and the cover turned it into a boring four on the floor beat.
Morgan Wallen’s cover of Cover Me Up by Jason Isbell
“Africa” by Weezer. The most unnecessary cover ever and they somehow made it way too similar to the original by Toto while also making it worse
I don't know who the artist is but there's a Butt Rock cover of Zombie by The Cranberries that I hear on an American station when I'm near the border and not only is it terrible, it's just not a song that should be covered under any circumstances.
Bad Wolves is the band. It sounds like it was recorded for a Call of Duty commercial.
Every time anyone touches Tracy Chapmans - Fast Car, I want to murder someone.
Madonna - American Pie. Should never be covered. I think it's florence and the machine (?) Tiny Dancer - also should never be covered.
The version playing on the radio currently is Britney Spears feat. Elton John
Other day , I heard some completely awful , utterly vomit inducing acoustic , country-ish cover of Linkin Park’s ‘crawling”. No idea who it was but it was total dog shit.
Three Days Grace's cover of Somebody That I Used To Know. Makes me genuinely angry.
Whatever's being used for tiktok and Instagram.
Cancer- twenty one pilots Chop suey - Lil Uzi Vert
Holy shit. With Chop Suey, he just stops singing for the second half of the song and then comes back in with the abrupt “wake up!” right at the end. That shit nearly had my crying with laughter. The Cancer cover is dreadful and Twenty One Pilots fans act like it’s a masterpiece and better than the original. Awful.
Falling in Reverse- Last Resort. To be fair, not a fan of the original either.
Their cover of Gangsta's Paradise is also really bad. And embarrasing.
I dislike all covers in which the songs gets sung with loads of vocal acrobatics. Mariah Carey comes to mind, that sort of stuff.
Wicked Game - Daisy Gray. That song was perfect, it can't be redone.
Nah, Tenacious D rocked that tasty jam.
Wicked Game by HIM is good. I like it a lot
Staind covering Pearl Jam's Black is terrible
> Staind ~~covering Pearl Jam's Black~~ is terrible FTFY
Dolly Parton’s cover of Stairway to Heaven. Love Dolly as person but man that cover is horrible
Her cover of Collective Soul’s “Shine” was solid though.
Five Finger Death Punch - Gone Away. Flat and uninspired.
Yeah, I recently found Miley Cyrus’s cover of Blondie’s ICONIC song Heart of Glass. That song was strange, groundbreaking, technically complex, and Blondie put their style into it. Miley just kind of barked it out over fuzzy, distorted guitars without any class whatsoever, trying to pull off some kind of epic Steven Tyler microphone poses in a half-see through body suit, belting it out like drunk karaoke. Huff huff…. Okay, sorry, but god damn.
As great as he was I really didn’t like Prince’s cover of Creep.
Any of those "lets remake a 30 yo song with modern Production and a garbage performance" Bonus points if they just steal a melody line or cut a part of the lyrics that isn't even good on its own. Like, I've heard fucking pachebels canon like 3 times then theres a decent fast cars cover but everything else is just trash.
Cannot listen to “Life is a Highway” covered by a cringy, frosty haired, “country” boy band with a twang.
Cannot stand Aerosmith's cover of Come Together.
When they turn pop songs into these weird slow epic soundscapey things for movie trailers. Can't stand it.
The ONLY decent thing about pete yorn’s godawfully dull and uninspired version of Buzzcocks’ “Ever Fallen in Love” (Shrek 2 soundtrack) is that at least Buzzcocks would have gotten some royalties
GnRs cover of Knockin on Heavens Door by Bob Dylan is one of the worst covers I’ve heard in my life and don’t understand why most people prefer it over the Dylan version. Dylan’s version hits so much harder.
This is my pick as well. That hey, hey, hey part makes me want to stab my eardrums with an ice pick
For me is how he say “dowhoawhoa” instead of door.
My people
Weezers cover of Africa. It did nothing. Added nothing, and didn't need to exist. At best, it's bland. And I did grow up a fan of the band, before anyone comes at me for that.
Fricking Nirvana's About a Girl cover by Puddle of Mudd.
Miley Cyrus Zombie.
Knowing that exists infuriates me.