There was a QUEEN tribute album actually in the 2000s. Anthrax guys do "It's Late", Malmsteen does "Keep Yourself Alive", Lemmy and George Lynch on "Tie Your Mother Down", Nuno Bettancourt on a track, etc. etc. It's called DRAGON ATTACK and actually pretty good overall for those type of things. Lynch Mob also covered "Tie Your Mother Down" on their second album.
It's simple to discard a song that covers a classic from your youth. You have to keep in mind when you're exposed to the song for the first time. Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit was my introduction to the song and I love it. For me, listening to the who"s version sounds dated and void of any emotion much like you said the Limp Bizkit version is
Motley Crue’s Anarchy in the UK sucks. No fire, no venom, just a tepid little “fuckin destroy” at the end. Well done, boys! “Help me, Mrs. Medlicott, I don’t know what to do, I’ve only got three bullets and there’s four in Motley Crue.” Half Man Half Biscuit are nastier and intentionally funny, unlike the aforementioned.
I totally agree with Peter about Madonna's 'cover' of American Pie. Her version is downright disrespectful to Don Mclean in omitting verses. I don't have an issue with bands rearranging the music to stamp their own personality on a cover but, as Peter says, omitting large sections of the lyrics on such a profound song renders it meaningless. Don McLean's lyrics are so carefully constructed and full of cryptic allegories and need to be taken as a whole. For Madonna to miss out a chunk is her saying implicitly that she views those words as nothing important - just something to hang a vocal melody on. As for her emotionless delivery, even 'Curly Monologue' (AKA Kylie Minogue) would put more feeling into it. P.S. in answer to Grant's question, the UK equivalent to 911 is 999. As a matter of fact, I'm just ringing it now to report Madonna for crimes against music!
I agree with Todd about Behind Blue Eyes. The expectations were so low at this point that I was kind of surprised the singing was a bit better than expected. 😅 I think shortly before the release Durst did a horrible live rendition of Thank you by Led Zeppelin, Todd might have heard that, too. Great show, guys! 👍
Crowbar did a killer cover of DREAM WEAVER it was just different. I also ❤❤❤❤ Fudge Tunnel cover of Sunshine of Your Love. David Lynch did an AWESOME cover of The Ballad of Hollis Brown.
I’ll rattle off a few: Hillary Duff- My Generation The Cult- Born To Be Wild Cheap Trick- Dancing The Night Away Weezer- Africa Procol Harum- Eight Days A Week (more unnecessary than terrible). Morgan Wallen- Cover Me Up
The Weezer cover album has more or less only karaoke versions close to the original. A little bit boring but I like most of them incl. Africa. Rivers is a great singer imho and kills it on some tracks.
In 1973, David Essex released a song called “Rock On.” It sucked. It meandered and went nowhere. Musically. Unfortunately, it charted well throughout the world. In 1989, soap opera star Michael Damian covered the song. It was even worse, if that’s possible. Somehow, it went to number one in America. YUCK! In 2006, Def Leppard covered this turgid turd 💩 one more time. Why?! Ugh 😩. I concur with the person who said that the Lenny Kravitz version of “American Woman” stinks. It loses the great “snaky lead guitar line” that totally MADE The Guess Who’s version a hit! I like Lenny, but c’mon man!
Ram it Down is an awful drum machine album that destroys anything on it that might otherwise have been tolerable, overall it just feels like the leftover album that is it, "Johnny B. Goode" is actually one of the few songs on it that works for me precisely because it's so different it stands out from all the mess.
All bands should stop covering "Anarchy In The UK" by the Sex Pistols. Every version has been bad so far. Megadeth (1988), Motley Crue, (1991), Finley (2016), Michael Des Barres (2020) and a dozen others.
Guns and Roses cover of Live and Let Die is much better than McCartney's version. But then I prefer George Harrison as a songwriter to Paul McCartney so what taste do I have!
I have to respectfully disagree about UKJ, I think they friggin' rock! I love America's Least Wanted, it's one of my alltime favourites! Had never heard the original Cats in the Cradle but dig their version and it fits well on the album. Their second album Menance to Sobriety is worth checking out, goes harder and has a darker sound. These days it seems they are much bigger in Britain and Europe than in the States. For me the worst ever cover is Pat Boone doing Little Richard's Tutti-frutti back in the day - that truly is godawful!
Mariah Carey destroying Def Leppard bringing on the heartbreak Shatner's Lucy in the sky with diamonds Gwar Carry On wayward son Excellent guns and roses murdering live and let die
The Cure became over-confident after the Foxy Lady cover from the first album?? Never heard of the Purple Haze cover, shame to hear it doesn't go down as well :/...
The first two most unnecessary covers that I can think of are Slayer doing Innagoddadavida (spelling lol) and Five Finger Fruit Punch doing Bad Company. Both are just unnecessary and rediculous and I hope I never hear either one ever again 😂😂
Jamie, I totally agree with you on Shinedown. Totally oversings that song. I really think that guy wishes he was Chris Cornell. For Limp Bizkit, I didn't hate their version of "Faith." I thought it was pretty fun. I absolutely hate their cover of "Behind Blue Eyes" though. They ripped the best part of the song out and replaced it with some stupid nonsense before adding an extra garbage verse. I disliked Sammy Hagar's cover of "Piece of My Heart" by Big Brother and the Holding Company, but Faith Hill's cover of that song was absolutely offensive. Faith Hill strips all soul and emotion out of the song and turns it into some commercial horses#!t for soccer moms. Speaking of sucking the soul out of a good song, what Lenny Kravitz did to "American Woman" is a crime against good taste. It turned a great song about American commercialism and turned it into something that sounds like it should be in a Gap commercial. And I absolutely agree with everyone. Judas Priest had no business touching "Johnny B Good." Nor did they have any business putting it on "Ram It Down." They should have just left that garbage on the movie soundtrack to be forgotten.
Two of the worst and the most confusing were both released in 1986 Chicago 25 or 6 to 4 and the police don't stand so close to me why please tell me why they did this to their signature songs just a mess
I almost picked the 1986 25 or 6 to 4 George! I changed my mind at the last minute because the horn arrangement is not bad. But yeah - not much point to them doing that!
Every single band has done a crappy cover at one point. But we have to keep in mind is the intention of the song, is it a singles release ...is it meant to be something more than just filler or a joke?
The worst cover I think I’ve ever heard is The Futureheads cover of Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush. My favorite song of hers absolutely destroyed by a band I’d never heard of before. Ugh.
Judas Priest - Johnny B. Goode Shinedown - Simple Man Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams Iron Maiden - That Girl Disturbed - The Sound of Silence Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver Poison - SexyBack Testament - Animal Magnetism Rainbow - Black Sheep of the Family Metallica - Tuesday's Gone Metallica - Turn the Page Miley Cyrus - Nothing Else Matters Panic! At the Disco - Bohemian Rhapsody
Gimme Some Lovin- Raven
Johnny B Goode- Judas Priest
Born To Be Wild- The Cult
Leader of The Pack- Twisted Sister
Im Eighteen- Anthrax
The Cake version of I will survive is great! Maybe the funniest cover I know.
There was a QUEEN tribute album actually in the 2000s. Anthrax guys do "It's Late", Malmsteen does "Keep Yourself Alive", Lemmy and George Lynch on "Tie Your Mother Down", Nuno Bettancourt on a track, etc. etc. It's called DRAGON ATTACK and actually pretty good overall for those type of things. Lynch Mob also covered "Tie Your Mother Down" on their second album.
Laszlo thanks for sticking up for GnR I agree wholeheartedly that it’s trendy to diss GnR. Thanks for having your own opinion and not caving in!
GnR are a very cool band! I just can't listen too long because I find Axl's voice a bit irritating, but that's my problem, not theirs!
Peter got the first one that I thought of: Motley Crue doing 'Anarchy in the UK', just total garbage. The music video is cringey as f**k too.
Best "Purple Haze" cover that wasn't mentioned on here? Elvis Hitler. Only it's "Green Haze", with the lyrics changed to the theme from "Green Acres".
Nine Inch Nails did a Queen cover..Get Down Make Love
It's simple to discard a song that covers a classic from your youth. You have to keep in mind when you're exposed to the song for the first time. Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit was my introduction to the song and I love it. For me, listening to the who"s version sounds dated and void of any emotion much like you said the Limp Bizkit version is
Well said!
Motley Crue's Helter Skelter is great. Nothing wrong with it.
There are certainly worse Crüe songs but it is far from a good cover imho.
Motley Crue’s Anarchy in the UK sucks. No fire, no venom, just a tepid little “fuckin destroy” at the end. Well done, boys! “Help me, Mrs. Medlicott, I don’t know what to do, I’ve only got three bullets and there’s four in Motley Crue.” Half Man Half Biscuit are nastier and intentionally funny, unlike the aforementioned.
Megadeth's Anarchy in the UK wasn't that great either, at least not on So Far, So Good, So What! But they did make it rock live though!
Yes Grant, William Shatner covered "Bohemian Rhapsody".
I totally agree with Peter about Madonna's 'cover' of American Pie. Her version is downright disrespectful to Don Mclean in omitting verses. I don't have an issue with bands rearranging the music to stamp their own personality on a cover but, as Peter says, omitting large sections of the lyrics on such a profound song renders it meaningless. Don McLean's lyrics are so carefully constructed and full of cryptic allegories and need to be taken as a whole. For Madonna to miss out a chunk is her saying implicitly that she views those words as nothing important - just something to hang a vocal melody on. As for her emotionless delivery, even 'Curly Monologue' (AKA Kylie Minogue) would put more feeling into it. P.S. in answer to Grant's question, the UK equivalent to 911 is 999. As a matter of fact, I'm just ringing it now to report Madonna for crimes against music!
I agree with Todd about Behind Blue Eyes. The expectations were so low at this point that I was kind of surprised the singing was a bit better than expected. 😅 I think shortly before the release Durst did a horrible live rendition of Thank you by Led Zeppelin, Todd might have heard that, too. Great show, guys! 👍
Warrants cover of "We will rock you" was atrocious as was poisons cover of "rock n roll all nite"
Sound of Silence by Disturbed. So annoying…
Absolutely agree.... Horrible....even by their standards
Crowbar did a killer cover of DREAM WEAVER it was just different.
I also ❤❤❤❤ Fudge Tunnel cover of Sunshine of Your Love.
David Lynch did an AWESOME cover of The Ballad of Hollis Brown.
I am surprised no one mentioned Then She Kissed Me by Kiss.
I’ll rattle off a few:
Hillary Duff- My Generation
The Cult- Born To Be Wild
Cheap Trick- Dancing The Night Away
Weezer- Africa
Procol Harum- Eight Days A Week (more unnecessary than terrible).
Morgan Wallen- Cover Me Up
The Weezer cover album has more or less only karaoke versions close to the original. A little bit boring but I like most of them incl. Africa. Rivers is a great singer imho and kills it on some tracks.
Judas Priest also did a bad version of Race With The Devil.
In 1973, David Essex released a song called “Rock On.” It sucked. It meandered and went nowhere. Musically. Unfortunately, it charted well throughout the world. In 1989, soap opera star Michael Damian covered the song. It was even worse, if that’s possible. Somehow, it went to number one in America. YUCK! In 2006, Def Leppard covered this turgid turd 💩 one more time. Why?! Ugh 😩.
I concur with the person who said that the Lenny Kravitz version of “American Woman” stinks. It loses the great “snaky lead guitar line” that totally MADE The Guess Who’s version a hit! I like Lenny, but c’mon man!
Ram it Down is an awful drum machine album that destroys anything on it that might otherwise have been tolerable, overall it just feels like the leftover album that is it, "Johnny B. Goode" is actually one of the few songs on it that works for me precisely because it's so different it stands out from all the mess.
"You can't replace the Guess Who" As far as I'm concerned, the Butthole Surfers did.
All bands should stop covering "Anarchy In The UK" by the Sex Pistols. Every version has been bad so far. Megadeth (1988), Motley Crue, (1991), Finley (2016), Michael Des Barres (2020) and a dozen others.
Guns and Roses cover of Live and Let Die is much better than McCartney's version. But then I prefer George Harrison as a songwriter to Paul McCartney so what taste do I have!
Would be interesting to know which Rob Zombie movie Peter has seen. He did quite a lot of movies.
Celion Dion covering you shook me all night long.
Britney Spears Satisfaction
Pat Boone everything on his metal cover album
I have to respectfully disagree about UKJ, I think they friggin' rock! I love America's Least Wanted, it's one of my alltime favourites! Had never heard the original Cats in the Cradle but dig their version and it fits well on the album. Their second album Menance to Sobriety is worth checking out, goes harder and has a darker sound. These days it seems they are much bigger in Britain and Europe than in the States.
For me the worst ever cover is Pat Boone doing Little Richard's Tutti-frutti back in the day - that truly is godawful!
Lenny Ktavitz American Woman,
First one that came to mind. No soul.
Mariah Carey destroying Def Leppard bringing on the heartbreak
Shatner's Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Gwar Carry On wayward son
Excellent guns and roses murdering live and let die
Stand by me by Pennywise (just like so many other pop punk covers in the 90s)
The Cure became over-confident after the Foxy Lady cover from the first album?? Never heard of the Purple Haze cover, shame to hear it doesn't go down as well :/...
The first two most unnecessary covers that I can think of are Slayer doing Innagoddadavida (spelling lol) and Five Finger Fruit Punch doing Bad Company. Both are just unnecessary and rediculous and I hope I never hear either one ever again 😂😂
17:34 Spider is Rob Zombie’s little brother. Yeah, terrible.
Jamie, I totally agree with you on Shinedown. Totally oversings that song. I really think that guy wishes he was Chris Cornell.
For Limp Bizkit, I didn't hate their version of "Faith." I thought it was pretty fun. I absolutely hate their cover of "Behind Blue Eyes" though. They ripped the best part of the song out and replaced it with some stupid nonsense before adding an extra garbage verse.
I disliked Sammy Hagar's cover of "Piece of My Heart" by Big Brother and the Holding Company, but Faith Hill's cover of that song was absolutely offensive. Faith Hill strips all soul and emotion out of the song and turns it into some commercial horses#!t for soccer moms.
Speaking of sucking the soul out of a good song, what Lenny Kravitz did to "American Woman" is a crime against good taste. It turned a great song about American commercialism and turned it into something that sounds like it should be in a Gap commercial.
And I absolutely agree with everyone. Judas Priest had no business touching "Johnny B Good." Nor did they have any business putting it on "Ram It Down." They should have just left that garbage on the movie soundtrack to be forgotten.
American Woman - Gap Commercial - thats gold!
Corrosion Of Conformity do a killer cover of Queen's Son and Daughter
Pearl Jam Babba oreily or Pearl Jam rocking in the free world or anything Pearl Jam
I think they just covered the songs live, right? Or did they do studio versions as well?
The KISS My Ass tribute album to themselves was all bad.
The Edge was terrible in the It Might Get Loud movie. He's the equivalent of watching every church guitarist on a Sunday morning.
Yip. Take away his effects and he sounds like a 12 year old in their bedroom. Producers made U2 sound great..
Queensryche covered Queen's 'Innuendo'.
Areosmith's version of I'm Ready
Lee Aaron & Saxon's version ofJust want to make love to you
Maybe a contrarian pick but I never liked The Fugees version of Killing me softly. Not a hiphop hater but please leave it out on this great song.
Ukj is a great band, and its 999 in the uk
Listen to Chris LeDoux version of you want a good cover of Life is a Highway
ROFLMAO at " Taco "
But "Puttin' on the Ritz" was an actual *good* cover.
I hope you do a cover versions from heaven show 👍
Maybe a little too harsh to include it here, but Feeling Good by Muse. Without it Origin of Symmetry would be a perfect record to me.
Nah that's one of Muses best moments.
Two of the worst and the most confusing were both released in 1986 Chicago 25 or 6 to 4 and the police don't stand so close to me why please tell me why they did this to their signature songs just a mess
I almost picked the 1986 25 or 6 to 4 George! I changed my mind at the last minute because the horn arrangement is not bad. But yeah - not much point to them doing that!
Limp Bizkit was never heavy. 😂
They suck dick!
I dont like any version of Dancing in the Streets or Dance the Night Away.
Every single band has done a crappy cover at one point. But we have to keep in mind is the intention of the song, is it a singles release ...is it meant to be something more than just filler or a joke?
Metallica - Tuesday Gone. No good. Don't goof with Skynard songs.... please.
Van Halen covers are always great? 😳 I totally disagree. Really surprised you all like them.
I think they're usually great, the Roth era that is.
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The worst cover I think I’ve ever heard is The Futureheads cover of Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush. My favorite song of hers absolutely destroyed by a band I’d never heard of before. Ugh.
I had to put up with them waiting for the pixies in London in the noughties..... Horrible
I like the motley anarchy.but i loath bi$kit...
Judas Priest - Johnny B. Goode
Shinedown - Simple Man
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams
Iron Maiden - That Girl
Disturbed - The Sound of Silence
Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver
Poison - SexyBack
Testament - Animal Magnetism
Rainbow - Black Sheep of the Family
Metallica - Tuesday's Gone
Metallica - Turn the Page
Miley Cyrus - Nothing Else Matters
Panic! At the Disco - Bohemian Rhapsody
Twisted sister and leader of the pack ..
Fred Durst directed The Fanatic. I couldn't ever care for Limp Bizkit, but Fred did a good jod with that movie 🎉