Cover me bads

[overthewater]

I do like a bad cover version of songs, what better way to make you think how good the original was.

Mrs Miller does Downtown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw07CDid0JM

Come On Eileen" by Save Ferris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCzWPBR30Nk

You're the one that i want hylda baker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_MSi0MhM_c

The Wuzels – You're Gorgeous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I29NdBMDl_c

Anyother gems

 

[61653 HTAFC]

The Wurzels one is a significant improvement on the original though...

 

[yorksrob]

The Wurzels one is a significant improvement on the original though...

Not quite as good as The Shirehorses (aka Mark & Lard's) almost cover "You're Gormless".

 

[Busaholic]

ANY version of 'God Only Knows' by anyone other than the Beach Boys: likewise any version of 'Johnny B Goode' that's not by the late, great Chuck Berry.

 

[overthewater]

I always thought when it comes to "The Day Before You Came"

Abba was worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HnOFwqpLRQ
compared to
Blancmange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbFdT9Jz-m8

Of course other bad covers:

Bananarama – Careless Whisper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBlDQx5WX0Y

Paul shane - pebble mill you've lost that loving feeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJvGdOC6D1Y

Kevin Blechdom- Private Dancer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9mbvNx_S60

 

[Bevan Price]

ANY version of 'God Only Knows' by anyone other than the Beach Boys: likewise any version of 'Johnny B Goode' that's not by the late, great Chuck Berry.

Some versions of Johnny B Goode are fine, definitely not rubbish - even if not as original as Chuck Berry. For example, some man called Presley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aLL11E8nO0

and Mr Hendrix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_rk-RITts

 

[DaleCooper]

Some versions of Johnny B Goode are fine, definitely not rubbish - even if not as original as Chuck Berry. For example, some man called Presley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aLL11E8nO0

and Mr Hendrix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_rk-RITts

Trust you to come up with some really obscure performers.

 

[Bevan Price]

I do like a bad cover version of songs, what better way to make you think how good the original was.


You're the one that i want hylda baker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_MSi0MhM_c

Anyother gems

That was not a serious cover - just a "send-up" of a (then current) pop song as part of a TV comedy programme.

Peter Sellers went even further with these:

"A Hard Day's Night"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLEMncv140s

"She Loves You"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEzJTMf1ZF8

 

[SteveP29]

You'll probably all hate this, but I think it's quality...
Ghostbusters- Xentrix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZVQv_bttaY

 

[Geezertronic]

Midge Ure and (separately) Lulu covering "The Man Who Sold The World" by David Bowie. The Nirvana unplugged version is the only cover that gets close

 

[SS4]

Tori Amos - Raining Blood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PWgA3PI7VQ

Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb
so bad I won't link

 

[Busaholic]

Some versions of Johnny B Goode are fine, definitely not rubbish - even if not as original as Chuck Berry. For example, some man called Presley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aLL11E8nO0

and Mr Hendrix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_rk-RITts

Presley got me interested in pop music in the first place, but anything of his after about 1964 just shows his long decline... I'll make an exception for 'Suspicious Minds' but the original by Terry Stafford out-elvises Elvis!

Please don't remind me about Jimi whom I declined to see in Chislehurst Caves because local group the Herd were playing in a different cave at the same time. I'm still kicking myself fifty years later!

 

[overthewater]

I have found the worse cover song ever:

DO you think Elivs would be pleased?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-S7gd1zHRE&ab_channel=SteveChase