Bands that you love, and the covers they do that make you cringe

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  • soclosesoclose Posts: 628
    Wilco - If All Men Were Truly Brothers

    I'm not even familiar with the original. It's simply terrible by my standards.
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    I would have to go with the Pumpkins cover of You're All I've Got Tonight. I wouldn't say i hate it, but it's roughly a minute shorter than the original and it leaves out a killer guitar solo before the last chorus. I thought it would be great, but it was just dissappointing.


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  • ISUalISUal Posts: 40
    Ryan Adams "Wonderwall" I'm probably gonna get for this pic, but as a disclaimer, I love Ryan Adams, and just really felt he missed the mark here. I prefer him to Oasis, but I just think the original is better.
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  • OK so I don't love Foo Fighters... I like them. But their cover of 'Keep the Car Running' by Arcade Fire is unforgivable.

    I actually liked their cover more than the original song. How 'bout that?
  • Slip KidSlip Kid Posts: 1,175
    PJ - Love Reign O'er Me. Simply god awful. I can't stand when they do it in the studio and especially live.
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  • muppetmuppet Posts: 980
    Nine Inch Nails covering "Hurt." Come on Trent, don't mess with the classics.
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    muppet wrote:
    Nine Inch Nails covering "Hurt." Come on Trent, don't mess with the classics.

    Ha ha, I almost punched someone at Reading last year when NIN were playing and someone behind me said 'he's playing that Johnny Cash song'!
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Ha ha, I almost punched someone at Reading last year when NIN were playing and someone behind me said 'he's playing that Johnny Cash song'!
    :D poor you.

    I got a lovely section of 40 year-old OG fan-since-Pretty Hate Machine dudes, one of whom was actually weeping by the end of the song, head in hands.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    :D poor you.

    I got a lovely section of 40 year-old OG fan-since-Pretty Hate Machine dudes, one of whom was actually weeping by the end of the song, head in hands.

    Lol, nice! To be fair, having watched the performance back on youtube a few times, I still think it rates up there as one of the very best versions.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Lol, nice! To be fair, having watched the performance back on youtube a few times, I still think it rates up there as one of the very best versions.
    Yeah, it really was amazing. Probably the best single performance I've ever seen in person.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • FlaggFlagg Posts: 5,856
    Pearl Jam's awful cover of Driven to Tears.
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  • smarcheesmarchee Posts: 14,539
    Travis's cover of Britney Spears 'Hit Me Baby One More Time'

    why ?


    WHY ????

    just an awful idea from the start, why ?
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  • lephtylephty Posts: 770
    My Morning Jacket played Highway To Hell 12/31/06... i LOVE MMJ, but this was absolutely horrible.
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