Good covers of VERY shit songs

I hate Queen!! And Freddie Mercury was a cock!! Haha. Oops, may God forgive me

.. but in 1996 the Braids did a very good cover of Bohemian Rhapsody (R&B style). Quality!

phil collins' against all odds as done by the postal service. absolutely brilliant.

Attitude - Guns N Roses

Originally The Misfits

NObabe wrote: I hate Queen!! And Freddie Mercury was a cock!! Haha. Oops, may God forgive me

.. but in 1996 the Braids did a very good cover of Bohemian Rhapsody (R&B style). Quality!

i remember that 1,i thought it was a decent cover..

Terry Hall-Sense

Now that's a very good cover version of a Beach Boy's record.

Carly Simon's "Nobody Does it Better" done by Radiohead.

Heard the Artic Monkeys doing a session on Radio 1 where they covered s...ome shite girl band, which was rather good... (The cover not the original!) That's about all I can think of at the moment - unless someone has done a storming cover of Liar for Community?

Snorri xxx

True Faith by Schüssler Dü

Lwtua- Paul young

ghost rider wrote: Lwtua- Paul young

joke of course.

NObabe wrote: :

.. but in 1996 the Braids did a very good cover of Bohemian Rhapsody (R&B style). Quality!

i seem to recall quite liking that cover ,too.

Paul Young cover of 'LWTUA', GOD that was awful! Ruined a perfectly great CLASSIC song

ghost rider wrote: joke of course.

You're lucky.

When I'm with you

Original sparks one is synthpop cheese ( tho I like it....i'm sure it's considered megashite by most). New order's version is proto-rave bliss...the finest NO performance ever in fact.

STEVE-This TOWN Ain't BIG enough for the TWO of US(the OTHER TWO) and it ain't ME whose GONNA leave!

Into the Groove--Sonic Youth

ghost rider wrote: Lwtua- Paul young

I was gonna suggest Joy Division's cover of Paul Young's Love Will Tear Us Apart. They really did wonders with it.

Jesus and Mary Chain's Surfing USA? Sid Vicious My Way? New Order's John Denver's Leaving on a Jet plane?

AgentWood wrote: phil collins' against all odds as done by the postal service. absolutely brilliant.

That reminds me of another great cover of phil collins, "In the air tonight" by Nonpoint. If you haven't heard it yet, highly suggest on downloading it.

JHC

Good call on JAMC's cover of Surfin' USA. I would nominate QOTSA covering Never Say Never, but I haven't heard the Romeo Void original, which everyone says is crap.

NObabe wrote: I hate Queen!! And Freddie Mercury was a cock!! Haha. Oops, may God forgive me

.. but in 1996 the Braids did a very good cover of Bohemian Rhapsody (R&B style). Quality!

Equally, Laibach's version of One Vision.

404 error wrote:

Jesus and Mary Chain's Surfing USA? Sid Vicious My Way? New Order's John Denver's Leaving on a Jet plane?

Oh yes, "My Way." The Pistols' version is fantastic. I love it. And not even in that "so-bad-it's-good" way

TATU How Soon Is Now

"Lonely" by Akon. Bobby Vinton annoys me.

Michael Patrick wrote:

404 error wrote:

Jesus and Mary Chain's Surfing USA? Sid Vicious My Way? New Order's John Denver's Leaving on a Jet plane?

Oh yes, "My Way." The Pistols' version is fantastic. I love it. And not even in that "so-bad-it's-good" way

I don't know which I like best about that version: when they showed clips of Sid shooting the audience in The Filth and The Fury (which was from Swindle, of course, but I haven't seen that), or when it was used at the end of Goodfellas

Either way, it's so much better than Old Blue Eyes' tired rendition

I'm Free by the Soup Dragons...or The Soft Boys acapella take of I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones)