Just heard a god awful cover of True Faith by someone called Liz Kay !! Ranks along side Paul Youngs version of Love Will Tear Us Apart on the No Parlez album & Simple Minds instrumental version of the same track on one of there 'b' sides. Anymore truly awful covers out there ?
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Arcade Fire-Age Of Consent Radiohead-Ceremony(it sounds like shite to me, im sorry don't kill me) The Get Up Kids-Regret fook it every cover ever except the community 1 and 2 versions suck.
If you meant me, my opinion and utter hatred for those covers was festering for more then two years.
All of the cover version of anything originally by Joy Division, with the exception of New Order and well as Radiohead's cover of Ceremony---were horrible, IMO.
Radiohead's cover of "Ceremony" is not too bad, but it adds nothing new to New Order's versions so what's the point? I still think that New Order's 7" was near perfect, I wouldn't ask for anything else, not even a Ian Curtis vocal.
Pains me to say it, but New Order doing LWTUA 2005/6 for turning a delicate cat's cradle of sorrow into a knees-up-Mother-Brown of Chas'n Dave proportions!
Canuck21 wrote: Radiohead's cover of "Ceremony" is not too bad, but it adds nothing new to New Order's versions so what's the point?
It will never be recorded. Just Radiohead doing some tracks they grew up with in their youth. They did a load of them on that podcast, and didnt change them at all. Just a respectful nod to the bands they were into when they were forming c.1986. I think as a straight version of Ceremony, you'd be hard pushed to find much better.
I did a cover of WFTSC about a year ago, and was really pleased with it at the time, even got the wife to do the 'is it or isn't it Gillian' backing vocal, just came across it again recently and it's shite, I promise never to do another cover, not with me doing vocals any way, in fact I'll never do vocals, that'll sort the problem out!
Michael Monkhouse wrote: Pains me to say it, but New Order doing LWTUA 2005/6 for turning a delicate cat's cradle of sorrow into a knees-up-Mother-Brown of Chas'n Dave proportions!
Agreed, it's always made me downright queasy.
Ian would probably not mind though ;)
Unlike several of you I actually rather like and respect Moby. But that Temptation cover.... wtf.
Frente - Bizarre Love Triangle Arcade Fire - Bizarre Love Triangle Orgy - Blue Monday
Can't stand these at all.
I personally love those obscure american and european female vocalists who sing over dull trancified versions of new order songs
Digital's Ultraviolence was pretty fucking shit, on reflection. Wish we'd never recorded it.
U2 and Arcade Fire doing 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and Grace Jones doing 'She's Lost Control'.
Mainly I don't mind the covers, it's just someone trying to perform songs that they love. Most people couldn't do them any better - apart from those on Community 1 & 2.
Special mention to Pottsy's 'The Village' - best NO/JD cover I've ever heard 
I will stick to my old answer in what i posted in a thread in the State of the Nation forum. The worst New Order cover is:
The Ice Cream Bandits - The Perfect Kiss
(Sorry whoever you are, but it is really bad!)
Indeed!
The Sub-Cultured Perfect Kisser*!* wrote: I will stick to my old answer in what i posted in a thread in the State of the Nation forum. The worst New Order cover is:
The Ice Cream Bandits - The Perfect Kiss
(Sorry whoever you are, but it is really bad!)
Indeed!
It was supposed to be! None of us had ever met before, let alone rehearsed, and it was a spontaneous jam using borrowed equipment that hadn't been tuned. Featuring the Martian on keys, Liv on vocals, Major T on cowbell, Jim Reilly Jim Reilly on vocals and me on bass, at ATR's Homage night after the Old Trafford gig in 2002. I shudder to think how much alcohol had been consumed that weekend.
Ech...I didn't know Fall Out Boy had covered LWTUA.
Fall Out Boy, like all emo, is so predictable that I can imagine exactly how it sounds already without even having heard it.
But which is the worst cover version? All of them! Seriously, they're all godawful.
I haven't heard the Community cds, so no offense to those people who post here.
The Eigth Circle doing Bizarre Love Triangle is the worst New Order cover I've ever heard. Honourable mentions for crappiest cover go to Frente and Moby.
I think we can all agree, it just doesnt work for a new order song, without barneys whooping, hookys rock star poses, and stevens side to side head movements while drumming.
