WORST COVER OF AN N.O. or J.D. SONG!

I would have made this a poll, but I have no idea how many covers there are! :p

The worst cover I could think of is Orgy's cover of Blue Monday. Obviously, those guys were a one-hit wonder, and the hit wasn't even an original song!

Another horrible cover comes from the (second) release of a JD tribute album called "Ceremonial: A Tribute to Joy Division". The band, Kismet, did an abyssmally horrible cover of LWTUA. It sounds like Bela Legosi trying to sing it! (Sorry!) :(

Do you know of any other horrible NO/JD covers?

The Cure's "Love Will Tear Us Apart". i love the Cure as a band, but this version is horrible!

Ice Cream Bandits' cover of Perfect Kiss ;)

I rather like Orgy's cover of BM. Don't like anything else they've done, mind.

Didn't Paul Young cover LWTUA? Never heard it, but I bet its ghastly.

And didn't Beethoven rip off their Xmas flexi? Bastard.

This last Summer there was an abysmal cover of BLT done in an Eurodancey style by a girls group. It even made the charts. :barf:

Originally posted by Budvar Huber This last Summer there was an abysmal cover of BLT done in an Eurodancey style by a girls group. It even made the charts. :barf:

Its not Spanish by any chance is it....?

Don't think so, they sounded quite British but I do not even remember their name.

Originally posted by Budvar Huber Don't think so, they sounded quite British but I do not even remember their name.

Oh its just that i've got a spanish cover of BLT!!

Found them! They are called Commercial Break Up (Funny or what?) and they're not Spanish (My patriotic feelings are sufficiently strained by Las Ketchup as it is).

Their other biggish hit is "All I love is green" which is sufficiently close to EGG as to have me in a cold sweat. :hate:

How about the Boo Radleys doing True Faith?

I wonder how long it's gonna be before some wag comes out with "New Order doing "???

Damn - last bit got cut off - should have been "New Order doing -insert JD song here-"

True Faith by the Boo Radleys is called Boo Faith...

Hot Shot City by David Hasselhoff is particualrly bad :)

So long as Michael Bolton doesn't lock his cruise missles on Blue Monday for a soulful "cover", the world is safe from the ultimate bad NO cover....

I downloaded this really bad LWTUA cover done by this band...name escapes me, because I deleted it. It included loads of violins and really bleak sounds and the vocalist was whispering and not even singing.

A bit like the original ;)

LWTUA by The King.

The King was an Elvis impersonator, and he covered the song all Vegas showtune Frank Sinatra style.

The Paul Young Massacre. Soft git.

i hated frente's BLT. i thought it was poop.

Don't knock the Boo Radley's version of True Faith - at least it was different. Besides, all of the band were well known to be big New Order fans, but that doesnt mean they have to play the song in the same style does it?

Originally posted by AgentWood i hated frente's BLT. i thought it was poop.

I thought it was OK, a sweet bit of inconcequential fluff. But I swear she sings 'bolt of poo' at the start.

Originally posted by 404 error > Originally posted by AgentWood> i hated frente's BLT. i thought it was poop.

I thought it was OK, a sweet bit of inconcequential fluff. But I swear she sings 'bolt of poo' at the start.

No, I think she actually says "bolt of blue"---her diction isn't that great.

Oh, yeah...I'd forgotten about this one. I heard a bootleg recording of (supposedly) 10,000 Maniacs covering LWTUA. What really made it horrible was that the keyboard player was using a pipe-organ patch on the synth instead of strings, and another male vocalist besides the lead female (who DOESN'T REALLY sound like Natalie Merchant) who sings an octave below her to make it sound like this ugly goth-wannabe cover. Dreadful.

I used to have an mp3 of this somewhat funny cover of Love Vigilantes by this Irish band (can't remember the name, sorry). Complete with accordion and Irish whistle! :)

i hate when the "coverers" change the lyrics and make them sound more melodramic and juvenile... like Billy Corgan did for "isolation" or Orgy

wonder if anybody remembers Grace jones "losing control"?

Originally posted by M. Domingo I used to have an mp3 of this somewhat funny cover of Love Vigilantes by this Irish band (can't remember the name, sorry). Complete with accordion and Irish whistle! :)

I think it was the Blue Oyster Band and it was not bad when compared to others previously mentioned

The Oyster Band definitely did 'Love Vigilantes'.

Devine & Statton (or possibly Statton & Devine) did a version of 'Bizarre Love Triangle' on their 'Prince of Wales' album, and Even As We Speak had a go at it on a 7" EP on Sarah...but I haven't heard either of those.

But 'Being Boring' by the Pet Shop Boys: that was fairly close to turning into BLT.

Originally posted by pumped full of drugs i hate when the "coverers" change the lyrics and make them sound more melodramic and juvenile... like Billy Corgan did for "isolation" or Orgywonder if anybody remembers Grace jones "losing control"?

Like Moby did on New Dawn Fades....

Oh, and Therapy? murdering Isolation too - there is true evil in the world after all...

Heh...I thought of another one. I never really liked this band, because they sound like shit IMHO...but BUSH did this wretched, make-me-vomit-cover of "In A Lonely Place" to the sequel of the movie "The Crow" (sorry...forgot what it's called).

Originally posted by Budvar Huber Found them! They are called Commercial Break Up (Funny or what?) and they're not Spanish (My patriotic feelings are sufficiently strained by Las Ketchup as it is).

Their other biggish hit is "All I love is green" which is sufficiently close to EGG as to have me in a cold sweat. :hate:

Commercial Breakup is a german disco/dance-project from Berlin. but please, don't think i'm proud of that ;)

Both Paul Young's and Swans' LWTUA are rather wretched. Why can't people leave stuff alone? Does anyone have a fave non NO song that is a cover?

I agree that you should NEVER change the lyrics of a song you cover.... especially if the song is a classic.

Originally posted by M. Domingo Heh...I thought of another one. I never really liked this band, because they sound like shit IMHO...but BUSH did this wretched, make-me-vomit-cover of "In A Lonely Place" to the sequel of the movie "The Crow" (sorry...forgot what it's called).

wasn't it called the crow 2?

Originally posted by Alan Tomlinson Both Paul Young's and Swans' LWTUA are rather wretched. Why can't people leave stuff alone? Does anyone have a fave non NO song that is a cover?

Spacemen 3 doing Transparent Radiation is an all time classic, and yeah, they did change the original lyrics, but WTF when it's this good!!!

I sort of liked the Cure's LWTUA, it's not great, but it's not wretched.

Originally posted by Wolfmann I sort of liked the Cure's LWTUA, it's not great, but it's not wretched.

I like both the Cure and JD/NO, but that cover's awful. The cure in their later cuddly teddy bear mode just can't do the intense (northern) despair thing. They should stick to the lush romantic or happy pop stuff that they seem to be best at these days.

I just listened to a whole bunch of NO tribute albums (at least four of the buggers) and they are almost all uniformly dreadful. It does seem very hard to ruin temptation though, despite these folk's best efforts. Versions of NO tracks with female vocals seem to be the most interesting.

I do like that Echoing Green Ceremony though (as I said elsewhere). New Order should play it live like that sometime.

Originally posted by M. Domingo Heh...I thought of another one. I never really liked this band, because they sound like shit IMHO...but BUSH did this wretched, make-me-vomit-cover of "In A Lonely Place" to the sequel of the movie "The Crow" (sorry...forgot what it's called).

let us not forget to implicate tricky, who produced the song i believe..

Originally posted by 404 error > Originally posted by Wolfmann> I sort of liked the Cure's LWTUA, it's not great, but it's not wretched.

I like both the Cure and JD/NO, but that cover's awful. The cure in their later cuddly teddy bear mode just can't do the intense (northern) despair thing. They should stick to the lush romantic or happy pop stuff that they seem to be best at these days.

I just listened to a whole bunch of NO tribute albums (at least four of the buggers) and they are almost all uniformly dreadful. It does seem very hard to ruin temptation though, despite these folk's best efforts. Versions of NO tracks with female vocals seem to be the most interesting.

I do like that Echoing Green Ceremony though (as I said elsewhere). New Order should play it live like that sometime.

Imagine if they covered it during "The Top" era? That could have been great. With the same intesity as "Give Me It".

A real horror is that cover of Shadowplay by "Flight". gross! one of the most ridiculous I've ever heard. it's on this web site and my husband played it for me as a "surprise". we didn't even make it to the first guitar solo before turning it off. terrible sub-goth nonsense. i think it's been shredded in another thread in the past.

As for changing the lyrics, how about on New Order Story, Bono going "love will tear us apart, SOME DAY"! UGGG.

Similar to changing the lyrics into something more juvenile and melodramatic are those covers where the singing is more juvenile and melodramatic, like Trent Reznor's whiny version of Dead Souls.

I saw the video of Orgy. That was worse than the actual song, all that clutching-the-microphone-sideways stuff.

The Cure wasn't so bad, just not great. I read Robert Smith saying stuff about that, how he'd always been too intimidated to do a JD cover. It was sweet.

The "soul cover" of LWTUA that appears on "24 Hour Party People" is awful...I'm getting tired of Kylie's "Can't get Blue Monday out of my head" (not a cover, but it counts, I think).

Originally posted by hibster > Originally posted by M. Domingo> Heh...I thought of another one. I never really liked this band, because they sound like shit IMHO...but BUSH did this wretched, make-me-vomit-cover of "In A Lonely Place" to the sequel of the movie "The Crow" (sorry...forgot what it's called).

wasn't it called the crow 2?

Yes...naturally. :p I just couldn't remember if the other/sub title was called "City of Angels" or "Salvation" or something like that (there was a short-lived TV series in the States starring martial arts star Mark Dacoscas ...I think it was called "The Crow: Stairway to Heaven"). Basically, I was trying not to screw up the titles! :)

Any way, Crow 2 had Kirsten Dunst (yum! :p) in it, I think. I never saw it, I only heard that Bush covered IALP...went to the record store and listened to it...and it was crap. The rest of the soundtrack didn't really appeal to me either.

Oh, yeah...that "soul" a cappella cover of LWTUA was cheeky and lame...why would anyone want to do that to a song? Any emotional value that the song has would be lost in its' interpretation!

On a similar tangent, I always liked Nine Inch Nails' cover of "Dead Souls" from the first "Crow" movie.