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

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.