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Post the WORST Cover Song You've Ever Heard!

posted 2 years ago by mtxmind (3296)
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My immediate go-to choice. This horrorendous cover of "'Comfotably Numb" (by a band appropriately named "Hush", performing it for a Music Store's Breast Cancer benefit) from 12 years ago went viral, & became legendary for it's sheer awful-ness & musical ineptitude!!!😱 It spawned hundreds of internet memes, & simply putting "Worst Pink Floyd Cover" into any search engine will return thousands of results for it!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7pDNDuoJ0

Yours?

[–] robocat893 (15923) 2 years ago

Slayer covering Steppenwolf's Born to be Wild. Just awful!

https://youtu.be/45HzHJ8MozY

[–] mtxmind (3296) 2 years ago

Yeeesh!! I normally like Slayer, but THIS....? Ugh!

[–] robocat893 (15923) 2 years ago

Slayer is one of favorite bands but this cover song really sucks!

[–] samoanjoes (56743) 2 years ago

Hilary Duff covering The Who. After listening to it, you're going to ask why, what and how.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ue5kotMLjws

[–] mtxmind (3296) 2 years ago

😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

WHAT in the holy fuck did I just listen to???????????

[–] ItsGood2BeRight (3879) 2 years ago

This has got to be one of the worst covers I ever heard. Complete destruction of the original! Totally butchered a classic. She couldn't even do the whistling.

Guns N' Roses - Patience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFbLj5pd7uQ

[–] mtxmind (3296) 2 years ago

I don't think it's that bad. Not really great, but not outright horrible either. But she does over-sing it a bit. Kind of like a cross between the worst vocal tendencies of Amy Lee & Jewel.

[–] nyctc7 (43611) 2 years ago

Everybody's Talkin' - Leonard Nimoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ck4m7-Gfsw

[–] Carrot (1704) 2 years ago

I'll see your Nimoy and raise you a Shatner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmCi_-9Shhg

Stick around for (or at least skip ahead to) the end. You won't regret it.

[–] nyctc7 (43611) 2 years ago

Yah, the Shatner stuff is much better known. But I think Nimoy is absolutely sincere, whereas Shatner may know he is being a bit of a parody (or maybe he doesn't, I don't really know for sure).

[–] CrabgrassWilly (1616) 2 years ago

I'm not a fan of this cover of that song either

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6msuJgJOQo

[–] mtxmind (3296) 2 years ago

Yikes! That actually makes the one I posted sound A LOT better now!!

After 2 minutes of trance beat & interpolation of the opening lines over & over I couldn't take anymore!!😱

[–] CrabgrassWilly (1616) 2 years ago

Yes it certainly is an assault on the ears all right!

[–] R_Kane (15828) 2 years ago

Just about anyone who’s tried to screech out The Star-Spangled Banner, which is an unmelodious and unsinkable sing. Easily the best rendition: Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival.

[–] mtxmind (3296) 2 years ago

Easily the best rendition: Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival.

???
You mean Woodstock.

[–] jriley555 (8125) 2 years ago

Its not that bad, just requires a 1.5 octave range - I hear nobodies bang it out marvelously all the time. Celebrities, not so much.