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Covering other people's material is a mainstay in pop music. Why bother taking the time to write an original song when you can just recycle somebody else's hit, redo it with an acoustic guitar (or, if it's an acoustic song, with an electric guitar) and generate the same result? But it doesn't always work out as planned, especially if you don't bother to figure out what made the original song popular in the first place (or in the case of our #1 choice, even bother to learn the damn lyrics first). Below, 20 great songs that received sound butcherings by artists who should've known better. A lot better. 20
"You Shook Me All Night Long" - Celine Dion and Anastasia
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"Downtown Train" - Rod Stewart
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"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - Guns N Roses
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"Demolition Man" - Manfred Mann
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This list cannot be complete without David Lee Roth's cover of "Just a Gigolo." Also, curiously, there are no mentions of William Shatner or Leonard Nimoy.
How about Rod Stewart doing Bob Dylan's "Forever Young"?
I actually think the Manfred Mann's Earthband version of Demolition man is pretty good.
"Just because you dont like that kind of music"
You mean "bad" music? I don't think the author implied he doesn't like the Floyd song, just that there was no reason for Korn to redo it. I tend to agree. I wouldn't listen to Korn if you paid me although I will admit that if I was 15 yrs younger I probably would have thought they were kool (see how I did that with the letters and all? I even turned the second "o" around backwards).
Miley Cyrus' cover of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. Wtf?
Can't believe you failed to include Amy Winehouse's simply appalling version of The Zutons' "Valerie". It is DIRE. Can't agree with you on No Doubt though.
Hear hear Nana. (On Madonna, not you)
I will kill myself if Madonna will go first
Avril lavigne's Fuel, should be on the list too
The worst cover I have heard by far is Tatu's cover of How Soon Is Now....then again I've never been able to bring myself to listen to Celine Dion's shitfest up there so that could change.
No link to 911 Is a Joke? I have to hear this song!
My personal number 1 was the sugar babes and girls aloud completely violating "walk this way". i know it was for charity but they could have thought of a more humane way of getting money off us. there was no need to drag an innocent song into it
I have to diagree with the Korn song, it is very well done cover of Floyd, its on the top of many cover song lists. Just because you dont like that kind of music does not makeit ok for you to say that it is bad.
For me the worst cover is "under the bridge" by "All Saints", so you forgot it!
Funny. Except I think theres a bit of an ordering problem. Celine should have been #1
Knockin' on Heaven's Door bad? You sniffing glue?
I do have to say I'm kind of dissapointed Britney Spear's cover of I love Rock and Roll wasn't on the list
Katie5000- Jessica Simpson did a terrible cover of "Boots are made for Walkin'" for The Dukes of Hazzard movie, that might be what you were thinking of. And yes, it was as terrible as her "acting".
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William Shatner did a great cover of "Rocket Man."