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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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Avril Lavigne's "Knocking on Heaven's Door" was 10 times worse than Guns n' Roses
Okay, seeing that Hillary Duff did a cover of My Generation made me want to punch her in the face a little. Just saying.
Chris Cornell did a slow accoustic cover of Micheal Jackson's "Billie Jean". I think it's worse then the Bob Dylan cover. It made my ears bleed.
Kidz Bop in its entirety should be on this list.
Why do these modern artists feel the need to ruin perfectly good songs?
What about Miley Cyrus's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"? Or the Jonas Brothers's "Hello GOodbye"? Or the new "We are the World"?
Haven't heard any but the Jonas Brothers one, but that totally deserves to be on here (and I'm gonna look up the Miley Cyrus one right now)
The Jonas Brothers ruined The Beatles? That saddens me beyond belief .
I personally can't stand Manfred Mann's version of "Blinded by the Light". It's an insult to the Bruce Springsteen original, which most people don't even know about. They think MM came up with it, when he somehow managed to make it two minutes longer while cutting out half the lyrics.
Knockin' really that bad?? have you heard the original? it's horrible, Clapton's rendition could've been on the list instead. I agree though that Live and let Die aswell as Sympathy are better originally.
Worst live cover has got to be Pj Harvey's wtf version of "Satisafaction", don't know if she ever recorded it, but also Samatha Fox's version of said song is horrible...
Inevitably, I like a few of the songs on this list. I prefer G&R's "Sympathy for the Devil" to the worn-out original, and I respect and enjoy Korn's cover of "Another Brickin the Wall." I also like Limp Bizkit's "Behind Blue Eyes", but I admit that with some embarassment. Still, all-around, I think they're one of the more underrated bands.
I've never heard Motley Crue's cover of "Anarchy in the UK (USA)", but I don't mind if you hate it, as long as you're OK with Megadeth's b***hin' cover (which also changed "UK" to USA"). Megadeth rules.
William Shatner did a great cover of "Rocket Man."
Leonary Nimoy sang "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"
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