Good cover versions... bad cover versions.

Feeling Very Pink · Post by **Feeling Very Pink** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 12:40 pm

Hmm, my starters:

Good: 'You Can't Hurry Love' (Phil Collins, 1982).

Bad: 'Solsbury Hill' (Erasure, 2002).

Anything to add?

Richter_M. · Post by **Richter_M.** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 6:50 pm

Good: "Landslide" by the Smashing Pumpkins
Bad: "Satisfaction" by Britney Spears.

Is there a difference between a cover and a remake? I've always wondered...

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 7:38 pm

Good: Joe Cocker "With a little help from my friends" originally by the Beatles

Bad: Britney Spears "I love rock n roll" originally by Joan Jett i believe, that song isnt too good in the first place.....

Useful Idiot · Post by **Useful Idiot** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 9:04 pm

Good: Tool - No Quarter (Led Zepplin)
Bad: Bob Dylan - Creep (Radiohead)

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 9:42 pm

Bob Dylan covered a Radiohead song?

Real Pink in the Inside · Tue Apr 15, 2003 5:26 pm

Good: Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Good: Roger Waters - Across The Universe
Good: Guns N' Roses - Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Bad: Eric Clapton - Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Worst. Cover. Ever.)
Bad: Metallica - Turn The Page
Bad: Class of 1999 (Or whatever) - Another Brick In The Wall Part II
Bad: Foo Fighters - Have A Cigar (I Don't dig it)
Bad: A bunch of other Floyd covers

flashback · Post by **flashback** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 5:35 pm

IMO,I think it is hard for most real Pink Floyd fans to listen & like anybodies cover of a PinkFloyd song because most of them are perfect & can't be improved.I know imitation is post to be the highest form of flattery but not the way most bands preform PinkFloyd it's more like butchery.

Post by **Keith Jordan** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 5:44 pm

Real Pink in the Inside wrote:Bad: Foo Fighters - Have A Cigar (I Don't dig it)

I haven't heard that one. I think I will... er... acquire it now...

Post by **Keith Jordan** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 5:54 pm

What an awful racket!!!

Feeling Very Pink · Post by **Feeling Very Pink** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 5:58 pm

I'm just wondering how that could be... Foo Fighters... 'Have A Cigar'... Foo Fighters... 'Have A Cigar'... Nope, I just don't get it.

Pugs on the Wing · Post by **Pugs on the Wing** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 6:22 pm

Good: Roxy Music covering Neil Young's "Like a Hurricaine"
Bad: Siouxsie and the Banshees covering The Beatles' "Dear Prudence"

SydsMadcapGirl · Post by **SydsMadcapGirl** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 6:21 am

Bad: The "I Am Sam" soundtrack.

Good: Heart covering "Battle of Evermore" on the "Singles" soundtrack.

Neil · Post by **Neil** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 7:22 am

Bad: Guns'n'Roses - Live and Let Die (You can't improve on the original)
Bad: Phil Collins - The Times Are a Changing (yuck)
Bad: U2 - Helter Skelter (knocked all the life out of it!!!)

Good: Oasis - I am the Walrus (yep - I really like that one

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Generally the originals are the best IMO.

Useful Idiot · Post by **Useful Idiot** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 5:02 am

Real Pink in the Inside wrote:Bad: Metallica - Turn The Page

Hey! I love that cover!

SydsMadcapGirl · Post by **SydsMadcapGirl** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 5:45 am

Yet Another Movie wrote:
Real Pink in the Inside wrote:Bad: Metallica - Turn The Page
Hey! I love that cover!

I'm with RPITI on this one. A disgrace, to be sure!