Sorry about the late posting...tech glitches.
Feh.
But while I work on the definitive Hanson essay (NOT a joke)
, here's a fun project for you all to contemplate:
Worst Ever Covers of Pop/Rock Songs
(non-celebrity edition: No Shatner or anything of that ilk need apply)
My strictly off the top of my head Top Five:
1; "Signs" -- Tesla
2. "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" -- Bryan Ferry
3. "The Ballad of John and Yoko" -- Hootie and the Blowfish
4. "White Lines (Don't Do It)" -- Duran Duran
5. "Let's Spend the Night Together" -- David Bowie
Jump in, won't you?
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It hardly needs saying, but any of the Shatner/Sinatra versions of sixties pop hits.
Also, any of the myriad Guns n Roses covers of anything: Live and Let Die, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Sympathy for the Devil.....
it's a long list.
"Because the Night" - Keel
"Born to Be Wild" - Lizzy Borden (or any other version, really)
Actually, HBK,that's not a cover, since Wiedlin & Hall (dating at the time, IIRC) wrote it together. Plus, the Gogo's version preceded the FB3 version by a year.
Hillary Duff's cover, OTOH, sucks ass.
Jerry Garcia's version of "Let's Spend the Night Together."
In typical Garcia fashion, he slows it to a crawl and then tries to 'funk' it up.
Oy.
I LIKE Bowie's "LSTNT." But it reminds me that Siouxsie did a similar all-cover album that featured some of the worst covers of all time - "Little Johnny Jewel" if I remember correctly - and I was a fan!
Don't forget that crime against humanity, Van Halen's Pretty Woman.
That American Chap says:
I'd have to say "Here Comes the Night" off of Bowie's "Pinups". Virtually everything else on that album of covers just sparkles...but he shouldn't have tried to stand toe to toe with Van (the man). He was clearly trying to cast himself back to the time when his life was all about Davy Jones and the King Bees and one can hardly fault him for his nostalgia. He certainly handled the Kinks "Where Have All the Good Times Gone" well, maybe even better than the original.
The absolute worst covers ever:
Rod Stewart doing Tom Waits' "Downtown Train."
Micahel Bolton doing "Dock of the Bay."
I'd like to nominate U2's "All Along the Watchtower."
Actually, all of their covers tend to blow.
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