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over a year ago
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Love the Happy Mondays but has anyone heard Stayin' Alive by them, I mean Shaun Ryder trying to emulate the Bee Gee's, ghastly in a twisting my melon kinda way. |
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over a year ago
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Got to be Leona Lewis' cover of Hurt by Nine Inch Nails. She absolutely ruined it..
The Metallica cover of Thin Lizzy's Whiskey In The Jar is pretty bad too |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Got to be Leona Lewis' cover of Hurt by Nine Inch Nails. She absolutely ruined it..
The Metallica cover of Thin Lizzy's Whiskey In The Jar is pretty bad too"
We were going to say the same. Awful, just awful. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Anything by Westlife lol"
+1 thankfully they have decided to break up pity they didn't do it a decade ago .tina turners version of the beatles help was also appalling |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"To copy jane and i know this we have had before
For me it is
Valerie amy whine house version
I will always love you whitney houston version
Run leona lewis version"
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was one coerced in to going to see a Westlife concert & left after about half an hour it was the worst concert (and I've been to a lot) I have ever been too |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I certainly don't hate these versions, after-all both covers were done with the best of motives, and both raised tons of dosh for a great cause….!.
But !!!!!!!!
Band Aid "2‘s" version of, Do They Know It's Christmas
Band Aid’s "20's" version of, Do They Know It's Christmas
Were musically pale versions of the original line-up's effort !
Am I wrong ?
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
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"I certainly don't hate these versions, after-all both covers were done with the best of motives, and both raised tons of dosh for a great cause….!.
But !!!!!!!!
Band Aid "2‘s" version of, Do They Know It's Christmas
Band Aid’s "20's" version of, Do They Know It's Christmas
Were musically pale versions of the original line-up's effort !
Am I wrong ?
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No  |
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By *ustmanCouple
over a year ago
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"To copy jane and i know this we have had before
For me it is
Valerie amy whine house version
I will always love you whitney houston version
Run leona lewis version"
Spot on - I would have put whinney Houston first tho lol xx  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Hallelujah by Alexandra Burke. A lesson in how to ruin great lyrics and a simple haunting melody in 3.5 minutes  "
Amen brother...
She has the vocal charisma of a floater...;-) |
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By *waymanMan
over a year ago
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"DJ Sammy - Boys of Summer- utter shit from a fuckwit who should be put up against a wall....
Everything by Robson and Jerome...
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Oh, and 'You've got the love' by Florence and the Masochists (and they must be to listen to that...) |
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"Hallelujah by Alexandra Burke. A lesson in how to ruin great lyrics and a simple haunting melody in 3.5 minutes "
feck yes... someone told me she was pop factor or some such show, dear god it was a travesty. |
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"For me, it would be the Communards ruining the soul classic,
Don't leave me this way.
See now I loved that but then I've not heard the original"
Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2WKoN8K6nI |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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when MTV decided to do a concert in dedication to Metallica, Avril Lavigne "tried" to do a cover of Fuel, what a shambles...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Grq0epcLc |
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By *waymanMan
over a year ago
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"For me, it would be the Communards ruining the soul classic,
Don't leave me this way.
See now I loved that but then I've not heard the original
Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2WKoN8K6nI"
As many people will know it for the Thelma Houston disco version... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I must admit even if we have a precious attachment to an earlier version of any song, I find the concept of “genuinely hating” a cover piece a little over the top.
However I totally understand the feeling of revulsion which can occur having your senses assaulted by spurious versions of songs where indiscriminate performers have an audacity to imply their random covering adds a value to it ………
So having said that, and even though the original holds no significance to me ,,,,, in the case of Elton John’s 1997 reworking of his own “Candle In The Wind”,,,,,,, I could violently puke every-time I hear it,,,,,
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Most of the posts are about artists who have covered a song, and "murdered" it by doing it in their own style.
The ones I hate are covers that sound almost identical with the original. What's the point (apart from the cash)
Two that spring to mind -
Spice Girls - It's raining men
A1 - Take on me
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By (user no longer on site)
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That's an easy one..Duran Duran's execrable version of Bowie's 'Fame'. It's pitiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W75BJauz8oo
Closely followed by Scissor Scissors
Comfortably Numb |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"For me, it would be the Communards ruining the soul classic,
Don't leave me this way.
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Hated Soft Cells version of the classic Tainted Love by Gloria Jones, totally destroyed a stomping track. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The Far Corporation's "Stairway to Heaven" - complete blasphemy !!!"
completely forgot about that one and i have to say i thought it was ok as they didn't try to change it at all.the original cannot be bettered though by the mighty led zep.lets not mention rolf  |
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"The Far Corporation's "Stairway to Heaven" - complete blasphemy !!!
completely forgot about that one and i have to say i thought it was ok as they didn't try to change it at all.the original cannot be bettered though by the mighty led zep.lets not mention rolf "
Rolfs alright if he just sticks to painting.  |
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"For me, it would be the Communards ruining the soul classic,
Don't leave me this way.
Hated Soft Cells version of the classic Tainted Love by Gloria Jones, totally destroyed a stomping track."
Yes, and Judy Streets - What.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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leona lewis doing Hurt
Girls aloud (i think) pretenders stand by u
all the xfactor lot and the Glee lot.
any of those rnb singers doing michael jackson songs.
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"For me, it would be the Communards ruining the soul classic,
Don't leave me this way.
See now I loved that but then I've not heard the original"
They also had a go at Gloria Gaynors never can say goodbye, the less said about that the better.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Rolf Harris ..... Stairway to Heaven. "
oh lainey...lainey lainey
that's a classic cover and has pride of place in my collection.....far better than the original |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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In my _iew some songs should have a preservation order...especially in the case of Madonna and American pie...
yazz - the only way is up !
check out Otis Smith far better original on youtube |
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