The 15 worst cover songs of all time

The Evening Standard ^ | 6/27/18 | Haryy Fletcher, David Ellis

[DallasBiff]

15. William Shatner - Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds

[fidelis]

Johnny River's remake of the Four Tops classic, "Baby, I Need Your Loving" is dorky. Sounds like he's trying to imitate Buddy Holly trying to imitate Bobby Vee.

Blue Swede's remake of BJ Thomas's "Hooked On a Feeling" (hooka-chukka! hooka chukka!) makes my ears bleed.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Why doesn’t anyone remake Su Su Sudio?

Oh yeah. Sorry.

[Allegra]

The entire Pat Boone album “In a Metal Mood.”

Omigosh, I didn’t know that existed. I listened to some snippets. That’s really horrible.

My sister and I used to keep a couple of “off” albums in our collections to spring on people at parties for devious fun, like the Brady Bunch album.

This would have been perfect.

[dfwgator]

Any white person covering a Motown song is usually cringe-worthy.

[Allegra]

I love the William Shatner songs and videos. You can tell he was having major fun doing those.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Jeff Beck and Billy Gibson did one hell of a cover on Tennessee Ernie Ford’s Sixteen Tons

https://youtu.be/J2aqvKY6zLc

[Allegra]

This one is delightfully awful. 😄

David Hasselhoff - Hooked on a Feeling

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Gibbons not Gibson.

[newfreep]

"William Shatner - Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds"
Oh, man - that's GOLD!

[MalPearce]

https://youtu.be/x_MSi0MhM_c

Arthur Mullard butchers Grease.

[Poser]

Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues?

[Obadiah]

The Thin Lizzy version is great. Very bluesy. I alarm like Metallica’s version, which surprises me.

[discostu]

Definitely a great one. Put them on the map. But really it’s a tie with The Who’s.

[Fresh Wind]

Bad covers are a tradition with Pat Boone. For example Tutti Frutti:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv-LAbMbEn4

[Poser]

The entire Live at Leeds album was great. That version of Magic Bus was classic.

[discostu]

Yeah. Every version of that album. It just gets better when it gets longer. But the first version was a well picked set of songs.

[fidelis]

Agreed. Michael McDonald has done a few albums of them. Some are listenable but most are indeed cringeworthy.

[dfwgator]

The Who also did a great cover of The Guess Who’s “Shakin’ All Over”. And of course “Young Man Blues” was a Mose Allison cover.

[Poser]

The Beatles version of Money (That’s what I want) was pretty awful. The Stones didn’t do it any service either.

[dfwgator]

The Beatles version of Money (That’s what I want) was pretty awful.

I liked this version.

The Flying Lizards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-P2qL3qkzk