GOOD covers of BAD songs

Everytime I go to think of a cover it turns out that the original is still great, so it makes it incredibly hard to think of bad songs that people have covered...

Here are songs that I think are just as good as the original or improved:

- Johnny Cash - 'Hurt' (original by NIN)
- Pain Of Salvation - 'Yellow Raven' (original by The Scorpions)
- Transatlantic - 'The Return Of The Giant Hogweed' (original by Genesis)
- Marilyn Manson - 'Tainted Love' (original by Gloria Jones but done in the style of Soft Cells version)
- Pink - 'I Touch Myself' (original by The Divinyls)

* on a side note...
Manson seems to do a LOT of covers... and that Pink cover can be seen on her Funhouse DVD.
 
I think Urabrella is a bad song. Not a Rhianna fan.
But I love Tegan and Sara's cover of Urabrella.
Another cover by the same band, they did Steel Train's Turnpike Ghost. And, while I love Steel Train, I despise his voice in that song.
Lastly, The Carpenters aren't any good in my opinion, but I really dig Sonic Youth's version of Superstar.
 
Welcome to the Machine - Shadows Fall

Rusty Cage - Johhny Cash

Holy Diver - Kill Switch Engage

Imperial March - Metallica

White Wedding - Queens of the Stone Age

Money - Velvet Revolver

Blitzkrieg Bop - Rob Zorabie
 
She's a talented singer sure but have you actually listened to that song? It takes about 2 minutes for her to get through each syllable at the beginning. And that's as far as I can get...
 
No doubt she's a great singer but that doesn't automatically mean she makes good music. That song's just horrible. Talking about overdoing it. She's putting like every singing technique known to man in the first couple of sentences. Annoying as hell.
 
Not sure about this. DepenRAB on what you mean by "the song". You can make lame song lyrics sound good by coming up with a great arrangement and production. However when you take the original arrangement and make that sound good then you're right.

Maybe even a bigger accomplishment: some banRAB cover a brilliant song and can make it sound bad.


Hm, I may give it a listen just to hear what it's about. Never really liked Tears for Fears anyway.
 
Spunge's version of Belinda Carlisles' "Circles In The Sand" is pretty good, they take a bland pop record and turn it into a skapunk thrash. Pretty good IMO
 
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