GOOD covers of BAD songs

[SheFliesWithHerOwnWings]

YouTube - marilyn manson-you spin me right round

It's not an actual video of his. Somebody put a bunch of his other videos together.

 

[corinea]

Perhaps a bit middle of the road, but certainly not BAD. Aside from Patton's voice which I love, I don't think the song is different enough to make it that much better than the original. I like both.

 

[Casey Z]

They're still lame song lyrics regardless of how you dress them up, it won't make them any better. Just the same way you can use a generic riff & have 100 guitars playing it, it's still a generic riff.

Arrangement and production polish things off, they don't make the song.

 

[199 more to lvl 3 (1000)]

Metallica with Turn the Page.

 

[banano008]

Oh, I just thought of another one, Laibach's cover of "Live is Life" by Opus.

Here's the original:

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And Laibach's infinitely better fascist marching tune cover of it:

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[andydufresne1982]

You think "You Spin Me Right Round" is a bad song?

 

[DragWell]

The original is by no means bad, that defeats the whole purpose of this thread.

 

[siqqq6]

Running Up that Hill is a BAD song? Even if you don't like Kate Bush there is no way that it is a bad song.

 

[:) greendayfan♫]

Blah, the Dead Kennedys version dude.

 

[GrnEyedGurl]

haha fine then, give me a sec




there ya go, Urban, feel free to read my reason for it too

 

[Ae Cha Dolphin]

Not always, she has her moments

EDIT: but she is way overplayed and over rated compared to everyone else...

 

[Lady Nephilim]

But I think a song can still be good despite lame or meaningless lyrics. It's the whole package that counts. Of course that's just my 50 cents.

 

[sammi(:]

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[Reba Leung]

i played them at the same time (it sounded amazing)

 

[Roll Tide]

i much prefer placebo's version of running up that hill. no disrespect to kate bush, but it just ain't my bag.

 

[Rega V]

actually, Superstar was a cover by the Carpenters.

It's originally done by Delaney and Bonnie & FrienRAB, and their version is SICK - Clapton on guitar, Carl Radle on bass, Jim Gordon on drums...Bobby Keys and Jim Price on horns...and it was titled (Groupie) Superstar.

So it would be a good song that got covered horribly and then reclaimed.

 

[Jimmi Dizza]

I haven't actually heard it, so I can't attest to its quality. But someone told me Weezer did a good cover of Pokerface

 

[Checkpoint... Done]

I've said it before elsewhere and I'll say it here because, well it suits perfectly...

Richard Cheese - Down With The Sickness

 

[bridgett s]

Nope. That's Dope's cover from the American Psycho soundtrack: http://www.amazon.com/American-Psycho-Controversial-Motion-Picture/dp/B00004T0L1

 

[dperez308]

I never said you have to have good lyrics to make a good song.