Cover Songs Featuring Highly Unskilled "Musicians"

[GeeWhy]

Just reserving this thread for if I ever record anything. If you too are highly unskilled and wish to share, please do.

 

[05C40]

Link: The 25 worst cover songs of all time, ranked

This list includes William Shatner's cover of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."

 

[ChileG]

 

[ColdBlueSteel]

Best version imo but probably belongs here:

 

[hedge]

Seemed like the other guys (besides the singer) realized how bad the vocals were...

 

[hedge]

Link: The 25 worst cover songs of all time, ranked

This list includes William Shatner's cover of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."

Hated to see what Jessica Simpson did with These Boots. That's a good song. I'm not really a big fan of death metal (if that's even the genre Megadeth inhabits) nor Megadeth, but I do like this cover of These Boots by them..

 

[hedge]

I also like Shatner's rendition of Rocket Man. I really hope he's smoking a real doobie here...

 

[an0maly]

Ha ha, great thread. A key here is picking a song where the original was already truly terrible, and then taking it way down to unexplored depths of awful.

 

[UNCatTech]

Hated to see what Jessica Simpson did with These Boots. That's a good song. I'm not really a big fan of death metal (if that's even the genre Megadeth inhabits) nor Megadeth, but I do like this cover of These Boots by them..

Some things just don't make sense. Megadeth doing this cover is one of those.

 

[UNCatTech]

Link: The 25 worst cover songs of all time, ranked

This list includes William Shatner's cover of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."

Some really bad covers in that list, but I disagree with two.

 

[UNCMSinLS]

Link: The 25 worst cover songs of all time, ranked

This list includes William Shatner's cover of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."

Yep. That's a pretty godawful list. Interestingly, the Will to Power and Michael Bolton entries actually hit #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. "When a Man Loves a Woman" was one of those rare songs that topped the Hot 100 more than once. Percy Sledge got to the summit with the song in 1966.

 

[ZenMode]

 

[UNCMSinLS]

Ha ha, great thread. A key here is picking a song where the original was already truly terrible, and then taking it way down to unexplored depths of awful.

This video gives me hope that I could be that bassist that I always dreamed of! Move over John Entwistle, here I come with my bass strum!

 

[finesse]

Yep. That's a pretty godawful list. Interestingly, the Will to Power and Michael Bolton entries actually hit #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. "When a Man Loves a Woman" was one of those rare songs that topped the Hot 100 more than once. Percy Sledge got to the summit with the song in 1966.

And Michael Bolton should be beat to death with limp spaghetti noodles for his version. He's to soul music what Kenny G is to jazz sax.

 

[UNCMSinLS]

And Michael Bolton should be beat to death with limp spaghetti noodles for his version. He's to soul music what Kenny G is to jazz sax.

Preach! I think the only Michael Bolton song I can tolerate is the one from "Now That's What I Call Christmas!" And that's because Christmas cheese is always the best cheese!

 

[grimes70]

This song is credited to Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson, but is actually a rewritten version of Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen"

 

[an0maly]

This video gives me hope that I could be that bassist that I always dreamed of! Move over John Entwistle, here I come with my bass strum!

You have to admire the courage that each of the three is playing with their own pitch, tempo and melody. Vive l'indépendance.

 

[hedge]

And Michael Bolton should be beat to death with limp spaghetti noodles for his version. He's to soul music what Kenny G is to jazz sax.

Here is a delightfully thoughtful and scathing assessment of Kenny G by Pat Metheny. You don't usually see musicians taking down a fellow professional at this level, but Metheny went there..

https://ontherecord.co/2020/05/30/pat-metheny-has-a-few-thoughts-about-the-music-of-kenny-g/

 

[SnoopRob]

Ha ha, great thread. A key here is picking a song where the original was already truly terrible, and then taking it way down to unexplored depths of awful.

I'll see your Final Countdown and raise you a worse Final Countdown...

 

[UNCMSinLS]

I'll see your Final Countdown and raise you a worse Final Countdown...

I don't know Snoop ... except for the singer, everyone seems to be following the same basic key structure and tempo. It is dreadful but the Previous Countdown was worse.