What do you reckon is the worst cover version of a song ever recorded. My nomination goes to American Pie by Madonna
This is worse;
Actually, I congratulate you on a very difficult question.
I donât think Madonnaâs version was a bad as it seemed at the time.
Compared to Julie Covingtonâs wonderfully phrased and emotional version, IMV this is horrible - No,No,No:
My nomination goes to Take That doing smells like teen spirit ⌠urggghhh Let me put a record to get it out of my head ! the noise !
Not necessarily with this song, but Shirley could upstage many singerâs original songs.
There are many worse versions - I played an old Marti Webb LP the other day, wish I hadnât .
Rolf Harris murdering Stairway To Heaven
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Jeff Buckleyâs âHallelujahâ. All version of this awful dirge are terrible, but Buckleyâs stands out as the worst of the worst.
ALL versions? That arrangement was originally done by John Cale and was majestic.
I donât generally believe in purely negative threads like this, but I cannot resist mentioning the utter annihilation of La Vie en Rose committed by Lady Gaga which I had the misfortune to stumble accross on Tidal.
The Gypsy Kings singing Hotel California. Hands down. Iâm ashamed to own it.
Really sorry to inflict this on you guys - if youâre brave enough to hit play can I suggest you get something lined up ready to play immediately afterwards to get it out of your headâŚ
Okay, so I actually liked the movie a lot. But the Lady Gaga rendition of La Vie en Rose was spectacularly awful. Youâre absolutely right about that.
Yeah, I canât stand the song. And Buckleyâs off-key caterwauling is like nails on a chalk-board. Itâs like a perfect storm to me.
William Shatner did a pretty dire version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.
No, please donât be ashamed. I rather like it. And of course it features in The Big Lebowski during the scene where we meet Jesus in the bowling alley (I wonât post link due to the language being a bit colourful, but you can search for the scene on Youtube).
But he did a great version of Rocket Man with Steve Hillage (on the Madison Square Garden album), although I admit most of that was the band rather than the âsingerâ.
Possibly the worst rendition of Roy Orbisonâs Crying but definitely the funniest!!
As a life long die hard Pink Floyd fan this rendition of âGreat gig in the skyâ by Yoko Ono made me weep