Worst cover ever

I heard the Sheryl Crow version on the radio the other day and wanted to claw my eyes out.

Since I was in the age group during the whole "boy-band thing" (I was in eighth grade in 1999), I actually heard Britney's version of Satisfaction before I heard the Stones' version. However, once I heard the Stones version, I actually recoiled at the thought that she even attempted it. It's pretty awful.

 

More craptacular than her cover of "I Think We're Alone Now"?

 

Suzannah Hoff's cover of "Feel Like Making Love" was pretty bad
and her band, The Bangles did a bad job with Simon & Garfunkle's "Hazy Shade of Winter"

 

Thank you. Good grief, that sucked.

 

True, but earlier in their career, the Bangles had impeccable taste in both selection and performance of covers, with terrific Byrdsy takes on Alex Chilton, Jules Shear and Prince. Things came off the rails pretty quickly after that, though. Some idiot convinced Hoffs she was going to be A Star, when all along the thing she was best suited for was to be the "featured singer" among four relative equals.

 

That might be the winner. Or loser.

But she's still unspeakably hot, even in her late 40s.

 

more bad covers:

Forever Young - Rod Stewart (Dylan)

Have I Told You Lately - Rod Stewart (Van Morrison)

Havin' A Party - Rod Stewart (Cooke)

Twistin' the Night Away - Rod Stewart (Cooke)

Layla (acoustic) - Eric Clapton (covering his own song from Derek & the Dominos)

Dancing in the Dark - Bob Dylan (Springsteen) ... somewhere I have a cassette of Dylan doing this in concert

 

One of my favorite one-liners: "Listening to Clapton's acoustic 'Layla' is exactly what watching Michael Jordan play Nerf basketball with his grandchildren when he's 65 years old is going to be like."

 

What the Farg was Cheap Trick -- a band I love -- thinking with that shotty rendition of "Don't be Cruel" back in the day.
It has to be the winner of this contest, hands down.

 

i'd add tom waits's downtown train to the list of stewart monstrosities. it's so much worse than the original, and people seem to think it's stewart's song, which annoys me.

 

I actually thought that wasn't half bad.

 

Along those lines.. the Police reworked "Don't Stand So Close To Me" for a greatest hits disc and it was awful.