Best and Worst Cover Songs

[TomServo]

Best:

* Alien Ant Farm - "Smooth Criminal"

* Tori Amos - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

* Michael Andrews and Gary Jules - "Mad World"

* The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun"

* Fiona Apple - "Across the Universe"

* Cat Power - "Wonderwall"

* Limp Bizkit - "Faith"

* 10,000 Maniacs - "Because the Night"

Worst:

* Tori Amos - "Enjoy the Silence"

* Tori Amos - "Landslide"

* Tori Amos - "Losing My Religion"

* Beyonce and Jay Z - "Bonnie and Clyde"

* Counting Crows - "Big Yellow Taxi"

* Avril Lavigne - "Chop Suey!"

* Kelly Osbourne - "Papa Don't Preach"

* Marilyn Manson - "Sweet Dreams"

* Jessica Simpson - "Take My Breath Away"

* Britney Spears - "Satisfaction"

[Anonymouse]

Re: Best and Worst Cover Songs

How could you not have Johnny Cash's cover of NiN's "Hurt". That's one of the better ones.

[Crimson Glow]

Re: Best and Worst Cover Songs

Best

Tool - "No Quarter" (Led Zeppelin)
Guns N' Roses - "Jumping Jack Flash" (Rolling Stones)
Carrie Underwood - "Sweet Child O' Mine" (Guns N' Roses) (Yes...I know...I wasn't expecting to like it, either)
A Perfect Circle - "Imagine" (John Lennon) (It's love/hate with most people on this one)
Pearl Jam - "Crazy Mary" (Victoria Williams)
Nazareth - "Love Hurts" (Everly Brothers)


Worst

Sheryl Crow - "Sweet Child O' Mine" (Guns N' Roses) (She should be shot for this alone)
Scissor Sisters - "Comfortably Numb" (Pink Floyd)
U2 - "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan)
Ugly Kid Joe - "Cat’s in the Cradle" (Harry Chapin)
Limp Bizkit - "Behind Blue Eyes" (The Who)

There's many more, but those are all that come to mind off the top of my head.

[TomServo]

Re: Best and Worst Cover Songs

A Perfect Circle - "Imagine" (John Lennon) (It's love/hate with most people on this one)

[TomServo]

Re: Best and Worst Cover Songs

* 10,000 Maniacs - "Because the Night"

Yekhk, just heard Cascada's version on YouTube. Terrible.

Anyway, some more Worsts:

* Alanis Morissette - "My Humps" (Only because the lyrics are awful and Fergie is just evil. Despise the song so much that I can't bring myself to put this parody on any 'best' list.)

* Any modern Armenian pop singer's covers of Sayat Nova's songs