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  1. 3rd Aug 2009, 1:25 PM #1
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    Default Good Cover, Bad Cover

    List a good cover version of a song (with you tube links if poss) and a bad cover version.

    Good Cover Version:
    Superstar by Carpenters covered by Sonic Youth
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbi67r13-uc

    Bad Cover Version:
    Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon by Neil Diamond covered by Cliff Richard
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHSu35ZwY3U
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    Christ!

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    Good cover version:
    'Good Year For The Roses' by George Jones, covered by Elvis Costello
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBh9IgMz5U

    Bad cover version:
    'Sign 'O' The Times by Prince, covered by Simple Minds
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDTruFjP57s

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    Good cover:
    Toxic, by Britney Spears - covered by Marillion
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__b1e00gl90

    Bad cover:
    Walk this Way, by Aerosmith & Run DMC - covered by Girls Aloud vs Sugababes
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWY0030g68s

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  5. 3rd Aug 2009, 10:46 PM #5
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    Good cover:
    Under Pressure, by Queen & David Bowie - covered by Keane
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEhUcRv0iO0

    Bad cover:
    American Pie, by Don McLean - covered by Madonna
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoUiCBMlQho
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    Brilliant cover
    We gotta get out of this place - Space
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPDbJCAFWoY&feature=fvsr

    Awful cover
    The Alabama Song - David Bowie (you're so much better than this Dave)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNCEURBYEGo
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    Bob Dylan - This Old Man (Knick Knack Paddywack)

    Amazing.

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    Good cover...Jeff Healey's version of Dylan's 'When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky'


    Bad cover...DJ Sammy's version of Don Henley's classic 'The Boys Of Summer'

    Sorry for those who like it, but being an Eagles fan I think it's pretty awful...
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    Bad Cover Version

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    Great Cover Version of Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Me First and the Gimme Gimmes)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uv0c9kMcf0

    Bad Cover Version of Common People - Great Video though (Shatner)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYHi9D1nJeM
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    In my opinion, this is the ultimate cover version - Joe Cocker's searing rendition of With A Little Help From My Friends:

    What would you do if I sang out of tune...

    But as reworkings of 60's classics go, this is a complete travesty - M People's awful Itchycoo Park:

    Over Bridge of Sighs...
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    Quote Originally Posted by MacNimon View Post
    Bad cover...DJ Sammy's version of Don Henley's classic 'The Boys Of Summer'

    Sorry for those who like it, but being an Eagles fan I think it's pretty awful...
    Damn, beaten to the punch! Luckily, DJ Sammy also has his pretty dire cover of Bryan Adams's Heaven. :P

    As for a good one... well, probably a matter of opinion, but I've always liked Rage's cover of Run To You, another of Adams's hits.
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    Bad cover...DJ Sammy's version of Don Henley's classic 'The Boys Of Summer'
    Amen - if I want to hear electronic beeps and farts I'll put my foot through a car windscreen and listen to the alarm go off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Tudor View Post
    complete travesty - M People
    Say no more.
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    Where something's always so far...'
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    Good (excellent) cover : The Bangles 'Hazy Shade Of Winter'

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG9PVucS9aw

    Bad cover (much as I love the band, and rest of the album it's from) : Altered Images 'Song Sung Blue'

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcV4_bpQldk
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    This must be what evil sounds like...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKrRtYtKsZw

    1.44 in particular.

    Kids should not be singing this! It can not be legal.
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    Not wanting to Ro-bash but after discussion of his new album, I've just been pointed at his crack at "Time After Time". I feel dirty! The youtube comment says it best - "it evokes nothing".

    I need to hear Cyndi's version now to cleanse my senses!

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    Here is a good cover: http://open.spotify.com/track/1DjJdvIRVgCj8qB8Uxp8cu
    It's the Flaming Lips doing Bohemian Rhapsody!

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