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In this thread, we'll discuss the worst covers that we've ever heard. For the sake of being able to compare the two songs, it would be best to post both songs. Since that will be the case, it would also be best if you post links instead of embeds.

I personally love both The Misfits and Snapcase. I think they're awesome bands. So you'd think that Snapcase covering The Misfits would be pretty awesome then, right? Well, that ended up not being the case. Here's the original by The Misfits and here's Snapcase's cover.

i think the original rolling stones version beats this one out by a country mile.

I mean seriously, they've done many catchy songs and then they do this? It doesn't help that they changed a lyric to add an F bomb.

And the cover:

When I listen to a cover, Im not just looking the fact they do the song right, but also add something about the band itself. There's no point of doing a cover without some personal touches. Mastodon in this cover is just trying way to hard to sound like Metallica in this cover, and it doesn't fit at all waht they do.

For example, taking Metallica again:

Now the cover (by Vader) :

Now THIS is what I call a good cover. Why? Because its still sounds like the same song but it adds the melody,rythm and "personality" of the band that plays.

If you're looking for a good cover of Orion, Rodrigo y Gabriela's is excellent, one of my favorite covers of all time.

But since this is a bad covers thread, I have to post something. Here's the video I always go for in these cases. Embedding is disabled, so here's a link.

Warning: May cause cancer, suicide, depression and AIDS.
You have been warned!

Most acoustic covers like this one by Princess.

Here's the Original.

Covers like this just suck the life out the original, good or bad. I've hate it too much I would rather blow my out whenever I hear it. No joke.

I can't think of a cover I really hate, but there is one I'm really undecided on and that is White Zombie's cover of Black Sabbath's fantastic Children of the Grave. As Sonic Prime said earlier there isn't really a reason for a cover if it doesn't have the feel of the band that is covering the song, well Rob Zombie did just that. The problem is that it just sounds like one of White Zombie's generic tracks with Rob's "Yeah"s and stock news/movie audio (which to me all of that isn't a bad thing at all), and almost wouldn't put you in mind of Black Sabbath if you didn't have prior knowledge of it being a Black Sabbath song in the first place. That being said it's not the worst cover ever, but it's also not in my top 20 covers either.

Already bad song + Brokencyde = a horror no mortal ear should ever have to hear.

o_o I think my ears are bleeding……

I feel dirty from just going to get the embed code for this.

Well that's just….wrong.

I have a fear of watching or listening to one second of this album, so instead I'll post the album cover and you'll see what I mean. Behold, from the 10th Circle of Hell.

Limp Bizkit. Need I say more?

These aren't terrible, they're just… polarizing. As is the case with LB themselves.

Anyway, I'm on my phone so I can't embed. But if you dare, look up Suicide Silence's cover of Alice In Chains' "Them Bones". It's… not pretty.

Original:

Cover:

Original:

Cover:

…I told you it was ugly. Growling just doesn't work in a song like this. Not to mention their desperate attempt to throw in a breakdown. Sorry, Suicide Silence, but this is shit.

Though, they actually do have a pretty good cover of Rob Zombie's "Superbeast" right here:

>the city of cities

Fucking kill me.

Original

Cover

That cover is just Neutral Milk Hotel goes Disney. To top it off, they removed everything else that made the original perfect: the brass instrumentation, the simple chords and Jeff Mangum's voice, which gave the song its charm. This is just bland, radio "indie".

I like Amon Amarth.
I like Black Sabbath.
This cover is shit.

Really Buckcherry?