Worst cover version?

[JoeyBurrows]

After watching the music chanels this morning and seing Ray Quinn murder My Way. I was wondering what you all thought was the worst cover song ever.

[jammer]

Every song on Fame Academy this week

[Johnmof]

I suppose it's all down to personal taste. I thought the Scissors Sisters' cover of Comfortably Numb was awful, but I'm a Pink Floyd fan and I know some Sisters' fans liked their cover. I also thought the Wets version of Love Is All Around was much inferior to the Troggs' original. Also, Whitney's version of I Will Always Love You wasn't a patch on Dolly's original. But that's just my opinion.

[Goodsoulette]

Joss Stone ~ Fell in Love with A Boy

Boyzone ~ Father and Son

both of which might be ok but those originals shouldnt have been touched.

[ericthemini]

The Carpenters-Ticket to Ride. it is just so slow and crap compared to the Beatles original.

[jammer]

Rolf Harris-Stairway to Heaven

[bednobs]

walk this way (comic rlief version) by girls aloud and sugababes

[Llamatron]

Any cover by Westlife of which there are many.

They are blessed with the unique talent of rendering all songs bland and soulless.

[delboy3]

Sadly, I remember those 'Top Of The Pops' albums from the 1970s. 'Nuff said.

[defenstrate]

ms dynamite covering bob marleys redemption song for live 8

anythnig off paul ankas covers album

[B00]

Ronan Keating should be shot at dawn for his versions of Iris and If Tomorrow Never Comes.

[Keeprockin]

the beatles version of Arthur Alexanders Anna,and at the moment the bloke who's destroying thePlatters "great pretender" in that vw ad

[defenstrate]

mark owen covering "the boy with the thorn in his side" by the smiths

tori amos covering happiness is a warm gun

[dave1982]

all saints murdering under the bridge

[Supernick]

All of you are way wrong. Madonna's American Pie makes me throw up on impact like a subsonic crowd control weapon.

Worthy of note is Louise's cover of Stuck in the Middle, even though I never really liked the original

[zknight]

Britney Spears - I can't get no satifaction (How can she do that? i mean the best Rock and Roll Band in the world 'ROLLING STONES' then you get britney oh dear! Somethings gone wrong there ha ha)

[zknight]

i must say though michael jackson covered 'come together' by the beatles. and i do like it by michael j rather then the bealtes so sometimes it isn't always bad.

but that's what i think.

[littleoldme]

I don't think I've ever agreed with an opinion on this site quite as much as I agree with Llamatron's comments. Worst of the lot must be their cover of Seasons In The Sun. I can almost see them now, sitting on their little stools, grinning blandly and happily chirrupping their way through a song about a man bidding a sad goodbye to his loved ones as he faces the prospect of imminent death. Classy.

Midge Ure's version of Tom Rush/The Walker Brothers' mighty No Regrets was pretty dire too.

[littleoldme]

Oh gosh, how could I forget (and believe me, I've tried) Mariah Carey's frankly terrifying version of Without You?