The Best/Worst Song Covers Thread

[AquaGGR]

The first like, nine Kidz Bop albums are the only ones I find especially terrible. The excessive censorship I never mind too much (KB as a whole is targeted towards super protective moms anyways) but the thing that gets me is the awful production. I just listened to the first album again out of curiosity, and the first few compilations must've had an abysmal budget because...well, they all sound like this:

They've got the quality of a garage coverband you'd see on Bandcamp. The way the kids chant "CHICKITY CHINA" at the 1:38 mark is also hilariously unsettling. But other than that there's a noticeable lack of actual kids singing for something called Kidz Bop.

 

[MikaelaMuppet]

Some of the cover songs on the recent We Love Disney album are just really bad.

This is one of them:

 

[D'Snowth]

I can't believe I never brought this up in this thread, but Smash Mouth's cover of "I'm a Believer" totally smashes The Monkees' original.

 

[ConsummateVs]

totally smashes

 

[LittleJerry92]

I can't believe I never brought this up in this thread, but Smash Mouth's cover of "I'm a Believer" totally smashes The Monkees' original.

Dude.... It really does.

 

[AquaGGR]

This cover of Holiday by Green Day. Accordions make everything better.

 

[D'Snowth]

I had no idea that Johnny Rivers's "The Seventh Son" was actually a cover, because it was the only version I had ever heard, but after hearing the original version for the first time tonight, I have to say Johnny's version is so much better than the original: his cover is lively, catchy, energetic . . . the original version lacks all of these qualities and then some.