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Throd

(7,208 posts) Mon Mar 9, 2015, 10:18 PM Mar 2015

Name a favorite song of yours and how it would be horribly desecrated as a cover.

"The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys" by Traffic being covered by Korn.

or Blink 182...or Marilyn Manson...

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Name a favorite song of yours and how it would be horribly desecrated as a cover. (Original Post) Throd Mar 2015 OP

The End vs The Beginning seveneyes Mar 2015 #1

Stella Blue. And anybody but Jerry. Lochloosa Mar 2015 #2

Nilsson's Without You covered by Mariah Carey CBGLuthier Mar 2015 #3

Good God, that Who cover should have been brought before The Hague. Throd Mar 2015 #4

One of the absolute worst renditions of a Christmas song I ever heard Art_from_Ark Mar 2015 #5

Without You is a Badfinger song melman Mar 2015 #6

Ahh, you are correct. Forgot that was one of his covers. CBGLuthier Mar 2015 #7

His version is amazing melman Mar 2015 #14

"Tank!" by Yoko Kanno sakabatou Mar 2015 #8

The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys covered by Ricki Lee Jones not hypothetical azurnoir Mar 2015 #9

"Fortunate Son" by Bieber KamaAina Mar 2015 #10

Tina Turner's cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Proud Mary Brother Buzz Mar 2015 #11

Arcade Fire - Wake Up Xipe Totec Mar 2015 #12

Anything covered by Korn would be a desecration. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2015 #13

seveneyes

(4,631 posts)

1. The End vs The Beginning

Reply to Throd (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 10:37 PM

Mar 2015

-- vs --

Lochloosa

(16,084 posts)

2. Stella Blue. And anybody but Jerry.

Reply to Throd (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:10 PM

Mar 2015

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)

3. Nilsson's Without You covered by Mariah Carey

Reply to Throd (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:37 PM

Mar 2015

I do not need a hypothetical. I still have not gotten over that one. That and Limp Bizkit's Behind Blue Eyes are sonic memories I would pay a surgeon to excise from my brain.

Throd

(7,208 posts)

4. Good God, that Who cover should have been brought before The Hague.

Reply to CBGLuthier (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:54 PM

Mar 2015

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

5. One of the absolute worst renditions of a Christmas song I ever heard

Reply to CBGLuthier (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 01:34 AM

Mar 2015

was Mariah Carey's version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town".

Ow! My ears!

melman

(7,681 posts)

6. Without You is a Badfinger song

Reply to CBGLuthier (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 04:19 AM

Mar 2015

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)

7. Ahh, you are correct. Forgot that was one of his covers.

Reply to melman (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 04:25 AM

Mar 2015

Still, i think his is the definitive version and the one I love and knew first.

melman

(7,681 posts)

14. His version is amazing

Reply to CBGLuthier (Reply #7)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 05:20 PM

Mar 2015

And it's almost certainly where Mariah got it from. But I like the original best.

sakabatou

(42,202 posts)

8. "Tank!" by Yoko Kanno

Reply to Throd (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 04:29 PM

Mar 2015

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)

9. The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys covered by Ricki Lee Jones not hypothetical

Reply to Throd (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 04:45 PM

Mar 2015

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

10. "Fortunate Son" by Bieber

Reply to Throd (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 04:52 PM

Mar 2015

Oh, the horror. The horror!

Brother Buzz

(36,498 posts)

11. Tina Turner's cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Proud Mary

Reply to Throd (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 05:00 PM

Mar 2015

She stretched a tight three minute song into five minutes by slowing it down at the beginning by trying to ~~squeeze~~ milk something extra out of it.