Some of the silliest covers in the world are the best

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

The Sisters of Mercy - Jolene considered good, but silly.

(Jerry Springer sings Hey mr Tamborine Man considered very, very bad)

What's your favourite/least favourite?

Update: I am just becomign acquainted with the Leningrad Cowboys version of Sweet Home Alabama. Fantastic. Oh, and of course, I'm taking as read that you all love the King. Right?

Comments

[absinthecity.livejournal.com]

Best: Scissor Sisters version of Comfortably Numb, followed by:

The Vines - Ms Jackson, Tori Amos - Smells like Teen Spirit, Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love, William Orbit's Barber's Adagio for Strings, Ace of Base (yeah, leave it out ok, it was a fluke) Don't turn around

Worst: Sleeper (good riddance) rendition of Blondie's Atomic (the same, but badly sung and a bit blander), That appauling massacre of Red Hot Chilli Peppers' Under the Bridge by some manufactured girl band. Can't rem who!

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

Tsk. Sleeper were great.

Awful 'Under The Bridge' came courtesy of All Saints; not manufactured as such, but still dreadful. Didn't know The Vines had taken apart 'Ms. Jackson', though - that must be quite something...

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[absinthecity.livejournal.com]

It's good actually! I didn't like the song before, but now I like it in both its incarnations :)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

That would be the All Saints, who shall surely have their toes roasted over the slow fires of whatever afterlife awaits them for that travesty of mangling they did to Under the Bridge.