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Not sure if you're including folk rock under this heading, but... The Counting Crows/Vanessa Carlton cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" is incredibly unfortunate. Joni Mitchell isn't the easiest artist to cover, sure, but there's no excuse for this one.
Was unaware of this cover. Yeah that wasn't great. Not sure that anyone can cover SOAD well, though. Serj has an unbelievable amount of range and control. His vocal ability is just absurd.
Limp Bizkit's "Behind Blue Eyes" was a masterpiece compared to their cover of "Opiate" by Tool. I'm surprised the host, in his Tool tour shirt, didn't lambaste that one instead.
The cover had to be released as a single or as a track on an EP/Album. Just watched their live opiate cover though and that was horrendous. That shit just hurt to listen to.
Coolio actually changed his mind once he heard Weird Al's song. Everyone comments about their beef, but forgets that he actually liked it once he chilled out.
apparently the record company either didn't tell him or he didn't quite understand at the time what weird al was intending, and so when he first heard it he felt like he was being made fun of and the original comments he made were gut reaction.
In my junior year of high school, my choir class put together a covers album. The song I chose to cover was Nirvana's "About a Girl", and upon listening to my track, I felt ashamed because I thought I had done a serious disservice to Nirvana and the legacy of Kurt Cobain. Puddle of Mudd's cover makes me feel WAY better about my own musical ability.
I agree with this list with one exception: Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit. I always thought the original was a good song but the solo in the middle was REALLY out of place. The Limp Bizkit version keeps the flow of the song in a haunting, moody way and I really like it. It's one of the few Limp Bizkit songs I actually like (other than "Stuck" from their first album). Good list otherwise, though! - The Innkeeper
The solo in the middle was what made the song so brilliant. The Who were doing things like that long before queen made it cool. Limp bizkit simply didn’t have the talent to pull it off so they plugged up their see and say instead. Total garbage. 🗑 🤢 🤮
I can totally imagine Cookie Monster being Six Feet Under's frontman: “T.N.T., me dynamite T.N.T., eat cookie at night T.N.T., me a power load T.N.T., watch me explode!” also, that karencore cover of “You Shook Me All Night Long” is pure unadulterated cringe. I writhe in agony just thinking about it. it's so horrible it should be a crime itself. 😓
“Karencore” !! fuk that’s funny 😂🤣🤬 but please, please, please for the sake of all that’s holy don’t let it become another meme thing… \m/ ijustwantmynameback \m/
I would say AC/DC is just not a band most people should cover. And if you are going to cover AC/DC, fuckin’ have fun! That’s the whole point, none of those covers were fun. If you don’t sound like you can play at a Dive bar at 2am and then play the O2 Arena at 11pm, just don’t bother covering AC/DC.
Highway To Hell and TNT should be banned from being covered. They're already AC/DC's worst hits. Why not Big Balls? Cos they got no nuts. Ite Imma step gnight
You know the FBI uses songs from Metallica and Sesame Street on loop to torture prisoners? Well I think PUD's cover of "AAG" would be their newest form of torture
Rocked I laughed throughout the whole POM cover of About a Girl. You have to try to sound that bad. At least Fred Durst sounded on-tune when he was butchering Behind Blue Eyes.
@@RockedNet have you seen the video that takes every high note he sings and plays it at half speed during the song? It is brilliant and hilariously horrible.
Gonna point out, we actually have a at least semi-decent idea of what AC/DC thought of Six Feet Under covering them. Graveyard Classics 2 was a full cover of Back in Black (yes, the entire album)...and AC/DC got it LEGALLY BANNED FROM BEING PHYSICALLY AND DIGITALLY DISTRIBUTED DUE TO HOW MUCH THEY HATED IT. I don't think Six Feet Under has released another AC/DC cover after that, too. That could be a coincidence or Barnes just not getting around to covering them again, but I would not be surprised to learn that Barnes got told by someone in the AC/DC camp that he will never be given permission to cover their stuff ever again after that.
Why would Six Feet Under think that was ok? I'm so glad that AC/DC were able to stop this from happening. I mean, The would've been done for copyright in the LEAST! Did they really think that they could release an album, which was the work of someone else, change the name of the album, then claim it as their own? These guys must be insanely stupid to them no they'd get away with it! Not only that, but as we can see, if they did this song so badly, you can only imagine how much they butchered the rest of the songs. Back In Black is the best selling album by an Australian rock band in the world! And deservedly so. So , for these morons to basically butcher such a rock classic, WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM AC/DC, is absolutely disrespectful!
Worst I ever heard was at a rock festival, Courtney Love covered Peal Jam's Jeremy.......to her credit she actually said herself after finishing the song it was horrible and she'd never sing it again lol
If I'm being completely honest, Limp Bizkit's cover was pretty freakin' good. I even love the speak n spell segment and it's actually one of my favorite parts. To be even more "completely honest", it's probably my favorite song by Limp Bizkit in general. It's moody, deep without trying to be too deep, catchy, well mixed, and just easy to listen to. Idk how this ended up on the list.
I've got mixed opinions on it personally. I don't hate it as much as other people do, and frankly I have a little bit of nostalgic attachment to it because kid me enjoyed it and kid me didn't really know any better. However, the only reason I see it as being all right is because it's somebody else's song. Yeah it's kind of deep and it's not super try hard, but that's because the who already did all the work. Fred durst just copied it. The speak and spell part is the point of contention for me, because on one hand I kind of want to know what it would sound like if limp Bizkit had gone with the songs original layout where it sped up halfway through with a completely different verse structure. On the other hand, I am so glad they didn't do that.
Chris Barnes has two directions: deep, incomprehensible growl and "EEEEEEEE!" People who come to watch Six Feet Under nowadays just go to point and laugh at him, it has to be the reason why they still make albums.
Honestly, I like Limp Bizkit's Behind Blue Eyes well enough. Admittedly I heard it before the original which probably helps but I personally think Durst's vocals on it are perfectly fine and while I understand why the speak-n-spell thing and overall production are hated they really didn't bother me much. I do wonder how much of the hate for it just comes from the pre-existing poor reputation of Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit rather than the quality of the song in and of itself.
Nah. I'm ambivalent about Limp Bizkit. I *do* love The Who, so that does color my opinion. That said, Durst just sounds kind of whiny in the cover. Technically fine, okay, but boring. This is the song of a sensitive, angry guy, which Daltrey (a hard act to follow, I know) gets across so perfectly in the original. Re-imagining a song can be great. But Limp Bizkit and Fred Durst neutered this one. Also, this cover's bridge is unforgivable, so...
When I was a teenager, "Semi-Charmed Life" was THE song you heard whenever you went anywhere. Most of us didn't even know the title; we called it the "doot-doot-doot, doo-doo-doot-doo" song. For a few years it was a popular choice for movie studios, who used it in the trailers and TV spots for their upcoming films. Notoriously, even Disney appropriated it as the "theme song" of their trailer for THE TIGGER MOVIE, apparently believing that because the song was "bouncy" it was something that Tigger would enjoy.
If you ditched the stupid add on, yeah, he's trying and that's half the battle with the emotion of the song. Yeah maybe it sounds limp (yes I went there) compared to The Who, but so much of that song is in the words as an instrument. He got that part down. And I guess for his fans maybe the speak and spell speaks to them. I don't know. Sometimes people cover songs for to share them with their crowd, not everyone else.
A way to get dirty looks from a room: when The Who version comes on, say loudly "Aww man, who is this covering Limp Bizkit?" And just watch the rage flow.
I showed the Wes Scantlin cover to my friend who's a classically trained singer. She hadn't heard the original About a Girl or any song by Puddle of Mudd before, so I wanted her feedback. And I quote her: she said, "I was cringing the entire time" and, "Someone needs to take voice lessons."
The absolute worst cover of a rock song is ‘Sweet Child O’Mine’ covered by Sheryl Crow. Not only was it a complete bomb with her delivery sounding more like an attempt to make the song sound like ‘All I Wanna Do’, but it was so grating on the ears. I’ve had the pleasure of hearing GN’R play this song live, and even though Axl Rose was the entire bedding department of Walmart to the wind, there was no way possible it could sound worse than Crow’s rendition.
A bad cover: Marilyn Manson - "Rock 'N' Roll N****r": Manson said the song was meant to be a statement. Patti Smith's original was, his version is just him being an edge lord by screaming the n-word over and over again. After a while I was just like "Dude... grow up."
It works for me. And it's not like it's only time he's used that word. Irresponsible Hate Anthem for example. You may not like it and that's ok, but I appreciate that he had the balls to cover it. Cause even in the 70s when the Smith original came out it was considered highly offensive.
@@whereisrowanmorrison "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" is one of my favorite MM songs, ever. He's not using the word as a racist term, he's using it in the way of class structure. Absolutely GENUIS in terms!!!
I damn near had a heart attack when you mentioned the bands of “drunk mom rock”, because my mom loves all of them, especially when she’s had a few hahahahahaha
Limp Bizkit's behind blue eyes is actually the more popular version in Europe. It still often plays on the radio and most people haveonly heard that version
Playing an AC/DC song is easy. Playing an AC/DC song _right_ is very hard. Malcolm Young drilled that band to perfection in rehearsals. The microtiming and precision of the entire group is insane. Most guitarists can't even play as tight as the Young brothers when they double their own rhythm tracks on a recording, let alone live on stage with another player.
Limp Bizkit cut the best part of Behind Blue Eyes out. That's such a classic. I love the Who's version. The heavy part at the end should of been where Bizkit kicked it up and they totally cut it out. Definitely massacring a classic.
*grins* I love showing people this video. Recently showed it to a coworker so she could listen to “Gangsta’s Paradise”. Had her watch the video while I plugged my ears.
I guess i'm in the minority, i have honestly never minded that Behind Blue Eyes cover... Except for the speak-and-spell part. But the Gangsta's Paradise cover... I just cannot believe that was intended to be... good. It sounds like a parody for real.
I also liked Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit aside from the stupid speak and spell. I don’t think Fred Durst has an awful voice; I just think he’s just been selected to be the douchebag of the day, kind of like Nickelback and Theory of a Deadman earlier in the decade. They certainly aren’t the worst bands out there, but they are fun to hate, apparently. Now that PoM cover really was achingly atrocious, though. Are we sure that it wasn’t a parody? No one can be that bad, and I’m tone deaf.
What I think is really weird is the fact that Offspring went back and made a slow version of Gone Away on their latest album. Almost like they were covering how FFDP redid it.
I see the real victims here... the audience... and AC/DC. I can't argue that #1 isn't that bad. It's horrendous, but Nirvana, mercifully, only appeared once on this list.
To be fair, the music in the About A Girl cover isn’t bad, and the “I” at the beginning is decent. The rest makes me want to shove pickaxes into my ears
Aside from the vocals, if you've even heard of guitar, you can't fuck up about a girl. The verse is two chords, the, I don't know what you call the, "I'll take advantage while.."part, pre-chorus maybe? But that's only three chords. Then three more to get back to the verse. He might've been high.
In high school I played guitar in total mediocrity. The sad thing about Puddle of Mud is that About a Girl was the easiest song I ever found to play and sing at the same time. It's incredibly simple.
The entire musical point of "Behind Blue Eyes" is the acoustic-guitar-and-vocals buildup to the "when my fist clenches, crack it open, before I use it and lose my cool" part when the entire band "explodes" into the recording. That's not only the climax of the song (even though it's technically a "bridge"), it's also the first thing Pete Townshend wrote for it and built the rest of the song around it, musically and lyrically. It's the part that Flaccid Pastry ignores completely and replaces with robot farts. They missed the entire point, the entire concept of the composition. They could not have failed any harder.
The fact Iheard first with Limp Bizkit on Gothica movie and then the original in an episode of Cold Case Mindhunter makes me feel ashame The Woo is way better!!!!
Hollywood Undead is a band that I loved in high school, but don't know why. A lot of the things I hated about rap is present in their music, but I gave them a pass for having guitars.
They are the worst of the worst genre of rock ever conceived. Homie in the video calls it "Butt Rock", and what a great name. I've always called it "Theory of a Nickelfault" Regardless, it's a turd of a genre.
Luke, I command you: Rock Coliseum is on the 29th. GET CRASH TO DO AN IMPRESSION OF ABOUT A GIRL! (The POM version obviously. Because that was ATROCIOUS.)
Jack Kain. I agree. Especially, we discovered that Madonna is an empty minded person when it come to American political included the campaigns and subjects at the time by insert her own pompous, style over substance and materialistic with her own lifestyle.
I love how The Offspring just put out a new version of Gone Away almost just to show 5FDP that a great cover of it could happen. Dexter even did new vocals for it and it was fantastic.
I love "Gone Away" and part of what makes that song is the emotion behind it. That cover is just the WORST. WORST. WORST. And that Puddle of Mudd cover is what you play over a loudspeaker to flush people out in a seige
Both Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes and 5FDP - Gone Away hits me on a deeper emotional level than the originals does, and that, for me, makes them great covers. When a band/artist manage to evoke deep feelings within a person/s it's a great thing, and it's so rare that it should always be treasured
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Rocked, I hope Limp Bizkit's Behind Blue Eyes is on this video. Unlike the Who original, the Limp cover is exactly what it is: limp and boring.
@@kenterminateddq5311 imagine
'Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting' by Nickelback [ feat. Kid Rock and... _Dimebag Darrell?_ ]
Still watching, but fingers crossed for "The Thunder Rolls" All That Remains.
Not sure if you're including folk rock under this heading, but... The Counting Crows/Vanessa Carlton cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" is incredibly unfortunate. Joni Mitchell isn't the easiest artist to cover, sure, but there's no excuse for this one.
Update: Arials from SOAD done by MGK....
Yeah that was worse than any on this list, Fucking sucked, he just didn’t give a shit about one of the biggest songs in metal
That was atrocious
Was unaware of this cover. Yeah that wasn't great. Not sure that anyone can cover SOAD well, though. Serj has an unbelievable amount of range and control. His vocal ability is just absurd.
Agreed
Yeah that was a fuckin disgrace
Puddle of Mudd covering About a Girl is exactly like how I imagine a Saturday Night Live parody.
whaaaaat?😲 that wasn't a parody?😬someone needs to tell that to the singer.💩🤡🙄🤪✌😎
Hahaha! I thought it was...SNL should get them to performance it since he thinks he was so good..... I can't unhear it to listen to Nirvana now....
They did a cover of it before that was great but the 2020 one was horrible.
People only give them a pass because they didn't grow up with good rock music
Needs more cowbell.
Limp Bizkit's "Behind Blue Eyes" was a masterpiece compared to their cover of "Opiate" by Tool. I'm surprised the host, in his Tool tour shirt, didn't lambaste that one instead.
The cover had to be released as a single or as a track on an EP/Album. Just watched their live opiate cover though and that was horrendous. That shit just hurt to listen to.
Dude thank for saying this. 100% true. It’s a great cover
It is good the only bad part is saying " l.i.m.p discover." Could have done without that
I am pretty sure it was so horrible he decided not to put that there
THEY COVERED TOOL?!?!?!?
Coolio actually changed his mind once he heard Weird Al's song. Everyone comments about their beef, but forgets that he actually liked it once he chilled out.
Coolio got paid and he's friends with fir
I mean coolio took it from Stevie Wonder’s Past time’s Paradise so he has no room to complain.
Ronnie himself has shuddered while listening to his cover Gangstas Paradise. He says he absolutely hates it....
apparently the record company either didn't tell him or he didn't quite understand at the time what weird al was intending, and so when he first heard it he felt like he was being made fun of and the original comments he made were gut reaction.
Petrie is right. The story is that Cooloi was never asked for his permission, which makes sense as it's a Stevie Wonder song.
In my junior year of high school, my choir class put together a covers album. The song I chose to cover was Nirvana's "About a Girl", and upon listening to my track, I felt ashamed because I thought I had done a serious disservice to Nirvana and the legacy of Kurt Cobain.
Puddle of Mudd's cover makes me feel WAY better about my own musical ability.
Dangeresque the Third watching that probably kept a lot of aspiring musicians’ hopes alive. Like “if he can make it, so can I!” 😂
@@mmsiphonevinyls1027 I mean, if Wes fucking Scantlin of all fucking people can make it, then anyone can.
@@thebowiththemost119 nicely put 😂
I don't even need to hear your cover to confidently say it's load better.
You did do a better version than Wes' version. ANYONE could do it better than Wes did. Even my cat! 😹🤣
That about a girl cover cracks me up every time, "BUT I CANT SEE YOU EVRY NIGHT.. REEEEEEEEE"
You can freeze literally any moment of Wes Scantlin singing and it looks like he's in excruciating pain.
Cause he is
Or crapping in his undies.
Prostate exam bad.
His face is a reflection of those who endure his singing
But not half as painful of what we just endured with just a snippet…..that has SNL Skit written all over it.
"Mum, can we get Nirvana?"
"We have Nirvana at home."
Nirvana at home:
Shitvana sucks
I agree with this list with one exception: Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit. I always thought the original was a good song but the solo in the middle was REALLY out of place.
The Limp Bizkit version keeps the flow of the song in a haunting, moody way and I really like it. It's one of the few Limp Bizkit songs I actually like (other than "Stuck" from their first album).
Good list otherwise, though!
- The Innkeeper
The solo in the middle was what made the song so brilliant. The Who were doing things like that long before queen made it cool. Limp bizkit simply didn’t have the talent to pull it off so they plugged up their see and say instead. Total garbage. 🗑 🤢 🤮
If you like this, you'll probably like "Hold On" from Chocolate Starfish And The Hotdog Flavored Water
LB doesn’t have talent? You haven’t listened to any of their music outside of rolling then
@@harukoharuhara1863 but Scott Weiland RIP is the one singing and who wrote it not Fred Durst!!!
What I love is how my favorite Limp Bizkit song is a cover 😆 it says so much more about Behind Blue Eyes and less about PB imo
I can totally imagine Cookie Monster being Six Feet Under's frontman:
“T.N.T., me dynamite
T.N.T., eat cookie at night
T.N.T., me a power load
T.N.T., watch me explode!”
also, that karencore cover of “You Shook Me All Night Long” is pure unadulterated cringe. I writhe in agony just thinking about it. it's so horrible it should be a crime itself. 😓
You gotta check out their shitty song "zodiac" his vocals are awful. And the music is so boring.
I unironically want to hear this.
“Karencore” hahaha, like mom music?
Dude, that's perfect 😂😂😂
“Karencore” !! fuk that’s funny 😂🤣🤬 but please, please, please for the sake of all that’s holy don’t let it become another meme thing… \m/ ijustwantmynameback \m/
Gotta feel for AC/DC, having THREE of their songs make this list.
@GrimMaggot420 What. I mean they're overrated for sure, though garbage? Lmao.
In all fairness most ac/dc songs are super lame on their own
GrimMaggot420 overrated? Yes. Garbage? No.
I would say AC/DC is just not a band most people should cover.
And if you are going to cover AC/DC, fuckin’ have fun! That’s the whole point, none of those covers were fun.
If you don’t sound like you can play at a Dive bar at 2am and then play the O2 Arena at 11pm, just don’t bother covering AC/DC.
Highway To Hell and TNT should be banned from being covered. They're already AC/DC's worst hits. Why not Big Balls? Cos they got no nuts. Ite Imma step gnight
You know the FBI uses songs from Metallica and Sesame Street on loop to torture prisoners?
Well I think PUD's cover of "AAG" would be their newest form of torture
I blame Wes Scantlin for 2020
It was the warning song for the rest of the year.
@@jtlovescodelyoko Hopefully not the whole decade. I have bets that 2021 will be a better year than the trashole of the year we're in now
@@RockedNet Agreed 100%.
I blame Wes for many things.
It’s the 2020 Anthem
That last one...oh, that HURT.
I decided not to have a full 60 second loop of the Wes groans. I'm not that mean.
Rocked I laughed throughout the whole POM cover of About a Girl. You have to try to sound that bad. At least Fred Durst sounded on-tune when he was butchering Behind Blue Eyes.
So so much
@@RockedNet have you seen the video that takes every high note he sings and plays it at half speed during the song? It is brilliant and hilariously horrible.
It sounds like it hurt wes as well...
"TNT!! WATCH ME EXPLEEEEEEEE!!"
Possibly the best Chris Barnes vocal performance ever
Speaking of Weird Al. Even his awkward giraffe self goes harder on Gangsta's Paradise than any non-parody cover.
Weird Al's version is clever and entertaining at least, video also very funny
Post modern jukebox has an amazing cover of gangsta's paradise. You're welcome
@@timhorton8085Like A Storm also did a good cover
Gonna point out, we actually have a at least semi-decent idea of what AC/DC thought of Six Feet Under covering them. Graveyard Classics 2 was a full cover of Back in Black (yes, the entire album)...and AC/DC got it LEGALLY BANNED FROM BEING PHYSICALLY AND DIGITALLY DISTRIBUTED DUE TO HOW MUCH THEY HATED IT.
I don't think Six Feet Under has released another AC/DC cover after that, too. That could be a coincidence or Barnes just not getting around to covering them again, but I would not be surprised to learn that Barnes got told by someone in the AC/DC camp that he will never be given permission to cover their stuff ever again after that.
Why would Six Feet Under think that was ok? I'm so glad that AC/DC were able to stop this from happening. I mean, The would've been done for copyright in the LEAST! Did they really think that they could release an album, which was the work of someone else, change the name of the album, then claim it as their own? These guys must be insanely stupid to them no they'd get away with it! Not only that, but as we can see, if they did this song so badly, you can only imagine how much they butchered the rest of the songs.
Back In Black is the best selling album by an Australian rock band in the world! And deservedly so. So , for these morons to basically butcher such a rock classic, WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM AC/DC, is absolutely disrespectful!
Six feet under 1st 3 albums were't so bad, than 2001 hit and it all went downhill from there
TNT:
The cover - Cookie Monster vocals.
The original - Marge Simpson vocals.
When Scott Stapp does a better Doors cover, you know Train is bad.
To be fair, Scott Stapp _is_ a Doors cover. You know, when he's not busy being a Pearl Jam cover.
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And this was before Train became a shitty band.
_'Can you take me higher?'_
_'...Girl, we couldn't_ get _much higher.'_
@@knightwing5169 you mean there was a time when Train wasn't a shitty band?
Worst I ever heard was at a rock festival, Courtney Love covered Peal Jam's Jeremy.......to her credit she actually said herself after finishing the song it was horrible and she'd never sing it again lol
"To her credit"?? What does that even mean?
@@deathmetaldouglas69 Crediting her for admitting how bad her cover was
@@kakyointhemilfhunter4273 How about we credit people who have actual talent and impulse control who don't embarrass themselves from the get go?
@@deathmetaldouglas69 slap yourself in the back of the head
If I'm being completely honest, Limp Bizkit's cover was pretty freakin' good. I even love the speak n spell segment and it's actually one of my favorite parts. To be even more "completely honest", it's probably my favorite song by Limp Bizkit in general. It's moody, deep without trying to be too deep, catchy, well mixed, and just easy to listen to. Idk how this ended up on the list.
Agreed on all points
Yeah same.
If I'm being completely honest I have to say that you have shit taste as it is by far the worst cover on this list.
I've got mixed opinions on it personally. I don't hate it as much as other people do, and frankly I have a little bit of nostalgic attachment to it because kid me enjoyed it and kid me didn't really know any better. However, the only reason I see it as being all right is because it's somebody else's song. Yeah it's kind of deep and it's not super try hard, but that's because the who already did all the work. Fred durst just copied it. The speak and spell part is the point of contention for me, because on one hand I kind of want to know what it would sound like if limp Bizkit had gone with the songs original layout where it sped up halfway through with a completely different verse structure. On the other hand, I am so glad they didn't do that.
Thank you lol I love that song
This guy looks like a mixture of Bradley cooper and Corey taylor
hahahaha
And Arthur Morgan
Bradrey Tayper
Bradley Taylor or Corey Cooper?
Broley Cooler
Chris Barnes death growling TNT is one of the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life.
You should listen to him doing Purple Haze
He can’t even scream well
DizzneyCRAX Aka ty WATCH ME EXPLEE
I've never heard of six feet under until today. He DEFINITELY sounds like cookie monster. 😂
Being a fan of cannibal corpse, acdc, and six feet under (not really them)... I was like "oh noooo" when I heard it.
Chris Barnes has two directions: deep, incomprehensible growl and "EEEEEEEE!"
People who come to watch Six Feet Under nowadays just go to point and laugh at him, it has to be the reason why they still make albums.
What could be worst than Celine Dion's cover of AC/DC?- Oooooooooooooooooooooh my God.
Worse? Marilyn Manson covering songs
The horror......the horror......
Hollywood Undead MURDERED “Immigrant Song”. Good god, I almost puked.
Listen to the cover performed by Heidevolk. It is pristine goodness
Matthew Duuuuuude I dug it
Hollywood Undead is probably the most hit or miss bands that I have ever listen to
@@Matt-zu2lu yeah, when they get it right they are great but they also make a few mistakes like immigrant song
If you want to listen to good cover, listen to Tomoyasu Hotei's version
Honestly, I like Limp Bizkit's Behind Blue Eyes well enough. Admittedly I heard it before the original which probably helps but I personally think Durst's vocals on it are perfectly fine and while I understand why the speak-n-spell thing and overall production are hated they really didn't bother me much. I do wonder how much of the hate for it just comes from the pre-existing poor reputation of Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit rather than the quality of the song in and of itself.
Nah. I'm ambivalent about Limp Bizkit. I *do* love The Who, so that does color my opinion. That said, Durst just sounds kind of whiny in the cover. Technically fine, okay, but boring. This is the song of a sensitive, angry guy, which Daltrey (a hard act to follow, I know) gets across so perfectly in the original. Re-imagining a song can be great. But Limp Bizkit and Fred Durst neutered this one.
Also, this cover's bridge is unforgivable, so...
The quality of the arrangement and the delivery of the vocals are quite bland.
I didn't dislike it either. There truly were some great LB songs. I know it's cool to hate them, but they're a wonderful memory of my teen years.
I found the LP cover to be much better than the original by The Who. It felt more powerful and impactful.
Omg I didnt even know it was Limp Bizkit or that it was a cover. Honestly, I've always liked it.
Wes sounded like he was having a sneezing fit while getting a colonoscopy.
Nah.... He's getting old and decided to attempt that cover right when the prune juice kicked in
Oh the visual, thanks!
That's rough,dude
Hilarious.....
When I was a teenager, "Semi-Charmed Life" was THE song you heard whenever you went anywhere. Most of us didn't even know the title; we called it the "doot-doot-doot, doo-doo-doot-doo" song. For a few years it was a popular choice for movie studios, who used it in the trailers and TV spots for their upcoming films. Notoriously, even Disney appropriated it as the "theme song" of their trailer for THE TIGGER MOVIE, apparently believing that because the song was "bouncy" it was something that Tigger would enjoy.
Honestly, given Tigger, that would explain alot about the character.
@@fantasygamer82gamesplayedb24you heard of cocaine bear? Well Meth Tiger is about to tweak your mind.
I had managed to avoid the "About A Girl" cover until now. All I can say is wow.
If 2020 was a cover song, it would be Puddle Of Mudd - About a Girl
It’s actually a perfect metaphor because like this cover, 2020 had an extremely promising start but went to shit quickly.
2020 in song form
"He sounds like the cookie monster singing TNT." I cannot unhear that.
Wait. Are Five Finger Death Punch fans called “Knuckleheads?’
That. Is. Hilarious.
We know lol
Their mascot is also called Knucklehead, too. Not sure if what we call ourselves comes from the mascot name or vice versa tho
*Does the Curly Q. Link laugh* Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk
I'm still amazed they have fans
@@BigBeardedIdiot shots fired. We need Jack Bauer. NOW!
I don't know about hilarious, but whatever
The behind blue eyes cover definitely gets a pass. It's actually a good cover minus the L-I-M-P discover part.
I love the discover part haha
If you ditched the stupid add on, yeah, he's trying and that's half the battle with the emotion of the song. Yeah maybe it sounds limp (yes I went there) compared to The Who, but so much of that song is in the words as an instrument. He got that part down. And I guess for his fans maybe the speak and spell speaks to them. I don't know. Sometimes people cover songs for to share them with their crowd, not everyone else.
Love the song except for the stupid added in part. That made no sense.
Facts, it's a great cover
A way to get dirty looks from a room: when The Who version comes on, say loudly "Aww man, who is this covering Limp Bizkit?" And just watch the rage flow.
the paradise city cover by slash, fergie and cypress hill needs to be looked into
Wes Scantlin is doing a fine job at adding more syllables to one-syllable words.
The only words he can understand.
I showed the Wes Scantlin cover to my friend who's a classically trained singer. She hadn't heard the original About a Girl or any song by Puddle of Mudd before, so I wanted her feedback. And I quote her: she said, "I was cringing the entire time" and, "Someone needs to take voice lessons."
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The absolute worst cover of a rock song is ‘Sweet Child O’Mine’ covered by Sheryl Crow. Not only was it a complete bomb with her delivery sounding more like an attempt to make the song sound like ‘All I Wanna Do’, but it was so grating on the ears. I’ve had the pleasure of hearing GN’R play this song live, and even though Axl Rose was the entire bedding department of Walmart to the wind, there was no way possible it could sound worse than Crow’s rendition.
A bad cover:
Marilyn Manson - "Rock 'N' Roll N****r": Manson said the song was meant to be a statement. Patti Smith's original was, his version is just him being an edge lord by screaming the n-word over and over again. After a while I was just like "Dude... grow up."
It works for me. And it's not like it's only time he's used that word. Irresponsible Hate Anthem for example. You may not like it and that's ok, but I appreciate that he had the balls to cover it. Cause even in the 70s when the Smith original came out it was considered highly offensive.
Oh hi Android 17
I think it's a good cover. Funk your feelings...
@@whereisrowanmorrison "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" is one of my favorite MM songs, ever. He's not using the word as a racist term, he's using it in the way of class structure. Absolutely GENUIS in terms!!!
@@TranzparentMethods I agree I love that song, the live version is the best imo
You know who SHOULD cover Shook Me? Halestorm
I do feel Halestorm could pull it off well. They've done covers before.
They did a good cover of she's so heavy ( I want you so bad) by the Beatles.
Love the choice! Lzzy could totally kick ass on that
@@RockedNet Gimme Shelter and Shoot to Thrill, anyone?
Halestorm have done some great covers, and can definitely pull off AC/DC.
I damn near had a heart attack when you mentioned the bands of “drunk mom rock”, because my mom loves all of them, especially when she’s had a few hahahahahaha
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Seeing Smash Mouth on the same track list as Creed, Aerosmith, and Stone Temple Pilots is just... surreal.
why was creed put on the same side as all the good artist
@@stal9425 Creed has good songs, it's just that Scott Stapp was a douchebag due to drugs/undiagnosed bipolar disorder.
@@bluesync1 and the whole "I'm Jesus" thing. Lol
Yeah, but, at least Smash Mouth had a sense of humor about themselves.
Smash Mouth's first album is genuinely excellent.
The band behind Wes Scantlin looks like they’re trying so hard not to laugh.
ECHO...echo...echo...
They all looked pissed. 🤣
And the bassist looks embarrassed to be in the same band as Wes.
Limp Bizkit's behind blue eyes is actually the more popular version in Europe. It still often plays on the radio and most people haveonly heard that version
It was HUGE in Australia!!!
I've always liked it. Was actually surprised it was on the list. Didn't realise it had hate.
@@mervannear603 It gets hate because Fred Durst can't sing for shit and it's a cover of a song by a beloved Britsh rock band
@@thatonebritishidiot3037 Perfect user name.
@@mervannear603 It is pretty much the worst thing on the list by far and YOU like it?! You suck and your new username is Perv Anus. 😁
If nothing else. This proves that AC/DC is way more talented than a lot of people give them credit for.
They started as a pub rock band
@@isaacsoutdoors8992 and they ended like a popular pub rock band.
Playing an AC/DC song is easy. Playing an AC/DC song _right_ is very hard. Malcolm Young drilled that band to perfection in rehearsals. The microtiming and precision of the entire group is insane. Most guitarists can't even play as tight as the Young brothers when they double their own rhythm tracks on a recording, let alone live on stage with another player.
@@chrisb6484 one of the best bands of all time. Yeah totally proves nothing......
69th like. Nice.
Limp Bizkit cut the best part of Behind Blue Eyes out.
That's such a classic. I love the Who's version.
The heavy part at the end should of been where Bizkit kicked it up and they totally cut it out. Definitely massacring a classic.
*grins* I love showing people this video. Recently showed it to a coworker so she could listen to “Gangsta’s Paradise”. Had her watch the video while I plugged my ears.
I guess i'm in the minority, i have honestly never minded that Behind Blue Eyes cover... Except for the speak-and-spell part. But the Gangsta's Paradise cover... I just cannot believe that was intended to be... good. It sounds like a parody for real.
I also liked Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit aside from the stupid speak and spell. I don’t think Fred Durst has an awful voice; I just think he’s just been selected to be the douchebag of the day, kind of like Nickelback and Theory of a Deadman earlier in the decade. They certainly aren’t the worst bands out there, but they are fun to hate, apparently. Now that PoM cover really was achingly atrocious, though. Are we sure that it wasn’t a parody? No one can be that bad, and I’m tone deaf.
My biggest problem with LB's cover is that they cut an entire portion of the song for the speak and spell part
Oh man, I thought it was just me. I actually like the Behind Blue Eyes cover. Considering how disliked Fred Durst can be, I thought it was kind of apt
It's a great cover this guy was just looking for a reason to shit on Limp Bizkit. I assume he tried out for them once.
Durst has a decent voice after the production and layering, I was surprised. The robot shit was hella dumb.
Imagine Six Feet Under doing a cover of C is for Cookie.
Their cover of Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak" was surprisingly solid, though.
Metal Gods, please make this happen. _Immediately._
@@jeremyt2212 as is their cover of Judas Priest GRINDER
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That is a great 👍, 😂, but shouldn’t it contain THC, at the same time?
Mötley Crüe covering "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)".
That Puddle of Mudd cover is why the entire planet has gone downhill ever since.
What I think is really weird is the fact that Offspring went back and made a slow version of Gone Away on their latest album. Almost like they were covering how FFDP redid it.
They also tweeted that the FFDP cover was a great cover.
I loved the 5FDP version to be honest
I actually really love Limp Bizkit’s version of Behind Blue Eyes 🤷🏼♀️
same!
Wes looks like he's straining to make a "puddle of mudd".
I'll give Wes Scantlin some credit: singing a song entirely through your nose is a unique choice.
Now wait a minute!
The Cookie Monster would've done a better job on the vocals of "TNT"!
_'...And I'll take a bite!'_
We know he can do a pretty good cover of Du Hast by Rammstein. th-cam.com/video/1ZeciX-3wfs/w-d-xo.html
I see the real victims here... the audience... and AC/DC.
I can't argue that #1 isn't that bad. It's horrendous, but Nirvana, mercifully, only appeared once on this list.
Thank God as victims NOT as perpetrators of such God awful "music)
Number One: I can't wait to see what's worse than Celine.....
Oh... 😞
I didn’t know. Why was there no warning? Why?😫
Dear Gods of everything ... WHY??????? Dear Lord why?
I am off to figure out how to bleach my brain now.
Can we just appreciate how he reviews the covers objectively instead of just being like “lol band bad so cover bad, me smart classic rock man”
No
@@NoBody-tf7ib One
Weird Al's Amish Paradise is funny and genius.
Wes was singing like he was trying to squeeze the Titanic out of his ass. That was probably the worst song I ever heard 🤬 PoM
🤣🤣🤣
He's far from talented, believe me... I don't know why he's any good at it
I tend to say "shitting a watermelon" but yours rules, too.
I laughed way to hard at this
Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb. That one is like turning a fine wine into a fairy floss.
Just reprehensibly cheesy and disrespectful.
Totally agree, and the scissor sisters are one of my favorite bands of all time
Prob not as disrespectful as NC's Comfortably Dumb tho.
My cat ran and hid when the Puddle of Mud cover came on.
Lol poor kitty
The cookie monster comparison gets me every time 😂🍪🍪
To be fair, the music in the About A Girl cover isn’t bad, and the “I” at the beginning is decent.
The rest makes me want to shove pickaxes into my ears
Aside from the vocals, if you've even heard of guitar, you can't fuck up about a girl.
The verse is two chords, the, I don't know what you call the, "I'll take advantage while.."part, pre-chorus maybe?
But that's only three chords.
Then three more to get back to the verse.
He might've been high.
That cover is horrible I like Puddle of Mudd but that was shit.
In high school I played guitar in total mediocrity. The sad thing about Puddle of Mud is that About a Girl was the easiest song I ever found to play and sing at the same time. It's incredibly simple.
There's an entire album of AC/DC covers that are fantastic. It's called Fuse/Box and every band was Australian.
The entire musical point of "Behind Blue Eyes" is the acoustic-guitar-and-vocals buildup to the "when my fist clenches, crack it open, before I use it and lose my cool" part when the entire band "explodes" into the recording. That's not only the climax of the song (even though it's technically a "bridge"), it's also the first thing Pete Townshend wrote for it and built the rest of the song around it, musically and lyrically.
It's the part that Flaccid Pastry ignores completely and replaces with robot farts. They missed the entire point, the entire concept of the composition. They could not have failed any harder.
Couldn't agree more.
Well stated. It's always pissed me off.
I wish I could like your comment twenty times. Was gonna put something similar until I saw this. Rock on Henry.
I actively dislike that part of the original song
The fact Iheard first with Limp Bizkit on Gothica movie and then the original in an episode of Cold Case Mindhunter makes me feel ashame The Woo is way better!!!!
Way late to this party but Mighty Mighty Bosstones' cover of Detroit Rock City is practically unlistenable.
You could say that Train derailed that Doors tribute album.
It was a 'defective track'.
Lol you could also say it was a complete "Train" wreck of a cover
Damnit I paused it to type my previous comment just before he mentioned train wreck on this video, he beat me to the punch, oh well lol
Oh mannnnnnn... When Limp's cover of Behind Blue Eyes was that *low* on the list I got really scared.
I was right.
@Keppy That thought alone is going to keep me up at night, thanks.
11:17 You know your cover is bad when there's also a Creed cover on it and that's not the worst one.
Rocked is the only TH-cam channel to use 2009 memes in 2020 and still be funny
Snoop Dogg covering Sad But True at a Metallica tribute was truly awful.
Also Wes sounded like Larry the Cable Guy trying to sound like Cobain.
EVERYTHING 5 finger death punch has is trash
2020 is basically like these cover songs. Both hurt to go through to.
Hollywood Undead is a band that I loved in high school, but don't know why. A lot of the things I hated about rap is present in their music, but I gave them a pass for having guitars.
Yeah they blow hard to believe I liked them at one point
Lil Uzi Vert covering Chop Suey
I'm just astounded Puddle of Mudd is still a band at all....They've always been terrible
Puddle of Mudd was never a band. It's Wes and whoever his "management" can convince to take a break from selling strings at Guitar Center this month.
Amen
I like she hates me, but aside from that yeah
They are the worst of the worst genre of rock ever conceived.
Homie in the video calls it "Butt Rock", and what a great name.
I've always called it "Theory of a Nickelfault"
Regardless, it's a turd of a genre.
They have one good song shot out to anyone who played svr
Luke, I command you: Rock Coliseum is on the 29th. GET CRASH TO DO AN IMPRESSION OF ABOUT A GIRL! (The POM version obviously. Because that was ATROCIOUS.)
I was not prepared for the end edit to the Puddle of Mud’s cover. Definitely got abs now from cry laughing so hard to the quick edit.
Next one of these you do should feature Madonna's cover of American Pie. That was violating a classic.
Jack Kain. I agree. Especially, we discovered that Madonna is an empty minded person when it come to American political included the campaigns and subjects at the time by insert her own pompous, style over substance and materialistic with her own lifestyle.
@@artry93 But.....but.....she'll still blow me if I vote democrat, right? 🤣🤣🤮
arty93 Just like American politics
The bad thing was, the Madonna cover was the first version i heard when i was about 5, and it put me off the song in general for years.
@@mmsiphonevinyls1027its like eating jelly beans for the first time but it's one of those bean boozled beans that makes you want to vomit
POM covering 'About A Girl' is about as bad as hearing cats scratching a calk board. OUCH!!! 😬
Screaming isn't always aggressive, it's just raw emotion
Fred Durst's "laid back" singing voice sounds like he has a hangover.
(And it makes you feel the same.)
I love how The Offspring just put out a new version of Gone Away almost just to show 5FDP that a great cover of it could happen. Dexter even did new vocals for it and it was fantastic.
Yeah I liked it too but I much prefer the original. They also re-recorded Dirty Magic but I prefer the original one on Ignition
Unfortunately, Let the Bad Times Roll is still one of their weaker albums.
They actually said themselves that the FFDP cover was a great cover.
I legit spit my soda laughing when i heard the opening of immigrant song. Oh god, was not expecting that and dear god it sounds awful.
That POD cover is one of those times when almost anyone can confidently say 'even I can sing better than that'
Friend: “What’s The Worst Cover Song You’ve Ever Heard Of?”
Me: “You Wouldn’t HAVE A CLUUUEE...”
Sea Lion Dijon needs to eat some poutine (and a sandwich) and s.t.f.u.!
I love "Gone Away" and part of what makes that song is the emotion behind it. That cover is just the WORST. WORST. WORST.
And that Puddle of Mudd cover is what you play over a loudspeaker to flush people out in a seige
Honestly, I don’t like limp bizkit but I think behind blue eyes is one of their best songs.
Yeah, me too.
Except for that weird thing they put in there, I think they did an amazing job on that cover and it's still a song I love today
me too, here in Brazil was a major hit , topped the charts
I have always loved the song this guy has the exact opposite taste as me. Not sure how I ended up here lol
I have a wierd guilty pleasure for their cover of faith
This whole thing is awful.
Fred Durst did “Faith” by George Michael
Funny how Coolio was okay with the Falling In Reverse cover, but got upset at Weird Al Yankovic doing Amish Paradise.
The Puddle Of Mudd cover is so bad that it's hilarious. It's destine to become a so bad it's good classic over time.
I lost it at the "Have a cl(phlem)eew!"
When I heard it at first I thought it was Gilbert Gottfried singing it.
Nightmare Fanatic “REEEEEEEERRRR”
William Shatner is the king of this sort of music.
Tiffany's cover of "I Saw Her/Him Standing There." I met her once and she told me it was a corporate thing, and it embarrassed her.
I would have expected "Faith" to be on here for an awful cover made by Limp Bizkit
But i’M SHoWiNG YoU dAT DOOR, I GOTTA HAVE FAAAYYYIITHHH!!!
GOTTA HAVE FAAAYYYIITHHH!!!
GOTTA HAVE FAAAYYYIITHHH!!!
Oh true that. I forgot about that one. Wayyy worse than Behind Blue Eyes.
OH GOD YES!🤮
I don't hate it that bad compared to these its bohemian rhapsody tbh
nah that's a fun track from their best (only good?) album, you can tell they were just goofin and having fun
The whole commentary about the tnt cover had me laughing so hard I cried
Both Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes and 5FDP - Gone Away hits me on a deeper emotional level than the originals does, and that, for me, makes them great covers. When a band/artist manage to evoke deep feelings within a person/s it's a great thing, and it's so rare that it should always be treasured
That's called "being fooled".
Agreed except Behind Blue Eyes. It was an okay cover, but I hate the electronic speak and spell part. Just why??
@@evan8168 yep i like the whos version better