Anything by Bob Dylan done by literally anyone else.
Dylan can write beautiful music. He just can’t sing for shit.
He can sing, he just has a unique voice.
Listen to Nashville Skyline and John Wesley Harding and tell me that dude can't sing.
And in the live Bootleg Series albums (thinking of Vol 4 specifically), he really hits all the notes.
I'm talking early-ish Dylan, of course (up to and including, Desire). Nowadays his voice is pretty trashed
Excellent answer, hard to beat that. Man could write some songs but goddamn is he grating to listen to
Hard disagree on that one. I fucking love Dylan.
Nobody sings a Bob Dylan song worse than Bob Dylan.
This is how I feel about all Stones songs too.
Pink Pomy Club by Gwar
I saw them do this live, basically the spew was on nonstop throughout.
Hurt by Johnny Cash
Girls Just Want to have Fun, by Cindi Lauper.
Walk Me Out in the Morning Dew by The Jeff Beck Band.
Running Up That Hill covered by Placebo.
The original is bland eighties pop. The cover is deeply unsettling in all the ways Placebo are so fucking good at.
You can apply a lot of adjectives to Kate Bush, but I've never heard her described as bland before. That's quite a take.
I'm learning Running Up That Hill right now to perform, and "bland" has to be as close to "objectively" incorrect as anything musical can be. The sound is so novel and unique.
The amount of time and effort and research and diving into deep synth menus to recreate that sound is kinda insane.
Start with a cello sample. Set the pitch envelope to start with a lower pitch, then quickly slide up to the actual note. Cut off the amp envelope fairly quickly. Make both of those happen slower when lower keys are played. Then delay in some super specific way I still don't quite understand, and reverb too.
Not to mention the structure of the song is difficult as hell (for me at least) to memorize, it's not quite typical verse chorus back and forth
I can understand not liking it, but calling it bland is pretty wild to me
99 red balloons by Goldfinger
Faith by Limp Bizkit
500 miles by Less Than Jake
I'm a big fan of the German cover of that song
You mean the original?
yes it's great
My Chemical Romance did a cover of All I Want For Christmas Is You. Which is way better then the Mariah Carey one.
HEEEYYYAAAYYAYAY.
I just need it to be the He-Man variant. With the cook-break
Most covers of Beatles songs. I couldn't get into the hype for the boy band but I like when other people try to spruce up their music a bit. Crucify me.
That's not a Beatles song, close though, It's McCartney and the wings.
Pretty much any cover of a tears for fears song. For some reason I don't vibe with their sound, but their song writing is really good. Their songs get covered a lot and I like almost all of the covers way better than the original. Hell, even if they themselves play an acoustic version of their songs, I really enjoy it!
I recently discovered Shout by Disturbed, it’s pretty good.
Fuck that Nazionist piece of shit.
It's not just that he's a piece of shit, it's that he's a whiny bitch about being a piece of shit. "oh please don't give me a hard time for my garbage ass opinions". Fuck the drummer of System of a Down and his apologist guitarist too while we're at it.
Pet Shop Boys cover of “Where the Streets Have No Name (Can't Take My Eyes Off You)” - it’s a two-fer; both songs are pretty insipid on their own but their cover / mash-up is fantastic.
This is one where I quite like the original, I hate the Madness cover that made it famous, but I love this more recent version:
It Must Be Love (Crooked Man remix) - Lady Blackbird
Seether - Careless Whisper
Postmodern Jukebox’s version of We Can’t Stop.
Their version of Take Me to Church is pretty good, too. Not the the original was bad, but Morgan James just takes it to another level. If you find a live version where it’s just her and a pianist, it’s pretty impressive. Got to see it live awhile back and had chills.
I Prevail's cover of Taylor swift's Blank Space
Not that I dislike her music but just not my style of choice.
Room 429 by Strapping Young Lad
Noah Hawley and Jeff Russo did a cover of Don’t Come Around Here No More by Tom Petty for the show Legion that is fantastic, I’ve never liked anything from Tom Petty.
Original by Bad Bunny
It's a silly thing that gives me a lot of joy
Also 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' by Travis
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