When Cover Songs Go Bad
Posted: Aug 11th 2005, 11:00 pm
Hey all,
Topic may have already been covered but I have had this song trapped in my head all day and I needed to share when cover songs go bad...
Go here if you dare...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4793881
Paul Anka is interviewed on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. If you listen to the first minute or so you will hear first Van Halen's "Jump." Followed by Paul Anka's version.
Oh my gawd...
I mean Mr. Anka does have a point that he and fellow Vegas style lounge singers don't have a new songbook to draw from so getting new stuff might be good for them. Having grown up in the 80s though...
It sounds so horrible wrong. And yet Paul Anka's version was stuck in my head at work all day.
[spoiler] I remember the Van Halen's video with members of the band jumping. I have this image in my head of Paul Anka singing his song and four guys in leisure suits jumping on stage behind him.[/spoiler]
(Shudder).
So what do you guys think? Any other horrendous cover song renditions you would recommend, I mean shun?
-LanceMan
Topic may have already been covered but I have had this song trapped in my head all day and I needed to share when cover songs go bad...
Go here if you dare...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4793881
Paul Anka is interviewed on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. If you listen to the first minute or so you will hear first Van Halen's "Jump." Followed by Paul Anka's version.
Oh my gawd...
I mean Mr. Anka does have a point that he and fellow Vegas style lounge singers don't have a new songbook to draw from so getting new stuff might be good for them. Having grown up in the 80s though...
It sounds so horrible wrong. And yet Paul Anka's version was stuck in my head at work all day.
[spoiler] I remember the Van Halen's video with members of the band jumping. I have this image in my head of Paul Anka singing his song and four guys in leisure suits jumping on stage behind him.[/spoiler]
(Shudder).
So what do you guys think? Any other horrendous cover song renditions you would recommend, I mean shun?
-LanceMan