AndyFereday

Heehee, I've got a new one... Duran Duran - "Get all dirty on the dancefloor, Barbara"

Pubic Fruit - Curve

Lucidogen - The Young Gods

Three Drunken Maidens - The Demon Barbers

Purple Toupee - They Might Be Giants

We Close Our Eyes - Go West

Ca Plain Pour Moi - Plastique Bertrand

I Won't Let My Mum Go Down On Me - Nik Kershaw

Hot Lover - Dumpy's Rusty Nuts

Murder on the Dancefloor - Sophie Ellis Bextor

Doctor Doctor - The Thompson Twins

Orange Crush - REM

King of Wishful Thinking - Go West

Bela Lugosi's Dead (Cockney Remix) - Bill Bailey

Safesurfer - Julian Cope

God Only Knows - The Beach Boys

Do It - Rollins Band

Move Any Mountain - The Shamen

Fecking Albatross! - Fleetwood Mac

Hey Mr Tangarine Man - Mumbler in Chief

I think Cradle of Filth (or as I like to call them, Bucket of Shite) did some truly awful covers. They even covered a Cliff Richards song. Seriously.

Your Racist Friend - They Might Be Giants (again)

Faster Bastard - Bomb Disneyland

Abba's Super Trouper - "I was sick and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Tesco"

For bad covers I think I ought to mention that version of Under the Bridge by All Saints (I used to wind up one of my friends who was a huge fan of RHCP by telling him they were planning to cover Never Ever....) While I'm here though, I'd like to mention Laibach's version of War as a brilliant cover. It takes the classic anti-war anthem and imbues it with (post-)modern cynicism, all the while managing to stay an anti-war anthem.