Worst Ever Beatles Cover?

[onemanband]

Hi, just thought this might be interesting, although of couse, music is very subjective.
On my way to a gig tonight, on the radio I heard "Eight Days A Week" recorded years ago by Alma Cogan, possibly the worst cover I've ever heard and I've heard a few Beatles tunes destroyed!!
So, what do you think??

[flyfisher]

Is this even open to opinion? I thought the question was settled a while back . . . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2995901.stm

[BetaFunk]

I always liked Alma Cogan and always thought that at least she made the song totally different to the original. She was friends with the Fab Four so i wonder what they thought of it?

This is one of my favourite Fabs covers............

http://youtu.be/1yJajJ_B5R4

[wombatboter]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KnBhWwYfEQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KnBhWwYfEQ[/url]

[icastle]

The worst has to be [b]anyone[/b] playing Norwegian Wood.

[BetaFunk]

http://youtu.be/CmSN25HLQBM

Oh sorry i thought you said the best Beatles cover.

[Hobbayne]

Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders did a terrible version of Help! - but I think it was for comic relief so it probably doesnt count.

[onemanband]

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1368907334' post='2082970']
Is this even open to opinion? I thought the question was settled a while back . . . .
[url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2995901.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.u...ent/2995901.stm[/url]
[/quote]

'scuse me, didn't even realise there had ever been a poll of worst Beatle covers.
As I said, just heard that earlier and thought it might be worth a punt!!

Listen to this dreadful desecration of another Lennon McCartney gem.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GptHHB_HJTg

Edited May 19, 2013 by onemanband

[funkgod]

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1368907693' post='2082978']
The worst has to be [b]anyone[/b] playing Norwegian Wood.
[/quote]

ooohhh i dont know, i like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMrjufFfDoQ

[onemanband]

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1368908539' post='2082994']
[media]http://youtu.be/CmSN25HLQBM[/media]

Oh sorry i thought you said the best Beatles cover.
[/quote]

Thanks for posting that, never heard it before but it's a gem, soooo funny!!; I thought the thread might throw up a few classics like this, similar to Peter Sellers "Hard Days Night".
Personally I don't mind these humorous sorts of covers; I just hate covers what are meant to be serious "alternative" versions but just destroy the songs.

[skankdelvar]

Amidst the utter ghastliness that was the movie [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_This_and_World_War_II"]'All This And World War Too' [/url](WW2 historical footage with a Beatles soundtrack), Frankie Valli's evisceration of A Day In The Life eclipses The Quo's strangled rendition of 'Getting Better' by a nose.

Don't listen to this below. It is some minutes of your life you will never have again.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbHKwynq86o"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbHKwynq86o[/url]

Musical co-conspirators The Bee Gees went on to star in another Beatles-related stinker, the Sgt Pepper movie with Frampton as Billy Shears, IIRC.

Kill me now.

[Lowender]

[quote name='funkgod' timestamp='1368923541' post='2083158']
ooohhh i dont know, i like this...
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMrjufFfDoQ[/media]
[/quote]

I was appreciating what he was doing so why did I find myself fast forwarding every 15 seconds?

It's strictly taste but I find VW technically dazzling yet utterly unengaging.

As for worst Beatles cover -- no contest -- William Shatner's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,

Edited May 19, 2013 by Lowender

[Bloodaxe]

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1368943151' post='2083190']As for worst Beatles cover -- no contest -- William Shatner's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,[/quote]

That's transcendentally bad though - so bad it enters the realm of utter genius. Kind of like an Ed Wood film.

This, however, is truly horrible:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhp9XBmZF9A[/media]

Edited May 19, 2013 by Bloodaxe

[BigRedX]

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1368943151' post='2083190']
As for worst Beatles cover -- no contest -- William Shatner's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,
[/quote]

Oi no dissing the Shatner.

By far the worst Beatles can be found in the recent BBC documentary on the (re)making of the Please Please me album. With one exception they are all absolutely terrible.

[Cat Burrito]

When I was at school I suggested a Beatles cover for our band & was met with the usual muso snobbery. "You just don't touch the Beatles" the guitarist told me. Amazed by this stance I suggested he didn't even know anything about the band. His reply still haunts me to this day. "Yeah I do, it's George Lennon and that!"

[flyfisher]

Anything by Oasis?

[BetaFunk]

[quote name='iceonaboy' timestamp='1369048826' post='2084172']
Mr Flyfisher, you really are going to have to realise that not everyone has trawled through every thread ever posted on this forum. Allow for newer members
[/quote]
+1 .....and i don't think that a poll conducted by a digital tv channel is ever going to come up with the definitive answer.

[BetaFunk]

http://youtu.be/F-sfBpRu8vc

[Dave Vader]

oooh, beatles and Victor Wooten in the same thread, this should get interesting

[KevB]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1368950262' post='2083224']
Oi no dissing the Shatner.

By far the worst Beatles can be found in the recent BBC documentary on the (re)making of the Please Please me album. With one exception they are all absolutely terrible.
[/quote]

Valid point, the Graham Coxon effort was particularly limp iirc. If we can include non recorded versions then I'd say I've been responsible for playing some utterly forgettable Beatles covers in various bands.

[Monckyman]

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1368907693' post='2082978']
The worst has to be [b]anyone[/b] playing Norwegian Wood.
[/quote]

Including of course, The Beatles.

[paul_5]

Jams Blunt, Rocky Raccoon. /thread.

http://youtu.be/SRWKNLDZiHI

[BetaFunk]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1368950262' post='2083224']
Oi no dissing the Shatner.

By far the worst Beatles can be found in the recent BBC documentary on the (re)making of the Please Please me album. With one exception they are all absolutely terrible.
[/quote]
+1

[BetaFunk]

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1369059266' post='2084345']
Jams Blunt, Rocky Raccoon. /thread.

[media]http://youtu.be/SRWKNLDZiHI[/media]
[/quote]
I've never heard that before. That really is dire and at the same time hilarious. Fabulously awful!!!

[RhysP]

I'd have to say the worst Beatles cover I've ever heard is that bloody awful version of "a little help from my friends" by Joe Cocker.
Absolutely f***ing atrocious.