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This Months Top 5
I am not a big fan of cover tunes. Very few artist can pull it off convincingly and more often than not they end up butchering the original song. There have been exceptions, Faith No More's remake of "Easy" was cool, as well as the Spinners cover of the Four Seasons classic "Working my way back to you." This time around we look at my list of the worst remakes in the history of rock. I am sure you all can come up with a different list, so I encourage you to post yours below. I know some of you won't agree with my picks. What can I say its a matter of taste. I simply can't listen to cheap imitations of the originals.

Top 5 worst song remakes.

5. Tina Turner's remake of "Missing you". I wasn't a big fan of the original song but this remake was unlistenable. Tina is usually great, but she must have been having a bad day when she recorded this.

4. NOFX's remake of Vincent. It was a nice try but like our number one song, Don Mclean is not someone you should cover. It's close to heresy.

3. Limp Bizkit's remake of "Faith". The original was pretty lame, the Limp Bizkit version brings lame to a whole new level.

2. Mariah Carey's remake of "Open Arms". I'm sure we could fill an entire list with this women's butchering of songs, but this one was her worst attempt to date.

And the number one worst song remake.

Madonna's remake of "American Pie" you just can't take a classic like that and make it a disco song. It is the worst!

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Your turn, what do you think? This is your chance, Bizkit heads to bash me and tell me how "Faith" ruled etc. You won't change my mind but if you feel need to bash me go right ahead.

Fan Speak:

freak
madonna's way to old to be making music any way. I agree on the degree of crap her remake portraied

antiSOCIAL
remakes of songs suck. i think if you cant make up your own song them dont steal other peoples songs. i'm not a big fan of metallica but when they remade the dylan song it sickened me. Cannibal Corpse did a good job remaking ozzys "zero the Hero" it went from metal to death metal. it was a good adjust to the song but they didnt jew it up like metallica. thats all i have to say

Mr Skanky
Here's some good covers from New Zealand bands you've probably never heard: Super Trouper by the Headless Chickens. Summer Love by Head Like A Hole & I'm on Fire by Head Like a Hole. I heard Moby (in concert) do an excellent cover of "Close to You" by the Carpenters (just cause someone at the front of the crowd requested it - he totally massacred it in the most stylish way.)

Jotham
I think you dont have enough negative things to say, so you lie, and say how much you hate remakes, a lot of songs deserve to be remade, and as long as a group doesnt do too many remakes, it is ok. limp bizkit's version of faith was much improved over george micheal's, i dont see how that can be denied

Joanna!
One of the best cover songs is KMFDM's Material girl. It is awesome!

hotchicka16
All you haters suck!!!

nadeil
manson did a great cover of sweet dream or out of your mind

they call me remo
some of my favs, based on my metal bent. faith no more: 'easy', right on. sepultura, 'the hunt'. hendix redefined 'watchtower'. les claypool gives a whole new 'master of puppets', and for the requisite maiden/sabbath songs: naglfar, 'the evil that men do'; sepultura, 'symptom of the universe'. worst. i laugh out loud when i hear the name puffy. we won't speak of the puny red hat abomination. metallica butchered 'astronomy'. papa roach should at least call the iron maiden songs by their original names. & even madonna knows she slaughtered mclean.