Shirly you must be joking or trolling. The thread is "BEST cover songs". Not worst.

These "best" threads are essentially just people's opinions. That's his.

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded by the Light
Sonic Youth - Superstar
Faith No More - Easy
Foo Fighters - Baker Street
Get Up Kids - Alec Eiffel
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
Soundgarden - Girl U Want
The Bad Plus - Velouria
The Bad Plus - Flim
Sick of it All - Betray
Echo & the Bunnymen - People are Strange
Jane's Addiction - Rock n Roll/Sympathy for the Devil
Concrete Blonde - Everybody Knows
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls
1000 Homo DJs - Supernaut
Jawbox - Cornflake Girl
Revolting Cocks - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Devo - Satisfaction

And with that, I leave you with this...

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I'm going to copy what I wrote in a "Favorite Dylan Cover" thread from a few years ago. It's still true.
Of course, the difference between then and now is that now I can show everyone what I was talking about.

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Tesla "Signs"
Tesla "Games People Play"
Tesla "Cotton Fields"
Tesla "War Pigs"
Tesla "Do You Feel Like We Do"
Hell, both of the Real To Reel CDs are good.

I like most of Poison's Poison'd CD but "Sexy Back" is one of the worst.

I hadn't heard that Mellencamp cover Decker. That's solid. I hadn't heard the With A Little Help From My Friends (Bon Jovi) either. It was pretty good, but no one can come close to Joe Cocker on that one.

I love that Tesla set. My personal favorite off it though is Ball of Confusion.

Here's another one that I love:

Shinedown - Simple Man
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ryan adams - wonderwall

Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide, Never let me down again

Ocean Blue - There is a Light That Never Goes Out
Dubstar - St. Swithin's Day (Billy Bragg)
Pet Shop Boys - Go West

Ramones-I don't wanna grow up

I totally agree with this one. The Pumpkins' version is almost unrecognizable - they took a brash electronic track and turned it into a warm, bluesy, organic-sounding number. Very nicely done.

I'm generally not a fan of covers, especially anyone who has the audacity to cover The Beatles (although I do like Fiona Apple's "Across The Universe" and, of course, the versions featured in the movie of the same name, and Elliott Smith's cover of "Because"), but here are some I do like:

Ugly Kid Joe "Cats In The Cradle"
Nine Inch Nails "Dead Souls"
Def Leppard "20th Century Boy"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Higher Ground"

Um... I'm sure there are others, but those are the ones that jump to mind. I like them infinitely better than the originals.

Now, as far as worst cover songs go, I hate hate HATE 311's "Lovesong" cover (why even bother trying to cover The Cure) and Tori Amos' "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

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That's a fucking great one. Speaking of Beatles covers, other than Joe Cocker my #2 would have to be Eddie Vedder covering You've got to hide your love away:

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Which in turn reminds me of Pearl Jam's Last Kiss which is also great.

The Deftones did a really good cover of If only tonight we could sleep at the MTV ICON for The Cure. It is on their B-sides collection. There is also a very cool album of Latin artists coving The Cure.

a-ha - crying in the rain (the everley brothers)
far corporation - stairway to heaven (led zeppelin)
foo fighters - band on the run (paul mccartney & wings)
groove armada - crazy for you (madonna)

elvis / something

Tom Waits - The Return Of Jackie & Judy (The Ramones)
Joey Ramone - What A Wonderful World (Louie Armstrong)
Atreyu - You Give Love A Bad Name (Bon Jovi)
Manfred Man & The Earth Band - Blinded By The Light (Bruce Springsteen)
Megadeth - Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
Fall Out Boy - Beat It (Michael Jackson)
Bruce Springsteen - Jersey Girl (Tom Waits....I think Bruce has only done that one live, I don't recall if there was a studio version done...and ironically most people from New Jersey will tell you that Bruce was the one who wrote it)

*EDIT I recalled two more as I was typing....

Tom Waits - Sea of Love (I forget who did it originally)
Clutch - Who's Been Talkin' (Howlin' Wolf)

Can't believe no one mentioned this yet:

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Heart - Rock and Roll (Led Zeppelin) Damn good cover.

LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS, PINBALL WIZARD by Elton John .

My new fave cover is "House of The Rising Sun" by Walls of Jericho, unfortunatly, its not on youtubeor on their myspace page.

One cover I really like from one of my favorite artists is Aimee Mann's cover of Coldplay's The Scientist. Her version is very pretty.

Click below for the audio of the song.

Anything off the first two Led Zeppelin albums.