Of these cover versions for the Radio 1 40th anniversary compilation, which one does the very idea of HORRIFY you the most?

I so fucking want to hear that Foo Fighters cover, but the Fratellis one sounds the most horrifying.

I don't know where to start...

Oh shit, just noticed Klaxons covering "No Diggity", that could either be the most awesome thing ever or a trainwreck.

could be OK:
1972 – Betcha By Golly Wow (The Stylistics) covered by Sugababes
1977 – Sound & Vision (David Bowie) covered by Franz Ferdinand
1978 – Teenage Kicks (The Undertones) covered by The Raconteurs
1981 – Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie) covered by Keane
1986 – Don't Get Me Wrong (The Pretenders) covered by Lily Allen
1988 – Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) covered by Mutya Buena
1991 – Crazy For You (Madonna) covered by Groove Armada

the rest must die

hmm, meant to delete that Teenage Kicks one (would be competent but so pointless a direct repro)

Since Sound and Vision is currently doing the rotation in my head as likely candidate for greatest song ever recorded, I'd have to pick that.

2005 – Father & Son (Yusuf & Ronan Keating)

Huh? Did they perform it together or something?

The Fratellis should be beaten to death obviously. The Lily Allen sounds appalling - I can just hear her squeaking the chorus of DGMW.

But I think I must go for Razorlight.

I bet the Girls Aloud is magnificent, also the Sugababes. Also I think Corinne B-R might work.

Can't Stand Losing You (The Police) covered by Mika
- awful

Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie) covered by Keane
- could be hilarious

You Sexy Thing (Hot Chocolate) covered by Stereophonics
- ?!?!

Don't Get Me Wrong (The Pretenders) covered by Lily Allen
- kinda fitting even though i like the song and hate lily allen

Lullaby (the Cure) covered by Editors
- why why why

Ray Of Light (Madonna) covered by Natasha Bedingfield
- carbon copy

Toxic (Britney Spears) covered by Hard-Fi
- sounds like a car crash, will in fact be utterly dull

yeah i think 'Sound And Vision' fits FF like a glove tho not particularly challenging/hard to imagine.

2005 – Father & Son (Yusuf & Ronan Keating)

Huh? Did they perform it together or something?

I envy you having no prior knowledge of this abomination

1995 – Stillness In Time (Jamiroquai) covered by Calvin Harris

real under-rated awfulness here

Never heard the song, or of Calvin Harris. I'm probably very lucky there.

1980 – Too Much Too Young (The Specials) covered by Kasabian

Gumph!

1992 – It Must Be Love (Madness) covered by Paolo Nutini
- solo, acoustic guitar, i can hear it now.

1987 – You Sexy Thing (Hot Chocolate)
1992 – It Must Be Love (Madness)

You what? Weren't these hits in 76 and 81 respectively?

Reissues. PRetty much fucks up the whole concept doesn't it.

Plus at least 3 of these were covers anyway (inc Madness)

I bet the Girls Aloud is magnificent, also the Sugababes.

wasn't GA doing teenage dirtbag not already a b-side to one of their singles? a live version IIRC.
the suga1babes thing is the only one I am looking forward to hearing.

i don't think the frank fergussons doing sound and vision is a good idea at all. it's one of bowie's "hi i'm dave" songs and FF really can't drop the archness convinvingly yet, cf their fuck up of lcd soundsystem's all my friends.

1968 – All Along The Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix Experience)by Fratellis

PRESS! PRESS! PRESS!!!!

not even the feeling doing Carly simon....

These polls need multiple "tick all that apply" check boxes instead of radio buttons.

I want to hear this: 2001 – Teenage Dirtbag (Wheatus) covered by Girls Aloud

Fratellis doing Hendrix is just WTF.

The Streets covering "Your Song" sounds very scary indeed.

I want to hear this: 2001 – Teenage Dirtbag (Wheatus) covered by Girls Aloud

Me too! If only for WTFness. I have a feeling that

1982 – Town Called Malice (The Jam) covered by McFly

is something they've already done too, but I can't bring myself to check

1990 – Englishman In New York (Sting) covered by Razorlight

This is pretty horrific

The Great Beyond (REM)

I know I'll never forget what I was doing when this one was announced on the Sunday charts

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Will probably be the worst: 2003 – Don't Look Back Into The Sun (The Libertines) covered by The View

One that offends me most: 1979 – Can't Stand Losing You (The Police) covered by Mika

McFly doing The Jam could be OK, I suppose.

Sugababes is probably the only one that could possibly be OK. The G.A. one in theory, but I bet it'll actually be pretty underwhelming.

I voted for Kasabian because I got the biggest knee-jerk wtf reaction to that pairing, actually a couple of them are probably going to be OKish, but the vast majority of these just sound dreadful to me. Not dreadful as in something you might get some pleasure out of hating either, just a bunch of jobsworth, boring pointless fucks covering a bunch of mostly half-decent songs in a forgettable, pointless, soulless lulz-free way. I wonder if the compilers of this record are doing it with any enthusiasm. This will be the musical equivalent to what? Standing at a bus stop in the cold and it's raining, and your feet are wet, and you're waiting for the bus to come and take you to some night out that you don't really want to go to, and then the bus doesn't turn up anyway, and someone phones you up and gives you a hard time for not showing up, then you get home and yr g/f gives you a hard time for something or other so you go to bed and lie awake and wonder what life is all about, exactly, except not in a good way, you just lie there feeling miserable and pointless. That's what comes to mind when I read that lineup.

McFly doing The Jam could be OK, I suppose

Agreed. Don't like the song that much anyway.

... it could even be improved on by not having Weller's gorblimey vocalising on it

That's what I was thinking, girlish howling > Weller ten days out of ten.

i like Jam-era Weller. McFly dude's voice is so weedy dull.

no Muse on this. small mercies?

Muse could have been funny!

remember re:covered?

1992 – On A Ragga Tip (SL2) covered by Muse

"Ernie - The Fastest Milkman in the West"

"I like to move it" covered by Muse would have ruled this comp.

Oh man, that's telepathy in action!

Or "No Limits", better still.

You're reading my mind.

They could have did it as "I like to Muse it, Muse it"

1993 - Informer (Snow) covered by Arctic Monkeys

1997 – No Way No Way (Vanilla) covered by Dirty Pretty Things

1998 – Ray Of Light (Madonna) covered by Natasha BedingfieldDimmu Borgir.

At least Pete Doherty's not on, doing "My Old Man's a Dustman" or sumthin'

2002 - Grindin' (Clipse) covered by Kate Nash

(xpost)They should have had him doing "Ernie the Fastest Milkman in the West", that would have suited him down to the ground.

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I might perhaps be alone in thinking that Maximo Park covering Justin Timberlake might actually be okay.

I bet the Mika/Police one is horrible but not as bad as his cover of I Want You Back that I was exposed to at Glastonbury.

I'm convinced Radio 1 assigned years to the bands but the bands chose the songs.

What in blue blazes is "The Great Beyond"?

Is it the pushing an elephant up the stairs song? I couldn't sing you a single other REM song from the last 13 years

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Why no "all of them" option?

am i missing a joke here? is this thing actually real?!

jesus. i'd been avoiding this thread because i thought it might depress me. wish i'd stuck to my guns.

WHAT A REAM OF SHITE.

i can't even be arsed to vote.

pash OTMFM with his inspired bus/rain/shitey time metaphor above.

The Klaxons' cover of "My Love" worked out pretty well...I mean, nothing mindblowing, but I'm sure "No Diggity" will turn out just as well.

I can't imagine No Diggity by The Klaxons being anything more than awful. It's one of the greatest singles ever, how could they possibly do it justice?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

1973 – You're So Vain (Carly Simon) covered by The Feeling 0

2006 – Steady As She Goes (The Raconteurs) covered by Corinne Bailey Rae 0

.. because this might actually be good/better?

It is a fucking travesty that no one voted for that Carly Simon cover.

Indeed. But there was just so many choices to choose from!

i can sort of imagine what most of them will be like, but not the fratellis. sixth-form music studies end-of-term performance, i guess.

Sadly I can imagine exactly what the Shittyphonics one will be like.

ILM hates fun shockah

yeah, mr fun-time happy guys, that's the stereophonics alright.

I cannot think of a more regimented, restricted, mundane, fun-polarised collection of moneygrabbing twatheads than this fucking list, Mr. Musically.

If you can't find at least one vaguely decent pairing then you need to lighten up. I mean, the KLAXONS are doing NO DIGGITY! That might turn out horrible but at least it's a pretty amusing idea.

Lily Allen's doing "Don't Get Me Wrong"???!!! Holy horrific!!! Her voice is no match to Chrissie Hynde's tone. Allen's voice, besides having no distinct tone (ergo, pretty generic), is just weak and squeaky at places that the cover's bound to trail off to pathetic-dom. She has more of a Nina Persson voice so she should switch places with Just Jack and cover "Love Fool" instead.

Yeah, that'd be exciting!

how about louis, you and dj martain provide us with an alternative listing?

xp

1988 – Somewhere In My Heart (Aztec Camera) covered by Sulley Muntari

1998 - Witness to a Murder pt 1 (Mansun) covered by 65 Days of Static

there never was a witness to a murder part 1 (are you deliberately trying to piss me off here?)

it's a very rare demo recording only known by the most devoted fans. i thought you of all people would have known about it?

Go and stand in the corner

come with me?

Four corners in a room, plenty of room for everyone

that's my other favourite on the masun rarities cd

*mansun

I have that "Manson" single, you know...

Klaxons' "No Diggity" is like a less smug Jamie Lidell. Approved.

I'd like to enter a formal request for confirmation that the Streets Elton John cover is just a shitty as I imagined it would be.

ILX circa 2002 would argue with you, but they'd be wrong

playlouder (well ok, john doran) have given this atrocity a reet kicking.

http://playlouder.com/dhtml/#/content/show/15688

i really hope paul smith raps the clipse's parts in "like i love you."

-- Jordan Sargent, Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:20 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

can any one confirm this????

also i like both band and song, but how the hell did this get no votes?

actually they might be quriky (retarded) enough to pull it off reasonably well.

'alex macpherson listens to radio 1 40th anniversary comp. and ruminates' would make for an A+ reality show.

tho i guess we can't use alex macphereson and reality in the same sentence.

I dunno, dude's pretty svelte.

sorry, the correct zing we were looking for was 'i dunno, dude's pretty svelt'
please try again later.

You svelte it wrong.

Tom's FT piece: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/10/c90-go-radio-wrong/#comment-327053

includes joke stealage/coincidental similarity!

woops, proper link: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/10/c90-go-radio-wrong

Having now listened to this album, Drinking in LA (Bran Van 3000) covered by The Twang is my new vote for the worst song ever recorded.

It's like Lo Fidelity Allstars crossed with Primal Scream crossed with those weird faceless children who scream at you in nightmares.

I still want to hear "Ban Don Derun" by the Foos, just that one, no other.

i can't remember what i voted for, but the only real losers are the public.