Is 'Seven Nation Army' the most covered song of the 00s?

I've just found 30 different cover versions on Spotify. I'm sure something must beat it, maybe Crazy In Love, but I can't imagine what else.

I am currently listening to a version that sounds like it was recorded by a terrible Depeche Mode tribute band, btw.

two words - hey ya

isn't "crazy" the most covered?

Okaaaaaaaaaay Spotify gives me 115 version of Hey Ya.

i couldn't even count the number of crazy covers on youtube.

Yeah, "Crazy" came to mind right away for me, too. But what about "Hallelujah"? Or some other song that the reality shows turned into a standard?

I guess "Hallelujah"'s not from the '00s, though, even if it was widely covered in the '00s. (The question's kind of ambiguous about whether that matters.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_(song)#Cover_versions

^ that's a lot less than 115

But did the Oak Ridge Boys cover "Hey Ya!"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHsLZ7zYKsQ

this is my fav version

(lyrics courtesy of Butthole Surfers)

If "Seven Nation Army", "Crazy", "Hey Ya", and "Crazy in Love" are four of the most covered songs of the 00s, then this decade has got pretty good taste. Especially considering that the previous decades' most-covered are probably the likes of "Butterfly Kisses", "Greatest Love of All" and "You Light Up my Life". If "Hallelujah" is the sappy ballad for the decade, then yeah, great decade.

"You Light Up my Life"

A reminder that the UK managed to avoid the original and all the cover versions.

"Butterfly Kisses"

No idea what this is either.

^ Google is your enemy!

"Greatest Love of All" was my High School classes' graduation song. Came down to a showdown with Boston's "Don't Look Back." As the music swelled in the gymnasium, I really did not want to look back. Some dude snuck scissors under his gown, and cut off the rat tail of the dude in the row in front of him.

If "Seven Nation Army", "Crazy", "Hey Ya", and "Crazy in Love" are four of the most covered songs of the 00s, then this decade has got pretty good taste.

I shudder to think how many covers of You're Beautiful by James Blunt there are out there.

at least they can't really be any worse than the orig

if we count buskers, then 'wonderwall'.

History Mayne in thinking music ended in 1999 shocker.

oh, at the latest

^ that's a lot less than 115

Yeah, but I don't think Wikipedia is exhaustive -- e.g., it only lists nine cover versions of "Hey Ya!" I'd have tried to make an apples-to-apples comparison here, but I'm American and thus don't have Spotify.

the band i'm in played on campus at a small midwestern college this weekend, and as we were packing up i was eavesdropping on a group of awkward college guys bragging about the longest versions of "seven nation army" they had ever performed. one guy said he had played it for 10 minutes because his band needed to fill up time and it was the only song everyone knew, while another guy claimed to have played a 30-minute version.

I heard a dull/funk version over the weekend.

"Everyone knows about it! Unh!"

it was picked up as a fight song chant by the Ravens this past season, and i think a bunch of other sports teams

some guy from x factor just covered it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxevD8-bG9k&ob=av2e

It was big for basically all European soccer teams about four or five years ago, keep up Ravens

I was at a wedding in France around that time and during the dinner some guy actually stood on his chair and led the room in a lyricless bellowing version of it, one of the more bizarre impromptu music moments I've witnessed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78g6uhRlP-I

1000 musicians and still no fuckin bass

the band i'm in played on campus at a small midwestern college this weekend, and as we were packing up i was eavesdropping on a group of awkward college guys bragging about the longest versions of "seven nation army" they had ever performed. one guy said he had played it for 10 minutes because his band needed to fill up time and it was the only song everyone knew, while another guy claimed to have played a 30-minute version.

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:58 (4 years ago) Permalink

Overheard someone say "Oh I know this song" whilst this was playing, can't remember whether it was because people were chanting it at a sporting event on a television in the background. Was wondering what further steps that line of conversation would take but it stopped right there.

this song sucks

but tbf that riff - in with sweet leaf, satisfaction, you really got me etc for all-time simple but epic sounding riffs.

this needs to be banned from sporting events forever

Bad song. Terrible in stadiums.

As someone who stopped listening to rock radio and doesn't attend sporting events, I feel like I haven't actively heard this song in over a decade.

Braves fans think it’s a traditional Native American chant

Is it the most recent song to enter the stadium chants « canon » ? I can’t think of another one.

do ppl chant to it? i seldom go to sports games but i only remember clapping/stomping. but yes i wondered the same thing at the last couple i went to, i'm not aware of a more recent one myself

the marching band at my kid's middle school plays this ...

xpost yep, they go "oh, oh oh oh oh ohhhhh ohh".

I don't because I hate the fucking song

Yeah, the crowd sings the chorus riff "pop poppop popop pop pop".
it's awful.

ahah, two versions of the chant !

Have heard steel bands do this. And "Love will tear us apart"

this crap has finally made it to vancouver stadiums. canuck fans were chanting it after schenn and jeannot dropped the gloves...and they're still chanting it

this and mr. brightside the two most iconic riffs of the 00's? anything else up there with em?

but tbf that riff - in with sweet leaf, satisfaction, you really got me etc for all-time simple but epic sounding riffs.

― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Monday, August 1, 2016 7:14 AM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is absolutely true and explains everything, don't overthink it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vkap4GvyG4 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Is it the most recent song to enter the stadium chants « canon » ? I can’t think of another one.

The only other song I can think of Zombie Nation's Kernkraft 500 and that is a few years older than Seven Nation Army.

I'm back in this thread because of Conflict's Mighty and Superior, released in 1985

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTTH0MQToR4