Snakester's 10 WORST Cover Songs Of All Time

Song Title - Cover Artist (Original)

10. Louie Louie - Robert Plant (The Kingsmen): Most people probably haven't heard this and their lives are better for it. Even being 1/4 of the greatest rock band ever can't save you from embarrassing yourself 20 years lately covering a very stylized song for a movie. Words cannot describe.

9. Bridge Over Troubled Waters - Johnny Cash (Simon & Garfunkel): OK, I kind of feel bad about this one but you know with all the good songs comes a few bad ones. My only explanation is that Johnny thought the lyrics were the reason to do this song, but really listening to it the words sound more like someone should be singing them to him at that stage in his life. Plus he just cannot pull off the vocals. Thus is usually makes me cringe and skip to the next song.

8. American Woman - Lenny Kravitz (The Guess Who): Lenny doesn't do bad with the song, but for me it fails because he left out my favorite part of this classic. The true version of the song needs to have the soft acoustic intro that explodes into the rage of keeping American women away!

7. Come Together - Aerosmith (The Beatles): Crap I am already developing a theme that I hate cover songs for movies. Oh well they still deserve it. I just never quite got this one and why everyone thought it was so great. I mean they put it on their Greatest Hits for crying out loud. Very creepy looking performance of the song in the Sgt Pepper movie too.

6. Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting - The Who (Elton John): This actually inspired me to suggest making this list. The Who can usually make anything sound cool but this song missed the mark. Later on in their career without Keith Moon and way too much synth. That is a recipe for BAD.

5. Jumping Jack Flash - Peter Frampton (The Rolling Stones): Second disk of Frampton Comes Alive right in the middle is this steaming pile of 7 minute torture. Peter can play guitar pretty well but the riff is off and he is definitely not Mick. He was just trying to hard to be them it seemed. Do as I do, just skip ahead to Do You Feel Like We Do and wonder where the next 17 minutes of your life will go.

4. Sweet Child O' Mine - Cheryl Crow (Guns N Roses): Sure the lyrics are nice and there is a good message there. But last time I checked this song was a big hit cause Slash is a monster on guitar, the electric guitar!

3. Behind Blue Eyes - Limp Bizkit (The Who): Damn it, still another cover for a movie. First off Limp Bizkit isn't that good of a band. Second, they didn't do the best part of the song for me which is the transition to the rock ending and the rage the explodes through the song. Third, Limp Bizkit just isn't good.

2. Dancing in the Streets - Van Halen (Martha & The Vandellas): You hear Van Halen is coming out with an album of all covers. You think alright I really likes what they did with You Really Got Me, I'll give it a shot. Then out comes the synth crap and this just plain odd sounding song. They play it on the radio all the freaking time. What is wrong with these people? This is just bad, and it isn't Van Halen.

1. American Pie - Madonna (Don McLean): I don't care if you are like the crown jewel of the pop industry and want to push the envelope at every turn, you cannot touch this song. It has a deeper meaning than any of us, we sing it together in our cars and in the bars. I cried the day Madonna made the music die. What?! this was for a movie too!?