When I have a day off work I always have a slight hang over. Usually just a tinge of a headache but enough to make me not want to do too much in the morning apart from make tea and coffee and watch stuff on my laptop. Sometime’s I might watch a film or a documentary but most of the time I’m more likely to skip around YouTube. Usually I won’t even watch a whole video, its like my fragile hung over brain has the attention span of a child who’s just scoffed back a bag of Haribo.
Today’s skip around was bad cover versions. Its an old favourite of mine.
Here are some of the best bad covers:
Sweet Child O’Mine from a young shirtless band in a rehearsal room.
The song starts with an out of tune interpretation of the well known Slash riff but for some reason the drummer feels the need to count him in. Then the drums and bass enter the song in the wrong place and all three of them manage to play the whole song a bar or two ahead of each other.
Comfortably Numb by a band on a stage at a small town benefit show or something.
You don’t expect a young teenage band who’ve only been playing their instruments for a few weeks to have it together but this band are not young at all. Maybe the band is just a bit of a laugh, but they don’t seem to be having a lot of fun up there.
Smells Like Teen Spirit at a school assembly. Another drummer counts in when the song starts on its own. I love the mangled solo on this and the ending of the song when amp stops working and the singer is giving it her all as she rolls around on the floor.
Why play one song badly when in three minutes you can ruin a handful of songs with A Metal Medley. The band that consists of a drummer, bassist, two singers and a mosh pit that’s playing to a disinterested audience. One of the singers gives a pre song speech that ends with her saying “With metal anything is possible.”
Then near the end for some reason one of the moshers starts doing a Russian Kozak dance.
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