Big and Rich, a country music duo, covered classic rock band AC/DC’s “Shook Me All Night Long”, and it sounds as you’d imagine: not good. It seems vocalist David Draiman was trying to rid this song of its organically pleasant and quietly nuanced attributes and replace it with watered down dad-rock cliches.This cover has become increasingly popular and it’s a shame that today we can associate Disturbed with a track originally composed by much greater and respected artists that is Simon and Garfunkel.Ī repetitive pattern in the history of bad covers is the blatant discrepancies between the genre of the band who is covering and the genre of the original. The whispered vocals are replaced with obnoxious vibrato and over-the-top aggression. Not only is it entirely ridiculous for a radio rock band to cover such a soft track, but they do so in a way that completely tarnishes the respect and originality of the renowned song.
While no cover of this track has achieved the same essence and entrapment of emotions as the original, the metal band Disturbed decided to take a swing at it and their version is quite truthfully the worst. Simon and Garfunkel ’s subtle and beautifully classic track, “The Sound Of Silence”, has been covered by various artists and bands. You can probably hear it blasting in a high school weight room. It’s even more regrettably sad that this song is most commonly associated with Five Finger Death Punch rather than its true creator, Bad Company. Vocalist and lyricist, Ivan Moody, seemed to think it was a fantastic idea to replace the line “six-gun sound” with “death punch sound” and it only adds to how awful this rendition is. This cover is bad in so many ways, and it’s largely due to how uncomfortably forceful the band is with implementing their own gimmicks and lines and replacing certain original lyrics. It’s a sad truth that the band Five Finger Death Punch received much of their success due to this despicable cover of classic rock band Bad Company. Here is a list of some of the most incredulous covers in music and of the most suitably understood greats. Sometimes, songs are beautifully and humbly covered, and a lot of times they are brutally murdered and regrettably embarrassing to the creators and its listeners within the industry. Most often, the songs being covered are better suited to remain an original and should not be tampered with unless it is respectfully executed without contradicting and disrespecting the instinctive meaning behind its writing. For so many years, artists and bands have been paying tribute to their musical inspirations by covering songs in their own and often times convoluted renditions.
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