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b_b  ·  3435 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: We've done "what's your favorite cover" lets hear about your least favorite.

Sheryl Crow's version of "The First Cut is the Deepest", which I refuse to link to.





steve  ·  3435 days ago  ·  link  ·  

that cover makes me inexplicably angry.

tacocat  ·  3435 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm also not a fan of the Rod Stewart version

I don't have anything against Sheryl Crow or Rod Stewart, they just suck at covering this song.

Side note: most of these bad covers seem more popular than the original on YouTube based on predictive search. By most I mean 'All I've searched for.'

cgod  ·  3435 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If rod had cut loose a bit more it might have been alright.

I'm not much a fan of his version of Downtown Train.

thenewgreen  ·  3435 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Good call. I heard Rods version first and then, when I heard Tom Waits version I was floored. What a great song it actually is. I have similar feelings about the song Bird on a Wire -Leonard Cohens version is amazing but the cover by The Neville Brothers falls way short of the originals emotional depth. I mean way short.