I'm so sick of all of these songs. Especially hallelujah it's just used to evoke emotion it doesn't show talent. Imagine can go fuck itself. It's annoying and gay.
Wait a minute. This more complex than that. I think this topic should be linked to the list of bands who sold out. A lot of this is due to marketing. Consider this: A band wannabe in a garage has to start somewhere. Sometimes it's with tried-and-true songs. Sometimes the audience request those songs. You are not always their audience. Then marketers try to make the band into something. Let's face it, a truly good song cannot be over-covered (I don't like that term, either. Any ideas?) But, bad covers aren't the same thing. What goes wrong here is that bad covers are over-marketed. Let's give everybody else a little slack.
My Way by Frank Sinatra was a cover version. I think Paul Anka sang it before him but it was based on a French song called Comme D'habitude by Claude François
A couple of omissions. The UK's biggest selling single of 1972 was Amazing Grace by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, and My Way was itself a cover of Comme D'Habitude by Claude Francois, to which Paul Anka wrote English lyrics.
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What about Clarence Ashley – House of the Rising Sun?
Never heard of Fever.
I wish peeps would stop trying to cover Bohemian Rhapsody. NOTHING will ever top the original.
RIP.
What about Cmon Everybody by Eddie Cochran?
Yesterday WITH DRUMS?!?!?!
I'm so sick of all of these songs. Especially hallelujah it's just used to evoke emotion it doesn't show talent. Imagine can go fuck itself. It's annoying and gay.
What about Knockin' on Heaven's Door. I think it should be at least on place number 3 (Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton Guns N'Roses etc.)
How can there not be a Bob Dylan song? He was well known for, not only having many of his songs covered, but the covers usually being better.
while my guitar gently weeps?
where is I can't help falling in love with you?
For imagine you forgot David Bowie
Hey Joe??
That awkward moment when you haven't heard of most of these songs.
All Along The Watchtower? Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, John Mayer, The Grateful Dead did it a few times
Paranoid- Black Sabbath was covered by about 20 bands
How about a list movies with the most lens flare or whatever?
Did you know that Imagine is about communism?
You forgot "we can work it out BY THE Beatles!!
6:12 the best person who ever existed 🙂 yes I'm talking about the hippie in white
Wait a minute. This more complex than that. I think this topic should be linked to the list of bands who sold out. A lot of this is due to marketing. Consider this: A band wannabe in a garage has to start somewhere. Sometimes it's with tried-and-true songs. Sometimes the audience request those songs. You are not always their audience. Then marketers try to make the band into something. Let's face it, a truly good song cannot be over-covered (I don't like that term, either. Any ideas?) But, bad covers aren't the same thing. What goes wrong here is that bad covers are over-marketed. Let's give everybody else a little slack.
Where is Creep by Radiohead ?
My Way by Frank Sinatra was a cover version. I think Paul Anka sang it before him but it was based on a French song called Comme D'habitude by Claude François
Sweet Home Alabama?
Sixteen tons not here?
My Way is a deadly song, many karaoke monkeys in the philippines not wanting to be outdone fight and even kill over that song.
You know the list's spot on when you're skipping parts 'cos you can't actually listen to the song again for too long.
A couple of omissions. The UK's biggest selling single of 1972 was Amazing Grace by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, and My Way was itself a cover of Comme D'Habitude by Claude Francois, to which Paul Anka wrote English lyrics.
Most classic Christmas songs should be on the list, but I suppose they'd take up the whole list
I thought "Can't Help Falling in Love" could land here.
Ok where the hell is feeling good. That is the most cliche song to sing on singing shows and it's been covered so many times