fuck the fuzztones.. oooooo we only use vox we're so 66' fuck off.... (Really I got 2 or 3 records with them. fuck'em)

 

First of all Zakk Wylde Fuck the fuck off. ( Think of all the great Sabbath songs he have fucking killed) I got throwed out of a heavymetal store couple weeks ago when I started to talk bad about Zakk when someone told me I looked like him but that's another story.

 

Slash--ok he was in Gun's N.... No I have never been a Gun's fan. Everybody wanted me to dig it( including my mom) Fuck off.

 

don't need to find another. this guys are the worst sort of filth

got to agree with teen fink, the fuzztones ruined pretty much every song they covered, turning great punk classics into boring-goth-rock plodders! Its like they really didnt get it! Should've been a heavy metal band probably.

 

....then theres van halens version of 'you really got me' that one really gets me! (maybe van halen and the fuzztones are the same band hmmmm)

one cover band really grates on my nerves, and i realize they probably have a lot of fans here, but who cares? i'm talking about the FUZZTONES. i can stomach maybe Bad News Travels Fast (their best moment), but the covers they recorded are pretty consistently lame.

now, the DIRTBOMBS, on the other hand, know how to cover songs and do it well. see Ultraglide in Black and If You Don't Already Have a Look as perfect examples. some outstanding covers there.

take that did smells like teen spirit live in like 96 or sumin ! arguably not what kurt died for

the two at the top of my head are also not garage, but Alien Ant farms cover of Smooth Criminal and then there was this ska version of Iron Man that didn't go so well (can't remember the band). On the flip side I love Hugo's cover of 99 Problems.

Great topic!

I'm sure I can come up with more if I think long and hard about this, but one that comes to mind would be Smash Mouth's cover of ? and the Mysterians' "Can't Get Enough of You Baby." That one would irritate me to no end. Luckily, I haven't heard that cover in years! That band was also responsible for butchering The Monkees' "I'm a Believer." Ugh...

Others off the top of my head:

Not garage related, but Duran Duran covered Public Enemy's "911 Is a Joke," too. Unforgivable.

Motley Crue doing "Anarchy in the UK"

Michael Bolton's complete awful cover of Otis Redding's "Dock of the Bay"

Limp Bizkit murdering the Who's "Behind Blue Eyes"

And I'll leave it at this:

 

I always hated the Mudhoney version of hate the police -

the original by the dicks is far superior, but good on em for trying