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Gavin B. · 09-26-2009, 06:51 AM

Worlds Worst Beatle Covers Part I

I'm not the sort of person that stops to gawk at traffic accidents because my morbid preoccupations are of a milder nature. I stop and gawk at really awful songs performed by really awful performers. A really bad rendition of a Beatles song really catches my ear because decimating a Lennon/McCartney song is the pop music equivalent of pillaging the holy temple. There are enough bad Beatles covers to warrart a 2 part (possibly 3 part) post to cover to give my reader an idea of the full range of transgressions against Beatles music by nearly every nation and culture on the face of the earth.

Be forwarned these Beatle covers are really bad but don't blame me, I'm just the messenger and the public has the right to know and a right to indulge in their own lurid curiosity. I'll start with one of the milder descerations of the Beatle's catalog the Telly (Kojack) Savalas rendition of Something:

Something by Telly Savalas

It gets a lot worse from here on folks, so don't say I didn't warn you. Next is a rendition of Blackbird by the Japanese supergroup Hanararegumi:

This rendition of Let It Be by the Russian Naval band gives new meaning to the word "awful." Another fair warning: the following song is frightfully bad that I thought it was some kind of Monty Pyton joke when I first heard it:

To conclude Part I of our epic tribute to bad Beatles covers, I present you with the singer by which every awful standard of music is frequently measured by: William Shatner. This Captain Kirk rendition of Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds is so single mindedly bizarre I don't quite know what to make of it. The version of "Lucy" transcends every notion of what is bad music and I can only conclude that William Shatner consumed 15 tabs of blotter acid, 1 hour prior to the recording session:

WARNING: Part II of Bad Beatle Covers will include Bill Cosby's version Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band and a mariachi version of Get Back that will make you want to vomit.

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Gavin B. Model Worker Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,248	Worlds Worst Beatle Covers Part I I'm not the sort of person that stops to gawk at traffic accidents because my morbid preoccupations are of a milder nature. I stop and gawk at really awful songs performed by really awful performers. A really bad rendition of a Beatles song really catches my ear because decimating a Lennon/McCartney song is the pop music equivalent of pillaging the holy temple. There are enough bad Beatles covers to warrart a 2 part (possibly 3 part) post to cover to give my reader an idea of the full range of transgressions against Beatles music by nearly every nation and culture on the face of the earth. Be forwarned these Beatle covers are really bad but don't blame me, I'm just the messenger and the public has the right to know and a right to indulge in their own lurid curiosity. I'll start with one of the milder descerations of the Beatle's catalog the Telly (Kojack) Savalas rendition of Something: Something by Telly Savalas It gets a lot worse from here on folks, so don't say I didn't warn you. Next is a rendition of Blackbird by the Japanese supergroup Hanararegumi: This rendition of Let It Be by the Russian Naval band gives new meaning to the word "awful." Another fair warning: the following song is frightfully bad that I thought it was some kind of Monty Pyton joke when I first heard it: To conclude Part I of our epic tribute to bad Beatles covers, I present you with the singer by which every awful standard of music is frequently measured by: William Shatner. This Captain Kirk rendition of Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds is so single mindedly bizarre I don't quite know what to make of it. The version of "Lucy" transcends every notion of what is bad music and I can only conclude that William Shatner consumed 15 tabs of blotter acid, 1 hour prior to the recording session: WARNING: Part II of Bad Beatle Covers will include Bill Cosby's version Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band and a mariachi version of Get Back that will make you want to vomit.