Bad(?) Covers

  These three songs came from a list of the 35 worst covers in Rock-n-roll history according to an article in the August 1990 issue of Spin magazine. That issue celebrated the 35th  anniversary of the music genre and included several top 35 lists. I actually have the first two of these songs in my collection.  

   The first is a stripped down acoustic version of the spandex-driven culmination of 1980's excess......Van Halen's  Jump.

Aztec Camera- Jump

   Next Nick Cave pays tribute to Elvis with his take on a Mac Davis penned song that is way more Nick Cave than Elvis.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - In the Ghetto

  Then there's this

Sex Pistols - Roadrunner

   Here is a link to the Spin -August 1990 issue.  I stumbled across it as a result of a suggested YouTube documentary about unsung rock pioneer Sister Rosetta.  Which set off a free association that had me looking up the Sister Rosa mentioned in the Big Audio Dynamite song Esquerita .  Turns out that issue of Spin had an article on S.Q. Reeder (pg39)and I found the list of bad(?) covers deeper in the issue (pg 62).