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ain't got no soul: bad covers of great soul songs

Many a great soul track has suffered some truly egregious desecration. The single example that comes most readily to mind is Huey Lewis's rendering of Smokey Robinson's "Cruisin'". Ouch! Rememeber folks, this question does not depend on any emphemeral concepts such as race. To be sure, I'll take Dusty's version of "Son of a Preacher Man" over Aretha's any day. For that matter, limey whiteboys such as Elvis Costello and Paul Weller display a far more instinctive grasp of soul than does, for example, Bobby Brown. Don't disappoint me, I am sure that you can name some real atrocities.
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Grateful Dead : Johnny B.Goode Unworthy of Chuck Berry!

Rolling Stones: Goin' to a go-go Smokey kills this.

Eric Clapton: I Shot the Sheriff Marley smoked this.

One I like : Rod Stewart : I'm Losin' You (right up there with The Temps' version)
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Who's the metal band that just did a remake of Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal? I really thought that sucked.
Van Halen's version of "Dancin in the Streets". Come to think of it The Grateful Dead's version of that tune also can't hold a candle to Martha and the Vandellas' version. Here's a reversal: Ike and Tina Turner's version of Proud Mary versus CCR's. Gotta go with the original there.
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I'd love to have heard a Johnny Cash version of NWA's Fuck the Police preferably done live from San Quentin!
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