Is a bad cover good for AV?

[Avil]

Alphaville have said that they think AV covers are good for them, even if the sucks...
Not every AV-cover I have heard is that bad..I mean, it´s not better than the orginal one, but there are still good songs...Personally I think the technoversion of FY is really good.
But do you think that it´s good for AV that bad covers on their songs are made? Even if a bad cover means that AV will be brough back to the spotlight in some way?

[Adiville]

ok, to my opinion the cover version of BIJ by the guano apes was kind of sucks.
it wasnt that bad but i didnt really like it...
BUT this cover version had a preety big success in the top charts across europe.
so what can i say? seems like its working :-)


@ville - forever and ever.

[Krapplund]

I think some good covers are:

Marshall & Alexander - The Impossible Dream
Vanity Affair - Sounds Like A Melody
Raindancer - Fallen Angel
Alexandra Ungureanu & Crush - Sounds Like A Melody

But to the question, think if a cover will be played at the radio, and are terrible it´s anyway promotion for Alphaville!

[Foolship1077]

^ What about Laura Branigan's "Forever Young"? That was done beautifully, I think.

I really have to find some of these other covers, even if it's just to listening to the demos on Amazon.

And sure, any rendition, regardless of quality, would be good for the original artist.