Shuffle kindly brought me to the first track off Rumours, which remains one of my favourite albums of all time. Sorry, but it's true. That's not the point. The point is that I switched off shuffle and then remembered the painful cover version of Dreams, the next track.

Which led me to think about the cover versions that have made me angriest over time. Here I shall share them with you. Please feel free to contribute...

In no particular order:

1) Dreams by The Corrs - bland, insipid band utterly failing to do justice to a wonderfully bittersweet song actually sung with emotion by Stevie Nicks. And that stupid eurobeat behind it. Ugh.

2) Lover, you should have come over by Jamie Cullum - what exactly is the point of ruining what is a perfect song? I believe it was a member of Suede who said about cover versions that if the song is bad, don't touch it; if the song's good, don't touch it. While I do have a love for some cover versions, this is essentially heresy - the song is utterly perfect. Why would you ruin that? WHY JAMIE WHY?

3) Baby, Can I Hold You by Boyzone. This is a classic example of a bad cover version because it has all the right ingredients. The original is a beautiful simple and sweet love song, which is complicated and melancholy, sung with great and yet understated expression. The Boyzone version is just a bland horrific thing which doesn't begin to express a millionth of the emotion because you've got some overwrought ronan warbling on. it's grotesque. Ronan was also responsible for a mangling of Big Yellow Taxi (which is a sanctimonious song anyway but at least Joni's interesting) and the Fairytale of New York. BAD RONAN BAD. And he's responsible for Westlife. The damage this one man has wrought is phenomenal.

4) ANYTHING AT ALL by Michael fricking Bolton. Honestly man, did you really think you could match up to Otis Redding? Seriously? Seriously? What on earth is wrong with you? It's just painful to listen to. Horrendous. Not to mention your version of When a Man Loves a Woman. God it's depressing to think about this.

Ugh.

5) There She Goes by Sixpence None The Richer. Irritating irritating voice of that irritating stupid woman and then make a sweet, beautiful song (admittedly about heroin) sound bloody awful.

Ugh.

Any more?