I agree that the Fudge's cover is not nearly "worst 100" worthy but you gotta admit that it is a pompous, plodding pretentious piece of work. Take a great Motown hit with a fantastic groove and give it the early prog-rock Elgar treatment - it's like listening to the original 45 on 33-1/3 (that's geezer-speak, and get off my lawn!). Not horrible and certainly must be listened to in context of the times, but not worthy of too much praise, either. At least they made an original interpretation, which is much more than I can say for...

The Lemonheads (and several others on this small list). They violated my #1 rule for covers - don't record a version that adds nothing to the original. All they did was prove that they can handle the chord changes. Boring = bad.

There needs to be a distinction between "bad" (the Lemonheads mentioned above) and "le bad" like the Brady Bunch or Burt Ward masterpieces mentioned in the article. Bad stuff is not funny, it's just bad. Le bad, like Don Ho's "Shock the Monkey" or Sir Julian's "Green Tambourine" are unintentionally funny, usually attempts to overreach or be timely, but missing miserably, and those are worth seeking out.