Bad Cover Version

"Bad Cover Version" is a song by British rock band Pulp, from their 2001 album We Love Life.

"Bad Cover Version" began as an instrumental written by Pulp keyboardist Candida Doyle.

The latter part of the song is a list of things the narrator likens said relationship to, including The Rolling Stones since the 1980s, the TV adaptation of Planet of the Apes, and later episodes of Tom and Jerry where Tom and Jerry could talk.

'Er, Scott, well, I've just got to apologise for something, because, OK, at the end of the song, like I make a reference to 'Til The Band Comes In, right, in a list of crap things' ... and at first he just looked at me in a very mystified way, like, 'What is this nutter ranting on about?'

In addition to non-album tracks "Yesterday" and "Forever in My Dreams", the single release featured on its B-side two covers of Pulp songs: Nick Cave's version of "Disco 2000" and Róisín Murphy's version of "Sorted for E's & Wizz".

Cocker himself appears in the video dressed as Brian May, playing the guitar note that ends the song.

[1] Kurt Cobain, who died in 1994, is the only impersonated artist who was not alive at the time of the song's release.