Best and Worst cover versions

Nightwish

what are your favourite cover versions and why and what bands raped and shat on a perfectly good song. Id like to hear your opinions.
Favourites: Korn - Word Up
Johnny Cash-Hurt
Within Temptation-Running Up That Hill
Worst:Scissor Sisters-comfortably numb
Avril Lavigne- Chop Suey

eljono

Respect Nightwish, when I saw the thread title on the main page, the first song I thought of was Johnny Cash - Hurt. I only heard his version for the first time about two weeks ago and I love it.
And ya, Avril Lavigne's version sucks the big one. She can't even stay in tune and doesn't know the words properly (I have a live version).

I also like Marilyn Manson's version of Working Class Hero, very powerful.

Nightwish

yeah its the live version of Avril Lavignes brutalising that cool song that I heard. She just screams "yaddayaddayaddayadda" down the mike. its painful.iimagine all her little groupies idolising her for it.system should sue her.

jonnybadd

Cant beat the Johnny Cash version of Hurt has to be one of the all time great covers.
KISS and god gave rock and roll to you II was great also.
worst ones theres to many to mention really avril levignes version of fuel for the metallica
icons thing and the version of basket case she did are all pretty rubbish

Pyr0

Best:

Pantera - Seek And Destroy
Pantera - Cat Scratch Fever
Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus

Worst:

Pantera - Paranoid (with old singer)
Thats about it really.

eljono

She should stick to what she knows. You don't see S.O.A.D doing a cover of Skater Boy!

Nightwish

stick it to her eljono!
Not a big fan of MM's personal jesus but his decicion to cover the quirky 80s ditty tainted love has gotta be admired.
For a very quirky cover check out Novembre's version of cloudbursting

Pyr0

Yeah Tainted love cover by Manson is pretty cool.

jonnybadd

The presidents of the united states version of video killed the radio star is another good quirky little number

ether

what did you think of Korns version of 'the wall' by Pink Floyd?, it was dark and not too different from the original,plus fieldy could get his funky bass right in the groove.

Googe

the good:
Rage - Kick out The Jams (originally by the MC5)
Masters Of Reality - Cretin Hop (originally by the ramones)
Qotsa - Back to Dungaree High (originally by Turbonegro)
A Perfect Circle - Imagine

the bad:
Metallica - Whiskey In The Jar
Papa Roach - Gouge Away

the ugly:
Kelly Osbourne - Papa Don't Preach

Nightwish

metallica really should have known better than to cover that song.james hetfield just doesnt sound right singing "as i was going over the cork and kerry mountains". another cover that surprised me was Evanescence version of thoughtless. also the rasmus do covers of play dead(bjork) and an 80s favourite of mine "its a sin" by the pet shop boys

Pyr0

I never really did like "whiskey In The Jar" by Metallica.

eljono

I forgot MM TAinted Love, cool song but I don't think the drumming is loud enough in it.
I still haven't heard KoRn - Brick in the Wall but have you heard their version of One? It's savage, I think I prefer it to the original (realise probably get stick over that).
@ Nightwish; I just did a quick search for Novembre and got Distances. They sound cool, remind me a bit of Killswitch Engage.

Nightwish

Novembre are such a brilliant band.not very well known here.i only got 2 hear them from a compilation album i got, and fell in love with their Kate Bush cover, and had2 have more! never heard any other korn covers other than word up and pink floyds the wall. they are pretty adept at paying homage to other songs

eljono

If you have Take a Look in The Mirror, it's about 6 minutes after the last track. Actually it's probably on www.espew.com

Nightwish

i see your a regular to espew too. find lots of interesting stuff there...found rock me amadeus there last night...

Creamy Goodness

good

weezer - velouria (pixies)
weezer - worry rock (green day) nice piano in it.
biffy clyro - you can go your own way (fleetwood mac) the usual biffy screams in this one
jimmy eat world - last christmas (wham!) if i hadn't heard wham!'s version of this song i would of thought it was jimmy's it sounds so like he wrote it.

bad

weezer - the trooper (iron maiden) they could play it, but the crowd knew the song too well and Rivers stopped and said "too many of you know that song, that's a bad thing" i can't elieve he said that.

pinkpimp

Worst crime against anything ever: Will Young pissing all over the late great Jim Morrisson, and his adorable Doors, and deciding to release a cover of one of their classic all time brilliant tunes (Light my Fire). Now when I sing it people think I'm gay.

(Or maybe it's the pink shirt...)

pinkpimp

Oh, and Hendix's All Along the Watchtower beats all covers of anything ever made.

cournioni

Pyr0 wrote:

Pantera - Paranoid

You sure that's the old Pantera? I've downloaded what was supposed to be Pantera doing a cover of Paranoid, it actually turned out to be Megadeth.

Doctor J

Good:
Metallica - Am I Evil
The Who - Summertime Blues
Kula Shaker - Hush

Zombienosh

Good:

Sepultura - Orgasmatron
Satyricon - Orgasmatron (yes same song)
Metallica - Am I Evil
White Zombie - Children of the Grave
Sentenced - White Wedding
Machine Head - Negative Creep
Dimmu Borgir - Burn In Hell
Cannibal Corpse - No Remorse
Pro Pain - Weeds
Six Feet Under - Smoke on the Water
Six Feet Under - All the AC/DC Covers

Bad:

Murderdolls - White Wedding
Anyone thats covered pink floyd
Any pop bands that have covered anyone really....

Pugsley

Good:
In Flames - Eye of the Beholder (metallica)
Children of Bodom - The Final Countdown (europe)
Sentenced - Diggin the Grave
Dimmu Borgir - Burn in Hell

Bad:
Avril Lavigne in general
Metallica Whiskey in the Jar

Ugly:
Rammstein - Barbie Girl

MrJoeSoap

Best -

Muse - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Jeff Buckley - Satisfied Mind
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Worst -

Will Young - Light My Fire
Jamie Cullum - Lover, You Should Have Come Over (even if its is an anagram of "Marvelously Covered, oh oh"

Zombienosh

Pugsley wrote:

Good:
Children of Bodom - The Final Countdown (europe)

im of the understanding that wasnt COB....

It was a band called Norther
See here

Shrimp

Good:

Jay-Z: 5 to 1 - Doors
SnoopDogg: Riders on the Storm - Doors
Steve Vai: Beethoven 5th - Beethoven(Good Laugh!)

Bad:

White Stripes: Isis - Bob Dylan(When I seen the in the summer Live at Marlay Park)
Garth Brooks(Guy who cant speak): Light my Fire - Doors(He Destroyed It)

I'll soon think of more.

ionapaul

Ha, I got you all beat.

Tony Ferrino (aka Steve Coogan) covering Help Yourself by Tom Jones.

I do think Disturbed's cover of Shout by Tears for Fears was pretty cool.

Oh, and No Doubt's cover of It's My Life by Talk Talk was excellent.

'Tallica's cover of Whiskey was awful. Thin Lizzy or nothing for me.

Eldarin

Stevie Ray Vaughans Little Wing (Original Jimi Hendrix) sits very comfortably on the top of the pile for me.

However the Single Worst Cover ever heard by my delicate ears has to be what The Scissor Sister did to Comfortably Numb. Or what some ministry of sound muppets did to Sweet Child of Mine.

Dathai

Opeths version of Circle of Tyrants was quite good
Death's version of Painkiller was pretty alright but the original was better
But I thought Meshuggah's version of Attacked by a Shark by "Whimzy" was quite substandard but they put a nice little solo in it.

Vader's version of Funeral Fog by Mayhem wasnt as good as I thought it would be but I think they could do a bit more but they have very different styles, Vader and Mayhem.

Zapho

Good:

Foo Fighters + Brian May - Have a Cigar
They sure did that song justice

Muse - Feeling Good

Bad:

Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes (Give me the Who any day!)
Scissors Sisters - Comfortably Numb......Those idiots!!! They murdered it!