Best and Worst cover versions

Dathai

Oh and Judas Iscariot's version of Burzum's "War" just sucked...well Judas Iscariot sucks in general imo so I wouldnt have expected anything else in the track...

Lemming

pinkpimp wrote:

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

A-f*cking-men

Also:
Hendrix: "Johnny B Goode" (live), Star Spangled Banner (live @ Woodstock)
U2: "Everlasting love" (acoustic)
Apocalyptica: Unforgive, Refuse Resist, Hall of the Mountain Kings (Movement IV, Peer Gynt Suite by Greig)]
Marilyn Manson: Tainted Love, Personal Jesus

Oh, and Thin Lizzy: Whiskey in the Jar (ohhhh the irony ....)


Before I get jumped on I am wearing a thin lizzy hoodie: I also quite liked the cover of Whiskey in the Jar by Metallica.

Eldarin

I actually quite liked Limp Bizkit's Version of Behind Blue Eye's. And thats saying something because I think that Fred Durst should do hard time in a Sodomising Camp.

Shazbot

Dathai wrote:

Death's version of Painkiller was pretty alright but the original was better

Got to disagree , i taught Deaths version was much better. More power and energy in it.

As for bad , anyone that has tried to cover Aces High ( Iron Maiden ) , just can't beat the original

jonnybadd

Vaders version of raining blood was enjoyable

Any of the covers by tori amos are godawful

John

Good covers: Most of Marilyn Manson's covers have been spot on, I Put A Spell On You is just wow! The Swans' cover of Black Eyed Dog (Nick Drake) is superior to the original which is saying a lot. NIN's cover of Metal (Gary Numan) is class as well. Oh and Nick Cave's Disco 2000 (Pulp)!

Bad covers: Rolf Harris Stairway to Heaven, it's bad but I like it . I can't remember if it was Soullfy or Sepultura but one of them did a woeful cover of Smoke On The Water. Laibach's cover of the Final Countdown blew donkey balls too.

Nightwish

anyone who tries to cover Stairway will fail. has anyone seen/heard Andy Dicks version of MM's Beautiful People.

ionapaul

There's a cover of Final Countdown? That I have to hear...

Oral Slang

Blind Guardians version of Mr. Sandman is class...

abccormac

Ronan Keating, fairytale of new york. "you scumbag, you maggot, you're cheap and you're haggard" Everyone involved with that version should be tortured to death.

bringitdown

Good:
All the Johnny Cash covers - American Recordings series are superb.
Radiohead: Nobody Does it Better.

Civilian_Target

Yeah - but Ronan couldn't say **** - it'd be too fitting....

Crucifix

Good:
Dream theater - Tears

So bad it's good:
Foo Fighters - Stairway to Heaven

Ancient1

Eldarin wrote:

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

Now that's what's called a proper cover!

Droogie

Megadeth - Anarchy in the UK - Kicks the **** out of the Sex Pistols version...

Also, Megadeth - Paranoid and Arch Enemy - Aces High - both great!

Cactus Col

Good: Faith No More - War Pigs

Bad: Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love (Did he do that for "Not Another Teen Movie?" .... I say for the movie, I mean for the money)

It wasn't me!

Hendrix and Cash with All Along the Watchtower and Hurt, respectively, kick ass. There are too many bad covers to list but some would be Keating, Fairytale in New York; Limp Bizkit, Behind Blue Eyes. I quite like the Metallica version of Whiskey in the Jar. Nothing compared to the original of course but not bad.

Ronan|Raven

Iced Earth - Burnin For You very good cover indeed.

Matthewthebig

I'm not sure if this really counts but Samhain covering the Misfits All Hell Breaks Loose.

John

Droogie wrote:

Megadeth - Anarchy in the UK - Kicks the **** out of the Sex Pistols version...

Please tell me you're being ironic

Pet

Good:

Placebo - Holocaust (??)
Placebo - Bigmouth Strikes Again (The Smiths)
APC - Imagine
Foo Fighters - Baker Street(??); Down in the Park (Gary Newman)

Bad:

Come on lads, it's OBVIOUSLY that Joe Dolan album, where he slaughtered everyone from Radiohead to Blur. Ugh, the dirty bugger, it makes me puke.

pinkpimp

Lemming wrote:

A-f*cking-men

Also:
Hendrix: "Johnny B Goode" (live), Star Spangled Banner (live @ Woodstock)
U2: "Everlasting love" (acoustic)


Oh, and Thin Lizzy: Whiskey in the Jar (ohhhh the irony ....)


Before I get jumped on I am wearing a thin lizzy hoodie: I also quite liked the cover of Whiskey in the Jar by Metallica.

I think I'm in love.

I believe Johnny B. Goode was with B.B. King aswell. Also, Hendrix and Jim Morrison cover 'The Sunshine Of Your Love' in the Red House live album... I wept with pleasure when I first heard it. I also agree on Jeff Buckley's Halelujiah.

Pyr0

PORNAPSTER wrote:

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.

Really the vocalist sounds alot like their old one,but yeah I see how I got confused they sound alike to me.

What about William Shatner's excellent version of Pulp's Common People, i was amazed by it!

Mr. CooL ICE

Good:
Fear Factory - Dog Day Sunrise
Children Of Bodom - The Trooper

ether

Good
Tallica - Sabbra Cadabra

Bad
Electric Six - Radio Ga Ga

Gay bar and High Voltage are excellent but Fred u are not.

Drevin Fairy

Best
Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love

Worst
Velvet Revolver - Negative Creep

guigner

The Good
Albert Niland - Wuthering Heights
I heard it on Tom Dunnes radio show one night and eventually tracked down the CD. Great.

The Bad
I heard the Barbershop band 'G4' on the TV programme X Factor singing Radioheads Creep one night. G4 were laughable but their version of Creep was actually scarily bad.

Birdman

Good:
Ministry - Lay Lady Lay(bob dylan,I think)
Korn - Wicked (ice cube)
Rage against the machine - How i could just kill a man(cypress hill)

Bad:
Sepultura - Bullit the blue sky (U2)

IamtheKing

Crucifix wrote:

Good:
Dream theater - Tears

So bad it's good:
Foo Fighters - Stairway to Heaven

Foo Fighters have done Stairway to Heaven?
Well now I've heard everything...........