Best and Worst cover versions

cournioni

Yeah, it is actually freaky the way she sings it. It is really slow and as you say almost psychotic. Worth a listen though!

By the way did you get your signature from the Sentenced song? Its a great song... The whole album it is on is excellent.

Zombienosh

yeah Sentenced love that song especially

btw Sentenced - White Wedding , Creep & Digging the grave. Great covers

DBK

Good:

revolting cocks: Do you think I'm sexy? (Rod Stewart)
RATM: Street fighting man (Rolling Stones)
I don't like anyone to cover the Stones, but it was a very good version.

Bad:
Guns n Roses: Sympathy for the Devil (rolling stones)

wanwarlock

good covers:

nightwish - over the hills & far away (gary moore)

a friend of mine apparently has atreyu covering you give love a bad name (bon jovi)!!! can you guys believe it?

Geranium

wanwarlock wrote:

good covers:

nightwish - over the hills & far away (gary moore)

That Nightwish song is supeurb. I just have to do a little jig everytime I hear it.
Good:
The Murderdolls cover of White Wedding.
Cradle of Filth's cover of Sleepless by Anathema.
Wish you were here by Wyclef Jean.

Bad:
RATMs version of Maggie's Farm
Evanessence's cover of thoughless by Korn.

Manchegan

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

I beg to differ

40crush41

Excellent Stuff:
lauren hill -can't take my eyes off of you
dmb -watchtower, and needless to say jimi hendrix' version.
and a whole bunch of covers that dmb does -least i enjoy them all .
hmm, this prob doesn't count -but theres a remix of crash by dmb for all them hip hoppers out there. its actually great. i tend to hate remixes, and the fact that i think they did an excellent job with this song is crazy talk. (maybe jay-z but i haven't a clue)

and the covers by reel big fish -they do ska versions of songs (new york, new york, brown eyed girl, take on me, hungry like a wolf etc.) those are cool -brown eyed girl is excellent.

The bad:
and despite how much i enjoy U2 -i just don't know about their watchtower cover. *shakes head*
and spears' i love rock and roll. ugly, Ugly state of affairs.

prob more to talk about, but these are the first that came to mind.

Ren0

The Good:

A Perfect Circle - Imagine
Arch Enemy - Aces High
Faith No More - Easy
Mr. Big - Wild World
Megadeth - Paranoid
Electric 6 - Radio Ga Ga
Metallica - Am I Evil?
Guns 'N' Roses - Live And Let Die
Drowning Pool - Creeping Death
A Perfect Circle - The Nurse Who Loved Me
Disturbed - Shout (2000)
Rage Against The Machine - **** The Police
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Ugly Kid Joe - Cats In The Cradle...
Faith No More - War Pigs


The Bad:

Mnemic - Wild Boys
Eminem - Dream On (dunno if thats what he calls it but thats the original title)
Westlife - To Be With You (Bastards)
Metallica - Wonderwall
Metallica - Stairway To Heaven

The Ugly:

Avril Lavigne - Fuel
KoRn - One

eoin5

bad: rolf harris - stairway to heaven, he should eat that stupid metal thing he plays for covering it.

good: Rory Gallagher - Messin' with the Kid

Thunderstruck

What springs to mind:

Good: ZZ Top - Viva Las Vegas

Bad: Sheryl Crow - Sweet Child of Mine

eljono

Ren0 wrote:

The Good:
Megadeth - Paranoid
Electric 6 - Radio Ga Ga
Rage Against The Machine - **** The Police

The Ugly:
KoRn - One

I don't know how you could say that the top songs are good and Korn's version of One is bad, not even bad, but ugly! I really like R.A.T.M. but I think that's a bad cover. And as for Electric 6's cover of Radio GaGa, shudder.....

Another bad cover: 5 - We Will Rock You

Phil_321

Worst cover version ever : Ronan Keating - Fairytale in New York

Great cover version: Jack Black - Let's Get It On

Ren0

eljono wrote:

I don't know how you could say that the top songs are good and Korn's version of One is bad, not even bad, but ugly!

Hence its in the ugly section :rolleyes:

Sarky

Motorhead did a great version of Louis Louis...

John

Sarky wrote:

Motorhead did a great version of Louis Louis...

So did Black Flag.

Apparently Joy Division covered it once but it was never recorded. Now that I'd like to hear.

Tar.Aldarion

omg avril lavigne chop suey -disgusting
i dont want to hear this ronan keating song either ouch
good

where did you sleep last night-nirvana]
all along the watch tower-jimi
apocalyptica-a lot of stuff apparently
any1 that covered slayer-because they tried

40crush41

http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=09U0R4EKLRDTF1LVVNGWPF5VJZ
The greatest cover of ALL TIME!!!

hahaa! -but really, its not too bad at all -would never think i would enjoy this song ever, but it does help to have this fella sing it. and no, its not dave matthews!

hey, its short enough, it won't kill u to see who and what im talking about. ~Beth

John

40crush41 wrote:

http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=09U0R4EKLRDTF1LVVNGWPF5VJZ
The greatest cover of ALL TIME!!!

hahaa! -but really, its not too bad at all -would never think i would enjoy this song ever, but it does help to have this fella sing it. and no, its not dave matthews!

hey, its short enough, it won't kill u to see who and what im talking about. ~Beth

Hmmm, I think you hyped it up a bit too much. Those were valuable seconds of my life

Orizio

The Best.
RATM-The Ghost Of Tom Joad(A band which understood covers)
Johnny Cash-Hurt(Brill video as well)
Hendrix-Along The Watchtower(Hendrix=God)

The Worst.
Audioslave-White Riot(Made me sick)

deadfingers

Best covers ever.

Dream Theater - Perfect Strangers, Led Zepplin covers
Metallica - Last Caress
Green Day - Time of your life
Spandex Hit-stain - Fade to Black

Worst covers ever.
All-saints - under the bridge

Prior Of Taize

Orizio wrote:

The Best.
RATM-The Ghost Of Tom Joad(A band which understood covers)
Johnny Cash-Hurt(Brill video as well)

I think the thing about RATM and covers was they never tried to actually copy a song...any idea what bruce springsteen's version of Tom Joad is like?...they always said thats the songs had the same lyrics but had a different sound to them..

probably going to be some people who disagree but i preferred Rage's version of maggie's farm..thought Dylans version was just a bit too boring compared to some of his stuff..

Johnny Cash had a video for Hurt which for some reason gave you a fair idea of what he feels...thought it was cool...and f*ck anyone who says thats a bad cover

Blisterman

I like Metallica- Whiskey in the Jar.

Also Lemonheads- Mrs Robinson
Red Hot chili peppers- Havana Affair (Ramones)
Metallica- 53rd and 3rd (Also Ramones)
Quiet Riot- Cum on feel the noize (Slade)
Motley Crue- Smokin in the boys room (Brownsville Station)
Reel Big Fish- Take on me (AHA)
Van Halen- You really got me (The Kinks)

Karl Hungus

deadfingers wrote:

Dream Theater - Perfect Strangers, Led Zepplin covers

It was a Deep Purple song, not Zep.

Great song though.

Nea

Good:
1000 Homo DJ's - Supernaut
RHCP - Search and Destroy
Type O - Light My Fire
Johnny Cash - Rusty cage

Muck:
Fuel My Fire - Prodigy
Lenny Kravitz - American Woman

Cat O'Nine Tail

I've seen two mentions of Korn's recent cover versions, so if anyone is interested, they have a covers CD out later this year. Their versions of Public Enemy's 'Fight The Power' and NIN's 'Head Like A Hole' are on it.

Civilian_Target

Prior Of Taize wrote:

probably going to be some people who disagree but i preferred Rage's version of maggie's farm..thought Dylans version was just a bit too boring compared to some of his stuff..

Yes - ****ing ace cover! I found the original to be quite dull...

MC5 did do a better job of "Kick out the Jams" though...

shivface

Prior Of Taize wrote:

anyone know the name of that song in Grosse Pointe Blank when Cusack goes into the Reunion?...its faith no more i know that...i can picture the video in my mind but the namke has slipped me

we care a lot

wanwarlock

the cardigans - sabbat bloody sabbat!!! great cover song!

Piste

No idea if this has been mentioned before but Zoo's version of Alice Cooper's poison sucks ass.

shivface

wanwarlock wrote:

the cardigans - sabbat bloody sabbat!!! great cover song!

ooh, cant believe i didnt think of that
definately a favourite

kingofvillan

Stevie wonder-we can work it out
Jeff buckley-Hallelujah
Aretha Franklin-Respect
Jimi Hendrix-All along the Watchtower

Brow

Theres two fantastic ones there with Hendrix and Buckley. After seeing Greenday the other day them doing 'Shout' is hilarious. One song that really grates my nerves is that Jessica Simpson doing 'Angles'. I cant escape that song.

Did someone just do a version of Bohemian Rhapsody? I heard it this morning, was painful.

Brow

That opera band off one of those talent shows covered it. Havnt heard they released it though. I dont like the way they do it anyway.

BLITZ_Molloy

Ben Gibbard's cover of Avril Lavignes Complicated is the best cover I've ever heard. *Snip* He does this tongue in cheek meaningful accoustic version and goes into a big analysis of why he likes the lyrics afterwards. It's just incredibly funny.

Orla1

The WORST cover i'v EVER heard has got to b Avril Lavigne's Chop Suey.... she absolutely desicrated the song!!! Oh yea i kno it's sad but I was watchin you're a star a couple of weeks ago... Lorraine Maher totally KILLED Greenday's Time of your Life!!!!
I almost cried when I heard Both of these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

shivface

oh i was watchin one and they all sucked

Ph3n0m

Xentrix - Ghostbusters

Gone West

damien rice - creep

Gone West

barbie girl by homegrown! they rock it up!

Johnny_the_fox

Cruachan - Ride On
Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar (the video)

:eek:

tony 2 tone

Ph3n0m wrote:

The good:
Therapy? - Isolation - hey I thought it was cool

I liked it too, they also did a class cover of High Noon by DJ Shadow.

On the RATM covers, the Album Renegades is pretty cool, but after hearing the original tracks, I felt the Rage versions where missing something. Only Renegades Of Funk, Ghost of Tom Joad and Street Fighing Man stand up to repeat playing. The rap tracks in particular dont have the intensity of the originals. Down on the Streets is a bit poor too.

But the worse cover EVER is Shock the Monkey(peter gabriel) by Coal Chamber and Ozzy. FU-CK me it was dire! Serious contender for the top five worst.... :mad:

Talliesin

(Because some of these are on the boundaries of what might be termed "rock", or some of them either the cover or the original would be so termed but the other wasn't I'm just going to ignore genre altogether).

Best:
"Tainted Love" - Soft Cell
Just about all the covers by Johnny Cash, esp. "The Mercy Seat" and "Hurt".
Just about all the covers by Tori Amos, esp. "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" (the original sucks, she turns it on its head nicely) some of the longer covers of "Hurt" (doing it in some form or other is a regular part of her live sets, but sometimes it's just a single verse as an intro to something else) but not "Losing My Religion" (her style's too much like R.E.M.'s and doesn't add much) or "I Will Always Love You" (though she was just taking the piss).
"Sweet Dreams" - Marilyn Manson.
"Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley.
"All Along the Watchtower" - Jimi Hendrix
"Summertime" - Janis Joplin
"The Man Who Sold The World" - Nirvana
"Carolina In My Mind" - Melanie Safka
"Jolene" - Both the 10,000 Maniacs and the White Stripes manage to make silk purses out of Dolly Parton's sow's ear.

Worse:
"Knocking On Heaven's Door" - Guns 'n' Roses (say "ai ai ai" one more time Axl, I ****ing double dare you).
Anything labeled "Celtic Rave". Putting traditional lyrics and airs onto a 120 BPM drum track not only demonstrates a lack of taste, but that you don't actually have any aesthetic sense whatsoever.
"Lovesong" - Some woman I saw on TV. I think it was Sophie B Hawkins. Anyway they totally didn't convey the doubt and self-loathing that gives this song its edge.
"Tainted Love" - Marilyn Manson (gee, let's do it almost exactly like Soft Cell's, that'll be worth the recording studio time).
"The One I Love" - All wedding bands. Okay, so wedding bands suck generally anyway, but what the hell makes them think that a song about betraying your beloved with a string of casual liasons is appropriate material for weddings?
"Red Red Wine" - Neil Diamond (the way he does it in his sets these days) "hey, I'm doing a cover of an English band's cover of a Jamaican singer's cover of a song I wrote myself, how clever and witty I am!" No, you're doing a mumbling cover of a over polished cover of an okayish cover of a song that wasn't that good the first time you did it.

projectmayhem

most of what i like has already been mentioned but i think deftones' version of the chauffeur is brilliant... and "i love rock and roll" by britney is a crime against music (as is all of her music, i suppose)

Talliesin

projectmayhem wrote:

"i love rock and roll" by britney is a crime against music

Oh, I'd forgotten that whole crowd. Atomic Kitten's cover of "Eternal Flame" stands out because it's a song you need to have a strong voice you are using in an understated manner to get right, and they had remarkably weak voices that struggled to rise to it.

And the who phenomenon of boy bands covering Bee Jee's songs is a double-whammy of crud.

senordingdong

Good
Metallica-Whiskey In The Jar
Johhny Cash-Hurt
Johhny Cash-Personal Jesus
Rammstein-Stripped
Marilyn Manson-Sweet Dreams
Marilyn Manson-Working Class Hero
Marilyn Manson-Personal Jesus
KoRn-One

Bad
Marilyn Manson-Tainted Love
Alien Ant Farm-Smooth Criminal

Drums

Best: Korn-Another Brick In The Wall
Worst: Metallica-Whiskey In The Jar

veryslowey

i think linkin park are rubbish

Undergod

A brilliant hypothetical cover: The Number of the Beast by Electric Six.

I likes Marilyn Manson's Tainted Love and Sweet Dreams (final proof to me that he cannot be taken seriously), Metallica's Whiskey In the Jar is v cool. I think one song that has never had a good cover of it made is Alice Cooper's Poison. I've heard three in the past month and they were DIABOLICAL.
There's also a very odd pop-punk kinda version of 99 Red Balloons. Anyone know what I'm talking about.

Beekay

Has anyone said apocalytica covering Metallica.
Shows how good Metallica were that their songs could be done on cellos and not lose any of their style.