Cover Songs

[GhostMachine]

That's because More Than Words is one of those rare songs that should never be covered, because you simply cannot improve perfection. 

As for competition shows, I am sick to death of hearing contestants do Alicia Keys' Girl On Fire. The Voice seems to have at least one contestant do it per season, and once it actually wasn't as their audition. 

 

[Schlitzbrille]

25 minutes ago, GhostMachine said:

That's because More Than Words is one of those rare songs that should never be covered, because you simply cannot improve perfection. 

 

 

Indeed. At most, maybe play with the vocals a tiny smidge.

[MalaCloudy Black]

https://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/metallica-blacklist-covers-the-unforgiven-reissue-listen/

 

 

 

[MalaCloudy Black]

Upon further review I dig all 3 of these but especially that Ha*Ash cover.

[Lint]

On 13/07/2021 at 20:24, A Businessman said:

At what point does "adding your spin" to the cover of a song become "DEAR GOD STOP YOU'RE RUINING IT"?

Rob Zombies recent cover of "I've Been Everywhere" made me immediately think of this.  (Ok its the L.A. Rats, but Zombie is the singer)

 

[JasonM]

Rob Zombie is great and I won't hear any slander implying otherwise.

But for real, with Rob Zombie I feel the more 'Rob' it gets, the more bad AND good it gets. And LA Rats is just pure self-indulgent insanity.

[Lint]

17 minutes ago, JasonM said:

Rob Zombie is great and I won't hear any slander implying otherwise.

But for real, with Rob Zombie I feel the more 'Rob' it gets, the more bad AND good it gets. And LA Rats is just pure self-indulgent insanity.

Well that would explain his Halloween movies...

[Lint]

Do we count mashups as covers?  Because I've always loved this mashup of Fugazi and Destiny's Child

 

[MalaCloudy Black]

Here's J Balvin's cover of "Wherever I May Roam". 

EDIT: Ooh, here's Jon Pardi's. Not really sure who this guy is but Wikipedia says he's a country singer. I can dig it.

 

[GhostMachine]

Zac Brown Band covering Metallica (Has to be heard just for the `guitar' solo!)

 

[MalaCloudy Black]

 

That dropped earlier today, the other cover of "Don't Tread On Me" from The Metallica Blacklist appears to be by Portugal. The Man, ft. Aaron Beam, the bassist and vocalist of the band Red Fang.

[MalaCloudy Black]

 

Oh fuck I really like this one and I don't even know who this person is, but they have a great voice:

 

[Lint]

3 hours ago, CLDY said:

 

Wow...I read "Weezer" and "Enter Sandman" and expected to cringe.  But Rivers higher vocals, as opposed to James more growling, plus the visuals of the video, actually makes the song just a bit more haunting.  Its great

[MalaCloudy Black]

Oh dang Tom Morello dropped this on us today.

 

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

I'm very hit and miss with Weezer, but that cover was a lot better than I expected when I saw their name on the list.

I wasn't sure what to expect from that Tom Morello cover but fuuuck when those vocals kick in, man. Wonderful.

[JasonM]

All of the Dee Gees covers are pretty great, but I feel Shadow Dancing might hit the hardest. Taylor does a great rendition of Andy Gibb.

 

[Skummy]

15 hours ago, CLDY said:

Oh dang Tom Morello dropped this on us today.

 

He did a fun interpretation of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap a while back too;

 

 

 

 

[MalaCloudy Black]

I really like that, hadn't heard it before. Thanks! It's going to go in a playlist now.

Also, I forgot about this;

I've liked these guys since 2005/2006 when my ex-partner got me into them. They just recently signed to Alternative Tentacles, and this is their first single on the label: a cover of "Rawhide", with Jello Biafra on backup vocals. According to JD Wilkes, he hadn't listened to much Dead Kennedys and was actually unaware that Biafra and the DKs had covered this before when he asked him to be on the track.

[MalaCloudy Black]

 

[MalaCloudy Black]

I love it.