Cover Songs

[Cactus Drags]

Arch Enemy covering Iron Maiden with "Aces High" is really, really excellent stuff. It's a Maiden song played better than Maiden themselves could.

Bollocks. Arch Enemy can't make decent music on their own, they'll never match up to the mighty Maiden.

[Skummy]

Arch-Enemy have always, and probably will always be shite. The whole band is essentially Michael Amott saying "you know all the bits you like in Carcass? Yeah, I wrote them. Here they are again, but slightly worse.", and then "yeah, here's the good bits from Carcass, played badly, and with a ropey bird screeching over it all".

[MalaCloudy Black]

Oh, and there's a pretty weird cover of the Ghostbusters theme by a band called Vomitron.

[GhostMachine]

Forgive me for listing the Murderdolls' version of "White Wedding"; I listened to it again and it blows.

A few more covers I've thought of:

Man or Astro-Man has done some good covers of The Space Ghost Coast To Coast theme and the Mystery Science Theater 3000 theme, if tv show theme covers count.

Sebastian Bach & Friends did a good cover of Blue Oyster Cult's "Godzilla" (although, I doubt anyone could ever do a version that's as good or better than the original).

Fozzy apparently did a cover of "Genie In A Bottle", and its pretty good. Their version of "Balls To The Wall", though, I'm kinda on the fence about.

(The band Speedway also did a cover of "Genie In A Bottle", but their version blows chunks)

Rob Zombie did a damn good cover of "Brickhouse", featuring Lionel Richie. However, it has the female rapper Trina doing a part in it that kinda ruins the song. Would be great with her part edited out.

Btw, any good covers of Rob OR White Zombie songs out there?

[Skummy]

Sebastian Bach & Friends did a good cover of Blue Oyster Cult's "Godzilla" (although, I doubt anyone could ever do a version that's as good or better than the original).

I love that version, and that album as a whole. I love how Sebastian Bach seems to forget all emotion and subtlety in "I Remember You" and just squeals his way through the whole bastard thing.

Apparently Seb's done a cover of "Eternal Life" by Jeff Buckley, which I'd love to hear.

[Steeb]

At The Drive-In's cover of 'This Night Has Opened My Eyes', by The Smiths, is pretty damn awesome. I don't really think it fits into the whole 'Hard Rock' thing, but get it anyway, dammit.

[Xero Gravity]

Oh, and there's a pretty weird cover of the Ghostbusters theme by a band called Vomitron.

[Tarheels.]

I found out that I love Me First and the Gimme Gimme's after hearing their cover of "I'm Leaving On A Jet Plane".

[VerbalPuke]

Arch-Enemy have always, and probably will always be shite. The whole band is essentially Michael Amott saying "you know all the bits you like in Carcass? Yeah, I wrote them. Here they are again, but slightly worse.", and then "yeah, here's the good bits from Carcass, played badly, and with a ropey bird screeching over it all".

Speaking of Carcass, they were fucking awesome when they were known as Disattacks. I a six song ep by them that is fucking fantastic. It's good heavy shit, sort of in the vein of the Electro Hippies. An almost metal and punk fusion of sorts.

[Turbo Yannis]

Still Remains - Head Like a Hole

Trivium - Master of Puppets

Fightstar - Leper Messiah

Bullet for my Valentibe - Crazy Train

And for sheer comedy value, Atreyu - You Give Love a Bad Name

I know that all those were on Kerrang CDs, but they're still fucking good covers.

[Cactus Drags]

Why does being on a magazine's free CD affect the quality of the song?

[darrdor]

OH SHIT speaking of Kerrang! CD's, I totally forgot to mention Killswitch Engage's awesome cover of Dio's "Holy Diver." I'm not even really a big Killswitch fan but this song is tremendous.

[Liam]

Pretty much any cover that I've heard of "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" by Prong are good (I've heard Dry Kill Logic and Grinspoon....to be honest, it is just a great song).

Machine Head's cover of "Negative Creep" is also pretty good.

[Turbo Yannis]

Why does being on a magazine's free CD affect the quality of the song?

Edited September 18, 2006 by Turbonegro

[GhostMachine]

<------Nightwish, doing a cover of Megadeth's "Symphony of Destruction", live. Its pretty good.

[QCKing]

I couldn't find it in the search, but I'm a huge fan of the over-the-top indulgence of Tool's "No Quarter" cover.

[YI]

Link...because I can

Strung Out - Bark At The Moon

[Steeb]

Oh man, how could I forget that?

One of the highlights of Salival. Really great. I remember it stopping me mid-convo first time I really heard it.

EDIT: 'No Quarter' by Tool, I mean, obvs.

Edited September 19, 2006 by The Second Stage Turbine Blade

[CKN]

Adam Gontier (Three Days Grace) - "Wicked Game"

you can see it here http://www.strippedmusic.com/

[Regia]

I think my favor cover songs are: Hurt by Johnny Cash and While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Blackhole Sun both done by Peter Frampton.

My earlier statement of St anger by Pitchshifter being the greatest cover ever must be corrected with Hurt.

It is such a beatiful song.