Greatest Non-rock-to-rock Covers

[New Damage]

So we all love songs that aren't rock (well, not as heavy as the end product at least) turned into a rock cover. Songs that are almost comical, but are still 5 kinds of great. Songs in the same style as in Rise Against's cover of Journey's "Anyway You Want It".

Anyway, it'll go cover artist - song title - original artist

Korn - Word Up - Cameo

Rise Against - Anyway You Want It - Journey

Nonpoint - In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins

Shinedown - Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon

Disturbed - Land Of Confusion - Genesis

Limp Bizkit - Faith - George Michael

Limp Bizkit - Jump Around - House Of Pain (I have a live version of the song)

Remember, this is an almost comedy cover list, as opposed to your Shinedown covering Lynard Skynard's "Simple Man" serious covers.

[Summers]

Firstly.. Disturbed covering Land of Confusion is comedy? Secondly.. the original isn't rock?

[TheRyno]

Faith No More - Easy

/end thread

[Cactus Drags]

Whoever it was that covered 99 Red Balloons. My mp3 is labelled Goldfinger, but someone told me once that it was wrong.

[Turbo Yannis]

Whoever it was that covered 99 Red Balloons. My mp3 is labelled Goldfinger, but someone told me once that it was wrong.

[Number of the Breast]

Journey are rock

Lostprophets - Cry Me A River (Justin Timberlake)

30 Seconds To Mars - Stronger (Kanye West)

Graveworm - I Need A Hero (Bonnie Tyler)

[Skummy]

Carnival In Coal's version of "Maniac" from the Flashdance soundtrack wins this hands-down. Incredible stuff.

[YI]

"I'm Real" by The Starting Line...J'Lo cover. Best thing they've ever done...not particuarly difficult...but still.

[TheRyno]

I remember hearing about The Dillinger Escape Plan doing a Justin Timberlake cover but damn it if I can't remember which song.

[Skummy]

It was "Like I Love You", they also played it live with Mike Patton. It's pretty much a straight cover.

[NobBe Nobbs]

Ozma doing the Tetris theme.

Marilyn Manson's version of Personal Jesus, which I like goddammit.

[apsham]

On the topic of New Found Glory covers, their versions of The King Of Wishful Thinking and Stay are also friggin' amazing.

[New Damage]

I know Journey & Genesis are 'rock', but I mean Rise Against & Disturbed took them to another level if you catch my drift.

And Land Of Confusion, it's not funny per se, just so awesome. I think its the fact of all the stick that Phil Collins gets nowadays thats what makes it funny lol.

[619 fan]

Heres my choices:

Save Ferris - Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson

Reel Big Fish - Take On Me - A-Ha

Me First And The Gimme Gimme's - 500 Miles - The Proclaimers

[Skummy]

To be honest, I fucking hate "ironic" rock/punk/"ska"/metal covers of pop songs, because it's always the band going "Oh, aren't we funny covering this naff cheesy tune", like it's so fucking original for a metal band to sing Britney Spears, or for a punk band to cover an '80s pop tune, like that's never been done before! And that's the category that the majority of the songs listed here fall into.

So "So we all love songs that aren't rock (well, not as heavy as the end product at least) turned into a rock cover" isn't true, because usually it's bloody irritating.

Although, it works somewhat brilliantly the other way round; The Cardigan's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" is immense.

[New Damage]

Mmm, considering my parade pissed on. Lol. Yeah, the death metal of doom~! bands covering Bob The Builder etc., that is lame, but when you get a funk classic covered by a decent band, ie. Word Up covered by Korn, thats perfectly acceptable.

[Cactus Drags]

Ten Masked Men's metal version of Blue by Eiffel 65 is hilarious. And awesome.

Also, Halifax did a quality version of Paula Abdul's Straight Up, and Stretch Armstrong covered Pink's Get The Party Started really well.

[Skummy]

Actually, yeah, Ten Masked Men's "Blue" is brilliant, easily the best song they've done.

And Word Up isn't a funk classic, and Korn aren't a decent band

[Cactus Drags]

Someone needs to hook me up with that Maniac cover. Or the whole album, whatever.

[Skummy]

Someone needs to hook me up with that Maniac cover. Or the whole album, whatever.

Check your PMs, it's the best I could come up with.

Oh, and for anyone who does listen to CiC's "Maniac"...bear in mind that's two guys. Every studio recording they ever did was two guys; one doing ALL the vocals, one doing ALL the instruments.