Little known (but good) cover songs.....

[Guest El Satanico]

Ten Masked Men.

 

Death Metal cover band.

 

Like A Virgin

Just imagining that is hilarious.

 

 

 

Mr. Bungle - Hit me baby one more time(Britney Spears)

Anthrax - Phantom Lord (Metallica)

Apocalyptica - They do classical covers of Metallica

Biohazard - After Forever(Black Sabbath)

Bullring Brummies - The Wizard(Black Sabbath)

Corrosion Of Conformity - Lord Of This World(Black Sabbath)

Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas

Dickies - Toxic Avenger

Dickies - Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Dickies - Banana Splits

Electric Hellfire Club - Highway To Hell(AC/DC)

Henry Rollins Band - Earache My Eye(Cheech & Chong)

Joined At The Head - Whole Lotta Rosie(AC/DC)

Marilyn Manson - Another Brick In The Wall(Pink Floyd)

Marilyn Manson - Golden Years (Bowie)

Marilyn Manson - I Put A Spell On You(CCR)

Marilyn Manson - Rock N' Roll Nigger

Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love

Marilyn Manson - Willy Wonka Boat Ride

Megadeth - Paranoid(Black Sabbath)

Motorhead - Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers (ZZ Top)

Ozzy & Dweezil Zappa - Stayin Alive (Bee Gees)

Pennywise - A Land Down Under (Men At Work)

Pennywise - Hotel California (Eagles)

Pennywise - I Get Around (Beach Boys)

Pigface Vs. Sheep On Drugs - Back In Black(AC/DC)

Razed In Black - Hells Bells(AC/DC)

Shadows Fall - Welcome To The Machine (Pink Floyd)

Type O Negative - Black Sabbath(Black Sabbath)

Ugly Kid Joe - N.I.B(Black Sabbath)

[Guest Dmann2000]

Eddie Vedder's cover of "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" off the "I Am Sam" Soundtrack is pretty good.

 

Heck half the covers on that album are pretty good.

[Guest Dmann2000]

Whose that band doing the cover now of Don Henley's "Boys of Summer"?

[Guest The Amazing Rando]

The Ataris.

 

 

 

H20.(punk) Like A Virgin

Tool - Ball & Chain

[Guest Dmann2000]

Yeah, that reminds of of when Alien Ant Farm covered "Smooth Criminal"

 

is this the new gimmick for a current pop-punk-metal band? Cover an 80's song?

[Guest El Satanico]

is this the new gimmick for a current pop-punk band?  Cover an 80's song?

 

It's not a new thing and it's not just the mtv friendly punk bands doing it. Modern punk bands have been doing covers for awhile.

 

I have several. The punk covers of tv theme songs rule.

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

is this the new gimmick for a current pop-punk-metal band? Cover an 80's song?

 

NEW? Are you nuts?

 

Don't you remember Limp Bizcut doing "Faith"? Or Fear Factory doing "Cars"? Or Coal Chamber or whoever the fuck it was doing "Shock the Monkey" with Ozzy?

 

It's an old gimmick, dude.

 

I think Mike Muir summed it up best in the Suicidal Tendencies track, "Pop Songs":

 

"Every day there is another

Band that got big by playing a cover"

[Rendclaw 0]

Disturbed's cover of Shout (Tears For Fears) actually made me like them.

 

and Metallica doing Killing Time (Sweet Savage)and Turn the Page (Joe Cocker), Iced Earth doing Transylvania and the Trooper (Iron Maiden) are excellent covers.

[Guest El Satanico]

Turn the Page (Joe Cocker),

Whaaat?

 

That's not a Joe Cocker song, maaan. It's a Bob Seger song.

[Guest Zero_Cool]

H2O did "Like a Prayer" and it's pretty swank. And that's all I have to add.

[Guest Vitamin X]

System of a Down -"Snowblind" (Black Sabbath)

 

Believe it or not, P.O.D.- "Bullet The Blue Sky" (U2)

 

Therion- "O Fortuna" (Carl ehhh I forgot..)

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

I can't believe I forgot to mention how uberly great Iced Earth playing "Transylvania" is. One of my favourite covers, period.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

That Shadows Fall cover of "Welcome to the Machine" is an absolute hatchet job. Needless chugging, they lose the whole mechanical feel to the song, and the contrast with the acoustic guitar along with that. It's just them playing relatively the same notes. Awful cover song. I hate it.

[Guest Dmann2000]

That Shadows Fall cover of "Welcome to the Machine" is an absolute hatchet job. Needless chugging, they lose the whole mechanical feel to the song, and the contrast with the acoustic guitar along with that. It's just them playing relatively the same notes. Awful cover song. I hate it.

How bad is it compared to the Foo Fighters cover of "Have A Cigar"?

[Guest Plushy Al Logan]

Ozzy & Dweezil Zappa - Stayin Alive (Bee Gees)

What the Fuck?!

[Guest La Parka Es Mi Papa]

Marilyn Manson - I Put A Spell On You(CCR)

 

The original is by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, not CCR.

 

Manson also does a swank cover of Suicide Is Painless, the MASH theme song.

[Guest Incandenza]

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' album Kicking Against the Pricks is an all-covers album, and ranks among their very finest records.

[Guest The Amazing Rando]

Ozzy & Dweezil Zappa - Stayin Alive (Bee Gees)

What the Fuck?!

This is an AWESOME cover. PERIOD.

[Guest mesepher]

That Shadows Fall cover of "Welcome to the Machine" is an absolute hatchet job. Needless chugging, they lose the whole mechanical feel to the song, and the contrast with the acoustic guitar along with that. It's just them playing relatively the same notes. Awful cover song. I hate it.

How bad is it compared to the Foo Fighters cover of "Have A Cigar"?

oh man... have a cigar was horrendous...

 

 

and for the Ozzy and Dweezil thing... well, D is a Zappa, so by definition, it HAS to be good. At least the guitar playing, anyways.

[Rendclaw 0]

Turn the Page (Joe Cocker),

Whaaat?

 

That's not a Joe Cocker song, maaan. It's a Bob Seger song.

My bad. I *always* get those two mixed up.

[rising up out of the back seat-nuh 0]

Annother couple:

 

Manic Street Preachers: Take The Skinheads Bowling and Raindrops keep Falling On My Head

Hi Standard(sp?): California Dreaming

[Guest Plushy Al Logan]

I'm just curious, has anyone ever heard Sammy Hagar's "Whole Lotta Zep?"

[Guest saturnmark4life]

The Cats - Swan Lake (a reggae version)

Primus - Making Plans for Nigel, Amos Moses, Have A Cigar (I like it anyway, dunno what Floyd types think)

DEP/Mike Patton - Come To Daddy

Roots Manuva - Yellow Submarine

Melvins - Interstellar Overdrive, Youth of America

The Darkness - Street Spirit (fade out)

[Guest Eagan469]

Bloodhound Gang - The KIDS Incorporated theme song

[rising up out of the back seat-nuh 0]

The Darkness - Street Spirit (fade out)

Don't get me wrong, The Darkness are the saviours of music and our future kings, but that cover just makes my head hurts. I know it's tounge in cheek, but it's just painfull!

[Rendclaw 0]

Didn't They Might be Giants do all the Schoolhouse Rock songs a few years back?

[Guest Spaceman Spiff]

I know Pearl Jam pulls a lot of covers out, so I'll stay away from their more recognizable ones.

 

Pearl Jam - "Redemption Song" (Bob Marley)

Pearl Jam - "Let My Love Open the Door" (Pete Townshend)

[Guest MrPhil28]

Johnny Cash "Hurt", "In my Life", and "Desperado" on his latest album.

 

[PsychoDriver 0]

Off the top of my head...

 

Sonic Youth - "Into the Groove" (Madonna)

Jon Auer - "Gold Star for Robot Boy" (Guided By Voices)

Letters To Cleo - "Dreams" (Fleetwood Mac)

The Posies - "Dreaming" (Blondie)

Jellyfish - "No Matter What" (Badfinger)

Garbage - "Can't seem to make you mine" Live version (The Seeds)

Jason Falkner - "Johnsberg, IL" (Tom Waits)

Tori Amos - "She's Leaving Home" (The Beatles)

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Primus - ...Have a Cigar (I like it anyway, dunno what Floyd types think)

 

It's pretty good shit, I think. Primus does really tight covers, for the most part.

 

If you've never heard Les Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade's live set where they covered the ENTIRETY of Floyd's Animals, DO SO IMMEDIATELY.