When Rock/Metal covers DON'T beat the original

FunkZ

Jaysus!

:eek:

Funeral For A Friend - The Boys Are Back In Town
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-DCTN95HKGw

GhostInTheRuins

FunkZ wrote: »

Jaysus!

:eek:

Funeral For A Friend - The Boys Are Back In Town
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-DCTN95HKGw

Atrocious :eek:

Rockee

Bon Jovi-The Boys Are Back In Town(while we're on the subject )
Motley Crue-Anarchy In The UK..pure muck
Manowar-Nessun Dorma:D:D

Sorry, Maowar make me smile regardless!

Mental Mickey

D.T. Jesus wrote: »

Atrocious :eek:

UGH! That's just sooooooooooo WRONG!

This is worse


http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Chimaira+%22Disposable+Heroes%22&search_type=

Jay P

This takes the sh1t bait:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXhtX_xjRBc

*shudder*

Also, Lennyy Kravitz's version of american woman is pretty dire

Creamy Goodness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSkKrMliTVo

god awful

GLaDOS

Mcfly - Don't stop me now.... Need I saw more?

FunkZ

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Mcfly - Don't stop me now.... Need I saw more?

I've never heard that but Jesus it sounds like it'd be bad!

Jay P wrote: »

Also, Lennyy Kravitz's version of american woman is pretty dire

I love his version.

Rockee wrote: »

Manowar-Nessun Dorma:D:D

Sorry, Maowar make me smile regardless!

Ah that's fairly mad alright, but there The Fight For Freedom made that album great all the same!

xanthor

Slayer's cover of Born to be wild is about the worst thing i can think of right now.

Mental Mickey

I haven't heard it, but apparently, Deicide have done a cover of "Black Night".


:eek:

Wrecking Crew

In Flames - Land of Confusion.

Had they done it 5 years earlier, it would have been a world beater, as it is, it makes Phil Collins sound decent.

GhostInTheRuins

Rubbish covers that don't do the originals justice:

Metallica - The entire garage inc album (Ok, this one's a given)
Slayer - Dissident Aggressor (Judas Priest, The only slayer album I own and I chose it just because this song was on it, terrible, terrible cover)
Nevermore - Love bites (Judas Priest)
Ozzy - All of the stuff of his cover album
Demons & Wizards - Immigrant Song (Led Zep)
Judas Priest - Johnny B. Goode (What the hell were they thinking?)
Metal Church - Toys in The Attic (Aerosmith)

That's all that springs to mind right now, I know if I come back tomorrow I'll think of loads more.

Nightwish

Everytime I hear Metallica's "Whiskey in the Jar", I die a little inside.

Malice

Nightwish wrote: »

Everytime I hear Metallica's "Whiskey in the Jar", I die a little inside.

When I saw the thread title this was the first song I thought of. It hurts me even to think about it .

Fad

i actually quite like whiskey in the jar- metallica, their cover of die die my darling on the other hand is less than forgivable:)

FunkZ

DT Jaysus, Priests version of Johnney B Goode is in my opinion pure quality, it has that great electric sound!

Sounds better the louder you play it!

mc nuggets

These are fairly atrocious

But how come this rules so much

GhostInTheRuins

FunkZ wrote: »

DT Jaysus, Priests version of Johnney B Goode is in my opinion pure quality, it has that great electric sound!

Sounds better the louder you play it!

I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree so, because I think it's one of the worst things they've ever done (And that's saying something ). I think one of the reasons I can't listen to their albums from that era, apart form the terrible song writing obviously, is because of that over processed guitar sound.

Mental Mickey

mc nuggets wrote: »

These are fairly atrocious

But how come this rules so much

I hate to admit it, but I actually think that cover of Leper Messiah ain't half bad!? The cover of Battery by Machine Head kicks a**e, as does Trivium's cover of "Master Of Puppets".

(...............prepares to be slagged to death.) :-D

Shryke

Guns N' Roses - Sympathy for the Devil. Talk about horrible.

Mental Mickey

Sandor wrote: »

Guns N' Roses - Sympathy for the Devil. Talk about horrible.

Agreed. The sound of a great band falling apart at the seams.

mc nuggets

Mental Mickey wrote: »

I hate to admit it, but I actually think that cover of Leper Messiah ain't half bad!? The cover of Battery by Machine Head kicks a**e, as does Trivium's cover of "Master Of Puppets".

Its the best of a bad bunch there, I do like Battery and Orion by Mastodon is just class

Mental Mickey

mc nuggets wrote: »

Its the best of a bad bunch there, I do like Battery and Orion by Mastodon is just class

Not sure about that one.........?:rolleyes:

Fad

fighstar-leper messiah is quite good so is, orion-mastodon

damage inc on the other hand is awful:D

Mental Mickey

Fad wrote: »

fighstar-leper messiah is quite good so is, orion-mastodon

damage inc on the other hand is awful:D

+100000000000. I nearly puked when I heard that one.

Horrible.:eek:

mc nuggets

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Not sure about that one.........?:rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWaxfiya0kw

Im pretty sure

dango

Death - Painkiller. Death = fantastic, Painkiller = greatest song ever. Together

Xavi6

My Chemical Romance - Song 2 - http://groups.imeem.com/_YirZ21V/music/GezhGWu3/my_chemical_romance_song_2_blur_cover/

And their cover of 'Under Pressure' with the Used *shudder* - http://crackle.com/c/Music/My_Chemical_Romance_The_Used_Under_Pressure/976876

dr.bollocko

Motorhead's cover of Louie Louie anyone?
What about most of Marilyn Manson's covers? Tainted Love, Suicide is painless, etc.
Actually who did that cool cover of Cars? Was it Fear Factory? That was half brilliant half absolutely terrible. Garage Inc. has it's moments. It has a BOC cover of astronomy on there that is about a million times better than the original.

GhostInTheRuins

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Motorhead's cover of Louie Louie anyone?

That's not that bad really, I kind of like it.

Rockee

I agree with above post. Motorhead cover of Louie Louie was good craic.

Ah yes, I remember the Slayer cover of 'Born To Be Wild' being mentioned.

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=45HzHJ8MozY&feature=related

..and to think some of you thought 'Whiskey In The Jar' was atrocious?

peter1892

Iron Maiden's cover of 'My Generation'. It was a b-side about 1995/96-ish. Pretty awful really.

I do like their cover of 'Hocus Pocus' though

It wasn't me!

I like Death's cover of Painkiller, personally.

Also like Mastodon's cover of Orion, I like the way they made their imprint with their own playing style. Complimented it as a cover methinks.

emoKILLER

peter1892 wrote: »

Iron Maiden's cover of 'My Generation'. It was a b-side about 1995/96-ish. Pretty awful really.

I do like their cover of 'Hocus Pocus' though

their cover of comunication breakdown is worse!!

DOctor Doctor is great though

Jack Vegas

FunkZ wrote: »

Jaysus!

:eek:

Funeral For A Friend - The Boys Are Back In Town
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-DCTN95HKGw

What's so wrong with it exactly if you don't mind me asking?

It wasn't me!

The vocals and drumming mostly, both gank for the song.

gizmo

Sepultura - Smoke On The Water

It makes me cry.

Mental Mickey

gizmo wrote: »

Sepultura - Smoke On The Water

It makes me cry.

That sounds like it would be horrible.

Mental Mickey

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Motorhead's cover of Louie Louie anyone?
What about most of Marilyn Manson's covers? Tainted Love, Suicide is painless, etc.
Actually who did that cool cover of Cars? Was it Fear Factory? That was half brilliant half absolutely terrible. Garage Inc. has it's moments. It has a BOC cover of astronomy on there that is about a million times better than the original.

I also love their cover of "Tuesday's Gone".

mc nuggets

Fear Factory seem to be able to do some kickass covers. Their cover of U2s I will follow is pretty cool

Max_Damage

Avril Lavigne's version of the Metallica song 'Fuel' is utter rubbish, if it hasn't been posted here already.

senordingdong

SOAD doing Sultans of Swing

Jay P

No, I've changed my mind. This is awful. How JimmyPage though its a good idea i will never know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMq8pir1MIA

ec18

Jay P wrote: »

No, I've changed my mind. This is awful. How JimmyPage though its a good idea i will never know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMq8pir1MIA

not really a cover....it only has the start of kashmir....but it is awful

grames_bond

mcfly-pinball wizard (keith moon would be spinning in his grave)

avril lavigne- fuel (MetallicA)
avril lavigne- Iris (goo goo dolls)

tenacious d -sunday bloody sunday (u2-im a fan of the D but this song just shouldnt be covered, they did it live, tried to make it funny....failed)

sun 41- master of puppets (MetallicA)

FunkZ

Jack Vegas wrote: »

What's so wrong with it exactly if you don't mind me asking?

The vocals mainly. And any sixteen year old could make the music sound better than that.

I'm still traumatised from when they supported Maiden.

Jack Vegas

FunkZ wrote: »

The vocals mainly. And any sixteen year old could make the music sound better than that.

I'm still traumatised from when they supported Maiden.

I'm not a big fan of either band really, but they had no place on the same bill as eachother, couldnt imagine the Iron Maiden crowd digging FFAF at all, and likewise.

I had a sneaking suspicion people were just set against the cover because they don't like the band in general. The vocals are pretty cheesey though.

senordingdong

mc nuggets wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWaxfiya0kw

Im pretty sure

That was ****ing awesome.