Cover up

[IMJack]

Hey looky, it's a lame new take on the classic lame music poll.

The question is: What's your favorite song cover? And what's your favorite song parody?

Some of my favorite covers are No Use For A Name's version of "Enjoy Silence," and "Land Down Under" and "Tainted Love" as done by Bad Religion.

[Lüt]

Strapping Young Lad covering Judas Priest's Exciter.

Moonspell covering Depeche Mode's Sacred.

Tiamat's version of Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil was nice, but I hate the Stones and that particular cover song didn't fit on Skeleton Skeletron very well. It shoulda stayed as a B-Side.

Anal Cunt playing 311 Sucks.

Oh, and just about anything and everything by Weird Al.

I don't really care for cover songs though, they usually don't fit the style of the band covering them at all, and make the band covering them seem silly to people who enjoy the original versions.

[læmænt]

Nirvana - Where did you sleep last night

[Liam]

CAKE - I will Survive

[Zaldron]

Liam the Bard said:

CAKE - I will Survive

Agreed.

[Darkstalker]

I don't buy enough CD to know what cover I like but every made by Weird Al is good, like Gump or Smell Like Nirvana.

[fodders]

Sex Pistol's cover of God Save The Queen

[IMJack]

New candidate: Flogging Molly's version of "Delilah".

[Sharessa]

Muahaha...if its one thing I love, its cover songs. Good ones at least. I have made myself a covers CD, and plan to make myself a couple more. But that aside, my favorite cover would have to be No Quarter, a Led Zeppelin song covered by Tool. No Quarter was always my favorite Zeppelin song, then I heard Tool's version, which is like 10x better.

Other good covers:
Terrible Lie, by Slick Idiot (originaly Nine Inch Nails)
Sin, by Razed in Black (Nine Inch Nails)
Stripped, by Rammstein (Depeche Mode)
All Tomorrow's Parties, by Razed in Black (Velvet Underground)
Metal, by Nine Inch Nails (Gary Numan) - also better than the original
Boots, KMFDM (???) - Its that one 'These boots are made for walking' song
Borderline, by ohGr (Madonna) - Never heard the original

Also, some of the more...er...interesting covers:
Material Girl, by KMFDM (Madonna)
I Touch Myself, by Genitorturers (?some 80s chick?)

Crap...and thats not counting all the great songs from Nativity in Black or the Depeche Mode tribute CD...hmmm

/me loves music

[Crendowing]

Only cover that I distinctly remember is Orgy's Blue Monday, orignally by New Order.

I used to like Weird Al, but that was before I grew up.

EDIT: Wait a minute...now I just remembered Marylin Manson's versions of Sweet Dreams and Tainted Love, both of which were so-so at the extreme best.

I just downloaded two NIN covers: Tool's Terrible Lie (good if you're stoned), and try to figure out this one.....

Liam, if you though NIN was terrible at looping drum beats and such, wait until you hear Devo's, that's right, DEVO'S version of Head Like A Hole.

[Lüt]

the_Danarchist said:

Also, some of the more...er...interesting covers:
Material Girl, by KMFDM (Madonna)

Heh, have you heard Marilyn Manson's cover of Madonna's Like a Virgin?

I have it somewhere but I don't want to risk having to get my ears cleaned out again.

[Naked Snake]

Boots, KMFDM (???) - Its that one 'These boots are made for walking' song

Either Frank or Nancy Sinatra, one of those two...

[Crendowing]

Lüt said:

Heh, have you heard Marilyn Manson's cover of Madonna's Like a Virgin?

I have it somewhere but I don't want to risk having to get my ears cleaned out again.

OMG! As much as I might regret it, I have to hear that one for myself =)

[Sharessa]

Lüt said:

Heh, have you heard Marilyn Manson's cover of Madonna's Like a Virgin?

I have it somewhere but I don't want to risk having to get my ears cleaned out again.

Heh...eeew...I also hear that he did a cover of Down in the Park by Gary Numan with Trent Reznor...it was a bad song to start with.

Marylin Manson did, however do covers of Sweet Dreams and I Put a Spell On You which were both pretty cool, especialy the latter.

Crendowing said:

Liam, if you though NIN was terrible at looping drum beats and such, wait until you hear Devo's, that's right, DEVO'S version of Head Like A Hole.

Heh...I actualy like that....I think it was intended as a bit of a parody anyway. But I also love devo...they were like the only good 80s mainstream band.

[nxn]

metallica - my friend of miseary
Nirvana - heart shaped box
slayer - deviance
pantera - this love
mushroomhead - indifferent

[Erik]

uhm, Tori Amos' cover of "Enjoy the silence" (Depeche mode)

[fodders]

bigbadgangsta said:

Either Frank or Nancy Sinatra, one of those two...

Was Nancy, she did do "Strangers in the night" with her dad tho

[Insomniak]

off the top of my head, i can't think of an good covers that I like...


..so here's some covers that i think should be done:

Slipknot - Comfortably Numb

Tool - Kashmir

[edit]I just thought of a cover id did like:

Frank Zappa's cover of "Stairway to Heaven"[/edit]

[nxn]

heh, shit I'm slow, I didn't realize this was a covers thread. Oh well, ignore my above post =P

let's see, covers, covers....
marilyn manson - sweet dreams
marilyn manson - tainted love

[Kid Airbag]

orion said:

marilyn manson - sweet dreams

Heh, we got to learn that in music class last year and perform it in the school concert...it was cool.

[Crendowing]

Archvile64 said:

Heh, we got to learn that in music class last year and perform it in the school concert...it was cool.

What is the world coming to?

[EllipsusD]

Barbie Girl was redone by someone... most people assume it to be Rammstein. Whoever did it, it's funny as hell.

[Sharessa]

Insomniac said:

off the top of my head, i can't think of an good covers that I like...


..so here's some covers that i think should be done:

Tool - Kashmir

Uh...no that song is too lame for Tool to cover.

Slipknot - Comfortably Numb[/b]

NO! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! NO! No way! They'd completely fuck it up. All their crap is all angry, ugly-sounding pig grunting.

Comfortably numb is a beautiful, serene piece of work hinting at drug-induced insanity. Not even Tool did a good job covering it.

[Insomniak]

quiet you

[Lüt]

the_Danarchist said:

Uh...no that song is too lame for Tool to cover.

Nah, they could totally do it Sober-style and it would rock.

[Sharessa]

Mayhap, mayhap...