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Freaking Awesome Covers

Posted: 2007-04-28 04:20pm
by Vehrec
So, I'm crusing along the information superhighway, and all of a sudden, I see a 90 year old man singing "My Generation." So I pull over and watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY&eurl= Check out grannies smashing guitars and a fairly awesome music video. And then post your own choice of awesome cover.
Seriously, even that video of Bush singing 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.'

Posted: 2007-04-28 06:31pm
by DocHorror
William Shatners cover of 'Common People'.

Posted: 2007-04-28 06:33pm
by weemadando
Ignore the video, but its one of my favourite covers - Tom Jones doing Black Betty.

Posted: 2007-04-28 06:48pm
by DocHorror
While I think of it Tom Waits's cover of Hi-Ho from Snow White is pretty scary, in a good way.

Posted: 2007-04-29 12:19am
by NomAnor15
I really enjoy Dope's cover of 'You Spin Me Round'. There are also several good ones on Nativity In Black.

Posted: 2007-04-29 02:38am
by Howedar
The OP video sure put a smile on my face.

Posted: 2007-04-29 02:59am
by JLTucker
TOOL's version of Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter". In my opinion, it is better than the original.

Posted: 2007-04-29 06:30am
by Rye

Posted: 2007-04-29 10:57am
by Tsyroc
Korn: "Word Up!" Live on Jimmy Kimmel Original song by Cameo.

I like the live version better than the regular video with the dogs.


Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus covered by Marilyn Manson.

Marilyn Manson doing the Eurthymics' Sweet Dreams. Kind of creepy.

and a rather enjoyable video for MM's version of Tainted Love. This is based on the Soft Cell version but apparently that's a cover too.

Posted: 2007-04-30 02:00pm
by NomAnor15
Rye wrote: -snip-
Children of Bodom - Oops, I did it again (Britney Spears)

Umm, that's Slipknot, not CoB.

Posted: 2007-04-30 02:52pm
by Rye
NomAnor15 wrote:
Rye wrote: -snip-
Children of Bodom - Oops, I did it again (Britney Spears)

Umm, that's Slipknot, not CoB.
No, the video is slipknot, the music is CoB. I cast thee out, false metaller!

Posted: 2007-04-30 03:48pm
by TithonusSyndrome
Your taste ain't all that immaculate either, Rye. :wink:

Destruction - My Sharona (The Knack)

Posted: 2007-04-30 04:17pm
by Lord Pounder
Travis - Hit Me Baby One More Time

A truely god like cover IMHO, also for some good covers listen to Radio 1 on a friday afternoon, The Live Lounge, there have been some crackers like Stereophonice singing Nothing Compares To You,

Posted: 2007-04-30 05:10pm
by Lord Pounder
Marilyn Manson seems to do a lot of covers, further enforcing my idea that Marilyn Manson is just a goth version of Girls Aloud.

Posted: 2007-04-30 05:33pm
by Rye
Cradle of Filth are more of a goth version of Girls Aloud, MM is more like a goth version of Eminem.

Posted: 2007-04-30 05:36pm
by Lord Pounder
I suppose, I did like CoF's cover of Temptation.

Posted: 2007-04-30 06:00pm
by KhyronTheBackstabber
Faith No More's cover of War Pigs is one of the best.

This is from the "You Fat Bastards" concert at the Brixton Academy, London.



Faith No More also did a great cover of the Commodores "Easy"

Posted: 2007-04-30 06:38pm
by Rye
TithonusSyndrome wrote:Your taste ain't all that immaculate either, Rye.
Taste is not the issue, the issue is thinknig slipknot sound like Children of Bodom. :P

Oh, and speaking of Faith No More...

Fantomas - The Godfather

Fantomas - Angel of Death (Slayer)

Fantomas - Cape Fear

Posted: 2007-05-01 12:24am
by NomAnor15
Rye wrote: No, the video is slipknot, the music is CoB. I cast thee out, false metaller!

Oh. Why the hell would someone do that? I admit, I didn't actually listen to the music. I saw the beginning of the video, and I thought "screw that, they lied, it's not actually CoB, I don't want to hear it". Bah, I'll give you false metaller *shakes fist* :P.

Posted: 2007-05-01 03:06am
by Durandal
Metallica's cover of "Turn the Page" ranks among one of the best covers ever done.

Right up there with it in Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails. If you don't agree, here is what Trent Reznor said when he heard Cash's cover. "I pop the video in, and wow ... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps ... Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore."

Also, Sad Kermit's cover of "Hurt" is just about as good as Cash's, in a different way. :)

Posted: 2007-05-01 03:15am
by JLTucker
I agree on Johnny Cash's Hurt cover. A haunting song.

Posted: 2007-05-01 11:28am
by Siege
Cash made other fantastic covers as well. I'm about the biggest Springsteen fanboy there is, but what Cash did with "Further on (up the road)" is fantastic- better than the original.

I also put forward Jeff Buckley's cover of "Hallelujah", originally by Leonard Cohen.

Posted: 2007-05-01 12:59pm
by The Spartan
Jimi Hendrix covering Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower.

Posted: 2007-05-01 01:36pm
by Tsyroc
I like Motley Crue's cover of Helter Skelter much more than I like the original Beatles version.

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers' cover of Stevie Wonder's Higher Ground kicks ass. It's also the reason I don't like Chilli Pepper's current tendnancy to do a bunch of slow songs.

Same song live on Late Night With David Letterman.

There also used to be a version of them doing the song live on Arsenio.

Posted: 2007-05-01 02:58pm
by DocHorror
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's cover of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' nearly made me cry. Watch Watch Watch