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Anyone have any good cover bands or songs they can share?

Ones that usually give a new flavor to the original song.

I'm generally not the biggest fan of cover bands or songs but there are a few good ones out there.

Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The world
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower (Better than the original imo)
On You there's also Sum41 covering Metallica
And Metallica covering Iron Man

Rage Against the Machine's cover Bruce Springsteen's The Ghost of Tom Joad.

Johnny Cash's The American IV album in it's entirety.

Joe Cocker and the Grease Band's cover of 'With a Little Help from My Friends' at Woodstock is spectacular.

crystal castles. beleive it or not, most of their music is actually covers.

One of the best covers I've ever heard, and the best match of a song to a band ever.

Cover bands?

I discovered one in Scotland a number of years ago.

When 'Franz Ferdinand' were big.

Their "tribute band"?

Gavrilo Princip.

They played FF covers.

I thought it was amusing. Apparently I was one of very few who got the reference, though.

Metellica cover
- Astronomy, by Blue Oyster Cults.
- So what?, by The Anti Nowhere League.
- Overkill, by Motorhead.
Im also fairly certain they cover some other songs too but for the life of me i cant think of what the are off the top of my head.

Arch Enemy cover Book of Heavy Metal, by Dream Evil.

Austrian Death Machine cover
- Hell Bent for Leather, by Judas Priest
- Trapped under Ice, by Metallica
- Iron Fist, by Motorhead
- I turned into a Martian, by The Misfits

Opeth cover Would? by Alice in Chains.

Presidents of the USA, Rage Against the Machine and Blue Oyster Cult all seperately cover Kick out the jams by MC5

Bad Religion and Motorhead both cover Louie, Louie.

Rammstein cover Pet Sematary by the Ramones.

and the Ramones (rather amusingly i think) cover the Motorhead song R.A.M.O.N.E.S which was a tribute to the Ramones by Motorhead.

Theres a band called Ten Masked Men which takes pop songs and does metal covers of them. Some of thier covers are quite good. Their covers of Sex Bomb and and You Spin my right round are excellent.


Thats all i can think of for now.

Metallica covering Breadfan by Bungie? And Fear Factory covering Cars by Gary Newman and Dog day sunrise by Head of David.

Richard Cheese

Any mashup by Rock Sugar, such as:


Or This if you like a good polka:



Or this if you like Punk music:

Usually prefer originals, but sometimes covers are better than the original. Here's some of my favs:



spoilered because theres so many

remilia_scarlet wrote:crystal castles. beleive it or not, most of their music is actually covers.

Is that the same band that has a song that sound like nails on a chalk board and the sounds of crying baby seals being clubbed?

I remember someone posting a song in another forum by a band with a similar name and it literally hurt.


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Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The world
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower (Better than the original imo)
On You there's also Sum41 covering Metallica
And Metallica covering Iron Man

+1 on all those.


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malfred wrote:Richard Cheese

Thanks for posting that, I have been looking for that guy again since I heard in Dawn of the Dead when it first came out.

Does he do other songs?


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One of the best covers I've ever heard, and the best match of a song to a band ever.

That is good, considering I don't have very many Korn songs on my ipod, I am very impressed.

My favorite cover of all time:

http://youtu.be/oVrY9ksWPKo

Richard Cheese does in fact do other songs.

Lots and lots of other songs.

Well, I had a couple other songs I would've posted before this one, but the bands that cover them are quite a bit like the bands that did them originally.

This one, however, is sufficiently different.

Here's the original, which I hadn't heard until well after I heard the cover. "Lucifer Over London" by Current 93:





and here's the cover I heard first, spoiler-ed as some might find the name of the band and the album cover offensive (nothing obscene, just extremely blasphemous. I can't think of any deeply religious members of Dakka off the top of my head, but better safe than sorry):



I actually much prefer the cover partially because it's the first version I heard, but also the original seems a bit too melodramatic and/or pretentious to me.

I'm probably gonna get alot of hate for this but Five Finger Death Punches cover of "Bad Company" is quite good; nowhere near as good as the original but a good attempt.

And basically the whole of Garage Inc. specifically:
Astronomy,
The Wait
The Small Hours
It's Electric
Whiskey in the jar

I'm going to go with this. Really fantastic cover of the Skyrim main theme by a metal band called Equilibrium.

Oooh, oooh! Obligatory WTF song:




You do not feth with Klaus Nomi. He will infest your dreams with horrors from beyond space and time. A close runner up would be the KMFDM cover of Material Girl, but I'll leave finding that an exercise to the reader.

With that out of the way, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes do some really good covers. Really, they do nothing but covers.

Jump to about 1:30 unless you want to hear their faux live shenanigans

Also look up some of Van Canto's covers (Namely Battery and Master of Puppets)

Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:I'm probably gonna get alot of hate for this but Five Finger Death Punches cover of "Bad Company" is quite good; nowhere near as good as the original but a good attempt.

BAH! HOW COULD I FORGET!??

BAAAAAD BAD COMPANY UNTIL THE DAY I DIE!!!

By far the best cover ever made!






G. W. Bush Jrs rendition of Sunday Bloody Sunday is good as well:

Opeth doing bridge of sighs.

Great vocal by Liz Frazier (Cocteau Twins) on This Mortal Coil's cover of a Tim Buckley classic:


Haunting...

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The next one is iffy, since Reznor is quoted as saying that this song was done better by Cash.




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Anything by Laibach.







Horrible video, but great cover:


There's better copies around the web.
Okay, I know, I have a problem.

Big fan of this cover




For some reason I couldn't find their cover of Carry On My Wayward Son on youtube, it was live and a bit rough, but really awesome. Sad.

Also orgot about Holy Diver as covered by Killswitch Engage

remilia_scarlet wrote:crystal castles. beleive it or not, most of their music is actually covers.

Just use the normal URL. No idea crimewave was a cover. They're not very good live though...

Crapiest song on the album and a cover of a song I can't stand.

Star One did some decent covers in their two albums:

A medley of songs from the band Hawkwind.



"Knife Edge" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer.



Honestly, I couldn't get into either one of the original bands for those two. I prefer fast-paced songs, and the originals are just way too slow-paced for me.

Frst Piston honda, shame on you.
I get the impression you're a Tool fan. Can't believe you left this one out!

Tool covering Led Zeplin:



I'm also fond of these covers.

Year long disaster covering Iron Maiden:


Faith No More covering Black Sabbath:


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Dreadwinter wrote:Big fan of this cover

Spoiler:

Huge +1 to this! great cover!

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