favorite/least favorite cover songs

[Reign in Acai]

I'm going to make her hold my hand.

 

[Krilons Resa]

lmfao

 

[Reign in Acai]

Can somebody upload ITW's cover of Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit?

 

[Demilich]

Hey, Wind of the Black Mountains covered that song too and called it Black Goat

I can't remember whether it sucked or not

 

[Dead_Lioness]

Least Favorite:Nevermore-Sound of Silence

waaaaaaaaa?!
The Nevermore cover for Sound of Silence is brillaint, IMO.

A good cover song should not sound like the original... otherwise, what's the point?
I hate bands who try so hard to play a song like the original band...
best covers are those who are made with the personal touches and style of the band covering them... - just my opinion.

You all will not agree with me for saying that, but that's why I LOVE
it when Tori Amos covers songs (yes, like that Raining Blood one)
because she covers songs with her style of singing (which I happen to love)

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

wait, wait. Tori Amos covered Raining Blood? I have to hear that.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

^ but you'll hate it.... it sounds COMPLETELY different...

 

[Susperia]

"Paranoid" - Type O Negative

Yup.

And for one of my least favorites---- Amorphis' cover of Light My Fire.
It makes me laugh but come on. Plus The Doors annoy me.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

I really hate The Doors......... god what an annoying band with even more annoying fans.

"but..... but, Morisson was a poet!"

oh shut up, you fag.

 

[IOfTheStorm]

A good cover song should not sound like the original... otherwise, what's the point?
I hate bands who try so hard to play a song like the original band...
best covers are those who are made with the personal touches and style of the band covering them... - just my opinion.

Any band can take an x song and make it sound like their own when covering it, this is not a difficult thing. There is no point on just doing this, if the result is not worthy at all, or even a possible disgrace to the original.
In the case of "Sound Of Silence" it doesn't matter at all if Nevermore tried to adapt their own style to it and actually make it sound like a (bad) Nevermore song, but that the result was just horrible, and didn't evoke any emotion at all. It just has a headbanging use.
On the opposite side of all these, lies the cover by Heir Apparent that is a lesson to be learned by all those who want to cover this song (or any song basically).

 

[Necromunchkin]

Yup.

And for one of my least favorites---- Amorphis' cover of Light My Fire.
It makes me laugh but come on. Plus The Doors annoy me.

I really hate The Doors......... god what an annoying band with even more annoying fans.

"but..... but, Morisson was a poet!"

oh shut up, you fag.

Oh man, I love you both.

 

[Reign in Acai]

Pale Divine - Solitude

 

[skeptik]

Divine Eve - Visions Of Mortality (Celtic Frost)
Divine Eve - Witching Metal (Sodom)
Eternal Solstice - Outbreak Of Evil (Sodom)

 

[Night Mare]

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Come on, no one mentioned this?

Also, Steve Von Till - Scarborough Fair

...and anything from Cash's American III recordings, mostly The Mercy Seat (Nick Cave), and I See a Darkness (Bonnie Prince Billy?)

 

[Ars Magna]

Spite Extreme Wing - Helter Skelter

 

[Ars Magna]

Eye of The Tiger covered here...and it is one of the lamest things I've heard in a while: http://www.myspace.com/withering

 

[cthulufhtagn]

hahaha that is fucking heinous

 

[Ars Magna]

Yes. Yes it is.