favorite/least favorite cover songs

[cthulufhtagn]

just heard the xasthur cover of katatonia's "palace of frost" and thought i'd start a thread about cover songs...love em? hate em? what's yer guys' take?

of course "all along the watchtower" wins easily

 

[NAD]

i like cover songs that pay tribute (respectful and mocking ways both accepted) while making the song their own. the only covers that bother me are when a band plays the damn song incorrectly due to lack of ability.

Type O Negative has the best covers.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

A good one:

Blood Axis - The Hangman and the Papist (Strawbs cover)

 

[lurch70]

i like the Sepultura cover of Bullet the Blue Sky

 

[Tranquillian]

Favourites off the top of my head

Dark Fortress - Endtime (Katatonia)
Emperor - A fine day to die (Bathory)
Nasheim - Blood fire death (Bathory)
Blind Guardian - Beyond the realms of death (Judas Priest)
Skyclad - Dreamer deceiver (Judas Priest)

 

[d1c1ple]

Sepultura - Orgasmatron
Obituary - Circle Of The Tyrants
Slayer - In A Gadda Da Vida

 

[lurch70]

that Nokturnal Mortum of WASP's Wild Child that Erik posted awhile back was completelly priceless.

 

[NAD]

Sepultura were good at covers for a bit. War, that one Celtic Frost song, etc.

 

[lurch70]

Sepultura were good at covers for a bit. War, that one Celtic Frost song, etc.

and then they started covering their own songs jumpdafuckup style live and just fucked everything up

 

[NAD]

hahaha man that video makes me so depressed. i never NEVER heard that feel/vibe to Roots before you posted them shitz. that drummer played like he was in 311, Igor should've swallowed him.

 

[lurch70]

that was Soulfly ... I am talking about new style Sep ... they been sucking lately too

 

[NAD]

ohhhhhh. i haven't heard anything past ummm, Nation. and i only made it a few tracks in before shutting it off. do you ever spin that last Soulfly album? i remember you digging it when it came out, but haven't heard anything since. terminally shelved?

 

[lurch70]

it's really good ... but suffers from the Enemy of God syndrome ... good but too familiar too fast ... needs more Kayo flavor

 

[Dick Sirloin]

"Paranoid" - Type O Negative

 

[E-bortion]

Premenstrual Fetal Discharge - Camptown Races

 

[MajestikMøøse]

Premenstrual Fetal Discharge - Camptown Races

hahahahahahahahahahaha

YES

 

[Sadguru]

Not a huge fan of covers...

anyway, Dead Can Dance's Black Sun by Antimatter is great. As for the worst, my vote goes to A Perfect Circle for their cover of John Lennon's Imagine...talk about destroying a classic. Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel) by Nevermore is just plain horrible too.

 

[lurch70]

Tori Amos doing Slayer's Raining Blood was fucking strange

 

[neal]

usually dont care for covers if they just play the song exactly like the original, its so boring and pointless*. the best covers are the ones where the band has applied their own sound to it. i was just listening to 'the final countdown' played on kazoos. pretty cool.

* i guess live could be an exception, but its still better if they put their own flavoUr on it.

 

[E-bortion]

What's up with everyone covering The Final Countdown?