my nomination for best cover song ever

[The Dope]

Tool's version of "No Quarter" is absolutely amazing.

 

[Baliset]

man there is alot of priest dissin goin on all up in this crib. Where's sam? He'll set y'all straight.

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

what's wrong with RBF!?

and Sam has officially attained "drive-by-poster" status in my book, so he couldn't set a dinner table!

 

[xfer]

they did a good cover of op ivy's "unity"! but definitely NOT better than the original.

 

[ezekiel]

type o negative: cinnamon girl, and paranoid

 

[azal]

the only thing from with the Angra "Painkiller" cover is the really bad accent.

the solo work is totally superior to Priest's...them sweeps is so clean.

Nevermore's best cover is "Sound of Silence"

 

[Novembers Paul]

Cover songs are gay. period.

 

[tar]

uncle tupelo's cover of "effigy" by creedence

 

[Demonspell]

Originally posted by Baliset
"Love Bites"-Nevermore

Original Judas Priest version = cheese-E

Nevermore version = scary, heavy, EVIL!

Agreed, Nevermore's version is more of an embarrassment to Priest than Demolition.

 

[ProgMetalFan]

Evergrey's cover of Dilba's "I'm Sorry"

 

[Static]

Hope by Anathema.

 

[Nagle]

Any of the Ruins' medlies. I guess they aren't cover "songs" in the strictest sense but they do contain little bits of songs by other artists. Their version of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" in "Black Sabbath Medly Reversible" is SOOOOOOOOOOOO much better than the original. It's utterly hilarious. All throughout that song, they sing Ozzy's vocal melodies but in their characteristic maniacal yodeling voice without any of the original inane lyrics. The lyrics are instead replaced by the gibberish syllables that they use in place of words. My former roommate was driving us down I-76 to his new place and when that track came on, he almost killed us from laughing so hard while driving. Their prog and Mahavishnu Orchestra (with Sasaki soloing on bass like John McLaughlin did on guitar!!!) medlies kick ass too.

 

[deadair]

Originally posted by tar
uncle tupelo's cover of "effigy" by creedence

i will totally second that...

and 16HP cover of "Bad Moon Rising" by creedence