Has anyone heard this? I bought the new Raintime cd and realized that this was on the cd. Track 8. It was awesome! I had to play it quite a few times.
Raintime's version of Beat It (Michael Jackson cover)
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PowerFreak
Jizz Master Zero
Friggin' love it dude.
It was my MySpace song for a few weeks before the show.
Stellar cover, imhfo.
Zil
It was my MySpace song for a few weeks before the show.
Stellar cover, imhfo.
Zil
Diamond45
Terminate Bad Music
shaq
Demon of the Fall
freakchylde
PPUSA Driver o' Doom!!!!!
When I first heard it, I was sitting in my house going, "They're doing a metal version of this? WTF? Awesome!!!!"
el_ace
prog frog
Follow that.
BTW, there're several covers of this song in other genres, but I think this kicks too much ass.
BlackRoseMetalHeart
Metal Mistress
They actually played it over the PA right after Raintime's set. I loved the cover when I heard it on the album a few weeks earlier (it was actually the first song my boyfriend played for me by Raintime) and had hoped they would have played it during their set (which I missed the first half of
).It's actually not so far fetched to think that a metal band would cover this Michael Jackson tune, IMO, since I believe it was during that period of MJ's career that he had Eddie Van Halen as his guitar player.
Entropiastrife
keeper of the keys
They actually played it over the PA right after Raintime's set. I loved the cover when I heard it on the album a few weeks earlier (it was actually the first song my boyfriend played for me by Raintime) and had hoped they would have played it during their set (which I missed the first half of
It's actually not so far fetched to think that a metal band would cover this Michael Jackson tune, IMO, since I believe it was during that period of MJ's career that he had Eddie Van Halen as his guitar player.
eddie did the studio lead solo, thats it. steve lukather from toto did the rest of the guitar, and tons of other live and studio musicians did all of MJ's other stuff
and yes this kicks ass "show me how fucking strong is your fight!"
Dolamite S. Biffle
Biffliest Person Ever
I was yelling for this song immediately as they came on stage, unfortunately Claudio stated that they wouldnt play it after the first song.
Tess
Member
rockyracoon
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With only a 45 min set, I'll take originals over a cover any day. But no doubt, it IS a bad ass cover.
Dolamite S. Biffle
Biffliest Person Ever
I thought that it might as well have been an original since they took the song and made it their own.
Photino Decay
Quantum Superposition
I always like covers that are made their own by the band. In fact, Thor of Led Blimpie considers those to be the only true covers. Imitations of the original sound, he calls replicas. I pretty much have the same distinction in my mind, but hadn't put language to those concepts.
shaq
Demon of the Fall
Claudio had told me later in the weekend that it would have been hard to pull off that song live. I can ask again when I interview him soon 
savatage_dude
R.I.P Chuck Schuldiner
It's sad that it took so many posts for someone to mention this. Lemur Voice's cover of "Beat It" from the 1999 album Divided is an example of what a cover should be. Awesome.
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