What is your opinion of metal covers of pop songs?

[Tanya666]

Well the title says it all. What do you think of metal bands covering songs like Oops i did it again.

Sofar I heard alot of these covers by Children of bodom and Arthemis. Graveworm also did an execelnt cover of Losing my religion. My firts reaction when i hear Oops I did it again was something like 'wtf, this is gay' , but I have to admit I love these covers now

 

[Necroraven]

It depends. I'm really not that fond of those, but if done with style, anything can be good.

 

[Vossyrus]

In general I don't care for them. Graveworm seems to do one for each album, don't they? I know these covers are usually done for fun, but I often think the original songs are a lot better. Part of the reason being that extreme metal doesn't really go hand in hand with pop songs, so it sounds so forced and out of place.

 

[GrayRain]

I'm not super familiar with these types of songs, but Dying Fetus did a super poppy sounding song on their EP Grotesque Impalement which I think is super funny.

 

[damnromulans]

They usually butcher them. Waste of tape.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I can't think of any good ones offhand, so in general they probably suck.

EDIT: I take that back, as Realm and Coroner both have kickass Beatles covers. Although I suppose the original version of the latter isn't really a pop song, so...

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I always skip over covers like these.

 

[Krow]

Dont bother with this shit 99% of the time. for some reason though, this thread made me think of this:



which is hilarious

 

[Episteme]

I loled listening to the crap.

 

[waif]

They're almost always done for shock/comedic value, and as such are as worthless as a Municipal Waste album. When they're done seriously they can be worthwhile, I suppose, although not many examples are coming to mind. The In Flames cover of Everything Counts was done seriously and fit into the context, I guess, but it was also fucking awful. As far as comedic value, non-metal covers of metal songs are consistently much funnier. As far as musical value, it's all pretty pointless.

 

[Hell Patrol]

Hammerfall did a decent cover of My Sharona, other than that no metal covers of pop songs come to mind that are any good.

 

[Seditious]

how Pop and how Metal? sometimes it doesn't seem like there's a big difference.

like, Elvenking's version of "Heaven is a Place on Earth", that may as well be Pop music, I mean, that shit could be on Eurovision easily.

 

[Tanya666]

Dont bother with this shit 99% of the time. for some reason though, this thread made me think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUxb139X-N4

which is hilarious

 

[Tanya666]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvH4hfRiB_g

I loled listening to the crap.

now this is what I was talking about.
Briliant in its own freakish kind of way.

 

[The Butt]

Metal covers of pop songs are shit.

Pop-punk covers of pop songs, however, are pretty dandy.

 

[ExhumedKarcass]

I hate it. Metal covers of rock songs can be decent but the pop songs done for shock value and laughs stopped being funny when I turned 12.

 

[Kreated]

most are ok

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

What about Skyclad's version of "Come On Eileen"? That was pretty good.

 

[Necroraven]

I hate it. Metal covers of rock songs can be decent but the pop songs done for shock value and laughs stopped being funny when I turned 12.

Yes, and most metal bands who do covers of pop songs seem to think, that shock value or "doing metal cover of a pop song is automatically funny" alone is enough to justify doing them.

 

[harmonic_minor_shred]

Pop-punk covers of pop songs, however, are pretty dandy.

I agree! It seems to usually work really well. Eg: New Found Glory - Kiss Me.