Favorite/Least Favorite Covers

[CharvelRocker]

So I'm bored and this idea sprang to mind, and its a thread I don't recall use having: What are your favorite covers and what ones do you dislike?

Favorites:
Uli Jon Roth - White Room
Foo Fighters - Baker Street
Greg Howe - Sonny
Prince - Best of You (From last years Super bowl concert)
WASP - Saturday Nights Alright for Fightin'
Motorhead- God Save The Queen
Guns N Roses - Knockin on Heavens Door
Judas Priest - Diamonds and rust

Least:
Megadeth - Anarchy in the UK
Marliyn Manson - Sweet Dreams
Disturbed - Land of Confusion
Rob Zombie - Blitzkrieg Bop
Aerosmith - Come Together
Guns N Roses- The Spaghetti Incident?

[Alvin_Wilson]

Favorite:

Shinedown - Simple Man
Rough Cutt - Piece of My Heart
Heart - Rock and Roll (live)
Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust
WASP - The Real Me
Stanley Jordan - Stairway To Heaven
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Cream - Crossroads
Great White - Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You
SRV - Little Wing
SRV - Voodoo Child

Least:

Metallica - Turn the Page
Garth Brooks - doing any Kiss song
Trivium - Master of Puppets
Glenn Tipton - Paint it Black
Icarus Witch - Mirror, Mirror
Motley Crue - Anarchy in the U.K.

[Endrik]

The Funniest

Living Colour - Back In BLACK

[Alvin_Wilson]

The Funniest

Living Colour - Back In BLACK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjzN0kaF-Lk

[semagic]

alice in chains & gretchen wilson... barracuda

[markD]

i LOVE iron maiden's cover of "cross eyed mary" and anthrax's cover of "parasite". death angel (i think) did a cool version of "cold gin". faster pussy cat's cover of "you're so vain" is pretty awesome too.

i HATE almost ever cover done by bands that are doing "covers" albums.

[cdwillis]

My favorite cover I think is the instrumental version of Smoke on the water by Mattias Eklundh. If you haven't heard it you should definately listen to it.


I can't think of any covers that suck off the top of my head. I still don't like a lot of the Van Halen cover tunes off the first six though.

[atomic charvel guy]

Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes live at the Greek Theatre-whole thing.
Jeff Buckley- Hallelujah(Leonard Cohen)
Rod Stewart- So far Away (Carole King)
Sheryl crow-First Cut is the Deepest(Rod Stewart), and her version of Hallelujah too was really good.
Vh-You're no Good, You Really Got Me (made them their own ya know)
SRV-Superstition(Stevie wonder)
Led Zeppelin-How Many More Times

[donf]

Best

Little Wing - SRV
Layla (actually Claptons acoustical remake of his own)
I'm a Man - Chicago

Worst

Last Kiss - Pearl Jam ( That was horrible)
Turn the Page - Metallica ( how much distortion and shit can they
possibly throw on top of a mellow song? That would be
equivalent to taking Eruption and playing it on a kazoo)

[Accept2]

Coolest:
Type O Negative - Summer Breeze.
Devo - Just about any they have done.

Gheyest:
Any by COB..........

[guitarsjb]

Favorite:
Johnny Cash- Hurt

Least faves:
Metallica- Turn the Page
Pearl Jam- Last Kiss

[SlasZ]

Good:
Cradle of Filth - Hallowed be thy name (iron maiden)

[Pigsnatcher]

I just heard Edgar Winters Frankenstein by Overkill (I think) and wow. Pretty cool.

[drockilles]

Favorite:
Testament: Sails of Charon - Has a little more balls with modern distortion and tuned down; plus James Murphy stays true to the original solo
Killswitch Engage: Holy Diver
Pantera: Planet Caravan
Snake River Conspiracy: Love Song - Not really into electronic/techno, but this is a very dark cover of an 80's pop song that just kicks some ass
Faith No More: Easy
Fantomas: Directors Cut album - An album of covers of movie theme songs (Godfather, Cape Fear, The Omen, and more). Some pretty eclectic shit.
Least Favorite:
Six Feet Under's Graveyard Classics albums: WTF were they thinking?

[Baum83]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjzN0kaF-Lk

These guys got balls of steel.