A good cover really blows you away and a good cover must retain the identity of the performer where at the same time respects the original tune. It is also interesting when the cover is of a song coming from a completely different genre of music. When you get a good combination of all the above the result is really magnificent!
10. Rammstein - Stripped (Depeche Mode song turned completely upside down. Result: mind-blowing!)
9. HIM - Wicked Game (Chris Isaac original - and the first HIM song I heard ever! Pretty decent actually. Could easily pass for a HIM song the way they changed it)
8. Paradise Lost - Small Town Boy (80's pop given the Paradise Lost treatment...quite nice)
7. Disturbed - Shout (Amazing! This cover is nowhere near Tears For Fears' original. Respect)
6. Cradle of Filth - Hallowed Be Thy Name (Personal favourite of the list! Filthy cover)
5. Fear Factory - Cars (Gary Numan's 80s favourite - I like FF's version more though, a sound that really fills the room)
4. Machine Head - Message In A Bottle (Pretty awesome - did not expect this from MH's worst album)
3. Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver (KsE gave this Dio classic their heavy signature - really dig it!)
2. Korn - Another Brick In The Wall (Same here - Pink Floyd's 80s classic got the Kornification I was expecting)
1. Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love (amazing cover, great video, completely different from the original version. Deservedly first on my top-10. Actually Manson's covers are sometimes better than his own songs :))
There is always the other side of this so I would really like to include Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's Hurt, but I guess this can be included in the next top-10/blog post :) heavy-gone-acoustic cover songs \m/ \m/
For now, please fee free to post you own top-10/top-5 of heavy covers! I'd be really curious to see your input on this.
These are the first 10 that come to my mind
ReplyDelete1) Sepultura - Orgasmatron (covering Motorhead)
2) Megadeth - Paranoid (Sabbath)
3) Slayer - I'm Gonna Be You God (covering I wanna be your dog by The Stooges)
4) Metallica - Whiskey in the jar (Thin Lizzy - but the original is better and actually Thin Lizzy's version is a cover of an Irish tune)
5) Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams (covering the Eurythmics - the first song I've heard from Manson)
6) Marilyn Manson's version of Another Brick In the Wall kicks ass
7) Marilyn - Manson - Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode) - The guy is a master of covers!!!!
8) This is my personal favourite cover of all time: A Perfect Circle covering Imagine by John Lennon
9) Between The Buried And Me - Blackened (by Metallica) - ta spaei
10) Tool - No Quarter (by Led Zeppelin) - fucking awesome