NationStates Jolt Archive

Most are forgettable at best, painful at worst. But every now and then, there are those covers of classic songs that somehow manage to live up to (or even surpass) the original.

What are some of your favorites? Least favorites? If possible, include a sample and original artist.


Personal favorites:
Quietdrive - Time After Time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvmumINKapg) (Cover of Cyndi Lauper (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYxsUDZQ4Q))

Tina Turner - Proud Mary (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1uPhj_T0X4) (Cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7052IDTFuFQ))


Edit: Gotta add this

Tufts Beelzebubs - Umbrella (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFvQJOspJLY&feature=related) (Cover of Rihanna (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4X7eFbP3u4))

How about that group of students who covered The Vestibules' "Bulbous Bouffant"?
Didn't catch the name. :p
And I think it was The Flying Picketts redoing "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Also, a version i really like (which i covered last weekend at my gig), Chris Cornell doing "Billie Jean".

I like Aerosmith's cover of Come Together (originally from the Beatles, although I like their version too), Disturbed's version of Land of Confusion (originally from Genesis), Metallica's cover of Turn the PagE (originally from Bob Seger, although I like his version too), Rascal Flatts version of Life is a Highway (originally from Tom Cochrane), and others.

How about that group of students who covered The Vestibules' "Bulbous Bouffant"?
Didn't catch the name. :p
And I think it was The Flying Picketts redoing "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Also, a version i really like (which i covered last weekend at my gig), Chris Cornell doing "Billie Jean".

Love the Chris Cornell cover...that song always came on at work, and one day I threw my ipod on instead (during opening), and everyone could suddenly deal with the song

Haven't heard the other two...atleast not yet ;)

*scampers off to search*

Oh, and as sad as it is, I have the Chipmunk's cover of Bad Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQZLCNRYqMM) stuck in my head...no clue why...

I'm even more curious why I chose to admit that here, of all places...

Hmm... I'm not sure I could say which is my favourite - generally the original is better (note only generally) and while many covers are as good, it's hard to say... well suffice to say I can't choose a favourite.

Least favourites are, however, a while other story. My pet hate at the moment is Amy Winehouse. Just her in general, but as far as covers go, Valerie. As if her irritating, whiny voice ruining this song wasn't bad enough already, it's now all over the fucking radio! I can't get away from it! I want her to die so much. I wish I could hate her to death.

For more least favourites please refer to any covers of Queen songs. Why try? You are going to fail. It's written in the stars.

I like Aerosmith's cover of Come Together (originally from the Beatles, although I like their version too), Disturbed's version of Land of Confusion (originally from Genesis), Metallica's cover of Turn the PagE (originally from Bob Seger, although I like his version too), Rascal Flatts version of Life is a Highway (originally from Tom Cochrane), and others.

Ya know...I really liked what they did with the Beatles stuff in Across the Universe...the only ones I hated were Eddie Izzards and Bono's. Best was definatly Let It Be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMo-lLL2Pug)

Ya know...I really liked what they did with the Beatles stuff in Across the Universe...the only ones I hated were Eddie Izzards and Bono's. Best was definatly Let It Be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMo-lLL2Pug)

Wainwright redid "Across The Universe" pretty well on that movie soundtrack (wife loves it)

Madonna's Music by Out of Your Mouth.

Wainwright redid "Across The Universe" pretty well on that movie soundtrack (wife loves it)

That's another great one. I have several friends who "hate" the Beatles, and claimed they would hate the movie because they couldn't stand the music. I've yet to find a single person who didn't enjoy it at least a little.

Favorites are Let It Be, Across The Universe, I Want To Hold Your Hand, and Dear Prudence

Love the Chris Cornell cover...that song always came on at work, and one day I threw my ipod on instead (during opening), and everyone could suddenly deal with the song

Haven't heard the other two...atleast not yet ;) Hell, might as well toss this one out too ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcHNZVrxEts
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsS811o21-k
and
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=16024

*scampers off to search*

Oh, and as sad as it is, I have the Chipmunk's cover of Bad Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQZLCNRYqMM) stuck in my head...no clue why...

I'm even more curious why I chose to admit that here, of all places...Yes, i truly fear you now. :eek:

I can't really recall any good cover versions but I do remember some pretty appalling...no wait, utter fucking SHIT, versions particularly Six Feet Under horribly butchering 'Back in Black'. Chris Barnes' vocals on this, in fact any track, are just the pits. Oh the horror and indignity!

Hell, might as well toss this one out too ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcHNZVrxEtsWow...I totally forgot she did a cover of that....
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsS811o21-kNow that is a new one on me...his voice always reminds me of Michael Meyers in So I Married an Axe Murderer...
and
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=16024
...why would you post a video of a girl having a seizure to the sounds of a cat in a car engine?

Yes, i truly fear you now. :eek:...I almost bought it a second ago...:(

I can't really recall any good cover versions but I do remember some pretty appalling...no wait, utter fucking SHIT, versions particularly Six Feet Under horribly butchering 'Back in Black'. Chris Barnes' vocals on this, in fact any track, are just the pits. Oh the horror and indignity!
Living Colour did a cover of "Back in Black" for their last album
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjzN0kaF-Lk
...as did Shakira *mega-drool*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip8_aGOGAOM

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


I see your Tori Amos and I raise you Paul Anka.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsS811o21-k&feature=related

Kittens died in the making of this.

Wow...I totally forgot she did a cover of that....It's really good actually ... first time i ever consciously addressed her.
She also covered Enjoy The Silence ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZzkGvyqzc

Now that is a new one on me...his voice always reminds me of Michael Meyers in So I Married an Axe Murderer...
Infamy!

...why would you post a video of a girl having a seizure to the sounds of a cat in a car engine?
Good, worthwhile art takes good, worthwhile suffering.

...I almost bought it a second ago...:(
Haven't heard it. Just saw Jason in it, good enough reason not to watch it.

I see your Tori Amos and I raise you Paul Anka.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsS811o21-k&feature=related

Kittens died in the making of this.

Raise me? That's my second link, playa!

That's what Sarkhaan was talking about Mike Meyers for! :D

Raise me? That's my second link, playa!

That's what Sarkhaan was talking about Mike Meyers for! :D

Ha ha, it's an automatic reaction every time I hear that song now - destroyed - and it seems to be the basic opinion of everyone since it's first on the list in Youtube - so I never got past your first link.

There should be laws - it's not even that I hold the original in huge regard but to just totally destroy a song is inhumane.

As a link to Mike Myers, I can never hear Foxy Lady without having the urge to do the fox ears nor Bohemian Rhapsody without going into head banging - more destroyed songs.

Living Colour did a cover of "Back in Black" for their last album
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjzN0kaF-Lk
...as did Shakira *mega-drool*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip8_aGOGAOM

Wow...arounsed by a Metallica song...something is wrong here...

It's really good actually ... first time i ever consciously addressed her.
She also covered Enjoy The Silence ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZzkGvyqzc
Infamy!
Good, worthwhile art takes good, worthwhile suffering.True dat

Haven't heard it. Just saw Jason in it, good enough reason not to watch it.
Touche. I sent it to my friend as a joke.

It backfired. *nods*



Oh, and my friend with the Dear Abbeys is mad at me for listing Tufts but not them...so here's The BU Dear Abbeys singing Hold You In My Arms (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgpeyNwwxuI&feature=related) and You Get What You Give (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GvAPhvXNAY&feature=related)
Yes, the Dear Abbeys...proving once again that white boys can't dance, but damn, can they sing.

Edit: Gotta add this

Tufts Beelzebubs - Umbrella (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFvQJOspJLY&feature=related) (Cover of Rihanna (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4X7eFbP3u4))

I prefer the version Biffy Clyro did on Radio 1

Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJAklQZ7kBg)

Wow...aroused by a Metallica song...something is wrong here...
AC/DC? :p
I *think* i mentioned Shakira and a friends' bachelor party a little while back on an anecdote thread or something ... :p

Touche. I sent it to my friend as a joke.

It backfired. *nods*
If it involves Chipmunks, it almost always will.

Oh, and my friend with the Dear Abbeys is mad at me for listing Tufts but not them...so here's The BU Dear Abbeys singing Hold You In My Arms (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgpeyNwwxuI&feature=related) and You Get What You Give (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GvAPhvXNAY&feature=related)
Yes, the Dear Abbeys...proving once again that white boys can't dance, but damn, can they sing.I certainly didn't expect that :D

AC/DC? :p
wow...um...can I blame it on the fact that it's 4 AM over here? Didn't think so...

I should probably change that before I end up with 50 replys yelling at me. But I kinda enjoy it when people prove that they didn't read the thread...
I *think* i mentioned Shakira and a friends' bachelor party a little while back on an anecdote thread or something ... :pI recall something about that
If it involves Chipmunks, it almost always will.Lesson learned.
I certainly didn't expect that :D
One of the top college A capella groups in the country. They don't have it on youtube, but if you look on Itunes for their version of Mona Lisa's and Mad Hatters...that is by far one of my favorite songs of all time

Ha ha, it's an automatic reaction every time I hear that song now - destroyed - and it seems to be the basic opinion of everyone since it's first on the list in Youtube - so I never got past your first link.Ah, gotcha!
I was hoping i was more original in my thinking than just picking stuff out o' the Tube (s), but i can't really take all that much credit when i'm as distracted as i am right now.

There should be laws - it's not even that I hold the original in huge regard but to just totally destroy a song is inhumane.Surely, you mean the last one? Or we still talking about Anka? :p

As a link to Mike Myers, I can never hear Foxy Lady without having the urge to do the fox ears nor Bohemian Rhapsody without going into head banging - more destroyed songs.Can't ... CAN'T forget the hip thrusting, ftw.

I see your Tori Amos and I raise you Paul Anka.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsS811o21-k&feature=related

Kittens died in the making of this.

OMG!! i loved this version! you paul anka haters can go do whatever it is in your caves away from us cultured people.

PS: i don't really care if you like it or not, i do.

i love this cover, though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzp2hFi20cM&feature=related

OMG!! i loved this version! you paul anka haters can go do whatever it is in your caves away from us cultured people.

PS: i don't really care if you like it or not, i do.

i love this cover, though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzp2hFi20cM&feature=related

Ha ha - fair enough - it's quite fun going through the covers, I quite like the Patti Smith version but this is topping the charts for me so far:

Headbanging on a ukelele (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXVdNKciP94&feature=related)

The King Curtis instrumental version of Whiter Shade of Pale, from the album Live at Fillmore West. Recorded a few months before he was killed.*
You can hear some of it during the opening credits of Withnail and I.
Or you can hear it here:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mdQ7Dohf4VI
For a version of Whiter Shade of Pale with lyrics, I'd go with Joe Cocker's cover.
There's a recording on You Tube of him performing it live, but the quality is not great.

*Modern music stars take note: If we can't imagine you getting stabbed to death by a drug addict in a New York street, you ain't rock and roll.

Headbanging on a ukelele (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXVdNKciP94&feature=related)

Haha I love it

Ha ha - fair enough - it's quite fun going through the covers, I quite like the Patti Smith version but this is topping the charts for me so far:

Headbanging on a ukelele (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXVdNKciP94&feature=related)

"ukelele no good."
-watch @ 1:50 into the clip. there's no translation, but the quote is the english dub.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzOZHCreVFQ&feature=user

Muse's cover of Feeling Good. In my opinion one of the best covers of all time.

Muse Feeling Good (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jzZRpqkfCDo)

Oh yeah! And Nonpoint's cover of Something In The Air Tonight.

Nonpoint In The Air Tonight (http://search.playlist.com/tracks/nonpoint)

Scroll to near the bottom of the page to find it.

My favourite covers are:

Johnny Cash - Mercy Seat, One Love, and Hurt
Kirsty McColl - Days, New England
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence

The worst I can think of is Madonna's special rendition of American Pie.

William Shatner's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was fairly cringe-worthy... and for sheer rubbishness I'l say Pantera's cover of Planet Caravan... it just sounds like they turned up the bass and swithced the overdrive on over the old song. :/

Boots of Spanish Leather - Martin Simpson covering Bob D
Redemption Song - Joe Strummer and Johnny Cash covering Marley
The Weight - Travis covering The Band

And many many more

"Daylight in your Eyes" covered by Audiosmog was nice. Unfortunately, it was only an MTV Germany publicity stunt =(
"Enjoy the Silence" by Lacuna Coil is pretty nice, particularly because the original has become tainted to me by emotional association.
"Diamonds are Forever" covered by Kanye West deserves an honorable mention. I didn't love it, but it was one of the great Bond songs, and I was afraid he'd really butcher it. So in the end, I was really glad when he turned it into a decent song.

Worst cover ever: "Enter Sandman" by Pat Boone. (like being stabbed in the ear with a screwdriver wrapped in velvet)

Second-worst cover ever: "American Pie" by Madonna. (like being stabbed in the ear with a pie wrapped in concrete)

William Shatner's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was fairly cringe-worthy...

blasphemy. i bet you didn't like 'rocket man' either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjzN0kaF-Lk
...as did Shakira *mega-drool*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip8_aGOGAOM

We haven't passed that point where pop singers shoot their mouths up with novicane before singing?

The Gossip - Careless Whisper. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=ybZzx4xs4JU)

I just adore Beth Ditto, and I love her "doo, doo, doo"-s in it.

Wynnona Judd - I wanna know what love is. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=3CpWkYc1ZsA)

Sure, super sappy, but her version's soft, country-esque voice is captivating.

Godsmack's cover of "Good Times Bad Times" is pretty good, IMO.

Sid Vicious covering "My Way" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXg9KUiy00) ... a Paul Anka song best know for Frank Sinatra's version.

or, from the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle,the Sex Pistols' cover of "Roadrunner." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl-y6rLj58Q)

... OK, I admit it. I hate cover versions.

Personal favorites:
Quietdrive - Time After Time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvmumINKapg) (Cover of Cyndi Lauper (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYxsUDZQ4Q))


omg I love that cover!

At Vance - Logical Song (I can't find it on youtube :( So here's an ABBA cover instead) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioly7ZvRyoc)

And (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evG2DDmSdxM&feature=related) all (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui2a2KTx60s) these (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeNWznz3NcU&feature=related) songs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpsroKKLapw&feature=related) from Scala & Kolacny Brothers

Alanis Morrisette's cover of My Humps. It's on YouTube.

I have a nifty cover of Big Bottoms by Soundgarden.

And you can't beat the jazz-waltz version of Stairway to Heaven by Pat Boone.

Favorite covers, let's see...I would have put Quiet Drive's cover of Time After Time first, but it was taken in the OP!

I like:

- "Song For A Future Generation" by Chicks on Speed (originally B52s)

- "Leaving On a Jet Plane" by Chantal Kreviazuk

- "Heaven" by DJ Sammy (originally Bryan Adams)

- "Hot In Here" by DJ Tiga and Kicks (originally Nelly)

- "Independant Woman" by Elbow (originally Destiny's Child)

- "Your Song" by Ewan McGregor

The Sex Pistols' cover of "My Way" by The Who always sticks out in my mind as a great cover song. However, the best cover song ever? I know that this whole thing is subjective, but you can't deny what Husker Du did to "Eight Miles High", originally by The Byrds.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up6Xh3Gme1w
The original...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeqyCwAeT3I
...and the unbeatable cover by Husker Du, performed at Pink Pop '87.

And you can't beat the jazz-waltz version of Stairway to Heaven by Pat Boone.

Oh god.

Oooh also:

- "Real Love" by Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing (originally Mary J Blige)

- "Heroes" by Magnetic Fields (originally David Bowie)

- anything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

- "Glory of Love" by New Found Glory (originally Chicago)

- "Time Won't Let Me Go" by The Bravery

- anything by The Hippos

- "We Will Become Silhouettes" by Iron and Wine (originally The Postal Service)

- "Best I Ever Had" by Vertical Horizon (originally a country song apparently)

- "Jolene" by The White Stripes (originally also a country song)

...okay I'll stop tormenting you now. :D

I think my favourite cover has to be the entire Dub Side of the Moon LP by the Easy Star All-Stars, a dub version of, obviously, Dark Side of the Moon. The All-Stars recreated the whole album, using no samples of the original piece. It’s a great collection of covers, and a fantastic record in its own right.

Here’s my favourite off of the album: Time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz7OFW3p1C8&feature=related).

Honourable mentions have to go to Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, especially with I Believe I Can Fly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV3XQcCyyPc), and Johnny Cash with Personal Jesus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvmDgNxlrkU&feature=related) or Solitary Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5rVmXyZP5s).

What are some of your favorites? Least favorites? If possible, include a sample and original artist.

I rather like
Shout 2000 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a1gyiiJPSc) (cover of Tears for Fears (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bqgy1mebh8))
Land of Confusion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KW8DRSvEoQ) (cover of Genesis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBdUz_IJ4VA))

Wow...arounsed by a Metallica song...something is wrong here...

Metallica song?

Never mind, some one beat me to it. :(

<snip>...as did Shakira *mega-drool*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip8_aGOGAOM

gah, that was horrible. fun to watch, but mangled.

I don't know if ever of you have heard of BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge? Basically bands come in to this national radio station in the UK, and perform normally their latest single and a cover version. Some from this have been brilliant, even if you don't like the artist. Will Youngs version of Hey Ya by Outkast was particularly good, as was the cover of Maneater, a Nelly Furtado song, by Boy Kill Boy.

Sarha Blasko doing Flame Trees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YnX3zbk6ss) (originally Cold Chisel).

Anything by Richard Cheese.

A few off the top of my head:
William Shatner - Common People (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y5eBRWQerY)
Killdozer - Unbelievable (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkKDKWXQdRo), American Pie, I am I said, Sweet Home Alabama. Can't find clips of the last three, so here's a ten minute live show (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhFx3cV2ig4) of Killdozer from 2006.
Rolf Harris - Stairway to Heaven (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy5KjaAS7nY)
Jake Shimabukuro - My guitar gently weeps (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mEKMz2Pvo)
Motorhead - It's a long way to the top
Shellac - Jailbreak

Alanis Morrisette's cover of My Humps. It's on YouTube.
That was a shitty song to begin with.

I'd say Alien Ant Farm's cover of Smooth Criminal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxeNZOLNh4c) was pretty good.

And Primus' Devil Went Down to Georgia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FRtkek-Et4) gets a wtf.

The Dresden Dolls have done a fair few: Umbrella is good, Eisbar, The Flesh Failures/Let the Sunshine in, I Love Rock and Roll, Rid of Me.

No links to youtube, I'm sorry. You should be able to find a fair assortment at http://automaticjoy.com , including most all of those I've listed.

Apocalyptica and Till Lindemann (Rammstein) - Helden (Heroes): http://youtube.com/watch?v=1EQAi7lcyk8&feature=related

Turisas - Rasputin: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y150Lm4kZ_M

We haven't passed that point where pop singers shoot their mouths up with novicane before singing?

Erm, no. I can think of better places and things to shoot, though.
Especially when Shakira's involved.

Anything by Richard Cheese.

Awfuckyeah. FTW.

Gin And Juice
People = Shit
Wrong Way
Hot For Teacher
Rockin' The Casbah
Badd
Down With The Sickness
Nookie/Break Shit

..question is, how many do you sing to yourself at work, regardless of your audience?
:p

gah, that was horrible. fun to watch, but mangled.

That's the way i like her. Oh, yes.
:)

"Enjoy the Silence" by Lacuna Coil is pretty nice, particularly because the original has become tainted to me by emotional association.
*consoles*
That song is what made Shakira commit to being a "musician".
Me too, independent of that.

Any Tainted Love.

They're all different and great in their own way.

Any Tainted Love.

They're all different and great in their own way.
* 1964: Gloria Jones, northern soul
* 1975: Ruth Swan, northern soul
* 1976: Gloria Jones with Marc Bolan, glam rock
* 1981-82: Soft Cell, synthpop
* 1985: Coil, industrial
* 1986: Boppin' Kids on the album Go Wild!, Rockabilly
* 1990s: Tainted Cash, rave music
* 1991: Marc Almond (with Soft Cell)
* 1992: Flying Pickets, a cappella version
* 1994: Spaceheads, on the album Spaceheads, rock
* 1995: Shades Apart, on the album Save It, punk rock
* 1997: Deathline International, on the compilation Industrial War, industrial (often mistakenly attributed to Skinny Puppy)
* 1997: Atrocity on their cover album titled Werk 80 and on their "Tainted love" single (two different versions) and on their greatest hits double album None plus ultra (1999), gothic metal
* 1998: Country Teasers, on their album Back to the Future, or Brideshead Revisited Revisited
* 1998 : The Living End, appears on their self titled album and on Triple J Hottest 100, 1998 (#17 on the Hottest 100 list.)
* 1999: My Ruin, on the album Speak and Destroy
* 2000: La Unión, on the album Grandes Éxitos and called "Falso amor"
* 2001: Marilyn Manson, industrial rock, on album Not Another Teen Movie Soundtrack and Lest We Forget: The Best Of Marilyn Manson. Also as a bonus track on The Golden Age of Grotesque
* 2002: Prozac+, on the album Miodio
* 2003: The Hormonauts, on the album Mini-Skirt
* 2004: Thomas Schumacher, on the EP Tainted Schall
* 2005: The Pussycat Dolls, on album PCD
* 2006: Soft Cell version sampled for SOS, a song by Rihanna
* 2006 : Milk Inc. cover (dance music)
* 2006 : John B. feat. Marcy Meow beta recordings (electro)
* 2007: Richard Grey recorded a dance cover entitled "Warped Bass". It has reached #52 on the UK Singles Chart.
* 2007 : Killwhitneydead. recorded a death metal cover entitled "Funny Enough It Sounds Just Like Tainted Love"
* 2007 : Grandmagneto acoustic reggae version 7" vinyl on Favourite recordings
* 2007 : The Vending Tree- A favourite in their live sets
? Every one? :p
Like the Gloria Jones version ... mmmm.

? Every one? :p
Like the Gloria Jones version ... mmmm.

Holy crap...and I thought that was a Soft Cell song (though without that list I wouldn't have been able to come up with the name...) Well, you learn something new and pointless every day...

[edit]Dude, the video is hilarious (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEh5pWjcWCg). It's a dude dressed like Caligula bitching out some kid. Fuck the 80s were weird. I mean, I knew at the time, but I didn't really know...

Holy crap...and I thought that was a Soft Cell song (though without that list I wouldn't have been able to come up with the name...)S'all good. :)
Well, you learn something new and pointless every day...In memoriam, Drunk Commies Deleted. *bows head*

Holy crap...and I thought that was a Soft Cell song (though without that list I wouldn't have been able to come up with the name...) Well, you learn something new and pointless every day...

[edit]Dude, the video is hilarious (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEh5pWjcWCg). It's a dude dressed like Caligula bitching out some kid. Fuck the 80s were weird. I mean, I knew at the time, but I didn't really know...
I thought the same...I'm actually really surprised to see that it isn't.

And that video is just strange...

*is glad to be a product of the 90's*

S'all good. :)
In memoriam, Drunk Commies Deleted. *bows head*
Indeed. *bows head as well*

[edit]Dude, the video is hilarious (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEh5pWjcWCg). It's a dude dressed like Caligula bitching out some kid. Fuck the 80s were weird. I mean, I knew at the time, but I didn't really know...
Just like the karaoke video for "Nights In White Satin"?

Oooh also:

- anything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes


YES!

Also~

Lacuna Coil - Enjoy the Silence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx58hXh4pVA

and

Gary Jules - Mad World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

and

Sonata Arctica - The Wind Beneath My Wings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkHh0y_LruM

and

Sonata Arctica - Still loving you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00pRnGoYtY0

and even though half the lyrics are mumbled to obscurity,

children of bodom - rebel yell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7O6ekKOE9g

Any Tainted Love.

They're all different and great in their own way.Nah, Marilyn Manson's version sucked.

? Every one? :p
Like the Gloria Jones version ... mmmm.I like the original best (or whichever one is in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas), from the ones I've heard.

I like the original best (or whichever one is in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas), from the ones I've heard.
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That's what made me punch up wiki. :)

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That's what made me punch up wiki. :)Heh.
Unfortunately, it seems to be out of print. :(

Heh.
Unfortunately, it seems to be out of print. :(
I know they had a soundtrack release for Vice City ...
not San Andreas as well?

I know they had a soundtrack release for Vice City ...
not San Andreas as well?It's not on there (http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Theft-Auto-San-Andreas/dp/tracks/B00068NWQ0/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1).

It's not on there (http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Theft-Auto-San-Andreas/dp/tracks/B00068NWQ0/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1).

?
Those bastards!

I can't believe it took me this long to think of this-
Bumblebee Tuna (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3875247202176288340&q=bumblebee+tuna+mephiskapheles&total=7&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1) by Mephiskapheles. Ignore the anime...

[edit]Dude, the video is hilarious (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEh5pWjcWCg). It's a dude dressed like Caligula bitching out some kid. Fuck the 80s were weird. I mean, I knew at the time, but I didn't really know...\
That video's proof that it is possible to take too many drugs.

Rammstein covers of "Shtil" by Aria and "Pet Sematary" by the Ramones

Dinosaur Jr.'s cover of "Just Like Heaven"

Spiderbaits version of Black Betty I like very much.

I once heard a gothic metal cover of an entire Brittany Spears album.. sounded MUCH better than the original. (Badass guitar riff, Oops I did it again!)

Mettalica's version of Turn the Page

Korn's cover versions of the songs Word Up, and One I really dug, but I don't think they are better than the original.

OK.. I once listend to symphonic versions of Pantera songs played entirely on the cello... those were... different...

Johnny Cash's cover version of Hurt.. I like it much much better than the original NIN version.

? Every one? :p
Like the Gloria Jones version ... mmmm.
Every single one. Maybe.
Nah, Marilyn Manson's version sucked.
I quite liked it. Not as good as the Soft Cell version, but interesting in its own way.