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LukeLord
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Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:12 pm |
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It struck me the other night when I was driving home from work just how INSANELY good the cover Coroner do of The Beatles classic 'I Want You' is. To me a great cover is when a band keeps the original 'feel' of the song buts stamps their own unique style onto it. Coroner do an insane version of this song, the solo Tommy does after the first chorus is one of my favourite solos of all time. Celtic Frost chose to open the epic 'Into The Pandemonium' with a cover of Wall Of Voodoo's 'Mexican Radio' another great cover and favourite of mine (including Tom's trademark 'OOH' deathgrunt). Have you heard the covers that have been done by Cradle Of Fillth? I know they have not released anything decent since 'Midian' but their versions of Maiden's 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' and Sabbat's 'For Those Who Died' are great (Hallowed Sounds incredible done in the dark style with the keyboards). I'm not going to list EVERY cover ever done that I like, I want throw this out and hear want some of you guys favourite cover versions are.
Some of the best-
Realm- Elanor Rigby (THe Beatles)
Vision Divine- Take On Me (A-HA) and The Final Countdown (Europe)
Black Majesty- Six Ribbons (Jon English)
Sodom- Iron Fist (Motorhead)
The most covered song would have to be Accept's 'Fast As A Shark' which has been done (as far as I know, there could be more) by Witchery, Helloween, Dungeon (well it used to get played at every gig I saw at Bexley and in Newcastle eh Tim???) but the best version of 'Fast As A Shark' was done by German band Rage on their 'Trapped' Album.
What do you guys think????????????????????????
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Deathmetal_head
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Joined: Apr 22, 2005
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Sat Mar 18, 2006 4:56 am |
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I like the cover of "Welcome to the Machine" by Shadows Fall "Millenium' by Fear Factory and 'Tallicas medley of Mecyful Fate |
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LukeLord
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Sat Mar 18, 2006 6:05 am |
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| I like the cover of "Welcome to the Machine" by Shadows Fall "Millenium' by Fear Factory and 'Tallicas medley of Mecyful Fate |
Who done the original versions of 'Welcome To The Machine' and 'Millenium'? I'm not familiar with Shadows Fall and I am really only a fan of the first few Fear Factory releases. Metallica had some insane covers, (Crash Course In Brain Surgery springs to mind- has anyone ever heard the original Budgie version? Metallica KILL it!!) but they had done some real suckhole ones as well...
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Bird
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Joined: Jul 03, 2005
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Location: Cold. Possibly Drunk.
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Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:21 am |
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I really like Behemoth's cover of Bowie, 'Hello Spaceboy'. Generally I only like covers if they actually do something creative with them. I don't really see the point in covering something and just doing exactly the same thing as the original.
Worst cover ever, easily CoB's Britney cover, I shudder just thinking about it, esp cos I really like CoB. |
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Décadent
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Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:16 pm |
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| Who done the original versions of 'Welcome To The Machine' |
Pink Floyd.
Uhg... a metalcore Floyd cover. *shudders* |
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Deathmetal_head
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Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:22 pm |
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| I like the cover of "Welcome to the Machine" by Shadows Fall "Millenium' by Fear Factory and 'Tallicas medley of Mecyful Fate |
Who done the original versions of 'Welcome To The Machine' and 'Millenium'? I'm not familiar with Shadows Fall and I am really only a fan of the first few Fear Factory releases. Metallica had some insane covers, (Crash Course In Brain Surgery springs to mind- has anyone ever heard the original Budgie version? Metallica KILL it!!) but they had done some real suckhole ones as well...
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Pink Floyd wrote Welcome to the Machine and Killing Joke originally did Millenium |
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LukeLord
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Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:10 pm |
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Pink Floyd wrote Welcome to the Machine and Killing Joke originally did Millenium |
I'll check them out dude!!
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byrne
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Death - Painkiller (Judas Priest)
Sepultura - Orgasmatron (Motorhead)
Exhorder - Into the Void (Black Sabbath)
I know there are more, but that's all I can think of atm. Although I will say, I am yet to hear a decent At the Gates cover. |
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Contagion
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I like Pantera's cover of Black Sabbath's "Hole in the Sky" |
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Deathmetal_head
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Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:56 am |
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| I like Pantera's cover of Black Sabbath's "Hole in the Sky" |
Didn't Machine Head do that? I like Pantera's cover of Electric Funeral |
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byrne
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Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:18 am |
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yeah, that is correct - machine head - hole in the sky and pantera did electric funeral and planet caravan |
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LukeLord
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Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:39 am |
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I know there are more, but that's all I can think of atm. Although I will say, I am yet to hear a decent At the Gates cover. |
I have a At The Gates tribute with a heap of underground stuff, most of it is not that good though.. |
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militia
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Some songs/albums done very well:
Infernal Method - Buried Dreams (Carcass)
Iron Maiden - Women In Uniform (Skyhooks)
Iced Earth - Transylvania (Iron Maiden)
Dungeon - *Maiden Our Spare Time*
Exmortem - Metal Militia (Metallica)
Physical Attraction - Creeping Death (Metallica)
Dream Theater - *Covering Master of Puppets*
Demons & Wizards - White Room (Cream)
Demons & Wizards - Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin)
Sanctorum - Bark At The Moon (Ozzy Osbourne)
Enertia - Cowboys From Hell (Pantera)
Blind Guardian - Spread Your Wings (Queen)
Children Of Bodom - Silent Scream (Slayer) |
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Danfly
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Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:31 am |
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Metallica had some insane covers, (Crash Course In Brain Surgery springs to mind- has anyone ever heard the original Budgie version? Metallica KILL it!!) but they had done some real suckhole ones as well...
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Am I Evil is the best cover done by Metallica of the Diamond Head classic. |
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Deathmetal_head
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Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:49 am |
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Metallica had some insane covers, (Crash Course In Brain Surgery springs to mind- has anyone ever heard the original Budgie version? Metallica KILL it!!) but they had done some real suckhole ones as well...
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Am I Evil is the best cover done by Metallica of the Diamond Head classic. |
Yeah almost as good as Green Hell\Last Caress |
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