Good covers?

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Ok, so I'm bored. I'm trying to create a playlist consisting only of covers and I'm looking for suggestions. Prefferably covers that are better or as good as the original. Keep 'em coming!

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Aerosmith's version of "Train Kept A-Rollin'" is pretty much definitive...

I'll probably think of more later.
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Machine Head - Message in a Bottle
Ministry - Roadhouse Blues
Frank Zappa - Stairway to Heaven
Duran Duran - Crystal Ship
Zeke - Midnight NAMBLA
Zeke - Rhiannon
Turbonegro - Suffragette City
Peter Pan Speedrock - Don't Say Motherfucker
QOTSA - Back to Dungaree High
Satyricon - I Got Erection
Sepultura - Symptom of the Universe
The Accused - I'd Love To Change The World
Cannibal Corpse - Behind Bars
Witchery - I Wanna Be Somebody
Dimmu Borgir - Burn in Hell
Angel Corpse - Eat Me Alive
Tankard - Alcohol
Defleshed - Curse The Gods
At The Gates - Captor of Sin
Incantation - Hell Awaits
Slayer - In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida
Pearl Jam - Leavin' Here
Nuclear Assault - Good Times Bad Tmes
Motörhead - Whiplash
Carbon 13 - The Thing That Should Not Be
Primus - The Thing That Should Not Be
Malevolent Creation - Suck My Dick
Machine Head - Hard Times
Macabre - Behind The Wall Of Sleep
Isis - Streetcleaner
Harkonin - Last Man Alive
Extreme Noise Terror - I Am A Bloody Fool
Entombed - The Ballad of Hollis Brown
Entombed - Night of the Vampire
Emperor - A Fine Day To De
Carnivore - Manic Depression
Type O Negative - Daytripper (Medley)
Type O Negative - Angry Inch
Behemoth - Wish
Sacred Reich - War Pigs
W.A.S.P. - Paint it Black
Type O Negative - Highway Star
Staind - Sober
S.O.D. - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Pantera - Cat Scratch Fever
Melvins - Candy-O
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal
No Doubt - Come On Eileen
Gravity Kills - Personal Jesus
Nine Inch Nails - Burn
Gary Jules - Mad World
Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls


that should get you started.

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O-dot wrote:Aerosmith's version of "Train Kept A-Rollin'" is pretty much definitive...

I'll probably think of more later.
Check. Thanks!

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Roy Acuff + Leonard Cohen covers of Tennessee Waltz
Bob Dylan + Nina Simone covers of House of the Rising Sun
Harry Belafonte cover of Cotton Fields (just for laughs)

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TC wrote:Nine Inch Nails - Burn
That's a Reznor composition.

A few more:
Aerosmith - Helter Skelter
Motley Crue - Helter Skelter (both versions crush the Beatles')
Slayer - Abolish Government / Superficial Love
Metallica - Helpless
The Who - Young Man Blues
Judas Priest - Diamonds & Rust
Arch Enemy - Starbreaker
Entombed - One Track Mind
Sepultura - Orgasmatron
High on Fire - The Usurper
Overkill - Space Truckin'
Deicide - Black Night
Vital Remains - Disciples of Hell
Johnny Cash - Thirteen (might be bending the rules on this one)
Prong - Strange Days
Pantera - The Badge
Mastodon - Emerald
Nevermore - The Sound of Silence
Eric A.K./Mike Clark/Robert Trujillo/Dave Lombardo - Battery

Sabbath covers:
Slayer - Hand of Doom
Iced Earth - Electric Funeral
Kyuss - Into the Void
Black Label Society - Snowblind
Solitude Aeturnus - Heaven and Hell
Fates Warning - The Sign of the Southern Cross
Cannibal Corpse - Zero the Hero
Cathedral - Solitude
Fudge Tunnel - Changes
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Greatness! Now I can spend my whole day not doing what I really SHOULD be doing :D

And here's my list. Incomplete, there are tons more, but it's a start:

Pretty much any Iron Maiden-song not performed by Iron Maiden.
Pretty much every version of Hallelujah, not counting the Cohen original.
Dimmu Borgir - Burn in hell
Dimmu Borgir - Metal Heart
This Mortal Coil - Holocaust, Song to the siren
Johnny Cash - Hurt, One, Solitary man, Father and Son
Graveworm - Fear of the dark, I need a hero, Loosing my religion
Cradle of Filth - Fear of the dark
Dissection - Anti christ
Grave - Them Bones
At The Gates - Captor of sin
Zakk Wylde - Stairway to heaven
Dave Grohl - Stairway to heaven (see here:
Michael Stipe and Natalie Merchant - Red Rain

NEW: Dimension Zero - Staying Alive

and of course, Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

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1000 Homo DJs - Supernaut
Electric Hellfire Club - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Darkthrone - Love in a Void
Sodom - Iron Fist
Death - God of Thunder
Ride me a worm, you're a rider...
Walk without rhythm and you're a strider of deserts...

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Dream Theater's take on Dark Side of the Moon isn't too bad.

And of course we can't forget the greatest cover album of all time, Pat Boone's In a Metal Mood. :)
Just cut them up like regular chickens

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darkness wrote:Dream Theater's take on Dark Side of the Moon isn't too bad.

And of course we can't forget the greatest cover album of all time, Pat Boone's In a Metal Mood. :)
richard cheese is better. in fact:
richard cheese - do me baby

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Cake has several good covers of Willie Nelson songs, plus their hit cover of Donna Summer.

Hendrix has many, like Red House or the Berkley show version of Johnny B Goode which is unbelievably great.

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darkness wrote:Dream Theater's take on Dark Side of the Moon isn't too bad.
Speaking of which, Dream Theater's "Best of the Beast" Iron Maiden cover album is bloody good.

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Von wrote:
darkness wrote:Dream Theater's take on Dark Side of the Moon isn't too bad.
Speaking of which, Dream Theater's "Best of the Beast" Iron Maiden cover album is bloody good.
Whoah! DT doing Maiden Covers? This I gotta hear.
Ride me a worm, you're a rider...
Walk without rhythm and you're a strider of deserts...

Re: Good covers?

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classic:

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Watch a pre-NIN Trent Reznor covering “Eyes Without a Face” in the ’80s. his Billy Idol impersonation sounds like some random guy imitating Trent Reznor doing a billy idol impersonation. This was his band called The Urge, from right after he moved to cleveland from erie PA. Around 1985/86.

Re: Good covers?

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On the Sabbath front, don't forget Soundgarden's Into The Void (a little better than Kyuss IMHO), 1,000 Homo DJ's Supernaut (Got to see Kim Thayill play this with Ministry live, was fuckin' sweet), and Helmet's Symptom of the Universe. Oh and Anthrax does a fine Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

FudgeTunnel's Changes is probably the greatest, though.
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