Favorite cover song

[Nastaboi]

You know that many Finnish bands! I am so taken. My favorite is Finnish band Sapattivuosi, who made a whole tribute album to Black Sabbath - in Finnish. I like G'nR's covers, too.

[Pyromaniac]

The following people have no taste:

Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes
Limp Bizkit - Sanitarium

The various DMB versions of All Along the Watchtowers are pretty good too.

You sir, however, do:

Hendrix covering All along the Watchtower by Dylan.

I like Bowling for Soup - ...Baby One More Time
Bowling for Soup - Little Red Riding Hood
Metallica - Turn the Page
Bruce Springsteen - Brown Eyed Girl
Apocalyptica - Anything by Metallica

Notice that Limp Biscuit has played a few good songs, yet they're all covers. And I only say the song is good, not the performance of Durst Marketing Inc. on them.

Most of my favourites have been named already, but a few haven't:

Fade to Black(Metallica) by Sonata Arctica
Remember Tomorrow(Iron Maiden) by Opeth

[mr_rogers]

So no one has mentioned Faith No More covering War Pigs, Marilyn Manson covering Sweet Dreams or Ben Folds Five covering Bitches Aint Shit.  I recomend these to everyone to check out.

[SonataOfTheCathedral]

Billy Joel did Kashmir by Led Zeppelin the other night and Highway To Hell by AC/DC both were absolutely amazing.

[jpmeyer]

General Johnson and the Chairmen of the Board doing Rockaway Beach

[Outlaw]

"Take on me" - Reel Big Fish

[Joblin Velder]

So no one has mentioned Faith No More covering War Pigs, Marilyn Manson covering Sweet Dreams or Ben Folds Five covering Bitches Aint Shit.  I recomend these to everyone to check out.

Faith No More covering War Pigs isn't that interesting. Replace Ozzy's vocals with Patton's. Done.

[Guardian]

The album The Forgotten Tales by Blind Guardian contains numerous covers, all of which are good.

[cssamerican]

Gun's N' Roses - Since I Don't Have You by the Skyliners
Gun's N' Roses - Knocking on Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan
Johnny Cash - Hurt by Nine Inch Nails

[Harkius]

The following person has no class...

The following people have no taste:

Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes
Limp Bizkit - Sanitarium

I like Bowling for Soup - ...Baby One More Time
Bowling for Soup - Little Red Riding Hood
Metallica - Turn the Page
Bruce Springsteen - Brown Eyed Girl
Apocalyptica - Anything by Metallica

You sir, need to take a pill. Judging the musical tastes of others without knowing anything about them seems a bit...naive to me. I don't like your music, you don't like mine. C'est la vie. Act like an adult, though. Grow up.

Cheers,
Harkius

[Manpriest]

Drain S.T.H.'s cover of Ace of Spades wasn't half bad, not a favorite, but a decent one that isn't listed yet.

[PipOC]

I forgot two.

Yngwie Malmsteen's Gimme Gimme Gimme by ABBA
and
Hayseed Dixie's version of Ace of Spades by Motorhead

[JuJu]

Children did NOT do a cover of Europe's Final Countdown, according to their official site, and a wiki entry.
As for favorite cover song... I'll go with Maiden covers by Bodom, Any Metallica covers done by Apocalyptica, Burn In Hell by Dimmu Borgir. I can't really think of any others at the moment.

EDITED: By Request, I edited this and have to type out my own rebuttal to Harkius. Harkius, wouldn't you not knowing Pyro be worse than him not knowing a band?

[Harkius]

EDITED: By Request, I edited this and have to type out my own rebuttal to Harkius. Harkius, wouldn't you not knowing Pyro be worse than him not knowing a band?

I think that you are confused. Read the quote attribution. I didn't have a problem with Pyromaniac or what he said. My problem was with what Anusien said. Pyromaniac's post just happened to be sitting in between the two, caught in the crossfire.

Aside: My apologies to Pyromaniac, if he took insult at my comment.

Back on track: My comment was, to be perfectly clear, directed at Anusien, and his condemnation of a band, and, by extension, its fans. My point was that a person shouldn't say that a particular band's fan has no taste. This is an incredible overgeneralization, not to mention a retardedly arrogant statement to make judging on something as simple as a preference for a particular version of a song.

Perhaps I like the covers because I think that the originals were lacking in a mad beat. Perhaps I like the acoustics better of the new versions in my particular home. Or maybe, just maybe, I like the newer versions for aesthetic reasons that do not apply to you, Anusien.

Think next time before you open your mouth.
Harkius

[vartemis]

My favorite cover song of all time is Jeff Healey's cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" off his "Live at Montreax" album.  Hell, his whole "Cover to Cover album" is great.

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[Kowal]

his is an incredible overgeneralization, not to mention a retardedly arrogant statement to make judging on something as simple as a preference for a particular version of a song.

Normally I would agree with you, but come on man, it's friggen Limp Bizkit.

Anyway, chill out fuckers.

[oldbsturgeon]

zappa did stairway to heaven...very nice. actually zappa has so many covers, many good that its hard to remember all of them
i remember when napster was free, thats all i would do, find cool covers not generally available

[Evenpence]

Tinker by Transmute Artifact.

Mirrodin by Antiquties is pretty good too, though.

[Harkius]

his is an incredible overgeneralization, not to mention a retardedly arrogant statement to make judging on something as simple as a preference for a particular version of a song.

Normally I would agree with you, but come on man, it's friggen Limp Bizkit.

And the basis for your derision is???

Tinker by Transmute Artifact.

Mirrodin by Antiquties is pretty good too, though.

LMAO. Geek.

Harkius

[Joblin Velder]

his is an incredible overgeneralization, not to mention a retardedly arrogant statement to make judging on something as simple as a preference for a particular version of a song.

Normally I would agree with you, but come on man, it's friggen Limp Bizkit.

And the basis for your derision is???

Limp Bizkit is awful. Its like gravity; one of those natural laws.

[Harkius]

his is an incredible overgeneralization, not to mention a retardedly arrogant statement to make judging on something as simple as a preference for a particular version of a song.

Normally I would agree with you, but come on man, it's friggen Limp Bizkit.

And the basis for your derision is???

Limp Bizkit is awful. Its like gravity; one of those natural laws.

Oh, it all makes sense now. /sarcasm

Please, please, please give an argument rather than a ridiculous assertion like this. How would you interpret it if I said "OMG, The Beetles are the suck!" No explanation, no justification. Then, when asked, I said, "They just do." I think I can guess. You would see me as a petulant child.

Well...guess how I see you?

You have provided reasoning. I find it dubious. However, I will accept that you at least did offer an argument, and I therefore rescind my criticisms. Against you (Joblin Velder). They stand against everyone else. Thank you for posting something worthwhile.

Harkius

[Joblin Velder]

Fred Durst is a horrible vocalist. The rap/rock thing had been done better by other bands. I feel like all their crap was written to be "catchy", not good.

[Matt]

Personally, I think they're horrible because their lyrical content is essentially nil, and their musical ability essentially the same. Their songs are "stupid," by which I mean, they have no subtlety, there's nothing there to enjoy. Think of it thusly: you might enjoy reading a certain book. It contains characters with which you empathize, a plot that engrosses you, and so on. This might be the Beatles or some other great band. In this extended metaphor, Limp Bizkit's aural offerings are like reading a traffic sign with graffiti on it. There's no content there, it's ugly and utterly lacking in creativity.

[Harkius]

Personally, I think they're horrible because their lyrical content is essentially nil, and their musical ability essentially the same. Their songs are "stupid," by which I mean, they have no subtlety, there's nothing there to enjoy. Think of it thusly: you might enjoy reading a certain book. It contains characters with which you empathize, a plot that engrosses you, and so on. This might be the Beatles or some other great band. In this extended metaphor, Limp Bizkit's aural offerings are like reading a traffic sign with graffiti on it. There's no content there, it's ugly and utterly lacking in creativity.

I would argue that there is an aethetic quality that you simply don't like. The description of a novel which you offer reminds me of a number of things, from an X-Men novel to Dan Brown's books, to Umberto Eco's offerings. Any of them can be described thusly. Will you tell me that only some of them are good? Will you think that your taste is everyone's?

By no means am I saying that you can't dislike Limp Bizkit. That is your prerogative. My response would be that it is difficult to judge another person's likes in a vacuum. It is even more difficult when you are using some staid and trite terms like you do. Not for nothing, but I doubt that you have heard anything my Limp Bizkit that was not on the radio or MTV. I agree that a lot of their early albums were not that great. But, I also think that there is a philosophy behind the music that you may have missed. I think that the lyrics, at the least, have a depth that you either have missed or simply do not appreciate. Either way, that neither means that they are absent nor that they are worthless.

Regarding their musical ability, <shrug>. In the interest of being honest and mature, I will admit that only rarely do I get the impression that a musician is either fantastically good or disappointingly bad. As such, I can't really say that I know whether Limp Bizkit is good techically or not. But, I will posit to you, and everyone else, that little music is written by the performers anymore. As such, any technical skill, or lack thereof, is not really the issue.

Hell, I will even agree with you that their performances are sometimes disappointing. This may be the most damning fact about the band, in fact, since they are performers. But, their music has a philosophical content that I find intriguing, and one that strikes a chord within me. Should you doubt that, that is your issue. Should you accept it, I would postulate to you that it is no different than your beatles analogy.

That, my friends, is why I like Limp Bizkit as a band. Further, I enjoy the aesthetics of the cover songs I listed. That is why I listen to them.

Cheers,
Harkius

[Joblin Velder]

But, I will posit to you, and everyone else, that little music is written by the performers anymore. As such, any technical skill, or lack thereof, is not really the issue.

Blatant lies. While that may be true for some of today's pop music, that couldn't be further from the truth overall. A lot of the Indie-Turned-Mainstream bands like Death Cab for Cutie, (ick) Dashboard Confessional and Interpol all write their own music. Not to mention bands that are giants in their genre but see little radio play.

In addition, even if the music was written by someone else, if it is challenging enough, those playing it have to be accomplished with their instruments.

[Norm4eva]

Regarding their musical ability, <shrug>. In the interest of being honest and mature, I will admit that only rarely do I get the impression that a musician is either fantastically good or disappointingly bad. As such, I can't really say that I know whether Limp Bizkit is good techically or not. But, I will posit to you, and everyone else, that little music is written by the performers anymore. As such, any technical skill, or lack thereof, is not really the issue.

Music not performed or made famous by the author isn't exactly a new idea.  Aside from the hundreds of years of classical music, jazz is one of the premier examples of using a chord progression and changing the melody to make a new song.  Charlie Parker's "Donna Lee" is based on a song called "Home Again In Indiana".  Eddie Vinson wrote "Tune Up", Miles Davis played it, then John Coltrane combined the progression with the circle of thirds used in "Giant Steps" and tuned "Tune Up" into "Countdown".  The songs "So What" and "Impressions" don't even bother to so much as change keys, just heads and tempo, and yet they are starkly different from each other.
All that aside though, does your hometown not have a local music scene or something?  I can virtually guarantee that if it does and you're willing to dig a little bit you'll find something so unique and alive you'll wonder why they're playing at a bar while XYZ major label act is playing stadiums named after phone companies.
Insofar as covers go, my acoustic band has a live rendition of Tainted Love on our MySpace which you need to listen to - we were squeezed into a radio studio and it's not quite as energetic at 11am as it would be at 11 at nite, but I still think it's some good. http://www.myspace.com/norm4eva  Oh yeah, and the rest of the songs are indeed original.

[Matt]

I love it when people think "good taste" is some kind of plot put on by people to convince everyone to like the same music/literature/films they like. It's not. There IS such a thing as creativity, there IS such a thing as cleverness, and structure, and composition, and many other aspects of artistic merit that aren't just personal preference. "Well I like it so it's good" is a very juvenile approach to artistic appreciation (whatever the medium - music, sculpture, poetry, cuisine, whatever).

Regarding their musical ability, <shrug>. In the interest of being honest and mature, I will admit that only rarely do I get the impression that a musician is either fantastically good or disappointingly bad. As such, I can't really say that I know whether Limp Bizkit is good techically or not.

I am not talking about their ability to play musical instruments, but their ability to write songs. What makes you think that guitar-playing ability exists, but when it comes to songwriting, any perception of quality (or lack of it) is all in my head, a figment of personal preference?

The description of a novel which you offer reminds me of a number of things, from an X-Men novel to Dan Brown's books, to Umberto Eco's offerings. Any of them can be described thusly. Will you tell me that only some of them are good? Will you think that your taste is everyone's?

I deliberately made it vague so that you could fill in whatever you liked best. You missed the comparison completely - the book you choose to fill in that blank with isn't important, because I'm not comparing one book to another, but a book to a traffic sign. The two are both comprised of text, so there's a superficial similarity, but fundamentally one is a work of literature and one is not. One requires some skill at writing, and the other doesn't.

Using your logic, there's no difference between Mozart and random white noise, or between Rembrandt and the pattern of urine I left on the toilet seat. You make it utterly impossible to pass judgement on ANYTHING, because after all, "It's all a matter of taste."

[Pyromaniac]

100% agreed with Matt

On a sidenote, I like Steel Prophet - The Ides of March & Purgatory (both Iron Maiden) a lot as well, after listening to it a few times.

yay for Maiden

[nataz]

Using your logic, there's no difference between Mozart and random white noise, or between Rembrandt and the pattern of urine I left on the toilet seat. You make it utterly impossible to pass judgement on ANYTHING, because after all, "It's all a matter of taste."

To be fair, even though Limpy McBizkets isn't exactly my kind 'o' tune-smith, matt you are simply wrong. It's not that you can't pass judgement on anything art, it's that you can't expect your judgement to be universal. I have to wonder about your example or Urine, was really coencidental?

after all, a famous example of piss-art would be Chirst in Urine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ

Now, looking back on this thread I realize that I was the first to say something mean;

I hold a special hate in my heat for this song. Tons of people like it, but to me it was always like nails on a chalkboard, not actualy sure why.

but I'll never argue that I have to be right when it comes to art.

After all,

"why can't we be friends"
-covered by the MMBosstones!

[Anusien]

I haven't heard Bizkit's Sanitarium recently (which I assume is referring to Welcome Home (Sanitarium), which was so bad that Metallica had to play the song themselves at Summer Sanitarium 05).  However, regarding Limp Bizkit (was there ever a more appropriate name) and their cover of Behind Blue Eyes:

Here's a good idea.  Let's take one of the top 5 songs of all time, do a shitty cover that ruins the original melodic quality to the song, and leave out the best part.  The cover is so so bad that I'm glad they left out the really good part because it would be disgraceful to hear them try to cover it.  Like honestly, it takes two things to cover a song of the caliber of All Along the Watchtower.  Huge brass balls/guts and fantastic musical talent.  Hendrix had both.  Limp Bizkit, well, they seem to have guts...

Aside: You notice no one is calling me out for attacking DMB's suckitude on All Along the Watchtower?