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Pailryder
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Post your favorite/funnest cover. Ran across this one today.
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It was like this but daytime and the lead singer is now 7 months pregnant
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The highest possible praise.
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It's rare with covers. Sometimes out of pettiness (doubly so since with the absolute shit show that music rights are a lot of artists didn't get a say in the matter) but usually just because the original artist heard it thousands of times as it came together and it's really hard to hear a song and have it deviate from your expectations, it just sounds wrong every time a cover singer hits a note different.
I think even higher praise than Trent Reznor had for Johnny Cash is what Bob Dylan did after Jimi Hendrix covered All Along the Watchtower. He didn't exactly cede the song over to the more popular version, but he changed his own performance to be more like the Hendrix version, basically covering a cover version of his own song.
(That's a great soundtrack, even if they put the wrong version of Time Baby by Medicine on there)
edit: and a more modern one
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
Though this is another really good cover:
Rasputin-adjacent cover
In 2012, Sabbaton covered "Twilight of the Thunder God" with a clean vocals instead of the growling of Amon Amarth. It really has a great Powerwolf vibe.
In 2017, Rage of Light did a cover of "Twilight of the Thunder Gods" with a mix of clean and growly vocals from Melissa Bonny and growling from Jonathan Pellet.
Jackson famously LOVED this cover
And I agree it’s absolutely fantastic
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
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Yeah, there are a couple great covers on that album, like Ghostrider and The Badge.
A favorite of mine because it's so stupidly silly - The Batman TV show theme by Voivod.
IIRC it had like 50 million views before 2020, and now it has like 300 million.
Dynamite Hack's 2000 cover of Eazy-E's Boyz-n-the-Hood
Can't forgive EC for introducing me to Schlager and getting Helene Fischer songs stuck in my head but maybe their upcoming Babymetal collab will do it.
In 2009, Slaughter of the Bluegrass covered "Twilight of the Thunder God" in a folksy acoustic style.
edit: they also covered great songs by At the Gates, In Flames, and Dark Tranquillity. Then they were never heard from again.
My Backloggery
And Malevolent Creation doing Slayer's Piece By Piece.
This other fine specimen of Feuerschwanz has everything and the kitchen sink (and yet more Melissa Bonny):
~ Buckaroo Banzai
This version of All the Small Things completely changed my appreciation for it and Blink 182. Also, it's probably my favorite cover outside of Johnny Cash's Hurt.
"She left me roses by the stairs"... Chills.
Choose Your Own Chat 1 Choose Your Own Chat 2 Choose Your Own Chat 3
My favorite Feuerschwanz cover with Melissa Bonny is Ding!:
The original is:
Translated Lyrics:
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Also love his cover of Higher by Creed. (song starts at 3:48-ish, stuff before is introduction/production details)
I cannot emphasize enough how much I'm not normally a metal guy, but this dude's genuihe musicianship, singing chops, production values, and sense of humor really won me over. He picks good tunes, does them justice, and adds some nice visual touches and sight gags to the videos. He's not afraid to look ridiculous, which is always a plus.
I think my initial exposure was this appropriately insane cover of the "24 Hour Cinderella" karaoke song from Yakuza 0.
he did one of "Planet of the Bass" that I...kinda think improves on the original?
"Down by the River" from Baldur's Gate III:
...and this cover of "Herald of Darkness" from Alan Wake II was what finally got me off my butt a few weeks ago to play that game and Control.