Well...... let's talk about covers...... I think that one of the many ways to judge the skills of a band is to see the way they handle the songs of other bands...... the way a band covers a song tells us a lot of its personality...... they can take the song and remake it as a copy-and-paste of the original version without changing anything, or they can turn it upside-down-inside-out transforming it as their style and their taste...... sometimes with a good result, sometimes with a really bad result...... for example......

For me, this is a good cover

CHILDREN OF BODOM - oops i did it again - originally from Britney Spears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGtXlBbWeB4

a cover version can be made as a tribute to the original artist, but also only for fun...... maybe some true-defender here can have something to say about Britney Spears...... I say that, first, she is surely a good chick and as pop singer has pulled out some good tunes...... anyway...... I like the original version, and I really like the CHILDREN version, very funny with the screams of Alexi on those silly lyrics

On the other side, a cover that I don't really like

SUIDAKRA - marooned - originally from RUNNING WILD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvPDS17QgpQ

maybe it's because this is one of my favourite RUNNING WILD songs, but the sensation is that here SUIDAKRA wanted to put in too much of all their styles (screams, pipes, crunching guitars, double pedal bass drums) making out something that, for me, is only confusion...... the original, from the bombastic initial riff to the end, is an injection of adrenaline and melody up the ass, but here, I'm sorry, the SUIDAKRA cover is a f - - king mess......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=navYuSDt53U

I was just in the store in Germany and heard this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH0JIB21YtI
She has a nice voice but come oooon this song is not to be sung by a woman!
Though James Hetfield nowadays is pretty much a bitch himself...

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(06-13-2015, 06:12 PM)dimanlev Писал(а): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=navYuSDt53U

Whahahahhahahahaha that one is really fucking awful

(06-13-2015, 06:12 PM)dimanlev Писал(а): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=navYuSDt53U

this guy is f - - king sick

(06-13-2015, 06:24 PM)beernd Писал(а): I was just in the store in Germany and heard this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH0JIB21YtI
She has a nice voice but come oooon this song is not to be sung by a woman!

mmm...... great voice and good cover, maybe it would be better on the original version, not this orchestral version...... the girl is a beautiful chick....... metallica...... they aren't

ok...... another good cover, that I think is a great kick in the ass

ALIEN ANT FARM - smooth criminal - originally from Michael Jackson





this is what I call a personal and origina re-interpretation of a classic song

Ok, this one is not a cover but check it out...and be amazed Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6DmHGYy_xk

it's disgusting

let's try to come back with something of more...... evil......

DISSECTION - elizabeth bathory - originally from TORMENTOR





a version not so different from the original black metal classic, but equally good and even more powerful

That wasn't evil enough for you?
I have yet some others up my sleeve but i don't even dare to put them on this site... it will get me banned here

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Ok, how about this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaHarYdJ2O8 and the original is... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-tLEpT_6-E
Both versions are awesome i have to say

DISCHARGE what a classic

ok...... then, from the same album, a cover that I relly like

METALLICA - blitzkrieg - originally from BLITZKRIEG





a song that in his semplicity has all the primal seeds of what later will be the first METALLICA masterpieces......

Or... this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuDx6_PLIVk
Covered by Slayer which became this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXsOJsXpDcE

Damn good cover by a damn good band!
Seen Slayer 2 times and beaten up some ppl in the pit.
God i loved the pit when i was younger...

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(06-13-2015, 10:02 PM)tears_of_fire Писал(а): DISCHARGE what a classic

ok...... then, from the same album, a cover that I relly like

METALLICA - blitzkrieg - originally from BLITZKRIEG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouMjv8ntVds

a song that in his semplicity has all the primal seeds of what later will be the first METALLICA masterpieces......

Yesssss good old times for Metallica.
Unfortunately i saw them in 2004 when they already had kicked out the best bassplayer in the world...

and now...... let's talk about VAN CANTO...... surely this band has its original personality, with their vocal "DON DIGHI-DON DIGHI-DON DIGHI-DON" and all along their discography the've made a lot of covers, more or less good than the original versions, but always made new by their "a capella" interpretation...... so, from this long list, it's obvious and natural for me to chose this one

VAN CANTO - the final countdown - originally from EUROPE





because, as we've already said, I'm an ancient one, an old metal-head, in the 80s I was a kid and this is a great classic from those years......