worst and best cover songs?

Originally posted by Myth
I think most of my favorites have already been listed, so I'll just list a couple other covers I really enjoy that I don't think have been listed yet:

Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus & Highway to Hell (and any Manson cover for that matter)

Worst
Marilyn Manson - Iron Man

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Originally posted by steverules_2
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I meant "many" Manson covers, not "any" Manson covers. 😉

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Best:

Atreyu ~ You Give Love A Bad Name

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Puts Rihanna's original to shame

Originally posted by occultdestroyer
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Puts Rihanna's original to shame

No it doesn't 😱

Nirvana - Man who sold the world

Avril Lavigne - Knockin on heavens door ack!

Best: Beck-Green Light (originally by Sonic Youth from the EVOL album)

Worst: Limp Bizkit-You Know You're Right (originally by Nirvana from the Nirvana album)

Best: No quater, Tool, Salival album. Originally Led zeppelin, houses of the holy.
Worst: Atreyu, you give love a bad name.
Originally Bon jovi, no sure what album.

The most awesome thing about Beck's cover is that he takes a song that was essentially a rocked out, dissonant, noise fest in GGDD#D# tuning on dilapidated guitars played through overheating valve amps and he somehow pulse off a sincere, acoustic version in what sounds like standard tuning.

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facepalm

Some songs are better left untouched.

Worst

"Astro Zombies" - by My Chemical Romance

Those talentless assholes should have never touched anything by the Misfits.

The best: Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower, Neil Young's A Day in the Life, Muse's I'm Feeling Good, Lou Reed's Foot of Pride (Dylan), the Man Who Sold the World & Meat Puppets covers by Nirvana on MTV Unplugged

The worst: Peter Gabriel's Street Spirit (Radiohead), My Chemical Romance's Desolation Row

BEST:

Johnny Cash ~ Hurt
(no disrespect to the old man, but the original is still at least x10 better)

WORST:

Iron and Wine ~ Such Great Heights
(facepalm Goddam it, leave the ****in' song alone!)

Best:

Lion - Transformer's Theme Song

GWAR - School's Out

Balzac - The Day The Earth Caught On Fire

Worst:

My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row

WORST:

Evanescence ~ Tourniquet
(Shit happens when you mix Christian death metal with rotten Bubblegum Pop)

I liked Motorhead's cover of Enter Sandman more than the original honestly.

Killswitch Engage should die for their Holy Diver cover.

Originally posted by NemeBro

Killswitch Engage should die for their Holy Diver cover.

facepalm @ KSE