Covers/Tributes

[mattz1010]

Personally, I like them.

at least, the ones I've heard. Sometimes, songs are 'covered', but turn out...horribly, so to speak.

There's also a small difference, too.

Cover = where you attempt to sound like the original
Tribute = where you use your band's "sound" and do the song, in your style.

Basically, what do you like, and what covers/tributes do you have?

I have...

Both the original and the cover of:

Aces High (Iron Maiden - O; Children of Bodom - T)
Back in Black (AC/DC - O; Steriogram - C)
Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath - O; Iced Earth - T)
Electric Funeral (Black Sabbath - O; Iced Earth - T)
Eye of the Beholder (Metallica - O; In Flames - C)
Hallowed Be Thy Name (Iron Maiden - O; Iced Earth - C/T)
Highway to Hell (AC/DC - O; Iced Earth - T)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (Iron Maiden - O; In Flames - C/T)
The Number of the Beast (Iron Maiden - O; Iced Eart - T)
Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix - O; Tangerine Dream - C, w/o vocals)
The Ripper (Judas Priest - O; Iced Earth - T)

Songs I don't have the originals for, and am looking for:

All tributes done by Iced Earth


Creatures of the Night (KISS)
Burnin' For You (Blue Oyster Cult)
God of Thunder (KISS)
Screaming for Vengeance (Judas Priest )
Dead Babies (Alice Cooper)
Cities On Flame (Blue Oyster Cult)
It's A Long Way To The Top (AC/DC)

[Posh Jibbons]

I like Muse' cover/tribute/whatever of The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun

In Flames cover of Eye of the Beholder is great, I heard it on a friends iPod, and have yet to get it myself. I think I'll do that right now.

[denacioust]

Johnny Cash does some great covers, Hurt (Nine Inch Nails), If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot).

Also Jose Gonzales - Heartbeats (The Knife)
Creedence Clearwater - Heard It Through The Grapevine (Marvin Gaye)
Otis Redding - Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)

[RocketSoldier]

Tool does a cover of No Quarter by Led Zeppelin.

I have both versions.

[ssgtGrimreaper]

Iced Earth did a cover of Transylvania by Iron Maiden.
I don't have either version, but it's on the albums Iron Maiden and Horror Show.

[mattz1010]

Ah, you're right. I totally forgot about that.

There's 3 covers on the Melancholy EP: The Ripper, Electric Funeral, and Shooting Star (by Bad Company, originally).

I don't have the original of No Quarter, RS would you mind uploading it?

Posh, I've got the song, I'm uploading it as we speak. I'll edit once it finishes.

(actually, when I finish mah game :P)

[Posh Jibbons]

Actually I found the entire Artifacts of In Flames collection on my computer, so thanks anyway.

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Tenacious D does a tribute to the greatest song in the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aytaDVMlTlE

[mattz1010]

Actually I found the entire Artifacts of In Flames collection on my computer, so thanks anyway.

Sweet.

Is that, like, every song? From that torrent? I got the same one, then I guess.

[Posh Jibbons]

Yeah, I think I downloaded their whole Discogrophy a while back, so I should have everything except their latest album.

[zafarat]

Rise Against does a sweet Anyway You Want It by Journey tribute. They also do some sweet Black Flag covers like Fix Me and Nervous Breakdown. The Bled also does a cool tribute of Nervous Breakdown.

Edit: I forgot Primus' tribute of Master of Puppets.

[mattz1010]

And I forgot In Flames' cover of "Land of Confusion". originally by Genesis.

Come Clarity is their latest album, isn't it? That's the one I've got.

[Woolfenstien]

Song - Original/Cover

Battery - Metallica/Ensiferium
Aerie Descent - Thorns/Emperor
Cromlech - Darkthrone/Emperor
A Fine Day To Die - Bathory/Emperor
Gypsy - Merciful Fate/Emperor
Funeral Fog - Mayhem/Emperor
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath/Anthrax
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath/Amon Amarth
Got The Time - ???/Anthrax
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden/Cradle of Filth
Cars - Gary Numan/Fear Factory
Black Metal - Venom/Satyricon (They played it live once, never released on an album).
Exciter - Judas Priest/Strapping Young Lad
Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode/??? (It was a metal band other than Marilyn Manson. It was amazingly good, I heard it on Chronix Aggression Radio)

Those are all the metal covers that have stuck in my head.

[Posh Jibbons]

Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode/??? (It was a metal band other than Marilyn Manson. It was amazingly good, I heard it on Chronix Aggression Radio)

Orgy (the name of the band that covered it, not an invitation)

[zafarat]

Orgy (the name of the band that covered it, not an invitation)Can't it be both? :D

[Posh Jibbons]

Oh ####, you know what... I might be wrong... It might be a band called Blue Monday, sorry.

(zaf: why the hell not)

EDIT:: Upon further investigation, I conclude that I have no freaking idea who covered it, as it has been covered more than three trillion times.

EDIT:: Upon further investigation, it appears that I am indeed a ####ing retard. Blue Monday is an Orgy song...

[zafarat]

Oh ####, you know what... I might be wrong... It might be a band called Blue Monday, sorry.

(zaf: why the hell not)

EDIT:: Upon further investigation, I conclude that I have no freaking idea who covered it, as it has been covered more than three trillion times.Well it can't be an orgy with only two people. I forgot that I had a whole fecking CD of 80's covers, it's called Punk Goes 80's.

[mattz1010]

I suppose I could join.

I've also got:

the Cars cover, as by FF

and a Good Times Roll cover, as done by Powerman 5000. Not sure who the original's by.

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Would Richard Cheese be considered a cover artist or tribute or something?

[Mod#4]

I think he's a cover artist.

[helloskinny12]

I forgot Primus' tribute of Master of Puppets.

You don't EVAR forget Primus! I like Primus's cover of "Hello Skinny" @ Woodstock '94 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSSu1gYRE-U) and the Original Residents song. That's why I named myself helloskinny12.:D

[e p]

This is a one year bump.

But to be on topic, Me First and The Gimme Gimmes is a great cover band.

[mattz1010]

Wow, I make topics?


I didn't know that.


Children of Bodom have a LOT of covers, though/

[I Faw Down]

Isnt the ripper Judas Priest?

[mattz1010]

I must have been thinking The Trooper when I wrote that. fixed

[MushroomMammoth]

Sorry fer bumps, but Rodrigo y Gabriela's cover of Stairway to Heaven was the dankest. I like it way more then the original Led Zeppelin song.

[greendayrox2]

fallout boy did a cover of basket case by Green day and Green day did a cover of we are the champions.

[theryman]

I really liked Black Eyed Pea's tribute of the 'Power to the People' by John Lennon. Really, the Instant Karma cd is full of win.

[Lumeh]

Alien Ant Farm's cover of Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal".

[ssgtGrimreaper]

Oh!
How can anyone forget Apocalyptica's covers of Metallica?

[ʕÎnsąnitÿʔ]

Between The Buried And Me's album "The Anatomy of (http://wc09.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kzfwxqudldae)" is full of covers/tributes. All of them are good.

[violenceman]

We do covers, mostly Metallica and Pantera. We also do some tributes for dead musicians like Burton Dimebag Darrell John Lennonn etc

[mattz1010]

Oh!
How can anyone forget Apocalyptica's covers of Metallica?

How about Apocalyptica's covers of..anything they did a cover of? Domination by Pantera was pretty epic

Dream Theater has a ####LOAD of covers, including the full album of Master of Puppets, Dark Side of the Moon, and The Number of the Beast (done live!)

And a bunch of random covers found on their A Change of Seasons EP (which, oddly enough, is longer than your average grindcore or deathgrind album. lol.) It's actually a really long EP anyway, being about an hour long.