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Posted : 07/08/2015 10:22 pm
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or how about Metallica doing Dire Straits?


 
Posted : 07/08/2015 10:23 pm
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Not strictly in line with the OP, but how about Motorhead covering Metallica?


 
Posted : 07/08/2015 10:25 pm
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or how about Metallica doing Dire Straits?

No no no no no no no. Metallica: Please, just stop it! Now! Not only are you dragging your legacy through the mud, you are also ruining other people's songs.


 
Posted : 07/08/2015 10:28 pm
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nazareth doing joni mitchell has always been a fave...


 
Posted : 07/08/2015 10:30 pm
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August Burns Red doing Britney Spears is surprisingly good (if you know what I mean)

A topic for another thread (and another season) but their Christmas album is also great


 
Posted : 07/08/2015 10:34 pm
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I Prevail - Blank Space (Taylor Swift)


 
Posted : 07/08/2015 10:46 pm
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I LOVE this kind of stuff. Who can beat [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tribute_to_ABBA ]an entire album of German punk/metal bands covering ABBA songs[/url]?


 
Posted : 07/08/2015 10:47 pm
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I really need to stop now...


 
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In work so flying blind. Please tell me thats a link to Louie Louie!

Yep.


 
Posted : 07/08/2015 10:50 pm
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I always thought that Gimmi Gimmi Gimmi by ABBA would make a great metal cover.


 
Posted : 07/08/2015 11:00 pm
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maybe one more


 
Posted : 07/08/2015 11:00 pm
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If we're doing mashups. THIS is a mashup.

So is this.


 
Posted : 07/08/2015 11:04 pm
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I always thought that Gimmi Gimmi Gimmi by ABBA would make a great metal cover.

Your wish is my command....


 
Posted : 07/08/2015 11:06 pm
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I won't post it because it's the diametric opposite of the theme of this thread, but while I remember, the Cardigans' version of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is worth a listen.


 
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Posted : 07/08/2015 11:31 pm
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I always thought that Gimmi Gimmi Gimmi by ABBA would make a great metal cover.

Though if I'm posting therapy covers then it's got to be...


 
Posted : 07/08/2015 11:42 pm
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Rammstein Das Model

Banging version of das model!


 
Posted : 08/08/2015 12:08 am
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Can I have Eloise by The Damned?
Not heavy metal but never mind.


 
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If it's ABBA covers you're after...

...and Rammstein covering Depeche Mode


 
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Cream doing Crossroad


 
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We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

Bad Blood

Love me some Taylor Swift..


 
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best thread for ages this! loving the Taylor Swift!


 
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On the other side of the coin... Tori Amos covering Slayer:


 
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Further Seems Forever - bye bye bye (nsync)


Coheed and Cambria - a rush and a push and the land is our (smiths)


 
Posted : 08/08/2015 9:14 am
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If we're flipping the coin for Tori Amos then this:


 
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CoF doing heaven 17

CoF doing CLiffs devil woman


 
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@mikey good shout with ignite. You going to see them? Tour (uk but starts tomorrow).


 
Posted : 08/08/2015 9:40 am
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Extreme noise terror coving KLF 3am eternal although it was with Bill Drummond as a last up yours to the music industry before walking away from it all at the brits 92.


 
Posted : 08/08/2015 9:44 am
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Ministry covering Dylan


 
Posted : 08/08/2015 9:48 am
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excellent stuff especially the White Stripes and Jolene

the Pixies from a (mostly) great cover album of Leonard Cohen classics

blasts along


 
Posted : 08/08/2015 10:31 am
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ooh ooh please please, waves hand....I've got another....

The Mission covering Neil Young - used to have this on one of my gym tapes - extended version:


 
Posted : 08/08/2015 12:42 pm
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If we're including covers with the original band joining in:


 
Posted : 08/08/2015 1:17 pm
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Bonus points if you can post up which MTB vid it was in!


 
Posted : 08/08/2015 1:31 pm
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Completely forgot about this -


 
Posted : 08/08/2015 6:25 pm
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Ah, you can't do the Marilyn Manson cover of tainted love, that was an awful copy of what Deathline International did with it years before:


 
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Within Temptation - Skyfall


Within Temptation - Titanium

Within Temptation actually did a whole album of covers, for a Belgian radio station I think.


 
Posted : 08/08/2015 8:07 pm
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Depends on whether you class U2 as 'non-rock'
Disturbed - I still haven't found what I'm looking for


 
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Therion - Summer Night City


 
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Posted : 08/08/2015 8:42 pm
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Excellent thread , many of the above are already guilty pleasures 8)


 
Posted : 08/08/2015 8:47 pm
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Amazed no-one's posted this yet.


 
Posted : 09/08/2015 7:08 am
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Not sure if it's been posted?


 
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