Best rock/metal cover of a non-rock song?

Bonus points if you can post up which MTB vid it was in!

Completely forgot about this –

& can’t believe no one has mentioned any of these….

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:

Metallica – Turn the page

Within Temptation – Somebody that I used to know

Within Temptation – Skyfall

Within Temptation – Titanium

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

Depends on whether you class U2 as ‘non-rock’
Disturbed – I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

Therion – Summer Night City

Excellent thread , many of the above are already guilty pleasures 8)

Amazed no-one’s posted this yet.

Not sure if it’s been posted?

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

No, no London date for some reason.

Been pondering this, and I think I’ve got the definitive rock cover of a non rock song!

Original as it ought to sound

The greatest cover ever :

90s Bremen HC legends Systral improving on Kylie…

Gwar, teaching Billy Ocean a lesson or two…

Cave In, being far far superior to The Cure…

Joy Division classic “Warsaw”, as done live by some Romulans from San Diego…

Snuff – I think we’re alone now.

Four year Strong- Spiderwebs (No Doubt)
Rage Against The Machine – I’m Housin’ (EPMD)
Korn – Wicked (Ice Cube)

Glad the Rage covers have been mentioned, personal faves from that album are Renegades, Street Fighting Man and Maggie’s Farm.

On a similar vein, Deftones have done a fair few covers – whole album here;

Not a band I normally have much time for, but gotta love Limp Bizkit’s version of George Michael’s Faith

Jesus – 3 pages in before we got any AV Club GWAR covers 😉

Here’s more 😀

Some Kansas – Carry on My Wayward Son

And Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls into Jim Carroll Band – People Who Died (reworked for Dave Brockie / Oderus Orungus)

Beautiful.

Another one in the guilty pleasure camp…

Steel panther – I want it that way
Celdweller – tragedy
Joey ramone – wonderful world
A day to remember – since u been gone
Placebo – daddy cool
Fall out boy- beat it
New found glory – kiss me
Reel big fish – take on me
The Ataris – boys of the summer
Me first and the gimme gimmes – sloop john B

And if you want to try a switcheroo, Paul anka’s Rock swings cover album is a giggle.

I’ll put links up tomorrow if work isn’t busy 🙂