Cover me up: Metal covers pop III

Another bundle of metal covers of pop songs. Really tried to come up with some more recognizable, but it wasn't that easy.



SugarComa - Crazy (Britney Spears)



Yngwie Malmsteen - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (ABBA)



Volbeat - I Only Wanna Be With You (Dusty Springfield)



Judas Priest - Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)



Knorkator - All That She Wants (Ace of Base)



New Found Glory - My Heart Will Go On (Celine Dion)



Guano Apes - Big in Japan (Alphaville)



Raintime - Beat It (Michael Jackson)



Sonic Syndicate - All About Us (t.A.T.u)



Lillasyster - Umbrella (Rihanna)

Cover me up: Metal covers pop I

To be honest I am not that much of a cover-versions-fan, but there are some covers that happen to be better than the original. Recently I was listening to Paradise Lost when it struck me all of a sudden that their "Small Town Boy" was in fact a cover of the 80s hit single by Bronski Beat. Half an hour later I was digging lists of cover version of various popular songs and it's not that much of a surprise that even performers from the rang of Madonna have covered at least one song throughout their career. Hence, I decided to create a few lists of my own with covers that you might possibly know or at least enjoy. Still, if you don't like them or find them of poor quality you can only blame the musicians. I am just the one with the lists.

I decided to start with metal covers of pop songs as they tend to be most fun to compare to the original and most are quite original of their own.



Dope - You Spin Me Right Round (Dead or Alive)



Theatre of Tragedy - You Keep Me Hangin' On (The Supremes)



Paradise Lost - Small Town Boy (Bronski Beat)



To/Die/For - (I Just) Died In Your Hands (Cutting Crew)



Machinae Supremacy - Gimme More (Britney Spears)



Rammstein - Das Modell (Kraftwerk)



Helloween - Lay All Your Love On Me (ABBA)



Gamma Ray - It's a Sin (Pet Shop Boys)



Deftones - To Have and To Hold (Depeche Mode)



Within Temptation - Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush)

Sertab Erener vs Madonna

No, this is not an episode of Celebrity Deathmatch, just a little showdown, which includes an original and a cover version of it. Even if you don't like Madonna there is a high probability that you have heard her song "Music" at least once in a lifetime. On the other hand you have never actually showed interest in the Eurovision song contest or kept track of the winners Sertab Erener will be of no significance to you. She won Eurovision 2003 in Riga, Latvia with her song "Everyway That I Can", although she has been a prominent name in the Turkish music scene for quite a long time. Anyways, what matters now is the original cover of "Music" she has made and that I got to hear as I watched "Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul" by Fatih Akın. The rendition carries the spirit of Orienta mixed with the electronica of the West and to be honest I do like the final product...to some extend it sounds even better than the original, despite being sung by the one and only Madonna!

Ten of my favourite cover songs

Have you ever thought how much of the music we hear every single day is actually original? If you exclude all songs that use samples or that are covers you may be surprised to realize that contemporary music, despite being up to date is lying on the secure foundations of music that has established itself. Cover songs are nothing to be ashamed of, even if you happen to be a super star and sometimes they could be the best mean to attract more attention.

I had to narrow down myself to JUST ten of my favourite cover songs as they turned out to be way too many for a single post. Anyways, they have been randomly selected, but all of them are in one way or another significant to me.



Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb (orig. Pink Floyd)



Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus (orig. Depeche Mode)



Jose Gonzales - Teardrop (orig. Massive Attack)



Angelzoom - Crawling (orig. Linkin Park)



Placebo - Running Up That Hill (orig. Kate Bush)



Madonna - Fever (orig. Eddie Cooley & Otis Blackwell)



Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit (orig. Nirvana)



Apoptygma Berzerk - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses



Sinead O'connor - Nothing Compares 2 U (orig. The Family)



Röyksopp - Go With the Flow (orig. Queens of the Stone Age)