Good song covers and bad song covers...

[Bleaghhh]

Good
Hurt - Johnny Cash
My Generation - Green Day ... old olddddd green day btw..
Here Comes a Regular - Against Me

Bad
Anything which makes metal electronica.

 

[RejectWoW]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUVNjyvyVqs Matt Nathanson covering Princes "Starfish and Coffe". Funky as hell, plus a cover of Staying Alive by the Beegees as a bonus.

Wouldve posted the "Hey Ya" cover, but wont since its already been brought up. Truly a fantastic cover.

 

[Kasawd]

Good: Painkiller covered by Death

Bad: Suicide is painless covered by Marilyn Manson

 

[TheAmazingTGIF]

Desolation Row by My Chemical Romance. The song at the end of the Watchmen movie. Shudders.

 

[Ancientgamer]

static heaven's covers of evanescence are horrible. They even get some vital words outright wrong.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Song to the Siren

Don't like, This Mortal Coil: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuxYIUsKDx0
Do like, Damon and Naomi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuK1dwP4_24

 

[AdmiralWolverineLightningbolt]

pink's so what done by dashboard confessional
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=EBkf-qTUcOo

 

[Captain Pancake]

The McFly cover of don't stop me now was pretty bad.

 

[randommaster]

Nobody's put Gary Jules' cover of Mad World yet.

For bad, I'd have to say Cake's cover of "I Will Survive."

 

[Spitfire175]

Good: Painkiller - Death.
Bad: Childern of Bodom - the horrid Iron Maiden rip-offs.

 

[Blow_Pop]

Good:
Hurt- Johnny Cash
Come on Eileen- Save Ferris
Little ***** - Big D and the Kids Table

oh oh oh oh oh and

Suburban Legends doing covers of:
Under the Sea
I Just Can't Wait to be King
Gummi Bears
Rose Tint My World
On the Outside

Bad:
Britney Spears doing I love Rock and Roll(and I love me my Joan Jett and the Blackhearts)

 

[Dudeakoff]

I tend to like covers that try to do something different with the original song, because what's the point of just repeating a song people have already heard in the same way they've heard it before? (plus it'll never sound as good as the original)

Anyway, bad = Panic at the Disco - Karma Police http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9PlTJpGjrk

TBH it's not too bad until 2:10.

 

[TPiddy]

Good:

Seether's cover of 'Careless Whisper' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTjDbTOmic8&feature=fvst
Five Finger Death Punch's cover of 'Bad Company' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNHlVo0cPa8

Metallica's cover of Turn The Page....

Bad:

Fear Factory's cover of 'Enter Sandman'

 

[Gawspel]

Morphine's "You Speak My Language" redone by Collective Soul was excellent, as is Tears for Fears "Mad World" redone by Gary Jules.

 

[data_not_found]

It's a rickroll cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ceukjOzxZM

I warned you, so I won't get banned, right?

Anyway, that is the worst cover I've heard.

 

[Baldry]

A good one is children of bodom cover of britney spears, oops I did it again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sguF2D1UA

 

[setvak]

Good - Nirvana covering Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" as well as Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" are obvious ones. I know a lot of people didn't like APC's Emotive (more or less a covers album), but their versions of "What's Going On" and "When the Levee Breaks" are just breathtaking.

Bad - Pretty much anything following the "Punk Goes Crunk" mindset, i.e. ironic metalcore covers of pop songs. The "Since You've Been Gone" cover was entertaining, but the trend really should have stopped there.

 

[TaborMallory]

<color=black>Good
Cradle Of Filth - Hell Awaits
Death - Painkiller
Metallica - Astronomy
Moonsorrow - For Whom The Bell Tolls
Opeth - Would? (Can't find a link, sorry; it's on their Burden (Single) CD)
A Perfect Circle - Imagine
Tool - No Quarter
Vader - Raining Blood

<color=black>Bad
Snoop Dogg - Sad But True (Yeah, it's not a real cover, but it's atrocious nonetheless)

<color=black>Amusing!
Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb
Ten Masked Men - White Wedding
A smooth jazz remix - Set To Fail
Richard Cheese - Chop Suey! (And everything else this man does)