MTG Salvation

What do you fans of the heavier stuff think of rock/metal arrangements/covers of pop songs? YouTube is positively teeming with them.

I figure even if you don't normally like those songs, you might like the different take on them.

A couple of examples:
http://www.youtube.com/bliix - many rock/metal remixes of pop songs (with the original acapellas)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzoWNQqnEQ - death metal cover of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream", synced to a video of Katy performing it

Kind of along the same lines is Richard Cheese who does Lounge music versions of pop/metal/rap every kind of music. You might like it.

I guess the people making heavy versions of light songs are the flip side of people making lighter versions of heavier songs. (I haven't listened to Richard Cheese, but I do likes me some Vitamin String Quartet)

One of my favorite bands is Me First and The Gimme Gimmes. They are a punk "supergroup" they only do covers and each of their cds has a theme such as country songs and R&B songs (I believe I can fly is especially good). My personal favorite thing about them is that they have a live cd that was recorded at a batmitzvah. They do some great covers if you are into the pop-punk genre.

Quote from KingAlanI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzoWNQqnEQ - death metal cover of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream", synced to a video of Katy performing it

That was bad. It sounded like a pissed-off Cookie Monster.

Though I have always been partial to the rock/metal arrangements of Donkey Kong Country themes floating around YouTube.

Good cover of Tik Tok by a band called Mureau.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bISKLDNeZYY

Quote from KingAlanI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzoWNQqnEQ - death metal cover of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream", synced to a video of Katy performing it

This was really bad. Metal should never be lyrically focused, and should focus on the music. This just has "generic metal riff" on repeat with some guy pretending to be Nathan Explosion. TMM gave a better example since it actually follows the music of Tik Tok instead of using their own.

Covers in general can be great, but only if the band takes the sheet music and makes it their own.

In Flames did a great cover of Everything Counts by Depeche Mode on their album Whoracle.

Northern Kings are a band headed by four amazing power metal vocalists who do power metal covers of very popular and recognizable pop songs.
Take On Me
Kiss From a Rose
Don't Stop Believin'
Creep

You reminded me.
Northern Kings did a cover of A-Has "Take On Me"
">Take On Me (by A-Ha) cover

Ah, so that Teenage Dream cover was just plain bad and not just "I don't like the genre" bad, as said by people who actually do like the genre.

Some of the offbeat selections on Metallica's Garage Inc. also come to mind.
(Tuesday's Gone and Turn The Page for instance)

I do like that TiK ToK cover.

They're pretty good.
I love the chugging guitar in Bad Romance. Brutal.
Wish there was more screaming though.
EDIT: Also, I'll just leave this here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awbxWrD7Czo&feature=related

those two links pleasantly reminded me of what the bliix guy does (he sets the original vocals to rock/metal instrumentation instead of a full cover)

It felt slightly weird to hear that metal guy singing the repetitive pop chorus of Umbrella, but other than that his cover seems ace.

Good job to the guys who did the Bad Romance cover, even though it's not my personal favorite style.

I loaded it up awhile ago, but as I actually went to play it, a different cover of Bad Romance (by 30 Seconds To Mars) came up on my media library shuffler. LOL.

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I'll just leave this here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awbxWrD7Czo&feature=related

Another LOL.
If I go to a show and unexpectedly hear a cover of a pop song I know, I'll sing along even if I'm one of the few who knows it.
I did do this when Shael Riley And The Double Ice Backfire played their chiptune arrangement of Poker Face. (Poker Face, at 4.2 times, is actually the single song I've most often heard played live.)

This (Ten masked men covering Justin Timberlake)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVLAZtAcUBk

Quote from Mortisia

I find this perfect cover also : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qToq_VQ8cN0&feature=related

Melodic metal version of Madonna's La Isla Bonita. Nice.

Surprised nobody has posted this yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfMa2lrFxhY

Check out Northern Kings. They have a couple albums of metal covers of... non metal covers.

A few are decent; personally I think their cover of Radiohead's Creep is quite good, in that it's actually creepy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrqnmRDKm2U

And of course, some aren't so good... like Don't Stop Believin, or their cover of Billy Idol's rebel yell, which they made incredibly slow and strange.

Also, apparently Children of Bodom did a cover of Oops I did it again. It's ... different to say the least.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_Goes

Essentially every song of each of those albums is what you are looking for(the later ones suck but Punk Goes Crunk is amazing).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y7HK41drIo

I'm surprised no one put any of these up-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d7-2wooB9g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_IgYSIAMbQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iudq4bduStE

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I'm surprised no one put any of these up-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d7-2wooB9g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_IgYSIAMbQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iudq4bduStE

It crossed my mind.