Hurt by Johnny Cash
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Nirvana version of "where did you sleep last night"
Their cover of "Lake of Fire" is also good (though the original is great on its own)
All 3 Meatpuppets covers are so good. I like how they had one or both? Of them on stage.
Unplugged in New York is my favorite album of theirs.
I wanna be like you (jungle book) by psychedelic porn crumpets. Give it a try, it's good.
Sultans of Swing (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli feat. Mary Spender)
Cover - check
Popular song - check
From 80s or 90s - check
Redone into metal - check
Female vocalist - check!
Bonus song: Manhattan Skyline by Ihsahn feat. Einar Solberg
It's not harder than the original, but Ihsahn and Einar are some of the most influential metal musicians out there
Placebo's version of Running up that Hill is the definitive version. Fight me.
Agreed. I also like their cover of Where's My Mind.
I used to agree. But I heard so little of the Kate Bush version, that when stranger things used it. I like her version better now
Joe Jacksons cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Oh, Well" rocks! The Ramones cover of the old 1960's Spiderman TV theme song was excellent! Nancy Griffith's cover of "Tecumseh Valley" by Townes Van Zandt always leaves a lump in my throat.
Thunderstruck by Walk Off the Earth. Female vocalist, a wild twist on instuments that just seems to work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RnGkIxhFGU
Maphra
Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen/John Cale's Hallelujah is the definitive version.
Please Don't Touch by Motorhead/Girl School
Originally recorded in 1959 by Johnny Kid and the Pirates
Boys of Summer - The Ataris
Don Henley's 1984 version is nice, but this early 00s power pop version hits so good.
That's actually sort of why I made this thread is because of that cover
Wow! Same wavelength!
It is such a good song.
Covers of popular songs
Okay...
from the 80s or 90s
...ah, fuck. Yeah, the original is from 2013 😄
redone today into a hard rock or metal version.
Check!
Bonus if it's a female vocalist.
Well, 2 out of 3 is good enough: Take Me to Church by The Agonist
Joint State (South African rock band) covering Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode.
The band Tragedy started out as a heavy metal BeeGees cover band, I believe, but expanded to do hard rock covers of disco, pop, and adult contemporary staples. I'm not a big Abba fan but I love every one of this band's covers and their cover of Madonna's Borderline.
Hurt - Johnny Cash
The Shrek 2 'fairy godmother' cover of I Need a Hero is far more enjoyable than the original one imo.
Others that come to mind have already been listed here..
Honestly, most anything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, a pop punk band I used to listen to a lot in the oughts that strictly performs covers. Favs include “My Boyfriends Back” “Stand By Your Man” and “Sloop John B”
GWAR did a cover of Pink Pony Club
It's infinitely better to the original. I known it's a new song. I don't care.
Wind Rose - Diggy Diggy Hole
Fucking this! This lives in my head rent free.
I know it's probably not what you're asking for but there's an album where a bunch of Japanese anime voice actresses did covers for popular songs from the 80s and 90s. It called Voice Actresses Legendary Punk Songs Collection and here's a playlist that has most of the songs (one of them is unavailable for some reason).
Outside of that, I mostly only know bands who have covers of video game music (and some movies) from the 80s and 90s. If you are counting those, here are some examples of them:
Lighting Strikes Again and Metal Squad from Thunder Force IV by SSH. SSH is known for metal covers of old video game music, so this is just one example of his music.
Cranial Syphon by Armcannon, which is a cover of some song from Metroid but I'm not familiar with that game so I don't know what it is exactly. On top of covers for other video game music, they also have stuff like the Ghostbuster's theme.
Kraid by Metroid Metal, which is obviously another metroid song (possibly the same one). There music was a bit hard to find on YouTube, I've forgotten where I first heard their music before but Youtube might not be the best platform to find the rest of their music.
Battle Scene from Final fantasy by The Black Mages. While they are currently disbanded, they were known for rock/metal covers of music from the Final Fantasy games (which makes sense given that the band was created by Nobuo Uematsu himself). They did briefly rebrand as "Earthbound Papas" for one album because not only did they want to cover more than just the Final Fantasy games but they also wanted to branch out to more genres.
I know for sure that there are some that I'm forgetting and there's also some that I don't feel like looking for examples for (mainly artists who've covered the music from the 90s era Touhou games). If asked, I may do through and provide them but I think I've provided more than enough already.
Hailstorm doing Daft Punk’s Get Lucky is one of my favorite songs of all time.
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Johnny Cash's version of Hurt https://open.spotify.com/track/28cnXtME493VX9NOw9cIUh
It's officially the original now as per Trent Reznor.
Sleep Theory - Bye Bye Bye by NSYNC.
Bad Wolves - Zombie by The Cranberries.
Daughtry - Separate Ways by Journey.
5 Finger Death Punch - Bad Company by Bad Company.
All that Remains - The Thunder Rolls by Garth Brooks.
Disturbed - The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel.
Disturbed - Land of Confusion by Genesis.
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson.
A Day To Remember - Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson.
Electric Callboy - Everytime We Touch by Cascada.
Framing Handly - Lollipop by Lil Wayne.
Our Last Night - Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush.
There's definitely more, but those are some that I've enjoyed, sorry no I females in the list though, except a collab on Separate Ways.
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AWOL nations got a cover album a couple years ago. There is at least one Abba song on it.
Chris Cornell did a couple of covers I cant get enough of. Acoustic Nothing Compares to you.
And a cover/mashup of Metallica's Ones lyrics to U2s One Lyrics which is amazing.
I follow a guy called Leo Morachioli who does metal covers of popular songs. I really enjoy Leo's version of toss a coin to your witcher and also his cover over final countdown. His videos are rad.
Lourdes all along the watchtower is good
Alien Ant Farm did a fun cover of Smooth Criminal is good too
I also love Chris Cornell's NCTY and damn near anything by Leo Morachioli..
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The track I’m recommending is the Postmodern Jukebox cover of Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” featuring Ariana Savalas on vocals.
For your requirements
popular song
Yes - the original got a ton of airplay on MTV and radio in the early 90s
from the 80s or 90s
Yes
hard rock or metal version
Nope
female vocalist
Yes
Link:
If Savalas sounds familiar, her dad is the actor Telly Savalas.
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Original by David Bowie 1977.
motörhead recorded the cover version while recording their last album in 2015.
Generally I would say I like the music of Bowie better than motörhead, but in this case, their cover of his song is better than the original.
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