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Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: XaviarCraig on November 15, 2007, 10:59:46 pm: I recently picked up a copy of the newest Children of Bodom album - Are You Dead Yet? And it has two bonus song covers... The first is a cover of britany spears' oops I did it again! I kid you not!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy1Jki4TT9c&feature=related
I think its pretty good, but I cant help but laugh every time I hear it!

The second cover was of a poison song, Talk Dirty to Me. Its equally as entertaining!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ex9j7LkkRw

So, whats your opinion of metal bands covering pop songs? I think its awesome and they need to do it more! Makes otherwise... weak sounding music pretty good!
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: cowardknower on November 16, 2007, 02:34:39 pm: music as it should be

inall seriousness that first cover is awesome. i used it in my music business class last year for a project.
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: Evangel on November 16, 2007, 02:59:16 pm: http://youtube.com/watch?v=EX9BGhbfkHk ahahahahaha

i actually forgot how much this band sucks. they did an entire cover album like this
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: Pepoke on November 16, 2007, 06:27:04 pm: Now that I think about it, oops I did it again could pass as an emo song, if covered right. In matter of fact, Im pretty sure all of spears songs could.
And sweet cover. Its ten times better than the original, imo. Covering old pop songs with metal is a nice idea...but like any cover you risk completely ruining the song.
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: XxSylverxX on November 17, 2007, 01:08:44 am: the last horse finally crosses the finish, rebel yell was way better though.
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: Cheshire Cat on November 17, 2007, 01:17:14 am: There's a English band called Ten Masked Men who do this kind of thing.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Az-dyVmUU&feature=related
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: Sludgelord on November 17, 2007, 04:55:02 am: death metal? covering pop? thats too zany
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: tomohawkjoe on November 17, 2007, 08:09:29 am: Quote from: Cheshire Cat on November 17, 2007, 01:17:14 am
There's a English band called Ten Masked Men who do this kind of thing.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Az-dyVmUU&feature=related
That sounds an awful lot like Cannibal Corpse's cover (the only death metal band mentioned so far in this thread)
I think Cannibal Corpse also did a cover of AC/DC's she shook me all night long, I think being the key word here.
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: DS on November 17, 2007, 08:17:20 am: I used to have Ten Masked Men albums because I was kinda interested how they'd pull it off but seriously, their music sucks. The songs aren't even funny. :(
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: PTizzle on November 17, 2007, 08:27:31 am: Children of Bodom did a cover of The Final Countdown or something similar didn't they?
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: Orange00 on November 17, 2007, 02:02:23 pm: haha, yeah heard this. COB is great.

There's also this gathering of finnish metal peeps, including Tony Kakko, Marco Hietala, Jarkko Ahola and J-P Leppäluoto called Northern Kings. They cover 80s pop-songs (at the moment), it's symphonic metal or power metal (I'm too confused with all the genres.. it's metal, yes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKwQKqQ8MMY, here's cover of Tina Turners We don't need another hero..

EDIT: my Are You Dead Yet?, ,, doesn't have any extra :fogetcry:
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: RM2KFiend on November 17, 2007, 03:01:45 pm: Quote from: PTizzle on November 17, 2007, 08:27:31 am
Children of Bodom did a cover of The Final Countdown or something similar didn't they?

No, it even says on Wikipedia that they didnt. It doesn't say who it was actually done by either.
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: Von Woofen on November 17, 2007, 04:57:20 pm: As far as I know, Norther did the cover of Final Countdown, but it sounds so much like Children of Bodom that everyone thinks they did it.
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: XaviarCraig on November 19, 2007, 04:23:41 pm: I now have all studio albums from Children of Bodom and I do not see anything on the track list about covering the final countdown. I would guess if they did it was unofficial.
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: XaviarCraig on November 19, 2007, 04:24:40 pm: Quote from: XaviarCraig on November 19, 2007, 04:23:41 pm
I now have all studio albums from Children of Bodom and I do not see anything on the track list(s) about covering the final countdown. I would guess if they did it was unofficial.
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: dark_crystalis on November 20, 2007, 01:12:25 am: Quote from: XaviarCraig on November 19, 2007, 04:23:41 pm
I now have all studio albums from Children of Bodom and I do not see anything on the track list about covering the final countdown. I would guess if they did it was unofficial.
Or that it might be on the Japanese edition of their cd or on some rare version or EP.

Edit: Norther are the ones that covered The Final Countdown on their album Dream of Endless War. However, CoB did cover the Ramones, Stone, Britney Spears and Poison
Title: Death metal covering Pop!
Post by: RM2KFiend on November 20, 2007, 01:23:25 am: Actually, I just found out it was by the band Dispatched and it was on their album Motherwar.

Edit: I think Wikipedia is deceiving us.