No kidding. A large, iceberg-sized turd.

Better:

In Every Dream Home a Heartache - Fields of the Nephilim
Diamonds & Rust - Judas Priest
Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus
Satyricon - Born for Burning
Spirit in the Sky - Doctor & The Medics
Rosalie - Thin Lizzy
ZZ Top - Viva Las Vagas
Gimme Shelter - Sisters of Mercy
Metal Heart - Dimmu Borgir
That Girl - Iron Maiden
Summer Breeze - Type O Negative
Epitaph - In The Woods...


Worse:
The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana (I adore the original)
No Time To Cry - Cradle of Filth
Cummunication Breakdown - Iron Maiden
Changes - Kelly & Ozzy (the original is far better)

Good goth..Well, guess it's about time for me to post in this thread yet again.
Better
Ziggy Stardust-Bauhaus
Sorrow-David Bowie
Telegram Sam-Bauhaus (yet I still do love the original, by a slight range)
Servenance-Bauhaus
Third Uncle-Bauhaus
School's Out-45 Grave
Venus in Furs-Christian Death
Panic In Detriot-Christian Death

Worse
The Man who sold The World-Nirvana
MM-Tainted Love (video rocked IMHO, but the cover was bad)
Any covers by Bon Jovi *shudder*
Goth Forever
Goth Forever
Goth Forever

I had no idea they covered it. I'd be really interested in hearing that. I just hope it's nothing like Fall Out Boy's cover of Love Will Tear us Apart.

GAH! FOB covering Love Will Tear us Apart? Say it isn't so ):

That's musical abuse.
Goth Forever

On the topic of Venus and the Furs Bauhaus did a cover, but I've only ever heard it on Press Eject and Give Me The Tape. The sound quality on that leaves a bit to be desired, so it may be a great cover it may be a terrible cover. The world will just never know off that album.

Manson's covers are dull for the most part.

Bauhaus' seemed to all be boss.

Other than those two I can't think of many covers that are really worth mentioning. Oh yeah, Peter Murphy's cover of Final Solution, so much better than Pere Ubu. Props on a good try to them though.

Good list. Must agree

any, repeat, ANY cover marilyn manson or cradle of filth has ever done was good, except personal jesus but thats just because its not a good song to begin with, he made a fine cover of a song that wasnt too good anyway

Well...let me tell you one thing.

All covers done by me and nearly posted on YouTube are a gazillion times worse than the originals. I sing like a wok. Enough said.

Let's see here... The Animals version of, "Paint it Black." Nothing like spicing it up with additional lyrics, a violin, and some Cajun spice!

Maybe even The Shroud's cover of, "Red Over White," could get a mention.

Hmmm... the Bright Stairs tribute cover of, "Brother Fear."

The, "Dead Souls," cover of Joy Division by Nine Inch Nails wasn't too bad either.

And of course, how could this list be completed without mentioning Tim McGraw's, "Indian Outlaw?"

Not a fan of the Paved in Skin cover version?

Not familiar, actually. What's it like?

Interesting. A little "softer" in terms of vocals than the Dessau version or even the original Ministry song.

A brief audio clip can be found here (track 12):

http://www.amazon.com/Off-Paved-Skin...8418381&sr=1-1

Personal Jesus was a lousy song to begin with.
I'm not even going to begin on the Marilyn Manson thing.



But yeah a lot of covers are really good these days because people are covering of bands that really sucked and making the songs better, such as COF covering ANY IRON MAIDEN SONG, or covers like Behind Blue Eyes (which was really really amazing aside from two parts that killed it a bit)

You guys take the label of goth entirely too serious in my opinion.

It's not taking the label seriously here that's the problem. He defied genre at first and didn't adhere to any school of thought except his own, and then, all of a sudden he was a goth. Goth this goth that and it was Manson saying it himself, not just the media anymore, so he played into the hands of popularity. That's disgusting in my opinion considering the type of music and he lyrics.

I actually liked orgy's cover of BLUE MONDAY over the eighties jam...

I liked Johnny Cash's' cover of PERSONAL JESUS and DIRT better...
and if I ever get the chance, I swear I am gonna do an album of smaltzy eighties tunes and totally revamp them!

I agree. It was pretty terrible. I actually like Fall Out Boy, but thats a classic that should only be touched by a master.

Cake's cover of "I Will Survive" is better than the original, IMO, and Nouvelle Vague's "Bela Lugosi's Dead" was pretty good as was Fiona Apple's "Across the Universe."

Also good:
Groove Coverage- Poison
The Decemberists- Little Boxes
Placebo- 20th Century Boy and Running Up That Hill
The F-Ups- All the Young Dudes

Some decent covers:
In Every Dream Home a Heartache- Rozz Williams & Gitane Demone
Ziggy Stardust- Bauhaus
Telegram Sam- Bauhaus
School's Out- 45 Grave

Some not-so-decent ones:
This is Halloween- Both the Marilyn Manson and the Fallout Boy versions
Lovesong- 311 (Or whomever made that awful reggae version)
Tom Sawyer- Mindless Self Indulgence

^ bro it was Panic! that covered this is halloween

Sorry, they sound so similar to me that I confuse the two from time to time.

Sorry, they sound so similar to me that I confuse the two from time to time.

It's cool, they don't sound too different if you actually like them you can tell them apart. Best cover ever = Oops I Did It Again covered by Children of Bodom, it cracks me up

I think it depends on whoever is redoing it and what the song is. Some people completely mess up songs, while some put it to justice. Can't think of any goth examples here, but here's a non-goth one anyways...the Relient K (yes, you may cringe) version of "We Are The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" can NEVER compare to the brilliancy of the original VeggieTales (yes, you may cringe, but I love the show all the same since I'm religious and it's funny) version. But I like Marilyn Manson's version of "Sweet Dreams". I don't know why, but I do.

I am a big fan of cover versions and have a few albums of "tribute" albums based around Goth bands.

I love the Mission's version of Atomic (which can be found on the NME "Ruby Trax" album) and I really like Minstry's version of "What a Wonderful World".

Nouvelle Vague have done some awesome Goth, Punk and Two Tone covers. Their version of Lords of the New Church's "Dance with Me" is inspired.

Not the worst cover I've heard but possibly the creepiest is Lords of the New Church covering "Like a Virgin"... (makes me want to shower afterwards, it just makes you feel dirty) :D

Rosetta Stone do a good version of "Venus in Furs" and "The Witch" is one of their more famous songs.

I even have a live version of SoM singing the Kylie Minogue song "Confide in Me" which isn't bad either.

i feel that a band called Van Canto does amazing covers of music i don't normally listen to like metallica.
but glee is one cover band i despise