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  • 4:05 holy fuck

  • I....LOVE HER FOR THIS.

    this has been my favorite song since I was 12.

  • People can't even spell Evanescence right. Nobody told you to watch this cover, so why are you here? Fair enough if you didn't like it but gee, a cover is a tribute. So what if it doesn't beat the original or satisfy you. Leave, and stop making nasty comments towards Evanescence just because they covered a song. Amy Lee is a really nice person and I've seen her live, she fantastic. It doesn't make her a bitch because she covered a song....

  • I don't particularly like evanescence, but this is an aight cover, not too bad.

  • I'm not really an evanescence fan, but this is an alright cover. The guitar solo sounds terribly flat, though.

  • I'm in love =D

  • I forgive anyone who marked thumbs down on this song. If you're a fan of Evanescense, you've probably been severely deprived of a proper music education... so this is likely the first time you've heard a song written a grunge band written at the height of the Seattle explosion. The sound quality is very poor as well.

    But if you go the 4th of July track performed by Soundgarden, and mark thumbs down there.... you have quietly resigned yourself to a life of suckage.

  • She sings it in key, it's just her voice isn't loud enough in the beginning. A lot to do with the file back system not being loud enough! The same old problem that can fuck up a singers voice and career. When the loud guitar stacks start pounding you need something loud to support the voice. I like this chick, she's got courage to attempt such a difficult song, which I love might I add. Not a professional recording, even though you can still hear how good it must have been there. Thanks for pstg

  • i dont get why people freak out when a band does a cover of another band its just showing tribute to the other band.

  • I know most the fucking people there never even heard of Soundgarden... damn shame, Soundgarden's influence is huge 

  • DOOM! :D

  • guitar tone is great...voice isn't. yikes.

  • better than I thought it would be, but at the end of the day Soundgarden rules and fuck Evanescence

  • Don't worry guys! Soundgarden are back to restore the awsomeness of this song live! Hopefully they'll play it in Lolapallooza!

  • AAHHEEEWWW AAHHH EWWW When ok bands fuck up INSULT TO SOUNDGARDEN AGREED

  • She doesn't have the voice for this song.

  • that was fuckin awesome though

  • I don't get a lot of the hate here... She does an okay job on a GREAT song, and I'm impressed that they even thought to cover THIS Soundgarden song. They could've done Black Hole Sun like every other damn band in the world, but they went with originality.

    -And I'm not even a fan of this band!

  • Wow... I like Evanescense, but not when she effs up a song I really like and grew up on. She's probably going to start ruining Alice in Chains songs next... This makes me wanna jam an icepick into my ears.

  • Why does this fat emo bitch have to fuck up the classics? Fuck her. She can't even sing in tune.

  • This Sucks big time!!! Amy Lee go fuck your self

  • pfft, i love how these guys know how to tune their fucking instrumnets.....

  • suuuucks sooooo bad! one of my favorite songs torn to shreds by a lame band. ruined my day...

  • Evanescense-- sounds like the name of a feminine hygiene product. Posers with a capital "P".

  • LOOOOL

    I totally agree...

    oh and on the cover.. not only no, but fuck no... this is total shit.

  • Its what old woman use get that clean feeling

  • So this is what caused the mass suicide of 2004?

  • Lol were their fans even born when this song was made XD?

  • yes i certainly was

  • @BloodyHarrow i dont think so xD Was she even born ?^^

  • no, just no

  • awful.

  • wow!

  • I was slightly worried about the prospect of them doing a cover of this but I thought they did an amazing job! Lovely to see an emotional version of this too. Soundgarden have always been one of my favourite bands and always will be but sometimes I was disappointed by their energy live.

  • Fantastic cover.

  • I was a big fan of Soundgarden way before I ever heard of Evanescence, but I honestly think this is fantastic

  • I hate evanescence, but I have to admit that amy has a fantastic voice. Regarding this cover, what I like is how Amy sings the verses, what I like less is how she sings the chorus. What I have mixed feelings about is how she handled the section where in the studio version, there were several voices harmonizing, producing a bone chilling effect, right before heading into verse. Overall this is a respectable cover. The band kept time, and kep things low and crunchy. Not bad.

  • i think evanescence did this very well..

    a lot of people are saying it wasn't but i think they just have something personal against the band on a whole

  • Oh god... please tell me this is a fake vid.

  • Oh God!!!!! - 4th of July used to be a song that sent chills up my spine - Now, listening to Amy Lee screeching out the words is literally bone chilling - Really bad choice - If your going to cover a masterpiece in my eyes, at least do it some justice - I dont know if it was because it was live but Evanescence should stick to what their good at - fluffy pop rock songs for teenage Goth Girls!!!!!

  • i really like amy's vocals on this..

  • sounds like a group of 7th graders drunk

  • amy lee...go to bed plz...the best that you can do to rispect a gods of music like soundgarden is silence!!! shut up plz!! fuckin' bitch!!!!!

  • What, does evanescence just cover all the good 90's songs?

  • lol garbage

    amy lee should have just stuck to listening to nirvana all day and never gotten into music, waste of space.

  • why nirvana??????

    they're too fuckin good for her!!

  • Did u say nirvana hahahahaha Nirvana is shit that comes out of your ass and mouth Chris Cornell and Layne Staley are much better singers than kurt cobain

  • .....excuse me??? .... are you trying to take the piss???

    NUHHH dont worry i didnt say nirvana... i mean its an easy mistake to make.... its not written down in writing or anything is it... derkkkead.

    wat fuckin evidence do you have that i dont like soundgarden or alice in chains either?? piss off mate you fucking arse hole.

  • Hey man you make no sense and u did say nirvana look at the comments and i never said anything about you not liking them i just was trying to imply that nirvana sucks and chris cornell and layne staley are much better nothing wrong with opinions

  • dude. it was quite obviously sarcasm.

    i was IMPLYING your an idiot.

    nirvana, soundgarden and alice in chains kick arse. ok? now fuck off you little prat dont disturb my personal bubble anymore.

  • I've previously never liked Evanescence, but this video gives me one disctinct point where I can say I liked them for a single instance. And this is DEFINITE - it's awesome that they covered this song, and they covered it very well, better than Chris Cornell can at this point in time.

    Even if Soundgarden was still around, this is an admirable cover. Nice job.

  • ihope someone shoots u for saying she can sing this better than chris.....go listen to him doin it brazil then kill yourself thanks.

  • wtf is this shit ,totally butcher one of the heaviest soundgarden songs holy shit on a stick oww my ears hurt omg there bleeding nooo his cover sucks sooo bad what the fuck ??????????

  • Fucking terrible.

    It sounds like the band didn't even bother to learn the song before taking it to the stage. Weak.

  • better than I expected, but my expectations were very low. Still kudos for covering this song instead of Black Hole Sun or Spoonman.

    This should probably have been the best song of the concert

  • fucking girl this band is only shit...don't insult soundgarden man

  • nothing will ever top soundgarden's version.

    but i think this is an okay version, not that bad for amy lee.

    she really is a great singer though, and she's cool in my books for trying this

  • props for covering this song, but they didnt do a great job. Ill bet most of the people in the audience didnt even know its a soundgarden song

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  • mm not bad! 3/5!

  • amy lee's voice isnt dark enough 4 this song , her voice, too me sounds like nails on a chalkboard

  • oh jesus, delete this video! what an awful cover

  • What da Fuck!!!!!

    What a Shame

    RIP 4th of JUly.

    This Version SUKS!

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  • hahaha.

  • even if you don't like it, not many other females can sing like her nor have her range or have as a powerful voice that can really sing rock w/out sounding too "girly"... I think she did great. may not be as great as the original to Soundgarden fans

  • i am by no means a fan of Evanescence, in fact i think their music is quite lacking, but i have to give them props here....this is a pretty damn good cover. If only they could apply some of these elements in their own music.

  • That Ibanez sounds awful with all the heavy distortion on it.

  • How dare these new mainstream phonies cover this

  • i love the original and i think this isn't too bad a cover - it's an extremely hard song to make sound good live as it's so downtuned and dissonant. I'm surprised she was able to sing the first verse, it would be too low for a lot of female singers.

  • Wow, this is disgusting!

  • Odd to see them covering a more obscure SG song. Good job on it, too.

  • I think Amy Lee did a pretty F'ing good job with it. Chris Cornell has the right voice for the song, but that's not to say it's better. They both can blow...ya dig bitches?

  • i think even amy lee would say chris has a better voice than she does.she is such a big fan of his.

  • i think he does. he can hit 4 octaves!

  • pow soundgarden e incomparavel impossivel de ser melhor,mas da pro gasto

  • They did ok, of course its not close to soundgarden its evanesence.

  • SOUNDGARDEN!!! FAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKK!!!! it's so god damn heavy!!! i just want to headbang an play guitar now!

  • the guitarist suckz!!! Amylee did a good job... So I meant this wasn't too bad at all...

  • This is good but SG version is better and good riffs btw

  • cover fico muito ruim

    soundgarden é muito melhor

    pena q acabo...

  • apprezzo il tentativo, ma fatela smettere !!

  • The song is just too though for her... the guitarist at least gets the main riff, but she completely fails...

  • Yeah that's true, it was live. But that still doesn't change my personal opinion that this cover was pretty bad.

  • Damn, you guys are brutal. Sure it wasn't as good as Soundgarden but also take into consideration that it was live. I thought it was pretty decent and I'm not even a big evanescence fan.

  • well, there are vids of Soundgarden doing this live too.

    well, the way i see it, she's a fan

  • haha

    sounds like avril L.

  • That was one weak as fuck solo by the way.

  • that's a insult to Soudgarden !! a profanation ! stop the massacre, PLEEEEAAAAASE !!!

  • i like soundgardens version better

  • Third comment on this video:

    Okay, I just listened to Soundgardens' version and it has a very dity, raw, angry, feel to it. This... does not.

    And like i've said before, Amys' stage pressence doesn't do anything but make her look stupid. she looks like a two year old throwing a tantrum at the end of the song... and then looks like a drunk stumbling around for the rest of the song.

    And yes... she shouldn't try to out shine Chris.

  • well put

  • ah it wasn't THAT bad lads come on!

    don't get me wrong though doesn't touch Soundgarden at all though

  • I know that i've commented already...

    But the fact that Amy's trying to "rock out" to it just makes it worse. Ah well, at least she's trying.

  • I thought it was.... okay i guess....

  • idk i like this song and i like soundgarden, i dont think eva killed the song. i think it sounded really good for trying, and i respect that. i think if this wasnt live it would sound really cool becoz the sound was quit muffled

  • it sounds really bad in comparison to soundgarden, but its good that they wanted to cover it and that they have respect for

    Soundgarden. either way i do think her voice sounden really good.

  • It wasn't THAT bad.......The Solo and the start suck, but the rest isn't bad.

    Soundgarden 4 ever!!!!

  • What the fuck is this? Glad Eva appreciate the song, but this is pathetic. You will swear not to touch this Godlike song ever again.

  • Wow, that was REALLY bad. Throw a tomato at them, ANYBODY!

  • At 2:00 I couldn't bear to watch anymore. This is HORRIBLE!!

  • This could have been decent, if the rest of the band didn't fuck it all up. It looked like Amy was the only one putting some effort into it.

  • This sucks. It sounds like something you'd hear at a senior high school talent show. The only place that girl should appear is on the back of a milk carton.

  • Haha...

  • nice

  • Wow.. what the fuck? Somebody in the audience should have thrown a tomato, or something. Way to butcher one of the best grunge songs ever written.

  • Don't get to excited. It wasn't so bad.

  • ya it was. she needs to die.

    moomoo knows what theyre saying.

  • Damn these guitarists suck ass.

  • i like the cover with her voice

    the instruments are awfull

  • If I were Chris Cornell I'd be crying. I can't decided what was worse, the horrific attempt at his lows in the beginning, or the pitchy annoying highs with no dirtiness or soul.

    Kim is probably more pissed cause that guitarist RUINED his solo.

    All they did was prove that not only do they write awful music, but they can't even cover great tunes.

  • IMO if you can't impress with your own work, don't dare try to Imitate a great

  • i love Soundgarden, and almost hate evanescence, but this is a good cover!

  • Its actually a good cover, too bad I cant fuckin stand Evanescence though :P

  • I wish that fuck head would shut up so i could hear her......and that stupid bitch screaming needs to be pushed down the stairs

  • FAIL..

  • I my opinion, this IS the best song in the world...fuck that in the universe!!! and chris cornell is best as well

  • go 2 hell

  • The chicks screaming probably don't know who Soundgarden was.

  • hmhmhmhmph yeah probably not

  • You know when someone can sing when you get goosebumps!_!I thought she did a good job.. She has an awesome voice..But I agree..never will be better than Chris..

    They fucked up the solo:(

  • i think that amy's vocals at least make this cover listenable.

    not even close to CC, but who is!

  • You can hardly hear her...

  • no band should be covering this song. if you cant a) improve on an original or b) change it to something unrecognisable thats stands on it's own 2 feet as a track...

    then stay the fuck away from a classic

  • this band needs to stop doing covers.

    they are ruining decent bands great songs.

  • i like it,, the sound of the guitars makes it better!! totally equal!!the solo sucked tho

  • I actually liked it...It is cool seeing a girl belt it out to a SOundgarden song

  • i tought this was gon suck but itz pretty kool but not as gud as chris

  • This rendition is far poorer than the time Ev covered it in Madison Wisconsin.See my video of it in my profile.Its just a slideshow type video,sorry to disappoint anyone. Nice of you to put this up though.

  • Volume on the music track to my video's a bit low,so turn yours up.I thought I should warn you in advance.

  • Guitarist butchered the intro.

    Solo is extremely fucked up.

    Amy Lee attempted atleast. But nobody beats Cornell.

    Cornell's vocals are unbeatable.

    Another Soundgarden song butchered

  • Hey man, at least they didn't try "Half." Thank whatever god you believe in for that one.

  • in flames FTW, and fuck amy lee..god stop ruining songs

  • I agree..I would say at least try to sync or harmonize with Cornell instead of trying to "OUTSHINE" him:D

    She struggled in the beginning! But did a decent job..Soeone else could have really fucked it up!

  • Good one with the Outshine joke, make me laugh a bit

  • Good cover! But of course, nothing compared to the original! The original must be one of the best vocal performances ever!

  • Yeah.

    Amy Lee took a good shot at it.

    But nobody will ever beat the vocals of Chris Cornell. Especially at that time.

  • i prefer having soundgarden to do this son

  • This is complete poopoo. BOOOO!

  • cause they are so damn hard to play

  • it wasnt that bad..i just wished the crowd got more into it...and that was a sorry ass solo..lol

  • I am completely fucking offended at how bad this cover is. Amy can sing very well, but not like Cornell can.

    And what the hell was the guitarist thinking? Seriously.

    Why do people continue to butcher Soundgarden songs like this?...

  • This actually doesn't sound bad at all, except for the sorry ass solo (which really isn't that hard to play). Plus it's probably a good way for them youngsters to discover SG

  • This reminds me of when Crazytown covered "New noise" by the Refused.

    Dont draw attention to how mediocre you are by covering a song far more soulful and bigger then you will ever be.

  • Not nearly talented enough to do the solo... otherwise Props for the cover of one of the greatest rock songs of all time...

  • it really isnt that bad. i mean wow...and i hate female singers.

  • I wish she could DO songs like that.

  • that is so fuckin cool..i dont even like evanescense..but its cool to see they appreciate good music..especially one of the best bands ever....

  • i agree with everything you said here.

  • Not a bad cover all in all. I'm not a big Evanescence fan but they get a thumbs up from me on this one. I especially appreciate Amy's range. She was low when she needed to be low.

  • she have a great voice.

  • honestly you guys how is it bad? its how it should be besides being done by soundgarden

  • amy did fine so leave her alone. this isn't one my fav. covers that ev does, but before criticizing her so much... go listen to their cover of Korn's thoughtless. it is truly amazing. and amy can sing ANYTHING she wants too, and can sing it GREAT too. give her credit for trying at least. amy is the greatest singer in the worls and evanescence is the best band in the world. but this just wasn't their music, so it was different. back off and show some respect is basically my point here people!

  • Fine Speech.......Now what?

  • idk. just wanted to inform people of how wonderful amy is, and that she deserves some respect. that's it i guess.

  • wow that blew a ton...

  • this isn't that bad, i also respect that they love soundgarden gives me a whole lot more respect for them, good on em!

  • Fourth of July is one of the absolute best of the grunge-depressing-suicide rock songs ever written, and only Soundgarden should do it. Chris cornell's vox are unmatched, and if a band covers a song (esp by such a unique sounding band as soundgarden) you better be ready to make it your own. This doesn't deliver--i do respect that Soundgarden is one of their favorites though!

  • Amen brotha! Trying to sound like Sound Garden would probably probably like trying to win an ass kicking contest with one leg. Is there a rumor going around about a reunion?

  • I know what your saying, Im a huge Soundgarden fan, and this or the day I tried to live are prob my faves.

    But I cant help but differ from your opinion.]

    Yeah, sure, they arent Soundgarden, and Amy Lee is only good for one thing, but I notice that she's not trying to be Chris Cornell, and to a degree has put her own twist on it.

    I dunno, thats just me...

  • wtf do you mean by amy lee is only good for one thing?!?!

  • I mean shes better seen and not heard, I wasnt trying to offend you, Im personally not an Evanescence fan.

    I think she has an excellent voice, but I find everything about them is too similar to Lacuna Coil, if not them, then glorified goth/emo.

    Again, I dunno, thats just me...

  • they're really different from lacuna coil. different from everyone else out there n fact. evanescence is 1 of the most unique bands that there is. nothing like them has been seen before, and probably never will be n the future. and amy has nothing to do with the goth/emo shit everyone believes she does. on stage, she dresses goth, but n real life she is like a normal person. when performing, amy lets out all her dark side and then n real life she can have fun and be happy. she's NOT goth/emo!

  • I think you should leave the house more often. Its great you think so highly of her, infact I admire you somewhat for having dreams.

    All I did was exercise my right as a free born New Zealander and expressed an opinion I have on them. I think shes a good singer, but I dont like evanescence.

    Maybe you should get a real job, or another purpose in life rather than defending thier dignity to people your unlikely to meet.

    All the best any way.

  • i have a purpose in life. and i can't wait to show you and everyone it when i'm ten years older or so. then you'll see why i stand up for evanescence so much. and i will meet amy sometime. it will be a while, but i'll just go to a meet and greet before one of their shows. it'll be quite the task to meet her, but it's entirely possible, and someday i will. all the best to you too though, and thanks for not screaming at me at least ( : as you can probably guess, i get a lot of that on here!

  • No worries at all :)

    It is entirely possible to meet her, you have a much better chance than me as I live in NZ.

    I hope you do meet her though, just dont tell her what i think lol

  • i won't, don't worry. she'll never know you said that lol! (: just curious.. why don't you like evanescence? just their sound, or some other issue?

  • Im not sure really, I wouldnt call it an issue, they just dont sound sweet to my ears, ya know?

  • ok. i can't imagine why, but, ok, lol!

  • Evanescene suck my balls.

  • this is SHIT compared to the original.

  • because Soundgarden were a sound that NO band can replicate

  • Actually they did a pretty decent cover of 4th of July

  • this sucks so bad

  • this is the best song in the world...beats every other form of art.

  • FUCK YOU FOR THIS BUTCHERY OF A COVER