The Most Awesomely Bad Metal Cover Songs: Volume 2

Second in an ongoing series highlighting the worst cover songs by heavy metal bands I can find. Volume 2 features two versions of The Spencer Davis Group's hit single Gimme Some Lovin', by Raven and Great White. Enjoy!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• heavy
• metal
• cover
• songs
• spencer
• davis
• group
• gimme
• some
• lovin
• loving
• raven
• great
• white

[HellBrYnger]

isnt it all about opinions and taste? if they thought it sucked that bad they wouldn't have released it. only because you dont like it, doesnt mean others think the same.

that is why your background speaking is really unecessary. let other post their opinions here instead. but you're probably so arrogant that you wont even read this message, or care about it. same here btw.

[BakNBlack]

Actually by providing vocal commentary the song falls under the legal Fair Use provision for 'commentary or criticism'. But I'll cheerfully ignore the fact that you just suggested I break the law for now. :)

[mhiegl]

Not bad...the video that is. I don't get the comparison of the Raven cover to 80's Kiss though. The GW cover sounds more like 80's Kiss except the vocals.

Raven were a pretty cool band until they signed with Atlantic...the true slayer of many 80's metal bands. "Stay Hard" wasn't too bad, but the Pack is Back was baaaddd!

Great White's biggest hit was another cover I always hated. Some of their early original material was better, at least for them.

[BakNBlack]

I always liked Face the Day and Stick It, though the latter has a definite Ratt flavour to it. And of course, Rock Me was a great song. That's the difference between Great White and Quiet Riot -- QR couldn't write their way out of a paper bag. The only song they did worth a damn, Metal Health, was really just a reformulation of Def Leppard's earlier Let It Go.

[amc0100]

that some other band kinda looks like metallica, dont get mad at me unless you KNOW what early metallica looked like

[BakNBlack]

It is Metallica. That's the joke. They toured together back when they were both on Megaforce.

[dAeHhTeDaGeM]

'I' personally think Megadeth's covers have been damn good, doing justice to the originals, and, in some cases actually improving certain songs. Anyway, great video, BakNBlack, and nice choice in title music (with Crimson Glory's epic 'Transcendence')! "Oh, look, it's Raven and some other Metal band.. Wonder whatever happened to them.... I know RAVEN'S still around.." *LOL* Good one, bud! Enjoy the sammich, ;)

[NegativaTypo]

Holy hell,speaking of wankery?

Why did you decide to run your mouth throughout the whole video?

[c4bb4g3]

I have to agree with you. Both of those covers were really bad xD

Especially those guitar "solos". Holy crap, they were atrocious. Honestly, your commentary was the only thing that kept me from stopping the video.

[Videostar1another1fa]

What the fuck is Metallica doing with Raven?

[OuTBreaKOfEviL2]

i actually liked both covers..

[holveragtz]

both versions are cool i thought and great white's cover album of zeppelin is awesome!!

[philkillrecords]

dude sweet intro

[MrROTD]

yeh these are sucky, if you dont agree youre deaf lol I cant stand Bif Naked doing Nothing Else Matters yuck even though I think she rocks her cover is blah lol

[TurtleFL]

@BakNBlack Dude I think your commentary makes the whole piece.... God knows I would never listen to this crap otherwise!

[625switch]

How ironic that the narrator to the video sucks and shouldn't have released this video with his voice on it. lol

Seriously, was this part of the joke to the video?

[LessthanJake14]

@HellBrYnger The most banal thing you could have ever said.

ALL of music is subjective, essentially; that's not changing.

[LessthanJake14]

Quite funny and original. Ignore all the neigh-sayers.