Or in the case of this list.
Great rock covers of pop songs.
Rockin the fillmore is among one of the greatest hard rock cover songs of an r b tune in this case a ray charles original and certainly one of the most fun.
Even if the worlds of rock metal and hardcore rarely intersect with the pop ecosystem we owe top 40 hits quite a lot when you stop to think about it.
I started thinking about all the other great covers out there and it didn t take long to come up with a huge list.
In 1970 canadian rock band the guess who burned up the pop charts with american woman which they claimed was a love letter to the women of their own country.
Covers are great aren t they.
Lenny kravitz s powerful updated version won the grammy for best male rock vocal performance in 1999.
Joy division made dancier and less depressing.
With all due respect billy corgan looks and sings like a sad baby.
A great punk cover of the crickets song.
One song per cover artist.
To cut it down to 20 then decided i better come up with some loose criteria.
This song has worked for pop artists country artists and rock artists.
However a little known cover of the song does exist from a band called stutterfly.
Bring the noise anthrax and public enemy.
The rave that closes performance.
One of the greatest stories in contemporary pop n roll mythology is the collaboration between matt helders and sarah.
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However even after artists like hank williams jr and green day have released covers the benchmark still remains the clash version.
They give you a chance to hear what is most likely a massive tune but slightly different.
Both the original and cover artists songs needed to fall within the rock genre.
It had already been executed twice by the time the clash took their swing at it.
Ring of fire social.
Criteria for this list.
20 surprising indie and rock covers of pop songs you need to hear.
A heavier rap rock cover of the public enemy call to arms.
With a bit of a rough rock edge.
In fact i loved everything about the original cherub rock track except him.