GOOD COVER
Until It Sleeps
Metallica
rips off
Push It
Salt N' Pepa
Why is this a Good Cover? Because of the sheer audacity that a band like Metallica have to write a song and not expect the world to figure out they've ripped off one of the most iconic songs of the 80's. After making a massive deal about Napster and how their fans are stealing from them, here we have the men in black lifting the synth riff from Salt N' Pepa's "Push It" and using it for guitar segues.
As for the song itself, I know this (whole album in general) is regarded as a sore subject for hardcore fans but I enjoy it as far as slower Metallica songs go, and reading up on it turns out its all about how James Hetfield had to watch his parents die as they didn't believe in medicine (they were Christian Scientists). Pretty dark, plus the video has a tonne of Hieronymus Bosch references which always gets three thumbs up from me.
BAD COVER
Teenage Dream
Katy Perry
is a rehashed version of
You Get What You Give
New Radicals
I originally planned a double header of Katy Perry tracks but then I'd have to create another spin-off called Bad Cover/Bad Cover. The song "Teenage Dream" is actually just the same song as her previous single "California Girls" if you strip down the chorus; Ba ba ba x3, then one final bar of 'oral noise' but thats just me being an arsehole.
"Teenage Dreams" is just in fact an reworking of New Radicals' (only) mega-hit "You Get What You Give", if you remember it that is. It was massive at the time, honest.
If you're still not convinced, then listen to the chorus of You Get What You Give whilst reading the lyrics to Teenage Dream's chorus. As Sledge Hammer would say - "TRUST ME, I know what I'm doing..."
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