Ten Really Silly Heavy Metal Covers

Let's face it folks. Cover tunes are generally awesome. But there are some songs that should not be covered, and some bands that should not be doing those covers. Here's a rogue's gallery of the best of the worst:

1) Megadeth: "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
Really, Mr. Mustaine. How high were you when you decided that covering Nancy Sinatra was the way to go?

2) Realm: "Eleanor Rigby"
A mediocre speed-metal band butchers the Beatles. Nobody remembers these guys--probably with good reason.

3) Quiet Riot: "Cum On Feel The Noize"
Kevin DuBrow and company had a major hit with this annoying cover of an annoying song by Slade, a British band whose schtick (or as they'd spell it, shtykk) was to have deliberately mis-spelled song titles. The Riot followed this up with "Mama Wee're All Crazee Now."

4) BulletBoys: "For Love Of Money"
There have been many version of the O'Jay's classic soul track, an essay on capitalism. This one, with Marq Torien's screeching David Lee Roth impersonation, is not one of them.

5) Guns N' Roses: "Live And Let Die"
Axl once said that this re-do of the Paul McCartney-penned James Bond theme was his "sequel" to "Welcome to the Jungle?" I'd ask him how that works, but he'd probably go all Tommy Hilfiger on me.


6) Van Halen: "A Apolitical Blues." Now granted, you could put most of Diver Down on this entry. And I just did. But this Van Hagar massacre of a song by Little Feat takes the proverbial taco d'musique.

7) Iron Maiden: "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter"
This song was originally recorded as a Bruce Dickinson solo outing for the soundtrack to A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child." Maiden should have left it alone--it's a career lowlight.

8) Toad the Wet Sprocket: "Rock and Roll All Nite"
A mellow, acoustic version of the Kiss klassik. Worst Kiss kover of all time.

9) Queensrÿche: "Scarborough Fair"
Ummm…interesting. An Empire-era b-side.

10) Judas Priest: "Johnny B. Goode"
Let's try to forget this one. Priest slaughtered the Chuck Berry chestnut for a bad high school sports movie of the same title.



For the truly masochistic: Realm doing "Eleanor Rigby"