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I liked it, but would rather they have covered Unforgiven, as Nothing Else Matters is already meet cute metal.
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Kolohe wrote:... meet cute metal.
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pistoffnick wrote:
Kolohe wrote:... meet cute metal.
I'm warning you, Kolohe!
But he's not wrong. Seriously, it's significantly closer to "More than Words" than "Whiplash"
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Cover of Zeppelin's "The Crunge"

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/The+Crunge/iY1ps?src=5
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Metallica's "One" on medieval instruments.
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So while perusing AV Club's "AV Undercover" series, I found this:

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I don't think this one's been posted, but it's a classic - hey, let's not just do a note-perfect recreation of someone else's performance. Let's take this song and make it ours.

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lunchstealer wrote:I don't think this one's been posted, but it's a classic - hey, let's not just do a note-perfect recreation of someone else's performance. Let's take this song and make it ours.

[youtube]Uxa3bIpmRFU[/youtube]
I like the redone cover graphic:

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So I was looking for the above GWAR/Kansas video for a friend, and found this one. It's pretty good.

Wye Oak covers "Mother" by Danzig.

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Yeah, the AV Undercover project has produced a lot of good work and a surprisingly low number of duds. I was trawling their archive the other day with a friend.

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Behold the power of these fully operational banjos in this instrumental:

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I'm partial to this version of White Rabbit.
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Now that's a rollicking, happy cover.
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This starts off pretty conventional, then it rocks.

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I like that one.
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So Pandora informs me that this ... uh ... this exists.

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I dig it
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Orkestra Obsolete plays "Blue Monday"
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