Rock Minutes

I like a lot of things about music. One of my favorite things to do is check out cool cover songs by some of my favorite bands. I think good bands can do a great job covering songs that you may have never thought could sound good or you may have never heard of. It is also a great way to see the kind of music that may have influenced the bands you love. There is also a dark side to cover songs. Bands that have no original music that is worth a shit have been known to release a cover song to get their record played and then are never heard from again. If you don’t believe me please refer to Alien Ant Farm and their cover of “Smooth Criminal” by Michael Jackson and feel free to name one other song by that band that anyone other than their family members has heard of.

There are a ton of cool cover songs that I really love and I am going to do you, the reader, a favor and list 10 really cool covers. These can all be found on records that you can buy at your local record store or from Amazon mp3.

Do yourself a favor and check some of these out. Do yourself another favor and never listen to the songs below. These might be the worst cover songs ever made and the artists who made them should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Later,

Nick

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