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Hair Metal Happy Hour

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN LENNON

 Friday, October 9th, 2009 at 3:12pm by

He would have been 69 years old today.

I did an informal poll on Twitter to find good metal covers of Beatles songs, and while a number of people made creative suggestions and a lot of people were all into Beatallica n’ shit, the general consensus seemed to be that Motley Crue’s version of “Helter Skelter” still reigns supreme. So without further adieu…

Feel free to discuss your own favorite metal versions of songs originally by The Beatles below.

-AR

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  • Nate

    Nothing about motley crue is good. way to insult the memory of the Beatles and John Lennon.

  • http://myspace.com/shepherdsgatemusic,myspace.com/burymeinsmokemusic Michael “The Armenian Demon” Fenton

    That was a Paul song.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matthew-Kurtz/1493586117 Matthew Kurtz

      Ha! Not only was it a Paul song, it was one of his very best songs

      • http://myspace.com/shepherdsgatemusic,myspace.com/burymeinsmokemusic Michael “The Armenian Demon” Fenton

        Agreed!

        • DidgeryDo

          He was wrong about the name but he was right about it being an insult.

  • http://www.myspace.com/uglydirge aaron m.

    this is probably the only legit metal beatles cover.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmUbfSJuTXY

    • http://www.myspace.com/uglydirge aaron m.

      and by “legit”, i mean “not very good”.

  • http://uponwingsofblack.blogspot.com/ \m/Eluveitie\m/

    To quote the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, “I’m just here to make sure he’s dead!”

  • ZapBranigan

    Thrice recorded a version of Helter Skelter that they released online with their new album. It’s way better than this shit.

  • Kuranes

    Really? That’s the best Beatles cover you could come up with?

    On that I like is “Day Tripper (Medley)” from Type O Negative’s “World Coming Down” album. There was also a “Butchering the Beatles” cover album that had Lemmy and others on it.

    • http://buttor.blogspot.com Buttor

      yeah, day tripper by type o is a nice one

  • major

    god i fucking hate motley crue

    • Nate

      Seconded.

      • DidgeryDo

        Thirded

        • Mike2

          Fourthed?

          • large jockstrap

            fuck you all

          • unvme

            here’s a fifth for your ass

  • Sweeney

    I hope that “adieu” you snuck in there is a joke.

    Sorry, as always, for being a dicknose.

    • lheartdrugs

      it’s “ado” right? have i been writing it wrong all these years?

      ps. Spineshank’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” rocks. but that’s a George song.

      didn’t somebody metal do “I Am The Walrus”?

      • Sweeney

        Yep, as in “Much Ado About Nothing.”

        Maybe he was saying “adieu” again to John.

  • John

    Godhead- As my guitar gently weeps (please note sarcasm)

    • http://www.myspace.com/uglydirge aaron m.

      they also covered eleanor rigby.

  • orbital

    :facepalm:

  • Matthew Grant Anson

    Coroner’s I Want You (She’s So Heavy).

    • lheartdrugs

      therrrrre we go. that’s the shit.

      • crapper

        thats that goood shit

    • Trux

      I totally second that !

    • Hollowman

      They also covered Hendrix’s Purple Haze. I think. They weren’t your typical shit eater’s metal.

  • Phil

    Suplecs- I want you (She’s so heavy)= awesome!

  • Tim

    SOOO happy to share John’s birthday, happy birthday to us bud!

  • Harry

    Thrice’s Eleanor Rigby is fantastic.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAhFUXOxm_w

  • canea

    Glad those days are over.

  • rattlehead

    Haven’t any metal bands covered “happiness is a warm gun”? That would be the perfect Beatles song for a metal band to cover.

  • kazz

    How is it that the Beatles version of Helter Skelter is heavier and more “metal” than this “metal” cover?

    • Nate

      Because helter skelter inspired heavy metal, and Motley Crue are responsible for killing it in a portion of the 80s.

    • http://uponwingsofblack.blogspot.com/ \m/Eluveitie\m/

      And The Who’s “I Can See For Miles” is heavier and more metal than any version of “Helter Skelter”

  • Sammy

    Ha! Back when Mars could actually hold up a Les Paul. And how fucking thin is that sound? Vince, you used to have a metabolism!

  • Nick D
  • Trux

    Also Trouble’s Come Together is a good one.

  • Fufkin

    Dear god, how to honour a legend!

    1. It wasn’t even a Lennon song.
    2. Motley Crue are abysmal, as is their cover.
    3. Soundgarden’s Come Together is better than Trouble’s

  • Babieater

    UMM what About STPs Revolution cover???

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  • Facebook User

    Coroner covering “She’s so Heavy” is the best I’ve ever heard.
    Boris/Merzbow covering “I Am The Walrus” is amazing.
    Some of the tracks on Butchering the Beatles: A Headbashing Tribute album (which featured the likes of Lemmy, Alice Cooper, Tim “Ripper” Owens, Duff McKagan, and the bearded one himself, Billy Gibbons) were pretty good.

  • Killdozere666

    hell no – PAIN’s cover of eleanor rigby is phenominal

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhRFFe28plo&feature=quicklist