AT the peak of their fame, Guns and roses covered knocking on heavens door. Not a bad cover BUT live about half way through Axl screamed "Give me some reggae" cue Crap Keyboards from Dizzy reed and possibly the worse musical Own goal ever.
Can anybody think of a bigger case of missing the original point?

Robbie Williams with his live 'Swing Set'? Those swing numbers are supposed to be the basis of smooth crooners with bundles of charisma and talent.

Those are not two qualities I associate with Mr Williams.

As much as I adore Pat Boone's 'joke' album Pat Boone In A Metal Mood - No More Mr Nice Guy' I think he missed the point of 'Enter Sandman' when he substituted the 'scary' version of the Children's Prayer with the 'nice' one.

The point of the song was that parents put the kid to bed with 'if I die before I wake.....' and the kid is left lying there thinking 'Shit, I don't want to die!' Boone changing it to 'guard me angels in the night, and wake me in the morning light' has destroyed what Hetfield was trying to convey.

My Bette Noire of all things soul destroying and pointless:

Metallica sapping all meaning out of Whiskey in the Jar, with the accompanying dreadful video.

Compare this with the beautiful l interpretation by Mr Lynott, and ask yourself - WHYYYYYY????

Mr. Biscuit spouted:
My Bette Noire of all things soul destroying and pointless:

Metallica sapping all meaning out of Whiskey in the Jar, with the accompanying dreadful video.

Compare this with the beautiful l interpretation by Mr Lynott, and ask yourself - WHYYYYYY????

I came across that on the jukebox at the pub last year and played it out of curiosity Really didn't see too much difference in the versions (mind you the pub was rather noisy at the time) except that James Hetfield had a much sexier voice. (Since you are MR Biscuit, not MISS, we won't argue that point. It's a girl thing.)
You are right about the video. It really was pointless and stupid when you consider the potential of a song like that. Did Thin Lizzy do one? I won't pretend I'm not that old. It's just that I was living totally away from civilisation - in Canberra -at the time.