which American hard rock band has songs that have been covered by Racer X, Fu Manchu, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sebastian Bach and Fighting Gravity?
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Godzilla (song) "Godzilla" is a song by Blue Öyster Cult from their fifth album, "Spectres". The lyrics are a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the popular movie monster of the same name. The song is, along with "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" and "Burnin' for You", one of Blue Öyster Cult's best known songs and has become a staple of their live performances. It has been covered by bands such as Racer X, Fu Manchu, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sebastian Bach and Fighting Gravity.
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Blue Öyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult (often abbreviated BÖC) is an American hard rock band formed on Long Island, New York, in 1967, whose most successful work includes the hard rock and heavy metal songs "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", "Godzilla" and "Burnin' for You". Blue Öyster Cult has sold over 24 million records worldwide, including 7 million records in the United States alone. The band's music videos, especially "Burnin' for You", received heavy rotation on MTV when the music television network premiered in 1981, cementing the band's contribution to the development and success of the music video in modern popular culture.
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Skeletons (Danzig album) Skeletons is the tenth studio album by the American heavy metal band Danzig, released in November 2015 and consisting entirely of cover versions of songs from the 1960s through 1980s, selected by singer Glenn Danzig.
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Railroad Earth Railroad Earth is a roots and Americana-based newgrass jam band from Stillwater, New Jersey. Their name was borrowed from the Jack Kerouac short story "October in the Railroad Earth." The band also has a song by the same name written by Todd Sheaffer. Railroad Earth's music combines elements of bluegrass, rock and roll, jazz, celtic and more, and the group is also known for its extensive live improvisation and lyrical songwriting within an acoustic base.
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Bullet with Butterfly Wings "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" is a song by the American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins and the lead single from their 1995 double album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness". The song won the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance. This song was the band's first Top 40 U.S. hit, peaking at number 22 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. It also spent six weeks at number 2 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and peaked at number 4 on the Mainstream Rock chart. The song was named the 91st best hard rock song of all time by VH1 in 2009. The song was ranked number 70 on the 2008 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" of "Rolling Stone". The song came second in the Triple J Hottest 100, 1995, later was voted #51 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, 2009 and #25 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years, 2013.
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The BossHoss The BossHoss is a band from Berlin which started in 2004 with Country & Western style cover versions of famous pop, rock and hip hop songs, for example "Hot in Herre" by Nelly, "Toxic" by Britney Spears and "Hey Ya!" by Outkast. They incorporate stereotypical American cowboy behavior into their act; they wear Stetson hats, tank tops and large sunglasses, display whiskey bottles, and yell "yeehaw". The band refers to their music style as "Country Trash Punk Rock."
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Nintendocore Nintendocore (also known as Nintendo rock, nerdcore, and video game rock) is a broadly defined music genre that fuses chiptune and video game music with various styles of aggressive modern rock. The genre was pioneered by Horse the Band, The Advantage, and Minibosses. Nintendocore initially emerged from hardcore punk and heavy metal, and has been influenced by many other musical genres.
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Death Acoustic Death Acoustic is a solo acoustic record by American musician Nick Oliveri. The album contains mostly cover songs of bands Oliveri is involved in directly or is a fan of. Bands covered include Raw Power, GG Allin, Moistboyz, Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, The Misfits, and The Dwarves.
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The Aeroplane Flies High The Aeroplane Flies High is a five-disc box set released by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins in 1996. It contains expanded versions of the five singles from their album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" and also included a 44-page booklet with pictures and writings by the band's lead singer Billy Corgan, as well as lyrics. A limited edition release, the box reached number 42 on the "Billboard" charts, and sold 300,000 units (1.5 million discs in all), generating a platinum disc for the band. Originally intended to be limited to 200,000 copies, Virgin Records produced more after the original run sold out due to overwhelming and unexpected demand. The album was remastered in 2013 under the supervision of frontman Billy Corgan and reissued on vinyl and as a CD/DVD box set.
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American Girls (song) "American Girls" is a single by the American rock band Counting Crows. It is the second track on their fourth studio album "Hard Candy" (2002) and features Sheryl Crow on backing vocals.
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Gravity Kills Gravity Kills is an American industrial rock band from St. Louis, Missouri. Their music was described by one critic as "a blending of eerie industrial rock with a pop-infused melodic chorus and a bit of hard-core head banging."
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Kicking &amp; Screaming (Sebastian Bach album) Kicking & Screaming is the overall fourth release by heavy metal musician Sebastian Bach, but is the second to include all original studio recordings. The album was released on September 21, 2011, in Japan, September 23, 2011, in Europe and Australia and September 27, 2011, in North America.
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Man Factory Man Factory is an American indie rock band from Arlington, Texas established in 2002. The band has achieved regional success and is best known for its Street Fight! rock opera based on Capcom's "Street Fighter" video game series.
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Try, Try, Try "Try, Try, Try" is a song by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was the third and final single from the band's fifth studio album, "Machina/The Machines of God", and was released on 11 September 2000. It was written by Billy Corgan, as was the B-side "Here's to the Atom Bomb".
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Yellow Matter Custard Yellow Matter Custard is a Beatles tribute supergroup consisting of Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater, Transatlantic, OSI, Liquid Tension Experiment, Liquid Trio Experiment, Avenged Sevenfold, Flying Colors, Adrenaline Mob, The Winery Dogs, Metal Allegiance), Neal Morse ( ex-Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Flying Colors, The Neal Morse Band), Paul Gilbert (Racer X, Mr. Big) and Matt Bissonette (Mustard Seeds, Jughead, David Lee Roth, The Squirts, Joe Satriani, Electric Light Orchestra). Kasim Sulton (Utopia and various Todd Rundgren bands) played bass with the band in 2011, replacing Bissonette.
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Iron Horse (band) Iron Horse is a Bluegrass band from Killen, Alabama, USA. They are known for performing and recording bluegrass cover versions of rock songs, particularly their bluegrass treatments of heavy metal songs popularized by Metallica. The band has two tracks on the tribute album "", which also features David Lee Roth, among other artists. They have recently been working on self-produced material and in October 2009 released an all original Christmas project called "Small Town Christmas".
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NOFX (2011 EP) NOFX is an EP by the American punk rock band NOFX, released August 2, 2011 through Fat Wreck Chords and consisting entirely of cover versions of hardcore punk songs. The idea for the EP was originally announced in 2009—before the release of the group's eleventh studio album "Coaster"—and was originally announced to be released exclusively as a 10" vinyl record. The EP was also made available in 7", 12", and picture disc formats, all containing the same track listing.
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The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" is a song by XTC from their 1992 album "Nonsuch". It was the band's second #1 hit on the Modern Rock Tracks chart after "Mayor of Simpleton".
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Stone (Alice in Chains song) "Stone" is the second single by American rock band Alice in Chains from their 2013 album, "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here". The song reached No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, and stayed on the chart for 20 weeks. A music video has been released for the song. According to Graham Hartmann writing for Loudwire, "the new single [...] has its fair share of sludge [...], further delving into a dark and unnerving side of alternative rock and atmospheric metal."
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Survive (Nuclear Assault album) Survive is the second studio album by American thrash metal band Nuclear Assault, released in 1988 on vinyl, compact disc and cassette. As of 2012, the album has been out of print. "Survive" was the album that broke Nuclear Assault into the thrash metal mainstream, and was their first album to enter the "Billboard" 200, reaching number 145 on that chart. "Fight to Be Free" and the Led Zeppelin cover "Good Times Bad Times" were released as singles to promote the album.
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MX-80 MX-80 (also known as MX-80 Sound) is an American eclectic art-rock band founded in 1974 in Bloomington, Indiana by guitarist Bruce Anderson. Considered “one of the most out of step but prescient bands of its time," MX-80’s signature sound consisted of breakneck metallic guitar combined with atonal chord structure, cross-rhythmic percussion and dispassionate vocals. Notoriously difficult to categorize—the band has been labeled noise rock, post-punk, acid punk, and heavy-metal—MX-80’s sonic melange set the stage for bands such as Swans, Sonic Youth, Codeine, and Shellac.
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Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1991, the group consists of rapper and vocalist Zack de la Rocha, bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford, guitarist Tom Morello, and drummer Brad Wilk. They draw inspiration from early heavy metal instrumentation, hip hop acts such as Afrika Bambaataa, Public Enemy, and the Beastie Boys, punk rock such as the Sex Pistols and Fugazi, and Dutch crossover band Urban Dance Squad. Rage Against the Machine is well known for the members' revolutionary political views, which are expressed in many of the band's songs. As of 2010, they had sold over 16 million records worldwide.