Buckcherry Release Nine Inch Nails Cover

Ok I didn't see this one coming. Buckcherry are still a band and just dropped a surprise cover of the Nine Inch Nails classic "Head Like A Hole." The band is working on an album of new material. This is a cover "for fans to enjoy." From my inbox:

Buckcherry will be bringing their live show to California for a handful of headline dates this January before heading overseas for their month long February European tour. Expect a jam-packed year full of touring in support of their forthcoming album.

Buckcherry - Head Like A Hole

Formed in 1995, Buckcherry is an American rock band from Anaheim, California, who throughout their 20 plus year career has had two Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Hits, they are RIAA Gold (Buchcherry) and Platinum (15) certified, and have over 55 million streams on Spotify. Now the band is gearing up to dominate the rock world once again with the release their seventh full-length studio album this spring.

Comments

[Him]

As a fan (check my previous posts), I don't really know what this cover brings to the table that really grabs you. I mean, the Icona Pop cover "Say **** It" was dumb . . . but just as catchy as the original (if that's your thing), great live, and a nice tip of the cap with a bit of the FU swagger (it was on an album named F, for goodness sake!).

I suppose this points to the problem with covers: you either improve upon the original ("Ziggy" by Bauhaus) or do an awesome tribute to the same ("Planet Caravan" by Pantera), or you just seem to be treading water (think Pet "Hair" Michaels).

I think Buckcherry is treading on this one. I bet it will be better live. But that's because Todd is a monster performer live, no matter who is backing him (and there have been a lot of changes in that camp recently).

It also points to how impressive NIN's _Pretty Hate Machine_ was, and how it still holds up (even against the stuff he put out since then, with the exception of the song "Came Back Haunted" from _Hesitation Marks_, which feels like it should have been on PHM. Awesome song!).

[Metalboy!]

I like it better than the original as it is a tad more Rock and Roll with a lot ballsier vocals and guitars though I think they could have crunched those out a lot more.

As you infer, HIM, this just needed to be Rocked out a lot more to really differentiate it from the original.

So, though I still may like it more than NIN’s original, they still had to come up with it originally and what a crowning achievement it is!

[Dj]

Not a huge NIN fan but every cover I've heard of their stuff dosent come close to the original, including this one. Covers should either improve from the original and given new life or be strong enough to pay respect to the original. This one falls more to the latter but still dosent quite make sense. Buckcherry albums for me are either hit or miss. The first three were really good and so was Rock N Roll. The rest were kind of meh for me. Their live album was really really good which you can't say about a lot of live albums. Hoping this new album is gonna be killer, and they do some touring behind it. Would love to see these guys again.

[SparkyDR99]

The first music released without Keith Nelson should not be a cover. It would be like if when Joe Perry left Areosmith, and they released a cover to start the next record cycle. They have allot to prove without half the songwriting team. I wish them luck. I saw them over the summer and it was missing something.

[Metalboy!]

Sparky, gotta say, though, I actually saw Aerosmith when Jimmy Crespo stepped in for Perry and I was shocked at how astonishingly great that performance was that particular night, having seen them numerous times with the original line-up.

And “Lightning Strikes”, a song as killer as any of their canon, blew the roof off the nearly empty arena (the since detonated Capital Centre in Washington D.C.).