Sure, it had the whiff of novelty about it, but that jagged opening riff could fill a 2001 rock club dancefloor in less than half a second.To re-assess an album as actually really great when most people, about a year ago, labelled it as either terrible or, at best, something that “doesn’t really deserve all the hate” (i.e., “not bad” rather than “good”) might seem sort of deliberately contentious-basically, taking the unpopular side of a cultural/musical argument because the more popular alternative has been worn out past the point of use. Sidebar: the ’Tones version of Sade’s soft-focus 80s ballad No Ordinary Love is worth checking out too.Īlien Ant Farm were nu metal’s wacka-wacka wing – a bunch of gurning dingbats whose biggest (well, only) hit was this rocked up cover of Michael Jackson’s 1987 single. Full marks to Chino for his absolutely spot-on impression of Duran frontman Simon Le Bon. Only Deftones actually recorded it, though, swapping out the original’s icy synths for Stephen Carpenter’s electrical-current guitar. So much so that both have covered the eerie, slightly pervy closing track of the British new romantic titans’ 1982 album Rio. The Australian metalcore vets laid the synths on thick on their 2008 version, capturing the original‘s tense, heartbeat throb.ĭuran Duran were a unlikely influence on nu metal’s founding fathers – Korn’s Jonathan Davis was a huge fan, as was Deftones singer Chino Moreno. Hats off to The Amity Affliction for swerving the obvious and opting to cover 80s pop-rock queen Pat Benatar’s greatest three-and-a-half minutes instead. The Amity Affliction – Love Is A Battlefield They got Numan’s blessing and more – Gazza himself turned up to trade vocals with Burton C Bell.
Poker-faced synth-pop android Gary Numan’s futuristic ode to social anxiety dovetailed perfectly with cyber-metal kingpins Fear Factory‘s dystopian paranoia – so much so that it was a no-brainer for the LA band to turn in a respectfully faithful cover of the 1981 hit as a bonus track on their 1999 album Obsolete.
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