I've been listening to Dragonland's cover of Rusty Nail a lot lately. I love this cover and it's one of the best covers that I've heard. I even find myself thinking that it might be a bit of an improvement over the original but that just might be the guitar wanker in me.
I'm just curious as to what everyone else thinks of the cover and if anyone else has caught themselves thinking the same as I.
It's a good cover, but I'm not fond of the vocalist's voice. The other issue I have is that I like the real orchestra recordings used on the original, as opposed to the cheap and cheesy synth which the Dragonland cover puts it place of it.
And while the guitar solo is technically superior to the original in the cover I don't think it's anywhere near as tasteful - it sounds forced and jammed together, and seems to be used as a showcase of "look what I can do that hide and pata didn't". Not that I don't like people showing off, it's just in this case it really didn't do anything for me, and also removed one of my favourite parts of the original :p