The Punk Goes… series was fun at first until it became an excuse for shitty bands to play shitty covers. Unfortunately “Punk Goes Classic Rock” is not an exception to the rule.
Then again, I’m probably not part of the target demographic here. I always thought that “We Are The Champions” was a crap song to begin with and I sure as hell was not waiting to hear Mayday Parade’s take on it. Neither did I want to hear Hit The Lights cover the godawful “More Than A Feeling”.
There are always a couple of songs on these comps as well where the original version is great and the cover version is just fucked. In this case that’s “Paint It Black”, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” and “All Along The Watchtower”. Just leave those songs alone, there’s absolutely nothing a mediocre band can add to the original version.
Pretty much the only redeemable songs on this mess are The Almost’s version of “Free Fallin’” and I See Stars’ “Your Love”. Other than that this is just one shiny auto-tuned pile of shit. I mean, a poppunk version of “Bohemian Rhapsody”? Come on!
Score: 2 out of 10
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