10 Amazing Covers Albums In Rock And Roll Music

10. Covers - Deftones

There's no neat way of describing what kind of music Deftones make. As much as they may have started in the world of nu metal back in the day, most of the songs off of albums like Diamond Eyes feel like they belong more in the realm of shoegaze and dreampop half the time. Deftones were always proud of their nu metal roots though, even if that meant bringing them into a pop context.

For all of the killer metal covers that they could have made during their tenure, most of what turns up on Covers is some of the more celebrated alternative pop from the '80s, as Chino Moreno tries his hand at bands like the Cure. Even though it makes for a pretty strange fit when it first gets going, hearing songs by The Smiths being given the nu metal treatment actually isn't the worst idea in the world.

You have to remember that these were songs that were known to be on the darker side of pop, so hearing a loud guitar in the mix overpowering everything makes a lot more sense with this than something by Madonna. The weird covers don't even end at this album either, like when they would occasionally throw in a cover of Weezer's Say It Ain't So during their live set, which takes all of the pain of the original and dials it up that much more. For most Deftones fans, this feels like taking all of the darkness of something like Pink Maggit and putting a poppy spin on it.