White Lion Head For The Boneyard
Perhaps the awfulness I am seeing in this cover is a product of said cover’s context. To wit: he cover that this is an obvious homage to, that of White Lion’s debut album Pride:
Look at that lion! It’s so cute. Sensitive, even, from the look on its face. And now it’s all … mean and dead and apparently cloned? Well, at least we’ll always have “Wait”:
White Lion Really Wants To Be Your Friend [MetalSucks]