SeeDarkly Sunday DisCOVERies : Simple Love
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a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
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February is devoted to a "Dark Valentine's" theme that I call: "Love Songs to Beautiful People You Think Are Sexy But With Whom You Are Not In Love!" Hopefully you'll find all these covers "lovable" but we'll get started with a ballad to Britain's bad boyfriend.:
Leæther Strip - Love Song (Simple Minds)
The Scottish post-punk band Simple Minds put out their fourth and fifth L.P. releases, Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call, as a double album set in September 1981. Love Song was its second single released in August from the Sons portion of the set. It's said that the track is supposed to be an ode to the centuries old relationship between Europe and North America, making it implicitly clear in the lyrics that "America's a boyfriend." Interestingly, this was the first Simple Minds album to be distributed internationally and between this track and their prior single from Sister, titled The American, it would seem plausible that they were making some active attempt to appeal to the vanity of specifically the largest of their new audience. However, neither single truly captured the attention of their object of affection, and they would only get some mild amount of play with several other singles until the 1986 film, The Breakfast Club, which featured their first number 1 hit in the States, Don't You (Forget About Me), finally earning the nation's full affections for a time.
Love Song is nonetheless an exceptionally catchy, if underrated, bass-rich alternative dance track.
Leæther Strip, the electro-industrial project by Danish musician Claus Larsen, has a discography boasting two dozen albums (or more) worth of original material along with the numerous covers of and tributes to bands and artists like Soft Cell, Fad Gadget, Depeche Mode, Dead or Alive, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, The Cure, Yaz, Talk Talk, Eurythmics, David Bowie, Judas Priest, and Cher. One of his latest such tributes, devoted to Simple Minds and released in September 2016, was the six track E.P. titled Reptile Man Drop, named after the lyric from Love Song which he covers in the collection. Larsen says that the early works of Simple Minds had a large impact on him from the moment he bought their first album in 1979. He unquestionably gives this EBM cover all the passion and energy of someone who has had such a long time love.
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Our "Dark Valentine's" theme continues during Second Sunday Slowly and we hear a very familiar industrial rock anthem made into a beautifully rendered down tempo goth croon!
Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome! (You do NOT need a LiveJournal account to comment, but all comments are screened for spam prevention.)
I spin this Saturday in Somerville Mass. Check my schedule for details to that and two other upcoming events for the month. ^_^
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Jan 29 - Rammstein - Stripped (Depeche Mode)
Jan 22 - Avarice In Audio - Welcome To Paradise (Front 242)
Jan 15 - Vogon Poetry - Mourn (Apoptygma Berzerk)
Jan 08 - Vernian Process - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove (Dead Can Dance)
Jan 01 - Front Line Assembly with Tiffany - New Year's Day (U2)
Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
February is devoted to a "Dark Valentine's" theme that I call: "Love Songs to Beautiful People You Think Are Sexy But With Whom You Are Not In Love!" Hopefully you'll find all these covers "lovable" but we'll get started with a ballad to Britain's bad boyfriend.:
Leæther Strip - Love Song (Simple Minds)
The Scottish post-punk band Simple Minds put out their fourth and fifth L.P. releases, Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call, as a double album set in September 1981. Love Song was its second single released in August from the Sons portion of the set. It's said that the track is supposed to be an ode to the centuries old relationship between Europe and North America, making it implicitly clear in the lyrics that "America's a boyfriend." Interestingly, this was the first Simple Minds album to be distributed internationally and between this track and their prior single from Sister, titled The American, it would seem plausible that they were making some active attempt to appeal to the vanity of specifically the largest of their new audience. However, neither single truly captured the attention of their object of affection, and they would only get some mild amount of play with several other singles until the 1986 film, The Breakfast Club, which featured their first number 1 hit in the States, Don't You (Forget About Me), finally earning the nation's full affections for a time.
Love Song is nonetheless an exceptionally catchy, if underrated, bass-rich alternative dance track.
Leæther Strip, the electro-industrial project by Danish musician Claus Larsen, has a discography boasting two dozen albums (or more) worth of original material along with the numerous covers of and tributes to bands and artists like Soft Cell, Fad Gadget, Depeche Mode, Dead or Alive, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, The Cure, Yaz, Talk Talk, Eurythmics, David Bowie, Judas Priest, and Cher. One of his latest such tributes, devoted to Simple Minds and released in September 2016, was the six track E.P. titled Reptile Man Drop, named after the lyric from Love Song which he covers in the collection. Larsen says that the early works of Simple Minds had a large impact on him from the moment he bought their first album in 1979. He unquestionably gives this EBM cover all the passion and energy of someone who has had such a long time love.
The Cover:
The Original:
Click to viewNext week:
Our "Dark Valentine's" theme continues during Second Sunday Slowly and we hear a very familiar industrial rock anthem made into a beautifully rendered down tempo goth croon!
Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome! (You do NOT need a LiveJournal account to comment, but all comments are screened for spam prevention.)
I spin this Saturday in Somerville Mass. Check my schedule for details to that and two other upcoming events for the month. ^_^
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Jan 29 - Rammstein - Stripped (Depeche Mode)
Jan 22 - Avarice In Audio - Welcome To Paradise (Front 242)
Jan 15 - Vogon Poetry - Mourn (Apoptygma Berzerk)
Jan 08 - Vernian Process - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove (Dead Can Dance)
Jan 01 - Front Line Assembly with Tiffany - New Year's Day (U2)
Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies