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seedarklyxeroWelcome back for another exploration of goth/industrial cover songs here at SeeDarkly Sunday DisCOVERies! What's this? Click here for details from first entry.
It's the Third Sunday of the month, so that means it's time for a Throwback from the 20th century. Let's have a little fun with it this month, shall we?:
Libitina - Gothic People(Common People)
Pretension is pretty easily recognized as a fairly common trait in any goth community at various levels ranging from facetious affectations to down right egomania. But when you look beyond the dress, the style, the attitudes, etc... you start to see that there's nothing really other-than-normal about the people there. None are any more or less troubled or capable than anybody else, even those outside our sub-culture. In this community you'll likely never actually encounter royalty among the barons or queens of darkness, the supernaturally empowered among the practicing witches or vampires, or anyone all that much more than ordinary, despite the claims of any about their supposed eminence. But that's ok. And it doesn't mean we're not unique. Of course we are! Just like everyone else. ;)
I tease a bit here as prelude to the somewhat ironic nature of today's cover.
In 1995, a brit-pop band called Pulp released their fifth album, Different Class, which featured what has probably been the single most popular track of their career, Common People.
The song is an admonishment of those in the upper-class who, bored in their lavish lifestyles, go "slumming" among the disenfranchised for fun. The lyrics paint a brief picture of what they might have to really do in order to live like "common people."
Just a couple of years later in 1997, a British gothic band called Libitina released their first album, A Closer Communion. It featured their 80's-reminiscent darkwave version of the track but with a number of lyrics rewritten to reflect a gothic lifestyle in place of the "common." Whether they did this as a mild parody with tongue planted firmly in cheek or if they had any particular message, the parallels to the original still make it fairly evident that "common" and "gothic" people have a lot more similarities than some may care to admit.
{For instance... both probably like William Shatner. He also did a cover of the track worth looking up for fun. ;) }
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
It's the Sunday before Turkey Day! I'll bring the "covered dish!"
Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
I'll be spinning twice next week. A week from this Tuesday and also on Thanksgiving! Check out my schedule for details and RSVP if you can come out! ^_^
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Nov 08 - Dead When I Found Her - In the Air Tonight (Phil Collins)
Nov 01 - School of Seven Bells - Kiss Them For Me (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
Oct 25 - Mind Driller - Thriller (Michael Jackson)
Oct 18 - Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls (Joy Division)
Oct 11 - Hausfrau - Season Of The Witch (Donovan)
Directory of All DisCOVERies
It's the Third Sunday of the month, so that means it's time for a Throwback from the 20th century. Let's have a little fun with it this month, shall we?:
Libitina - Gothic People(Common People)
Pretension is pretty easily recognized as a fairly common trait in any goth community at various levels ranging from facetious affectations to down right egomania. But when you look beyond the dress, the style, the attitudes, etc... you start to see that there's nothing really other-than-normal about the people there. None are any more or less troubled or capable than anybody else, even those outside our sub-culture. In this community you'll likely never actually encounter royalty among the barons or queens of darkness, the supernaturally empowered among the practicing witches or vampires, or anyone all that much more than ordinary, despite the claims of any about their supposed eminence. But that's ok. And it doesn't mean we're not unique. Of course we are! Just like everyone else. ;)
I tease a bit here as prelude to the somewhat ironic nature of today's cover.
In 1995, a brit-pop band called Pulp released their fifth album, Different Class, which featured what has probably been the single most popular track of their career, Common People.
The song is an admonishment of those in the upper-class who, bored in their lavish lifestyles, go "slumming" among the disenfranchised for fun. The lyrics paint a brief picture of what they might have to really do in order to live like "common people."
Just a couple of years later in 1997, a British gothic band called Libitina released their first album, A Closer Communion. It featured their 80's-reminiscent darkwave version of the track but with a number of lyrics rewritten to reflect a gothic lifestyle in place of the "common." Whether they did this as a mild parody with tongue planted firmly in cheek or if they had any particular message, the parallels to the original still make it fairly evident that "common" and "gothic" people have a lot more similarities than some may care to admit.
{For instance... both probably like William Shatner. He also did a cover of the track worth looking up for fun. ;) }
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
It's the Sunday before Turkey Day! I'll bring the "covered dish!"
Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
I'll be spinning twice next week. A week from this Tuesday and also on Thanksgiving! Check out my schedule for details and RSVP if you can come out! ^_^
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Nov 08 - Dead When I Found Her - In the Air Tonight (Phil Collins)
Nov 01 - School of Seven Bells - Kiss Them For Me (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
Oct 25 - Mind Driller - Thriller (Michael Jackson)
Oct 18 - Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls (Joy Division)
Oct 11 - Hausfrau - Season Of The Witch (Donovan)
Directory of All DisCOVERies