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seedarklyxeroWelcome to SeeDarkly Sunday DisCOVERies:
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
Last week the cover chosen allowed me an opportunity to vaguely condemn a film that made a ton of money last weekend at the box office. This week's somewhat obscure cover refers to whom someone had to sell their soul for that to happen:
Go Fight - I Have A Devil In Me
Go Fight, made up of former (and founding) members of Die Warzau, released their version of I Have A Devil In Me in November as a way to draw attention to news that stagehands that worked at Chicago's Riviera venue were laid off by JAM Productions last October because they were considering unionization. Go Fight were asking for fans who downloaded the track to send notice to JAM that they would boycott the shows at any of their venues until the issue was resolved and the stagehands rehired. (As of this posting, I've found no information as to if this had any impact or if there has been any resolution at all.)
Go Fight state on the Bandcamp page for the track that it is a cover of Churchwood, to which they link a bizarre video for the song, but that isn't entirely accurate.
While Churchwood, a Texas-based funk/blues alternative band, does seem to have possession of rights for the song now, because their guitarist Bill Anderson wrote it, it was previously published with another band Anderson was in.
Big Foot Chester, a blues rock group, released their first album titled The Devil In Me in 1996. The original song called I've Got A Devil In Me was later rerecorded as I Have A Devil In Me on Churchwood's second album, 2, released in 2013.
As is occasionally the case where an artist will cover a song based on its cover, it's fair to say Go Fight were clearly covering Churchwood's version of the track and not the actual original by Big Foot Chester (though the two early versions are arguably not that different from each other.)
In addition to remaking the song in their signature "electro-scuz" EBM dance-industrial style, Go Fight have taken creative license to add a number of absurdly humorous and obscene variations on the original lyrics that maintain the general structure of the song while definitively marking this version as their own.
Go Fight were expected to release a new album on April Fool's Day but they announced last weekend that it would be delayed until May due to "unforeseen circumstances." No track list has been announced so it is not yet known if the album will include this cover:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Second Sunday Slowly means it will be down-tempo and probably a bit more familiar than this week's.
Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
I spin next Sunday in Cambridge. Go to my schedule for details. ^_^
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Mar 27 - White Zombie - I'm Your Boogie Man (K.C. & the Sunshine Band)
Mar 20 - Information Society(w/ Ayria) - Heffalumps And Woozles (The Mellomen)
Mar 13 - Cosmetics - Black Candy (Beat Happening)
Mar 06 - Erotic Elk - Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)
Feb 28 - A7ie - Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)
Directory of All DisCOVERies
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
Last week the cover chosen allowed me an opportunity to vaguely condemn a film that made a ton of money last weekend at the box office. This week's somewhat obscure cover refers to whom someone had to sell their soul for that to happen:
Go Fight - I Have A Devil In Me
Go Fight, made up of former (and founding) members of Die Warzau, released their version of I Have A Devil In Me in November as a way to draw attention to news that stagehands that worked at Chicago's Riviera venue were laid off by JAM Productions last October because they were considering unionization. Go Fight were asking for fans who downloaded the track to send notice to JAM that they would boycott the shows at any of their venues until the issue was resolved and the stagehands rehired. (As of this posting, I've found no information as to if this had any impact or if there has been any resolution at all.)
Go Fight state on the Bandcamp page for the track that it is a cover of Churchwood, to which they link a bizarre video for the song, but that isn't entirely accurate.
While Churchwood, a Texas-based funk/blues alternative band, does seem to have possession of rights for the song now, because their guitarist Bill Anderson wrote it, it was previously published with another band Anderson was in.
Big Foot Chester, a blues rock group, released their first album titled The Devil In Me in 1996. The original song called I've Got A Devil In Me was later rerecorded as I Have A Devil In Me on Churchwood's second album, 2, released in 2013.
As is occasionally the case where an artist will cover a song based on its cover, it's fair to say Go Fight were clearly covering Churchwood's version of the track and not the actual original by Big Foot Chester (though the two early versions are arguably not that different from each other.)
In addition to remaking the song in their signature "electro-scuz" EBM dance-industrial style, Go Fight have taken creative license to add a number of absurdly humorous and obscene variations on the original lyrics that maintain the general structure of the song while definitively marking this version as their own.
Go Fight were expected to release a new album on April Fool's Day but they announced last weekend that it would be delayed until May due to "unforeseen circumstances." No track list has been announced so it is not yet known if the album will include this cover:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Second Sunday Slowly means it will be down-tempo and probably a bit more familiar than this week's.
Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
I spin next Sunday in Cambridge. Go to my schedule for details. ^_^
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Mar 27 - White Zombie - I'm Your Boogie Man (K.C. & the Sunshine Band)
Mar 20 - Information Society(w/ Ayria) - Heffalumps And Woozles (The Mellomen)
Mar 13 - Cosmetics - Black Candy (Beat Happening)
Mar 06 - Erotic Elk - Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)
Feb 28 - A7ie - Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)
Directory of All DisCOVERies