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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.
At the end of last month I featured a cover of a song inspired by one of Stephen King's horror novels, though not one particularly relevant to the Halloween season. This week for our fourth part of the Octoberween series, we present a cover of a track that was originally created by a band that inspired King. In fact, he actually made them a meaningful part of the novel before they made the song for the film based on it.:
Strvngers - Pet Sematary (The Ramones)
Pet Sematary was the fourteenth of Stephen King's novels (tenth, if you exclude those done under his "Bachman" pseudonym) and was published in mid-November, 1983. It was optioned for a film-adaptation and King was brought on to write the script. The movie was released in 1989, now the fifth most successful of films based on his novels after Misery, 1408, The Green Mile, and the recent blockbuster, IT.
In the book, King quotes "hey-ho, let's go" several times from Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones. He also embedded their Rockaway Beach as music playing in one scene. So it seems pretty natural that he'd call upon The Ramones to participate in the film somehow. According to Marky Ramone in one interview, the band was invited to King's home to hang out in his basement, where King gave Dee Dee Ramone a copy of the book. An hour later, Dee Dee had written the theme song that would play during the film's end credits. The film also featured their song, Sheena is a Punk Rocker, but neither was included on the official soundtrack album. The band instead released the song before the film on their eleventh studio album, Brain Drain in March 1989. The single was a top ten modern rock hit, the highest charting track of their career, despite also earning them a nomination for a Razzie Award in the category of "Worst Original Song" that year. The track has since been included on several Halloween compilation albums.
Strvngers, a darkwave/electro-pop duo from out of Canada, released a four-track EP titled Exhumed v.1 in July earlier this year, featuring their cover of Pet Sematary and another, He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask) by Alice Cooper. They offered it for free to fans (their "witches and warlocks") in appreciation for their support during a just-completed stretch of their touring schedule. Their modernized version is an extraordinarily dancy yet dark remake, with vague musical cues hinting at various classic Halloween favorites. There are over three dozen covers of this song and theirs is possibly one of the most superb updates of it!:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
We'll put Octoberween in a coffin and bury it for another year, but not until after we've drained the blood from not just A cover, but FIVE covers of one of a number of previously featured tracks that I probably should've reserved for the Halloween season in the first place!
Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
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The last of my Octoberween gigs is this Friday. You can find details for it on my schedule if you're in the area and care to attend! ^_^
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Oct 15 - The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck (Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads)
Oct 08 - Perturbator - Come To Me (Brad Fiedel)
Oct 01 - Kebabträume - More Than A Party (Depeche Mode)
Sep 24 - Steril - Misery (Psyche)
Sep 17 - The Cure - Foxy Lady (the Jimi Hendrix Experience)
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.
At the end of last month I featured a cover of a song inspired by one of Stephen King's horror novels, though not one particularly relevant to the Halloween season. This week for our fourth part of the Octoberween series, we present a cover of a track that was originally created by a band that inspired King. In fact, he actually made them a meaningful part of the novel before they made the song for the film based on it.:
Strvngers - Pet Sematary (The Ramones)
Pet Sematary was the fourteenth of Stephen King's novels (tenth, if you exclude those done under his "Bachman" pseudonym) and was published in mid-November, 1983. It was optioned for a film-adaptation and King was brought on to write the script. The movie was released in 1989, now the fifth most successful of films based on his novels after Misery, 1408, The Green Mile, and the recent blockbuster, IT.
In the book, King quotes "hey-ho, let's go" several times from Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones. He also embedded their Rockaway Beach as music playing in one scene. So it seems pretty natural that he'd call upon The Ramones to participate in the film somehow. According to Marky Ramone in one interview, the band was invited to King's home to hang out in his basement, where King gave Dee Dee Ramone a copy of the book. An hour later, Dee Dee had written the theme song that would play during the film's end credits. The film also featured their song, Sheena is a Punk Rocker, but neither was included on the official soundtrack album. The band instead released the song before the film on their eleventh studio album, Brain Drain in March 1989. The single was a top ten modern rock hit, the highest charting track of their career, despite also earning them a nomination for a Razzie Award in the category of "Worst Original Song" that year. The track has since been included on several Halloween compilation albums.
Strvngers, a darkwave/electro-pop duo from out of Canada, released a four-track EP titled Exhumed v.1 in July earlier this year, featuring their cover of Pet Sematary and another, He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask) by Alice Cooper. They offered it for free to fans (their "witches and warlocks") in appreciation for their support during a just-completed stretch of their touring schedule. Their modernized version is an extraordinarily dancy yet dark remake, with vague musical cues hinting at various classic Halloween favorites. There are over three dozen covers of this song and theirs is possibly one of the most superb updates of it!:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
We'll put Octoberween in a coffin and bury it for another year, but not until after we've drained the blood from not just A cover, but FIVE covers of one of a number of previously featured tracks that I probably should've reserved for the Halloween season in the first place!
Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
(You do NOT need a Dreamwidth account to comment, but all comments are screened for spam prevention.)
The last of my Octoberween gigs is this Friday. You can find details for it on my schedule if you're in the area and care to attend! ^_^
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Oct 15 - The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck (Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads)
Oct 08 - Perturbator - Come To Me (Brad Fiedel)
Oct 01 - Kebabträume - More Than A Party (Depeche Mode)
Sep 24 - Steril - Misery (Psyche)
Sep 17 - The Cure - Foxy Lady (the Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies