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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.
February is the month I devote to those dark/goth/industrial covers that appeal to a Dark Valentinian motif... and for 2018 it focuses on 3 Loves & A Crush!
The first of the month's features is a futurepop/EBM cover of a goth-elder's mostly-acoustic mournful ballad that imparts another of "Murphy's laws" - Some kinds of love are strange!:
Rotersand - A Strange Kind Of Love (Peter Murphy)
Peter Murphy released his third post-Bauhaus solo album, Deep, in December of 1989. A Strange Kind Of Love is the third single from it, making a smaller impact than the prior number one single, Cuts You Up. However, in one interview, Murphy excludes Cuts in a short list he gave of songs he considers his best work as a songwriter/vocalist, choosing Strange as one of his best instead. While the album and single versions are primarily acoustic, the b-sides are mixed with a few more electronic elements. Strange was also one of the songs he re-recorded in Boston during a short run of radio sessions with Trent Reznor during the Nine Inch Nails 2006 With Teeth: Summer Amphitheater Tour. There has not been an official release for it and the other recorded collaborations from the tour, but the recordings have been compiled on a bootleg curated from the public videos of those sessions, titled Where Darkness Doubles Light Pours In.
German electronic music act Rotersand released the Waiting to Be Born EP in 2010 as a followup to their 2009 album, Random is Resistance, featuring remixes of tracks from that album, a couple of additional original tracks, and their rhythmic synthy version of A Strange Kind Of Love. This appears to be the only time they've released a cover, excepting that self-release unassociated with their label. (In case you don't remember that cover they did in 2014...click here.)
Lyrically, the track is poetic without rhyme and open to some amount of broad interpretation as to its meaning but seems to center on concepts of the duality between love and anger. Rotersand's delivery of those lyrics is perhaps a touch more sinister than Murphy's lament. There's certainly nothing strange about the love goth and industrial artists have for the breadth of Murphy's work or that any would be inspired to do their own interpretations. However it is a bit strange that there is maybe only one other cover of this song at all. And truly it doesn't compare to this:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Second Sunday Slowly during the week of Valentine's actual, and a downtempo dark cabaret version of a familiar gothic rock track! This ensorcelling darkwave cover takes you on a imaginary journey to worship love in a tribal steampunk temple!
Feel free to tell me what you think about today's cover! Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
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The first of my February gigs is after Valentine's day. More details about that one should be available soon from my schedule. ↼‿ಠ
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Jan 28 - Reizstrom - Blister In The Sun(Violent Femmes)
Jan 21 - Course of Empire - Blue Moon(Connie Boswell)
Jan 14 - Buried Things ft. Shari Vari - Cowboy (Portishead)
Jan 07 - Klack - Pump Up The Jam (Technotronic)
Dec 31 - Electric Riot - Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
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 the month I devote to those dark/goth/industrial covers that appeal to a Dark Valentinian motif... and for 2018 it focuses on 3 Loves & A Crush!
The first of the month's features is a futurepop/EBM cover of a goth-elder's mostly-acoustic mournful ballad that imparts another of "Murphy's laws" - Some kinds of love are strange!:
Rotersand - A Strange Kind Of Love (Peter Murphy)
Peter Murphy released his third post-Bauhaus solo album, Deep, in December of 1989. A Strange Kind Of Love is the third single from it, making a smaller impact than the prior number one single, Cuts You Up. However, in one interview, Murphy excludes Cuts in a short list he gave of songs he considers his best work as a songwriter/vocalist, choosing Strange as one of his best instead. While the album and single versions are primarily acoustic, the b-sides are mixed with a few more electronic elements. Strange was also one of the songs he re-recorded in Boston during a short run of radio sessions with Trent Reznor during the Nine Inch Nails 2006 With Teeth: Summer Amphitheater Tour. There has not been an official release for it and the other recorded collaborations from the tour, but the recordings have been compiled on a bootleg curated from the public videos of those sessions, titled Where Darkness Doubles Light Pours In.
German electronic music act Rotersand released the Waiting to Be Born EP in 2010 as a followup to their 2009 album, Random is Resistance, featuring remixes of tracks from that album, a couple of additional original tracks, and their rhythmic synthy version of A Strange Kind Of Love. This appears to be the only time they've released a cover, excepting that self-release unassociated with their label. (In case you don't remember that cover they did in 2014...click here.)
Lyrically, the track is poetic without rhyme and open to some amount of broad interpretation as to its meaning but seems to center on concepts of the duality between love and anger. Rotersand's delivery of those lyrics is perhaps a touch more sinister than Murphy's lament. There's certainly nothing strange about the love goth and industrial artists have for the breadth of Murphy's work or that any would be inspired to do their own interpretations. However it is a bit strange that there is maybe only one other cover of this song at all. And truly it doesn't compare to this:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Second Sunday Slowly during the week of Valentine's actual, and a downtempo dark cabaret version of a familiar gothic rock track! This ensorcelling darkwave cover takes you on a imaginary journey to worship love in a tribal steampunk temple!
Feel free to tell me what you think about today's cover! Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
(You do NOT need a Dreamwidth account to comment, but all comments are screened for spam prevention.)
The first of my February gigs is after Valentine's day. More details about that one should be available soon from my schedule. ↼‿ಠ
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Jan 28 - Reizstrom - Blister In The Sun(Violent Femmes)
Jan 21 - Course of Empire - Blue Moon(Connie Boswell)
Jan 14 - Buried Things ft. Shari Vari - Cowboy (Portishead)
Jan 07 - Klack - Pump Up The Jam (Technotronic)
Dec 31 - Electric Riot - Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies