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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!
We're up to the Third Sunday Throwback to the 20th Century and like all the covers this month, it's another familiar song. This time it's a post-punk/new wave track from the 80's that got covered in the earliest days of a modern industrial/futurepop act. When you love their way, a kiss is not enough, but you are.:
Assemblage 23 - Love My Way (The Psychedelic Furs)
The Psychedelic Furs released Love My Way as a single in July 1982, roughly two months before their third album, Forever Now. In a magazine interview with singer/lyricist Richard Butler that was published that year he stated, "It's basically addressed to people who are f--ked up about their sexuality, and says, 'Don't worry about it.' It was originally written for gay people."
The song went on to be included in the soundtracks for 1983's Valley Girl and 1998's The Wedding Singer. In late 2017, the song was included as part of a dance party scene in the independent romantic drama film, Call Me By Your Name, which made it one of very few songs on that soundtrack actually from the era in which the movie was set. Following the film's release, in the early part of December, Love My Way became the band's most streamed on-demand track ever. What's especially notable about that fact is that the film only opened in two cities and the increase in streams seemed to be steadily growing after Sony put out a clip of that dance scene, coinciding with National Coming Out Day.
The song has been covered at least twenty times, though none of those covers are remarkably notable apart from this one by Assemblage 23, the stage/project name used by Tom Shear. His version of the song first appeared on the second (and last) of a series of various artist covers compilations from the now defunct 21st Circuitry label titled, Newer Wave, in 1998. The 14-track collection also includes contributions from Covenant and In Strict Confidence. The track has since been included on Assemblage 23's second volume of Early, Rare, & Unreleased, put out the same week as Valentine's Day in 2009. Shear's early electronic sound is a little raw and experimental in some ways, but he cleanly offer a solid dancable rework of the song. One element recreated electronically however is one that make the original so unique: the rhythm that opens the track and plays throughout performed on a xylophone-like instrument called the marimba. There may be no other song in popular culture that has used the marimba, which was suggested by their producer, Todd Rundgren, who happened to have the instrument handy as they experimented with early demos.
It does not appear that Assemblage 23 has done any cover since this one, though they did do I Ran by A Flock of Seagulls for the first of the Newer Wave albums.
Shear might just agree that Love My Way is the better of his two covers since he doesn't seem to have re-released the other.:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Our month of Dark Valentinian covers wraps up with the "Crush" part of "3 Loves & A Crush": a gothic downtempo metal rendition of a pop-alternative track from the nineties that somehow crossed-over to become a goth club standard in some regions, and can never be ignored.
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.)
My next gig is Friday in Western Mass where we'll celebrate 22 years of an event of which I've had the privilege to be part for eleven! Check my schedule for those details! ↼‿ಠ
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Feb 11 - Johnny Hollow - Temple of Love (Sisters of Mercy)
Feb 04 - Rotersand - A Strange Kind Of Love (Peter Murphy)
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)
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!
We're up to the Third Sunday Throwback to the 20th Century and like all the covers this month, it's another familiar song. This time it's a post-punk/new wave track from the 80's that got covered in the earliest days of a modern industrial/futurepop act. When you love their way, a kiss is not enough, but you are.:
Assemblage 23 - Love My Way (The Psychedelic Furs)
The Psychedelic Furs released Love My Way as a single in July 1982, roughly two months before their third album, Forever Now. In a magazine interview with singer/lyricist Richard Butler that was published that year he stated, "It's basically addressed to people who are f--ked up about their sexuality, and says, 'Don't worry about it.' It was originally written for gay people."
The song went on to be included in the soundtracks for 1983's Valley Girl and 1998's The Wedding Singer. In late 2017, the song was included as part of a dance party scene in the independent romantic drama film, Call Me By Your Name, which made it one of very few songs on that soundtrack actually from the era in which the movie was set. Following the film's release, in the early part of December, Love My Way became the band's most streamed on-demand track ever. What's especially notable about that fact is that the film only opened in two cities and the increase in streams seemed to be steadily growing after Sony put out a clip of that dance scene, coinciding with National Coming Out Day.
The song has been covered at least twenty times, though none of those covers are remarkably notable apart from this one by Assemblage 23, the stage/project name used by Tom Shear. His version of the song first appeared on the second (and last) of a series of various artist covers compilations from the now defunct 21st Circuitry label titled, Newer Wave, in 1998. The 14-track collection also includes contributions from Covenant and In Strict Confidence. The track has since been included on Assemblage 23's second volume of Early, Rare, & Unreleased, put out the same week as Valentine's Day in 2009. Shear's early electronic sound is a little raw and experimental in some ways, but he cleanly offer a solid dancable rework of the song. One element recreated electronically however is one that make the original so unique: the rhythm that opens the track and plays throughout performed on a xylophone-like instrument called the marimba. There may be no other song in popular culture that has used the marimba, which was suggested by their producer, Todd Rundgren, who happened to have the instrument handy as they experimented with early demos.
It does not appear that Assemblage 23 has done any cover since this one, though they did do I Ran by A Flock of Seagulls for the first of the Newer Wave albums.
Shear might just agree that Love My Way is the better of his two covers since he doesn't seem to have re-released the other.:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Our month of Dark Valentinian covers wraps up with the "Crush" part of "3 Loves & A Crush": a gothic downtempo metal rendition of a pop-alternative track from the nineties that somehow crossed-over to become a goth club standard in some regions, and can never be ignored.
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.)
My next gig is Friday in Western Mass where we'll celebrate 22 years of an event of which I've had the privilege to be part for eleven! Check my schedule for those details! ↼‿ಠ
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Feb 11 - Johnny Hollow - Temple of Love (Sisters of Mercy)
Feb 04 - Rotersand - A Strange Kind Of Love (Peter Murphy)
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)
Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies
Correction
Date: 2018-02-28 04:11 pm (UTC)