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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.
This week's Second Sunday Slowly features a synthwave downtempo cover of an early 21st century alternative rock hit that comes to us from an unlikely source... the mind that brought us a cete of badgers, a mumbling of eggs, a horse that amazes, and many other strange and silly flash animations and songs.:
Savlonic - Go with the Flow (Queens of the Stone Age)
Queens of the Stone Age released their third studio album, Songs for the Deaf, in late summer 2002. The album featured Go with the Flow which the band released as its second single in April 2003. The song was a driven poppy headbanger that didn't quite attain the same notoriety as the preceding single, No One Knows, though it is one of their best known hits and ended up on no less than ten different video game soundtracks. The album was reportedly meant to take listeners on a mental cross-state trip from L.A. to Joshua Tree, California, and injected snippets of radio broadcasts from towns along that journey. Frontman Josh Homme described it as "a drive that makes you feel like you're letting go—more David Lynch with every mile." Go with the Flow seems to exist a little more than halfway into that drive and ends on one of those broadcasts, though it's not clear what town it came from or what the significance might be, if any.
Last July, British animator and musician Jonti (Jonathan) Picking, aka Weebl, invited fans to tune in online as he worked on a cover song he was producing for his "virtual" synthwave project, Savlonic. Response to the idea encouraged him to announce that the band would do an entire covers album. Savlonic, much like Gorillaz, is represented primarily as animated characters with goofy names: Picking as frontman Roscoe Thunderpants, his spouse Sarah Darling as singer/keyboardist Evangeline D'isco, Katt Wade as backing vocalist & drummer Kandi Flaus, and guitarist Daniel Dobbs as Kaspar Funk. The band released Emulat0r in September 2017, technically their third full length album though they appear to consider it as aside from the count of their original works. The nine covers included on the album are mostly popular synthpop and new wave fare from the eighties (New Order, Eurythmics, Flock of Seagulls, The Cure, et.al) with a dash of late seventies rock from Kiss and modern novelty from Flight of the Conchords. Picking handles vocals on most of the tracks, but possibly to questionable effect since he doesn't quite distance himself enough from the recognizable vocal style of his more comedic animations. Their cover of Go with the Flow, however, has Darling taking the lead on this dark electro-ethereal retrowave revision that may well be the album's single best accomplishment. It's textured and spooky in ways that make it feel as if it could have existed over a decade before the original on some outrun-style sci-fi/horror soundtrack. It's a surprising gem set inside a body of some truly absurd (if uniquely entertaining and hilarious) works:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
For this month's Third Sunday Throwback to the 20th century we'll stay down-tempo with a dark disco/crossover classic that often get miscredited as the original by an artist whose most prominent successes were made up of covers.
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 a week from this Friday in the Boston area! Check my schedule for details, the RSVP link on Facebook, and news on other upcoming events when announced! ↼‿ಠ
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Jul 01 - Kanga - Metal (Gary Numan)
Jun 24 - Sopor Æternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)(Cher)
Jun 17 - Die Warzau - S & M (Thin Lizzy)
Jun 10 - The xx - Teardrops (Womack & Womack)
Jun 03 - And One - Smalltown Boy (Bronski Beat)
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.
This week's Second Sunday Slowly features a synthwave downtempo cover of an early 21st century alternative rock hit that comes to us from an unlikely source... the mind that brought us a cete of badgers, a mumbling of eggs, a horse that amazes, and many other strange and silly flash animations and songs.:
Savlonic - Go with the Flow (Queens of the Stone Age)
Queens of the Stone Age released their third studio album, Songs for the Deaf, in late summer 2002. The album featured Go with the Flow which the band released as its second single in April 2003. The song was a driven poppy headbanger that didn't quite attain the same notoriety as the preceding single, No One Knows, though it is one of their best known hits and ended up on no less than ten different video game soundtracks. The album was reportedly meant to take listeners on a mental cross-state trip from L.A. to Joshua Tree, California, and injected snippets of radio broadcasts from towns along that journey. Frontman Josh Homme described it as "a drive that makes you feel like you're letting go—more David Lynch with every mile." Go with the Flow seems to exist a little more than halfway into that drive and ends on one of those broadcasts, though it's not clear what town it came from or what the significance might be, if any.
Last July, British animator and musician Jonti (Jonathan) Picking, aka Weebl, invited fans to tune in online as he worked on a cover song he was producing for his "virtual" synthwave project, Savlonic. Response to the idea encouraged him to announce that the band would do an entire covers album. Savlonic, much like Gorillaz, is represented primarily as animated characters with goofy names: Picking as frontman Roscoe Thunderpants, his spouse Sarah Darling as singer/keyboardist Evangeline D'isco, Katt Wade as backing vocalist & drummer Kandi Flaus, and guitarist Daniel Dobbs as Kaspar Funk. The band released Emulat0r in September 2017, technically their third full length album though they appear to consider it as aside from the count of their original works. The nine covers included on the album are mostly popular synthpop and new wave fare from the eighties (New Order, Eurythmics, Flock of Seagulls, The Cure, et.al) with a dash of late seventies rock from Kiss and modern novelty from Flight of the Conchords. Picking handles vocals on most of the tracks, but possibly to questionable effect since he doesn't quite distance himself enough from the recognizable vocal style of his more comedic animations. Their cover of Go with the Flow, however, has Darling taking the lead on this dark electro-ethereal retrowave revision that may well be the album's single best accomplishment. It's textured and spooky in ways that make it feel as if it could have existed over a decade before the original on some outrun-style sci-fi/horror soundtrack. It's a surprising gem set inside a body of some truly absurd (if uniquely entertaining and hilarious) works:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
For this month's Third Sunday Throwback to the 20th century we'll stay down-tempo with a dark disco/crossover classic that often get miscredited as the original by an artist whose most prominent successes were made up of covers.
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 a week from this Friday in the Boston area! Check my schedule for details, the RSVP link on Facebook, and news on other upcoming events when announced! ↼‿ಠ
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Jul 01 - Kanga - Metal (Gary Numan)
Jun 24 - Sopor Æternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)(Cher)
Jun 17 - Die Warzau - S & M (Thin Lizzy)
Jun 10 - The xx - Teardrops (Womack & Womack)
Jun 03 - And One - Smalltown Boy (Bronski Beat)
Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies