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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.
Time for some goth-rock! I prefer to get somewhat ahead of these and know what I'm doing for the next entries well in advance, sometimes to tie in a theme relevant to current events or popular culture. I have a huge list of potentials to feature, with many on it that I either want to reserve for specific occasions or don't always "scratch the itch" for the week. In today's case, I had no plan and decided to go hunting for something new. I found this by way of a tribute compilation to the covering artist and checked what covers they had done instead. It turns out, those options were pretty interesting AND one of them, as it turns out, glances at relevancy to today's season premiere of the Venture Bros... because by coincidence it had first been covered by The Ventures! (Weak, I know... but for the sake of what is a great cover, I'll take it nonetheless):
Das Projekt - Monday Monday (The Mamas & the Papas)
Monday Monday was the only number one hit from sixties folk rock quartet the Mamas and the Papas. It was released as the third single from their 1966 debut album, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears. It also was notable at the time for being the first number one track from a group comprised of two men and two women. However, as is often the case of successful artists, the most popular of their work was also the one thing they liked least, possibly even hated. The song's writer, John Phillips, said it was an effort to make something easily relatable with international appeal that he wrote in 20 minutes and reportedly claimed that he had no idea what it meant. The track's lead vocalist Denny Doherty said, ""Nobody likes Monday, so I thought it was just a song about the working man." He then added, "Nothing about it stood out to me; it was a dumb fuckin' song about a day of the week." Cass Elliot & Michelle Phillips were said to have thought of it as "contrived" and "pretentious." They all seemed to think it was doomed to fail them and yet they recorded and released it anyway.
Despite their own initial ambivalence to the song, its impact is undisputed and it even won a Grammy and was nominated for four others. The song then went on to be covered well over 75 times in 50 years. (Even David Bowie performed it, once a upon a time!)
Das Projekt, a Brazilian goth rock group formed in the early nineties under the name "Das Projekt Der Krummen Mauern," German for "The Crooked Walls Project." They released a five-song EP titled, Lolita in 2012 as a advance taste of their 2013 album Les Belles Infidèles (French for "The Beautiful Infidels.") Their cover of Monday, Monday was included on both the E.P. and album.
Other covers in their discography include a lyrically reworked version of The Cure's A Strange Day, Johnny Cash's Ghost Riders in the Sky, eighties underground new wavers Mecano's Robespierre Re Marx, and, on their most recent album released last year, Blondie's Call Me.
There's nothing to indicate why they did this track, whether in seriousness or with tongue planted firmly in cheek, but it definitely has an almost "cheerful" tone edging its dark rock, Sisters-of-Mercy-esque style. The deep resonant vocals take an unusual twist, possibly owing to singer Marcelo Kpta's accent, wherein he pronounces "Monday" instead as "Moan-day." It's clever, if intentional, as if to accentuate the dread most feel waking to that day of the week, or a fortuitous happenstance that adds to the delicious dissonance of a performance attempting to be simultaneously both uplifting and melancholy.
It may be universally agreed that no one likes Mondays, but this version of Monday, Monday is, as they sing, "so good to me.":
The Cover:
Find on Bandcamp
The Original:
Next week:
Second Sunday Slo:W:ly featuring a do:W:ntempo cover of an industrial dance floor favorite :W:ith a truly interesting t:W:ist... the vocalist actually SINGS it!
(Did I give it a:W:ay? ｡◕‿‿◕｡)
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.)
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Jul 29 - Menschliche Energie - New Dress (Depeche Mode)
Jul 22 - Acidrodent - illisiT (Skinny Puppy)
Jul 15 - Laura Branigan - Self Control (Raf)
Jul 08 - Savlonic - Go with the Flow (Queens of the Stone Age)
Jul 01 - Kanga - Metal (Gary Numan)
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.
Time for some goth-rock! I prefer to get somewhat ahead of these and know what I'm doing for the next entries well in advance, sometimes to tie in a theme relevant to current events or popular culture. I have a huge list of potentials to feature, with many on it that I either want to reserve for specific occasions or don't always "scratch the itch" for the week. In today's case, I had no plan and decided to go hunting for something new. I found this by way of a tribute compilation to the covering artist and checked what covers they had done instead. It turns out, those options were pretty interesting AND one of them, as it turns out, glances at relevancy to today's season premiere of the Venture Bros... because by coincidence it had first been covered by The Ventures! (Weak, I know... but for the sake of what is a great cover, I'll take it nonetheless):
Das Projekt - Monday Monday (The Mamas & the Papas)
Monday Monday was the only number one hit from sixties folk rock quartet the Mamas and the Papas. It was released as the third single from their 1966 debut album, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears. It also was notable at the time for being the first number one track from a group comprised of two men and two women. However, as is often the case of successful artists, the most popular of their work was also the one thing they liked least, possibly even hated. The song's writer, John Phillips, said it was an effort to make something easily relatable with international appeal that he wrote in 20 minutes and reportedly claimed that he had no idea what it meant. The track's lead vocalist Denny Doherty said, ""Nobody likes Monday, so I thought it was just a song about the working man." He then added, "Nothing about it stood out to me; it was a dumb fuckin' song about a day of the week." Cass Elliot & Michelle Phillips were said to have thought of it as "contrived" and "pretentious." They all seemed to think it was doomed to fail them and yet they recorded and released it anyway.
Despite their own initial ambivalence to the song, its impact is undisputed and it even won a Grammy and was nominated for four others. The song then went on to be covered well over 75 times in 50 years. (Even David Bowie performed it, once a upon a time!)
Das Projekt, a Brazilian goth rock group formed in the early nineties under the name "Das Projekt Der Krummen Mauern," German for "The Crooked Walls Project." They released a five-song EP titled, Lolita in 2012 as a advance taste of their 2013 album Les Belles Infidèles (French for "The Beautiful Infidels.") Their cover of Monday, Monday was included on both the E.P. and album.
Other covers in their discography include a lyrically reworked version of The Cure's A Strange Day, Johnny Cash's Ghost Riders in the Sky, eighties underground new wavers Mecano's Robespierre Re Marx, and, on their most recent album released last year, Blondie's Call Me.
There's nothing to indicate why they did this track, whether in seriousness or with tongue planted firmly in cheek, but it definitely has an almost "cheerful" tone edging its dark rock, Sisters-of-Mercy-esque style. The deep resonant vocals take an unusual twist, possibly owing to singer Marcelo Kpta's accent, wherein he pronounces "Monday" instead as "Moan-day." It's clever, if intentional, as if to accentuate the dread most feel waking to that day of the week, or a fortuitous happenstance that adds to the delicious dissonance of a performance attempting to be simultaneously both uplifting and melancholy.
It may be universally agreed that no one likes Mondays, but this version of Monday, Monday is, as they sing, "so good to me.":
The Cover:
Find on Bandcamp
The Original:
Next week:
Second Sunday Slo:W:ly featuring a do:W:ntempo cover of an industrial dance floor favorite :W:ith a truly interesting t:W:ist... the vocalist actually SINGS it!
(Did I give it a:W:ay? ｡◕‿‿◕｡)
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.)
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Jul 29 - Menschliche Energie - New Dress (Depeche Mode)
Jul 22 - Acidrodent - illisiT (Skinny Puppy)
Jul 15 - Laura Branigan - Self Control (Raf)
Jul 08 - Savlonic - Go with the Flow (Queens of the Stone Age)
Jul 01 - Kanga - Metal (Gary Numan)
Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies