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seedarklyxeroWelcome to SeeDarkly Sunday DisCOVERies:
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
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It's the last entry of the year and yet again it falls on the Fifth Sunday of the month when we do the cover A La Mode!
(Why do I even do a Depeche cover every fifth Sunday?)
I admit I had in mind a dreary idea of writing up some year-encapsulating piece that spoke to the absurdity of a specific "wall" being a "monument" to idiocy... using Monument as a way to offset the "small" theme I had inadvertently done for the month. But as I thought on it, this year has been good to me over all (and yes, I continue to feel dissonance about that fact in the face of the daily horrorshow.) So instead, I'll offer up something a little "happier" to close out the year on a positive note. And, in keeping with the month's ersatz theme, I'll keep this one "short.":
Fictional - Happiest Girl (Depeche Mode)
Depeche Mode released two mixes of Happiest Girl on the September 1990 maxi-single of World In My Eyes: the "Jack" mix and the "Pulsing Orbital" mix. Though both are titled as mixes, the "Jack" mix is said to be the original version. The song was originally intended for their seventh studio album, Violator, but was excluded because they "didn't think it was strong enough."
The song has the distinction of being one of those they have never performed live. There are around a half dozen covers of the track, most done in trance styles.
Fictional, a short-lived synthpop side project led by Funker Vogt's Gerrit Thomas, did their cover of Happiest Girl for the 2003 compilation album, Devotion - A Tribute To Depeche Mode. The collection, which was only officially released in Europe and Russia, also includes Depeche Mode covers by cut.rate.box, Yendri, and a dozen other lesser known electronic/goth projects. This appears to be Fictional's only cover to date, but they do a faithful interpretation of the song with a few notable and interesting deviations. Both Thomas's vocals and the overall instrumentation is a bit rougher than the original.
I'm not saying there isn't a specific reason I chose this song to cap off the year... but I'm also 'not' not saying that. 乁(◔‿◔)ㄏ
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
New Year, New For You!
Feel free to leave a comment about that or tell me what you think about today's cover!
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Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Dec 23 - Unheilig - Kling Glöckchen Klingelingeling (Traditional)
Dec 16 - Rasputina - Why Don't You Do Right? (Lil Green)
Dec 09 - KMFDM - Mini Mini Mini(Jacques Dutronc)
Dec 02 - Pisces Black - She's Lost Control (Joy Division)
Nov 25 - PIG w/ Sasha Grey - That's the Way (I Like It) (KC and the Sunshine Band)
. 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.
It's the last entry of the year and yet again it falls on the Fifth Sunday of the month when we do the cover A La Mode!
(Why do I even do a Depeche cover every fifth Sunday?)
I admit I had in mind a dreary idea of writing up some year-encapsulating piece that spoke to the absurdity of a specific "wall" being a "monument" to idiocy... using Monument as a way to offset the "small" theme I had inadvertently done for the month. But as I thought on it, this year has been good to me over all (and yes, I continue to feel dissonance about that fact in the face of the daily horrorshow.) So instead, I'll offer up something a little "happier" to close out the year on a positive note. And, in keeping with the month's ersatz theme, I'll keep this one "short.":
Fictional - Happiest Girl (Depeche Mode)
Depeche Mode released two mixes of Happiest Girl on the September 1990 maxi-single of World In My Eyes: the "Jack" mix and the "Pulsing Orbital" mix. Though both are titled as mixes, the "Jack" mix is said to be the original version. The song was originally intended for their seventh studio album, Violator, but was excluded because they "didn't think it was strong enough."
The song has the distinction of being one of those they have never performed live. There are around a half dozen covers of the track, most done in trance styles.
Fictional, a short-lived synthpop side project led by Funker Vogt's Gerrit Thomas, did their cover of Happiest Girl for the 2003 compilation album, Devotion - A Tribute To Depeche Mode. The collection, which was only officially released in Europe and Russia, also includes Depeche Mode covers by cut.rate.box, Yendri, and a dozen other lesser known electronic/goth projects. This appears to be Fictional's only cover to date, but they do a faithful interpretation of the song with a few notable and interesting deviations. Both Thomas's vocals and the overall instrumentation is a bit rougher than the original.
I'm not saying there isn't a specific reason I chose this song to cap off the year... but I'm also 'not' not saying that. 乁(◔‿◔)ㄏ
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
New Year, New For You!
Feel free to leave a comment about that or tell me what you think about today's cover!
(You do NOT need a Dreamwidth account to comment, but all comments are screened for spam prevention.)
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Dec 23 - Unheilig - Kling Glöckchen Klingelingeling (Traditional)
Dec 16 - Rasputina - Why Don't You Do Right? (Lil Green)
Dec 09 - KMFDM - Mini Mini Mini(Jacques Dutronc)
Dec 02 - Pisces Black - She's Lost Control (Joy Division)
Nov 25 - PIG w/ Sasha Grey - That's the Way (I Like It) (KC and the Sunshine Band)
. Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies .