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seedarklyxeroWelcome to SeeDarkly Sunday DisCOVERies:
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
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March is Women's History Month, and last year I decided that in honor of that holiday, I would devote my entries in March to covers by female artists or female-centric bands and projects. This year the first of them is a darkwave/triphop collision of post-punk/new wave missiles and emotion held in a suspension of endless torment.:
Collide – Haunted When The Minutes Drag (Love & Rockets)
Love and Rockets (aka what Bauhaus became without Peter Murphy) released their debut album Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven in October 1985. Haunted When The Minutes Drag is the penultimate track of the first pressings of the album, just over eight minutes in length, and is said to have originated as two separate songs: Haunted and When The Minutes Drag. In one interview singer/co-songwriter David J. remarked that the lyrics were "really about an obsession I had about this girl who was in art school. And I was so nervous…to speak to her…I couldn’t do that. But she used to leave like, her clothes, like a cardigan or a shirt or something, and I remember touching this piece of clothing that still somehow retained her shape and her line.”
Creepy as that sentiment could be, it might be appropriate that the song was used recently on the soundtrack for the 2014 horror/thriller The Guest. Previously, it was included on the soundtrack of the 1988 comedy, She's Having a Baby.
While there is possibly only the one cover of the song, it was once interpolated into a 2006 live radio performance of Nine Inch Nail's Reptile by Trent Reznor and their former Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy.
Collide, a duo blending industrial, darkwave, and triphop, is lead vocally by kaRIN, arranged and produced by Statik. They released Vortex, a two-disc remix album, in April 2004. The collection included three cover songs: Feed Me to the Lions by Adam and the Ants, The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum by The Fun Boy Three and their version of Haunted When the Minutes Drag. The cover, the first track of the second disc, has additional instrumentation from William Faith of Faith and the Muse. Their version was included on the soundtrack for Blood & Chocolate but did not appear in the film itself. They also have done a full album of ten other covers titled These Eyes Before, released in 2009, featuring songs from Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode, The Beatles, David Bowie, Radiohead, and more.
What kaRIN adds to the nature of the song with her scintillating vocals is truly fitting. Their version is only a quarter-minute shorter than the original with an almost imperceptibly slower tempo, making it more crisp and seductive rhythmically compared to the raw atmospheric potency of the previous.:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
"Women's Month Darkly" continues with a Second Sunday Slowly downtempo cover of a track that is no remedy for why they run toward nothing in the dark wildwood.
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.
(And if, after 201 weekly entries, you find this blog of any value please click over to my profile and find out how you can leave us a tip if you like...)
Thanks for reading and keep exploring the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Feb 24 - 4X4: My Ruin/Coil/nTTx/◄SC▲P► - Tainted Love (Gloria Jones) 200TH EDITION
Feb 17 - Wolfsheim – Love is Strange (Mickey & Sylvia)
Feb 10 - Red Light District – No Ordinary Love (Sade)
Feb 03 - The Ðevil & The Uñiverse – What Time Is Love? (The KLF)
Jan 27 - The Purge - Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
. 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.
March is Women's History Month, and last year I decided that in honor of that holiday, I would devote my entries in March to covers by female artists or female-centric bands and projects. This year the first of them is a darkwave/triphop collision of post-punk/new wave missiles and emotion held in a suspension of endless torment.:
Collide – Haunted When The Minutes Drag (Love & Rockets)
Love and Rockets (aka what Bauhaus became without Peter Murphy) released their debut album Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven in October 1985. Haunted When The Minutes Drag is the penultimate track of the first pressings of the album, just over eight minutes in length, and is said to have originated as two separate songs: Haunted and When The Minutes Drag. In one interview singer/co-songwriter David J. remarked that the lyrics were "really about an obsession I had about this girl who was in art school. And I was so nervous…to speak to her…I couldn’t do that. But she used to leave like, her clothes, like a cardigan or a shirt or something, and I remember touching this piece of clothing that still somehow retained her shape and her line.”
Creepy as that sentiment could be, it might be appropriate that the song was used recently on the soundtrack for the 2014 horror/thriller The Guest. Previously, it was included on the soundtrack of the 1988 comedy, She's Having a Baby.
While there is possibly only the one cover of the song, it was once interpolated into a 2006 live radio performance of Nine Inch Nail's Reptile by Trent Reznor and their former Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy.
Collide, a duo blending industrial, darkwave, and triphop, is lead vocally by kaRIN, arranged and produced by Statik. They released Vortex, a two-disc remix album, in April 2004. The collection included three cover songs: Feed Me to the Lions by Adam and the Ants, The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum by The Fun Boy Three and their version of Haunted When the Minutes Drag. The cover, the first track of the second disc, has additional instrumentation from William Faith of Faith and the Muse. Their version was included on the soundtrack for Blood & Chocolate but did not appear in the film itself. They also have done a full album of ten other covers titled These Eyes Before, released in 2009, featuring songs from Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode, The Beatles, David Bowie, Radiohead, and more.
What kaRIN adds to the nature of the song with her scintillating vocals is truly fitting. Their version is only a quarter-minute shorter than the original with an almost imperceptibly slower tempo, making it more crisp and seductive rhythmically compared to the raw atmospheric potency of the previous.:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
"Women's Month Darkly" continues with a Second Sunday Slowly downtempo cover of a track that is no remedy for why they run toward nothing in the dark wildwood.
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.
(And if, after 201 weekly entries, you find this blog of any value please click over to my profile and find out how you can leave us a tip if you like...)
Thanks for reading and keep exploring the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Feb 24 - 4X4: My Ruin/Coil/nTTx/◄SC▲P► - Tainted Love (Gloria Jones) 200TH EDITION
Feb 17 - Wolfsheim – Love is Strange (Mickey & Sylvia)
Feb 10 - Red Light District – No Ordinary Love (Sade)
Feb 03 - The Ðevil & The Uñiverse – What Time Is Love? (The KLF)
Jan 27 - The Purge - Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
. Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies .