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Welcome to SeeDarkly Sunday DisCOVERies (at its new home on DreamWidth):
It's a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
Where they came from, who did them originally, and other strange facts!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
Quick bit of followup about the blog's move to Dreamwidth: IF you are a new reader or just looking to scroll back through old entries, I am still resolving a bunch of import errors that wiped out all the "embedded player" content. Bandcamp embeds have a "format" problem and have to be sized in a particular way that I'm not really happy with, but it's better than other options since BC allows you to buy tracks direct from featured artists and learn more about their other music. Meanwhile, I have managed to fix about 75% of the errors, mostly going backward from this date, and I expect the rest to be resolved within the week. Please comment if you detect something specific that might need addressing. Thank you!
Today's Easter entry brings you a Third Sunday Throwback from the 20th century with a cover by a depressive goth rock band whose lead singer passed away seven years (and two days) ago. They also had a penchant for songs with lyrics and titles derived from Christian imagery, so it's with some small enjoyment of the perverse irony that I present...:
Type O Negative - Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse)
Neil Young 's second studio album,Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, was his first with Crazy Horse. It was released in May 1969. Their first single, Down By The River included an "alternate version" of Cinnamon Girl as the b-side on the version sold in European markets. It was almost a year later, April 1970, before they released Cinnamon Girl as the next single from the album. Apparently the track was one of three that Young wrote while suffering a high fever, sick with the flu. It's said the identity of the actual person about whom the song was written has never been revealed. Young, who had married only a month before the album was recorded, has said it was about a "city girl" he had seen walking toward him with "finger cymbals." He also has indicated that it was "hard to explain" to his wife, who filed for divorce six months after the single came out.
Flip the year "69" to "96," when Type O Negative released their fourth album, October Rust, which includes their cover of Cinnamon Girl. They had already being playing the song in concert to mixed response from their fans. In one interview, lead singer Peter Steele said it was one of his favorites: "Having been born in 1962 and having five older sisters, I was constantly exposed to all different types of music. This one song seems to have stuck out and I was never a big fan of Neil Young, honestly. I just happen to like that one song. It was easy to make heavy. It only has four chords and I only know four chords so it's the song for us." It was released as the fourth and final single from the album in June 1997, after it had been remixed by Charlie Clouser in a style either reverent or mocking of Depeche Mode, subtitled the "Depressed Mode" mix. In at least one concert that year, it was reported that Steele apologized to fans of Neil Young for their "mutilation" of the track, admitting in his sarcastic and self deprecating idiom, "if it's any consolation, Mr. Young didn't like the version either."
The band all seem to agree that the decision of which songs they covered was primarily in Steele's hands, and over the course of their career they would cover artists like Seals & Crofts, The Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Deep Purple, Beatles, Black Sabbath, and Pink Floyd. They also covered the "title" track from the Broadway rock opera, Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Far from a mutilation, Type O Negative's version transforms Young's light folk ballad into an exceptionally crafted work of deeply weighted and simultaneously energetic dark rock.
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Loving that new Thor trailer as much as I am? There's something about it you might want to know, but the cover I feature will mean I have to bend a rule here just a couple weeks before this blog's second anniversary. Forgive me, but I think you'll appreciate it!
Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome! (You do NOT need a Dreamwidth account to comment, but all comments are screened for spam prevention.)
I spin next on the last Friday of this month and the first Friday of next! Head over to my schedule for details if you're in the New England areas that make it possible for you to attend if you like! ^_^
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Apr 09 - PreCog - Pepper (Butthole Surfers)
Apr 02 - Aesthetic Perfection - She Drives Me Crazy (Fine Young Cannibals)
Mar 26 - nTTx - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (Michael Jackson)
Mar 19 - The Prodigy - Fuel My Fire (L7)
Mar 12 - Marsheaux - Eyes Without A Face (Billy Idol)
Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies
It's a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
Where they came from, who did them originally, and other strange facts!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
Quick bit of followup about the blog's move to Dreamwidth: IF you are a new reader or just looking to scroll back through old entries, I am still resolving a bunch of import errors that wiped out all the "embedded player" content. Bandcamp embeds have a "format" problem and have to be sized in a particular way that I'm not really happy with, but it's better than other options since BC allows you to buy tracks direct from featured artists and learn more about their other music. Meanwhile, I have managed to fix about 75% of the errors, mostly going backward from this date, and I expect the rest to be resolved within the week. Please comment if you detect something specific that might need addressing. Thank you!
Today's Easter entry brings you a Third Sunday Throwback from the 20th century with a cover by a depressive goth rock band whose lead singer passed away seven years (and two days) ago. They also had a penchant for songs with lyrics and titles derived from Christian imagery, so it's with some small enjoyment of the perverse irony that I present...:
Type O Negative - Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse)
Neil Young 's second studio album,Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, was his first with Crazy Horse. It was released in May 1969. Their first single, Down By The River included an "alternate version" of Cinnamon Girl as the b-side on the version sold in European markets. It was almost a year later, April 1970, before they released Cinnamon Girl as the next single from the album. Apparently the track was one of three that Young wrote while suffering a high fever, sick with the flu. It's said the identity of the actual person about whom the song was written has never been revealed. Young, who had married only a month before the album was recorded, has said it was about a "city girl" he had seen walking toward him with "finger cymbals." He also has indicated that it was "hard to explain" to his wife, who filed for divorce six months after the single came out.
Flip the year "69" to "96," when Type O Negative released their fourth album, October Rust, which includes their cover of Cinnamon Girl. They had already being playing the song in concert to mixed response from their fans. In one interview, lead singer Peter Steele said it was one of his favorites: "Having been born in 1962 and having five older sisters, I was constantly exposed to all different types of music. This one song seems to have stuck out and I was never a big fan of Neil Young, honestly. I just happen to like that one song. It was easy to make heavy. It only has four chords and I only know four chords so it's the song for us." It was released as the fourth and final single from the album in June 1997, after it had been remixed by Charlie Clouser in a style either reverent or mocking of Depeche Mode, subtitled the "Depressed Mode" mix. In at least one concert that year, it was reported that Steele apologized to fans of Neil Young for their "mutilation" of the track, admitting in his sarcastic and self deprecating idiom, "if it's any consolation, Mr. Young didn't like the version either."
The band all seem to agree that the decision of which songs they covered was primarily in Steele's hands, and over the course of their career they would cover artists like Seals & Crofts, The Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Deep Purple, Beatles, Black Sabbath, and Pink Floyd. They also covered the "title" track from the Broadway rock opera, Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Far from a mutilation, Type O Negative's version transforms Young's light folk ballad into an exceptionally crafted work of deeply weighted and simultaneously energetic dark rock.
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Loving that new Thor trailer as much as I am? There's something about it you might want to know, but the cover I feature will mean I have to bend a rule here just a couple weeks before this blog's second anniversary. Forgive me, but I think you'll appreciate it!
Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome! (You do NOT need a Dreamwidth account to comment, but all comments are screened for spam prevention.)
I spin next on the last Friday of this month and the first Friday of next! Head over to my schedule for details if you're in the New England areas that make it possible for you to attend if you like! ^_^
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Apr 09 - PreCog - Pepper (Butthole Surfers)
Apr 02 - Aesthetic Perfection - She Drives Me Crazy (Fine Young Cannibals)
Mar 26 - nTTx - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (Michael Jackson)
Mar 19 - The Prodigy - Fuel My Fire (L7)
Mar 12 - Marsheaux - Eyes Without A Face (Billy Idol)
Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies