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Welcome to SeeDarkly Sunday DisCOVERies:
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
Seems like it's been a while since I've done something more goth than industrial so... yeah... let's head that direction... get it out of our system if you will (not really OUT but you'll see where this is going soon enough.) Here we have a solo post-punk/goth act's recent cover of an indie alternative band's first notable success.:
The Purge - Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
A band considered to be among a wave of post-punk revivalists at the turn of the century, Yeah Yeah Yeahs released their debut album Fever to Tell in April 2003. They released their third single from the album, Maps, the following February. The label wanted to release it earlier, but the band disagreed. Once released, however, their overall album sales increased expansively. Frontwoman Karen O (aka Karen Orzolek) wrote the track as an ode to her then boyfriend Angus Andrew, the lead singer of the band Liars. Orzolek describes the track as "a love song, rooted in the emotion of missing someone." The story goes that he had left her for a job opportunity. Orzolek claims that during the video shoot for the track her tears were real as she was expecting Andrew to show up for the taping but he arrived late. She has since moved on from that heartbreak to marry and have a child with a British film and video director.
Despite the deep-rooted sadness in the track, or perhaps because of it, the song has had a tremendous impact even though it only achieved moderate success. Elements of the song have been interpolated into Beyonce's Hold Up (by way of Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig's direction) and Kelly Clarkson's Since U Been Gone (which Orzolek regarded as "like getting bitten by a poisonous varmint." The guitar riff was also sampled in Meet Me Halfway by Black Eyed Peas and the lyrical hook was referenced in a Brazilian rap/rock song by Charlie Brown Jr., Lutar Pelo Que E Meu.
Maps has already been covered well over a dozen times. Rogue Wave, Macy Gray, Arcade Fire, and White Stripes rank among the notable renditions.
The Purge is the post-punk/goth solo project of Thomas Duerig, who boosts a degree in poetry and is influenced by the Cure and Nine Inch Nails. Duerig released an album titled The Bad Ideas We Build Worlds in March 2018. It features his cover of Maps. Clearly it inspired Duerig enough to record, but he later admits he had not added it into his live performances until he'd rehearsed it more than his own compositions and given himself enough time "to associate my own meanings to it." What those meanings are however is not something he seems to have spoken of directly. His version is stylistically darker than the original and vocally a little more pained, Duerig certainly seems in touch with the song's inherent melancholic tone.:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Not to belabor the message in today's cover that "they don't love you like I love you" but next week kicks off my annual Valentine's month of love-themed covers! Will your heart break? Let's find out. ❣ ‿ ❣
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
Jan 20 - Pain Station - Safety Dance (Men Without Hats)
Jan 13 - Clayfeet - Creep (Radiohead)
Jan 06 - Manufactura - Sex, Money, Freaks (Cabaret Voltaire)
Dec 30 - Fictional - Happiest Girl (Depeche Mode)
Dec 23 - Unheilig - Kling Glöckchen Klingelingeling (Traditional)
. 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.
Seems like it's been a while since I've done something more goth than industrial so... yeah... let's head that direction... get it out of our system if you will (not really OUT but you'll see where this is going soon enough.) Here we have a solo post-punk/goth act's recent cover of an indie alternative band's first notable success.:
The Purge - Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
A band considered to be among a wave of post-punk revivalists at the turn of the century, Yeah Yeah Yeahs released their debut album Fever to Tell in April 2003. They released their third single from the album, Maps, the following February. The label wanted to release it earlier, but the band disagreed. Once released, however, their overall album sales increased expansively. Frontwoman Karen O (aka Karen Orzolek) wrote the track as an ode to her then boyfriend Angus Andrew, the lead singer of the band Liars. Orzolek describes the track as "a love song, rooted in the emotion of missing someone." The story goes that he had left her for a job opportunity. Orzolek claims that during the video shoot for the track her tears were real as she was expecting Andrew to show up for the taping but he arrived late. She has since moved on from that heartbreak to marry and have a child with a British film and video director.
Despite the deep-rooted sadness in the track, or perhaps because of it, the song has had a tremendous impact even though it only achieved moderate success. Elements of the song have been interpolated into Beyonce's Hold Up (by way of Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig's direction) and Kelly Clarkson's Since U Been Gone (which Orzolek regarded as "like getting bitten by a poisonous varmint." The guitar riff was also sampled in Meet Me Halfway by Black Eyed Peas and the lyrical hook was referenced in a Brazilian rap/rock song by Charlie Brown Jr., Lutar Pelo Que E Meu.
Maps has already been covered well over a dozen times. Rogue Wave, Macy Gray, Arcade Fire, and White Stripes rank among the notable renditions.
The Purge is the post-punk/goth solo project of Thomas Duerig, who boosts a degree in poetry and is influenced by the Cure and Nine Inch Nails. Duerig released an album titled The Bad Ideas We Build Worlds in March 2018. It features his cover of Maps. Clearly it inspired Duerig enough to record, but he later admits he had not added it into his live performances until he'd rehearsed it more than his own compositions and given himself enough time "to associate my own meanings to it." What those meanings are however is not something he seems to have spoken of directly. His version is stylistically darker than the original and vocally a little more pained, Duerig certainly seems in touch with the song's inherent melancholic tone.:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Not to belabor the message in today's cover that "they don't love you like I love you" but next week kicks off my annual Valentine's month of love-themed covers! Will your heart break? Let's find out. ❣ ‿ ❣
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
Jan 20 - Pain Station - Safety Dance (Men Without Hats)
Jan 13 - Clayfeet - Creep (Radiohead)
Jan 06 - Manufactura - Sex, Money, Freaks (Cabaret Voltaire)
Dec 30 - Fictional - Happiest Girl (Depeche Mode)
Dec 23 - Unheilig - Kling Glöckchen Klingelingeling (Traditional)
. Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies .