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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.
It's Second Sunday Slowly when we feature a dark downtempo cover and we continue our month long "Dark Valentine" theme. I should note that every cover I planned to feature this February turns out to also have their roots in Black History Month. This wasn't actually intentional... and as someone who is not a person of color, I am ill-equipped to speak on behalf of their experience. However, the acknowledgement should given and the contribution to our goth/industrial culture should be recognized.
This cover comes from a future cabaret/electro-swing group dabbling in a bit of dark trip-hop to pay homage to no ordinary diva of the 80's and 90's:
Red Light District – No Ordinary Love (Sade)
Nigerian-born singer Sade Adu and her band, Sade, released No Ordinary Love as a single in the UK in September 1992, before the October US release of their fourth album, Love Deluxe. The smooth jazz pop ballad earned them a Grammy and helped the album become a #3 hit, even though as a single it was never a chart topper. The track was given additional recognition from its prominent inclusion in the racy 1993 film Indecent Proposal. Sade herself was notoriously shy of the press but on one occasion she said of the song, "It's not hard to find love. It's to keep it. It's something which is like the more mysterious things in life. It's like death and it's like birth and I just think really it can't really be completely explained."
It is possibly their second most covered track (the first being Smooth Operator) with over 25 known covers to date. A couple of distinctively darker versions were done by Deftones and Christine And The Queens.
Red Light District is the Neo-Vaudeville/ElectroSwing effort of vocalist Juliette Angeli and producer/multi-instrumentalist Shok (of Zeitmahl). While their cover of No Ordinary Love was recorded in 2007, it appears they first released it independently on Valentine's Day 2010. Shok, who is also a goth/industrial DJ and has worked with Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde) and David J. (Bauhaus) on a "spookstep" dark-folk project called Tres Vampires, cites Sade as an artist they would like to collaborate with. They consider No Ordinary Love a "twisted love song" though they have not elaborated on that interpretation. Their version has a sort of "Gary Numan" quality coupled with Angeli's breathy vocals, driving electric beats, and a far more menacing character. Some might call it "indecent" but it's fair to say that this is no ordinary remake:
The Cover:
The Original: (Live At Trancentral)
Next week:
We continue our "Dark Valentine" theme with our Third Sunday Throwback to the 20th century! This one comes from the b-side of one of the most popular goth club dance hits, covering a fifties R&B duet classic many recognize best today by way of one dirty dance. ❣ ‿ ❣
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
Feb 03 - The Ðevil & The Uñiverse – What Time Is Love? (The KLF)
Jan 27 - The Purge - Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
Jan 20 - Pain Station - Safety Dance (Men Without Hats)
Jan 13 - Clayfeet - Creep (Radiohead)
Jan 06 - Manufactura - Sex, Money, Freaks (Cabaret Voltaire)
. 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 Second Sunday Slowly when we feature a dark downtempo cover and we continue our month long "Dark Valentine" theme. I should note that every cover I planned to feature this February turns out to also have their roots in Black History Month. This wasn't actually intentional... and as someone who is not a person of color, I am ill-equipped to speak on behalf of their experience. However, the acknowledgement should given and the contribution to our goth/industrial culture should be recognized.
This cover comes from a future cabaret/electro-swing group dabbling in a bit of dark trip-hop to pay homage to no ordinary diva of the 80's and 90's:
Red Light District – No Ordinary Love (Sade)
Nigerian-born singer Sade Adu and her band, Sade, released No Ordinary Love as a single in the UK in September 1992, before the October US release of their fourth album, Love Deluxe. The smooth jazz pop ballad earned them a Grammy and helped the album become a #3 hit, even though as a single it was never a chart topper. The track was given additional recognition from its prominent inclusion in the racy 1993 film Indecent Proposal. Sade herself was notoriously shy of the press but on one occasion she said of the song, "It's not hard to find love. It's to keep it. It's something which is like the more mysterious things in life. It's like death and it's like birth and I just think really it can't really be completely explained."
It is possibly their second most covered track (the first being Smooth Operator) with over 25 known covers to date. A couple of distinctively darker versions were done by Deftones and Christine And The Queens.
Red Light District is the Neo-Vaudeville/ElectroSwing effort of vocalist Juliette Angeli and producer/multi-instrumentalist Shok (of Zeitmahl). While their cover of No Ordinary Love was recorded in 2007, it appears they first released it independently on Valentine's Day 2010. Shok, who is also a goth/industrial DJ and has worked with Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde) and David J. (Bauhaus) on a "spookstep" dark-folk project called Tres Vampires, cites Sade as an artist they would like to collaborate with. They consider No Ordinary Love a "twisted love song" though they have not elaborated on that interpretation. Their version has a sort of "Gary Numan" quality coupled with Angeli's breathy vocals, driving electric beats, and a far more menacing character. Some might call it "indecent" but it's fair to say that this is no ordinary remake:
The Cover:
The Original: (Live At Trancentral)
Next week:
We continue our "Dark Valentine" theme with our Third Sunday Throwback to the 20th century! This one comes from the b-side of one of the most popular goth club dance hits, covering a fifties R&B duet classic many recognize best today by way of one dirty dance. ❣ ‿ ❣
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
Feb 03 - The Ðevil & The Uñiverse – What Time Is Love? (The KLF)
Jan 27 - The Purge - Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
Jan 20 - Pain Station - Safety Dance (Men Without Hats)
Jan 13 - Clayfeet - Creep (Radiohead)
Jan 06 - Manufactura - Sex, Money, Freaks (Cabaret Voltaire)
. Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies .