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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 time for another Second Sunday Slowly downtempo cover! This week it's boss! Do people still call things "boss?" Probably not. But for this heated synthy dark-pop trip-hop remake of an eighties pop-rock ballad, it fits a particular angle.:
Clavvs – I'm On Fire (Bruce Springsteen)
Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen first released I'm On Fire on his seventh studio album Born in the U.S.A. in June 1984. He released the track as a single the following year in February. The opening lyrics for the song originated from a track Springsteen wrote and recorded in the late seventies called Spanish Eyes, a vastly different style of ballad. It was excluded from his 1978 album, Darkness on the Edge of Town, but was released in 2010 with a number of other outtakes from those sessions on a collection titled, The Promise. Fire developed into a rhythmically up-tempo trotting ballad with a sense of impassioned longing, deepened by the mystery invoked by its video that featured a woman whose face was never shown. There is a degree to which some of its lyrics could be interpreted as a bit sinister and even problematic, but on the whole the song seems an earnest expression of yearning desire.
Apart from being a top ten hit and an international success, the song set fire to the hearts of many artists, inspiring nearly a hundred covers (over fifty of which were done in the last decade!)
Some covers of note include those by Awolnation, Bat For Lashes, Chromatics, Tori Amos, and Johnny Cash (who is said to have been among inspirations for the original.)
The darkpop triphop duo Clavvs (pronounced "claws") first released their version of I'm On Fire in March 2016. It was the final release of a slow roll out of all the tracks found on their April 2016 EP, halfblood. In one interview they said, “We chose to remake I’m on Fire first as a request from a friend & fan, but then we saw the opportunity to completely reinvent the classic. It turned into a destructive, almost creepy story about dangerous love, which is a recurring theme in our work.”
In a later interview after they had also released covers of Chris Issak's Wicked Game and MGMT's Electric Feel they further note that they "only like doing covers if we feel like we can really flip it and bring something new to the song."
Clavvs transform it into a witchy eroticized seduction, feminized by Amber Renee's vocals, faithful to the original lyrics in every respect. Simultaneously haunting and dreamy, its a blood-boiling shiver down the spine.:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Third Sunday Throwback to the 20th Century. We'll put you on the hot seat and it's Electric! No, not a boogie woogie line dance but a late nineties EBM remake of a post punk track from the eighties(one hat ALSO happens to have been covered by Johnny Cash!)
Feel free to tell me what you think about today's cover! Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome! You do NOT need a Dreamwidth account to reply below, but all replies are screened for spam prevention.
(And if, after 4 years and 220 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 dancing in darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Jul 07 - 3Teeth – Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People)
Jul 30 - Gaytron – Tora Tora [Tora!] (Depeche Mode)
Jun 23 - Blind Delon w/ HIV+ – Almost A Kiss (Throbbing Gristle)
Jun 16 - Erasure – Supernature (Cerrone)
Jun 09 - Xiu Xiu – Falling (Julee Cruise)
. 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 time for another Second Sunday Slowly downtempo cover! This week it's boss! Do people still call things "boss?" Probably not. But for this heated synthy dark-pop trip-hop remake of an eighties pop-rock ballad, it fits a particular angle.:
Clavvs – I'm On Fire (Bruce Springsteen)
Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen first released I'm On Fire on his seventh studio album Born in the U.S.A. in June 1984. He released the track as a single the following year in February. The opening lyrics for the song originated from a track Springsteen wrote and recorded in the late seventies called Spanish Eyes, a vastly different style of ballad. It was excluded from his 1978 album, Darkness on the Edge of Town, but was released in 2010 with a number of other outtakes from those sessions on a collection titled, The Promise. Fire developed into a rhythmically up-tempo trotting ballad with a sense of impassioned longing, deepened by the mystery invoked by its video that featured a woman whose face was never shown. There is a degree to which some of its lyrics could be interpreted as a bit sinister and even problematic, but on the whole the song seems an earnest expression of yearning desire.
Apart from being a top ten hit and an international success, the song set fire to the hearts of many artists, inspiring nearly a hundred covers (over fifty of which were done in the last decade!)
Some covers of note include those by Awolnation, Bat For Lashes, Chromatics, Tori Amos, and Johnny Cash (who is said to have been among inspirations for the original.)
The darkpop triphop duo Clavvs (pronounced "claws") first released their version of I'm On Fire in March 2016. It was the final release of a slow roll out of all the tracks found on their April 2016 EP, halfblood. In one interview they said, “We chose to remake I’m on Fire first as a request from a friend & fan, but then we saw the opportunity to completely reinvent the classic. It turned into a destructive, almost creepy story about dangerous love, which is a recurring theme in our work.”
In a later interview after they had also released covers of Chris Issak's Wicked Game and MGMT's Electric Feel they further note that they "only like doing covers if we feel like we can really flip it and bring something new to the song."
Clavvs transform it into a witchy eroticized seduction, feminized by Amber Renee's vocals, faithful to the original lyrics in every respect. Simultaneously haunting and dreamy, its a blood-boiling shiver down the spine.:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Third Sunday Throwback to the 20th Century. We'll put you on the hot seat and it's Electric! No, not a boogie woogie line dance but a late nineties EBM remake of a post punk track from the eighties(one hat ALSO happens to have been covered by Johnny Cash!)
Feel free to tell me what you think about today's cover! Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome! You do NOT need a Dreamwidth account to reply below, but all replies are screened for spam prevention.
(And if, after 4 years and 220 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 dancing in darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
Jul 07 - 3Teeth – Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People)
Jul 30 - Gaytron – Tora Tora [Tora!] (Depeche Mode)
Jun 23 - Blind Delon w/ HIV+ – Almost A Kiss (Throbbing Gristle)
Jun 16 - Erasure – Supernature (Cerrone)
Jun 09 - Xiu Xiu – Falling (Julee Cruise)
. Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies .