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seedarklyxeroWelcome to SeeDarkly Sunday DisCOVERies:
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
A Fifth Sunday in March means we get a bonus edition of what I'd been calling "Women's Month Darkly," featuring covers with female vocalists, ALONG with our interstitial feature "Fifth Sunday A La Mode!" And just to make it a three-way ven diagram, the Depeche Mode song covered will ALSO be relevant to last month's "Dark Valentine" theme. Today's is a little bit of a cheat as well since the cover is from a dark electro act technically directed by a man who vocalizes mostly as back up, relying primarily on an array of women to fill the lead role.:
Dicepeople– Strangelove (Depeche Mode)
Debuting 31 years ago in April, Strangelove was the first of two singles released before Depeche Mode's 1987 album, Music For The Masses. The song is said to have been reworked many times before and after the single's release, originally faster in pace and eventually stripped down to a more simplified design. Alan Wilder confessed that part of the problem "was that we decided it would become a single before even recording it and that complicated things." Eventually Wilder said that a lot of the changes were due to MTV and interference from their American record company. A decade after the song went public, Martin Gore called the track "one of the poppiest singles" they've done. He posited at the time that through the course of their career up to that point, they had "stepped on the wrong side of commerciality, not very often, and 'Strangelove' is just on the right side."
The track was a number one dance hit and has been sampled in songs by Ja Rule, Infernal, Kid Rock and Samantha Mumba. There have been dozens of covers of it with some notable versions done by Essence Of Mind, Friendly Fires, and Bat For Lashes.
The London based Dicepeople first released their version of Strangelove in July 2017 as part of the second volume of the various artists compilation, UnMute: A Tribute To Artists on Mute Records. They released it as their own first single later that month and, not unlike Depeche Mode, included a stripped down remix of the track as well. While the group lists their lead vocalist as Zmora, this track instead showcases Atashi Tada, a frequent collaborator who is also the lead vocalist for the metal band Elysian Divide.
Musician/producer Matt Brock said of the cover in one interview, "It was very difficult to choose a Depeche Mode song to cover where I thought justice could be done to it. Strangelove is a great song but I felt there were areas in the arrangement where we could add something worthwhile. I hope we succeeded in enhancing the song’s concept and vibe and adding an ‘edge’ to it."
It is indeed worthwhile and an excellent introduction to their sound. They have since released their first album, One From Many, and a followup cover of Jefferson Airplane's Somebody To Love.:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next month:
Fool's Day is just outside our schedule this year, so let's just make the whole damn month weird! With an industrial remake of an eighties German sensation, April brings a "golden shower" to lead the first wave in an assemblage of absurdities!
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 comment, but all comments are screened for spam prevention.
(And if, after 205 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
Mar 24 - Cylab – Heart-Shaped Box (Nirvana)
Mar 17 - Strawberry Switchblade – Jolene (Dolly Parton)
Mar 10 - Kaleida – A Forest (The Cure)
Mar 03 - Collide – Haunted When The Minutes Drag (Love & Rockets)
Feb 24 - 4X4: My Ruin/Coil/nTTx/◄SC▲P► - Tainted Love (Gloria Jones) 200TH EDITION
. 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.
A Fifth Sunday in March means we get a bonus edition of what I'd been calling "Women's Month Darkly," featuring covers with female vocalists, ALONG with our interstitial feature "Fifth Sunday A La Mode!" And just to make it a three-way ven diagram, the Depeche Mode song covered will ALSO be relevant to last month's "Dark Valentine" theme. Today's is a little bit of a cheat as well since the cover is from a dark electro act technically directed by a man who vocalizes mostly as back up, relying primarily on an array of women to fill the lead role.:
Dicepeople– Strangelove (Depeche Mode)
Debuting 31 years ago in April, Strangelove was the first of two singles released before Depeche Mode's 1987 album, Music For The Masses. The song is said to have been reworked many times before and after the single's release, originally faster in pace and eventually stripped down to a more simplified design. Alan Wilder confessed that part of the problem "was that we decided it would become a single before even recording it and that complicated things." Eventually Wilder said that a lot of the changes were due to MTV and interference from their American record company. A decade after the song went public, Martin Gore called the track "one of the poppiest singles" they've done. He posited at the time that through the course of their career up to that point, they had "stepped on the wrong side of commerciality, not very often, and 'Strangelove' is just on the right side."
The track was a number one dance hit and has been sampled in songs by Ja Rule, Infernal, Kid Rock and Samantha Mumba. There have been dozens of covers of it with some notable versions done by Essence Of Mind, Friendly Fires, and Bat For Lashes.
The London based Dicepeople first released their version of Strangelove in July 2017 as part of the second volume of the various artists compilation, UnMute: A Tribute To Artists on Mute Records. They released it as their own first single later that month and, not unlike Depeche Mode, included a stripped down remix of the track as well. While the group lists their lead vocalist as Zmora, this track instead showcases Atashi Tada, a frequent collaborator who is also the lead vocalist for the metal band Elysian Divide.
Musician/producer Matt Brock said of the cover in one interview, "It was very difficult to choose a Depeche Mode song to cover where I thought justice could be done to it. Strangelove is a great song but I felt there were areas in the arrangement where we could add something worthwhile. I hope we succeeded in enhancing the song’s concept and vibe and adding an ‘edge’ to it."
It is indeed worthwhile and an excellent introduction to their sound. They have since released their first album, One From Many, and a followup cover of Jefferson Airplane's Somebody To Love.:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next month:
Fool's Day is just outside our schedule this year, so let's just make the whole damn month weird! With an industrial remake of an eighties German sensation, April brings a "golden shower" to lead the first wave in an assemblage of absurdities!
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 comment, but all comments are screened for spam prevention.
(And if, after 205 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
Mar 24 - Cylab – Heart-Shaped Box (Nirvana)
Mar 17 - Strawberry Switchblade – Jolene (Dolly Parton)
Mar 10 - Kaleida – A Forest (The Cure)
Mar 03 - Collide – Haunted When The Minutes Drag (Love & Rockets)
Feb 24 - 4X4: My Ruin/Coil/nTTx/◄SC▲P► - Tainted Love (Gloria Jones) 200TH EDITION
. Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies .