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seedarklyxeroWelcome to SeeDarkly Sunday DisCOVERies:
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
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Last month turned out to be an exploration of songs radiating a bit of "heat" in torturous recognition of the blistering temperature of the season. Anathema to us goths, the summer star continues to fill the sky with rays of solar death. Of course, we can just stay in and watch videos to escape the heat of it. Today's EBM/synthpop cover of an eighties new wave hit reminds us there's a way to glimpse the sky-fire without the scorching pain (even if the song is technically about the desire to see daylight on dark days.):
In Strict Confidence feat. Melotron – The Sun Always Shines On TV (A-ha)
Norwegian new wavers A-ha released their debut album Hunting High and Low in June 1985. It featured their song The Sun Always Shines On TV which was their second single from the LP, released later that year in December. The song almost didn't make it on to the album at all if not for the secretary of the band's label executive convincing him it was hit-worthy. She wasn't wrong but it fell short of attaining the previous track's gold record certifications, but still achieved silver.
Guitarist and writer Pal Waaktaar has said in an interview that the song "was written on one of those down days." He continued that he and keyboardist Magne Furuholmen were "in a hotel watching English television on a rainy day and the guy announcing the program says, 'It's a rainy day but, as always, the sun always shines on TV.' The song is about the power of television and the way television presents life."
It was also recorded in less than optimal conditions; the entire band was reportedly all suffering from the flu and high fevers.
The song has been covered over thirty times. Some of the covers include those by And One, Atrocity, Killer Shadows, and Interactive.
The German EBM act In Strict Confidence was actually founded four years after the release of this song, then named "Seal of Secrecy" for about three years. Working in collaboration with Melotron they produced and released their cover of The Sun Always Shines On TV as a single in September 2005, between their fifth and sixth studio albums, Holy and Exile Paradise.
Both In Strict Confidence and Melotron have done two other covers each. ISC has done Metallica's Sad But True and Depeche Mode's Stripped. Melotron has covered more obscure fare: Damals, by Spliff (a band that formed after splitting with Nina Hagan) and Der Blaue Planet, by a classic rock German band called Karat.
Together, In Strict Confidence and Melotron sing it as a bi-gendered duet but mostly maintain faithfully its structure with more modernized synth elements. It's a solid dance track in which to lose yourself, allowing one to keep their troubles distant and ease the pressure of an ever worrying mind.:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Second Sunday Slowly! I've two or three directions I want to go with next week's down tempo selection...
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 223 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 28 - Fur – Cruel Summer (Bananarama)
Jul 21 - Stromkern – The Mercy Seat (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
Jul 14 - Clavvs – I'm On Fire (Bruce Springsteen)
Jul 07 - 3Teeth – Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People)
Jul 30 - Gaytron – Tora Tora [Tora!] (Depeche Mode)
. 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.
Looking for something previously featured? Click here.
Last month turned out to be an exploration of songs radiating a bit of "heat" in torturous recognition of the blistering temperature of the season. Anathema to us goths, the summer star continues to fill the sky with rays of solar death. Of course, we can just stay in and watch videos to escape the heat of it. Today's EBM/synthpop cover of an eighties new wave hit reminds us there's a way to glimpse the sky-fire without the scorching pain (even if the song is technically about the desire to see daylight on dark days.):
In Strict Confidence feat. Melotron – The Sun Always Shines On TV (A-ha)
Norwegian new wavers A-ha released their debut album Hunting High and Low in June 1985. It featured their song The Sun Always Shines On TV which was their second single from the LP, released later that year in December. The song almost didn't make it on to the album at all if not for the secretary of the band's label executive convincing him it was hit-worthy. She wasn't wrong but it fell short of attaining the previous track's gold record certifications, but still achieved silver.
Guitarist and writer Pal Waaktaar has said in an interview that the song "was written on one of those down days." He continued that he and keyboardist Magne Furuholmen were "in a hotel watching English television on a rainy day and the guy announcing the program says, 'It's a rainy day but, as always, the sun always shines on TV.' The song is about the power of television and the way television presents life."
It was also recorded in less than optimal conditions; the entire band was reportedly all suffering from the flu and high fevers.
The song has been covered over thirty times. Some of the covers include those by And One, Atrocity, Killer Shadows, and Interactive.
The German EBM act In Strict Confidence was actually founded four years after the release of this song, then named "Seal of Secrecy" for about three years. Working in collaboration with Melotron they produced and released their cover of The Sun Always Shines On TV as a single in September 2005, between their fifth and sixth studio albums, Holy and Exile Paradise.
Both In Strict Confidence and Melotron have done two other covers each. ISC has done Metallica's Sad But True and Depeche Mode's Stripped. Melotron has covered more obscure fare: Damals, by Spliff (a band that formed after splitting with Nina Hagan) and Der Blaue Planet, by a classic rock German band called Karat.
Together, In Strict Confidence and Melotron sing it as a bi-gendered duet but mostly maintain faithfully its structure with more modernized synth elements. It's a solid dance track in which to lose yourself, allowing one to keep their troubles distant and ease the pressure of an ever worrying mind.:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Second Sunday Slowly! I've two or three directions I want to go with next week's down tempo selection...
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 223 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 28 - Fur – Cruel Summer (Bananarama)
Jul 21 - Stromkern – The Mercy Seat (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
Jul 14 - Clavvs – I'm On Fire (Bruce Springsteen)
Jul 07 - 3Teeth – Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People)
Jul 30 - Gaytron – Tora Tora [Tora!] (Depeche Mode)
. Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies .