Pages: 1 2 3 Cover Me is now on Patreon! If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. Pearson Choose Hellth Remix)” by someone who clearly doesn’t know the difference between a remix and a cover.
It was officially sanctioned by the band, released as a b-side to the “Cover Me” single, titled “Cover Me (Josh T. It’s a hell of a deep cut – who’s covering Depeche Mode songs from the 2010s? Josh T. You know we had to have a cover of the Depeche Mode song that shares our name. There’s a squall of feedback, a scream, and then you’re right into it: Hitchcockian chords, mean bass playing, Moreno totally believable as the guy who “needs to be cleansed” with the help of “someone who cares,” and frenzied guitar noise that totally messes up your brain. Result: The Californian alt-metal band used the energy from their Around The Fur sessions to turn it into three minutes of unrelenting tension, menace, and extreme guitar aggression. He’d chosen a deep cut, clearly untroubled by the fact that it had no chorus, went nowhere, and could pretty well be described as three minutes of unrelenting tension and menace. Deftones – To Have And To Holdĭeftones singer Chino Moreno proved himself a bona fide fan of Depeche Mode when he persuaded his group to record “To Have and to Hold” for the 1998 tribute album For the Masses. Though this cover doesn’t quite match that one – few do – the masked metal band bring a gothic grandeur to the key changes.
Why not? Because another song on that same covers EP, the Roky Erickson cover “If You Have Ghosts,” did. “Waiting for the Night” did not appear on our Best Cover Songs of 2013 list. Erica Mulvey makes it count, though, on the wonderfully looped “Blasphemous Rumours.” (And, yes, she also made our Best Cure Covers Ever list.) – Ray Padgett 13. Frankly, I’m surprised she’s only done it the once. If you made a list of bands you’d expect a gothic-electronic cellist to cover, The Cure would probably top the list… but Depeche Mode wouldn’t be far behind. The vocals are faithful to the original melody, complete with the occasional background vocal echoes chiming in during the choruses. Attention to percussion even in this stripped-down version keeps the slightly syncopated bass drum complete with lighter, yet steady, tambourine. Keane’s take on “Enjoy the Silence” is stripped down, focusing on a pair of keyboards but without the dance-pop synths characteristic of the original. Which of course is a good deal of the point. When RuPaul made it a dance floor smash, lyrics like “different people have different needs” and “It’s obvious you hate me though I’ve done nothing wrong” resonate in a whole new way, coming from the LGBTQ icon. But its message, however unambiguous, can still find new meaning in its singer. “People Are People” was Depeche Mode’s breakthrough hit in America, but the band has been ambivalent about the song in the years since, saying it was a little too on-the-nose lyrically and not playing it live in over thirty years. Towards the end James scats the opening line in tandem with the acoustic guitar to further connect us to the original’s iconic synth line. James’s vocals are crisp and soothing, and throughout we occasionally hear faint whispering “just can’t get enough” in the background. This cover is less of a toe-tapper than the original, but it is still heartfelt, taking a dance hall bop into a romantic declaration. It retains some darkness even while lightening up the instrumentation. Nevertheless, on 2011 album Covers 80’s, he refashioned “Stripped” into a banjo-and-xylophones folk-rock number. If you know anything about Duncan Sheik, be it his first single “Barely Breathing” or his Tony-winning work on Spring Awakening, you know his music shares little in common with Depeche Mode. Her version of “Freelove” takes its cue from the original, then takes it even further, stripping things down to expose the song’s sublime melody and uncovering the undeniable emotional elegance in its bones. YouTuber Vkgoeswild, has covered a myriad of rock songs some of which truly have to be seen and heard to be believed. Had it existed in the band’s ’80s or early ’90s heyday, it might have been as beloved its melodic forerunners “Somebody” or “Question of Lust.” Pianist Vika Yermolyeva, a.k.a. “Freelove” from 2007’s Exciter is an underrated latter-day Depeche Mode classic. Best of the bunch, by a hair, is “Question of Lust,” but the whole EP is worth tracking down. They’re all great, spare and angelic electro-folk ballads.
She released an entire EP titled, simply, Covering Depeche Mode, then did yet another Depeche track on this year’s album Covers, Vol. Lotte Kestner loves covering Depeche Mode.