The old question about an old song
Nov. 22nd, 2005 04:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
von_geisterhandRecently, while browsing through the music section at my local newsagent, I came across the latest copy of The Wire (Really cool mag for odd music. If you like that sort of stuff, I recommend you check it out!) and read an article on good cover-versions. There really seems to be a thing like that. They mentioned all kinds, including a string-quartet covering Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" and that really hilarious Laibach-cover of Queen's "One Vision" . And, as I was very, very happy to see, they also mentioned Coil's version of "Tainted Love".
You can get an idea here or I could just tell you that Coil's version is half as fast and was the first single to donate proceeds to the Terrance Higgins Trust. And, in my opinion at least, you can imagine that this is a dying man singing for all the raw emotion in this.
It certainly is a million miles from the Marilyn Manson-version, which the author describes as "cartoonish" and still quite a distance from the Marc Almond-version. But!, as far as I know, the single was spun in Wave-clubs at the time. Well, you can dance to it, it just requires a lot of OMGthepain!-twisting and turning. Not to mention that it is not really party music in the popular sense of the word. Some people might think the version to be a little depressing, quite possibly disturbing (at high volume, yes) and it certainly is not uplifting. But then, a lot of the music that people here listen to is not uplifting and might be considered disturbing.
It made me think about that whole subject of why the kitsch, stylized and neutered "Evil Music" (*picks up a number of Black Metal, Industrial (3rd Gen.) and Uzz-CDs*) is presented as the real thing and given an audience, while tracks that can actually create the emotions they are supposed to, end up largely ignored.
The Manson-version IS cartoonish, about as evil as Scooby-Doo and creates no emotional impact whatsoever. I'm not even going to start on the whole Evil Scooter-thing again...
Okay, so you are bound to have heard the same question from me before, but reading the article did make me think of it again, as "Tainted Love" is such a good example.
Has Black No.1 been fully turned into day-glo sludge?
You can get an idea here or I could just tell you that Coil's version is half as fast and was the first single to donate proceeds to the Terrance Higgins Trust. And, in my opinion at least, you can imagine that this is a dying man singing for all the raw emotion in this.
It certainly is a million miles from the Marilyn Manson-version, which the author describes as "cartoonish" and still quite a distance from the Marc Almond-version. But!, as far as I know, the single was spun in Wave-clubs at the time. Well, you can dance to it, it just requires a lot of OMGthepain!-twisting and turning. Not to mention that it is not really party music in the popular sense of the word. Some people might think the version to be a little depressing, quite possibly disturbing (at high volume, yes) and it certainly is not uplifting. But then, a lot of the music that people here listen to is not uplifting and might be considered disturbing.
It made me think about that whole subject of why the kitsch, stylized and neutered "Evil Music" (*picks up a number of Black Metal, Industrial (3rd Gen.) and Uzz-CDs*) is presented as the real thing and given an audience, while tracks that can actually create the emotions they are supposed to, end up largely ignored.
The Manson-version IS cartoonish, about as evil as Scooby-Doo and creates no emotional impact whatsoever. I'm not even going to start on the whole Evil Scooter-thing again...
Okay, so you are bound to have heard the same question from me before, but reading the article did make me think of it again, as "Tainted Love" is such a good example.
Has Black No.1 been fully turned into day-glo sludge?
