The Song Fight Bulletin Board

SONGFIGHTS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION:
A Depeche Mode Coverfight

Ross Durand: "Leave In Silence" from A Broken Frame (1982)

Inflatable Vegetables: "The Meaning of Love" from A Broken Frame (1982)

http://niveousrayside.com/DM/iveg_mol.mp3

The Kraken Lives: "Everything Counts" from Construction Time Again (1983)

http://niveousrayside.com/DM/thekrakenlives_ec.mp3

Johnny Cashpoint: "Blasphemous Rumors" from Some Great Reward (1984)

http://niveousrayside.com/DM/johnnycashpoint_br.mp3

Albatross: "Now, This Is Fun" from People Are People (1984)

Project Marv: "Stripped" from Black Celebration (1986)

http://niveousrayside.com/DM/projectmarv_stripped.mp3

Jim Tyrrell: "A Question of Lust" from Black Celebration (1986)

http://niveousrayside.com/DM/jimtyrrell_aqol.mp3

Rabid Garfunkel: "Pimpf" from Music For The Masses (1987)

Jerkatorium: "Enjoy the Silence" from Violator (1990)

http://niveousrayside.com/DM/jerkatorium_ets.mp3

John Benjamin Band: "Personal Jesus" from Violator (1990)

http://johnorama.com/songs/covers/pops/personal_jesus.mp3

Cookie Blue: "Halo" from Violator (1990)

http://niveousrayside.com/DM/cookieblue_halo.mp3

Nick Soma: "A Pain That I'm Used To" from Playing The Angel (2005)

http://niveousrayside.com/DM/nicksoma_aptiut.mp3

Heuristics Inc.: "Precious" from Playing The Angel (2005)

Niveous: "Wrong" from Sounds of the Universe (2009)

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Already done!



I could try another though.

I'm game, though I'd much rather do the Smiths.

I was interested in running an Original Flava, myself, and was totally going to post a thread yesterday but forgot.

glennny wrote:I'm game, though I'd much rather do the Smiths.

Already done

Damn it, though it was 7 years ago I do see that I missed it. The link doesn't work anymore. Anyone have a way i can hear them?

DM covers it is!

I'd be up for some DM.

I want to know if anyone's up for a Midas Touch coverfight! Porno Fight! Bow chikka wow wow chikka wow wow, whaa-oo-whaa-oo-whaa-oo! Get your guitars and drums ready!

glennny wrote:Damn it, though it was 7 years ago I do see that I missed it. The link doesn't work anymore. Anyone have a way i can hear them?

j$ spearheaded that one, so he'd be the one to ask. Here's mine, for what it's worth.

Depeche Mode has always been a pack of talentless eurotrash posers who think that droning in an apathetic monotone is the same thing as singing, and that hitting a button on a sequencer is the same as composing.

So yeah, I'm in. How does this work? Do we call dibs on songs, or do we just cover whichever song we want and then submit it?

Niveous?

Is it free for all or do we call dibs on songs?

Just so that we spread the wealth and don't end up with 6 covers of Enjoy the Silence, I think we should call dibs.

I'd like to do A Pain That I'm Used To.

Pimpf, maybe. Pretty sure no-one else'd pick it

Albatross wrote:

glennny wrote:Damn it, though it was 7 years ago I do see that I missed it. The link doesn't work anymore. Anyone have a way i can hear them?

j$ spearheaded that one, so he'd be the one to ask. Here's mine, for what it's worth.

Yeah, I don't think I have them anymore - certainly not on my website anywhere - I may have my cover of 'Bigmouth' - other than that, it's go to the original coverers (as it were) ....

Oh, I'm undecided - New Life, Question of Time, Blasphemous Rumours, Enjoy the Silence, Strangelove ... If someone else really wants one of these, the only one I will not give up is BR.

j$

I got dibs on "Everything Counts"

very cool cover Albatross!!!
love to hear the rest is they unearth.

"The Meaning of Love."

I'll do "Enjoy the Silence". But I'm willing to pick a different song if somebody else really wants that one.

Do we have a deadline? I tend to procrastinate if I don't have a deadline.

Let's do April 10th. I'll update the 1st post periodically with people's choices.

I'm gonna try "Personal Jesus". It'll be good Reason practice.

I really don't like Deretch Mode. At all.

Having said that, there was one song of theirs I kinda liked, called "Now This Is Fun." It was a B-side from the Broken Frame era. So I will tentatively claim that one, although I need to do my long overdue GoM song first.