Oct. 16th, 2008

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"Enjoy the Silence" and Its Covers*:

1.  Depeche Mode - unlike "Running Up That Hill", the original is the best.
2.  Linkin Park - unquestionably #2.  Linkin Park knows how to mix and mash other people's music, and it sounds true to the original but modernized - digitalized and urbanized.  In certain moods I even like it better than the original. 
3.  Lacuna Coil - I only recently discovered their cover, and while it is goth, it's a good, sensible goth: moody and at once not too heavy, in no small part thanks to the contralto vocalist. 
4.  Tori Amos - not her best effort, but you can't call Tori's barebones and depressed version of the song "going wrong". 
5.  John Digweed - there's a couple lengths of this one out there, but long or short, it's quite a powerful/psychedelic trance rendition. 
6.  Caater - a hypersonic, seizure-warning club remix, but the best of this type I've heard, with some original placement of beats.  I could actually listen to this for a while, because I'm one of those people.
7.  Tanghetto - world music (flutes? bagpipes?) "Enjoy the Silence" proves surprisingly interesting and endearing.  I may be biased by the video. 
8.  Wrecked Machines - for a club remix, not that bad - at least it builds and sounds at least somewhat dark. 
9.  Janita (Nuspirit Helsinki Mix) - cool jazz "Enjoy the Silence".  So you know, listen to accordingly.  Really, the only interesting part is the beginning.
10.  It Dies Today - basically, they're just redoing the song, with emo haircuts and a more "emotional" chorus.  Plays it safe - and the vocalist  doesn't seem engaged with the lyrics.
11.  Yvan & Dan Daniel - "Enjoy the Silence" on tropical speed.  Or, "Enjoy the Silence": the ring tone.
12.  Cluster - it does, in the words of one YouTube user, sound like "cats getting skinned whilst being simultaneously raped".  But I feel like with more talent it could actually be a good cover, and they get points for originality. 
13.  Breaking Benjamin - this cover begins with "Raaaaahr!"  That's really all I have to say. 
14.  HIM - I didn't think it would be possible to do a bad version of this song, but... the excessive guitar riffs and the rock-opera voice doing gymnastics do not a good "Enjoy the Silence" make. 
15.  Keane - this fails even more than HIM's version because the singer sounds like Bon Jovi and there seem to be tambourines involved. 

*: I'm sure there's a lot more.  This is some of what I could dig through on YouTube.  

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