20 years later, they finally cover the song that inspired them to start the band.
I think the result is a lot better than we would have gotten from a Celebrate the Nun cover, or even an early Scooter cover, of the song. By this point, they're free to go off in a huge range of dance styles… which means they can get away with actually playing this one straight.
Unfortunately, live, they went way too far—no more pianos, trancy pad builds, etc., they just tried to reproduce the original sound for sound and note for note, and obviously Depeche Mode can do "let's sound exactly like Depeche Mode" a lot better than Scooter. But this album version strikes a bunch better mix of reverent without redundant.
20 years later, they finally cover the song that inspired them to start the band.
I think the result is a lot better than we would have gotten from a Celebrate the Nun cover, or even an early Scooter cover, of the song. By this point, they're free to go off in a huge range of dance styles… which means they can get away with actually playing this one straight.
Unfortunately, live, they went way too far—no more pianos, trancy pad builds, etc., they just tried to reproduce the original sound for sound and note for note, and obviously Depeche Mode can do "let's sound exactly like Depeche Mode" a lot better than Scooter. But this album version strikes a bunch better mix of reverent without redundant.