Friday, January 9, 2015

Song of the Day 1-10-15



Running Up that Hill- Placebo (Originally Kate Bush)

So rounding out this week of covers is one of my favorite forgotten and underappreciated 90’s acts in the form of Placebo in one of their more successful tunes in the form of this dark and dreary electronic heavy rendition of a Kate Bush classic. This cover is a good example of slowing a very 80’s synth pop tune and doing it well because I’m not often a fan of slower kind of sinister rendition of tunes but this one works because Molonko’s vocal delivery is in the more matured then his 90’s output and their penchant for adding more electronics to their music is executed well to make this a great cover to end this week of covers with…

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