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20 Mar 12 - 09:25 AM (#3325670) Subject: Love Will Tear Us Apart From: SteveMansfield Just an idle query - but how did Joy Division's cheery ditty 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' come to be adopted by the acoustic / folk set? I first became aware of this through the June Tabor / Oysterband version; then went to see Mary Coughlan a few weeks back, and she sang it; and then (through a link from the 'Tim Jonze On Shuffle: Folk' Guardian article) came across Revere singing it with accompaniment by Toumani Diabete. Any earlier sightings (other than the original, obv!)? And well done whoever *did* 'import' it, it's by far the best track on the June Tabor / Oysters record and also sat well right in the middle of the 'unremitting misery' section of Mary Coughlan's splendid gig ... |
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20 Mar 12 - 09:43 AM (#3325674) Subject: RE: Love Will Tear Us Apart From: GUEST,CS Swans did a nice acoustic cover in the late eighties, it's the only acoustic cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart which sticks out in my mind (though I think it's been covered a number of times) - but I've no idea where June Tabor got it from. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiQsv3Q5P8Y |
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20 Mar 12 - 09:54 AM (#3325677) Subject: RE: Love Will Tear Us Apart From: GUEST,CS Gira's then bird Jarboe on vocals in another Swans cover from '88, which might head us closer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F062h9ePl4Q&feature=related |
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20 Mar 12 - 10:55 AM (#3325698) Subject: RE: Love Will Tear Us Apart From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray We were quoting from Love Will Tear us Apart in our cover of Come Write Me Down round about the time of the 30th Anniversay of Ian Curtis' passing... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IJQzcyDTQI |
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20 Mar 12 - 11:23 AM (#3325721) Subject: RE: Love Will Tear Us Apart From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker Great songs deserve to become universal cross genre standards.. The negative flip side is when they become done to death and rendered intolerably unlistenable by insensitive hack kareoke-esque performers........ |