Cover Charge #46 - Moby to New Order (plus a Monday long song)

Cover Charge is simple: A covers B, B covers C, C covers D and so on, until I loop back to where I started, Ouroboros-style.

Last time: Kris Kristofferson to Moby

No playing fast and loose with what constitutes a cover today, oh no. Instead, let's go back twenty years to Moby's 2005 album Hotel and have a listen to the track that closed side one. It's very much an Own Stamp, massively slowing down the driving motorik of the original and turning it into a desperate lament. Moby's not much of a singer, so he wisely ceded vocal duties here to Laura Dawn but even she couldn't prevent this being panned at the time. The Drowned In Sound review called it "unbelievably bad". Harsh, or harsh but fair? You decide.

All of which is the scant excuse I need to wheel out New Order's original Temptation. 43 years old this year, and still sounding brilliant. And as a bonus, it's a Monday long song too. Ambassador, you are spoiling us, et cetera...

Next time: there may be dodgy wiring because I see...

The Cover Charge "chain" to date.