Personal Jesus, by Depeche Mode.
Not even a cover-of-a-cover, because I did it Depeche Mode style, and not Johnny Cash.
Definitely mucked up, the, uh, middle, and, uh, well, let’s just say I did it in my own style. And also I forgot a verse when I recorded the backing guitar and didn’t really know how to get in and out of the chorus, and definitely did not do the weird breathing solo from the remastered long version, and resisted the urge to add synths, sticking with guitar loops and played a little drum riff and looped it myself, and also seriously the version of this song in my mind sounds a little different.
For whatever reason, I associate this song with the “let’s show some music videos” segment of our early junior high school CCTV programming, which of course was highlighted by a newscast that I was never involved with, though in 9th grade, the experience of directing cameras and using a switcher was pretty much the deciding factor in me wanting to go to film school.
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So that was a lot. The vocal thing was fun. Hard not to add too much.