Shake the Disease – One of the many popular songs off of Depeche Mode’s album Catching up with Depeche Mode. It’s a great song and it also made a great cover. In 1998, For The Masses: An Album of Depeche Mode Songs was released with various bands remaking DM’s songs. One of the most noticeable covers was from Hooverphonic. Their version of Shake the Disease was one of my favorites off the album. Hooverphonic took a great song and put their signature triphop / electronic spin on it.
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I usually tend to shy away from cover songs, because most of the time the covers aren’t that impressive. They usually end up sounding just the same, or the band who covered the song, didn’t put any effort in making it sound like it was theirs. To me that’s one of the most important aspects of a good cover song. If you’re going to remake something, at least put a different spin on it and make it sound original. Sometimes that still doesn’t help and the bands should just leave well enough alone.