Covers Month, Days 15-17: "Bonny", "Enjoy The Silence" and "I Fought The Law"

Because of some careless douchebag with a bulldozer, my internet connection got cut off two days ago and brought Covers Month to an unexpected halt. Maybe next time you should find out if there's cables in the ground before you start digging around at random?

Just a thought.

So to get back on schedule, here's three days worth of covers and originals.

Editors' cover of Bonny is another one that's really made the rounds on the blogosphere and even I have posted it before. But it's so damn good it deserves to be posted again, here accompanied by the original.

(mp3) Prefab Sprout - Bonny (1985)

(mp3) Editors - Bonny (2008)

Along with Just Can't Get Enough and a couple of others, Enjoy The Silence is Depeche Mode's most popular and beloved song. Failure recorded their own version for the 1998 tribute album For The Masses, and it was by far the most enjoyable track on the record.

Apparently Andy Fletcher thinks Failure's version is better than Depeche's own, and I'm inclined to agree.

(mp3) Depeche Mode - Enjoy the silence (1990)

(mp3) Failure - Enjoy the silence (1998)

I Fought The Law was originally done by Sonny Curtis & The Crickets in 1959, but Bob Fuller took it on six years later and recorded the definitive version, although The Clash took a decent crack at it in 1979.

(mp3) The Bob Fuller Four - I fought the law (1965)

(mp3) The Clash - I fought the law (1979)