I'm In Love With a German Film Star

It's amazing that at this point in my life and this point in time, I can still discover lost "hits" of the 80s that I haven't heard before. In this case, because it wasn't ever a hit in the US, although still... I've been pretty in touch, I thought, with the post punk and early New Wave scene in the UK, and ferreted out all kinds of tracks from that era. 

I discovered this because Mark Reeder remixed a cover of it about ten years ago, and that's the track that YouTube eventually led me to. But once I heard it, I of course had to go hear the original, plus some pretty decent other covers by the Foo Fighters, Linoleum and Dubstar.

There's a bunch of totally unlikeable know-it-all betas trying to prove something by commenting in the comments section below all of the cover versions how they like the original better. Wow, how nice. Thanks for sharing. So glad that I got to hear how OG you are. You're so cool. Honestly, all of these versions were great.

Here's the Mark Reeder remix version of Sam Taylor-Wood's cover version. It's the first one I heard. I don't know that I think it's my favorite. The original is more post punk rather than electronic, and this Sam Taylor-Wood was a good remix, but the Pet Shop Boys had their hands all over most of the other versions, and tried to take credit for producing all if it and just getting her as a vocalist, or something. This isn't a good look on them, as their remix is a train wreck.

I was running around listening to remixes of Depeche Mode songs when YouTube recommended it, particularly their under-rated track "If You Want" from the Some Great Reward album, and the last Alan Wilder-penned track to make an appearance.

Well... I should probably double-check that. There might be a lingering b-side that still made it out after this one.

Dominatrix RMX is an outfit that's done tons of bootleg remixes that are very high quality. The "Shake the Disease", "But Not Tonight" and "The Sun and the Rainfall" remixes all particularly stood out to me this time around, but I've been familiar with the guy for some time. Apparently, his YouTube channel went down for a while, and he brought it back and reuploaded a lot of stuff with new videos. Not sure why.

Ironically... how did I miss this? I mean, I never played the GTA games, but if it was in the Vice City soundtrack, I should have heard of it. But somehow... it slipped through the cracks.

UPDATE: Vice City Stories. I never paid attention to the soundtrack for that game, actually.