Former Smiths guitarist/songwriter Johnny Marr today debuted the video for his cover of Depeche Mode’s riff-heavy 1993 single “I Feel You,” a track he will release on a limited-edition 7-single on Record Store Day. Check out out the fairly dark clip below.
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would had really enjoyed this video but.. the adverts on the page would not stop! I could not stop them and they just kept playing over the video sound.
Awsome Video Johnny Marr!! I love they play off of the original dM video. Nice and simple…
Johnny Marr did a great thing. In a great band. He thinks quite a bit of himself these days. Hearing him do Smiths songs is fine – He owns them. But doing DM? Sounds like weak Karaoke. With all due respect – don’t.
Surely I can’t be the only one that finds it amusing that Depeche Mode’s version rocks harder than Johnny Marr’s?
Johnny Marr sounds like the missing Oasis member.
I’m sure that touring with The The on Depeche Mode’s Devotional Tour has something to do with why he has covered the song.
Not necessarily so. Johnny Marr only performed in the studio on The The’s “Dusk” and was not in Matt Johnson’s live band. I saw The The perform twice in 1993, once opening for New Order, another time opening for Depeche Mode. Marr was not in the band for either performance. In the “How Soon Is Now” book by Richard King, Marr noted something along the lines of if you throw all the record sleeves from the 80s on the floor, the only bands that stood out with strong visual identities were The Smiths, New Order, and Depeche Mode. Unlike his Smiths songwriting counterpart, I believe he respects DM.