you got the love : digital archeology
by bryon
Last week The xx released a new remix of the song You’ve Got the Love, a cover by Florence + the Machine of a popular house track by The Source featuring Candi Staton.
As if that genealogy wasn’t complicated enough, Hate Something Beautiful, the blog that showcased the track, left out some of the back story. The original track was actually a mash-up of an semi-unreleased piece sung by Candi Staton for a documentary, combined with a house track collaboration between Mark “Hot Rod” Trollan, and DJ Frankie Knuckles, made popular by the ladder.
What Paul intended to inquire was if this was the “[b]est remix of a cover of a mash-up of a collaboration and a obscure vocal track ever?” but that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
I find the metamorphosis of this simple song to be astounding, and hope to preserve the entire evolution here. Previously one would need a discerning ear to weed out the popular mistitled streams available on YouTube, as well as a detectives sleuth to sort out conflicting wikipedia articles. No more. I present to you, the evolution of You Got the Love.
Candi Staton – You’ve Got The Love (Original 1986 Version).mp3
Frankie Knuckles – Your Love.mp3
The Source feat Candi Staton – You Got the Love (1989 Bootleg).mp3
The Source feat Candi Staton – You Got the Love (Now Voyager Mix).mp3
Florence and the Machine – You’ve Got the Love.mp3
Florence and the Machine – You’ve Got the Love (The xx Rmx).mp3
some sources : youtube, youtube, youtube, discog, wikipedia, wikipedia
Comments
[...] cover. Make sense? Probably not. (It’s actually even more complicated still, as musicaddiction explains.) Basically, Oliver and Romy from The xx sing the Candi Staton verses (”Sometimes I feel [...]
Now you gotta continue the story with all the the greath Refixes, Edits, Mashups and Remixes that will follow the xx’s version.
Thx for the post.
Excellent collection of You Got The Loves there!
http://winniecooper.net/laser/sep09/Pet%20Shop%20Bears%20-%20You%20can%20always%20code%20on%20time.mp3
and don’t forget the version of friendly fires. not very disco but still good.
A sound post and interesting to get the complete run down, sadly I am old enough to remember the original and knuckles remix around 88…still the best versions by far.
What was the version on the Layer Cake soundtrack? It sounds like the 1989 Bootleg, but the Frankie Knuckles vocals are not present.
[...] charts. It can be called some kind of evolution. More versions in this evolution you can find here: MusicAddiction including The XX remix of Florence + the Machine [...]
The Frankie Knuckles version is the best one. A.mazing!