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The Best “I’m Deranged” Cover That Will Ever Exist Is Not Even In English
David Lynch’s Lost Highway starts with an edited version of David Bowie’s “I’m Deranged”. Although it was originally written by Bowie and Brian Eno for Bowie’s 1995 album Outside, placing it on a Lacanian masterpiece about parallel lives gave the song a completely new character built on traveling secrets and a “blond belief beyond beyond beyond”.
The appearing VHS tapes at the doorstep, the man who was present at the party and at your house at the same time, the disappearance of the saxophonist in the prison, and the fear of Mr. Eddy all together with unbelievably apt musical contributions from Trent Reznor, The Smashing Pumpkins, Rammstein and Lou Reed among others made the movie one of the most remarkable artistic happenings of the 1990s.
And now, everything that reminds me of that blood-curdling confusion looks like a perfect fit for my playlist. This cover comes from Turkish Arabesque singer and actor Müslüm Gürses (aka Müslüm Baba) who has also covered Garbage, Dylan, Richie Blackmore’s Rainbow, and Björk in the same album replacing the original lyrics with Turkish while manicuring it with an equally impressive charm. The beautiful Eastern theme of the cover, now named “Kış Oldum” (I am a…
