PERSONAL JESUS (Nina Hagen)
“Personal Jesus” is a song by the English electronic band Depeche Mode, released on 28 August 1989 as the lead single from their seventh album, Violator (1990). In 2004, “Personal Jesus” was ranked No. 368 in Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”; and in September 2006, it was voted as one of the “100 Greatest Songs Ever” in Q magazine. Nina Hagen included the song on her 2010 album Personal Jesus. (More from Wikipedia)
In 2010, Nina Hagen released an album called Personal Jesus that is described by James Christopher Monger in Allmusic as: “German punk icon Nina Hagen’s first collection of new music in nearly four years features 13 faith-based tracks that dutifully blend rock, blues, soul, and gospel into a sound that’s distinctly hers.” The album includes covers of the Depeche Mode title song, “Personal Jesus”, several traditional gospel songs, a Larry Gatlin number called “Help Me”, and a Woody Guthrie song called “All You Fascists Bound to Lose”.
(November 2014)
