ON MY OWN.
Some songs are just built for 4am. The other late night/early morning I was coming home on the train after working a late shift in the city. It was that eerie hour between night and day when everything looks bluish. Not really dark but not light either. There’s a quietness in the air that can be very calming or the exact opposite — completely creepy. Just as I passed by the neon-lit, damp streets of Chinatown, the following song started playing.
The music seemed to soundtrack every move around me. The usual bustling city streets were now empty. Trains shuffle by with no passengers inside. Low-traffic lights are blinking yellow. A lone, city newspaper van is out getting an early start. Bums hover around burning barrels. Bits of trash blow like tumbleweeds down sidewalks. Billowing steam arises from sewer grates. A man wearing a trenchcoat wanders out of a back alley.
If you’re someone like US Army captain and American ninja Frank Dux, this is the ultimate song for reflecting. That’s right, this classic track from 1988’s Bloodsport soundtrack is one I thought could never be touched. Believe me, I’m probably the last person to say that a cover is superior to the original. You can’t replicate the emotions in these songs especially when your memory is tied so strongly to the movie scene it was pulled from. However, there are exceptions.
The strange magic of 4am in the city must have really got to me when this song hit at just the right moment. Nightdriver’s cover of the the Stan Bush timeless ballad ‘On My Own – Alone’ breathes a whole new level of emotion with that soaring vocal and emphasis on the synths. It takes the original recipe and almost slows things down to dissect every slice of power.
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I love this cover version too. It’s the love-child of “On My Own” and Brenda Russell’s “Piano In the Dark”. The late night/early morning is my favorite time of day as well. Used to work until 1:30am, and get home at 2. At the end of my workweek (which varied when my weekend was), I’d sometimes go driving around my city between 3-4am and take in the solitude. So much traffic where I live, but at that time? The lights are always green. I loved it. Sometimes I’d do this at 5 or 6am so I could go to the beach and watch the sunrise before heading home and sleeping till like 3pm lol.
I’m about to start a morning shift at work, and I’m already planning on going to sleep really early so I can wake up at 4am and do this sorta thing every single day (but really, it’s so I can blast Drago’s Power Hour and 2 Crude Dudes at the gym before everyone shows up, hehe). So excited!!