Most remixed track ever???

Is Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" the most covered/remixed track ever with 898 known covers/remixes? I don't know conclusively but I would say it's right up there. And what a worthy track it is to have left such a legacy in electronic music that it would have close to 900 remixes. Here's the original off the Depeche Mode's 1990 album, Violator, which I first heard when I was in high school. I've must have heard this close to a thousand times by now but it's still soooo good.


(Actually this is a made for video version that is a little different to the album version)

In my meager foray into the 898 remixes, I think I've listened to less than 2% of the total so my opinion on which remixes are the creme de la creme, is regrettably one that is based on a very sparse sampling. Anyway, my picks for my favourite two are:

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence (Reintepreted by Mike Shinoda)



Mike, who is better known as the guitarist/rapper for Linkin Park, puts together a great modern rock update substituting crunchy guitars for synths and Mike's re-recorded vocals stay eerily close to the original's. So much, you would swear it was David Gahan from Depeche Mode singing.

Mike Koglin - The Silence (2005 remake)


I first heard this version as the finishing track on Sasha and Digweed's Northen Exposure III Expeditions. Simply put, it's an aural orgasm. The way that the track builds and builds, finally releases and then lets you down gently with a soft afterglow afterward, it's just perfection on a stick. Who was responsible for this masterpiece track? why Matt Darey of course, under his Tekara alias.

There's another cover that I haven't listened to much but it's starting to grow on me. Here's Lacuna Coil's rock cover from their 2006 album Karmacode.