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    Your favourite Bowie covers?

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    Apocalyptica----Heroes

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    See Emily Play

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rufus View Post
    Life on Mars-Barbara Streisand
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    I am not sure if she did the actual singing, but Jessica Lange's performance of "Life On Mars" during "American Horror Story" last year was very effective.


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    Mott The Hoople's 'All The Young Dudes', surely?

    Lulu did 'The Man Who Sold The World' with Bowie on backing vocals and saxophone, was quite a big hit.

    If we're getting into Bowie's covers, he's done shocking ones and brilliant ones ('Sorrow', 'Wild Is The Wind'). There's rather more of the former, alas!

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    Melvins: Station To Station with JG Thirlwell on vocals is really something.

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    Wasn't there a fairly recent cover of Five Years??

    in the other direction, Bowie's version of Jacquies Brel's Amsterdam is a really solid one.
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    I remember arguing with someone online one time that "The Man Who Sold The World" wasn't a Nirvana song. I said "Cobain says at the end: 'That was a David Bowie song'" His reply: "Well I don't remember that." Idiot.
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    Im not going to say its great or that I like it, but I find this version very interesting to listen to:


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    Bowie's cover of Nite Flights by The Walker Brothers is very good.

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    Watch Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou"
    Seu Jorge performs a number of Bowie songs in Portuguese on the acoustic guitar in the movie.
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    There's a live Blondie cover of 'Heroes' with Robert Fripp. I'm almost convinced I've seen a video of it, but can't track it down, so maybe it's my faulty memory.

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    Good call, markwoll. Far as I'm concerned, you just can't top the entire soundtrack.



    (..though I agree that Crimson's "'Heroes'" is also noteworthy as these things go.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Halmyre View Post
    There's a live Blondie cover of 'Heroes' with Robert Fripp. I'm almost convinced I've seen a video of it, but can't track it down, so maybe it's my faulty memory.
    They also did Donna Summer's "I Feel Love." No, seriously.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zravkapt View Post
    I remember arguing with someone online one time that "The Man Who Sold The World" wasn't a Nirvana song. I said "Cobain says at the end: 'That was a David Bowie song'" His reply: "Well I don't remember that." Idiot.
    My first year teaching was when Guns'N'Roses hit it big and I had to argue with my Gr. 7 class that "Knocking On Heaven's Door" was a Bob Dylan song. When I brought in the vinyl and showed the date of printing, one student's response was, "That's impossible. How can that guy write a Guns'N'Roses song 25 years before they did?"
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    Quote Originally Posted by markwoll View Post
    Watch Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou"
    Seu Jorge performs a number of Bowie songs in Portuguese on the acoustic guitar in the movie.
    Great perfomances sounds great stripped down. French is a beautiful language. Would not have worked as well with a Cantonese singer.

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    ^The earliest version of WITW I know is by Johnny Mathis, somewhere in the mid 50s! Bowie's was certainly the first I heard.

    The shockers are 'Across The Universe' and 'God Only Knows'. Really poor covers IMHO. The only thing on 'Pin Ups' which is an improvement is 'Sorrow'...then again I only know The Merseys' version of that. Bowie's version added a great instrumental coda.

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    Would Woody Woodmansey's band Holy ,Holy with Tony Visconti doing a Bowie song be considered a cover? Great fresh version of Width of Circle


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    Quote Originally Posted by markowitz View Post
    French is a beautiful language.
    It is, but I'm not sure those songs could sound any prettier than Jorge makes them in Portuguese.

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