Life on Mars-Barbara Streisand
Oh, you pretty thing-Peter Noone
Life on Mars-Barbara Streisand
Oh, you pretty thing-Peter Noone
Apocalyptica----Heroes
See Emily Play
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off
Fish - Five Years
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.Originally Posted by Rufus
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!
Melvins: Station To Station with JG Thirlwell on vocals is really something.
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.
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.
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off
Im not going to say its great or that I like it, but I find this version very interesting to listen to:
Bowie's cover of Nite Flights by The Walker Brothers is very good.
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.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
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.
Ashes To Ashes- Tears For Fears
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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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They also did Donna Summer's "I Feel Love." No, seriously.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
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?"
"The woods would be very silent if the only birds that sang were those who sang best..." - Henry David Thoreau
Mick Karn's "Ashes To Ashes"
Great perfomances sounds great stripped down. French is a beautiful language. Would not have worked as well with a Cantonese singer.
^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.
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
It is, but I'm not sure those songs could sound any prettier than Jorge makes them in Portuguese.
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