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Sitting on a robustly strummed 12-string guitar, with harmonies, lush strings, and happy horns, it makes a good case for taking “a chance with a couple of kooks hung up on romance.” The performance for the John Peel Sessions, recorded a few days after the birth, doesn’t sound like a performance at all, but a singular sharing of the song with the newborn. “Kooks” – In Concert John Peel Peel StereoĪlthough he offered the song to The Carpenters, “Kooks” was written to Bowie’s son, Zowie, now Duncan Jones, the director, and the original album version is an upbeat welcome to the world.

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The best version is the full recording which doesn’t fade until after a phone rings, ruining the take, and Ronson curses it. The short and bare “Life on Mars?” demo is the skeleton of the soundscape masterwork it will grow into, but the experience needs the cinematic scope of the strings, Ronson’s orchestral reach on the guitar solo, and the magnificence of Wakeman’s runs. Ken Scott’s “Eight Line Poem – BOWPROMO Mixes” is fascinating for clarifying the lyrical “collision,” and other subtle distinctions in the vocals the mix is better at the BBC’s Sounds of the ’70s broadcast with presenter Bob Harris, but Ronson and Bowie’s guitar interplay at Live Friars is the most playful. The Live Friars recording of “Eight Line Poem” isn’t the cleanest of takes, but the performance is more pristine in the raw. “Eight Line Poem” – Live Friars, Aylesbury, 25th September 1971 Bowie, by himself, is a pied piper for the Tomorrow People, making way for the Homo Superior, but assigning homework, like Nietzsche and Edward Bulwer Lytton’s The Coming Race as required reading. There are no background singers, which at first clears the way for his lyrics to pop and challenge, but ends with an open invitation to a group singalong, as the chorus is just too infectious to ignore. The live performance of “Oh! You Pretty Things” on The Sounds of the 70s is solo Bowie, just voice and piano, and is incredible. “Oh! You Pretty Things”- Sounds of the 70s: Bob Harris The “Changes – Live Friars, Aylesbury” live recording elsewhere on the box is also a fun romp in spite of Bowie’s warnings of chordal mishaps. This alternate take finds him laughing and crying his way through the final saxophone solo with a more questioning finish.

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Before taking his stage name from a Bowie knife, David Robert Jones’ first instrument, at age 13, was saxophone, which he played throughout high school in a series of small bands. But the highlight and most prominent change is Bowie’s reed work. The alternative mix of “Changes” is a wakeup call, the horns blow reverent revelry, much higher in the mix, which is crystal clear.

Everything on the final mix is implied in a worked-out fashion, with Bowie invitingly exhaling the beats. “Changes” introduced Bowie as a rising composer-performer, and the demo sums up the culmination of past personas in one scratchy acetate. not what I could have thought of as 'comedic'.“Watch out, you rock and rollers!” 1971 was supposed to be the year of the singer-songwriter, with Carole King’s Tapestry, Cat Stevens’ Teaser And The Firecat, and Harry Nilsson’s Nilsson Schmilsson dominating radio play. why is the hashtag Comedy? Both the original and your rendition are poignant, and personal. This is a very good choice to cover, thanks! Good ears! But. I'm so good I can't stop listening to her Comment by j The cover art reminds me of love you by the beach boys Comment by Matt VanWyngarden

You should make more of this Andrew, we like to hear your voice. Before you listen to Et al, listen to The Pillow In The Sand Comment by zoom I wrote a song a few weeks ago called Et al on my soundcloud. This makes me think of duble bubble, bubble yum, pop rocks, nerds, and pink popcorn.

I still have and wear your hotdog band tee from a decade ago. You made my tough adolescence a little more magical. Very very good but sad Comment by Lauren HauptĬrippled me with neat sounds Comment by lolwtfevenisthatĮcstasy, you really put the click on the 24 track Comment by Sara Russo Wow a great song taken to many new places! Comment by n3s Hauntingly beautiful Comment by MarkMarkMark Hey fella, will you be putting this on another platform? Favourite cover of the past 5 years (for the rendition and for exposing me to Biff Rose) Comment by Danii Sanchez This is an unreleased cover of Biff Rose's song 'Never Mind' that I did january 2015Īdditional musicians James Richardson and Josh da Costa