Which songs should David Bowie have covered?

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1. I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2022 15:00 (three years ago)

2. The Seventh Seal

Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 May 2022 15:02 (three years ago)

3. Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2022 15:07 (three years ago)

4. Guiding Light (by Television)

birdistheword, Thursday, 19 May 2022 15:51 (three years ago)

5. Viva La Vida

corrs unplugged, Thursday, 19 May 2022 15:52 (three years ago)

6. my humps

Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, 19 May 2022 15:52 (three years ago)

7. Transmission (Joy Division)

birdistheword, Thursday, 19 May 2022 16:01 (three years ago)

4. Guiding Light (by Television)

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This really would be perfect

JRN, Thursday, 19 May 2022 16:15 (three years ago)

8. Mountains, Prince

fpsa, Thursday, 19 May 2022 16:20 (three years ago)

9. I'll believe in anything, Wolf Parade

fpsa, Thursday, 19 May 2022 16:20 (three years ago)

10. I can't escape myself, The Sound

fpsa, Thursday, 19 May 2022 16:21 (three years ago)

11. Dazzle, Siouxsie and the Banshees

fpsa, Thursday, 19 May 2022 16:22 (three years ago)

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The real life Bowie/Verlaine encounter (for 'Kingdom Come' on Scary Monsters) didn't go that well:

Tom Verlaine, who came to the overdub sessions in New York, wrote it. We asked Verlaine if he would like to overdub some guitar and he agreed. He asked if it would be okay to rent some guitar amps. It looked as though Verlaine was a little down on his luck and lugubrious in those days—and maybe he didn’t own a guitar amp. The next day David and I were met with the sight of Tom Verlaine auditioning every guitar amp in New York City. No exaggeration—there were about 30 guitar amps in the studio. He would play the same phrase in one, unplug his guitar and move to the next amp. We talked to him about the part and he said he had some ideas, but he was searching for a good sound. Hours drifted, we had lunch, watched some afternoon television and left Verlaine still auditioning amps at 7 p.m. I don’t think we ever used a note of his playing, if we even recorded him. We never saw him after that day. Again the backing vocals pulled the track into some kind of psycho-Ronettes area.
Tony Visconti
Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 19 May 2022 16:24 (three years ago)

What harm did these songs do to you all that you would subject them to this? Bowie's covers were usually terrible!

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 19 May 2022 16:24 (three years ago)

Androgynous

Mule, Thursday, 19 May 2022 16:51 (three years ago)

Man, you wanna talk terrible, that photo... xp

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 19 May 2022 16:52 (three years ago)

Eyes without a face

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 19 May 2022 16:54 (three years ago)

Most of you have taken this thread more seriously than...I intended

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:17 (three years ago)

all of them

ciderpress, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:59 (three years ago)

"Ernie, The Fastest Milkman In The West"

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 19 May 2022 18:05 (three years ago)


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