David Bowie Webdream

Now, this is more my style right here: Luke is selling this on eBay as well. If interested, here’s the link. Good luck Luke!

I stumbled upon this very odd blog entry and thread a long time ago. I’ve been meaning to link it here, but keep forgetting. So, here it is: The author of the entry has THE ENTIRE THING on their site. For nothing more than amusement and a good chuckle, read it. At the very end [...]

One of my favorite songs ever made by anyone, because of RCA’s decision in 1972 to NOT include it on Ziggy Stardust, it’s teetered on the edge of obscurity even though it was a monster hit in Europe, Peaking at #12. Not too shabby for a song with no album to support it. Of all [...]

Just read this: Timberlake modeled himself after David Bowie and Prince, and describes “SexyBack” as Bowie and David Byrne covering James Brown‘s “Sex Machine.” “That’s the closest I could come,” he said. “That’s all of my influences for that song.” This I gotta hear. Once.

And now for something completely different: Nina Hagen does Ziggy: For those unaware, Nina joined the punk scene circa 1978. She enjoyed some minor success, particularly a song called “New York, New York”. Her recordings were an event to listen to. I’m not sure I would call them “good”. She was VERY different. This video [...]

If you never watch another single video on this blog, watch this one to truly see the genius of Bowie onstage:

Possibly the Bowie song that seems to get the best remakes is “The Man Who Sold The World”. Most recently Jordis Unga did a very good job performing it. In fact, here it ls Although he didn’t perform the song per se, Klaus Nomi gained the closest thing to fame he’d ever know performing it [...]

Bowie has had a fixation with the United States for about as long as he’s been writing. First tempting the topic overtly with, no, not Young Americans, but actually one of the best songs from one of his best albums, a song called Panic In Detroit: He looked a lot like Che Guevara, drove a [...]