Most of Bowie’s most popular songs, and some of his lesser known songs, don’t quite resemble the originals. Space Oddity has taken on several re-mixes and re-recordings. But, it stayed pretty close to the original. The song that always caught my attention when it came to do-overs is Moonage Daydream. Now, this is purely an audio experience because I’m not sure there is any video footage of Bowie performing as Arnold Corns. As such, in order to fully appreciate the scope of this transformation, you have to listen to the entire version of both to appreciate the conclusion I come to at the end of this post. Ready? For newbies, I’m quite certain you’re not expecting what you are about to hear. This is the original version of Moonage Daydream, as recorded by David Bowie performing as Arnold Corns:
Now, the version everyone’s used to:
Finished? Now, the conclusion you’ve been waiting for:
It’s amazing what Mick Ronson can do to a song, huh?
was released in 1977, it didn’t do all that much in the charts. The album was panned as an inferior imitation of 
, which it really was. 
barely broke the top 100 and quickly faded. Thirty years later, it just seems to pop up everywhere. Today’s case in point, if you attended the Barack Obama rally featuring Arcade Fire, you would have been treated to this: