1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California) | | Posted: Nov 11, 2010 - 09:57 | |
This song would be cool followed by 'it's no game' a Bowie track with a foreign tongue included.
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nicolewe
| | Posted: Nov 11, 2010 - 09:56 | |
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Raechel
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oenyaw
| | Posted: Nov 11, 2010 - 09:54 | |
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helgigermany
(Germany) | | Posted: Sep 08, 2010 - 22:49 | |
this is such a nice classical tune! I know, i will hear this in my ear the whole day long!!
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bluedot
(Long Beach, CA) | | Posted: Aug 07, 2010 - 22:17 | |
Love Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitar on this LP...
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calypsus_1
| | Posted: Jul 17, 2010 - 01:17 | |
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Fables85
(Not Here) | | Posted: Jul 07, 2010 - 01:40 | |
lemmoth wrote:Bowie decided to release the song on Let's Dance so that Pop could collect half the royalties (as co-writer of the track) and get back on his feet financially. OK. But no mention of Bowie's writer's block/cant-be-botherness/pandering to the masses/own-paralysing-drug-abuse-masked-under-his-'hey, I'm straight'-80's-persona??? (for more, go check "Tonight" or "Never Let Me Down"). |
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Fables85
(Not Here) | | Posted: Jul 07, 2010 - 01:24 | |
Play Iggy's original!
Forget about the glossy production... Iggy's a far superior, more heartfelt and less obvious version (did they really have to add that Oriental motif for Bowie's?) And to be reminded of 1980's Bowie is cringe-worthy.
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mirland
(Denmark) | | Posted: Jul 07, 2010 - 01:18 | |
Contrary to many people (apparently) I really believe Let's Dance to be a good album of great musical and compositional value.
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FrankMc
| | Posted: May 04, 2010 - 12:05 | |
LOL. And agree with thought—sort of shocked how either wretched or mediocre some of the folks below find it. Play it again.
Interesting segue to Morphine, what with discussions of heroin below (China White?).
mgkiwi wrote:I like this song, trouble is, an hour later you want to play it again!
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SinisterDexter
| | Posted: May 04, 2010 - 12:00 | |
Go Stevie Ray!  |
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stephw
(From The Great White North) | | Posted: May 04, 2010 - 11:59 | |
This song came out in my second year at Saint Mary's University in Halifax Nova Scotia. Everytime I hear it, I picture my roommate Anne dancing around our residence room. Brings back lots of great memories....  |
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calypsus_1
| | Posted: Apr 29, 2010 - 20:36 | |
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(former member)
| | Posted: Apr 02, 2010 - 19:54 | |
EssexTex wrote:Sshh just you shut your mouth.  This is such an awful song. From the Cat People, Coffee Generation period. Absolutely bankrupt of good ideas. I'm noticing that folks below are also disliking the song - but their comments are met with personal insults. That's not how dialogue works. If you like the song, that's cool, and support the song. Point out a guitar solo or a "feel" or something. But don't insult someone personally for having a different viewpoint than you do. |
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Dillinquent
(Hertford, UK) | | Posted: Mar 02, 2010 - 04:54 | |
crockydile wrote:
Stevie gives it a +2
Iggie Pop gives it a -1
Song is a basic 5
My rating: 6
Oh baby, just you shut your mouse. |
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EssexTex
(Gitche Gumee) | | Posted: Mar 02, 2010 - 04:51 | |
Sshh just you shut your mouth. |
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h8rhater
| | Posted: Dec 29, 2009 - 07:05 | |
Shimmer wrote:This song sucked when it came out in the 80's and it still sucks now. Not because Bowie was slumming (who cares), but because it's musically tiresome.
The 80s were musically tiresome. You are tiresome. This track is not. |
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h8rhater
| | Posted: Dec 29, 2009 - 07:01 | |
horstman wrote:
Scary Monsters and super creeps. And the end of Major Tom.
Closed the door for me.
Sadly. . .
You missed a lot. |
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coy
(san antonio) | | Posted: Nov 27, 2009 - 21:47 | |
everything bowie does is touched with magic
i don't do the numbers
just shut my mouth
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horstman
(Syracuse, New York) | | Posted: Oct 27, 2009 - 17:33 | |
Shesdifferent wrote:OK, I agree Bowie is a phenominal artist....but i think it was around this time when he lost me.
Scary Monsters and super creeps. And the end of Major Tom. Closed the door for me. Sadly. . . |
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lemmoth
(NYC) | | Posted: Oct 27, 2009 - 12:08 | |
bill-1956 wrote:I saw Bowie at The Scope in Norfolk VA during his China Girl tour.
(The next evening, Saturday, was Neil Young - Pink Cadillac tour at Hampton Roads)
Oh to be young again!
:-)
This song was actually pretty good in concert. Better than on the LP.
But overall - with the test of time - I have to give it a 4 - Acceptable.
That's the Seroius Moonlight Tour - as in "under the moonlight, this serious moonlight" And yes, the songs on the album are often great live. Love the version of this from Storytellers, where he starts out nice and slow. |
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Thistle
(Peg City) | | Posted: Oct 27, 2009 - 12:07 | |
If you're out there Bill...I would like to hear the Iggy Pop version of this one. It's rarely heard but has always seemed grittier and more realisitic than the Bowie version.
Nothing against Bowie of course...
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calypsus_1
| | Posted: Oct 04, 2009 - 20:29 | |
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crockydile
(I miss Excelsior!) | | Posted: Aug 25, 2009 - 10:23 | |
wenatchee wrote:SRV! Love it!
Stevie gives it a +2 Iggie Pop gives it a -1 Song is a basic 5 My rating: 6 |
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jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | | Posted: Aug 25, 2009 - 10:21 | |
Pyro wrote:Where else could I learn that Iggy Pop wrote this and Stevie Ray Vaughan played lead guitar on it? (I know, I know, the album.) RP, naturally! Thanks, you guys. I love this place!
So come tour Miami ("an elegant coma") with Mr. Pop. |
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evansdad
(CT) | | Posted: Aug 25, 2009 - 10:17 | |
This song is simply awful... |
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rdo
(DC) | | Posted: Jul 24, 2009 - 20:26 | |
Bocephus wrote:Is this another heroin song?
I could escape this feeling, with my china girl
I feel a wreck without my, little china girl
I hear her heart beating, loud as thunder
Saw the stars crashing
Im a mess without my, little china girl
Wake up mornings wheres my, little china girl
I hear hearts beating, loud as thunder
I saw they stars crashing down
I didn't think anything could make me like this song less, but your post just did. A solid 1. |
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lemmoth
(NYC) | | Posted: May 22, 2009 - 08:36 | |
jagdriver wrote:Written by none other than Iggy Pop!
Of course co-written with David - here from Wikipedia on David's generosity to his good friend Jimmy Osterberg: "China Girl" is a song co-written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop during their years in Berlin, first appearing on Pop's album The Idiot (1977). However, it was not popularized until it was rerecorded and released by Bowie on his album Let's Dance (1983). Bowie decided to put the song on his album when Pop, his old friend and musical collaborator, was in financial straits (Due to his struggle with drug addiction.) and was close to facing bankruptcy. Bowie decided to release the song on Let's Dance so that Pop could collect half the royalties (as co-writer of the track) and get back on his feet financially. |
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wenatchee
(Duvall, WA) | | Posted: May 22, 2009 - 08:24 | |
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