inmanart
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Pyro
| | Posted: Apr 20, 2009 - 17:00 | |
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!
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Ndugu
| | Posted: Feb 23, 2009 - 11:20 | |
Maybe an appropriate song for the times. The China Girl is being seduced by Western values and materialism. |
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frankp74
| | Posted: Jan 15, 2009 - 22:38 | |
I dedicated this song to my Chinese girlfriend some years back who is now my wife!. Great song. Perfect 10.
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kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto) | | Posted: Dec 15, 2008 - 17:42 | |
This whole album is good: poppy but edgy.
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jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | | Posted: Dec 15, 2008 - 11:41 | |
Written by none other than Iggy Pop!
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Tim_in_N_FL
(Florida) | | Posted: Dec 15, 2008 - 08:09 | |
mgkiwi wrote: - great SRV guitar! +1. Great rhythm section for sure... Other musicians on this release: Carmine Rojas: bass guitar Omar Hakim, Tony Thompson: drums Nile Rodgers, David Bowie: guitar Stevie Ray Vaughan: lead guitar Rob Sabino, David Bowie: keyboards |
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ick
(San Diego, CA) | | Posted: Dec 15, 2008 - 08:08 | |
Ironically, this song reminds me of Japan and not China. I was a foreign exchange student there while this song was popular with the Japanese... somewhere around summer of '83 I think.
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DrLex
(Belgium) | | Posted: Dec 15, 2008 - 08:07 | |
Is this an extended version, or is it the regular edit and is the version in my collection yet another mutilated compilation copy?
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bill-1956
(Moncure, NC) | | Posted: Dec 15, 2008 - 08:05 | |
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.
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Egrey
(WASH, DC) | | Posted: Dec 15, 2008 - 08:05 | |
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.
"Oh baby, just you shut your mouth."  |
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mgkiwi
(French Alps - rivet rivet) | | Posted: Dec 15, 2008 - 08:02 | |
I like this song, trouble is, an hour later you want to play it again!
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Shimmer
(Bethesda, MD) | | Posted: Nov 13, 2008 - 18:53 | |
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.
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mgkiwi
(French Alps - rivet rivet) | | Posted: Oct 13, 2008 - 03:13 | |
- great SRV guitar! |
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lemmoth
(NYC) | | Posted: Sep 11, 2008 - 13:21 | |
zaakster wrote:My girlfriend is Chinese — she hates this song. I never liked this tune or this album when it came out, until I saw Bowie perform it live. Ziggy Stardust it ain't, but not half bad either, compared to 80s schlock like Duran Duran or Hall and Oates. This album also has some of the best guitar playing ever recorded by Stevie Ray Vaughn — regardless of what the 'blooze' freaks say about it.  Very well said from someone who is not a Bowie fanatic like myself. For all the naysayers out there - If he ever tours again - go see it and enjoy the reinterpretations, reimaginings and especially how the great and good songs from over his entire career fit together. |
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lemmoth
(NYC) | | Posted: Sep 11, 2008 - 13:07 | |
Genius - moves me to this day
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Koan
(in or around Toronto) | | Posted: Sep 11, 2008 - 12:48 | |
bugleboy624 wrote:For some reason, I want to equate this song with Billy Idol.
The song was co-written with and also individually performed by Iggy Pop, who I used to confuse with Billy Idol when I was a small girl playing by the stereo and catching only glimpses of rockstars on MuchMusic at my sister's. That's some reason, just maybe not yours? I'm sorry, but I get excited everytime this song comes on. I suspect I always will. |
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Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet waiting for the ticket home) | | Posted: Sep 11, 2008 - 12:42 | |
OK, I agree Bowie is a phenominal artist....but i think it was around this time when he lost me.
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bugleboy624
(Bluefield, WV) | | Posted: Sep 11, 2008 - 12:39 | |
For some reason, I want to equate this song with Billy Idol.
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amaynard
| | Posted: Jul 10, 2008 - 07:06 | |
David Bowie is an amazing artist,  but this song always makes me go "ho Hum." Actually, it makes me turn the volume off, but since its David B. it gets a 3 anyways. |
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Glockman45
(Dallas, Texas) | | Posted: Jul 10, 2008 - 07:05 | |
The greatness of Stevie Ray Vaughan on guitar........
anything Bowie is a 10..........
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EssexTex
(Bee Cave Texas) | | Posted: Jul 10, 2008 - 07:04 | |
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Pyro
| | Posted: May 08, 2008 - 08:30 | |
RobK wrote:
Oh, he used caps lock so he must be right... 
I love the kind of reaction songs like this bring about. A "pop" song from an "alternative" artist - always bound to stir up some controversy. Me, I love the song. The drum and bass parts are particularly cool. The fact that it was a big ol' MTV hit doesn't really bother me at all. I know crap music when I hear it and this ain't it.
You are SO on target! |
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Pyro
| | Posted: May 08, 2008 - 08:29 | |
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 always thought so.  |
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Pyro
| | Posted: May 08, 2008 - 08:28 | |
I know a lot of the fans of older Bowie don't like this, but I like it ALL. This particular song was popular for a REASON. It rocks (although I have heard other versions that rock more) and I love the guitar work. And I loved this whole album, "commercial" or not! (I also like Alladin Sane and the older stuff.)
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Bocephus
(Boulder, CO) | | Posted: May 08, 2008 - 08:26 | |
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
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EssexTex
(Austin TX) | | Posted: May 08, 2008 - 08:26 | |
RobK wrote:
Oh, he used caps lock so he must be right...
I love the kind of reaction songs like this bring about. A "pop" song from an "alternative" artist - always bound to stir up some controversy. Me, I love the song. The drum and bass parts are particularly cool. The fact that it was a big ol' MTV hit doesn't really bother me at all. I know crap music when I hear it and this ain't it.
This is total crap! |
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AphidA
| | Posted: May 08, 2008 - 08:26 | |
Cruithne3753 wrote:Indeed he has. In fact, it was recorded before Bowie's version. It's on "The Idiot". Personally I think Bowie's is by far the better.
I agree. It evokes more appropriate imagery for the song.
In related to the previous post, Iggy Pop did not write this song alone. He and David Bowie wrote it. One can imagine Bowie being dominant in the writing department, if only by placing ideas in his writing partners head. Yeah, I'm totally making that part up ... but it just seems plausible to me. |
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thewiseking
(New York, New York) | | Posted: May 08, 2008 - 08:25 | |
NFG wrote:This was the beginning of the end for my admiration of Bowie. After 'Scary Monsters' and 'Lodger' he let this album out, and it was just too bad.
I don't really like anything he's done since. I used to be a huge fan.
The first side of Scary Monsters was a shock to the system. Ingenious.
kinda agree but Cat People theme was pretty good.
Interestingly this album was his greatest commercial success. |
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NFG
| | Posted: Mar 06, 2008 - 07:55 | |
This was the beginning of the end for my admiration of Bowie. After 'Scary Monsters' and 'Lodger' he let this album out, and it was just too bad.
I don't really like anything he's done since. I used to be a huge fan.
The first side of Scary Monsters was a shock to the system. Ingenious.
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