I really do not like this song, but prefer this version over the studio.

 oilydwarf wrote: 
Agree, made me stop what I was doing and look this up. 8.

Terrific version...
 

+1 !

11

Cool!

Love Bowie, love the song... want to love this, but somehow no, just can't. Just feels a little self-indulgent to me and lacks the drive and uplift of the original.

Great version, not necessarily better than the original but great none-the-less

sandpebble wrote: 


from Wiki:

>>>Mick Ronson died of liver cancer on 29 April 1993 at the age of 46. In his memory, the Mick Ronson Memorial Stage was constructed in Queens Gardens in his hometown of Hull. There is also a street named after him on Bilton Grange Estate, not far from where he lived.

Some songs go straight to the heart. This one, apparently, goes straight to the colon.

I get a weird mental picture of David Bowie as a snake charmer, with some guy lying on the ground in front of him, and the guy's lower intestine swaying out of his stomach to the music.


 FrankMc wrote:musicology wrote:
saw this performance in 1996 and almost wet myself.

 

 treatment_bound wrote: 
I was unaware .... Thanks

 steeler wrote:  Agree! Certainly I'm still enjoying this, but I much prefer his original version too.

Wow - I didn't think Bowie could make this song any better, and then I hear this. Love it!

 sandpebble wrote: 

Unfortunately, Mick checked out before the '96 Bridge School concerts.

Bleh

Great version! I hope that's Mick Ronson

saw this performance in 1996 and almost wet myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW65rFN22io

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RP irony, nice.

I have never heard this before.   I try to hear everything the man has done.   He's the BEST!!

I'm not a David Bowie fan but I like this.

 ronniegirl wrote: 

i think it was neil young's bridge school benefit concert in 1999 or so.

it's a shame, really, that i can't rate this one an 11...absolute perfection.

Wondering what that comment means. I guess if ET had been a bit stopped up, this would be a good thing.

 natalita wrote: 

I love every version I have ever heard of this fine song.  This one is really strong.  8

hahaha
 EssexTex wrote: 

This makes my bowels move...someone plug old Dave in he's running flat.

 Oscar_the_Grouch wrote: 
 

Definitely different. But I find something lost in this version — the whiff of stridency in the original, for instance. This sounds melancholy. Beaten.   Still good, though.