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David Bowie — China Girl
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1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Apr 12, 2013 - 12:53
 
Sweet guitars

silby
Posted: Apr 12, 2013 - 12:51
 
 SteadyRollingMan wrote:
Iggy...Bowie...of the same cloth....Bowie scores a hit on this one.{#Jump}

 
That is true.  Yet it is amazing how much they differ in terms of talent and artistic vision...  

SteadyRollingMan
(Miami, Florida)
Posted: Feb 08, 2013 - 17:08
 
Iggy...Bowie...of the same cloth....Bowie scores a hit on this one.{#Jump}

jocelynsart
Posted: Feb 08, 2013 - 17:04
 
always has been horrid in my books, this song

Boy_Wonder
(Bath, back in the UK)
Posted: Jan 09, 2013 - 08:24
 
New Bowie record out.... and boy, is he old now!

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 09:08
 
 JIan wrote:

I didn't know this about the Let's Dance album; thanks for posting this tidbit of trivia trifitfam, much appreciated.
 
I think SRV even toured with him until there was a dispute about money. Peter Frampton stepped in and played the tour. 

daedalus
(Over your hill)
Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 09:07
 
Love singing and playing the bassline on this song - it's in the current set of our band - Crowd pleaser !

ploba
(the other coast and hang a left)
Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 09:05
 
Happy Birthday Bowie!

JIan
(Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 09:02
 
 trifitfam wrote:
Really, I have never gotten off on Bowie until this album with Stevie Ray backing him up. Turned so-so music into a masterpiece.
 
I didn't know this about the Let's Dance album; thanks for posting this tidbit of trivia trifitfam, much appreciated.

Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 09:02
 
"China GIrl" ???  Are we allowed to say that any more?  LIke saying "Oriental" instead of "Asian" ??? Just askin'

apd
(Toronto, On)
Posted: Oct 06, 2012 - 05:33
 
How far out are you, Commander Bowie?

cmarcan
Posted: Sep 04, 2012 - 16:16
 
LAME SONG BY LAME ARTIST.  Some decent guitar work, otherwise BLAH!  Never understood why David Bowie is considered so good by so many people.  I've tried to listen to him with an open mind but it just don't get it.  {#Headache}



trifitfam
Posted: May 01, 2012 - 04:36
 
Really, I have never gotten off on Bowie until this album with Stevie Ray backing him up. Turned so-so music into a masterpiece.

Geecheeboy
(under a crescent moon and palmetto tree)
Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 11:25
 
In the early 1980's I bought a Mercedes 450 SEL from an insurance sale in Beckley WV. It was a big gun boat of a car that had been owned first by the governor of WV, then a divorce lawyer, who apparently had a disgruntled spouse firebomb the car. It flashed through and scorched the interior and broke the windshield. I got an interior from a salvage yard in Charlotte, changed it out, and drove that car for years in Tazewell Virginia. It had a cassette player, and a cassette of this album was in it, intact, and we played it to death. This song still reminds me of the golden years of living in the storybook land of Tazewell VA.

bluecshells
(EARTH)
Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 11:24
 
Another great song...from the never ending greatness of Sir David Bowie. 

quesarah
(Minneapolis, MN)
Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 11:22
 
 cohifi wrote:
A bluedot wrote:
Love Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitar on this LP...
 
8!
 
Yes!

The drummer isn't too bad either.  This recording was my goto for showing off high end stereo systems. Nothing quite like close miking the drum set..



Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 11:21
 
 h8rhater wrote:

The 80s were musically tiresome.  You are tiresome.  This track is not.

 
Despite what many may want to insist, I do not find the 1980s to be any more "musically tiresome" than any other decade (Phil Collins notwithstanding) - and this song is originally from the 70s, anyhow.  I don't find this version tiresome either.

clickfaster
Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 11:18
 
I'm not a Bowie fan, but he sure knew a stellar guitarist when he heard one.  Rock on Mr. Vaughan!

CamLwalk
(Albany NY)
Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 11:16
 
Cool creepy version  by Xu Xu Fang

Tippster
(Washington, DC)
Posted: Feb 27, 2012 - 18:57
 
 hollirg1 wrote:
This guy needs to get a singing voice... 
 
Yeah, whoever he may be. 




dogdokken
(los angeles, ca)
Posted: Dec 26, 2011 - 08:41
 
Totally, and when Iggy Pop covered this Bowie-penned song 6 years prior, he was influenced by Kung Fu Panda 3. 1977 was a wild time.

hollirg1
Posted: Sep 22, 2011 - 09:07
 
This guy needs to get a singing voice... 

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Sep 22, 2011 - 09:07
 
 Baby_M wrote:
David Bowie is a drunken cow who's seen too many WW2 documentaries on the History Channel?
 
There was no History Channel when Iggy Pop and David Bowie wrote these lyrics.


zeelandhills
Posted: Jul 21, 2011 - 15:31
 
 Dinges,_the_Dude wrote:
Bowie's always cool. This song takes me back to my highschool years... Good memories!
 

{#Cool}

Baby_M
(a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio)
Posted: Jul 21, 2011 - 15:25
 
David Bowie is a drunken cow who's seen too many WW2 documentaries on the History Channel?

Dinges,_the_Dude
(under sea-level, N52°22', E4°52')
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 08:05
 
Bowie's always cool. This song takes me back to my highschool years... Good memories!

ick
(The 619)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 07:36
 
Reminds me of my time spent in Japan as a foreign exchange student, this album had just come out and was extremely popular with my fellow students in Higashiura-cho outside of Kariya City, Aichi Prefecture.  My thoughts and prayers to the people affected by the horrible earthquakes and tsunami.


Mandible
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 07:31
 
 Raechel wrote:

 
Thanks for posting this!


cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Feb 13, 2011 - 22:56
 
A bluedot wrote:
Love Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitar on this LP...
 
8!

tulfan
(One of the last ones in SE MI)
Posted: Dec 13, 2010 - 05:26
 
SRV, Iggy & Bowie= 7

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.

nicolewe
Posted: Nov 11, 2010 - 09:56
 
{#Puke}

Raechel
Posted: Nov 11, 2010 - 09:55
 


oenyaw
Posted: Nov 11, 2010 - 09:54
 
Lovely!

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!!

bluedot
(Long Beach, CA)
Posted: Aug 07, 2010 - 22:17
 
Love Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitar on this LP...


calypsus_1
Posted: Jul 17, 2010 - 01:17
 

David Bowie - China Girl - VH1 Storytellers Live (1999)

David Bowie performing China Girl from the album Let's Dance on VH1 Storytellers in 1999



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").

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.



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.

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!
 



SinisterDexter
Posted: May 04, 2010 - 12:00
 
Go Stevie Ray! {#Bananajam}

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....{#Dance}


calypsus_1
Posted: Apr 29, 2010 - 20:36
 

Anna Ternheim - "China Girl", Live Malmö (2007)

"A very personal and beautiful version of this song by David Bowie and Iggy Pop. "



(former member)
Posted: Apr 02, 2010 - 19:54
 
 EssexTex wrote:
Sshh just you shut your mouth.{#Puke}
 

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.

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.



EssexTex
(Gitche Gumee)
Posted: Mar 02, 2010 - 04:51
 
Sshh just you shut your mouth.{#Puke}

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.


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.


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