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David Bowie — Modern Love
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richlister
(Here, there, pretty much everywhere.)
Posted: May 24, 2013 - 04:44
 

Dave? All us lot know him as Big D.

 treatment_bound wrote:

Saw Dave play this live in '83 in Winnipeg on The Serious Moonlight tour.  We drove up from Fargo that day.  Remember that lovely era when you could just flash some ID at the Canadian border, tell them where you were going and for how long, and then they'd wave you through in about 3 minutes after giving you "the once-over"?  I miss those days.

I'm pretty sure it was the last song that night, as Dave and his backup singers waved us "bye-bye', and we climbed back into my crappy '76 SAAB and drove home.



 



WhiningBoy
(East Massachusetts)
Posted: Mar 22, 2013 - 09:36
 

Never been a fan of this Bowie but really love the cover done by Last Town Chorus…

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



treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: Dec 01, 2012 - 15:38
 

Saw Dave play this live in '83 in Winnipeg on The Serious Moonlight tour.  We drove up from Fargo that day.  Remember that lovely era when you could just flash some ID at the Canadian border, tell them where you were going and for how long, and then they'd wave you through in about 3 minutes after giving you "the once-over"?  I miss those days.

I'm pretty sure it was the last song that night, as Dave and his backup singers waved us "bye-bye', and we climbed back into my crappy '76 SAAB and drove home.



h8rhater
Posted: Oct 16, 2012 - 13:55
 
 Dog_Ear wrote:
Some of the comments here make you understand how he arrived at the phrase . . . "I'm afraid of Americans"
 
No doubt... a lot of crybabies on this thread.  The constant "wah, wah, wah!" of some of these posters is tedious.

Careful, though, they may not all be Americans.

MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 04:50
 
 ziakut wrote:
Didn't like this tune when it was released. Then was required to learn it and play it in a cover band. Many years have passed and now I appreciate it more. Strange how that happens!
 

funny how having to learn a "meh" piece of music adds to your appreciation of it... {#Lol}

ziakut
(Right Here)
Posted: Aug 14, 2012 - 13:21
 
Didn't like this tune when it was released. Then was required to learn it and play it in a cover band. Many years have passed and now I appreciate it more. Strange how that happens!

mrtuba9
(most likely near Normal)
Posted: Mar 09, 2012 - 07:04
 
8 - for the bari sax!

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Feb 06, 2012 - 14:17
 
 gumbo73039 wrote:
Let's dance is my only Bowie album, bought it Cyprus on a yacht delivery in the eighties, had it on Walkman through all weathers, soundtrack to a great couple of months. Good memories.
 

A guy who lives in England, and listens to RP, and your only Bowie album is Lets Dance????? Huh????

wolverine
(Just North of Nowhere)
Posted: Feb 06, 2012 - 14:09
 
 raggamuffin wrote:
Stevie Ray on guitar..what a excellent album.
 

I know and that IMHO is the reason, this album is so good{#Bananajam}

gumbo73039
(Devon, England)
Posted: Dec 02, 2009 - 01:57
 
Let's dance is my only Bowie album, bought it Cyprus on a yacht delivery in the eighties, had it on Walkman through all weathers, soundtrack to a great couple of months. Good memories.

WayUpNorth
(Edge of Nowhere)
Posted: May 26, 2009 - 12:03
 
 raggamuffin wrote:
Stevie Ray on guitar..what a excellent album.
  Didn't know that ... seems like an unlikely collaboration.  For all those who are indignant to hear this on RP, it's ashame this was so overplayed on commercial radio but I don't think it's an abomination to hear it mixed in here. 



Danny_G
(Lima)
Posted: May 26, 2009 - 12:00
 
Dog_Ear wrote:
Some of the comments here make you understand how he arrived at the phrase . . . "I'm afraid of Americans"




UltraNurd
(Boston, MA)
Posted: Oct 01, 2008 - 12:08
 
I normally like Bowie, but this one is just too... something.

Kittee
(NC- Dreaming of the Mountains)
Posted: Oct 01, 2008 - 12:06
 
 holborne wrote:


Seriously. I would rather not hear stuff like this on RP, frankly.
 
I couldn't agree more.  {#Puke}

Dog_Ear
Posted: Oct 01, 2008 - 12:05
 
Some of the comments here make you understand how he arrived at the phrase . . . "I'm afraid of Americans"

holborne
(New York, NY)
Posted: Oct 01, 2008 - 12:04
 
 Panama_Floyd wrote:
Who replaced my RP with "Easy 102.1"?
 

Seriously. I would rather not hear stuff like this on RP, frankly.

Danny_G
(Lima)
Posted: Jul 30, 2008 - 07:01
 
Overplayed but I still like it


michaelgmitchell
(Belleville, ON Canada)
Posted: Jul 30, 2008 - 06:57
 
 Panama_Floyd wrote:
Who replaced my RP with "Easy 102.1"?

 {#Clap} 



raga
(Italy - Como)
Posted: Jul 30, 2008 - 06:56
 
this is the ony one from David Bowie that I really like


handyrae
(Zero Point Field)
Posted: Jul 30, 2008 - 06:55
 

I can't this is a work of staggering artistic genius, but it does make me dance in my chair. And that's a good thing.



panoskatos
Posted: Jul 30, 2008 - 06:54
 
Yep. So pop for Him
Rickvee wrote:
Ss commercial songs go this is one of the best.





Pharlap
(Bahama, NC)
Posted: Jul 30, 2008 - 06:54
 
love this from the ever evolving thin white duke. Also from around this time "Putting Out Fires with Gasoline" is great.

Panama_Floyd
(Atlanta, GA)
Posted: May 28, 2008 - 07:18
 
Who replaced my RP with "Easy 102.1"?
Rickvee
(New Orleans)
Posted: Mar 26, 2008 - 11:52
 
Ss commercial songs go this is one of the best.
EssexTex
(With the happy gas people!)
Posted: Mar 26, 2008 - 08:25
 
Crappy, Cheesy pop!
lmic
(Sacramento, CA)
Posted: Mar 26, 2008 - 07:48
 
UltraNurd wrote:
Shares a lot of sound with Elton John's "Island Girl", which I believe were roughly contemporary?

Let's Dance - 1983
Rock of the Westies - 1975

Pretty big gap as far as musical trends go. Still, an interesting catch on similarity of style. Are both drawing on ska?
sub-arctic
(63°50' N)
Posted: Mar 26, 2008 - 07:37
 
kazuma wrote:
This song was the soundtrack of a multi-hour nightmare I had on the eve of my brother's wedding back in 1983.


treatment_bound wrote:
I'd sure like to hear (or read) the rest of the story...


Yes, please kazuma, give us the full story!
marcucho
Posted: Mar 26, 2008 - 07:36
 
what a song :)
treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: Jan 23, 2008 - 09:53
 
kazuma wrote:
This song was the soundtrack of a multi-hour nightmare I had on the eve of my brother's wedding back in 1983.


I'd sure like to hear (or read) the rest of the story...
raggamuffin
(Morton, IL)
Posted: Jan 23, 2008 - 09:50
 
Stevie Ray on guitar..what a excellent album.
UltraNurd
(Boston, MA)
Posted: Jan 23, 2008 - 09:48
 
Shares a lot of sound with Elton John's "Island Girl", which I believe were roughly contemporary?
nigelr
(Coffs Harbour, Australia)
Posted: Dec 22, 2007 - 22:39
 
A tapestry of excellent rock musicianship.
quesarah
(Minneapolis, MN)
Posted: Nov 21, 2007 - 12:48
 
I always used this track to show off high-end audio systems.
I love the sound of a closely, thouroughly miked drum set.

And yes, it does have SRV, but he's got better parts on other tracks.

rocco1207
("the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat")
Posted: Nov 21, 2007 - 12:45
 
kazuma wrote:
This song was the soundtrack of a multi-hour nightmare I had on the eve of my brother's wedding back in 1983.


Thanks for leaving us hanging ....
kazuma
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Sep 19, 2007 - 18:03
 
This song was the soundtrack of a multi-hour nightmare I had on the eve of my brother's wedding back in 1983.
redeyespy
(Sunny, FL)
Posted: Sep 19, 2007 - 17:50
 
Professor_C wrote:
It's a great 80's style tune. Bowie purists should calm down, for heaven's sake. It's rather transparently fashionable to denigrate Modern Love and Let's Dance and wax rhapsodic about earlier (and/or later) Bowie. And I say this as a hard core Bowie fan.


Could not have expressed it better. Ditto, Prof.!
lmic
(Uniondale, NY)
Posted: Sep 19, 2007 - 17:50
 
It only took 24 years, but I've learned to love it. 8
CafeRacer
(Still Waiting To Wake Up, Indiana)
Posted: Sep 19, 2007 - 17:49
 
Not my favorite song off the album, but still a solid eight. Bowie did what Bowie does by creating a hit while still maintaining his individual style.
FilmSurgeon
(Los Angeles, CA)
Posted: Sep 19, 2007 - 17:48
 
Goes from 7 to an 8, just because the more SRV one can hear, the better...
Professor_C
Posted: Aug 19, 2007 - 08:08
 
It's a great 80's style tune. Bowie purists should calm down, for heaven's sake. It's rather transparently fashionable to denigrate Modern Love and Let's Dance and wax rhapsodic about earlier (and/or later) Bowie. And I say this as a hard core Bowie fan.
bfandreas
(Euphoria, Germany)
Posted: Aug 10, 2007 - 17:52
 
It's a good song compared to Stock-Aitken-Waterman(yeah, those guys who rickrolled the 80ies). ... but THAT album started the long dark bleak corridor of extreme suck that followed. I like THAT song and hate anything else til Tin Machine and 1st Outside.

But at least Bowie reemerged in the 90ies to full glory.
superflyLD
(Boston, MA)
Posted: Jul 18, 2007 - 20:07
 
wow.. it's already gone down 0.1 as I was writing my last post!
superflyLD
(Boston, MA)
Posted: Jul 18, 2007 - 20:06
 
I can't believe a classic like this is only rated a 6.7 (!) What's up with that??? It's BOWIE!
dionysius
(The People's Republic of Austin)
Posted: Apr 15, 2007 - 14:28
 
GF wrote:
just plain awful.


Well, just plain acceptable. Near the bottom of Bowie's output, which puts it a bit above the basement (the freakin' Eagles, say).
GF
(zilver zbring, MD)
Posted: Aug 28, 2002 - 14:05
 
just plain awful.
Maciej_Wojciecho
(Warsaw)
Posted: Aug 08, 2002 - 03:02
 
For me - pure rock - love it
spotter
(Victoria, BC)
Posted: Apr 17, 2002 - 13:58
 
A low point in a great artist's career! pre-80's or post-80's preferably... :???:
DogBoy
(O'Fallon, MO)
Posted: Jan 24, 2002 - 06:27
 
I rank this song one of the best during the 80's. Very simple and basic, but still good.