Monthly Archives: November 2016

This is another song I didn’t know existed until I found it through this tribute project.  Actually, I knew the song existed from Bob Dylan’s 1997 album Time Out of Mind.  That album made a big impact for Dylan at…

Update 11/13/23: I recently replaced the link to the video because the original broke at some point. I’m noticing that what I originally wrote has little to do with the song itself, so this is a great candidate for revisitation…

This B side from the Heathen period is another of those songs that should appear on a compilation of one-offs that never made it on an album. It's a good if meloncholy song that I hadn't heard before this exercise.…

This is one of several songs that appeared both on the album, "hours..." and the video game, Omikron: The Nomad Soul. Bowie and Tin Machine guitarist Reeves Gabrels wrote the soundtrack for the game, which, it turns out form the…

Add Chuck Berry to the long list of artists Bowie covered. This song almost made it to the Ziggy Stardust album. While it didn't make the cut, it I a great candidate for the hypothetical collection of live covers Bowie…

Is There Life After Marriage.  Today is my wife’s birthday.  For the next two months she will be three years older than me, and she will hear about it every day.  Perhaps providentially, I came across this song last night…

Bowie based this song on something one of his backup singers was performing on his own—the backup singer was Luther Vandross.  Bowie retained the musical integrity of the song but changed some of the title from “Funky Music” to “Fascination.”…

This is another of the long list of bonuses, b-sides and guest appearances on other people's' albums that together could easily comprise an entirely new album. It seems to me that this kind of thing was more common in Bowie's…

No, I have not reverted to using this tribute as a commentary on Donald Trump. Despite the title and refrain, if this song is actually about the activity of telling lies, I don't see exactly how. Instead I think it's…

Lust for Life. Possibly Iggy Pop's best known song, Bowie co-wrote and produced it for the album of the same name. It had a revival of sorts through the movie, Trainspotting and then as the soundtrack for various commercials. Until…