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20th Century Boy
20th Century Boy (T. Rex, 1973). 20th Century Boy (Placebo, Velvet Goldmine, 1998). 20th Century Boy (Placebo and Bowie, BRIT Awards, 1999). Placebo formed in 1994 when Brian Molko, waiting for a...
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Without You I’m Nothing
Without You I’m Nothing (Placebo). Without You I’m Nothing (Placebo and David Bowie, single). Without You I’m Nothing (Placebo and Bowie, “live” video). Without You I’m Nothing (Placebo and Bowie,...
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Requiem For a Laughing Gnome
Requiem For a Laughing Gnome. لسلام عليكم. Of the four movements of “Requiem for a Laughing Gnome” (DRJ 405u), only the first is extant in performance, although incomplete. The performance fragment...
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Omikron: The Nomad Soul (& BowieBanc & BowieNet)
Omikron: The Nomad Soul (play-through).* Boz’s Speech (Bowie, from Omikron). Jahangir. Awakened 2. Thrust. “Demon Fight Music.” He practiced statuesque positions and gave the impression of being a...
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1917
Thrust (Omikron, 1999). 1917. Issued as a B-side of “Thursday’s Child,” “1917” (Russian Revolution? Duchamp’s Fountain? the first jazz records?) was an elaboration of “Thrust,” a synth piece Bowie and...
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No One Calls
Awakened 2. No One Calls. Of all the tracks issued under the general ‘Hours’ banner, “No One Calls,” stuffed away on the “Thursday’s Child” CD single, seems the most likely candidate to have emerged...
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We Shall Go to Town
We Shall Go to Town. In spirit (or actually?) a relic from the Outside sessions, the intriguing “We Shall Go to Town” was left off ‘Hours,’ perhaps because its somnolent eeriness didn’t fit the...
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We All Go Through
We All Go Through. We All Go Through (Omikron end credits). “We All Go Through” and “What’s Really Happening?,” particularly when heard back-to-back, can seem like Bowie’s Pepsi challenge: which is...
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Jewel
Jewel (Reeves Gabrels with Frank Black, Bowie and Dave Grohl). If I wanted to play on baked bean commercials, that’s what I’d do. I’m already past that. I’m working on my vision, dammit. It might not...
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The Rustic Overtones Songs
Sector Z. Man Without a Mouth. “The overriding feature of the ’90s was working with bands that few people had heard of,” Tony Visconti recalled in his autobiography. In 1989, he sold his Good Earth...
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