Friday, April 03, 2009

Scooter, Bowie/Mercury and Lambert

New subtitle inspired by Scooter's Lions' work -- and by Bowie/Queen via Adam Lambert (in a way) who's a fan of both of them and needs to sing a 1982 song on Tuesday. (Did I mention that I'm obsessed?) Under Pressure fills the bill. Or, you idiom-policers, is it "fits the bill"?

10 comments:

Stephanie said...

Scooter, have you ever shared a sentence with Bowie?

Scooter said...

Not in print but as an obsessive fan since 1974, certainly in the spoken word.

Stephanie said...

Would not have guessed that.

Scooter said...

Saw him just a few years ago here in Austin at a relatively small venue.

Stephanie said...

How'd he sound? What's he singing these days?

Scooter said...

He sounded great but dressed a little too young for his age. It was mostly a concert of his old stuff...to my great relief.

Stephanie said...

Give me your three favorite Bowie songs, please.

Scooter said...

Goodness--just three? I won't count the simplistic Space Oddity since I think I was in 7th grade when it came out, though I loved it.

Heroes is way up there. The Man Who Sold the World is greatly underrated. My ex would never forgive me if I omitted Changes--the recent theme of a Cadillac commercial, I think.


TVC15, Station to Station and Golden Years (that last one was in that movie with the late Australian Actor--for the dance scene, no less).

I was really into the whole Bowie, Eno and Lou Reed triumvirate scene.

Anything from Aladdin Sane or Ziggy.

I think I'm missing a period.

Stephanie said...

Love Man Who Sold the World. I don't suppose you watched Rockstar INXS, did you? A singer from Minneapolis, Jordis Unger, sang it and did a beautiful job with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zsNdGf8Bt8 (Either the video quality sucks or my computer is being backed up right now. Hoping the latter.)

love johnson said...

My top 3:

Heroes - one of the greatest songs, by anyone, ever.

1984 - I really got into this one based upon hearing a live version from "David Live", circa 1974.

Station to Station / Stay - can't choose between these 2. S2S is probably my favorite Bowie album, just ahead of "Diamond Dogs".

Honorable mention goes to "Cracked Actor", not because of the lyrics or singing, but for the guitar parts, which in the live versions with Earl Slick are incredible.