![]() ![]() Listen to their rendition of ‘I’ve Been Waiting for You’ below.Three decades after his death, the talented and influential performer Klaus Nomi remains enigmatic, haunting Visual AIDS guest writer, Andrew Durbin.ĭoesn’t David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World,” which supposes a “world” not so crippled with the overhead cost of its atrocities that it has a going price, suggest a deeper economic mystery of the buyer than the seller? What would ownership of the last thing (the whole thing) not for sale entail? David Bowie doesn’t seem to know: the speaker of his song ends up confusing himself for the seller (not the buyer) and loses track of the exchange entirely: “I thought you died alone,” he wonders aloud at the opening of the song “I must have died alone,” he concludes later. ![]() Either way, it’s brilliant, and this heavy drive of the rendition is expanded by none other than Dave Grohl on the overdriven lead guitar.Ī total surprise, and nothing but triumphant, there can be no surprise that David Bowie and Dave Grohl would be a match made in heaven. ![]() Bowie’s take is an almost unrecognisable version of Young’s. Noisy, droning and atmospheric, Bowie and crew took the languid psychedelia of the original and dragged it into the 21st century. This was Bowie’s cover of an early Neil Young classic, 1968’s ‘I’ve Been Waiting for You’. However, the most surprising of all came on track six. Unsurprisingly, the album featured a whole host of musicians, including The Who’s Pete Townsend and Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater. One of the biggest surprises came on his 2002 record, Heathen. Hard-rock, jazz, the avant-garde, electronic he took from every corner of music to create his totally unique and extensive back catalogue. ![]() You knew roughly in what realm his music would lay, with one hand on music’s beating heart and the other on the periphery, but in terms of dynamics and inspirations, they could come from anywhere. Bowie was perhaps the most consistently surprising artist ever to have lived, save for the likes of Björk and Aphex Twin. ![]()
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