and, god, was it awful!

bowie looked like an old hag version of early eurythmics era annie lenox. the performance of "little wonder" was so incredibly lackluster and the band just looked silly. they were clearly trying to be young, hip, and with it. well, you know what they say...if you have to try...

anyway, i'm so glad he came to his senses!

The Bowie SNL performance to see is when he did TVC15 and (I think) Boys Keep Swinging, circa 1979/80...he performed in a dress and had Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias as his background singers. Now THAT was a performance.

i've got a feeling ANY db performance would be "the one to see" in comparison to the travesty i just witnessed.

hey, if prince can make a newpowersoul, bowie can f up a little to!

if you wanna see bowie screw up royally, try to find the movie "just a gigolo", which for all intents and purposes, is his "under the cherry moon" (only nowhere near as campy, sad to say). they even managed to somehow rope marlene dietrich into the mess.

Anxiety said:

i have never even heard of it. now i've got to find it!

oh - and stay FAR FAR away from DB's "never let me down" album...it involves guest rapping by MICKEY ROURKE.

Anxiety said:

now, that i know, lol! what a mess that lp is! yet some of the other stuff from the same era is actually really good...i love the tonight album. loving the alien is great bowie!

hell, i've come to love the first tin machine album over the past year or so. it's really aged surprisingly well. "i can't read", "heaven's in here" and the cover of "working class hero" aren't bad at all....but i HAAATED that album when it first came out.

you know, i really need to check out the tin machine stuff. i didn't like it back in the day but so much of my tastes have changed or expanded that i may actually enjoy it now. maybe that will be one of my missions tomorrow.

Anxiety said:

Yeah, that was great!!
He also performed an amazing version of Man who sold the world that episode.

Anxiety said:

i TOTALLY agree !

And now, for something COMPLETELY dif'rent;



JOHAAAAAN!

And now, for something to get back to the topic....


[This message was edited Wed Aug 25 5:43:53 2004 by noepie]

gooeythehamster said:

ok..this is my thread...

and i like this topic better!

noepie said:

whee!!! david and his miss hathaway dress!!!

Anxiety said:

Hell yeah, Bowie's performance in 76 doing TVCI5 with the toy dogs bumping into shit is classic.

blackguitaristz said:

naw, there's no way that could have been from 76 - he was still rockin' the bright orange hair in '76 and doing the thin white duke thing...i need to check out my big book o' bowie, but i'm pretty sure this performance is from '79 or '80.

I like Little Wonder.

is it possible to jack your own thread?
nevermind. I stopped caring ilke, 10 seconds ag....

OdysseyMiles said:

i do too

Anxiety said:

So when I remake it you'll run out 'n shnag it, right?

Anxiety said:

Sorry player, I was thinking of the year Station To Station came out. It is 79, I believe.

OdysseyMiles said:

that i couldn't miss. especially if you do a mash-up with the theme from the "small wonder" TV show.