Which songs sound like or remind you of Bowie...
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Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses
Robert Hazard - Escalator Of Life


for starters

lilgish said:

U2's Zooropa reminds me of 'Station to Station' a good bit.

Marilyn Manson's "Mechanical Animals" album is very Bowie

there are a zillion....

Uh...I think the pyschedlic furs singer sounds a whole like bowie.

Edwyn Collins - Never met a girl like you before

about 98% of new wave music from the early 80s.

noepie said:

classic, that is.

weepingwall said:

a tad.

i think gary numan was created from bowie's rib.

ABC - "The Look Of Love" ..to me... some what.

mrwigglesdaw1rm said:

I hear it a little, great song though, Poison Arrow being my favorite ABC song.

Anx said:

aren't they big fans of each other?

lilgish said:

numan is a big fan of bowie. bowie, not so crazy about numan.

Anx said:

oh yeah, weepingwall was telling me something about that now that I remember.

lilgish said:

there's stuff in numan's autobiography about how mean bowie was to him when they met, in that cold, robotic way that only bowie can pull off. numan's still a fan, which i guess speaks well of him.

Anx said:

That's pretty funny... Maybe Bowie was making fun of Numan's sorta robotic persona and music.

NorthernLad said:

it read like bowie was not at all flattered by numan's sincere imitations, and simply couldn't be bothered. the meeting was back in the mid/late 70s, so i'm sure ol uncle dayvid wasn't exactly on best behavior.

in subsequent interviews over the years, though, bowie's never had kind words for numan.

Anx said:

Well Numan has essentially made a career out of aping Bowie's "Berlin" period. If I was Bowie, I'd probably diss him as well.

NorthernLad said:

i thought numan moved on to copying NIN these days.

I alwyas thought that song from the seventies called "You Sexy Thing" (by Hot Chocolate?) was Bowie. Not that the style of music sounded like Bowie, but the guy's voice made me think it was him-- especially the part where he sings "I believe in miracles..."

Am I alone on this one?

eleven said:

now that you mention it, i can see how you'd think that...though i think you may be alone in this.

of course, i can't talk. when i was a kid, i thought mary waranov was the lead singer of queen AND the person who played frank n. furter.

Anx said:

If Freddy Mercury and Tim Curry could make a baby, a la Conan's "If They Mated", I could eeeeasily picture thier daughter being Mary Woronov.
ahhh, Freddie and Frankfurter- two great tastes that taste great together.

eleven said:

you spelled her name correctly. color me shamed!

Anx said:

Well, it's all a big circle then, since certain aspects of NIN are Bowiesque as well.

Bowie is the fountain of all that is cool.

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I was gonna say Bill Nelson's stuff, especially when he's singing, But it's interesting that Bowie's producer said that Nelson's album, "After the Satellite Sings" was a big influence on the sound of Bowie's "Earthling" album....("Satellite" came out the year before )....



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NorthernLad said:

yeah, that's true. though bowie LIKES trent.

To answer this question in reverse, the chorus to Andy Warhol off of Hunky Dory seems like something Sinead O'Connor has studied at great length.

Pulp's "Party Hard".

Duran Duran--New Moon on Monday

minneapolisgenius said:

VERY much so!