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Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 11h

Like much of the Hours album this song was written by Bowie and Reeves Gabrels for inclusion in the video game Omikron: The Nomad Soul, where it was used during the opening credits. Oddly this song was one of four songs from Hours that was never performed live.

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 11h

365 Days of Bowie: Day 284 - New Angels of Promise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5olN...
Since Hours was released on the 4th of this month it felt like a good time to dive back into the album for another track.

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New Angels of Promise

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 1d

While not an awful song by any stretch, it also doesn’t really stand out either. It is likely good news that this song wasn’t a hit. Because if it was Bowie likely would have become yet another British recording artist tapped to write and perform songs for Disney movies.

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 1d

Both Hunt Sales & Reeves Gabrels of Tin Machine lamented Bowie’s attempt to make Let’s Dance II after spending so much time trying to leave that behind. In hindsight the two were right and Bowie’s style would lean away from typical pop music for much of the 90s.

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 1d

This song was the 1st collaboration between Bowie & Nile Rodgers since the chart topping Let’s Dance album. But this single was not a success. After Bowie had spent years trying to distance himself from being a pop star it seemed jumping back into that world was not so easy.

Real Cool World (2003 Remaster)

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 1d

365 Days of Bowie: Day 283 - Real Cool World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9-...
Another random track for today, this time from the Cool World soundrack.
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Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 2d

In an odd move Bowie recorded a version of this song in Japanese for the Japanese release of the Never Let Me Down album. To say this song was savaged by critics is an understatement. While it isn’t a masterpiece, I guess my unrefined taste just doesn’t hear how atrocious some think it really is.

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 2d

Originally written for and recorded by Tina Turner, Bowie recorded his own version which was released as the B-side of his Time Will Crawl single. Originally it was slated for usage on his Never Let Me Down album.

Girls (Extended Edit) (2018 Remaster)

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 2d

365 Days of Bowie: Day 282 - Girls

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjvx...

A bit of a random and somewhat obscure song for today.
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Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 3d

This demo of the song is a duet with Hutch and was used to try to get a recording contract. The song would never make the cut for inclusion on any album.

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 3d

This song was originally released by the band Djinn in 1966. Tony Visconti had recommended the group to Bowie and he performed the song with the group Feathers, his trio with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson & Hermione Farthingale.

Life Is A Circus (Home Demo)

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 3d

365 Days of Bowie: Day 281 - Life Is a Circus
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ7b...
On Oct 8th 1969 Bowie was performing in Coventry. He was opening for Humble Pie & their manager was upset that he was doing an acoustic set instead of a mine performance.

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Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 4d

This song was only performed on 17 dates of the A Reality Tour, of which there were 112 shows. While the song is one of the more standard pop/rock tracks of Bowie’s later era the vocal harmonies of Bowie, Gail Ann Dorsey, & Catherine Russell are beyond exquisite.

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 4d

Quite a tragic song about a protagonist who ponders crashing into the Hudson River due to being let down by her boyfriend. A sort of modern, if more depressing, take on the same theme of Life on Mars.

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 4d

365 Days of Bowie: Day 280 - She’ll Drive the Big Car
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bohj...
On October 7th 2003 Bowie’s A Reality Tour came to Denmark with this song on the setlist.

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She'll Drive The Big Car

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 5d

I haven't had a Spotify account for a few years now so it won't let me listen. :(

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 5d

Even in 2002 Bowie admitted to this being one of his favorite songs to perform and one of the few he could always go back to. During the Earthling era it was given major revamp to fit Bowie’s band of that era. 25-minute mark of this clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jquk...

David Bowie's lost 1973 Top of the Pops performance of The Jean Genie

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 5d

The Top of the Pops performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEmG...

YouTube video by GrabMore

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 5d

The song started as a tour bus jam session based around a riff from Mick Ronson. The song was laid down in a single take despite a famous fuck up in the song where Trevor jumps in on the bass too early and Bowie said ‘let it in’ The mistake has been replicated on stage ever since.

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 5d

The first song written from the Aladdin Sane album. A song that channels Detroit and New York and is written about an Iggy Pop-like character. The idea of a white-trash, trailer-park who is actually an intellectual but would never let anyone know.

David Bowie - The Jean Genie [4K Upgrade]

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 5d

365 Days of Bowie: Day 279 - The Jean Genie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z62N...
On October 6th 1972 David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars were in Manhattan at RCA Studios recording this song.

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YouTube video by David Bowie

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Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 6d

This song was performed live and was used as a transition song during the 1978 Isolar II tour. It showed up during 2002’s Heathen Tour and its final performance was on September 22nd in a unified Berlin.

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 6d

The entire B-side of the album Low was Bowie’s reaction to seeing the East bloc, how West Berlin survives in the midst of it all, which was something he couldn’t express in words. Rather it required textures.

Streak from Manly Battleships @manlystreak.bsky.social · 6d

And you really do feel the melancholy in the song about West Berlin, a city that is slowly withering as it has been cut off from the art and culture of its past with seemingly no hope of retribution or reunification.