With a friend in China

new/old song out now!

STS era

The previously unreleased 1997 re-recording of ‘STAY' began at The Factory in the Dublin Docklands during the pre-Earthling tour rehearsals while David, Mark Plati and Reeves Gabrels were preparing the backing/sequencer tracks before the rest of the band arrived, and the rehearsals started in earnest.

David wanted to ‘update' some of his live show staples so they would sit well sonically with the Outside/Earthling material. The recording was completed later, potentially for use as a ‘B-side’, and mixed at Right Track Recording studios, New York in May/June 1997.

@Ithaka

Can’t wait to be off to hear this treasure! thank you for the update young king

@Bad_Finger_Boogie

So wait is this material post Earthling sessions?

yes was recorded in 97

Definitely prefer the OG but this is a cool alt version to have

yea no doubt about it the OG version ain't nothing to f*** with but this is a nice rendition nonetheless

3 songs left to drop from this ep in the coming weeks

had a big Bowie phase last year

mood

Baby Universal’ was regularly performed on Bowie’s ‘Outside Summer Festivals Tour’ in 1996. The version now being released as ’BABY UNIVERSAL ’97’ was re-recorded for the Earthling album, originally intended to be sequenced between ‘I’m Afraid Of Americans’ and ‘Law (Earthlings On Fire)’. The song was ultimately removed from the final album master, but David was very fond of this version and before the track was dropped was quoted as saying: “I thought ‘Baby Universal’ was a really good song and I don’t think it got heard. I didn’t really want that to happen to it, so I put it on this album… I think this version is very good.”.

this cover of the man who sold the world is sooo heat. glad i found out Bowie through MGS

Before MGSV dropped i never heard of this cover, I lowkey was taken off guard by it because how similar the vocals sounds like, when the game started I was like no way did Bowie redo a version of his song in the 80s I didn’t know about or they remixed it for it to fit the era of the game?

Anyway I love this cover more than the original actually, I just think the 80s synth aesthetic charms the melody better

Speaking of covers, and since @deepsleep was on his Oasis discovery

😊😊

The unreleased semi instrumental ’NUTS’ was jointly written by David, Reeves Gabrels and Mark Plati. It was recorded during the final Earthling sessions in November 1996, the same session during which ‘The Last Thing You Should Do’ was written and recorded.

Both songs were being recorded as bonus tracks but then, at the last minute David swapped out ‘I Can’t Read’ (released as track two from this streaming E.P. on 17th January) with ‘The Last Thing You Should Do’. However, ’NUTS' has remained unreleased until today.

last one of the "is it any wonder" ep is a live mix from eno for the man who sold the world title track:

the whole ep is up on streaming now as well!

open.spotify.com/album/137bBAX7QKK24yqSgRNJq0?si=iDHnfzKkSOmqp3sx89wP7g

lemme get on this

Fun fact, when Weezer blew up guitarist Brian Bell shaved his eyebrows because he wanted to look like early Bowie

(Far right)

But couldn’t pull it off, unfortunately he did this when they had to shot what would become their iconic video for their biggest song to become, Say It Ain’t So

So that’s why in the video he wears sunglasses the whole time inside and never gets a shot where he is shown too much or too close as he was embarrassed haha

Thought I’d share that because it’s some cute stanning s*** @deepsleep

Lmao but I get why he’d do it

Dude realized he looked like a cancer patient but yeah can’t blame him, s*** iconic

@LuJo