I can't stop listening to this song at the moment to me it's a classic.I know it's a cover and also know someone mentioned this recently but has anyone got a version without the annoying voice over at the start and finish,please?
Does anyone know why it was left of the Hours album?

Much as I love the song, Bowie's interpretation of it is not one of his best covers. Dylan's original reeks of just before death regret and apology, Bowie's lacks all that and fails to add anything in return. It would of sounded out of place on hours.

I think it's probably the absolute worst cover version that Bowie has ever done.

I have it without the DJ intro (which I've never heard), but check your email. I send you stuff but I never hear anything back from you.

Mist.

Tryin' to get to heaven.

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Thanks Plo and Michael i seriously didn't get anything as i always reply to everyone.I sent you a mail regarding the stage vinyl a while back but heard nothing either?

Right Christopher, you have an email, but don't blame me for any nightmares or bad dreams you might have!

We just listened and Izzy actually agreed with me, it is rubbish.

But there's no DJ intro or outro on it!

Mist.

Got it thanks and it's not crap you need to listen through headphones instead of laptop speakers.

LOL!

It is crap. It's MOR American rawk music!

Compare it to anything Bowie has done since, or before!

If I was Reeves, I would have complained about it before the studio time was even booked!

Mist.

The problem is not so much that it sounds bad, but it does not sound *right*, it does not sound true.

What would such a track do on Hours ? Hours is a very personnal album, this song is a cover that Bowie fails to appropriate. He does not inhabit the song. He does not even try imo, otherwise he would have gotten rid of all the American musical background which can be good for Dylan but do not sound like Bowie at all.

In addition, Hours is the album of a middle-aged guy who had failure and tries and accept, it does not sound all merry and cheerful but it is not the album of a dying man or of a guy denouncing everything he has lived before.

It has absolutely nothing to do with Hours imo.

I'm purely subjective here but it gives me the feeling Bowie is singing a song in a foregn language, the lyrics do not make sense for him.

No, I don't feel really motivated to stand up and get headphones !

izzy

I like it... it's ok.


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Is it still illegal to perform an autopsy
on a living person??

...and it was recorded during the Earthling sessions, I might add.

I like it, though it is not perfect ...perhaps too much like 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday' to seem different.

...ER NO! It was recorded in 1998 for the defunct Earthling Live CD!
Apologies!