Bowie - It's No Game Pt.1 C/D?

Is that what that is? That's always mystified me.

Oh, and UTTER, UTTER, UTTER MOTHERFUCKING CLASSIC! If only the rest of the album --- though still quite good --- lived up the the promise of this song.

"PUT A BULLET IN MY BRAIN -- AND IT MAKES ALL THE PAPERS!"

There's also some crazy panning w/ the hihats going on during the (awesome) bridge -- or noticable there, at least. I think there's two drummers on this, actually.

Then I guess Tim Smith of Cardiacs took up that baton and ran with it. (in his own small, unhinged way)

Oh yea and I love the fantastic Japanese verses, no idea what is being said though. I read somewhere in a Bowie book that, at the time, the delivery was considered to be quite daring in it's anti-submissive nature.

Also, never played live? Why? I'm sure his current band could dumb down enough.

Infact hardly any of Scary Monsters has been done live really, overshadowed by the singles maybe.

I'm guessing it was probably dropped before Bowie put any vocals on it which, IMHO, is a bit of a shame.

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1P6F5ZVDGPEDJ21QLFGD9ZAL43

Does anyone know what the noise at the end of Part 2 is? I've been trying to figure that out for many years.

I never knew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBUPIZnrZ6M

Absolute fucking classic, of course!

I hadn't listened to Scary Monsters until a year or so ago. I'd heard good things, but '80s Bowie wasn't particularly enticing to me. Boy, what a chowderhead I was. This song is in my permanent rotation now. Surely the rawest/fiercest thing I've heard him do.

I was a chowderhead about '80s Bowie in general, as well. Early '80s, anyway.

Scary Monsters will always remain his best since Scary Monsters.

Classic, Classic, CLASSIC! If only for the raspy screaming of the "situatioooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn" line. And the "Shut Up!" part. Oh yeah, one of my fave Bowie tunes.
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 15 July 2005 22:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

I just wanted the rest of the album to sound this UNHINGED.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 July 2005 01:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

sooo otm. I...... kind of feel there are moments in Tin Machine where Bowie could sell those songs if he'd truly gone full-tilt vocal shred like he did here

If I'm being TRULY honest, Scary Monsters is probably my favorite Bowie album.

SHUT UP

1st side classic, 2nd side not so classic, but the first side is so great that it doesn't matter

I love a lot of songs on Scary Monsters, but on the whole I rate Lodger much higher.

^yeah otm. This is the best song on here for miles (aside from Ashes to Ashes)

Am I the only one who prefers the deadpan laid-backness of pt. 2?

I like pt. 2 a lot, but only because of the contrast/link with the monster that is pt. 1

Yeah, side one is killer, side two is filler, though the musicianship across the board (esp. all the Fripp improvs) are great. Lodger is the better album, though.

Should have been on the album, somewhere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2ciX0_UP8

But certainly someone was paying attention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN6sfJ1qFQg

The arrangements, the precision of the mix, that huge SOUND still fool me into thinking this is a great album.

Still a better album than anything that came after.

I dunno. It's as uneven and rewarding as The Buddha of Suburbia, Outside, and Reality..

It's a good album but it's definitely the first one where the veil is dropped. As a kid getting into Bowie I gagged at the album title and art, "so corny, and this is supposed to be good?"

xpost The highs of those album are nowhere near the highs of this album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOBQBbqSs1g

Okay so there's a version of this on the new Lazarus soundtrack, it is jokes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpyzKgIExw

"Okay, could we try that again with even less urgency?"

Random japanese because it "sounds/looks cool" is cringey in vaporwave and it was cringey when David Bowie did it too

Actually, it was cool when Bowie did it…

...until 5 minutes ago anyway when I heard the Lazarus version (short term memory wipe, please?).

Annoyingly, the only tracks from Lazarus you can't get on Spotify are the new Bowie ones on Disc 2.

Yeah, the Japanese in It's No Game is a transliteration woven into the Eigo lyrics and Hirota's masculine delivery was for the time, very provocative, so I agree with Jeff, it's not anything close to cringey.

some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve)
Posted: January 13, 2015 at 1:44:58 PM

1st side classic, 2nd side not so classic, but the first side is so great that it doesn't matter

OTM

some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve)
Posted: January 13, 2015 at 1:44:58 PM

1st side classic, 2nd side not so classic, but the first side is so great that it doesn't matter

OTM

Whoa you can double post if your thumb spasms and hits the button twice fast

Ore genjitsu kara shime dasare!

I fuckin adore this song...one of the greatest bridges ever

It's so enjoyable to listen to bowies performance on this track and simultaneously 'hear' the enervated delivery he is going to use on the album closer.
'To be insulted by these fascists is SO degrading...'

Jon, someone did a mashup of the two parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECTQ85glsvo

Just picking up on the fact that this was written ten years prior to Scary Monsters. Glad he waited to officially release it, as the SM arrangement elevates the track to something magnificent.

Konna dokusaisha ni iyashime rareru nowa kanashii!

wow he wrote it way back then? Same lyrics and everything?

didn't know that

For what it's worth, I saw the Lazarus show (someone gave me tickets) and like a lot of Broadway-ish stuff, it was largely stupid and partly great, and I'm sure the cast album contains mostly stupid. I walked out of it reasonably happy to have seen it. Some visual bits that I won't forget, a bunch of bad versions of Bowie songs, a few good ones, etc.

A/Bing the Lazarus and Bowie tracks, kind of crazy how dry the former sounds. it's a decent attempt, they are playing the same arrangement, even indulging in that "bad" singing, but it still sounds so clean and sterile compared to Bowie's.

more fair to say DB only wrote the bridge melody/lyric (mostly) in 1970; the rest of "Game" was new

The Pushing Ahead of the Dame blog post about It's No Game is great