Interesting (to me anyway) that there's no keyboards on that track, all guitars.
― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Friday, 19 December 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
I had multiple "aha" moments with W is the W: I had a dubbed cassette of Station to Station in my first car, which I listened to countless times without ever knowing that the song was a cover. A couple of years later I stumbled across the Johnny Mathis version, still at a stage in my life when Mathis was fatally unhip, and loved that; still more years went by before I heard Nina Simone.
These events dovetail with my obsession with Bryan Ferry's version of "These Foolish Things" and subsequent discovery of Billie Holiday.
― The Thelonius Monk of nu-ki? (Dan Peterson), Friday, 19 December 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
I found out it was a cover, never heard any other version, still can't quite imagine it.
― Mark G, Friday, 19 December 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 20 December 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
the first half of this song makes me so wistful for the days of my youth when I first heard it. remarkably good Bowie album imo
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Saturday, 20 December 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link