The Medusa Fora

Posted: **Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:57 pm**

nboldock wrote:Mary Hopkin sang backing on Sound & Vision? Wow... I never knew that. I worship at the Bowie altar quite regularly too. God, I love useless trivia.

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Posted: **Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:22 pm**

philipchevron wrote:
nboldock wrote:Mary Hopkin sang backing on Sound & Vision? Wow... I never knew that. I worship at the Bowie altar quite regularly too. God, I love useless trivia.

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One of Bowie's finest lyrics, I must say.

Though not quite as good as,

"That's Fred - he's a metrognome". :roll:

Posted: **Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:29 pm**

nboldock wrote:
philipchevron wrote:
nboldock wrote:Mary Hopkin sang backing on Sound & Vision? Wow... I never knew that. I worship at the Bowie altar quite regularly too. God, I love useless trivia.

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One of Bowie's finest lyrics, I must say.

Though not quite as good as,

"That's Fred - he's a metrognome".

I just bought the new Japanese LP facsimile CD edition of Station To Station and was staggered to find - this time there's a lyric sheet - that most of the lyrics were precisely as I had always heard them. It seems "TVC15" really is a song about a video camera and "Word On A Wing" really is a hymn (predating "The Lord's Prayer" for Freddie by several years) and "Station To Station" really is a throwback to the themes of Bowie's third album The Man Who Sold The World and "Golden Years" really is as weird and wondrous as ever. Great though this album is, you have to be glad he kicked the Bolivian Marching Powder. It was doing his brain no good at all.

"Haven't you got a gnome to go to?"

Posted: **Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:16 pm**

philipchevron wrote:"Golden Years" really is as weird and wondrous as ever.

It is but I can't listen to it since someone pointed out that the backing singers sound like they're singing "Come wallop the baby." :twisted:

Posted: **Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:17 pm**

soulfinger wrote:
philipchevron wrote:"Golden Years" really is as weird and wondrous as ever.

It is but I can't listen to it since someone pointed out that the backing singers sound like they're singing "Come wallop the baby."

A salient point, but it is still a thing of beauty, as songs go.

The Medusa Fora

Mr Chevron was asked if he knew any tunes by the Beatles