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While certainly not my favorite Bowie work, I always had a special affection for Tin Machine's "If There is Something" because I remember him playing it on SNL when Macaulay Culkin hosted in '91. I was young and the episode had a bunch of recurring characters I liked. Hell I don't know that I even realized David Bowie was the singer until a few years later (or that it was a cover) if they were only introduced as Tin Machine. I know I still have it on VHS somewhere but don't see it online. If anyone happens to have it somewhere I'd love a link, in the meantime here's a different live performance of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhjvWHeSWzI
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Jan 12, 2016 17:26
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As a result of everyone out-Bowieing each other recognizing the genius of such-and-such underrated album for several pages, I'm going to go ahead and declare Ziggy Stardust as criminally underrated. Has anyone even heard of this album? I think it was pretty great.
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Jan 13, 2016 16:53
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I'm sure Flight of the Conchord's "Bowie" song has been mentioned before but yesterday Jemaine wrote an article for a New Zealand site that's pretty sweet about how much they idolized him and how writing that song came about. I had no idea they had actually tried to get him to play himself on the show. http://thespinoff.co.nz/13-01-2016/david-bowie-the-man-we-idolised-imitated-and-failed-to-get-on-our-show/
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Jan 14, 2016 16:27
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Was watching SNL earlier and Fred Armisen had a segment just to say how much Bowie's appearance in 1979 meant to him and they showed a short clip. He said go to the website to see "all David Bowie's SNL performances" so I was hoping that would include the Tin Machine ones from '91 but sadly no. Anyway here's a link to the 3 songs he did play: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/david-bowie
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Jan 18, 2016 06:34
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EugeneJ posted:Tin Machine on SNL from 1991: Yeah I thought about posting another link to that I found when I first mentioned the '91 snl appearance but I just didn't like that one nearly as much as If There Is Something, which I couldn't find anywhere. I recently digitized all the VHS tapes I didn't think I could find better copies of online and it looks like I passed over that one. But I did find the mp3's which I don't remember if I made from the vhs tape years ago so I could burn to a cd and listen in my car or if I downloaded them. Anyway I don't know if this is :files: or not but here's an mp3: http://www.davebo.com/sa/TinMachine-If.There.is.Something-Live.SNL.11-23-91.mp3
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