Just love this track, one of my favourites from Low and indeed the entire Bowie back catalogue. Despite the dark edge to the lyrics it’s actually a very catchy pop song. Lyrically very simple but for me it’s all about the overall sound created by the squalling guitar, pounding piano, drums, and that bopping melodic bass line. And then there's the fantastic weary laid back vocal delivery from Bowie which sounds cool as f. All this combines to make a wondrously unique sound to a great pop song which sounds like nothing before or since. The only thing which resembles this for me is some of Blur's stuff - I'm sure they used this track as a template to some of their tracks from Modern Life Is Rubbish and Parklife.
Just love this track, one of my favourites from Low and indeed the entire Bowie back catalogue. Despite the dark edge to the lyrics it’s actually a very catchy pop song. Lyrically very simple but for me it’s all about the overall sound created by the squalling guitar, pounding piano, drums, and that bopping melodic bass line. And then there's the fantastic weary laid back vocal delivery from Bowie which sounds cool as f. All this combines to make a wondrously unique sound to a great pop song which sounds like nothing before or since. The only thing which resembles this for me is some of Blur's stuff - I'm sure they used this track as a template to some of their tracks from Modern Life Is Rubbish and Parklife.