Let’s face it: if David Bowie doesn’t do it for you, you’re basically a jackass. Bowie may as well have invented running water, tampons and canned black beans, for all his contributions to EVERYTHING (read as: every musical genre you think is awesome when it pops up in some crappy Brooklyn-based band) have amounted.
That said, Bowie’s one attempt at blatantly catering to the ravers, Earthling, was pretty much poorly received by anyone who didn’t know one should shout “Boh!” at an “amen” break.
That’s why I’m fascinated by the forthcoming Life Beyond Mars, which is, to throw around vulgar terms, actually (mostly) interesting modern electronic musicians taking a hand at Bowie watersheds.
Meaning that you don’t have to worry about the Bloggybirds covering “Modern Love” on this one, and that, in and of itself, is reason to perk up those ears, elfquest.
Matthew Dear: Sound + Vision (David Bowie cover)
From the few takes I’ve heard, this is my favorite. Matty Dear keeps Bowie’s goth-prince nuances and that fucking lovely-as-hell piano but brings a certain darkness to this song that even King David himself missed the first time around. This is how a Bowie cover should be done. Go dance now.
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