David Bowie - China Girl (REACTION)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- @AirplayBeats reacts to China Girl by David Bowie
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"Then-unknown Texas blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan played lead guitar, hired by Bowie after seeing Vaughan perform at the 1982 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland"
Bowie was a total cheapskate with SJV; heard he paid some scale wage like $250.00/hour and Stevie MADE the albums he played on.
@@peterbellini6102 Probably punishing him for riding Hendrix's coattails!
@@dancarter482far surpassed noise maker Hendrix. First two Hendrix albums were very good then he became self indulgent and lost his way other than a few songs. Not a strong vocalist either. Stevie was.
@@dancarter482 🙄
Yes, I heard that Bowie paid Vaughn scale, and was too cheap to pay for him on tour--he had someone else play his parts.
Fellas ... on-point as always ... great selections ... always have to "recommend" for you ... within the Bowie category:
Trip out on his music from the "Station To Station" album (you MAY have hit "Stay," not sure) ... THAT work is STILL futuristic, by TODAY'S standards ... it is SO far out there. TVC-15, "STAY" (for sure; great guitar work throughout), "Station To Station," and of course, Dave does his best Frank (Sinatra) impersonation on the phenomenal, but under-known, Wild Is The Wind. The amazing Earl Slick (that "Stay" lick is out of bounds) and Carlos Alomar on guitars.
Get ON this! Right in your wheelhouse.
This album was huge when it was released, tons of radio play and on boom boxes all over the city early 1980's
Great song! Excellent reaction 👌 👏 😊
Bowie put SRV on the rock-n-roll map with the “Let’s Dance” album. Then Texas Flood came out around the same time in 1983 and the rest was history. Also, this sounded like the single version. Gotta hear the album track to hear Stevie’s awesome extended solos.
Adding to your list of heavy hitters on this record: co-written by Iggy Pop, engineered by Bob Clearmountain...
And the song was first released on Iggy Pop's album The Idiot in 1977
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second : rock/metal only alive , this line in stage in front off germans = masterpiece
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hey please
This song was co-written by Bowie and Iggy Pop.
Iggy released his version of the song first on his 1977 album “The Idiot” (Bowie played multiple instruments and sang on that record).
Yeah, you can definitely hear some Iggy Pop influence on this one.
Will take Iggy's version any day. The Idiot is pure gold.
@@danmayberry1185yep
@@paulbangash4317 yes the raw grit of Iggy stands out ... Imperfectly perfect ...IMO
David was not from this world. He just went back to his home planet. ❤😊
SRV's all over this album...PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE check out "Cat People" from this album, Bowie's vocals and SRV shreds🔥🔥
The movie w Natasia Kinski is even better!!
Bowie's original 1982 version was vastly superior to the feeble 1983 remake.
The 12" version is stunning!
Would be curious to see you boys react to a Bowie collabo from the 90ies- with Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails...I'm Affraid of Americans.
Love this song. David Bowie was one of a kind. Always dramatic. Always interesting. Always unpredictable.
this was a short version of the song!!!¬there is a second guitar break leading to the outro!!
Bowie’s a legend but for another reason. During an interview on MTV in the 1980s, he pressed Mark Goodman about why Black artists weren’t featured on the network. Goodman was tongue-tied and it wasn’t too long afterward that the network started diversifying their rotation.
It would have been like asking BET why they didn't play glam metal videos on their channel... it was just self righteous pandering then, as it is now.
@@marvelharris9540 ...except MTV wasn't billing itself as WET, was it? Dumb take.
@@KyleS3m3noff exactly my point..channels should be free to cater to the audience they want ... MTV was a rock station at that time, that was their audience, not soul or r&b etc... bowie was told this. Nice try tho
@@marvelharris9540 way to very narrowly pigeon-hole your stereotypes. The very first video played on MTV was The Buggles' "Video Killed The Radio Star". Cyndi Lauper was an icon, and abut eleventy billion other acts I could name that were far from "rock".
They were a *music* channel. The hint was right there in the fucking initials. If they intentionally wanted to cater to something more specific, they were being pretty damn vague about it.
"Nice try tho"... what a clown.
@@marvelharris9540 by 1983 MTV had branched into pop/britwave, so there was definitely an avenue for broader diversification.
Nile Rogers also played with Robert Plant in a band called "Honeydrippers"
Studio concoction not a real band .. Also on the album is beck and page .. I saw Brian Setzer play with Plant and do Honeydrippers material in 1986..(as I did Page ) Brendan Byrne 1986
@rick063092 maybe not a real band in one sense, but that music was superb
David Bowie was the most innovative and futuristic artist of Rock ever. Of all the greats, Bowie stands out in so many different ways. Lyrically, Musically, Incredible stage presence matched with a high level of studio production. And as far as Fashion goes? David Bowie was a FASHION GOD!
Great tune. You guys need to check out I'm Afraid Of Americans from his 1997 album Earthlings.
The production on this record is top notch. A top 3 Bowie record for me.
Great album!! You can really tell it's Stevie's guitar on the Let's Dance track.... Love the channel thanks guys!!
Yeah, I always listen for Stevie on Let's Dance.
I so appreciate the appreciation that you both have for our old school music. You guys are awesome. 🥰
This song was first recorded by Iggy Pop who co-wrote the song with Bowie. It was on Iggy's classic album The Idiot. It was said Bowie recorded to give Iggy a bit of a financial boost because his career was down at that time. Bowie's version was a hit & Iggy went on to become the legend he was to become.
This album was yet another radical style change for Bowie into dance music proving once again he can do absolutely anything.
When this song was on the radio I didn't know it was SRV on guitar, it just sounded different, better than most... Little did I know I had been listening to him and going to see him for years... Bowie could always draw the right crowd when it came to production and people who jumped at the chance to play on his records.
Bowie hired Nile Rodgers to to produce this - he really hadn’t made a lot of $ from his 70’s work and wanted a ‘hit’ record. Bowie allegedly gave Rodgers a a picture of Little Richard in a bright red Cadillac and said “I want the record to sound like this”
Apprantly, it's the 41st anniversary of the birth of this song ..🎉I absolutely adore David Bowie and like to think that he came from Mars and just one day returned home .❤
Gosh, I remember this blasting throughout the dorm like it was yesterday.
Wait till you get to Blackstar, it will blow your mind. One of his last tracks. The Stars Are Out Tonight is also a must-listen. Great work, gentlemen!
The oriental riff was made by Nile Rodgers... works very well 👌🏻
Well the opening riff on this version of the song is down to Nile, but the song was at least 6 years old at this point.
Prior to this, Bowie released "Scary Monsters" in 1980. I highly recommend the songs "Scary Monsters ( and super freaks)", "Fashion" and "Ashes to Ashes" from that album.
Amazing song by David Bowie one of my favorites, thank you both and good morning.
This song is pure genius.
Please look at David Bowie and Annie Lennox doing Under Pressure, live with Queen after Freddy Mercury died. Incredible tribute, and huge audience!
I cried when Bowie died. So many albums and songs to choose from through several decades. His Ziggy Stardust album was one of the greatest influences in my life. I loved Bowie and miss his voice.
Still hurts doesn't it. It was a true artist that we grew up with
Bowie's "Serious Moonlight" concert was a work of genius.
Bowie....way ahead of his time!
This album is so good! Love it!
RIP to both legends forever 💐💐😔
Bass player is killing it!
Station to Station is the...... BEST Bowie
This album was pretty much the debut for SRV to the general public. It basically launched him into the spotlights.
There’s a song on that album called Cat People (Putting Out Fire With Gasoline). from the movie Inglorious Bastards FIRE
Love this song...Bowie is in GREAT voice. That's the late, great SRV on guitar. He's on several songs on that album including title track "Let's Dance". Blues jumps out that man.
While it's in my head La & Che, PLEASE check out the group Tin Machine, David Bowie side project in the late 80's, the song "Working Class Hero". You guys made me think of them when you said Bowie was always doing "future music", this band was a little ahead of the curve...you'll not be disappointed😎
For Bowie soul and R&B: Try cuts from Bowie's Young Americans album with Luther Vandross back-up singers and David Sanborn on killer alto saxophone, like Somebody Up There Likes Me, Win, Fascination, Right and Can You Hear Me. [Luther and David both on Dick Cavett talk-show video...and Bowie did Soul Train video] ...Also Carlos Alomar groove on Secret Life of Arabia (Heroes album). … Sample his Let’s Dance album produced by Chic’s Nile Rogers (it’s all good!). From Station to Station album: Stay. Also Black Tie, White Noise with Al B. Sure.…Tonight with Tina Turner (also with him in one of her concert videos)... Knock on Wood (David Live, 1975). “1984” (from Diamond Dogs album. Sounds like “Shaft.” Recorded by Bowie, later by Tina Turner) A friend of the the Black community - complained to MTV about Black videos being relegated to early morning. Married to Somali super-model Iman.
Some say it's about Heroin, but actually it's about a real woman: Kuelan Nguyen, a woman Iggy Pop knew. Imagine how it must feel like when such great artists (Bowie, SRV, Nile Rodgers) made a song about you!
Great Bowie song. I always think or Drew Barrymore drunkenly singing this in The Wedding Singer!
BEST ROLLING STONES SONG, LIVE, "UNDERCOVER OF THE NIGHT" IT'S FIRE🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I could be wrong but I think the album version has a longer solo!
there's a great video to this....this was a big MTV days hit
Got to see Bowie on this tour. Peter Frampton played lead guitar on the L.A. stop of the tour. Amazing show.
Another brilliantly deep song by Bowie. One of my all time favorites. The video was stunning. Great reaction as usual, guys! Thank you!
You need to listen to the Station to Station album. NEED!! haha.
Yes please. My favourite album and title song.
This was the slightly shorter single version, the album version has more SRV on it.
SRV played on this album and had the choice to tour with Bowie or go solo with Double Trouble. He made the right choice and got with Double Trouble and his career took off! I've love Bowie since I was 13 yrs old and got to see him live on his Sound and vision tour in the late 90's. Great show! I saw SRV in a small venue just a couple of years before he passed. Amazing show! Thanks La and Che for a great review. Now on to more Allman Brothers songs and Gregg Allman's solo music, please!! 😊
He was fired from the Bowie tour just before it was due to start.
It's like BEAT IT, just waiting for the guitar solo.
I'm so glad someone already mentioned it's The mighty Stevie Ray Vaughn playing with Bowie.
Bowie was definitely an alien
What a showman.hes is in my top 10 concerts I been to. Saw him in77
I was fortunate to see him live four times back in the day. Thank you so much for sharing! 😽🎶
Loved his vocals here❤
Find songs from "DIAMOND DOGS" ALBUM!!! "Panic in Detroit" great tune, too!!!
"FIVE YEARS" ANTHEM!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼❤❤❤❤
Hi guys, just discovered your channel. I grew up with Bowie in the 70s. I've heard all his 70s albums a million times. I'd like to help you(?) by giving you some suggestions. I don't know which songs you'll love most so I'll just list some of my favourites.
Starman
Moonage Daydream (Mick Ronson"s guitar solo at the end will take you to the stars. You'll have to make your own way back)
Time
Changes (an early one from 1970. "Look out you rock 'n' rollers, pretty soon now I'm gonna get older...")
Diamond Dogs
Sound and Vision
Heroes
Ashes to Ashes (revisits Space Oddity, 11 years later, and gives a closure to the Major Tom character. Watch the video for this one)
Boys keep swinging
The Bewlay Brothers (about him and his brother Terry when they were kids. Terry later was diagnosed with schizophrenia)
Cygnet Committee (a very early song about the state of the world, still relevant today. Some think it's his greatest song. He cried for half an hour after recording it).
A couple not on an album... Velvet Goldmine, Amsterdam.
Hope this helps. Looking forward to your further reactions.
SRV on guitar...
Unmistakeably Stevie from the first note of the solo.
You guys please do David Bowie's song Criminal World from this same album. It's a cover from a smaller band but Bowie as usual takes it to another level and it features one of (in my opinion) Stevie Ray Vaughn's best solos he's ever done.
I’m voting for a 1970s Bowie Ballad:
Lady Grinning Soul
or
WIN
gor-ge-ous
Great reaction, guys next Bowie suggestion :
DAVID BOWIE - Ashes To Ashes (2000).
It's a live performance and I know you guys will LOVE the instrumentals! Even when you don't do a reaction on it, check it out!
Nile Rodgers also produced the ONLY album recorded by Jimmie & SRV, called "Family Style," released posthumously. Y'all check it out, please!
This album created Nile's career as a Producer, really.
And S.R.V. doesn't play on every song, but he was a complete unknown at this point, anyway [This was prior to Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble's debut release [Texas Flood] being released], so: nobody knew who HE was or had heard him play. ...until months later (and, for as lot of people: not until YEARS later!)!
Stevie always claimed he never, really, liked what he did on this album. He, apparently, was brought in, late. Cut some tracks. Wasn't given an opportunity to rethink or re-do anything and left before the album was finished.
In fact, at one point he said he "didn't even realize" that his stuff had been used on the finished album (I don't know how true THAT is, but ...🤷🤷 -S.R.V. *obviously* wasn't all that in love with what he recorded for this. ...but: 🤷🤷...it sounds great to ME! (and MOST people!!) (🤷👍).
"China Girl" is, actually, a song from Iggy's first solo album [The Idiot. Recorded: 1976. Released 1977].
Like most of The Idiot, "China Girl" was a song co-written by Iggy & Bowie (who was playing in Iggy's band at the time!-along with writing and recording his, now legendary, "Berlin Trilogy" (which is, actually: 4 albums [so: a tetralogy, effectively -somewhat arguably so, as well....] and only one of them was recorded in Berlin, but....) and inventing new styles of construction & production and soundscape with Brian Eno. Yes. He was doing ALL of this/these things AT THE SAME TIME!], but over the years, David has essentially said that this song was, really, "Iggy's song."
Bowie knew it needed more attention and he loved Iggy so, when trying to enter into "the pop rock arena" (which he did, successfully, with THIS album!), he decided he would re-record the song, himself (with Ig's blessing, of course).
This is the version hat 99% of people know/have ever heard, but: The Idiot and Lust For Life are genius albums and deserve your ears, full-on, as well.
Just: understand that!
[B.T.W.: the drummers on this album were: Omar Hakim and Tony Thompson (because, of course: Nile Rodgers was comfortable using players he KNEW well!). The great Bernard Edwards even plays Bass on a track (with Tony Thompson as his rhythm section partner)!
Nile plays almost exclusively rhythm parts (and this was the first time that Bowie wasn't using his stalwarts: Earl Slick (who ended-up playing on the tour!!-and most of his '80s/early '90s tours, in fact!) or Carlos Alomar (who were his primary players throughout the '70s and, also, later-on!(.
Bowie, himself, plays ZERO guitar on the album (and he rarely did!). It is all: Nile, Stevie or unnamed/forgotten "just gimme this bit, here, all right? ...That's all i need!" "happenstance" players.). 🤘🤘]
Hello La & Che, I wonder if you two would be interested in checking out another artist that came out of "Muscle Shoals" I thought I'd leave a few more suggestions, if interested. "Wilson Pickett - You Keep Me Hangin' On (2007 Remastered)" (by the channel: Wilson Pickett) --This song was originally released by The Supremes in 1966. however, Wilson Pickett's rendition can be found on his album called "Right On' released in 1970 and spent thirteen weeks on the R&B charts and reaching #36 on the Billboard hot 100 pop charts.
Y'all know more about Nile Rogers than you think you know...
This and “Modern Love” both video and song was everywhere back then; serious radio air play and MTV! You should check out the video for the above mentioned Modern Love, Classic S well as “I’m afraid of Americans”.
✌️😎
SRV, Nile Rodgers, Omar Hakim with David Bowie? I was just hip enough in the early 80s to realize that this album was a wise investment of my $6.99
Great song and album, Bowie had SRV helping on guitar, next do Let's Dance if you have not already. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
You guys have to listen to Wild is the Wind! Great vocals and vibe
Next Bowie- ‘Aladdin Sane’. It epitomizes his avant guard genius and has his most bad-asses groove in the chorus.
Listen close. Love you guys.
Did some research into this song, which I have always found catchy, but also unsettling. It began as a collaboration between Bowie and Iggy Pop. Reportedly, Bowie wrote the music, and Iggy improvised the lyrics (based on a real-life encounter). The song first appeared on Iggy's "The Idiot" album in 1977 (produced by Bowie), seven years before Bowie recorded it. Bowie included it on his album because he knew the royalties would help out Iggy, then in financial distress. Iggy's version is less polished and more raw, and definitely worth a listen.
I love the ever changing David Bowie. And I think Iggy Pop released it first.
Stevie Ray on guitar. This is an old Iggy Pop written song..Go Laa! Go Chee!
I feel a-tragic like I'm Marlon Brando
When I look at my China girl
I could pretend that nothing really meant too much
When I look at my China girl
I stumble into town just like a sacred cow
Visions of swastikas in my head
Plans for everyone
It's in the whites of my eyes
My little China girl
You shouldn't mess with me
I'll ruin everything you are
You know, I'll give you television
I'll give you eyes of blue
I'll give you men's who want to rule the world
A political statement wrapped up in a dance song.
You gentlemen need to tap into the Diamond Dogs album. I could suggest some songs from it, but the whole album is…..try Sweet Thing-Candidate-Sweet Thing (reprise). Or, just start at the first song and go from there.🍻🖖
Trent Reznor was influenced by David Bowie big time. You can really hear that sound in this record.
Yes. Y’all should check out the Iggy Pop version🙏🙏💯
Great reaction!! My only gripe - you played the single version, not the album cut...so you missed out on more beautiful musicianship from SRV and top notch production & groove from Nile! Have and listen to this LP often - it's wonderful! Further cementing Bowie's personae as a chameleon - the man could do any style of music! Of course he surrounded himself with musicians to bring that style to fruition!
Wait until you hear Let's Dance (if you like Nile's vibe!) Cheers.
Suggest you hear Bowie hits Let's Dance and Heroes (Careful; there are English and German versions of this one.)
Check it out original Iggy Pop version as well guys. The Idiot is very underrated album they made together.
Do yourselves a favor and watch this infamous Bowie interview with MTV in 1983 where he basically calls MTV out for their racist policy of only paying vids but black artists after midnight. It's masterclass in debate. He read them the riot act. Bowie was next level. So glad I was able to see him in concert.
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You guys should listen to Right from the Young Americans album, it's so funky and soulful, i especially like his husky and growly voice in that one, it's so in underrated, also the backing vocals are sick.
The whole album is next level.
Also the Station To Station album is a must, not even one song is mediocre, my favourite from that is Golden Years of course, but also the title song and TVC15.
Something I'd somehow missed for so long in this song, is that it doesn't follow a traditional song structure at all. Chorus is at the beginning, then a few verses, before the bridge, breakdown, which then extends into a middle-eight (?). One for the bass players, as the bass really carries this tune, bolstered by that classic Power Station production.
On a different note, a lot of people claim the song is problematic, due to the outdated "Oriental" motif, and references to "China Girl". I've assumed that the song is actually about heroin ("I'm a wreck without my China girl"), as Iggy was using, during the time he wrote the original version.
If you think it fades out rather prematurely and abruptly, you're correct. You heard the single edit. The album version is over a minute longer, and has more of Stevie Ray Vaughn's guitar solo.
Enjoy watching you both enjoying these great songs. Check Bowie out doing Modern Love
Since tracks from this album came on the radio before SRV's first release, I thought Bowie must have somehow got Albert King to play on this album (more so on tracks like "Let's Dance"). SRV chose not to tour with Bowie, but promoting his just finished first album, and the video to "Let's Dance" makes it look like Bowie was playing lead.
his mtv years, Stevie Ray Vaughan on guitar. how bout the extended "Lets Dance" with the saxophone another great 80s record. love the Starman his entire vast career.
The outro was "quick" because this is the radio version with the usual cuts. In the future, you should always opt for the album version of songs. Nonetheless, love what you do.
Among many, many great songs from Bowie, this one is my favorite!
Iggy Pop co-wrote this tune and recorded it first on his album “The Idiot.”
Only album I never listen to by David Bowie because he gave no credit to the master Stevie Ray Vaughan
I think Niles Rogers of Chic came up with the hook and SRV with the lead …
This song was on FM radio all the time back in day. SRV chillin in back. Lol
Download the album. That’s the radio edited short version
Need to check is early stuff title track Aladdin Sane of the album unbelievable