When you think about it, their styles are not that much different in register, encapsulating depth and range; Bowie just enriched the original, and you can move on a dance floor to both.
I'd say the opposite. The man did a great work separating his personal life and his career, to the point where David Bowie and David Jones had their own lives essentially. It's hard to tell if he was still playing characters in his later years.
@@theonlyantony he shows complete respect for Walker with this. Bowie recorded many covers where he added to or maybe showed some inadequacies of the originals, if that makes sense oh, or he just straight-up get them better by making some changes or simply just by being Bowie. But this one sounds just like the way Walker did it vocals which let's be honest I've listened to a lot of Walker now which was new to me until today I'll admit it but he clearly was a big Bowie fan at least you know vocally but I mean music....just everything. I think it's pretty nice tip of the cap honestly to Walker's music and had to be pretty cool if he was still around then I'm not sure but if so to hear Bowie's version of that song I'm sure delighted him hey what a great song.
Patriotic Dandelions okay too much hidden detail!!! Hahahahaha but yeah he was more appealing at his age even if he was 45 or older!! But not just looks but his voice and personality really made him appealable!! Ohhh that piano part!! 😍😳😂😂😂
Black Tie White Noise is one of my favorite Bowie's albums, there is just something irresistibly sexy about the sound of it, this track and Miracle Goodnight especially
Pamela I’m familiar with a couple of Scott’s more recent albums and collaborations (which are great), but have been meaning to explore his back catalogue for quite some time. Unfortunately, it has taken his passing to remind me to go back and listen to his earlier albums, but I quite look forward to them. RIP
David didn’t need to be anything but himself except Nite Flights was written and recorded by Scott Walker when If I have the story correct The Walker Brothers owed their record label Phillips one last album. Phillips was going out of business and told Scott basically you guys can do whatever the hell you want and they did. The Walker Brothers cover of make it easy on yourself went to number one in Great Britain and knocked The Rolling Sones Satisfaction off the top of the charts. Scott became very reclusive and only performed a few times the last 40 years of his life. John MaUs Walker was performing up until a few months before his death from liver disease in 2011. Scott had a purity in his voice a style of phrasing very few singers can approach including David Bowie. RIP Scott Walker “the sun ain’t gonna shine anymore,the moon ain’t gonna rise in the sky the tears are always clouding your eyes when you’re without love baby”
David Bowie was and always will be the DOCTOR WHO of music......So many ch...changes...I know he's OUTSIDE... somewhere.. he ain't no NAIGHBORHOOD THREAT, just a SPACE ODDITY...tell his wife he loves her very much...she knows.... Rip David❤
I think this version is fantastic- scott's is beautiful and haunting - but this has a driving, galvanising sound that is amazing and the great droning middle 8 is just perfect - don't compare with Scott - they are both awesome in their own way.
Also, you can hear the nineties in the sound and vision. He was really busy here, touring and contemplating his children’s names before conceiving them with Iman. Fabulous living for sure.
Even after more than a year, it is still hard to accept he is gone. And now I've just lost my beloved husband as well! I hope they have met in heaven and are talking about what a hardcore fan I am of both of them! I turned my husband on to Bowie and he really liked him, but not as much as me. Bowie saved my life at age 16 when I heard "Space Oddity" on an underground radio station. He changed it forever when I saw him from the tenth row at the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia a couple of years later for the Diamond Dogs Tour. Like nothing I'd ever seen in my life and like nothing I've ever seen since and I'm sixty-two years old now. I will love them both until the day I go to join them. I miss them both terribly. Bless them both, oh universe!
3 years have passed, but I just wanted to say how sorry I am to hear of your husband's passing. Bowie has affected my life greatly as well. He was such a bright, kind, creative soul who brought joy and hope to so many. I hope you and the people you care about are keeping happy, healthy, and safe
How did I miss this gem? David had the ability to wear whatever he wanted and sing what ever he wanted. David was gorgeous. Thanks for posting a beautiful song.
Amazing, amazing, amazing.... I really love David's cover of this Scott Walker's great piece of music. I have been a hardcore Bowie fan for mere 25 years now, and now I am finally beginning my jump into the sea called Scott Walker's music. I can't wait.
Bowie Looking and Sounding GREAT as Ever with many memories of his musical talent as he leaves a Gift of a new album BLACKSTAR, soon after THE NEXT DAY!Only Bowie can cover Scott Walker so superbly!
A buried treasure indeed... I can't believe finding this today on hearing the news that Scott Walker (Scott Engel) had passed away at age 76. Legend is an overused word but it applies to David Bowie and tonight I think I will include Scott in that thinking as well.
I thoroughly recommend Scott Walker's album of Jacques Brel songs : an artist that Bowie and Walker greatly admired and whose thought provoking songs they both covered .
Lyrics: There's no hold The moving has come through The danger passing you Turns its face into the heat and runs the tunnels It's so cold The dark dug up by dogs The stitches torn and broke The raw meat fist you choke Has hit the bloodlite Glass traps open and close on nite flights Broken necks feather weights press the walls Be my love, we will be gods on nite flights With only one promise, only one way to fall Glass traps open and close on nite flights Broken necks feather weights press the walls Be my love, we will be gods on nite flights With only one promise, only one way to call On nite flights On nite flights On nite flights Only one way to fall On nite flights On nite flights On nite flights Only one way to fall
I was a huge fan of the Walker Brothers since I first heard them in the 1960's. I bought the album by them that contained this song and almost threw it away. I positively despised it. Then I heard this version by Bowie and I absolutely love it! What a difference...wow!
Absolutely Frikken Gutted THIS is Gonna take a long time to Sink in can't Believe Probably the Best Singer/Artist with the Exception of Freddie Mercury of This Century has left us..and what are we left with??? that TWAT Bieber??? or some other complete and total Shat!! R.I.P Goblin King Mr David Bowie you LEGEND 💙
Miss Florence Welsh recently quoted in an interview: do you want intense, uncompromising music with casualities in the rock world due to too intense lives or do you want more moderate songs (and healthy good lookers?). It resumes the whole evolution I guess. I find him incredibly good in Black Tie White Noise. A very good surprise after his career obviously took another course in 1984. That, Outside and Black Star were the very good ones. Tin Machine had some good bits (ao the sooooo underrated You belong in Rock 'n Roll). Amazing though how he kept his production at a more than decent level in spite of the fact he got less edgy after 1980, which is what you get when you trade cocaine for cafeine ;-)
Just dropping by to see my love..and oh yes to let it be known he was is and always will be on my mind I notice everyone's gone quiet like it was just a phase, I was sick of the sycophants when he died and that hasn't changed.
Theres no hold The moving - Has come thru The danger Brushin you Turns its face Into the heat And runs The tunnels Its so cold The dark Dug up By dogs The stitches Torn and broke The raw meat fist You choke Has hit The bloodlite Glass traps Open and close On nite flights Broken necks Feather weights Press - the walls Be my love We will be gods On nite flights With Only one promise Only one way To fall
Yea. I think this is the album (Nite Flights...) that Eno showed Bowie that made him realize Scott was really starting to do some weird stuff. But the original is incomparable. I love David but this whole runway feel is so anthithetical to the song. Maybe that’s why he did it idk.
What was on Scott Walker's mind when he wrote these lyrics? The line "Broken necks feather weights press the walls" uses powerful imagery to describe something; I can't get its beautiful phrasing out of my mind.
I have zero idea, but it certainly is powerful. Thinking about 'night flights' and feathers together makes me think of birds. 'Glass traps open and close' also...Birds are well known (sadly) for flying into windows and breaking their necks.The song itself is a bit haunting, but maybe I'm just being a morbid so-and-so. :D
the bass needs a bit more modulation - can't think of anyone else covering Scott Walker so decently, I like the dance beat, could have been trippier and would have liked more of the black female vocals tacked at the end
Oh. I haven't seen it until now : It's a bit similar to Life on Mars?. A big white background, and Bowie wearing a tuxedo (or something, don't know its proper name) Some moves from older videos and album covers.
I had no idea this was a Scott Walker song. I had heard Bowie's version first on Black Tie White Noise. I had not listened to this in ages until tonight while reading the news about Scott Walker. The direct influence was not apparent to me until now. I'm a bit speechless. Both versions are doing it for me right now. I am now going back to relisten to what I had known about Scott Walker. Bowie was my hero and Bowie was influenced by Scott. My apologizes for not being more "aware" of earlier. Today has been such a day for revelations for me. Peace.
David Bowie defends himself from a gang of rabid cameramen with fashion moves.
At his command. He ran that
Lol
He turned to the left, he turned to the right; they were everywhere.
Yes lights.
@@hernanbruno4178 I hear they are everywhere.
His hero was Scott Walker. What a fucking homage here. What a voice. What a man. I miss you Sailor, I still can't believe your work is done.
Now we miss them both.
Awr Sailor...yes indeed, miss both him and David. Assume you were/are a Bnetter too? :)
And yes, Scott Walker as well.
Who was Scott Walker...and Sailor?
Whilst Scott Walker was someone DB admired it was Little Richard that was his hero.
Criminally underrated album was black tie white noise.
Agree
His own backing vocals, masterpiece!!!
Certo. Bowie ha sempre fatto cosi'.
His vocals... So perfect, nobody like David Bowie. Perfect.
When you think about it, their styles are not that much different in register, encapsulating depth and range; Bowie just enriched the original, and you can move on a dance floor to both.
You should check Dario and the Clear Optic Nerve CD.
Nite fligjts...is he referring to astral traveling while we sleep ?
His voice is nothng compared to Walker's...
Scott Walker? Who wrote this 😆
Always amazed how David did not need anything except to be himself. He was a living work of art.
KuroiHato69 truth!!!!!!☮️❤️⚡️
Except he.’s being Scott Walker, here
I'd say the opposite. The man did a great work separating his personal life and his career, to the point where David Bowie and David Jones had their own lives essentially. It's hard to tell if he was still playing characters in his later years.
@@theonlyantony he shows complete respect for Walker with this. Bowie recorded many covers where he added to or maybe showed some inadequacies of the originals, if that makes sense oh, or he just straight-up get them better by making some changes or simply just by being Bowie. But this one sounds just like the way Walker did it vocals which let's be honest I've listened to a lot of Walker now which was new to me until today I'll admit it but he clearly was a big Bowie fan at least you know vocally but I mean music....just everything. I think it's pretty nice tip of the cap honestly to Walker's music and had to be pretty cool if he was still around then I'm not sure but if so to hear Bowie's version of that song I'm sure delighted him hey what a great song.
@@jonathanwhitaker1771 I'll give you 21/21 for that.
He made an amazing life for himself and for us
2021 March
His vocals are gorgeous.
And so is he of course.
Patriotic Dandelions okay too much hidden detail!!! Hahahahaha but yeah he was more appealing at his age even if he was 45 or older!! But not just looks but his voice and personality really made him appealable!! Ohhh that piano part!! 😍😳😂😂😂
Black Tie White Noise is one of my favorite Bowie's albums, there is just something irresistibly sexy about the sound of it, this track and Miracle Goodnight especially
ConverseVonMartens
Totally!
The wedding LP, oozing with love. RIP GOD; Scott as well.
I agree, fantastic album.
#RIP Scott Walker, two legends gone from the planet.
and Lou Reed...
Best excuse to discover music. Both left gems for new fans.
Pamela I’m familiar with a couple of Scott’s more recent albums and collaborations (which are great), but have been meaning to explore his back catalogue for quite some time. Unfortunately, it has taken his passing to remind me to go back and listen to his earlier albums, but I quite look forward to them. RIP
David didn’t need to be anything but himself except Nite Flights was written and recorded by Scott Walker when If I have the story correct The Walker Brothers owed their record label Phillips one last album. Phillips was going out of business and told Scott basically you guys can do whatever the hell you want and they did. The Walker Brothers cover of make it easy on yourself went to number one in Great Britain and knocked The Rolling Sones Satisfaction off the top of the charts. Scott became very reclusive and only performed a few times the last 40 years of his life. John MaUs Walker was performing up until a few months before his death from liver disease in 2011. Scott had a purity in his voice a style of phrasing very few singers can approach including David Bowie. RIP Scott Walker “the sun ain’t gonna shine anymore,the moon ain’t gonna rise in the sky the tears are always clouding your eyes when you’re without love baby”
RIP David and Scott. Wonderful song written by Scott and covered brilliantly by David.
Yes both brilliant in their own way R.I.P Scott and David 💔💔
David Bowie was and always will be the DOCTOR WHO of music......So many ch...changes...I know he's OUTSIDE... somewhere.. he ain't no NAIGHBORHOOD THREAT, just a SPACE ODDITY...tell his wife he loves her very much...she knows.... Rip David❤
I'm flying when listen to this remarkable song!!!!!!!
Why don't you record a Bowie song Neil?
Scott is dark, Bowie is light. I love both.
Scott Walker & Bowie 😍😍😍
RIP, David and Scott.
David Bowie's cover is wonderful, but still find the Walker Brothers original the more sublime version.
I'll never stop missing him.
Or Scott Walker
I love his voice - speaking or singing. So sexy.
I think this version is fantastic- scott's is beautiful and haunting - but this has a driving, galvanising sound that is amazing and the great droning middle 8 is just perfect - don't compare with Scott - they are both awesome in their own way.
great way to put it
Totally agree
Also, you can hear the nineties in the sound and vision. He was really busy here, touring and contemplating his children’s names before conceiving them with Iman. Fabulous living for sure.
Even after more than a year, it is still hard to accept he is gone. And now I've just lost my beloved husband as well! I hope they have met in heaven and are talking about what a hardcore fan I am of both of them! I turned my husband on to Bowie and he really liked him, but not as much as me. Bowie saved my life at age 16 when I heard "Space Oddity" on an underground radio station. He changed it forever when I saw him from the tenth row at the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia a couple of years later for the Diamond Dogs Tour. Like nothing I'd ever seen in my life and like nothing I've ever seen since and I'm sixty-two years old now. I will love them both until the day I go to join them. I miss them both terribly. Bless them both, oh universe!
Great comment.
3 years have passed, but I just wanted to say how sorry I am to hear of your husband's passing. Bowie has affected my life greatly as well. He was such a bright, kind, creative soul who brought joy and hope to so many. I hope you and the people you care about are keeping happy, healthy, and safe
Es,algo increíble qué pasó x este planeta. Mis oídos son testigos. ❤
How did I miss this gem? David had the ability to wear whatever he wanted and sing what ever he wanted. David was gorgeous. Thanks for posting a beautiful song.
bowie more than a artist and a timeles singer songwritter ( r i p }
.... the coolest guy which lived on the planet...
David Bowie was absolutely amazing!!
Nobody comes close to Bowie in contemporary music culture.
Scott Walker
Cerati.
Pedro AO Cerati murió muy joven
TRUE!!!
Christian Freud that is right!
Wow. He was really handsome.
Por supuesto.
One icon covering another icon, lovely. Bowie was so generous and his star blazed for decades, but not nearly long enough.
Lovely indeed.
Amazing, amazing, amazing.... I really love David's cover of this Scott Walker's great piece of music. I have been a hardcore Bowie fan for mere 25 years now, and now I am finally beginning my jump into the sea called Scott Walker's music. I can't wait.
Jump they say!
Mr Bowie always looks absolutely stunning just love him and so talented miss him and his music not so many musicians left like him
Never heard any songs of Scott Walker's before but when I saw that Bowie covered this one I had to check it out. R.I.P. to them both.
Scot Walker was like a chef making some marvellous food. Bowie came along, added a bit of seasoning to make it perfect.
Another favorite from the Black Tie White Noise album.
David Bowie & Scott Walker, pop icons to 21st century - avant-garde musicians ~
Bowie's voice is amazing!
Bowie Looking and Sounding GREAT as Ever with many memories of his musical talent as he leaves a Gift of a new album BLACKSTAR, soon after THE NEXT DAY!Only Bowie can cover Scott Walker so superbly!
Bowie was beyond human,in music, looks,talent,it goes on and on,what an incredible man,just mind blowing!!!!
He is absolutely gorgeous!
Scott Walker is the man!!! the voice... forever
So proud Bowie was British
This Album is a Bowie Gem
Happy 70th birthday David Jones...
Truly gifted and amazing, I agree!
Is that a baseball bat in my trousers? NO. I am just watching David Bowie
He alone in front of a camera was already a show...
fantastic!!!
A buried treasure indeed... I can't believe finding this today on hearing the news that Scott Walker (Scott Engel) had passed away at age 76. Legend is an overused word but it applies to David Bowie and tonight I think I will include Scott in that thinking as well.
Remarkable ! There will never be another Bowie ! My God ! okay David Jones
bowie is my king!
Was my GOD.
Bowie being impossibly cool here. In fact this is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen.
This beat, this song, this mucisian, that = David Bowie
Love the sounds on the original track, but gosh when Bowie sings, I trust him more.
I thoroughly recommend Scott Walker's album of Jacques Brel songs : an artist that Bowie and Walker greatly admired and whose thought provoking songs they both covered .
Quite. Fantastic album
Good song, Bowie will be missed
This music video would be boring by any other artist. The advantage this video has is David Bowie.
This song and Jump They Say are my favorites in this album
Lyrics:
There's no hold
The moving has come through
The danger passing you
Turns its face into the heat and runs the tunnels
It's so cold
The dark dug up by dogs
The stitches torn and broke
The raw meat fist you choke
Has hit the bloodlite
Glass traps open and close on nite flights
Broken necks feather weights press the walls
Be my love, we will be gods on nite flights
With only one promise, only one way to fall
Glass traps open and close on nite flights
Broken necks feather weights press the walls
Be my love, we will be gods on nite flights
With only one promise, only one way to call
On nite flights
On nite flights
On nite flights
Only one way to fall
On nite flights
On nite flights
On nite flights
Only one way to fall
Let's go David I love you
With "Let's dance" my fav' song from Bowie, So classy....
I was a huge fan of the Walker Brothers since I first heard them in the 1960's. I bought the album by them that contained this song and almost threw it away. I positively despised it. Then I heard this version by Bowie and I absolutely love it! What a difference...wow!
Absolutely Frikken Gutted THIS is Gonna take a long time to Sink in can't Believe Probably the Best Singer/Artist with the Exception of Freddie Mercury of This Century has left us..and what are we left with??? that TWAT Bieber??? or some other complete and total Shat!! R.I.P Goblin King Mr David Bowie you LEGEND 💙
We lost a space travelling alien rock star, the thin white duke, a goblin king and this stylish cool as fuck cat right here...
I understand your frustration, but though the man may be dead, his legacy will long outlive flash-in-the-pan chancers like Bieber.
Miss Florence Welsh recently quoted in an interview: do you want intense, uncompromising music with casualities in the rock world due to too intense lives or do you want more moderate songs (and healthy good lookers?). It resumes the whole evolution I guess.
I find him incredibly good in Black Tie White Noise. A very good surprise after his career obviously took another course in 1984. That, Outside and Black Star were the very good ones. Tin Machine had some good bits (ao the sooooo underrated You belong in Rock 'n Roll). Amazing though how he kept his production at a more than decent level in spite of the fact he got less edgy after 1980, which is what you get when you trade cocaine for cafeine ;-)
always amazing always by my side D Bowie is here whit me.
una elegancia y carisma que nadie jamás tendrá, unico e inigualable
Simplemente maravilloso ❤ te adoro david bowie ❤
I don't have enough thumbs to put up
Scott you legend.
I like the original Scott Walker version better but this one is very musically adept, for its time. Slightly dated for now.
I will always miss him!
I've always tried to wear the same suits and make them look as good on me as they do on Bowie...
Devid bowie un fenomeno che dire non ci sono aggettivi
Just dropping by to see my love..and oh yes to let it be known he was is and always will be on my mind I notice everyone's gone quiet like it was just a phase, I was sick of the sycophants when he died and that hasn't changed.
Wonderful !( Listen also to the original verson with Scott Walker.)
Theres no hold
The moving -
Has come thru
The danger
Brushin you
Turns its face
Into the heat
And runs
The tunnels
Its so cold
The dark
Dug up
By dogs
The stitches
Torn and broke
The raw meat fist
You choke
Has hit
The bloodlite
Glass traps
Open and close
On nite flights
Broken necks
Feather weights
Press - the walls
Be my love
We will be gods
On nite flights
With
Only one promise
Only one way
To fall
pretty great...but SCOTT!
Can not Beat Scott I'm Afraid!!!!
Yea. I think this is the album (Nite Flights...) that Eno showed Bowie that made him realize Scott was really starting to do some weird stuff.
But the original is incomparable. I love David but this whole runway feel is so anthithetical to the song. Maybe that’s why he did it idk.
Great Scott!
Such a CooL Synth Sound!🎼🎶🎹🎵
I love David Bowie 4ever !!! I love David Bowie 4ever !!! I love David Bowie 4ever !!! ♫♥♫
God rest, Scott Walker as well: Jan. 9, 1943 to Mar. 22, 2019.
like butter
David Songs Scott and me and the world is missing both of them!
Current favorite Bowie song. This is ever-changing though.
The best!
R.I.P.......have a smooth nite flight..many of us gonna miss u.
This should have been second single from the BLACK TIE WHITE NOISE album, really....
Bowie had semi-covered it already with Look Back In Anger
I'd call it tunesmithery!
Such a performance from a talented artist!
Bello dentro e fuori.beautiful!!!😁💫💙💙⚡⚡RIP!!God bless bowie 😘
Whenever Bowie covered a song I liked it more that the original version.
Best stick with the great Scott Walker original. Same goes for his Brel versions as well.
In your opinion.
Scotts version sounds like an evocation. Bowie’s sounds like an invitation.
Bowie and walker.what a combination
What was on Scott Walker's mind when he wrote these lyrics? The line "Broken necks feather weights press the walls" uses powerful imagery to describe something; I can't get its beautiful phrasing out of my mind.
I have zero idea, but it certainly is powerful. Thinking about 'night flights' and feathers together makes me think of birds. 'Glass traps open and close' also...Birds are well known (sadly) for flying into windows and breaking their necks.The song itself is a bit haunting, but maybe I'm just being a morbid so-and-so. :D
@@weskingston264 Yeah, that would be more like it, his work often came out of a sort of macabre place.
the bass needs a bit more modulation - can't think of anyone else covering Scott Walker so decently, I like the dance beat, could have been trippier and would have liked more of the black female vocals tacked at the end
Just love love Bowie!
Oh. I haven't seen it until now : It's a bit similar to Life on Mars?. A big white background, and Bowie wearing a tuxedo (or something, don't know its proper name) Some moves from older videos and album covers.
I had no idea this was a Scott Walker song. I had heard Bowie's version first on Black Tie White Noise. I had not listened to this in ages until tonight while reading the news about Scott Walker. The direct influence was not apparent to me until now. I'm a bit speechless. Both versions are doing it for me right now. I am now going back to relisten to what I had known about Scott Walker. Bowie was my hero and Bowie was influenced by Scott. My apologizes for not being more "aware" of earlier. Today has been such a day for revelations for me. Peace.
Although I still prefer Scott Walker's original version, Bowie is the only person who could cover this song so well
Yes I agree RIP Scott and David 💔💔
there's a bit of Scott Walker there
I cant believe it's almost the anniversary of losing the biggest love of my life
I wish i could swap out the drum beat for really anything besides this 90s time capsule
This makes me wanna be male just to be gay. Even tho I'd probable wouldn't have a chance
Genius covers a song by another genius.