5 posts tagged “david bowie”
Despite it being a David Bowie composition "All The Young Dudes" is perhaps best know via the hit single by Mott The Hoople.
I suppose it will depend upon how fanatical you are about Bowie when you consider which is the best version, well for me Mott's is the definitive version and that comes from a man who believes "Hunky Dory" to be in the Top 10 Best Albums of all time.
I'm sure the song has been covered by countless others but here is The Skids performing a pretty understated for them version that doesn't deviate too far from the original, in addition there is a live version from Billy Bragg.
Radiohead: 'In Rainbows’ is our classic album'
Radiohead V Festival 2006
The singer explained the band deliberately aimed to make the record around 45 minutes long, reflecting the length of some legendary LPs.
“I believe in the rock album as an artistic form of expression,” Yorke told The Independent. “’In Rainbows’ is a conscious return to this form of 45-minute statement.
“Of course it was possible to make it shorter, but our aim was to describe in 45 minutes, as coherently and conclusively as possible, what moves us.”
He explained that in doing this Radiohead set themselves some very high targets to live up to.
“’In Rainbows’ is, at least in our opinion, our classic album," he declared. “Our (Lou Reed’s) ’Transformer’, our “The Beatles’) ’Revolver’, our (David Bowie’s) ’Hunky Dory’.”
Bing sings but Walt disney (disnae is Scot's slang for does not for the benefit of our overseas readers!)
Perhaps the strangest Christmas duet ever!
David Bowie's "Pin Ups" album was one of the first modern covers albums and produce a truely great cover of "Sorrow".
Bowie has continued to churn out cover version most of which ended up on the cutting room floor, however, the recent run of expanded re=released albums have brought a few to light.
First up is a cover of The Kinks classic "Waterloo Sunset" a brave choice which although okay can't compete with the pure perfection of the original.
Sigue Sigue Sputnik were a short lived band born out of the desolution of Generation X which tried to blend the glamour of "Glam Rock" with the energy of "Punk" their first single "Love Missile F1" was a reasonable success but it was a formula which was destined not to last, though recently has been brought back to a degree via The Gossip.
It is therefore no real surprise that Mr Bowie had a go at this as well.
Two Moons
Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August.
Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again.
Once upon a time a long time ago (about 60,000 BC) there was a close approach of Mars to Earth of about 34.5 million miles..
Mars did not come that close to Earth again until 27th August 2003. That was worth remarking upon as a memorable occasion and received publicity. These occasions are called perihelic oppositions.
Mars (magnitude -2.9) was marginally brighter than Jupiter (magnitude -2.8) on that date in 2003. However Venus which is both larger than Mars and nearer than Mars is (as you might expect) always brighter than Mars and varies between magnitude -3.8 and - 4.6.
So the statement in the e-mail that Mars is about to become the brightest planet in the night sky is untrue.
The hoaxers do not know much about astronomy. They just sensationalise and distort the limited facts they have managed to pick up without properly understanding them or their implications.
As Venus has never been seen as large as the Moon and Venus is always brighter than Mars, it follows that Mars will not be seen to be as large as the Moon not on 27th August nor at any other time.
The naive belief that it "could be" that large this time just reveals the hoaxers' lack of understanding of how the Sun's gravity keeps the planets in stable orbits, which means the extent to which they vary in their positions is calculable and predictable.
Humanity has been studying and predicting the planets and their orbits for 4,000 years and writing their findings up in almanacs and suddenly someone comes along and declares "an unexpected dramatic change in a stable orbit is about to occur", wlthout explaining why that should be so. And expects to be believed!?
So the hoaxers do not understand how the Sun's gravity regulates and forces planets into stable orbits and how that makes the calculating and prediction of planetary orbits possible and how humanity has done just that for 4,000 years and developed theories to explain planets' behaviour, As part of understanding some order and pattern in that behaviour and in the universe,
The hoaxers however seem to be suggesting that planets behave unpredictably and chaotically without any pattern or sense to that behaviour, and further, that they the hoaxers, like the Delphic Oracle of old, have unique divination powers and are passing on their knowledge, to which they alone are privy, to lucky old you.
Whereas all they are in fact passing on is misinformation based on their ignorance.
Mars, even at its nearest in 2003, was 140 times as far away as the Moon, and it is only twice its size (Equatorial radius of Mars = 3,402.5 km. Equatorial radius of the Moon = 1,738.14 km.).
So how could an object that is twice the size of the Moon but at least 140 times as far away (more like 220 times as far away in December 2007 when it will be 55 million miles away) ever look as big as the Moon? Does a tomato 140 yards away look as big as a cherry held at arm's length?
The only way Mars could ever appear as large as the Moon is if it were to get as close as a million miles away,
If it did do that, it would be a disaster, causing huge tidal waves on Earth and tsunamai such as we have not seen the like of before. It would not be a thing to gawp at, and say "Oh wow! Awesome!" and tell all your friends to look out for it at 12.30 am !
But of course it won't do that (come within a million miles of Earth) as Mars has a stable orbit.
The hoaxers have sent out the same e-mail every summer as regards 27 August 2004, 27 August 2005, 27 August 2006 and now 27 August 2007. Again revealing their ignorance of how the Solar System works. Mars has a year that equals 1.88 Earth years and as a result only comes close to us once every 26 months: on 27th August 2003, and then not again until 30th October 2005 and then not again until 18th December 2007.
The idea of it having a close approach on the same date every year is nonsense therefore, it is not like a wedding anniversary or a birthday or Mothers' Day, As the hoaxers seem to believe,
If anyone had have craned their necks and looked at the skies at 12.30 am on 27 August 2004 or 27th August 2006, all they would have got for their efforts was a stiff neck. As Mars was on the far side of the Sun on those two occasions and nowhere to be seen, as it was hidden behind the Sun's glare.
That is how much the hoaxers know about astronomy. That is how accurate and worthless their predictions are. Nobody should be taken in by their "knowledge" and nobody should copy and spread their e-mail to others so as "to pass on the exciting news" they have just received.
