David Bowie :: Some Are: Will we ever get a Berlin Trilogy Bowie boxed set stuffed with outtakes and alternates? Let us pray. Until then, this one showed up as a bonus track on Rykodisc’s out-of-print 1991 reissue of Low, giving us some tantalizing hints of what may be lurking in the vaults. Whatever — “Some Are” is a treasure all on its own, a delicate dirge with a bewitching melody and typically enigmatic lyrics. Bowie claimed the song was about “the failed Napoleonic force stumbling back through Smolensk. Finding the unburied corpses of their comrades left from their original advance on Moscow.” If you say so, David!
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"Or possibly a snowman with a carrot for a nose; a crumpled Crystal Palace Football Club admission ticket at his feet."
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha true, thanks for dropping by Simon . . . . .how’s your dancing bear?
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