#underthegod

[james-j-rovira]

@davidbowie in #1988 anticipating the #trump years and seeing its mechanisms in place here in the US. From the entry for #tinmachine’s anti-fascist song #underthegod in #chrisoleary’s #ashestoashes. Just a reminder - the anti-fascists are in fact the good guys, and the people who demonize them just want you kept under their jackboot. #davidbowie #rockandromanticism #davidbowieandromanticism (at Manatee Cove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM-WCSiM6wo/?igshid=1pvppuyekayfv

[songsfromthebighair]

Under The God (1999 Remastered Version)

Provided to YouTube by Warner Music Group Under The God (1999 Remastered Version) · Tin Machine Tin Machine ℗ 1999 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC...

21. After the critical drubbing David Bowie got from NEVER LET ME DOWN and The Glass Spider Tour (even though they were both financially successful), Bowie had a creative crisis and wanted to rejuvenate himself artistically. So…he cut his hair, grew a beard, and formed a new band called Tin Machine. The band included Reeves Gabrels on guitar, Tony Sales on bass, and Hunt Sales on drums, all of whom drove Bowie towards a hard rock sound with their new music. This would be the first time he would work with Reeves Gabrels, who would continue to be Bowie’s lead guitarist and sometime co-songwriter/co-producer for the rest of the 1990’s. I call him Bowie’s bad-luck charm, since the 90’s is my least favorite period of Bowie’s career. Although technically released in 1989, I always consider Tin Machine’s debut album TIN MACHINE to be the start of Bowie’s 90’s period. I really do not like this album. It’s probably my least favorite Bowie album ever. It includes a cover of John Lennon’s song “Working Class Hero” and I don’t even like that very much. Basically, he went from making what he considers to be his worst album to what I consider to be his worst album. LOL! Remember now, I became a Bowie fan with 1983’s LET’S DANCE and all I really knew was 80’s-pop Bowie, so this album was a drastic and unwelcomed change for me. The good part of me hating this album and his new “band” is that it ignited my desire to go back and explore his earlier work that I wasn’t as familiar with. And boy did his earlier work make up for the dreadful Tin Machine project! I can’t pick a favorite track to post off this album because I don’t really care. I’ll go with “Under the God,” since it was the first song released as a single. Eight years after its release, Bowie re-recorded one song from TIN MACHINE under his own name. This re-recording of “I Can’t Read” appeared on the soundtrack to the movie THE ICE STORM and it’s far superior to the Tin Machine version. Far superior!

[olliebyrd]

#underthegod #1989