listening to some tin machine cds earlier got me wondering what they would have sounded like if iggy had been on vocals?.

Like the "Idiot" and the "Lust for Life" albums except with a crap lead guitarist.

 

 

Tin Machine would have been excellent if we didn't get any Hunt Sales or solo Bowie compositions.

If Tin Machine's 2 albums were condensed down to 1 album with just the Gabrels co-writes it would have been:


Baby Universal
Tin Machine
You Belong in Rock n' Roll
Amazing
Shopping for Girls
Bus Stop
Prisoner of Love
One Shot
Amlapura
Betty Wrong
I Can't Read
You Can't Talk

Many of the most turgid / grating Tin Machine songs were nothing to do with the 'crap lead guitarist', these are the songs Gabrels did not co-write:

"Heaven's in Here" (Bowie) 6:01
"Crack City" (Bowie) 4:36
"Under the God" (Bowie) 4:06
"Working Class Hero" (Lennon) 4:38
"Pretty Thing" (Bowie) 4:39
"Video Crime" (Bowie, Sales, Sales) 3:52
"Run" (Armstrong, Bowie) 3:20
"Sacrifice Yourself" (Bowie, Sales, Sales)

"If There Is Something" (Bryan Ferry) 4:45
"Stateside" (Bowie, Hunt Sales) 5:38
"A Big Hurt" (Bowie) 3:40
"Sorry" (Sales) 3:29
"Goodbye Mr. Ed" (Bowie, H. Sales, Tony Sales) 3:24
"Hammerhead" (Bowie, H. Sales) 0:57

Under The God is FAB.




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In response to: "Under The God is FAB."

Yes, it certainly is, Sean! FAB!

Thats interesting Roger.
I hadn`t looked at it like that before.
The Gabrels co-writes are far superior. I would add Heavens In Here and Goodbye Mr Ed , and release those as a Best Of

Love On.
Craig

I don't deny Reeves' co-writes are most if not all of the best Tin Machine songs (although Goodbye Mr Ed is great and I have a soft spot for the tongue-in-cheek Big Hurt, especially the BBC live version which, to my knowledge, still hasn't been released on CD (is that true?)), I just don't want to hear his guitar playing in my house.

the main problem with TM ... well ONE of the main problems was that the lyrics were shite....so gabrels or no gabrels it was pretty bad.

Be off with you sir. Stuff like 'Baby Universal' and 'Goodbye Mr Ed' is classic Bowie. He was like a camp older Ziggy in the 'you belong in rock 'n' roll' video.

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<< Stuff like 'Baby Universal' and 'Goodbye Mr Ed' is classic Bowie. >>

I agree doc .

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In response to: "He was like a camp older Ziggy in the 'you belong in rock 'n' roll' video."

Indeed, he was, doctoroctopussy. By the way, that's a great video and song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgCwFKH2mBs

Did he steal an idea from The Man Who Fell To Earth there?

The tweezers near the eye.

adios sexton splint

i can't read is a classic bowie lyric .... baby universal is a very good bowie lyric....the rest are middling to embarrassing.crack city is his worst ever (with BTWN and glass spider).