Lyrics and music by David Bowie and Iggy Pop





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*Claude*
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Iggy wins hands down.

I hate Bowie's version, It's sickly twee crap and I never want to hear it again.

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"Humming Rheingold
We scavenge up our clothes"
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Iggy's wins hands down. The Bowie version has reduced it to a chocolate box, tea towel version. Robbed it of its 'Berlin' allure . . .

Iggy by quite some distance. Although I've always quite liked Bowie's version too, and I've never really got the hate that this version seems to attract.
But Iggy's original is astonishingly good. Arguably the best thing on The Idiot, which is an astonishingly good album. And, as someone mentioned recently, it's crying out for decent remastering / reissue.

Iggy for me too.

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*Claude*
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I agree with Richard.

About tonight, I voted Iggy but not for china girl. Bowie version is interesting, sensual and more pop.

The Iggy version for me.

is magistral. Simple and flows like heroin in veins.
I've never cared for Iggy at all. Great Poet but bad musician.

Pierre

Bowie's version is not bad but it's too sweetened for me...

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*Claude*
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your reserve, considering the era, it was the best pop around. And to this day the song hasn't aged.

is the best selling Bowie's album... but it's not for me...

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*Claude*
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Not for me either Claude

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"Humming Rheingold
We scavenge up our clothes"
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Yes, I know Tony!

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*Claude*
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i like the video, not the song, iggy's version is better

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what a beautiful thread, tell the others.

i take bowie's version over iggy's....i knew bowies first...great vocals, greay lyrics, great guitar and music....the iggy version is alot more raw...i like that but i love the bowie version...

"the iggy version is alot more raw"
That's why I like it!

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*Claude*
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I agree Claude.

Its the atmosphere from the album too.

is a masterpiece Mick!

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*Claude*
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Yes, Claude - the best Iggy album for me , Claude.

apples and oranges innit ?

iggy's (which is also heavily bowie's) version is a dark slab of Berlin megalomania.

bowie's is an almost perfect slice of summery pop.

love both and am glad they are not the same. totally cannot understand why so many people hate it ... but maybe all the people that hate it are actually ant

LOL!

I hate Bowie's version. It's BBC 2 radio dross

And there's only one of me mista :-P

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"Humming Rheingold
We scavenge up our clothes"
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Don't forget the entire album is produced by Bowie.

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*Claude*
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Love the Bowie version but Iggys is definitive.

The Iggy's roughness is respected with an injection of experimentalism.

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*Claude*
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