RE: (TV) Why Bowie's Kingdom Come doesn't work

["Leo Casey" <LeoCasey@comcast.net>]

Great find Keith.

RE: 
"It all seems like a great misreading of the song. Verlaine's "when the
kingdom comes" refrain, which Bowie discarded, is unchanging and barely
melodic, **suggesting the ceaseless labor of being**. Instead Bowie's vocal
is an over-the-top vibrato-heavy extravagance that seems deliberately
unhinged; .... Bowie just savages each line he sings-placing long, brutal
stresses on the end of each phrase ("well i wa-haw-haw-alllked in the
pouring ray-hay-hay-hayn") building to the note-killing agonies of the
bridge-"wall's a miiiiile HII-yi-i-IIGH," singing "hoping I'm gonna
die-ay-ay-ay" like Ronnie Spector.

I agree 1,000 % with this,  I was glad the cover brought some royalties and
critical attention back then, but the cover has always made me cringe (and
I'm a 1977- present Bowie fan)!

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Allison
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