This song is really about loving somebody (in the song, a China Girl), and them not feeling the same way. I love the tune, and how Iggy Pop makes himself sound so depressed by the end of the song. Truly a classic! I love this version farm ore better than David Bowe's version. This has so much feeling and heart in it.
It's a dark song period. Iggy and Bowie may have interpreted it differently but it's still an intense song. Despite it's chart success, I wouldn't say Bowie's was a typical pop song. Personally, I prefer Bowie's but Iggy's is riveting too. I love 'em both!
I listened to this version first, the Bowie's version did nothing for me. This is absolutely "music to my ears" :P Who the hell needs drugs when you can listen to music like this to make you FEEL
I heard Bowie's version first, years before I heard Iggy's. However, when I heard Iggy sing it, it made sense. It wasn't a love song, it was a death knell. Apocalyptic almost. Needless to say, as much as I love Bowie's version, this one just does it for me.
@blackcat91000 If You mean in terms of "pop" or "HIT" material yes. But I think this version (original) is far better in the sense of being a great Rock N Roll song! IMHO :-)>
When comparing the two versions, all I can tell you is that I gravitate towards gravitas. David Bowie had exhausted his entire supply of that vital component in memorable entertainments before New Year's Day of 1981. Post-1980 Bowie is like the Adam West Batman.
If I want to be seduced into bed with the promise of marriage, I'd go for Bowie's version. If I want raw passion with no promises of anything, I'd go for Iggy's version. It's like living in the moment(Pop) VS a romance(Bowie).
Just my take of it. I love Bowie's version and had heard it first. I like the rawness in this one. It does a lot of things that the other one cannot accomplish for me.
fuckingg beautiful remake.. they just don't write em like that anymore. I've been listening to iggy pop since i was like 8 or somethin.. i'm 25, still makes me weep it's sucha beautiful remake of david bowie
Bowie decided to release the song on Let's Dance so that Pop could collect half the royalties (as co-writer of the track) and get back on his feet financially.
"China Girl" is a song co-written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop during their years in Berlin, first appearing on Pop's album The Idiot (1977). It was more widely popularized when it was rerecorded and released by Bowie on his album Let's Dance (1983). Bowie decided to put the song on his album when Pop, his friend and musical collaborator, was in financial straits (due to his struggle with drug addiction) and was close to facing bankruptcy.
I'll give you television, I'll give you eyes of blue, I'll give you men who wanna rule the world.
Fuck yeah, the most profound fuckin statement about cultural imperialism ever, in a great rock and roll song. But of its time, China has Amerikkka by the balls now :-)
Both versions are great. But when Iggy goes deep into his voice with "I stumble into town..." and through the end of the song, it raises the hairs on the back of my neck. After all, every song Iggy Pop sings is the greatest song ever written! 'Nuff said.
The song was written BY Bowie FOR Iggy (they were 'mates'!), Iggy released.... no-one listened..... Bowie released, NO1 UK. Me... I like Iggys version, far more passion.
@livelist they wrote the song together for iggy. david released the song years in "lets dance" cause iggy's financial situation at the time wasnt good at all, and that way he(iggy) could take the regalies for the songwriting. thas why bowie insisted also in make the song a single
@livelist I thought Bowie wrote the music and Iggy wrote the lyrics, as with all the songs on The Idiot and most on Lust for Life. Both top albums imo
@livelist written by bowie and iggy together, bowie later released a slightly different version to get a financially troubled iggy back on his feet (by letting him collecting half the money bowie got from releasing the song)
@livelist you have no idea, man! sorry, but original's song is co-written and singed by Iggy in 1977 and, too many year later, Bowie cover it (if it can be said! excuse me, but english is not my language). Then, before Bowie's version, people start interesting in Iggy. For sure they are fellas, and much part of Iggy's fame is a debt with Bowie, 'cause he bid for Pop, but he bid 'cause he knew that Pop was a genius, and this song is a testimonio!
@livelist pretty sure they wrote it together, and Bowie released because if it was successful it would get Iggy out of debt, which could only happen if he had a credit, Iggys version is my fav too, love the way he sings "its in the white of her hers eyes", no other singer Bowie included can top that
@SolsburyHill22 This is the original version written by Bowie for the Iggy Pop album The Idiot.
It's also an allegory on the Vietnam war, the china girl being South Vietnam and USA being the singer giving her colour TV and eyes of blue...........ie sticking their imperialistic jackboot where it's not welcome....as usual!
Yes, Iggy 's version is Iggy! and Bowie's is a bit more pop but it is way better sound quality.Gimme Bowie anyday for that quality sound. I don't want Hersheys, I want Lindt.
The song is full of menace. I think the song is about dark impulses inside of a man that push him toward destruction, whether of himself or others. The lyrics are quite suggestive of this, and finally of of his girlfriends ability to quiet these impulses. It is so different that Bowie's version, which most people take to be a love song; two different takes on the same set of lyrics.
David Bowie is one of my idols. He truly is absolutely fantastic, but Iggy's version of China Girl is better in my opinion, much smoother. As far as music goes, I wish I wasn't born in 1995.
I heard the Bowie version when I was around 10, and loved it. Then many years later, at around 17-18, I heard this. I still can't believe how much I love this over Bowie's. It's so raw, so imperfect, and so powerful.
@jt7string swastikas I believe have appeared in numerous relgions/ cultures, however I would say in todays culture the most known symbolic cause for the swastika is Nazism- also the fact Bowie who co-wrote this has made references to Nazism in other songs/ public statements of his?
@mattiomattio i've never heard bowie say anything even remotely "nazi", but whatever. neither of these guys (iggy or bowie) are afraid to speak their mind. if they wanted to make a racist statement they wouldn't couch it in ambiguity. the song is in large part about the cultural differences between the west and china. the dichotomy of perception regarding the swastika is a perfect example of this, imo - something so reviled in the west is considered so holy there.
No, not about herion...the girl with whom Iggy was deeply in love with at the time (Asian-Amercanin; whose name alas I cannot remember , she was very very lovely; tiny and sweet, and his firdt wife..SuchI? Sachie?)
this track - so to speat lust 4 life and Idiot in all - was made by bowie to boost Iggy's career - which also succeeded in an unbelievalble manner - bowie had hands on it it all - like Eno had with Low and more 4 David. I love the immense tunes, reproduced and re-told by much less interesting people tro out the music story after. Grace Jones 1 of them.
The visceral reaction is likely because Iggy Pop wrote this about a girl he was very much in love with;it's from'The Idiot' which IthinkBowie produced..
@katoklzmk fair point, bowie's does lack a lot of the emotion. isnt it about heroin though? China White is a bit of a giveaway, and he talks about drugs quite a bit on The Idiot
The music is raw, loud, and unrefined. The vocals are good but seem crowded by everything ells. I think David Bowie mastered the song with his version.
if this song was done so it was clearer it would have been better... I like Both just wish there was like a cleaner version I guess or whats that word I'm looking for... oh remastered... :)
@dronus I guess you're not familiar with Iggy or have ever heard "Raw Power"?? This is how Iggy WANTED this song to sound!..It's a staple throughout Most of Iggy's early work and ESPECIALLY with the Stooges!..That real RAW and GRITTY sound! =]
@dgenerated i'm not familiar with iggy but have heard a couple of their songs from moves and stuff. Like lust for life and this one lol... there are others but I have to listen to them first. I got used to this song and started listening about equally to the david bowie one... cheers...
something about how iggy sings it makes the hair on my neck stand makes me grind my teeth and makes my muscles tense as if im bracing myself before i fall over .....fanfuckintastic
Even if you're a huge Iggy fan and hate the Bowie version, you should thank Bowie for releasing his version. It made Iggy a decent chunk of change during a time he really needed the cash! (which is precisely why Bowie released it).
Either way, its interesting to hear their different takes on a song they wrote together.
No the song is not about heroin, or addiction. Its about western influence on a Asian girl. How ruinous it is and materialistic and false. About the destructive nature of western culture and uses the china girl as a way of portraying this destruction. Its just too obvious and easy to be about heroin. People should really listen and not automatically assume drug references in iggy's stuff. He was strung out, but this is a clever song
@lawndog1986 both versions are great and it was written by both of them, its just a different emotion and feelings within each version. bowie´s video is quite funny actually.
the album is credited to bowie and iggy so it's unfair to say bowie 'was around at the time of writing' the idiot and lust for life were collaborations
Yes, Iggy 's version is Iggy! and Bowie's is a bit more pop but it is way better sound quality.Gimme Bowie anyday for that quality sound. I don't want Hersheys, I want Lindt.
This comment has received too many negative votesshow
Couldn't give a shit how many thumbs down I get.
It's common sense that this sounds awful, his singing is atrocious, the song sounds awful. Overall - terrible. Why listen to this shit, when Bowie's version is so much better?
Other people agree with me on this too - look up Yahoo Answers.
You guys cannot tell me that Bowie doesn't have passion or emotion in his music. Let's just leave it at they're both beautifully great tunes.
nintendofreak95 5 days ago
who was fucking who ? iggy david or david iggy
otomanjustice 6 days ago
This song is really about loving somebody (in the song, a China Girl), and them not feeling the same way. I love the tune, and how Iggy Pop makes himself sound so depressed by the end of the song. Truly a classic! I love this version farm ore better than David Bowe's version. This has so much feeling and heart in it.
SuperMario7Star 2 weeks ago
It's a dark song period. Iggy and Bowie may have interpreted it differently but it's still an intense song. Despite it's chart success, I wouldn't say Bowie's was a typical pop song. Personally, I prefer Bowie's but Iggy's is riveting too. I love 'em both!
UandMeKid 2 weeks ago
minut 2:05... under my skin...
nafdiamonds 2 weeks ago
I listened to this version first, the Bowie's version did nothing for me. This is absolutely "music to my ears" :P Who the hell needs drugs when you can listen to music like this to make you FEEL
johnnyrose666 2 weeks ago
better than bowie's version
siessen 3 weeks ago
This is the song they play at the end of the world.
simdae1 3 weeks ago 3
I heard Bowie's version first, years before I heard Iggy's. However, when I heard Iggy sing it, it made sense. It wasn't a love song, it was a death knell. Apocalyptic almost. Needless to say, as much as I love Bowie's version, this one just does it for me.
Izdigger5 1 month ago 2
I like Bowies version a little more but I still love how "it's in the whites of my eyes!" echoes into oblivion
YTPEXPERT 1 month ago
I like David Bowie too, but Iggys version sounds much better - I love these guitar riffs :3
xfreakypsychox 2 months ago
When he sings "it's in the white on my eyes" it is just legendary. It encloses the spirit of rock 'n' roll.
haryspirit 2 months ago
Iggy Pop...more like iggy homo
singledave73 2 months ago
@singledave73
Cuz you're a faggot... :DD
TheKolokol1 2 months ago
@singledave73 Call MENSA!!
xXTheSockRockerXx 2 months ago
bowies version is sooooo much better.
blackcat91000 2 months ago
@blackcat91000 If You mean in terms of "pop" or "HIT" material yes. But I think this version (original) is far better in the sense of being a great Rock N Roll song! IMHO :-)>
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When comparing the two versions, all I can tell you is that I gravitate towards gravitas. David Bowie had exhausted his entire supply of that vital component in memorable entertainments before New Year's Day of 1981. Post-1980 Bowie is like the Adam West Batman.
aspie182 2 months ago
if u don't like western culture get the fuck out jerry smith
elvispresley718 3 months ago
If I want to be seduced into bed with the promise of marriage, I'd go for Bowie's version. If I want raw passion with no promises of anything, I'd go for Iggy's version. It's like living in the moment(Pop) VS a romance(Bowie).
Just my take of it. I love Bowie's version and had heard it first. I like the rawness in this one. It does a lot of things that the other one cannot accomplish for me.
kireiHASU 4 months ago
fuckingg beautiful remake.. they just don't write em like that anymore. I've been listening to iggy pop since i was like 8 or somethin.. i'm 25, still makes me weep it's sucha beautiful remake of david bowie
A09ER1 4 months ago
@A09ER1 it isn't a remake. this was done first.
MrMAHBOI1 4 months ago
Bowie decided to release the song on Let's Dance so that Pop could collect half the royalties (as co-writer of the track) and get back on his feet financially.
lextorite 4 months ago
@lextorite nice copy paste from wikipedia lol
shamwoww 3 months ago
"China Girl" is a song co-written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop during their years in Berlin, first appearing on Pop's album The Idiot (1977). It was more widely popularized when it was rerecorded and released by Bowie on his album Let's Dance (1983). Bowie decided to put the song on his album when Pop, his friend and musical collaborator, was in financial straits (due to his struggle with drug addiction) and was close to facing bankruptcy.
lextorite 4 months ago
I like both versions, but Bowies a little more...probably because I heard Bowies first though
MysticDMBherb 5 months ago 2
actually hav this same album thats on the screen just cant be fucked to put it in my cd player coz my nose is in love with my china girl
TheShakiebreaks 5 months ago
I'll give you television, I'll give you eyes of blue, I'll give you men who wanna rule the world.
Fuck yeah, the most profound fuckin statement about cultural imperialism ever, in a great rock and roll song. But of its time, China has Amerikkka by the balls now :-)
SteveFE62 5 months ago
andy mccoy OWNS this song
search: andy mccoy adhd tour
mranotherwan 5 months ago
Good cover!! If they were anymore stoned,,,they'd played it backwards!! Lol
gonnabaroberts 5 months ago
@gonnabaroberts This is no cover. Iggy's been rockin it first.
momsface 5 months ago
This is just a fenominal song! Thanks Bowie and Iggy
wernerkonings 6 months ago
christ. first time ive ever heard the original. much much better
dermotoblong 6 months ago
Iggy wrote this!
treyspr 7 months ago
@treyspr - Co-wrote it with Bowie.
kyleleonard 6 months ago
It's an incredible song. You can feel nerves twisting and destroying his soul, tormented as if he wants to tear off his skin.
joshwheatley 7 months ago
Is this song about China White heroin?
04callwilk1 7 months ago
@04callwilk1
Yep, the purest for surest. gotta love me some skagg.
"its in the white of my eyes!" wonderful
BobaFett47 6 months ago
@BobaFett47 Oh nicee, haven't tried heroin myself.
04callwilk1 6 months ago
IMO i think bowies has more passion, iggys is just louder
sexpistol1979 7 months ago
I like Iggy´s version best :-)
langlokken 7 months ago 2
Original version is just about perfect. Bowie's 1983 cover is/was an abomination.
ndv180 8 months ago
@ndv180 its not a cover when you co-write the song
alucardlubu 8 months ago
I am hopelessly in love with everything David Bowie but I really like Iggy Pop's original version a bit more.
livingdeadunleashed 8 months ago
The older I get the more annoying Bowie is to me. Iggy gets better with age.
tertommy 9 months ago
@tertommy I agree.....Bowie has become a pantomime dame.....literaly!
gloog15 9 months ago
As much as I love David Bowie, I hate his version of this song. Iggy wins everytime.
Lylodile 9 months ago
IGGY DRUNK, BEBADO CANTANDO......
sergiorock10you 10 months ago
MUY LOCO, BEER IGGY....................
sergiorock10you 10 months ago
Iggy co-wrote it
RawOne911 10 months ago
@livelist
no2. UK pedantic i know
wazpoki 10 months ago
i cant hear the words but its still good, it makes me think of someone sinking deeper and deeper on drugs
Lone06 10 months ago
His singing is good, its just that cursed background music. It's a cacophony, blurring every verse and discernible pattern.
TheEntryCode 10 months ago
Both versions are great. But when Iggy goes deep into his voice with "I stumble into town..." and through the end of the song, it raises the hairs on the back of my neck. After all, every song Iggy Pop sings is the greatest song ever written! 'Nuff said.
drdigipol 11 months ago
The song was written BY Bowie FOR Iggy (they were 'mates'!), Iggy released.... no-one listened..... Bowie released, NO1 UK. Me... I like Iggys version, far more passion.
Over & out.
livelist 11 months ago 74
@livelist it was co written by iggy and bowie. as was most of the music on the idiot and lust for life.
ThomComputer 9 months ago
@livelist they wrote the song together for iggy. david released the song years in "lets dance" cause iggy's financial situation at the time wasnt good at all, and that way he(iggy) could take the regalies for the songwriting. thas why bowie insisted also in make the song a single
RoPiDe 9 months ago
@livelist I thought Bowie wrote the music and Iggy wrote the lyrics, as with all the songs on The Idiot and most on Lust for Life. Both top albums imo
kosmischesynth 8 months ago
@livelist written by bowie and iggy together, bowie later released a slightly different version to get a financially troubled iggy back on his feet (by letting him collecting half the money bowie got from releasing the song)
austenslost 6 months ago
@livelist still, the idiot was more what bowie wanted to do with sound, but it was all iggys material
austenslost 6 months ago
@livelist you have no idea, man! sorry, but original's song is co-written and singed by Iggy in 1977 and, too many year later, Bowie cover it (if it can be said! excuse me, but english is not my language). Then, before Bowie's version, people start interesting in Iggy. For sure they are fellas, and much part of Iggy's fame is a debt with Bowie, 'cause he bid for Pop, but he bid 'cause he knew that Pop was a genius, and this song is a testimonio!
calvorotasquerebotas 6 months ago
@livelist pretty sure they wrote it together, and Bowie released because if it was successful it would get Iggy out of debt, which could only happen if he had a credit, Iggys version is my fav too, love the way he sings "its in the white of her hers eyes", no other singer Bowie included can top that
theblahman 3 months ago
@livelist co-written
alexacru 3 months ago
@livelist written by Bowie & Pop! In otherwords co-written.
kdj69 2 months ago
This version sounds like a guy on heroin singing about heroin. Bowie's sounds like a guy who smitten with a hot chinese lady.
SolsburyHill22 11 months ago 55
@SolsburyHill22 This is the original version written by Bowie for the Iggy Pop album The Idiot.
It's also an allegory on the Vietnam war, the china girl being South Vietnam and USA being the singer giving her colour TV and eyes of blue...........ie sticking their imperialistic jackboot where it's not welcome....as usual!
gloog15 9 months ago
@gloog15 Come over here and I'll use my "imperialistic jackboot" to punt your limey, weasly ass.
MervynCruddy 6 months ago
@SolsburyHill22 Thats the point ! Its meant to represent how spaced out he was at the time The " China girl" of the title is china white cocaine.
greenroadster 8 months ago
@greenroadster China White is ultra-pure heroin or fentanyl (a synthetic heroin analog).
AkpostedUp 8 months ago
@AkpostedUp of course
pauldbenton 8 months ago
@SolsburyHill22 You say Heroin likes it's a bad thing...
karlanctil 4 months ago
@SolsburyHill22 Wich means that this one got way more feeling
lancelking 3 months ago
@SolsburyHill22 haha very well said!
DrRonPaul 1 month ago
check out the version by James.
Thats my fave version.
JimRiga 11 months ago
you can barely hear him
i like bowie's version better
beztlnrpq993 11 months ago
Yes, Iggy 's version is Iggy! and Bowie's is a bit more pop but it is way better sound quality.Gimme Bowie anyday for that quality sound. I don't want Hersheys, I want Lindt.
bolerocrew 11 months ago
i love iggy pop. his music has been a part of my life since i was a baby (thank you dad) haha, i think hes a great artist.
FATIgnauden 11 months ago
The Bowie version to me sounds way way better, and he can actually sing.
LivinWorstNightmare 1 year ago
It's about China White heroin lol, not a Chinese girl! These guys were bisexual and having a thing back then not running around with women.
thehenge1 1 year ago
@thehenge1 Wrong! Bowie was never short of women. The China Girl is an Iggy´s girlfriend. Iggy himself explained that in very derogative terms.
Cyndizdayswar 8 months ago
is it me or does he sound like a cat dieing in this song!! think david bowie wins this!!!
antsoi1 1 year ago
Iggy was romantically in volved with an Asian-american girl, tiny and beautiful.It wasn't like it was secret!
katoklzmk 1 year ago
The song is full of menace. I think the song is about dark impulses inside of a man that push him toward destruction, whether of himself or others. The lyrics are quite suggestive of this, and finally of of his girlfriends ability to quiet these impulses. It is so different that Bowie's version, which most people take to be a love song; two different takes on the same set of lyrics.
r5t9m0 1 year ago
@r5t9m0 The song is about heroin. (China Girl is slang for a type of heroin.)
BernieRunns 1 year ago
David Bowie is one of my idols. He truly is absolutely fantastic, but Iggy's version of China Girl is better in my opinion, much smoother. As far as music goes, I wish I wasn't born in 1995.
Starman123baby 1 year ago 6
@Starman123baby Bowie's vocal is much better than Iggy's IMO. It would be nice to hear Bowie's vocal over Iggy's backing track and vice versa.
kirkham100 1 year ago
2:04 => Freezing in my back
Jochimo 1 year ago 2
To be honest, it sounds like a typical Bowie composition.
the13er 1 year ago
I heard the Bowie version when I was around 10, and loved it. Then many years later, at around 17-18, I heard this. I still can't believe how much I love this over Bowie's. It's so raw, so imperfect, and so powerful.
Izdigger5 1 year ago
Love iggy but, bowie's version is better.
giga0524 1 year ago
can someone explain why everyone thinks this song (specifically bowie's version) is racist?
classicrockNo1 1 year ago
@classicrockNo1 'visions of swastikas in my head' line I think certainly encourages that perception
mattiomattio 1 year ago
@mattiomattio i just haven't noticed that, but i'll deffinitely try to listen to it closer.
classicrockNo1 1 year ago
@mattiomattio A line which was almost certainly prompted by the location they wrote the song in.
zuss10r 1 year ago
@mattiomattio you realize that swastikas were a buddhist symbol for thousands of years, right? you know, the primary religion in china.
jt7string 1 year ago
@jt7string swastikas I believe have appeared in numerous relgions/ cultures, however I would say in todays culture the most known symbolic cause for the swastika is Nazism- also the fact Bowie who co-wrote this has made references to Nazism in other songs/ public statements of his?
mattiomattio 1 year ago
@mattiomattio i've never heard bowie say anything even remotely "nazi", but whatever. neither of these guys (iggy or bowie) are afraid to speak their mind. if they wanted to make a racist statement they wouldn't couch it in ambiguity. the song is in large part about the cultural differences between the west and china. the dichotomy of perception regarding the swastika is a perfect example of this, imo - something so reviled in the west is considered so holy there.
jt7string 1 year ago
@jt7string jesus christ the song is about drugs not politics
fleamarket3000 1 year ago 2
It's a great song. But I prefer Bowie's version.
dupersuped 1 year ago
I am a diehard Bowie fan but this version is better. Hell - they are both wonderful!!!
67rml 1 year ago
No, not about herion...the girl with whom Iggy was deeply in love with at the time (Asian-Amercanin; whose name alas I cannot remember , she was very very lovely; tiny and sweet, and his firdt wife..SuchI? Sachie?)
katoklzmk 1 year ago 2
@katoklzmk is about china white guy,the purest thing around at the time..is about a horse guy,dig it...
riverhand7 1 year ago
@katoklzmk i think david bowie had a relationship with an asian woman, but i don't know if it was after or before he covered this song
classicrockNo1 1 year ago
this track - so to speat lust 4 life and Idiot in all - was made by bowie to boost Iggy's career - which also succeeded in an unbelievalble manner - bowie had hands on it it all - like Eno had with Low and more 4 David. I love the immense tunes, reproduced and re-told by much less interesting people tro out the music story after. Grace Jones 1 of them.
danskTRIGGER 1 year ago
Iggy's "version" isn't just a version. It's the original song. Iggy wrote China Girl. Bowie covered it!
Nostams 1 year ago
@Nostams It was co-written by both Iggy and David.
donnyv78 1 year ago
The visceral reaction is likely because Iggy Pop wrote this about a girl he was very much in love with;it's from'The Idiot' which IthinkBowie produced..
katoklzmk 1 year ago
@katoklzmk fair point, bowie's does lack a lot of the emotion. isnt it about heroin though? China White is a bit of a giveaway, and he talks about drugs quite a bit on The Idiot
daddyfatsaxohten 1 year ago
The music is raw, loud, and unrefined. The vocals are good but seem crowded by everything ells. I think David Bowie mastered the song with his version.
zardozman7 1 year ago
mi abuela prefiere esta version a la de bowie. si bien gusta mucho de los discos de bowie, sobre todo low.
igusish 1 year ago
"Oh Jimmy, just you shut your mouth..."
ahhhh....
contraplete 1 year ago
if this song was done so it was clearer it would have been better... I like Both just wish there was like a cleaner version I guess or whats that word I'm looking for... oh remastered... :)
dronus 1 year ago
@dronus I guess you're not familiar with Iggy or have ever heard "Raw Power"?? This is how Iggy WANTED this song to sound!..It's a staple throughout Most of Iggy's early work and ESPECIALLY with the Stooges!..That real RAW and GRITTY sound! =]
dgenerated 1 year ago
@dgenerated i'm not familiar with iggy but have heard a couple of their songs from moves and stuff. Like lust for life and this one lol... there are others but I have to listen to them first. I got used to this song and started listening about equally to the david bowie one... cheers...
dronus 1 year ago
@dgenerated love the part from 1:50 to 2:15... almost have that on repeat lol...
dronus 1 year ago
something about how iggy sings it makes the hair on my neck stand makes me grind my teeth and makes my muscles tense as if im bracing myself before i fall over .....fanfuckintastic
bazmuk 1 year ago
Iggy rocks!!!
LeontheKiller11 1 year ago
mm i like bowies voice more. but i cannot say i dislike iggy's voice. theyre actually very similiar. ha!
999deauville999 1 year ago
I love Bowie and Iggy, and I love both their versions... just different things about each.
MmeLEnfer 1 year ago
La catharsis à l'état pur......
MoonSafari75 1 year ago
This is THE version - Iggy sings with real passion and horror...
Elijah2x 1 year ago
Great Version - i like it!!!!!!!!!!!
andreasjacke 1 year ago
algo de ziggy pop jajajajajaj
LaTentacionDeAmadeo 1 year ago
True that!,even though, both songs are of different sounds,you can't compare Iggy and Bowie both are Great singers and of their own Style.
jacoadams 1 year ago
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Even if you're a huge Iggy fan and hate the Bowie version, you should thank Bowie for releasing his version. It made Iggy a decent chunk of change during a time he really needed the cash! (which is precisely why Bowie released it).
Either way, its interesting to hear their different takes on a song they wrote together.
nylund154 1 year ago 32
@nylund154 Yes, so wikipedia tells me. Without a citation. Got real proof of this? Thanks.
cochranexyz 11 months ago
I like Bowie's version a lot more than this one, though this is alright.
imnotalogin 1 year ago
it's in the WHIIIITTEEE OFF MY EYESSS
johnyexhale 1 year ago 4
TOught man !
unavaiblle 1 year ago
tHIS GUY IS REALLY FUCKIN' GREAT, i DO THINK. wAHT DO YOU THINK, LEVAN?
Zugloisrac 1 year ago
much prefer this version. like the muddiness and the power, way more energy that bowie.
richardygk2 1 year ago
I just strait up think this version is waaaaaay better
songandletter 1 year ago
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abiotic1905 1 year ago
I like both Bowies and Iggys version, but I probably prefer Iggys by a slight margin because its not as pop like as Bowies :)
StrummerLivesxxx 1 year ago
ROCK !!!
punkrocker1974 1 year ago
No the song is not about heroin, or addiction. Its about western influence on a Asian girl. How ruinous it is and materialistic and false. About the destructive nature of western culture and uses the china girl as a way of portraying this destruction. Its just too obvious and easy to be about heroin. People should really listen and not automatically assume drug references in iggy's stuff. He was strung out, but this is a clever song
JerrySmith2 2 years ago 3
You sure its not about the incidence that happened with the chinese spy and the french diplomat?
CabooseTheMoose 2 years ago
what? how come people think it about drugs? is china girl another term for heroin or something?
gogoutube 1 year ago
@JerrySmith2 Thank You!
sabbatha1 1 year ago
no1 sounds like iggy, it just doesnt happen.
ericeamon1993 2 years ago
agree, i love bowies songs, but this version of china girl is perfect and there is no comparision...iggys version is awesome
tanner77 2 years ago 4
there is no competition. get your fukin act together. iggys version kicks the shit outta bowies version. simple as.....
lawndog1986 2 years ago 7
@lawndog1986 : you're right dude; no competition, no racism in music
admdc01 1 year ago
@lawndog1986 both versions are great and it was written by both of them, its just a different emotion and feelings within each version. bowie´s video is quite funny actually.
pabloclp87 1 year ago
the album is credited to bowie and iggy so it's unfair to say bowie 'was around at the time of writing' the idiot and lust for life were collaborations
ThomComputer 2 years ago
I'd love to see what this would've been like if bowie put it on one of his 77 albums. it would have a much different sound to the lets dance version.
ThomComputer 2 years ago
@GuitarWhisperer The song is about heroin addiction, as sung by an addict. Clearly it should be polished, in tune, sober and sterile, right? /sarcasm
AkpostedUp 2 years ago 4
I like both versions for different reasons.
I like about the bowie version that it's more "lovely" and you could actually think he's singing about a girl.
I ike Iggy's version cuz it has more pain in it.
IAMOHSOGREAT 2 years ago 3
i'm a bowie nut and i love this version. didn't they write the idiot together?
ThomComputer 2 years ago
I like Iggy Pop's version far more than Bowie's.
acustoelectrico 2 years ago 3
It's absolutley terrible compared to Bowie's version, Iggy's vocals are all wobbly and distorted
Tabroxfcc 2 years ago
iggy is real, very sad...this version is better
bowiemars 2 years ago 3
I think Bowie's is more, poppy, more romantic, wheras Iggy's is darker and sadder
Tabroxfcc 2 years ago 3
my opinion only I think Bowie's version was better
Emptynobodies 2 years ago
this song is so depressing
Paris2012olympics 2 years ago
iggy wrote this song and was therefore the origional bowie(who is great) covered him
TheJoestone 2 years ago
@TheJoestone they both wrote it?
ThomComputer 2 years ago
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I like Iggy's version better, much more raw and real. Love Bowie though..
AllOrNothing000 2 years ago 56
@AllOrNothing000
Yes, Iggy 's version is Iggy! and Bowie's is a bit more pop but it is way better sound quality.Gimme Bowie anyday for that quality sound. I don't want Hersheys, I want Lindt.
But I thumbs up'd your comment.
bolerocrew 11 months ago
@bolerocrew Thanks man, I agree quality could be better
AllOrNothing000 11 months ago
the play was awesome, the movie was cool, bowie's song kicks ass, iggy's cover sounds awesome, overall this whole story was unbelievable lol
joeymo28 2 years ago
Wow, i cant believe people like bowie's version, this version by iggy is much better..
xteknotronikx 2 years ago
u need to unplug ur ears mate
tsoprano1977 2 years ago
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HotKukuro 2 years ago
This is the original.
Rednospunk 2 years ago 4
I am such a noob....I never knew that this was done by Iggy....and first at that.
Bowie did it better.
redfistaor 2 years ago
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Couldn't give a shit how many thumbs down I get.
It's common sense that this sounds awful, his singing is atrocious, the song sounds awful. Overall - terrible. Why listen to this shit, when Bowie's version is so much better?
Other people agree with me on this too - look up Yahoo Answers.
250Trojan 2 years ago
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i agree with u,i could sing this song better and i suck
tsoprano1977 2 years ago
your such a dope. go watch the xfactor
ThomComputer 2 years ago
Nobody cares about you. Bye.
touchandgod 2 years ago
FUCK OFF, STUPID TWAT
250Trojan 1 year ago
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What the fuck is this shit?
250Trojan 2 years ago