Tears For Fears - Ashes To Ashes

[debray05]

An amazing work by two of my most beloved artists!!

[amsterjam66]

cool version but missing the texture guitars by Chuck Hammer on Bowies original version

[1803becky]

impressive cover of a fab song

[gypsyroadhog]

Really good cover of the song, first time heard it, Cheers Mate

[gbkiller007]

Its on Saturnine Martial and Lunatic btw. A Roland Orzabal B side and outakes album

[columbialovesfrank]

LOOOOOOOOOOVE IT! <3 Sounds almost exactly like Bowie.

[balaam13]

3CD RUBY TRAX The NME's Roaring Forty includes: THE MISSION atomic ST ETIENNE strangers in paradaise SUEDE brass in pocket THE FARM don't you want me JESUS JONES voodoo chile RIDE the model CURVE i feel love EMF shaddap you face etc...

[magpiesx5]

I think Roland's vocal performance improves the song.

[DANTECHPFN]

ok good, but bowie version is better

[jemappelledrwholuvr]

freakishly awesome

[davedenisetigg]

Wow! Glad I found this! Never knew it existed! Where can I buy it??

[Derwena]

Perfect indeed, what else can i say. This song is one of my favorites of all time.

[EduardaChassaneis]

perfect

[TheRedneckdragon]

The best cover of this song I have ever heard...

[fwopgossles]

What most artists do when they cover a song is like, y'know, give it their own touch and make it their own. Here all they've done is pretty much copy the song completely.

[zinnobelle]

@fwopgossles yeah, even though Tears for fears is great, this cover is really boring 'cause it doesn't have a "Tear for fears" twist

[thenewmexican64]

You mean from the very talented Roland Orzabal.

[Userofname69]

Love the song and video!!

[rugbyman215]

Dunno if anyone else has filled in the blanks, but this is from an album called Ruby Trax, put out to commemorate the NME's 40th anniversary. It features two discs of bands covering songs that they consider highly influential to their own music.

[epirotis]

Fantastic. Thank you for sharing this - I had no idea they recorded it.

[biospark64]

One of the things I love so much about this is that they kept the solo in the end, my favorite part of the song. Unless I'm wrong, I think I hear a couple wrong notes, but the cover is still amazing!

[biospark64]

This is my absolute favorite of all of David Bowie's amazing work, and to find that another one of my favorite bands has covered this...

If this is a dream, please don't wake me up...

[rockguitar2012]

Omg, two of my favourite artists combined! (TFF and Bowie)

=D

[bdub24j]

@rockguitar2012 Same here. With those two artist it's a win, win.

[Saeloluo]

definetly better than the original, great TFF!!!

[perpetual61]

I will not call this a Cover because it's just as Good as the Original.

[MrJabba1967]

Fantastic.

[martinsephton]

This is better than Bowies version fantastic cover ..

[lorethebest77]

very good cover!!

[missvivers400m]

I love Tears for fears but I prefer Bowies version.

[paulhartzer]

Also interesting: "Go Now" was written by Larry Banks, who in turn was a member of The Four Fellows, which included David Jones. "David Jones" was Bowie's birth name; he took "Bowie" after concerns of confusion with The Monkees' Davey Jones.

Anyway, Wikipedia can be your friend, y'all.

[paulhartzer]

This track is available on Tears for Fears' 1996 CD "Saturnine Martial & Lunatic." It's the only track on the disc not (at least partially) penned by Roland Orzabal. It also apparently appears on the NME 3-CD compilation Ruby Trax, from 1992, which consisted of classic songs covered by then-contemporary artists. Interestingly, Bowie appears as both a cover-ee and a cover-er on the compilation, that latter being Tin Machine's cover of "Go Now." (cont)

[MatthewIsenbergMusic]

Good, but near identical, and the chorus is a bit off

[JohnLennon100]

Thanks to Roland to introduce me to such a great song!!!! It's not a cover ...is a carbon copy ....but still great ....

[captainforever24]

Best cover of Ashes To Ashes on Youtube

[donnieb69us]

cool cool cool

[ValterBand]

This the best Bowie's cover,ever!

[thimble288]

@ValterBand the Sea and Cake did a great cover of Sound and Vision :)

[WINDHAMMAN]

beautiful...bravo! tff

[kittiebaby4]

only thing I love better than Bowie is Roland Orzabal. I'm glad he stayed so true to the original. First few lines I thought it WAS Bowie! Thanks.

[nelson2k]

I actually love this cover, great work =)

[CaptainBungonia]

Bowie's original is better, but this is a damned respectable tribute.

8/10.

[danielkerryann]

Roland Orzabal said: The NME were putting together a compilation of various artists covering their favourite' number one's' and asked us if we would care to contribute. When perusing the list, I was shocked how few I actually cared for. In the end we plumbed for this brilliant piece by Bowie and tried desperately to do something original with it; Eventually gave up and made a carbon copy - Still it's better than Blur's version of 'Maggie May' (or is it?!!!!)

[KTPSLD2ABTFE]

good and faithful version... the singer's voice doesn't pale in comparison to bowie's ;)

[galileo1957]

@KTPSLD2ABTFE I dont know what you are smoking but the singer, Roland Orzabal has one of the best set of vocal pipes in the biz ...

[nonpotentuzi]

Fantastique.

[GordanStojadinovic]

Dare I say it, better than Bowie??

[FavioRiveros]

@GordanStojadinovic

no! but good cover! very good cover

[liquidgee13]

@GordanStojadinovic Better than Bowie?? Just as wonderful!!

[Sparkina]

@GordanStojadinovic Fraid not, Gordan. This is an excellent cover and the Tears for Fears fellows are very talented but no one can surpass The Gentleman. Bowie, after all, is Bowie, and Mr. David Bowie is the EMPEROR of contemporary music. The EMPEROR!!!!

[GordanStojadinovic]

@Sparkina I agree that Mr Bowie is the Emperor. He has been since I was a wee laddy watching 'Sound and Vision' on Top of the Pops all those years ago. On reflection Bowie's original version is better but Roland's version is close. Of course Roland had a fantastic song and performer to base his version on. :o)

[DobarDabar]

@GordanStojadinovic slažem se!

[mikeyp1230]

@GordanStojadinovic No, you dare not.

[tjstevens74]

@GordanStojadinovic Not a bad cover, but you do dare too much.

[60IRAIDA]

super)))))))))