David Bowie Outside Outtakes - Creep - Baby Fingers - The First Time - The Motel (Demo)

[hootsmon]

Wow..Just discovered this 2 years after you posted it up..Wonderful...The first part recalls Byrne and Eno LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS kind of home-made then it gets very interesting with his OUTSIDE characters putting a word in hear and there,,,,You are totally correct..We have loads of tapes,MDs and software files of impro and everyone is lucky to get a glimpse...Time constraints,financial reasons blah blah means that we only get an hour or so on a CD that came out of weeks of.....Cheers

[nalexander21]

This is an extremely rare and fascinating illustration of free associative creativity at work. Enjoyed it, and freely admit that Bowie's music is still very much alive for many. And as for Brian Eno - still producing remarkable noises that resonate in all sorts of places. Thanks for posting this.

[KingOfUm]

@nalexander21 Amen to that, I only wish he could get back into the groove of recording again.

[KVID1000]

Awful track. One of Bowie's WORST.

[KingOfUm]

@KVID1000 Bear in mind that the first song 'Creep' was cut from a very long improvised instrumental jam he conducted with his band at the time. It is essentially the composed work of a whole bunch of people.

[KVID1000]

@KingOfUm Well then it is art pretending to be life imitating life as portrayed and edited in the mind of a dead, living, spent artist.

[KingOfUm]

@KVID1000 I think you're taking your insult into a poor direction. This is as I said an improvised piece of music, most musicians do studio jams like this, and just because you get the chance to hear it and that you don't particularily like it doesn't mean it's simply the work of a 'spent' artist.

[KVID1000]

@KingOfUm Not an insult at all, but a critique. My reasons for considering Bowie a 'spent artist' are not based upon exposure to this track.

[MrTomb789]

@KVID1000 Bowies not capable of anything other than pure genius....I think you need to rethink..

[KVID1000]

@MrTomb789 We all have our perspectives.



[jik7864]

What's up? New tracks? :o

[hammbetta]

the nin influence got to be

[KingOfUm]

David Bowie was making music like this before Trent Reznor was around. For one, Bowie's earlier albums like his Berlin Trilogy and Buddha Of Suburbia (among others) all seem to share very similar musical tastes and levels of experimentation.

And two, Trent Reznor has heavily taken inspiration from all sorts of other acts, almost to the point where he's less innovative and more a mosaic.

[hayata1968]

@KingOfUm

That is actually not true... If you listen to his catalog, you will see that NIN did this style, first. When NIN was doing it, Bowie was doing Tin Machine & Black Tie/White Noise. However, there is nothing wrong with hearing a style and contributing to it... He doesn't have to be the 1st at everything.

[KingOfUm]

@hayata1968 When Bowie was doing Tin Machine Reznor had been working on Pretty Hate Machine, which is far less industrial-esque than it is electronica. I mean to say in an experimental nature Bowie was doing his work far before Reznor; industrial music is largely a culmination of other ideals, some of which Bowie helped found.

[KVID1000]

@KingOfUm You are both wrong.

[justnicknet]

@hayata1968 V2 Schneider, 1977. Pretty sure that wins. I don't see why people always have to argue about what came first.

[errornosignal]

@justnicknet

agreed, Heroes owns!

[transeuropa]

'Outside' was to be a trilogy - could these few audios be from the other two ?

[jik7864]

WTF? These are titles removed (censured?) from the original album?

If yes I wanna buy it!!!

[Skywatcher17]

Interesting!

[andreasbreitenreiter]

That is amazing. Thanks a lot for posting that. He will always be a hero.

[KingOfUm]

Sure thing; I totally agree, a true musical genius.

Though he doesn't deserve full credit for Outside, he had an awesome team working with him.