Velvet Goldmine - Baby's On Fire

[MAXI777ification]

The last film i saw in Italy before i move to london....just to understand better another point of view(i love wemen,all of them)



[ynesvelveteen]

it's about Bowie and Iggy

[ToManifest]

Who doesn't see Bowie in this?

I so want to become an ex-pat 99.9% of the time, the rest of the world has the balls to make a film such as this, and the US will remake the sterilized marketable version of it...

Perfect example..."Priscilla Queen of the Dessert" a fun interesting movie, and then the US made "Too Wong Foo..."

I wish to apologize to the rest of the world for this......

[Eden2089]

Can you believe Jonathan Rhys meyer was only 19 here? Amazing.

[Chocolate00F]

The guitar/penis licking thing kind of turns me on but then again its kinda creepy

[malissasweety]

This movie is loosely based on david bowie. He had a song called velvet goldmine and he did the guitar licking like in the movie. He had an affair with his guitarist. BUT THIS IS AN AWESOME MOVIE!

[Rebel09Girl]

This is my FAVORITE movie... or one of em anyways.

Shame Bowie didn't like the fact that they based it off of him.

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is... wow.

And I love pretty much every actor and song in this movie! lol

[BmouthBabe15]

its not based on bowie, the whole glam thing was inspiration but its a modern day Dorian Gray....the characters a bit Bowie-esque - but its not biographical or anything.

[robosushi]

@malissasweety the term is LOOSELY. and it sucked. There was a reason why Bowie wanted nothing to do with it

[sastremania]

this movie changed my life

[Glasshouse27]

Very odd movie.

[poppinfresh79]

I was never into metal...my taste was more new wave, tecno, disco...gothic...I did enjoy alot of glam rock though.

[jonbecker03]

the idea in velvet goldmine was that the music was supposed to be a "pastiche" of glam rock. it wasn't supposed to be "authentic." just the opposite. it was more like a camp parody of what was ALREADY camp..............

[bootheavy]

This guy dosen't have enough of the characteristic style inherent in Eno's voice to sing this. He sounds more like a young boy going through puberty. Okay, I'll stop with the criticism now.

[angelinescream]

good you've stopped. He does not deserve your criticism, does he? He 's such a sweet kid. And, Anyway, glam rock was never about singing well, dude, It was all about looks and acting. SInce when Bowie is a good singer??

[bootheavy]

For one thing he's making a sexual/sucking gesture on another man's penis so that throws "sweet kid" out the window. The singing on this dosen't carry any of the characteristic "smooth or cinical weirdness inherent with either Eno, Bowie, or Ferry for that matter. It sounds "flat". I would like also to correct a former entry about Bowie refusing to allow any of music to be played - it's because he's doing his movie version of Ziggy Stardust and not because he finds the movie repulsive. - I do.

[Eden2089]

Jonathan Rhys Meyer IS the singer on this cover but VIF are the band playing. I have the soundtrack, it stands clearly that JRM is singing this one. You can also hear it if used to his voice.

[imagewurks]

Actually, Bowie did become a "good" singer. China Girl? Blue Jean? I honestly preferred his work when he was off-key a little bit, say "Ziggy Stardust" era. Must be the punk left in me.

He's outrageously talented. I saw him once, his "Serious Moonlight" tour. My girlfriend pretty much dragged me kicking and screaming all the while telling me that I wouldn't fuck this up for her . . . and I was floored.

[bootheavy]

Boy this sucks compared to the original. What is the aim here? This resembles more New York Dolls' exchibitionism rather than Brian Eno's mere attempt at experimenting with new sounds and concepts. This is probably why David Bowie refused to have any of his music actually put into the film. Adrogeny was a concept explored as an ideal in Glam but they're using it here as the central focus.

[justinebovary]

sweet memories, i was listenig velvet underground around youtube and I end up in a video of my favorite film of all times, i think have watched it or at least listen it more than one thousand times (yeah I didn't have acess to the soundtrack cd)

[pagey29]

This is one of my fave movies of all time, Johnathon Rhys Myers is gorgeous, fantastic music acting and footage.... So sext when he goes "down" on his guitar..... :)

[frociodicoccio]

una cosa deve fare!?

[Culumacilinte]

Well, hello! That's definitely a different version from the one that made the final cut. How groovy to see that. Anyway- amazing song; definitely one of my favourites from Velvet Goldmine. Mmm.

[pagey29]

it's not different it's the same! I have this movie on DVD and I have seen it 18 times! so so so so sexy!

[rexarsenal]

The vocals work but your being too kind to as to "a little fripp challenged". Even if fripp was only half the man he used to (be) this other guy would still be only 1/10th of that. It is a great song though and some of the visuals here were pretty cool.

[warmjet69]

why not? love seeing this song redone, even if a little fripper-challenged ...