The Polecats - John I'm only dancing

[TarheelSlim]

absolutely great, brings back the eighties.

new wave rockabilly!!!

[supadonna]

The Polecats are playing The Meow Club @ The Cluny in Newcastle on 1st July 2011!!!!!!!!!!

[wildcatfalling]

Nice !

[sxserenade]

I love this SO MUCH!

[SisterToSleepx]

Excellent! Polytheistic Church of David Bowie approved 100%! ^_^

[SuperDuperTrooperr]

irreplacable 

[SINNERSTRONG]

boz sang the vocals on the record, tim told me

[mezdupa1]

Who cares who her dad is

....

Check mine on the sean o'neill band on youtube!

Darina

[feliperocker]

I realy realy prefer the Bowie version... even the Bauhaus did better

[kevanhughes]

Still got this on 10" pink vinyl (somewhere !) - absolute classic - still sounds as dynamic and vibrant as when I first heard it. Brilliant, brilliant tune and thank you for posting it.

[Zipgunn1]

This blew my mind when It first came out and still does now.

Far better than anything the Stray Cats ever did.

[lincbond442]

Very cool treatment of this Bowie classic!!! Good stuff!!!

[serafinobolletta]

i love this version!

[4chalys]

massive blast from the past and if im honest i still LOVE IT

[197019731]

Raw rockabilly at its best!!!!!!!!! love it!!!

[duskejw]

artists are happy when their songs are covered...why not?..better then being ignored

[georgerobinson14]

It's distinct enough from Bowie's original to stand on it own and its quite good

[puffpuffyogi]

Bowie's is slow, be he does sing in tight though...=D

[leeluke360]

bowie this, bowie that, if you want bowie go watch bowie, this is the polecats doing there version! dont like dont watch simples ? who ever posted it thanks, saw them live in the 80s a few times great guys, any idea where they went ?

[fery2]

The singer Boz Boorer (Martin James Boorer) joined Morrissey band in 1991 as a co-writer, guitarist and 'musical director'.

[leeluke360]

Hi, i thought the singers name was Tim, wasnt Boz the guitarist ? regards

[Charlienmeg]

@leeluke360 Yes, you're right. The singer is Tim Polecat (Worman) and Boz is guitarist :)

[tistus]

@fery2 Boz Boorer is at the guitar, the singer is Tim.

[CountThrillhammer]

@fery2 The singer is the camp one with ginger hair

[tylenoljunkie]

Leeluke360, you are wayyy beyond awesome!

[leeluke360]

Hey, thanks for the vote of confidence, but some people need to chill, cant see the wood for the trees ! you obviously feel the same, anyways kindest regards right back at you

[twister5960]

@leeluke360 yeh mate they still play a few gigs around the world, including the UK. Boz of course is fairly busy with Morrissey but still gets stuck in x

[WoodRatGirl]

It is not an insult to Bowie's song, you lot who are complaining are obviously too narrow-minded.

And yes I am a Bowie fan, but thank god I'm open-minded!

[Lavenderfae9]

@WoodRatGirl Agreed! I don't think the man who constantly reinvented himself would have a problem with someone reinventing one of his songs. I thought it was rather fun.

[KoreWanandeshita]

Its David Bowies song and this is an insult to the original its a hundred times better

[rockthistown81]

This pisses all over the original.GREAT VERSION.

[jimmy59ca]

very good, keep up the good work, Jim

[dj45rpm]

Not bad at all, even if the Chameleons did it better.

[Broxi68]

Get a grip! Horses for courses, time and a place etc etc. This was my first taste of JIOD and as I was going through a Rockabilly stage at the time, I thought it was tops. Clearly I've now heard the original which is excellent but the Polecats version still has something about it. Game of two halfs, over the moon, sick as a parrot blah blah blah

[nateb38]

Oh god this is awful!

QUIT RUINING BOWIE SONGS!

[TomOut93]

bowie is the man

[jtsk8er12]

L O L

[rolandmadbat]

You all fuck ass!!! You all are reading way too much into this song!! Guess what it Rocks!,nuff said!!

[HarryUpHarry]

You are too cruel

[FranklyMisterShankly]

Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey of Pulp put this song on their "The Trip" compilation.

[pozzebon]

David Bowie's version (The Original) is of course the best version lol... everyone knows that

Anyway... my point is

Does anyone else think that the melody of this song sounds like Zoot Scoot Riot?

The guitar intro sounds like Crazy Little Thing Called Love

AND this band sounds A LOT like The Stray Cats...

i think they do....

[amondrool]

Fuck that! Bowies original lacks drive and loses with comparison. Now, i dig David Bowie very much, but this band add something here that is unbeliveable catchy!!!!

[weber247]

Better than Bowie version....lol

[Blenders06]

no.....

[weber247]

What was I thinking!!!! Yes it it a Bowie tune but I heard the PC version for years not knowing that DB owns it.

[bobflames]

The Poleacats made some great tracks, this being one of them. British Rockabilly at it's best

[maxiemark]

Yeah..if you dont like The POLECATS,dont watch em .we all know its a cover...

[bRaveDefender96]

wasnt this made by bowie??

[PoisonTea4u]

Yep

[prisonheart]

t,,yio guys are shit full stop.

[Shufflebored]

the opening for this is almost exactly like Crazy Little Thing Called Love

[craggy1969]

great song and band, funny dancing, quality stuff

[smitkatzabilly]

Either really?! Bowie was a huge fan of rockabilly and loosely based his character "Ziggy Stardust" on an obscure rockabilly "The Legendary Stardust Cowboy" and the Polecats ande other bands of their era were hugely influenced by him

[daniellerooney]

ahh awsome...didnt know my dad could dance!!

[tistus]

Who is your father?

[daniellerooney]

neil rooney, the drummer

[tistus]

What a little world we are having with the internet!!! The Polecats are one of my favourite bands and honestly I don't exactly know how I get this video. Greetings from Spain.

[JSavic]

@daniellerooney Apparently, Neil Rooney disappeared & no one knows what happened to him - not even the other Polecats.

So .... what did happen to your dad ?

[twister5960]

@daniellerooney hi I was your dads roadie back then. Would love to chat with him. Craig x

[gorgall]

Polecats t-shirts now available from their website

[VeniVidi]

Marvellous

[darkroom13]

this has to be one of my all-time favorite covers. i mean, seriously. polecats. bowie. what's NOT to love?!?!?

[acdmx]

I like this cover. =]

[abattlesupahead]

Did Bowie or the Polecats write this song?

[cornell123]

Bowie

[ghbhfh]

Take a wild guess! Bowie covering an obscure rockabilly band or an obscure band covering Bowie, which option would be more plausible?

[attolia2491]

Bowie wrote it lol

[michellestmarie]

They were on Top of the Pops more than once. They never tried to pretend this wasn't a cover. It was an homage. Prat.

[exproggo]

What an ace song...Hi to Boz...my favourite guitarist

[docchud]

this is me fav polecats song, i didnt get into them tht heavy i was more meteors, stray cats and king kurtz but i rly dig pole cats, ive only got ther stuff on tape tho.

[mikeystrafford]

Where has 1981 gone! Soon I'll be dead, but there'll always be rockabilly, all we gotta do is let all the cats and chicks know it's out there

[docchud]

dude me and my dad wanna shake your hand rite now, he was around for the original 'revival' and has told me about seeing the polecats rippin hemsby apart like a mental punk band and all the other bands, unfortunatly i was born in the 90s so the only stuff il see now is the (lets face it not gettin younger) stray cats, reverend horton and meteors. the message will be carried on!

[lesassassins]

This a David Bowie song, not a Polecats song.

[somnambulisto]

"If that beginning wasn't Stray Cats Rock This Town, I don't know what was. Setzer, he is not."

Music historian, you are not. This song was originally written and performed by David Bowie in 1972, about a decade before Brian Setzer even wrote "Rock This Town." The beginning of the Polecats version and the David Bowie version are essentially the same. So for Setzer, Bowie he is not.

[Kneedrg]

If that beginning wasn't Stray Cats Rock This Town, I don't know what was. Setzer, he is not.

[johnNang13]

Reminds me of listening to my mate big brothers record colection, around 25 years ago. Happy memories indeed. Thanks for posting.....now I'm gonna look for Dave Edmunds,Queen of Hearts and Rockabilly rebel by Matchbox, two other great songs of the era.Along with teh Stray Cats.If I wasn't bald I'd try n coax a quiff!!lol!

[simonnott]

I bought the 10" pink version of that song and loved the album, never seen that clip before.I always wanted one of those jackets, I'd look a tw*t in one now but still want one!!

[vagelis69]

...thanx for posting it...i love it...they did a great version of the song!!!..its great for me to see these videos in you-tube...i never seen them before,even though i grow up on these songs...they were my life!!!Thank you again for putting it up... :)

[Buddy8000]

Are polecats still together. I think it´s over 25 years when the polecats are go was in shops the very first time

[LAMPARDIO]

Yes they are coming from member Phil, they just played in Berlin.

[theeundertakers]

Ha! Like it - hope to see these guys in Dublin next month....

[BoomShackerLacker]

Oh yes, so did I... danced forever to this track

[SBatez]

Yes - bought it in 1981. Great songs!

[PsychobillyCaddy]

Polecats are Go is a great album

[drstevie]

great to see this. went to skin2 in london with Tim in about 84, & he had that jumper on. he gave it to my mate Mark, who still sleeps in it!!

[wildcatfalling]

Coo:LL!

[MrWhizz]

well, from David Bowie I guess, but I remember the day when I went into the store to buy that Polecats record....thanks for that video