Man Who Sold The World (Studio Version)-David Bowie

[sandelic1]

People, you have to understand that the point of cover is not to compete with the original. It's a hommage to influence, to artist and to say that cover version is better then the original is really stupid. Kurt would be the first one to spit you in the face.

[Michalkov81]

Non esistono versioni migliori, questa canzone è: scritta , cantata, prodotta, interpretata, pensata, ideata, da Bowie ..

[hertrudis11]

Bowie el maestro, Cobain el aprendiz

[mrphJuice]

I'm out!

[chongkina]

The older I get the more this song means to me.

[Shaftlenaze]

Kurt Cobain loved David Bowie.

[pheusromuald]

Curt didn't do better... just a copy!

[RedSunshineA]

I Prefer Cobain Version!



[BlueYoshiGamer]

Both versions are great

[tauro1730]

david bowie is the best!

[zo0zo0ni1201mj]

I just Love it!!

[Deadmaumartyn]

Bowie is a genius! Me gusta mucho la version de nirvana, pero bowie es un genio por haberla escrito :)

[ComaAlpha]

What is the name of that honeycomb looking percussion thing that's making that noise?

[stevebobs]

i still don't understand why the sax isn't used in the db version.

its a great line, whole different riff to the guitar line, memorable and catchy as it is and justifying its title as the worlds easiest lead solo... maybe he was selfconscious about it?

could have got andy mackay in if he was worried about blowing his own trumpet....can understand him not wanting to appear a blowhard

[stevebobs]

i still don't understand why the sax isn't used in the db version.

its a great line, whole different riff to the guitar line, memorable and catchy as it is and justifying its title as the worlds easiest lead solo... maybe he was selfconscious about it? could've got andy mackay in if he was worried about blowing his own trumpet....can understand him not wanting to appear a blowhard

[Hacker73]

The lyrics are also cited as reflecting Bowie's concerns with splintered or multiple personalities, and are believed to have been partially inspired by the poem "Antigonish" by William Hughes Mearns:

“ Last night I saw upon the stair

A little man who wasn’t there

He wasn’t there again today

Oh, how I wish he’d go away…”

[MrNeekappa]

@Hacker73 nice spamming of wikipedia there

[angeobscure]

I love this song.. it's great !!

[kanulele]

NEVER FORGET THAT WITHOUT THIS ORIGINAL VERSION WE ALL CAN'T LISTEN THE NIRVANA'S ONE!!

[JOPAGalvin]

Bowie's version is 1000 times better than Nirvana's dreadful cover.Smacked out Kurt Cobain sound like his hemorrhoids are flaring up when he sings.

[tropcis]

las dos

es verdad

 2 songs

perf

[PatriceauQuebec]

Why to compare cobain's song with bowie's. Both are good. You can have a moment where you want to listen to one and another moment the other one. Both are worth listening to, that's it.

[bellagilli]

if you like Kirks version better i suggest you listen to David singing it live. especially on the reality tour. He is amazing, and it's true, nothing beats the original.

[MrMetalsoul666]

i agree david bowie is amzing sos kurt cobain but its foolish to compare the two bowies is more artistic whilst cobains is more emotive and analogue so there basically two different songs

[69michael1]

well said

[daieohfreckoning]

Kurt you dumass, Kurt

[rockmusicisbest1]

man , what is up with this version he sounds like he is on crack! kurts version is way better ! oh and lulu's version sucks

[aov13]

i dont really like david bowies way of singing it as kurt cobains way.

[DanBlabbers]

Because Kurt Cobain sings it in am american angsty way. David Bowie sings it refined and intellectually very hard to explain or see and understand but its outof this world.

[TobeDoss]

Bowie es better than Cobain's cover

[RJERR]

nobody beats the original

[Igniteanember]

I agree, Kurt did an amazing job, but an original is an original!

[Poisonspoonful]

I like Nirvana and I like David Bowie, but I just prefer this version way more....but you just can't beat the original.

[DanBlabbers]

I agree with you, but Franz ferdinand did a cover of womanizer by spears...soo yeah. Haha.

[elfidanto]

Cobain version is AWESOME !

[MercyNotGvn]

I like David but Nirvana did a MUCH better version. plan and simple

[DanBlabbers]

You don't like bowie enough to sell him out for a grunge band version.

[DegeonTheHegehog]

he rocks but nirvana does the better version of this song

[smoky289]

I like Nirvana and Bowie, but Bowie's versions is the superior.

[brindiangonzalez]

thats really hard, they are both really good, david is good because of course it is the original but than again nirvana does an excellent job on reviving this song. if i had to chose, i would say nirvana b/c it is the first version i heard and to me that is he standard of this song. but i do very much like david bowie

[naumnn]

I always prefer Davids versions. They just become better when he adds himself to them. That's just me...or maybe you too.

[piemouth1]

Why would anyone care who's version is better? That's not what art is about at all. And David Bowie and Kurt Cobain were genuine artists in a genre where most of the people called "artists" are just performers. Not that there's anything wrong with being a performer . . . but let's just be clear about the whole thing.

[Hacker73]

Beyond this, the episode is unexplained: as James E. Perone wrote,

Bowie encounters the title character, but it is not clear just what the phrase means, or exactly who this man is. … The main thing that the song does is to paint — however elusively — the title character as another example of the societal outcasts who populate the album.

In common with a number of tracks on the album, the song's themes have been compared to the horror-fantasy works of H. P. Lovecraft.

[MrBafanabafana]

original version

[Barrettfloyd82]

Bowie's better. It's not even a contest in my eyes. Then again, I've never liked Cobain.  All a matter of personal viewpoints.

[bigtimematty]

my fave solo artist, a genius, well b4 his time legend, all his music is timeless, the very fact nirvana covered the song shows what an inspiration and how highly regarded he is!

[radimsirl]

Bowie's version of this song is better, more astral=)

[nicksterba]

props for nirvanas version because the singing in this one is hella weird and kurt cobain made it sound original/natural and like he made it. if i didnt know who made the song i wouldve thought it would be nirvana because bowies version sounds like it would be the cover.

[totallymetallica]

This guy is sick, i used to find his songs stupid, but now i got into him. All thanks to a music project i had 2 do.

[MagusAugury]

Props to bowies song, He wrote it and created it. I enjoy Nirvanas take on it though.

[bewlay2]

Bowie without a doubt. The man wrote it for Gods sake!

[eternalXxXmemorys]

to be honest i just cannot decide. i would say there both the same . my fave part of this whole song is the second chorus... just thought id say lol

[Hacker73]

The song's title is similar to that of Robert A. Heinlein's 1949 science fiction novella "The Man Who Sold the Moon", with which Bowie was familiar. However, the song has no similarities with the story of the book. The persona in the song has an encounter with a kind of doppelgänger, as is suggested in the second chorus where "I never lost control" is replaced with "We never lost control".