Toy (Medley)

UPDATE: Jeez, a lot has happened since I posted this three-or-so years ago-- including the actual leak of "Toy"!

For those who're having trouble with playing the video itself, I've gotten it to work by changing the quality to 240p and just playing it. Sorry about this, hasn't happened in the past!

Also, holy crap over 10k views!
Insane! thanks!

Awesome. Just Awesome. 30 second clips of 8 songs from the unreleased Toy album. From Illustrated db Discography:

LIZA JANE (4'47"): it's very hard to identify with the original 1964 version in this recording. The original arrangement has been reworked into what one might call 'swing jazz'! Except for the chorus, Bowie's vocals have been treated and are buried rather deep in the mix.

SILLY BOY BLUE (5'33"): this track remains unreleased. It is a first-rate, stately re-recording which resembles the version recorded in 1968 for the BBC (available on Bowie At The Beeb), including the "Chimi Chimi Chimi" part. The string arrangement is particularly beautiful. The long coda suggests this song might have closed the album.

IN THE HEAT OF THE MORNING (3'50"): this track remains unreleased. The original 1968 recording marked the Bowie's first collaboration with Tony Visconti, who added his trademark string arrangement to the original. The Toy re-recording is quite close to the original, albeit slightly slower, but lacks the strings!

HOLE IN THE GROUND (3'33"): this song was demoed in (probably) 1970 by David, George Underwood, Herbie Flowers, Tim Renwick and Terry Cox. Musically, the Toy re-recording bears some resemblance to the 'do-do-do' part of 'Walk On The Wild Side'. The lyrics are not among Bowie's most interesting: 'There's a hole in my ground/But there's no one around/With my shoes on the street/And I'm quick on my feet/And I'm running to you/Just a-looking above me'.

LET ME SLEEP BESIDE YOU (3'14"): this re-recording for Toy is a fantastic, rather guitar-heavy re-recording with breathy vocals by Bowie. Unfortunately, it remains unreleased.

I DIG EVERYTHING (4'52"): this song remains unreleased. Like 'Baby Loves That Way' and many other tracks on Toy, 'I Dig Everything' was re-recorded a slower pace compared to the original. In this case, it has been reworked into a rather straightforward rock song, lacking the 60s feel of the original. The chorus prominently features backing vocalists Emm Gryner and Holy Palmer: 'Every/Everything/Every/Dig everything'.

AFRAID (3'28"): another new song recorded for Toy which later appeared on Heathen. The original Toy version of this song has a slightly different instrumentation and additional backing vocals. However, David's original vocal has been maintained on the Heathen version. Essentially, the Heathen version is a remix, not a re-recording. Most obviously, it lacks the Tony Visconti string arrangement.

UNCLE FLOYD (SLIP AWAY)(6'14"): a new song written for Toy and later re-recorded for Heathen as 'Slip Away'. The Toy version opens with a lengthy excerpt of almost a minute from the Uncle Floyd Show, similar to the live version performed on the Reality tour. The production of 'Uncle Floyd' is less rich than 'Slip Away', for which David also re-recorded his vocal. There are minor lyrical differences (e.g. 'Once a time they nearly might have been Bones and Oogie on a moving screen'). The first 'Don't forget to keep your head warm' chorus in 'Slip Away' also is absent in Toy's 'Uncle Floyd'. All in all, 'Uncle Floyd' does not sound as mature and majestic as 'Slip Away', but it is by no means less melancholic.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• david
• bowie
• toy
• unreleased
• album
• rare

[GibsonRedSpecial]

Am I the only one that can't get this video to run for more than half a second?

[LadyGrinningSoul08]

Where is this from? How did you get this?! I NEED to know more!!!

[infocado]

waste of time

[westy406]

Doesn`t work!

[tinyblight]

@GibsonRedSpecial well, when it loads for me it's suppose to be a 4:01 vid, but when it "finishes" my bar says it's 0:00 /0:01 and doesnt play...

[VasjaStankovic]

I guess this is how he got famous. :)

[sitheil0labhairt]

well that was ground breaking stuff, never heard anything like it :P

[conesuela1]

Thanks for wasting half a second of my life!

[irishelk1]

amazing

[heatdeb]

Thats got to be the fastest track on youtube.

[AlienHuman72]

By gum, stunning stuff, surely this will be out there somewhere on a bootleg......i need it......now!!!!!!

[janlai10]

What's THIS?!