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New Angels of Promise
New Angels of Promise. New Angels of Promise (Omikron intro sequence). New Angels of Promise (full Omikron version). To the Angel of Approved Estimates, to the Angels of Promise Across the Entire...
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1917
Thrust (Omikron, 1999). 1917. Issued as a B-side of “Thursday’s Child,” “1917″ (Russian Revolution? Duchamp’s Fountain? the first jazz records?) was an elaboration of “Thrust,” a synth piece Bowie and...
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The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell
The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell. The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell (Omikron: The Nomad Soul (Stigmata mix)). The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell (TOTP, 1999). The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell...
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No One Calls
Awakened 2. No One Calls. Of all the tracks issued under the general ‘Hours’ banner, “No One Calls,” stuffed away on the “Thursday’s Child” CD single, seems the most likely candidate to have emerged...
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Brilliant Adventure
Brilliant Adventure. “‘Brill’ is a luverly instrumental, again with koto, that Reeves and I did in the front room in Bermuda,” Bowie recalled in a web chat. Considered as incidental music for an...
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We Shall Go to Town
We Shall Go to Town. In spirit (or actually?) a relic from the Outside sessions, the intriguing “We Shall Go to Town” was left off ‘Hours,’ perhaps because its somnolent eeriness didn’t fit the...
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Something In the Air
Something In the Air. Something In the Air (Omikron sequence). Something In the Air (Jools Holland, 1999). Something In the Air (Nulle Part Ailleurs, 1999). Something In the Air (Musique Plus, 1999)....
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If I’m Dreaming My Life
If I’m Dreaming My Life. If I’m Dreaming My Life (VH1 Storytellers, 1999). If I’m Dreaming My Life (only live performance, 1999). “If I’m Dreaming My Life” wasn’t just the longest track on ‘Hours’: it...
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The Dreamers
The Dreamers. The Dreamers (instrumental). Of all the closing tracks of all the Bowie albums, “The Dreamers” is the most cynical: it’s a finale as if scripted by a committee of fans. So you have Bowie...
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We All Go Through
We All Go Through. We All Go Through (Omikron end credits). “We All Go Through” and “What’s Really Happening?,” particularly when heard back-to-back, can seem like Bowie’s Pepsi challenge: which is...
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What’s Really Happening?
What’s Really Happening? (demo with guide melody). What’s Really Happening? (Internet Tonight, studio footage, 1999). What’s Really Happening? (Bowie studio vocal takes). What’s Really Happening?...
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Thursday’s Child
Thursday’s Child. Thursday’s Child (instrumental). Thursday’s Child (Omikron “slower” version). Thursday’s Child (video). Thursday’s Child (“rock mix”). Thursday’s Child (VH1 Storytellers, 1999)....
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Seven
Seven (“demo”). Seven. Seven (Omikron: The Nomad Soul version). Seven (Marius De Vries mix). Seven (Beck Mix 1). Seven (Beck Mix 2). Seven (VH1 Storytellers, 1999). Seven (Musique Plus, 1999). Seven...
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Jewel
Jewel (Reeves Gabrels with Frank Black, Bowie and Dave Grohl). If I wanted to play on baked bean commercials, that’s what I’d do. I’m already past that. I’m working on my vision, dammit. It might not...
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The Rustic Overtones Songs
Sector Z. Man Without a Mouth. “The overriding feature of the ’90s was working with bands that few people had heard of,” Tony Visconti recalled in his autobiography. In 1989, he sold his Good Earth...
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Hole In the Ground
Hole In the Ground. “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house… F. Scott...
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Toy (Your Turn to Drive)
Toy (Your Turn to Drive). [see previous] Around five in the morning on 15 August 2000, New York City received a new resident, Ms. Alexandria Zahra Jones. Her arrival happily preoccupied her father....
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Pictures of Lily
Pictures of Lily (the Who, 1967). Pictures of Lily (Bowie). An early order of business once Bowie reconvened his band at Looking Glass Studios in early October 2000 was to cut a Who cover. Pete...
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Afraid
Afraid (BowieNet demo, 2000). Afraid (Toy). Afraid (Heathen). Afraid (Late Night with Conan O’Brien, 2002). Afraid (live, 2002). Afraid (live, 2003). Afraid (live, 2004). [where were we?] The plan at...
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Uncle Floyd→Slip Away
Uncle Floyd. Slip Away. Slip Away (Jonathan Ross, 2002). Slip Away (Live By Request, 2002). Slip Away (live, 2002). Slip Away (live, 2003). Slip Away (live, with the Polyphonic Spree, 2004). Deep in...
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