I just bought 'Young Americans' and I am waiting for it to get here.. along with the rest of the bowie collection ...anyway.. I was wondering if you could all give me some insite on how the original song of 'Fame' sounds.. is it much diffrent than the oh so famous 90' remix or not really... just wondering...

" He took it all to far, but boy could he play guitar."

The original is much, much better than the 90 remix. I've never liked that remix anyways.

Andrée-Anne

You're such a wonderful person
But you got problems

Itīs pretty different and a bit better but nothing special. Fame was and is the weakest cut on Young Americans

I canīt hope to be the "devil may care"
Maybe iīll settle with you all in my hair

Thanks guys

" He took it all to far, but boy could he play guitar."

I think 'Fame' is one of the strongest points of Young Americans, I prefer it much better than the song 'Young Americans'.
Fame was Bowie's first American no.1 single!

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"

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Fame was Bowie's first American no.1 single!

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Chart succes has very little to do with actual quality of the song. Bowie has released a multitude of better songs as singles than Fame with far worse chartratings.
I can understand why some people like (or even love) Fame but in my opinion it brings down the quality of YA album together with Across the universe in the end. He should have sticked to the original songselection.

I canīt hope to be the "devil may care"
Maybe iīll settle with you all in my hair

I think the album works fine, I love Fame.
I can see why some think differently though because Fame does stand out as different.
I think it's good because it's almost leading off to the next album Station to Station.

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"

I'm with skellaway on this one. Fame is brilliant.

Miss Anders... I didn't recognize you with your clothes on.

Oh, I totally disagree about Across the Universe. I love DB's version! All that "nothing, nothing, nothing!" screaming at the end is just . . . almost primal! I love it.

Zigbot

I actually like Across the universe very much, it just feels out of place on YA. Sticking to the original tracklisting would have produced a much more coherent album. Well, atleast Tony Visconti agrees with me.

I canīt hope to be the "devil may care"
Maybe iīll settle with you all in my hair