Bowie's version of this Scott Walker song is truly fascinating. Bowie has a knack for covers, having a Bryan Ferry like ability to take a song and 'make it his own' by virtue of his interpretation.
This man could wear a suit----Yes, lawd! Bowie was an elegant man and so handsome it was absurd. Marvelous creature. Also love his speaking voice. He could read a menu and I would melt in my chair.
For me, the perfect male voice, so unique, so marvelous, I was always in love with him and his voice, thanks technology we have a huge amount of recordings of it, to keep on enjoying it. Love from Argentina.
el scientifico No, you don’t have to do that. In case you haven’t noticed, nobody asked you to upload yourself singing anything at all, because nobody cares.
I was just watching the Scott Walker documentary, on which Bowie was the executive producer, and also appears. Scott Walker influenced him a lot, that low, warm vibrato voice. I didn't know Nite Flights was written by Scott Walker, but I love it. Bowie is my favourite artist ever, also because of it: besides his perfect authorial work, he showed me lots of bands and authors that became what I like to listen and read!
Did you hear Walker talking about when Bowie phoned him one time? He recounted it some time between their deaths. Bowie said that he was sitting at home watching the snow fall over Central Park. Walker just thought....well here I am looking out the window in my apartment in London. It was really nothing but somhow touching, you know...how these things can be sometimes
I remember reading how he and Eno were so blown away by Scott Walker's original version. They were in Berlin working on Bowie's "Heroes" album, and Eno said, "How do we top that?" Fifteen years later Bowie recorded this cover version.
Nice story , I like very much Scott Walker original version , but Bowie's version is amazing as well ...I love Bowie very much , he is (was) the one and only , amazing unique artist , I really miss him....
It's unbelievable, it can't have been during the "Heroes" sessions because this one was recorded in the summer of 1977 and released in the fall of 77. Nite Flights The Walker Brothers album was recorded in early 1978 and released in the summer of 78, so Bowie and Eno couldn't have talked about Nite Flights until they recorded the Lodger album from fall 1978 to spring 1979 !
Let me explain why i think this is especially awesome: David Bowie, THE art rocker who at that time (and even now) was known more in America as the peculiar crooner dude who sang hits like Let's Dance and Modern Love, goes to a late night talk show to present his new work by COVERING THE prince of darkness, the avant garde obscurantist Scott Walker... I can't help but feel Bowie is laughing hard inside that he'd present himself with such stuff. A big inside joke.
Lyrics: There's no hold The moving has come through The danger passing you Turns its face into the heat and runs the tunnels It's so cold The dark dug up by dogs The stitches torn and broke The raw meat fist you choke Has hit the bloodlite Glass traps open and close on nite flights Broken necks feather weights press the walls Be my love, we will be gods on nite flights With only one promise, only one way to fall Glass traps open and close on nite flights Broken necks feather weights press the walls Be my love, we will be gods on nite flights With only one promise, only one way to call On nite flights On nite flights On nite flights Only one way to fall On nite flights On nite flights On nite flights Only one way to fall
I was late to David Bowie. This is the man 15 year old me fell in love with in 1993. Little did I know then he’d become one of the greatest loves of my life.
Looking so exquisitely gorgeous in this period, doing Scott Walker's equally exquisite 'Nite Flights'. Bowie's better vocals go in & out of Walker's & Anthony Newley's. However both men are no David Bowie.
I adore Scott Walker, but this... how could ANYONE do better than this????? Even if Walker wrote the song and made it a great one of course, who could give it a better staging than David Bowie? ...and good hairdresser too :-)
Had he toured Black Tie, White Noise, it would've been awesome and faired better on the charts. Singer on the left is George Simms, a Serious Moonlight tour alumni from 10 years earlier. He had just finished touring with Tin Machine about a year before and most likely didn't want to leave his bride.
It's interesting to listen to this after Scott's original. Bowie does his damnedest to smooth it over, but you can't smooth Scott over. In the end I just go back to the sheer genius that is the original every time.
Walter Moylan No, he looked seriously ill and unhealthy- shockingly so- in the years after his heart attack in 04. You’re a moron, and to a battle of wits, you come unarmed.
It's what Leonakita wrote (12 years ago, lol), Bowie had a knack for covers. But no one can compete with the Scott Voice. Scott's version from the days of the Walker Brothers' re-union is darker, more techno, almost dystopic. Bowie degraded it to a disco song. In that aspect, it's a rocking showcase, with excellent background singers, but no more than that...
For whatever reason, I've really been parking on both Black Tie, White Noise and Buddha of Suburbia lately. Both came out in 1993. Both of these albums kind of get a little lost in the shuffle, but there is a LOT there to love. Awesome performance. Thanks for the post!
Scott Walker’s original is so much better, but David loved his work and admired him incredibly, even.calling him his inspiration. Fun to see this interpretation again nonetheless. Thanks so much for posting!
I love his version of this song. While the vocals are very different and special in each version, I prefer the instrumentals in this one. They sound more confident than those in Walker's version. Man, Bowie looked amazing here.
This must have been pretty weird for the average American viewer of The Tonight Show in 1993 to hear a cover of a fairly obscure song being sung by David Bowie. The original LP of Nite Flights wasn't even released in the US in 1978, only available through import via Canada, the UK, Australia/NZ and the Netherlands. I am a huge fan of The Walker Brothers, especially the first four songs on Nite Flights and Scott Walker's subsequent solo career. If they were watching with the closed captions on they would have been mesmerized by the lyrics.
Yet another spectacular exhibit of Bowie's unparalleled, and iconoclastic artistry. What a treat to see all the talented musical collaborators from the BTWN album on stage with him here. No surprise whatsoever that he was executive producer of the Scott Walker Documentary entitled; 30th Century Man
I must say I love the original by Scott Walker most...and that is someone who is a huge and passionate admirer of Bowie. In fact, it's hard to say one version is better than the other. I love them both, with all my heart...one the raw original and the other a fantastic take on this with a slightly different spin.
Well, were you expecting to the same as Walkers...I love that Bowie takes chances and take us on a different trip...why would it be worth the effort to just do a boring cover?? You really don't get Bowie, Erin...how sad.
Bowie doesn't know what he's singing about, which makes it even more interesting. It's style over substance… call it substance abuse, big time. It's like a hollow space that contains nothing, as the wings are coming off the plane, The forward motion propels the song, the noise sounds are magnetizing the shattering glass and Bowie is dreaming away in the storage compartment as the shards cut through the reality of nothing.
lyrics: theres no hold the moving - has come thru the danger brushing you turns its face into the heat and runs the tunnels its so cold the dark dug up by dogs the stitches torn and broke the raw meat fist you choke has hit the BLOODLITE glass traps open and close on nite flights broken necks feather weights press - the walls be my love we will be GODS on nite flights with only one promise only one way to FALL
I remember when the Walker Brothera were the bees knees. Yeah it’s cool that people tune into Scott because of this but he had an entire career long before he became a footnote in Bowie’s story.
THIS IS AWFUL! Huge Bowie fan, but Bowie himself would not make anything like this again. Fake moves, fake dance, everything is so fake in this video... its not glamour. Its too over. Bowie never did things like that again. It had nothing to do with the Song. By this time (early 90s) he was again with the producer of Lets Dance. Thats why... (The same who was on stage with Gaga in the awful "tribute" to Bowie.) Even his son disliked It and joked with the meaning of "gaga".
I disagree, Fernando. I think the interesting thing here is the artifice and stylishness of the presentation of a song about torture and political murder. Makes it all the more creepy and subversive. (Anyone who doesn't know what the song is about, during Argentina's "dirty wars," the government would torture dissidents ("meat fists," "broken necks" etc) and then fly them in planes over the ocean and drop them out, alive, to drown ("glass doors, open and close on nite flights"). Only Bowie could think to present such a dark, dark song with sophisticated glamour on the Jay Leno show!
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Badguitar its not glamour. Its too over. Bowie never did things like that again. It had nothing to do with the Song. By this time he was again with the producer of Lets Dance. Thats why... (The same who was on stage with Gaga in the awful "tribute" to Bowie.) Even his son disliked It and joked with the meaning of "gaga".
Are you sure about that Fred? I've read for years that this was about the Dirty War tactics. Or at least inspired by it - who knows, maybe the dream too. But the lyrics are too spot-on with regard to Argentina (and we know that The Eletrician is very pointedly about Argentinian state-sponosred torture), so I think it's more than a random dream.
Tasteless mafia cunts from the Trump wanking section have their 60 seconds of comment fame typing again + then get lost in a toilet of bad mafia taste.
es solo tv...Tio David reinvindicò a su alter ego SCOTT WALKER,,(Un Artista increíble,,,),,y ese disco es una joya d los 90s increíble,,,,hasta el Tío Peter Gabriel sacò fotos en el backstage,,,,MASTER OBRA!!
oh how this world is falling apart now that ziggy has departed... come back spaceboy you're presence is urgently required... brilliant clip and thanks for posting
This amazingly talented man has it all...Style, class, talent, looks, voice, moves, clothes...everything!!! His voice can melt ice.
Bowie's version of this Scott Walker song is truly fascinating. Bowie has a knack for covers, having a Bryan Ferry like ability to take a song and 'make it his own' by virtue of his interpretation.
What a VOICE! What a brilliant artist in everything he does! This song is incredible.
This man could wear a suit----Yes, lawd!
Bowie was an elegant man and so handsome it was absurd.
Marvelous creature. Also love his speaking voice. He could
read a menu and I would melt in my chair.
Could have worn a black bin bag and look good!
So well said!!
Thank god bowies music and life was breathing life into us.
If he was balding none of this…..would mean dust…
Same ..same
For me, the perfect male voice, so unique, so marvelous, I was always in love with him and his voice, thanks technology we have a huge amount of recordings of it, to keep on enjoying it. Love from Argentina.
exacto asi es si si awante db
Geni
He (and Mel Torme) are my inspirations. I'll load a video of my singing a bowie song soon
el scientifico No, you don’t have to do that. In case you haven’t noticed, nobody asked you to upload yourself singing anything at all, because nobody cares.
The song is about Argentina
Only Bowie could interpret a brilliant song even more brilliant !
Bowie - Gliding through the clouds above a city
Scott Walker - Riding a pegasus over Armageddon
Both are cool.
Riding a pegasus over Armageddon...By George, I think he's got it.
I would have said dinking and partying with the night ladies under a bridge for Scott - that's just me!
The whole band and backing singers are awesome too! Truly superb cover. I never knew I could miss someone I'd never met so much ...too.
Ahh- Smooth, polished, beautiful, extremely talented - perfection. David Bowie💕
Could you be more classy and stylish!?? I dont think so!!
You will live forever..
well said! it doesnt get any cooler than bowie
@@sepp8000 yep, couldn't agree more.
The BEST ONE OF ALL TIMES...
I was just watching the Scott Walker documentary, on which Bowie was the executive producer, and also appears. Scott Walker influenced him a lot, that low, warm vibrato voice. I didn't know Nite Flights was written by Scott Walker, but I love it. Bowie is my favourite artist ever, also because of it: besides his perfect authorial work, he showed me lots of bands and authors that became what I like to listen and read!
Scott Walker wasn't doing a tribute to Bowie,
because Bowie learned almost everything stylistically from him back in 1969
Did you hear Walker talking about when Bowie phoned him one time? He recounted it some time between their deaths. Bowie said that he was sitting at home watching the snow fall over Central Park. Walker just thought....well here I am looking out the window in my apartment in London. It was really nothing but somhow touching, you know...how these things can be sometimes
@@peterrooney8236 True
I remember reading how he and Eno were so blown away by Scott Walker's original version. They were in Berlin working on Bowie's "Heroes" album, and Eno said, "How do we top that?" Fifteen years later Bowie recorded this cover version.
Nice story , I like very much Scott Walker original version , but Bowie's version is amazing as well ...I love Bowie very much , he is (was) the one and only , amazing unique artist , I really miss him....
It's unbelievable, it can't have been during the "Heroes" sessions because this one was recorded in the summer of 1977 and released in the fall of 77. Nite Flights The Walker Brothers album was recorded in early 1978 and released in the summer of 78, so Bowie and Eno couldn't have talked about Nite Flights until they recorded the Lodger album from fall 1978 to spring 1979 !
Rest in peace David Bowie. you will be forever loved. I estimate in 10 years, people will finally catch up to how ahead of your time you were.
This was so beautiful!
WOW! Fantastic! I never knew I could miss someone I'd never met so much.
I know EXACTLY how you feel...
Me too
Bowie could take any tune or song, sprinkle his dust over it and it becomes another Bowie classic
Moondust will cover you xx
Let me explain why i think this is especially awesome: David Bowie, THE art rocker who at that time (and even now) was known more in America as the peculiar crooner dude who sang hits like Let's Dance and Modern Love, goes to a late night talk show to present his new work by COVERING THE prince of darkness, the avant garde obscurantist Scott Walker... I can't help but feel Bowie is laughing hard inside that he'd present himself with such stuff. A big inside joke.
Saw this on YT Saturday, spent Sunday studying Scott Walker.
Rainy
@@TheWolfSaidPoofy Thank you very much! Excellent article; very enlightening.
Joke? Love.
There's more to Mr Bowie than you realise...
What a generous and grand gesture to present his long awaited new album with his cover of a Scott Walker song.
greatest singer ever
magnificent suit also
Lyrics:
There's no hold
The moving has come through
The danger passing you
Turns its face into the heat and runs the tunnels
It's so cold
The dark dug up by dogs
The stitches torn and broke
The raw meat fist you choke
Has hit the bloodlite
Glass traps open and close on nite flights
Broken necks feather weights press the walls
Be my love, we will be gods on nite flights
With only one promise, only one way to fall
Glass traps open and close on nite flights
Broken necks feather weights press the walls
Be my love, we will be gods on nite flights
With only one promise, only one way to call
On nite flights
On nite flights
On nite flights
Only one way to fall
On nite flights
On nite flights
On nite flights
Only one way to fall
Love this song, and what an elegant man. Peerless!
SCOTT WALKER IS THE BEST MALE SINGER EVER... AND A GREAT COMPOSER - NITE FLIGHTS IS AMAZING!!!
I was late to David Bowie. This is the man 15 year old me fell in love with in 1993. Little did I know then he’d become one of the greatest loves of my life.
Tu nous manques David c'est terrible...
By far the best version Alive of Scott Walker’s song!! Bowie 🙌🙏
godlike
Looking so exquisitely gorgeous in this period, doing Scott Walker's equally exquisite 'Nite Flights'. Bowie's better vocals go in & out of Walker's & Anthony Newley's. However both men are no David Bowie.
Bowie. An otherwordly mix of beauty, vision, disruption and charm. Resistance is futile. We must obey his call.
Very well put.
He is my god ..Rock god
I adore Scott Walker, but this... how could ANYONE do better than this????? Even if Walker wrote the song and made it a great one of course, who could give it a better staging than David Bowie?
...and good hairdresser too :-)
Had he toured Black Tie, White Noise, it would've been awesome and faired better on the charts. Singer on the left is George Simms, a Serious Moonlight tour alumni from 10 years earlier. He had just finished touring with Tin Machine about a year before and most likely didn't want to leave his bride.
Number 1 David Bowie voce incredibile!
OH MY...This was my favorite song !!!
It's interesting to listen to this after Scott's original. Bowie does his damnedest to smooth it over, but you can't smooth Scott over. In the end I just go back to the sheer genius that is the original every time.
As with James Dean who will eternally look forever young, so will Bowie.
he dead, bro
He looks better dead than most living persons. Ya know what I mean dude.
He was not as young as James Dean who died at the age of24 .....Bowie died with 69 so he didn't look that young anymore
Walter Moylan No, he looked seriously ill and unhealthy- shockingly so- in the years after his heart attack in 04. You’re a moron, and to a battle of wits, you come unarmed.
What a superb clip! I miss David Bowie so much. Spaceboy, gone too soon, music genius. R.I.P DAVID BOWIE ROCK LEGEND AND ICON.
It's what Leonakita wrote (12 years ago, lol), Bowie had a knack for covers. But no one can compete with the Scott Voice. Scott's version from the days of the Walker Brothers' re-union is darker, more techno, almost dystopic. Bowie degraded it to a disco song. In that aspect, it's a rocking showcase, with excellent background singers, but no more than that...
My favourite Bowie album, Black Tie, White Noise is an amazing album.
Backing vocals section looks like a Brooklyn real estate agency :) Thank you for the good times Sir.
For whatever reason, I've really been parking on both Black Tie, White Noise and Buddha of Suburbia lately. Both came out in 1993. Both of these albums kind of get a little lost in the shuffle, but there is a LOT there to love. Awesome performance. Thanks for the post!
I love you, David ❤️
Great version of a great song.
I am so lucky to have been alive to hear David Bowie's music.
Scott Walker’s original is so much better, but David loved his work and admired him incredibly, even.calling him his inspiration. Fun to see this interpretation again nonetheless. Thanks so much for posting!
The Master
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Amazing version! Can't tell how much (if any) of it is mimed. Vocals defo live but does anyone know if any of the instrumental is a backing track?
Very good, but nowhere near as good as the original.
Gracias Duke, gracias Maestro
So my favorite, his band was all good so good.
Thanks a lot, really great !!!
Wild T from Canada there!
class
Tonight....for you..!
I love his version of this song. While the vocals are very different and special in each version, I prefer the instrumentals in this one. They sound more confident than those in Walker's version.
Man, Bowie looked amazing here.
David Bowie, so overwhelming ~
what a great version of an great song!!!
Honey....did he just sing: The raw meat fist you choke??
This must have been pretty weird for the average American viewer of The Tonight Show in 1993 to hear a cover of a fairly obscure song being sung by David Bowie. The original LP of Nite Flights wasn't even released in the US in 1978, only available through import via Canada, the UK, Australia/NZ and the Netherlands. I am a huge fan of The Walker Brothers, especially the first four songs on Nite Flights and Scott Walker's subsequent solo career. If they were watching with the closed captions on they would have been mesmerized by the lyrics.
What a performer. Missed🙁
Yet another spectacular exhibit of Bowie's unparalleled, and iconoclastic artistry. What a treat to see all the talented musical collaborators from the BTWN album on stage with him here. No surprise whatsoever that he was executive producer of the Scott Walker Documentary entitled; 30th Century Man
David Bowie the top
He's so cool, when he sways in the opening..
I believe that's what you call panache..
I must say I love the original by Scott Walker most...and that is someone who is a huge and passionate admirer of Bowie. In fact, it's hard to say one version is better than the other. I love them both, with all my heart...one the raw original and the other a fantastic take on this with a slightly different spin.
Actually, Scott knew of Bowie, and Bowie was a massive fan of Scott. That’s an important distinction.
@@eleshasmith6064listen to Scott's birthday message to bowie. The two men had a real bond.
Feckn Brill!! 🙌 🌟
Holy crap this sucks. What happened? How do you mess up this song?
Absolutely musical perfection ,right there !
This is forever on my SpaceFace playlist.
Scott Walker version much better
Well, were you expecting to the same as Walkers...I love that Bowie takes chances and take us on a different trip...why would it be worth the effort to just do a boring cover?? You really don't get Bowie, Erin...how sad.
It doesn't even come close to the original masterpiece, but I guess we can't argue about taste
Hypnotic.
Fantastic presentation! I love this album 😊
Bowie covering the great Scott Walker. Sounds about right.
Superbo...
This lyrics is scary as hell.
Un genio. Es un temazo realmente
David Bowie is God
Beau oui comme BOWIE 🤩🤩🤩🥰🥰🥰🫠🫠🫠❤❤❤...
Feckn Brill!! 🙌 🌟
F....ing awsome!
How classy can this man even be! awesome artist and dandy...
RIP.
The Walker Brothers released the "Nite Flights" album in 1978.
"Low" was released in January 1977, and "Heroes" followed in October 1977.
A superb back up band.
Bowie doesn't know what he's singing about, which makes it even more interesting. It's style over substance… call it substance abuse, big time. It's like a hollow space that contains nothing, as the wings are coming off the plane, The forward motion propels the song, the noise sounds are magnetizing the shattering glass and Bowie is dreaming away in the storage compartment as the shards cut through the reality of nothing.
So glad you got me. It would have been very sad for me to argue with a music enthusiast on the New Year's Eve. We all need a year of empathy
lyrics: theres no hold the moving - has come thru the danger brushing you turns its face into the heat and runs the tunnels its so cold the dark dug up by dogs the stitches torn and broke the raw meat fist you choke has hit the BLOODLITE glass traps open and close on nite flights broken necks feather weights press - the walls be my love we will be GODS on nite flights with only one promise only one way to FALL
I remember when the Walker Brothera were the bees knees. Yeah it’s cool that people tune into Scott because of this but he had an entire career long before he became a footnote in Bowie’s story.
I love the song night flights
Bowie took an idea, a sound, and did his thing to make something very unique and very Bowie. That was one of his skills.
Treasure
David is so beautiful bless
THIS IS AWFUL! Huge Bowie fan, but Bowie himself would not make anything like this again. Fake moves, fake dance, everything is so fake in this video... its not glamour. Its too over. Bowie never did things like that again. It had nothing to do with the Song. By this time (early 90s) he was again with the producer of Lets Dance. Thats why... (The same who was on stage with Gaga in the awful "tribute" to Bowie.) Even his son disliked It and joked with the meaning of "gaga".
I disagree, Fernando. I think the interesting thing here is the artifice and stylishness of the presentation of a song about torture and political murder. Makes it all the more creepy and subversive. (Anyone who doesn't know what the song is about, during Argentina's "dirty wars," the government would torture dissidents ("meat fists," "broken necks" etc) and then fly them in planes over the ocean and drop them out, alive, to drown ("glass doors, open and close on nite flights"). Only Bowie could think to present such a dark, dark song with sophisticated glamour on the Jay Leno show!
Badguitar its not glamour. Its too over. Bowie never did things like that again. It had nothing to do with the Song. By this time he was again with the producer of Lets Dance. Thats why... (The same who was on stage with Gaga in the awful "tribute" to Bowie.) Even his son disliked It and joked with the meaning of "gaga".
+Badguitar no, it's not about that. it's just a random dream scott walker had once.
Are you sure about that Fred? I've read for years that this was about the Dirty War tactics. Or at least inspired by it - who knows, maybe the dream too. But the lyrics are too spot-on with regard to Argentina (and we know that The Eletrician is very pointedly about Argentinian state-sponosred torture), so I think it's more than a random dream.
Tasteless mafia cunts from the Trump wanking section have their 60 seconds of comment fame typing again + then get lost in a toilet of bad mafia taste.
He will always be the epitome of male elegance for me.
es solo tv...Tio David reinvindicò a su alter ego SCOTT WALKER,,(Un Artista increíble,,,),,y ese disco es una joya d los 90s increíble,,,,hasta el Tío Peter Gabriel sacò fotos en el backstage,,,,MASTER OBRA!!
Love this man but ...that's not a pocket man's handkerchief that's a dark green pocket man's tablecloth...brilliant
This one is a new performance for me. Lovely stuff. BTWN wasnt his best ever work but it reminds me of a great period in my life.
oh how this world is falling apart now that ziggy has departed... come back spaceboy you're presence is urgently required... brilliant clip and thanks for posting