| 词条 | Loving the Alien | ||||||||||||
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| name = Loving the Alien | cover = Bowie_LovingTheAlien.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = David Bowie | album = Tonight | B-side = Don't Look Down | released = May 1985 | format = {{hlist|7"|12"}} | recorded = Le Studio, Morin-Heights, Quebec, Canada, May 1984 | studio = | venue = | genre = | length = 7:11 (album version) 4:43 (single remix) | label = EMI America – EA195 | writer = David Bowie | producer = {{hlist|David Bowie|Derek Bramble|Hugh Padgham}} | prev_title = This Is Not America | prev_year = 1985 | next_title = Dancing in the Street | next_year = 1985 | misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|OOaqDEjxQAU|"Loving the Alien"}}}} }} "Loving the Alien" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie. It was the opening track to his sixteenth studio album Tonight. One of two tracks on the album written solely by Bowie, an edited version of the song was released as a single in May 1985, nine months after the release of lead single "Blue Jean" and eight months after the release of the album. "Loving the Alien" peaked at No. 19 in the UK Singles Chart. The song explored Bowie's "intense dislike" of organized religion.[1] "Loving the Alien" inspired the title of Christopher Sandford's 1997 biography of Bowie and the 2018 Bowie box set release, Loving The Alien (1983-1988). BackgroundOne of two tracks on the album written solely by Bowie, as a demo the song was simply called "1". The singer said the track "...came about because of my feeling that so much history is wrong - as is being rediscovered all the time - and that we base so much on the wrong knowledge that we've gleaned."[2] He recorded a demo of the song in Montreux, Switzerland prior to recording the song for the album.[3] Bowie later said that the production on the song undid the power of the lyric, saying he preferred the demo version,[4] and in a separate interview lamented "You should hear 'Loving the Alien' on demo. It's wonderful on demo. I promise you! (laughs). But on the album, it's ... not as wonderful."[4] PromotionA music video was co-directed by Bowie with David Mallet. The original video included a short shot of Bowie with a nosebleed; this original version was only released on the 1987 video single "Day-In Day-Out".[5] All subsequent releases of the video have the nosebleed scene edited out. An edited version of the song was released as a single in May 1985, nine months after the release of lead single "Blue Jean" and eight months after the release of the album. Critical receptionBowie's biographer David Buckley called it "the only track on the album with the gravitas of much of his earlier work".[6] Journalist Dylan Jones described it as "definitely the best song from the Tonight album".[1] Yo Zushi of the New Statesman described the song as a "seven-minute masterpiece".[7] While critical of much of Bowie's 1980s output in his appraisal of Best of Bowie in 2002, BBC reviewer Chris Jones stated: "Loving the Alien does have a strange distant beauty to it. Like watching a ballet through a telescope."[8] Track listing7": EMI America / EA 195 / EAP 195 (UK)
12": EMI America SEAV-7860 / 12EA 195 / 12EAP 195 (UK)
Download: EMI / iEA 195 (UK)
Live performancesBowie performed the song on his 1987 Glass Spider Tour[9] (released on Glass Spider (1988)). On the Reality Tour in 2003 and 2004, he again performed this song, but this time a stripped-down version with only Bowie on vocals and Gerry Leonard on guitar. Bowie said that the latter arrangement was perhaps "the way it should have always been done."[10] Other releasesThe song "Loving the Alien" appears on several Bowie compilation albums, including The Singles 1969-1993 (1993), some versions of Best of Bowie (2002), Sound + Vision (2003 and 2014 reissues), The Platinum Collection (2005), The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987 (2007), iSelect (2008), and Nothing Has Changed (3-CD version) (2014). The original album version, most of its remixes and b-sides all appear on the 2018 box set Loving the Alien (1983-1988). The original uncensored video for "Loving the Alien" appears on the "Day-In Day-Out" video EP (1987), and the censored version appears on DVD releases of Bowie – The Video Collection (1993), Best of Bowie (2002) and The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987 (2007). In 2002, Dutch-American producer the Scumfrog made a club mix of the song and released it as a single together with the original video of the song. Personnel
Chart performance
Cover versions"Loving the Alien" has been covered by several other artists. These include:
References1. ^1 {{cite news | url= http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1027216/Loving-Alien-Never-seen-pictures-David-Bowie.html | title= Loving the Alien: Never before seen pictures of David Bowie | work=Daily Mail | first=Dylan | last=Jones | date=1 August 2008 | accessdate=25 May 2016}} 2. ^{{citation |last=Murray |first=Charles Shaar |title=Let's Talk, A Conversation with David Bowie |journal=Rolling Stone magazine |issue=433 |date=25 October 1984 |pages=14, 18, 74}} 3. ^{{citation |last=Fricke |first=David |title=David Bowie Interview |journal=Musician magazine |issue=74 |date=December 1984 |pages=46–56}} 4. ^{{citation|url=http://www.davidbowie.se/bassman/articles/89/qm.html |title=Boys Keep Swinging |journal=Q magazine |date=June 1989 }} 5. ^{{cite book | title="The Complete David Bowie New Edition: Expanded and Updated" | last=Pegg | first=Nicholas | date=October 2016 | publisher=Titan Books}} 6. ^{{cite book|last=Buckley|first=David|title=David Bowie: The Music and The Changes|date=2015|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=978-1780389882|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lboSCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT78&lpg=PT78&dq=loving+the+alien+gravitas+earlier&source=bl&ots=85CZHHDrub&sig=6FIRkRI7rHDKHz3-EgwAQP5JjBs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiyor64runOAhXDCcAKHR7ACPIQ6AEIOTAD#v=onepage&q=loving%20the%20alien%20gravitas%20earlier&f=false|accessdate=30 August 2016}} 7. ^{{cite news | url= http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2016/01/defence-bad-bowie-why-his-least-acclaimed-album-my-favourite | title= In defence of "bad" Bowie: why his least acclaimed album is my favourite | work=New Statesman | first=Yo | last=Zushi | date=18 January 2016 | accessdate=16 August 2016}} 8. ^{{cite web | url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/j354/ | title= David Bowie Best Of Review | work=BBC | first=Chris | last=Jones | accessdate=16 August 2016}} 9. ^1 {{Citation| last=Bromberg| first=Craig| title=David Bowie (Interview)| journal=Smart|date=June 1990| pages=50–57}} 10. ^As recorded in both the official film and album from that tour. 11. ^{{Cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 |last=Kent |first=David |authorlink=David Kent (historian) |publisher=Australian Chart Book |location=St Ives, NSW |year=1993 |isbn=0-646-11917-6}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ultratop.be/nl/song/54db/David-Bowie-Loving-The-Alien|title= ultratop.be |language=Dutch|publisher=Ultratop|work=Hung Medien|accessdate=11 June 2017}} 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=David+Bowie&titel=Loving+The+Alien&cat=s|title=dutchcharts.nl |work=Hung Medien|publisher=MegaCharts|accessdate=11 June 2017}} 14. ^{{cite web|url=http://charts.org.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=David+Bowie&titel=Loving+The+Alien&cat=s|title=charts.org.nz |work=Hung Medien|publisher=Recording Industry Association of New Zealand|accessdate=11 June 2017}}
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