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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 23 January 2021 CE
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 23 January 2021 CE
Jan 24, 2021, 18:42
Fitter Stoke wrote:

David Bowie ‘Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)’ 45 - this late single is as indefinable as anything the great man ever released. Can’t help noticing its tonal similarity to Robert Wyatt’s ‘Team Spirit’, mind, particularly the latter’s “I beat the lot... I take the cake” bit. Am I alone?


The strangest thing for me about this record is the fact that an old work colleague of mine gets a song-writing credit on it. He was in a duo called Plastic Soul who released a couple of unregarded singles in the late 90s (plus one under the name Plastic Soup which I found in a local charity shop and presented to him when I got back to work in order to ask if he was the same Paul Bateman as on the record). Maybe it's because of the 'Plastic Soul' reference, but somehow Bowie heard one of their tracks and sampled it on 'Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)' and gave them half the writing credit. What an honour that must have been.
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