![]() ![]() 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. 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). The original album version, most of its remixes and b-sides all appear on the 2018 box set Loving the Alien (1983–1988). The song "Loving the Alien" appears on several Bowie compilation albums, including Bowie: The Singles 1969–1993 (1993), some versions of Best of Bowie (2002), Sound + Vision (20 reissues), The Platinum Collection (2005), The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987 (2007), iSelect (2008), and Nothing Has Changed (3-CD version) (2014). Bowie said that the latter arrangement was "perhaps the way it should have always been done." A live performance from this tour, recorded in November 2003, was included on both a concert video (2004) and live album (2010). On the A Reality Tour in 20, he again performed the song, but this time as a stripped-down version with only Bowie on vocals and Gerry Leonard on guitar. Like watching a ballet through a telescope." Live performances īowie performed "Loving the Alien" every night of his 1987 Glass Spider Tour, released on home video as Glass Spider in 1988. 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. Yo Zushi of the New Statesman described the song as a "seven-minute masterpiece". Critical reception īowie's biographer David Buckley called it "the only track on the album with the gravitas of much of his earlier work". A single 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. 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", and all subsequent releases of the video have the nosebleed scene edited out. Several seconds of video showing Bowie with a nosebleed was censored from all official releases of the video after 1987Ī music video was co-directed by Bowie with David Mallet. The single's b-side, "Don't Look Down", a cover of Iggy Pop's song and included on Tonight, are remixed on both the 7" and 12" single release. Bowie later said that the production on the song undid the power of the lyric, saying he preferred the demo version, and in a separate interview lamented "You should hear 'Loving the Alien' on demo. 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." He recorded a demo of the song in Montreux, Switzerland prior to recording the song for the album. ![]() One of two tracks on the album written solely by Bowie, as a demo the song was simply called "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). ![]() 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. It was the opening track to his sixteenth studio album Tonight. " Loving the Alien" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie.
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