David Bowie – Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) on MUZU.TV.
I wrote last month about the new David Bowie single ‘Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)’ which is released next week (Monday November 17), as a 10″ single and download and also appears on his latest greatest hits compilation, Nothing Has Changed, which is released the same day. The video has now been unveiled, which is suitably noirish (and no, I don’t just mean it’s black and white) and can be watched at the top of the page.
The b-side ‘Tis A Pity She Was A Whore’ is available to download via iTunes and can be watched below. It’s utterly different – some Bowie fans have suggested it could date from the Heathen sessions. It’s not on the Nothing Has Changed compilation, just for the record.
So: two VERY different Bowie songs and a continuation of an amazing fifty year career…
Both excellent tracks, the first track ‘Sue’ is a heavily Scott Walker influenced track laced with DB’s crooned avant-guard vocal stylings. The brooding instrumental opening gives way to a flourish of Basie-esque big-band swing-era horn swells; punctuated by dramatic discordant Be-Bop Saxophone runs i
over an insistent drive