oh tin machine we always loved you

I'm listening to it now for the first time since I was maybe 20

90s Bowie's voice is my favourite Bowie voice

But wow he is the worst lyricist sometimes, even the title "Goodbye Mr Ed"? in 1992? "Fare Thee Well, Herbie The Love Bug!" "See You Anon, Sammie Tong!"

i like the lyric about andy warhol's skull

http://wp.production.patheos.com/blogs/mysticpost/files/2016/05/mr.-ed.jpg

can't help it

are "tim machine" the best thing david bowie ?

if this had been called a David Bowie album instead of Tin Machine it would have been perceived as a return to form like New York by Lou Reed

Like New York, it has one good song: "Prisoner of Love". Like all of Bowie's records from 1983 to 2002, it was an important step to take to get back some of the artistic power he had lost.

I've always maintained part of the press's dim view of Tin Machine was that they were forced to talk to Hunt Sales, which is a fair point

Tin Machine II is the only Bowie record I haven't heard yet. I saw him in his green suit destroy Roxy's "If There Is Something" on TV and said, no way. If it were in print now, I'd listen.

I like II, "Sorry" Hunt's ballad is maybe the worst song ever recorded, other than that it's fine

Tin Machine should get their own box set in the ongoing series. The albums could probably do with a remix/remastering job, and they seem to have recorded a ton of live stuff.

TMII = a VERY Bowie record.
way more than TMI
there was a limited TM Live album released i seem to recall.

I liked the first one at the time, as mach as if not more than most Bowie albums of the era, tbh. "Prisoner of Love" is a great song, but I seem to recall other good ones on there, too. Granted, I haven't listened to it in eons, but I'd reach for it before, say, "Hours."

I do remember Tin Machine performing on the weird-ass rock awards, alongside the Replacements, Living Colour (doing "Johnny B. Goode") and ... Keith Richards solo?

Yep, The International Rock Awards. The Replacements were on it, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebzeb56SEaU

...which you mentioned.

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I also think I saw TM on SNL, where Hunt had iirc almost comically oversized cymbals and/or drums. Just huge.

I remember that SNL appearance, too. I think had a massive bass drum? Definitely not standard sizes. I loved their performance of “If There Is Something,” which took me by surprise (I didn’t know they’d recorded it; when I later heard the studio version, it was pretty much ruined by the awful production and sloggy tempo).

I was really happy when I realized Bowie's Twin Peaks character was probably turned into a machine in The Return because he told Lynch he was about to go on tour with Tin Machine during filming of Fire Walk with Me. From this interview:

Why did Phillip Jeffries take the form of a tea kettle?

I sculpted that part of the machine that has that tea kettle spout thing, but I wish I’d just made it straight, because everybody thinks it’s a tea kettle. It’s just a machine.

ive listened to these 2 albums for the first time ever just now and there's maybe 3 decent tracks out of 20 odd.

At the time of the first record there was a Scottish middle-distance runner called Tom McKean doing pretty well in European athletics championships, myself and my stupid mates would sing in our best crap Bowie voice 'Tom Mckean, Tom Mckean, take me anywhere...'

haha

if this had been called a David Bowie album instead of Tin Machine it would have been perceived as a return to form like New York by Lou Reed

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

uh it was in certain magazines!

My friend used to sing "Bank Machine, Bank Machine" while looking for an ATM.

A friend and I wrote a fake Tin Machine song called "Gun to Our Heads."

Which you're going to share a link to

I still have and love the entirety of the first album.

Never got around to listen to the second one, but I loved the promo video to "You Belong in Rock'n'Roll" when it came out, and the song belongs in my favourite Bowie tunes. I would certainly have made space on that 3-cd anthology for it and "I Can't Read" at least (another absolute Bowie peak irregardless of the performer name credit - so much so it rightfully featured on Outside-era live setlists).

I found Bowie's choice of delivery in "I Can't Read" unbearable.

Which you're going to share a link to

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, June 24, 2021

....written about 25 years ago after we discovered the first album on tape in the Nice Price bin. We found it ghastly but actually took pen to paper to write a song in that style. I have that paper somewhere.