so yes, then, this post is something of a double triumph, look you see. once again i am having debatable degrees of success in not writing of Bowie at least once a month. also, i am, on the day today, writing of a particular song what i have written at length about before. like, for instance, here, two (2) years ago from the date on which this is published.
do i have anything of reasonable (or slight) interest that i could possibly say further on the subject of the song strangers when we meet? unlikely. but, or and yet, still, an awful lot of life has happened since i last wrote of it, two years ago. in fairness, or to be fair, quite an extraordinary amount of life has happened since i first heard the song, falling in love with it instantly, in late 1993. wow. nearly 30 years, then. and yet it remains sounding so fresh, so new on each play.
well, that much (the latter parts of the previous paragraph) remains true of the first version of it, the original off of the extraordinary, incredible buddha of suburbia album. easily one of his finest and most accomplished albums (allowing for all having favourites), yet bewilderingly not considered or classified in full as an actual Bowie album. strange, the world we have made. the re-recorded version, for the record 1.Outside and then issued as a single, isn't bad at all. i just prefer the original. for me the original has a significantly better, more hypnotic tempo, and the vocal what Bowie does on that remains, for me, the personification of a perfect Bowie vocal. others may disagree, but this is just me.
for those reading this who have for some reason never (ever) heard the tune, wish to do so but are not inclined to immediately leave this site, here you go, a video. alas, sadly, or maybe, it's just the short single edit, off of top of the pops when that remained a (valuable) thing. rather seek out the version i love so, but for now, press play if you wish.
it is with just some sense of steely resolve i write more of this subject, then. essentially a blog is supposed, or so i am told, to be all of the writer going "me, me, me". given the chance to speak to a theoretical global audience, then, what i would do with such a forum, or if you would stage, would be to state that strangers when we meet off of Bowie is an excellent song, full worth the time of just south of five minutes to hear in its original variation, no matter what who or where you are.
oddly, though, or i suppose, is that in the last two (2) years it is so that another version has come into my collection. this one is of course the live one, for it featured on one of the six ill-advised, poorly done brilliant live adventures (ahem) series. just played that version again now, and whereas it is by no means bad, well, let me rather put the original on again, thanks.
parts of my day (today), then, shall most certainly be spent listening to this fine tune, considering how excellent it is. yeah, as i would imagine (or assume) is reasonably clear from the above, it will be the original version what gets a spin. but, well, why not the other versions too. sure, it is tempting to just put it on repeat and drift away, perhaps one day.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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