Gotye sounds and presents himself a lot like Sting...

I especially like Kimbra's vocals, but I really think WOTE took this song to another level.

I guess I am cynical since I think Goyte was trying for a certain sound that was lost in the production. It's got a Sting feel to it, a search for a Mideavil Feel.

WOTE is just refreshing and new and, even though they resorted to gmickry, they pulled it off with great aplomb...

My fiance listens to that song about a zillion times a day; she'll get a kick out of the cover.

It blew my mind the first time I saw it.

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Who would've thunk it. Sounds good!!!

"Life on Mars?" by David Bowie? And by God it was.

Possibly my favorite Bowie song. One of them anyway.
However, in all honestly I don't care for Barbra's version of it.
I think she rushes through it.

Here is what I consider the definitive recording of this song, a live performance by Bowie from 2002:

I remember in ninth grade, he had just released Ziggy Stardust. He played stuff from all four albums including, the Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud...

Then the next time through and the last time was in the 90's when he played with Adrian Belew and did a three hour show of his back stuff as a way of putting his past in the past. Obviously he was lying since he did this one in 2002.

LOL.

As I recall, he made a deal with EMI or something, in the 90s, where he got a one-time payment (something like $55 million) for the rights to all his old catalog, but not any royalties. So I guess he thought at that time he could just discard all those songs from his repertoire, since he no longer made any money off of them. I remember some kind of announcement in the early 90s that he had "retired" his old catalog but I didn't know about the money deal behind it. And I think there was some sort of stock offering where you could actually buy stock in the rights to those songs. Obviously though that "retirement" thing didn't last... perhaps it was the failure (in my opinion) of the boring "Tin Machine" project that got him to reintroduce his old songs to his shows. I wonder now if he has to pay royalties to EMI to perform his old songs! I have no idea, you are much more of a Bowie expert than me. All I do is listen to his records...

Cleveland was the next step passed NYC for Rock.

Springsteen came through in 74 and took over the town. I think Cleveland was one of the first cities that he scored big records.

One of the DJ's had a deal with the A&R guys fro several record companies and he always got sneak views. Cleveland loved to be on the cutting edge back then.

I think that first tour of Bowie's, he stopped in NYC then Cleveland then LA...

It's one of the reasons the rock-n-roll HOF is here.

kids who hear Bowie sing "The Man Who Sold the World" and think that he's covering a Nirvana song. Bowie said that really pisses him off.

Babs, no. No! Just no.

The original stands alone, and most perfectly so. My all-time favorite song, my all-time favorite video (directed by Mick Rock):