Albums by this artist

All Tomorrow's Parties 1.1 (2002)

Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond (Recommended) (2001)

Flying Side Kick: Home Alive II (2001)

Colonel Jeffery Pumpernickel: A Concept Album (2001)

Fire And Skill: The Songs Of The Jam (1999)

Goth Oddity: A Tribute To David Bowie (1999)

Reich Remixed (1999)

bloomington . electronic . music . compilation (1998)

'X-Files: Fight The Future' soundtrack (1998)

The Bridge School Concerts: Volume One (1997)

Just Say Noel (1997)

Kicks Joy Darkness: A Tribute To Jack Kerouac (1997)

'Dead Man Walking' soundtrack (1996)

Home Alive: The Art Of Self-Defense (1996)

Music For Our Mother Ocean (1996)

Red Hot + Rio (1996)

Concerts

June 7, 2003
Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, N.J.

April 26, 2003
Empire Polo Fields, Indio, California

Various Artists

Goth Oddity: A Tribute To David Bowie

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» GINA VIVINETTO | STAFF WRITER

Various Artists Goth Oddity: A Tribute To David Bowie Cleopatra, 1999 RiYL: Goth and Bowie: a perfect combination.

First confession: If I had to take with me to a desert island the works of one contemporary artist, it would be the catalog of David Bowie. The reason? Bowie's work, from his start in the mid-1960s to the present, encompasses so many different genres -- and does it so well -- that I'd be assured of awesome Ziggy-era glam, neo-white boy funk circa Young Americans, electronic canoodling (the Bowie/Brian Eno trilogy of Low, Lodger, and Heroes), and fabulous dance stuff off Scary Monsters and Let's Dance.

The guy's a genius. He has tried everything, succeeding almost always. (Caveat: Notice I stopped raving at 1983's Let's Dance.)

Second confession: I am the sort of person who always secretly (okay, sometimes not so secretly) scoffs at goth rockers. I snicker at their black attire, their black lipstick, the Anne Rice tomes clutched lovingly to their breasts.

Goth music always seemed unnecessarily mopey to me. So, with weariness I picked up Goth Oddity: A Tribute to David Bowie.

I was wrong. Hear me? Wrong. This tribute compilation is what Bowie is all about. Experimentation. Interpretation. Fresh ideas mixed with homage. Style.

Turns out, these black-clad freaks have nailed Bowie. And the selections run the gamut of his oeuvre. From Nosferatu's awesome "Starman," to Trance To The Sun's delightfully nutty "China Girl" (imagine a woman crooning, "I feel a tragic like I'm Marlon Brando when I look at my china girl.'')

Christian Death does a nifty "Panic In Detroit." And two thumbs up to Tubalcain's cool, percussive "Andy Warhol," which samples Bowie himself.

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