SONG BATTLE: WHICH AM BETTAR BETTER VERSION?

[TVC15]

The Passenger.  One of Iggy's better compositions. 



Iddy's original.



Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Man, I would so fuck Siouxsie Sioux until it went on for too long and just became awkward and boring.

[Greatness Gone]

I'm going to avoid this question by bringing up THE FACT that Green Day totally sort of sampled off of this song and used it on Holiday.

[Diunx]

I would kill for Iggy Pop's body, seriously give me a gun and I fucking shoot somebody in the fucking face.

[muckhole]

I'll always have a soft spot for the Iggy Pop version. The other just doesn't get me going.

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The Siouxsie and the Banshees version is better, but you probably knew I'd say that.  I am enough of a gothofag to say that I prefer the Bauhaus version of Ziggy Stardust to the original.

As for Iggy's Passenger, what the fuck is with that horrifying backing vocal that pipes in during the LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA part?  It's simultaneously obnoxious and frightening -- it sounds like a drunken mental patient undergoing shock therapy.  I swear I don't remember it being there when I first heard the song so many years ago.  If there is a version that excludes or mutes that part, I'd probably rate the two versions pretty even.  

Most music fans would probably say the Siouxsie version is too over-produced with the horns and the bells and the more harmonized vocals, but I think the horns in particular make it pleasantly reminiscent of Oingo Bongo.

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

God dammit TVC, this is hard. I just might have to give the edge to the Banshees, their version is just more "fun."

[TVC15]

I'm not a fan of the horns.  Those are really my only complaint.

As far as Bauhaus' Ziggy, it was far too much of a literal take on the original that it didn't leave much of a mark on me.  Their cover of Eno's Third Uncle is absolutely incredible though.

The Banshees are totally a singles band to me, though.  I love basically all of their singles, but I can't get into the records, really.

[TEEEPO]

iggy.

[Phoenix Dark]

holy shit i'd let her buttfuck me with her nose

[Robo]

My vote is to Iggy.

As for Iggy's Passenger, what the fuck is with that horrifying backing vocal that pipes in during the LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA part?  It's simultaneously obnoxious and frightening -- it sounds like a drunken mental patient undergoing shock therapy.  I swear I don't remember it being there when I first heard the song so many years ago.  If there is a version that excludes or mutes that part, I'd probably rate the two versions pretty even.  

That's David Bowie.   Also my least favorite part of the song, but he only does it really obnoxiously the first time it's sung.  That might be why you don't remember it.

[Tauntaun]

I would kill for Iggy Pop's body, seriously give me a gun and I fucking shoot somebody in the fucking face.

Would you shoot me in the face? 

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It just got kinky. 

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[TVC15]

Siouxsie only got hotter as the years went on.





She'd totally get the dumpster treatment.