Tin Machine - One Shot Lyrics

Great song. Great guitar parts. Great band. Terrible video.

We Bowie fans need a restart on this period... Not only does he look so beautiful in these clips & live performances but the songs are mostly as good as anything he'll do in the decades after the 80's... 'You Belong To Rock 'N Roll' being the best

Great album Tin Machine II ... Love 'Baby Universa'l too!!

This was the band Iggy used when he toured The Idiot in 1977

Only partially true. Reeves Gabrels was not around with Bowie or Iggy back in the 70's. The Sales brothers were . They played with Iggy on his biggest song: Lust For Life. Those guys are Detroit natives and were wild brothers. So who does Bowie call up when he wants to put his own band together and get back to his Rock roots: the Sales Brothers. Reeves Gabrels was recruited to provide the guitar fireworks and amazing solos...

Tin Machine was GREAT!! wonderful live act!! the problem was the era full of moody teens who were all getting into Nirvana and didn't pay attention to much else :) to be honest :)

Ironic since bowie inspired a bunch of those bands

Super Boi, Always the sexiest, even if he was 45

Super Guitar

Whatever,. I like when they alive.

Tremendous song!

Tin Machine had to compete with David Bowie
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One shot , the best one of all times !!

Henri Pernod Very timeless 😎

Makes you appreciate people while their here.

Stereomusicvideo...thank you for this hi-def version - it's a well-edited beautiful and at the same time disturbing music video just like this song. The music David wrote with Tin Machine is highly underrated and this song is genius.

¡Larga vida a Tin Machine!

Aún recuerdo cuando vi este vídeo por primera vez en Disco Club, cuando en el canal del estado de Perú se tenía un concepto muy amplio de cultura y había un espacio para el rock (conducido durante muchos años por el genial Gerardo Manuel). Estaba yo en el cole en aquella época y de Bowie sólo me sonaba lo que se había escuchado en la radio comercialmente a inicios de los 80's (Modern Love, probablemente su tema más radiado en Perú), pero a partir de esto fue descubrir que Bowie era mucho más que un artista comercial, y propuestas tan arriesgadas como estas lo demuestran. Volver a ser un músico más de una banda para un solista consolidado me imagino que debe haber sido algo difícil de aceptar para la mayoría de fans, pero así de radical era Bowie, a veces haciendo cortes abruptos de tendencias que le hubiesen resultado rentables y le hubiesen encasillado, como cuando 'asesinó' a Ziggy Stardust y cerró el capítulo del glam rock. Coincido con los comentarios anteriores, los álbumes de Tin Machine fueron (y son) infravalorados dentro de la discografía de Bowie (aunque cierto es que dentro de una carrera tan larga se ven eclipasados por otros álbumes geniales suyos), pero que son producciones muy personales y que marcan el regreso a esa línea de experimentación de diferentes estilos que siguió durante los 90's y 00's, tras el bache creativo (aunque exitosamente comercial) que significaron los 80's en su carrera

Can't remember seeing this , we need another Best of Bowie with Tin Machine as well !

Mike West Right!

buy all the releases and listen to the art as bowie created it.

Have the tin machine albums been remastered cause if not someone needs to get on that

But some official best of Bowie contains TM but there are non UE or US realases : David Bowie Greatest Hits, Parlophone records 2016 russian

Sadly underrated, yet the sheep will still bang on about Tin Machine being Bowie's nadir. I personally think it was the start of his more personal latter period where he didn't invent personas, just sung it as himself. And that's why his music since 2000 has been so heart-wrenching and lovely in moments.

+jasonrattue - I never understood the vitriol and excoriation directed at Bowie for the Tin Machine period. It's not mindless heavy rock but very astute and acidic political and social commentary. Perhaps he hit the mark too closely, and the targets he aimed at didn't like it, who then shifted uncomfortably in their chairs and responded with bile.

I bought this cd back when it first came out. I liked a few tracks but didn't find it that great at the time. 23 years later I pulled it out of my cd drawer and (re)discovered it and found it much more enjoyable (before David died last year). What jumped out at me first as a guitar player, is how amazing Reeve Grabrels is on lead guitar. He is explosive and brings it all to every song: dive bombs, wahwah, power chords, smooth rhythm, etc.. The hunt brothers bring the driving rock beat, and David brings the melody, style and structure with his lead vocals and acoustic guitar. I think the reason why Tin Machine didn't work was because David's image was too great for the band to overcome. Everyone wanted to see David play Ziggy rather than move on with him to his next adventure. This was as stripped down as Bowie ever got as a rock singer, and it represented David simply being in a band with real band members, rather than people he would pick to record with or bring in for studio work - and then handpick another group of people to tour with. No costumes, no hairdos, no hiding his face behind another character. David seemed happy and healthy at this time in his life. Check out the live video of this song taken in Munich in 1991. It is much more powerful and up tempo than this recorded version.

I'm of the same mind. After Never Let Me Down I think he needed to reinvigorate his passion for music, and Tin Machine helped him get there. I don't think the later stage Bowie of Earthling, Heathen and Reality happens without Tin Machine. I love the albums in their own right, but appreciate them even more for the door they opened to what followed.