I wrote already about my interest in the new David Bowie Box Set coming out in October and focusing on his mid-late 1980’s output, specifically in the fact that it features a completely redone version of his album Never Let Me Down, which many, including Bowie himself, viewed as his worst album.  (You can read my previous ramblings about that topic here and here)

Slowly, tantalizingly, reworked songs from that album have been released.  You have the inspiration for reworking those songs with the release, a number of years ago, of the song Time Will Crawl, which I thought was incredibly good in its remade version.

Then, after the announcement of the reworked album, we got to hear the reworked version of Zeroes, which I very much liked as well.  Today, we have a third song, Beat of Your Drum.  Here is the reworked version which will appear on the upcoming boxed set:

As a comparison, this is the version which appeared on the album originally…

Ok, so far I’ve been very much impressed in each new remade version of the songs from Never Let Me Down but this time… I dunno.  I like the new version quite a lot but I have to admit: I’m not all that down on the original, so while this new version is interesting I find the difference not quite as startling as that with the previous two songs.

I’m still looking very much forward to the full album, though!