released their own version as the B-side to the Green track " Get Up". įormer Bauhaus singer Peter Murphy included a cover of "Funtime" on his 1988 album Love Hysteria. The Cars version was released on 1995's Just What I Needed anthology. The version with Buell's vocals was included on her 1981 EP Covers Girl Īccording to Brett Milano's liner notes for Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology, Pop was present at the recording session and complimented Orr's vocal impersonation of him, telling the bassist "You sound more like me than me." The song was later stripped of Orr's vocals and re-sung by fashion model Bebe Buell, whom Cars singer Ric Ocasek had befriended. ĭuring the sessions for 1981's Shake It Up, members of The Cars recorded a version of "Funtime" featuring bassist Benjamin Orr on vocals. Pop also performed the song on the television show Dinah! in 1977 with Bowie accompanying on keyboards and backing vocal. The Hunger also stars the co-writer of "Funtime", David Bowie.įollowing its studio appearance on The Idiot, a live version of "Funtime" was included on Pop's TV Eye Live 1977. The song was used in the movie The Hunger along with the song " Bela Lugosi's Dead" by goth rock band Bauhaus, whose frontman Peter Murphy later covered "Funtime". The song would also appear to have been inspired by the Sly & The Family Stone song "Fun", which appeared on their 1968 album Life. Most notably one of the riffs he plays is a parody of the main riff of The Rolling Stones' " (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". David Bowie wrote the music as well as plays guitar, synthesizers, piano and sings the main chorus on the track. Iggy had the idea for the song after hearing the Sex Pistols cover the song " No Fun" by his band The Stooges, lyrically the song's ironic take on fun is similar to the song in question. It has since been covered by multiple artists including Blondie, Boy George, Bebe Buell, Peter Murphy, R.E.M. It reflects Iggy and Bowie's growing fascination with the German music scene, and bears marked similarities to "Lila Engel" by krautrock band Neu!. " Funtime" is a song written by Iggy Pop and David Bowie, first released by Iggy Pop on his 1977 album entitled The Idiot.
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