Saturday, August 6, 2016

Weekend Wildcard - Cat People (Putting Out Fire) by Shooter Jennings featuring Marilyn Manson

So I've be waiting to post this all week. This Weekend's Wildcard is Cat People (Putting out Fire). This video was released this past Monday and I cam across it on Facebook via Manson. I watched this amazingly bizarre 8-bit graphic style video and had no idea what it was, only that I loved it. I had never heard of Cat People before.

Let me see if I can do this is one sentence (Sorry English teachers):

This song by Waylon Jennings' son, Shooter Jennings, and Marilyn Manson is a cover of the theme song, originally composed by Giorgio Moroder and performed by David Bowie, for the 1982 remake of the 1942 erotic horror movie Cat People which is about werecats who are people that turn into panthers after mating with a human and must kill to return to human form.

Whew, I'm sure that was not grammatically correct but I wanted to point out how awesome and bizarre this track is. Shooter Jennings is a big Giorgio Moroder fan and decided to put out a tribute album in his honor titled Cauntach (For Giorgio). The Italian singer, songwriter, and DJ has composed numerous songs in films over the years. This track is the closing track on that album.

Manson does an outstanding job covering Bowie's vocals and the video also has some great tributes to the late icon. RIP!

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