Saviour Machine (song)

Saviour Machine (song)

Infobox Song
Name = Saviour Machine


Artist = David Bowie
Album = The Man Who Sold the World
Released = November 4 1970 (U.S.)
April 1971 (UK)
track_no = 6
Recorded = Trident and Advision Studios, London
18 April - 22 May 1970
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 4:26
Label = Mercury Records
Writer = David Bowie
Producer = Tony Visconti
prev = "Running Gun Blues"
prev_no = 5
next = "She Shook Me Cold"
next_no = 7"Saviour Machine" is a song written by David Bowie in 1970 for the album "The Man Who Sold the World". It is a hard rock song with constantly changing tempos about a machine that can stop wars and feed the people. The machine gets bored and threatens to kill everyone. Part of the song's melody is lifted from an earlier Bowie composition called "Ching-A-Ling" or "The Ching-A-Ling Song".

Cover versions

* Data Bank A - single
* Redd Kross - "Teen Babes from Monsanto" (1984)
* Sheriff Scabs - ".2 Contamination: A Tribute to David Bowie" (2006)
* Vice Squad - "The BBC Sessions" (1998)


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