Sense of Doubt

Sense of Doubt

Song infobox
Name = Sense of Doubt
Artist = David Bowie
Album = "Heroes"
Released = October 14 1977
track_no = 7
Recorded = Hansa Studio by the Wall, West Berlin
July-August 1977
Genre = Electronic, Ambient
Length = 3:57
Label = RCA Records
Writer = David Bowie
Producer = David Bowie, Tony Visconti
prev = "V-2 Schneider"
prev_no = 6
next = "Moss Garden"
next_no = 8

"Sense of Doubt" is an instrumental piece written by David Bowie in 1977 for the album ""Heroes"". It was the first of three instrumentals on Side Two of the original vinyl album that segued into one another, preceding "Moss Garden" and "Neuköln".

Cited as "portentous" and "thoroughly foreboding",David Buckley (1999). "Strange Fascination - David Bowie: The Definitive Story": p.324] Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). "Bowie: An Illustrated Record": pp.92-94] "Sense of Doubt" is one of the darker tracks of the album, with a descending four-note piano motif juxtaposed with "an eerie synth line like a scrap of sound from a silent expressionist-era soundtrack". Brian Eno suggested that the contrasting themes were the result of he and Bowie each following an Oblique Strategies card to guide them in the track's overdubbing, Eno's directing him to "make everything as similar as possible" and Bowie's to "emphasize differences". [ [http://members.ol.com.au/rgriffin/GoldenYears/Heroes.html "NME" interview (1977) cited at Bowie: Golden Years] . Retrieved 20 May 2007.]

"Sense of Doubt" was performed on the Italian TV programme "L’Altra Domenica" in 1977 and throughout the "Heroes" tour in 1978.Nicholas Pegg (2000). "The Complete David Bowie": p.183]

Live versions

* A version recorded on the "Heroes" tour at the Philadelphia Spectrum in April 1978 was released on the live album "Stage".

Other releases

* It was released as the B-side of the single "Beauty and the Beast" in January 1978, a pairing that "NME" editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray considered "must be good fun on pub juke-boxes".
* A picture disc release appeared in the "RCA Life Time" picture disc set.

Cover versions

* Philip Glass – "Heroes" Symphony" (1996)

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