Live Versions and Covers
Sonic Youth performed the song together with Bowie at his 50th Birthday Bash in New York City in January 1997. A version recorded at GQ Awards, New York City, 15 October 1997, was released on LiveAndWell.com in 2000. Another version recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre, London, June 27, 2000, was released on the bonus disc following the first releases of Bowie at the Beeb in 2000. A version performed in Dublin, Ireland was recorded for the DVD A Reality Tour in 2003.
The American techno band Q covered the song for the 2003 compilation Spiders from Venus: Indie Women Artists and Female-Fronted Bands Cover David Bowie, a version which also featured on Hero: The Main Man Records Tribute to David Bowie (2007). The American metal band Fashion Bomb likewise covered it for the 2006 album .2 Contamination: A Tribute to David Bowie.
Swiss band MIZAN covered "I'm Afraid of Americans" on their second album, AVRASYA. Nine Inch Nails covered the song live in their 2009 Wave Goodbye Tour.
We Are The World also covered the song in for We Were So Turned On: A Tribute to David Bowie (2010).
The track was also recorded in Vienna in 2008 by Tackhead for inclusion on their "ShareHead" album, which is due for internet-only release in 2012.
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