"Baby Universal" is a song by Tin Machine

Tin Machine

Tin Machine was a hard rock band formed in 1988, famous for being fronted by singer David Bowie. The group recorded two studio albums before dissolving in 1992, when Bowie returned to his solo career...

, released as a single from their Tin Machine II

Tin Machine II

Tin Machine II is an album by Tin Machine, originally released by Victory Music in 1991.-Recording:The band reconvened following their 1989 tour, recording most of the album before taking a rest while David Bowie conducted his solo Sound+Vision Tour and filmed The Linguini Incident...

album in October 1991. It was to be the band's final release before singer David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

 resumed his solo career.

A rock song, "Baby Universal" echoes some of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era lyrics, and musically shows the influences of bands such as the Pixies on Bowie at this time.

The single release was backed with tracks recorded at the band's BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 session recorded for Mark Goodier

Mark Goodier

-Early career:Mark Goodier was born in Rhodesia . His family moved to the UK when he was a child, eventually settling in Scotland. He was educated at George Heriot's School, in Edinburgh. He became a mobile DJ in Edinburgh and then joined local station Radio Forth at the age of 19...

's radio show on 13 August 1991, and a live appearance on Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...

, but would still chart no higher than #48 in the UK.

Track listing

7" version

1. "Baby Universal" (David Bowie, Reeves Gabrels) – 3:07
2. "You Belong in Rock 'n' Roll (Extended version)" (Bowie, Gabrels) – 6:32

12" version

1. "Baby Universal (Extended version)" (Bowie, Gabrels) – 5:49
2. "A Big Hurt (BBC version)" (Bowie) – 3:33
3. "Baby Universal (BBC version)" (Bowie, Gabrels) – 3:12

CD version

1. "Baby Universal" (Bowie, Gabrels) – 3:07
2. "Stateside (BBC version)" (Hunt Sales) – 6:35
3. "If There Is Something (BBC version)" (Bryan Ferry
   Bryan Ferry
   Bryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...
   
   ) – 3:25
4. "Heaven's in Here (BBC version)" (Bowie) – 6:41

Japan CD version

1. "Baby Universal" (Bowie, Gabrels) – 3:07
2. "Amlapura (Indonesian version)" (Bowie, Gabrels) - 3:53
3. "Shakin' All Over (live)" (Kidd) - 2:49
4. "Baby Universal (Extended version)" (Bowie, Gabrels) – 5:49

US promo CD version

1. "Baby Universal" (Bowie, Gabrels) – 3:07
2. "Baby Universal (Extended version)" (Bowie, Gabrels) – 5:49
3. "Baby Universal (BBC version)" (Bowie, Gabrels) – 3:12
4. "Stateside (BBC version)" (Sales) – 6:35

Production credits

Producers

• Tin Machine
• Tim Palmer
  Tim Palmer
  Tim Palmer is a British music producer, audio engineer and songwriter of rock and alternative music.-1980-1990:Palmer worked as an assistant engineer at Utopia Studios in London, England in the early 1980s...
  
  

Musicians

• David Bowie
  David Bowie
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
  
  : Vocals, guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Reeves Gabrels
  Reeves Gabrels
  Reeves Gabrels is an American guitarist, known for virtuosity, versatility, and originality. His compositions and improvisations defy genre and "explore sonic extremes with a great, adaptive intuition for what each song needs most."...
  
  : Lead guitar
• Hunt Sales
  Hunt Sales
  Hunt Sales is an American rock and roll drummer who has played with Todd Rundgren, his brother Tony Sales, Iggy Pop and Tin Machine.- Personal life : Hunt Sales is the son of 1950s/60s television comedian Soupy Sales...
  
  : Drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , vocals
• Tony Sales
  Tony Sales
  |Tony Fox Sales is an American rock musician. A bass guitarist, Sales and his brother, Hunt Sales, played with Todd Rundgren, Iggy Pop and Tin Machine with David Bowie.-Early life and career:...
  
  : Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , vocals
• Kevin Armstrong: Rhythm guitar