Bowie superfan here..Moonage Daydream is part the The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. It especially good in context with the rest of the album- the whole of which deserves a reaction...but just from that album you really need to hear Rock 'n' Roll Suicide, Starman, Five Years, Suffragette City, Ziggy Stardust, Lady Stardust. so really the whole thing...but at minimum Rock 'n' Roll Suicide, and Starman.
Agreed Sir. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide is a minimum react. I would like to say also that Starman is a great first time listen that has to be experienced but hasn't been in my Bowie playlists for a number of years now. Rock on! \o/
Then understand his morphing into the Diamond Dog short era and then into Young Americans and being the Thin White Duke.....He was non-stop changing. Perhaps do a reaction to "Changes"
Absolutely right. It's a package deal with Ziggy, in my top 3 albums ever. Takes me back 50 years to being laid back in my residence room with a joint and nowhere to be but there.
David Bowie is so great and yes you can’t help but make stank face listening to that great song. The song Stay will give you stank face too! His Diamond Dogs album is so great too!
You know I love most of your reactions as it is but this one was spectacular. Watching your face change as the songs crescendo really started taking off was beautiful. Thank you keep listening to more Bowie.
@normankennith7919 - I think he was alluding to the fact that Ronson's playing isn't super technical, however it's played with conviction and feeling.
@@Oldschoolnana Japanese Rockers The Yellow Monkey did a Mick Ronson Memorial Concert titled “Play, Don’t Worry in Heaven. They Crushed it playing Bowie Ian Hunter Mott the Hoople & Ronson Songs
There is no better musician / creator / artist than Bowie. You’ve an amazing journey ahead of you! Try: Aladdin Sane, Panic in Detroit, Stay, Beauty and the Beast, We are the Dead, Station to Station, Rock n Roll Suicide, Jean Jennie, Width of a Circle, The Heart’s Filthy Lesson, Little wonder, that’ll get you going! 😊
@davidfisher8821 Agree with many. Polo will like the proggy-ness and bass line of "Station to Station". Also, for 'stank face', "Fame". But for Bowie's incredible four-octave voice, "Young Americans" should be on the list.
The Greatest Single Recording of My generation (1970's) Ironically after this album he morphed into a completely different musician and sound & still stayed on on top
Mick Ronson, the guitarist, was just insane on this entire album. He had some of the greatest guitar hooks ever recorded and man could he shred it when the song called for it like in this. I almost find myself waiting for his magical guitar as much as I do Bowie's incredible vocal performance. Talk about two artists at their peak complementing each other perfectly.
Mick Ronson was the real driver in this period of Bowie. Bowie is a great song writer and front man but his real skill was picking collaborators to work with.
Ohh man. You HAVE to do Ziggy Stardust, Life on Mars, Starman, and Changes.....all incredible tracks and all from his incarnation as Ziggy. Then you could do more of his later stuff like Modern Love. A completely different sound.
Man, I slept on this record for years. Really put it in the rotation heavy and it's ended up on my top 10 rock albums of all time list. Not a bad track.
So glad you did this one it's outstanding, the guitar solo by Mick Ronson is one of the best solos ever recorded, the whole album is a masterpiece...pick any song.. they are mind blowers.
Hey Polo. Strong suggestion for Bowie especially during the Ziggy and Spiders from Mars phase, checkout the Live from the Santa Monica Civic 1972 I believe. Spectacular performances from the great Mick Ronson. who I believe has been totally lost in Rock history as a lead guitarist on the same level with Page, Clapton, Iommi, May etc. Anyway great accoustic version of Space Oddity, amazing version of Sufragette City, the Jean Genie. If you want to know what that experience was really like, check this out. available on RUclips. I know how you like to add tunes for when your cruising aroiund. Do yourself a favor and check this live performance out!
Great album, terrible recording. I saw the same tour in Long Beach at the Arena. Not only was Mick great on guitar, but he also sounded like Bowie on vocals, so when you heard them together it was this surreal kind of thing going one.
@@JohnGeorgeHill Yeah I saw this live show but for some reason couldn't remember whether it was '72 or '73. I don't think the recording is all that bad considering it was 50 yesrs ago and a live show. I think KFWB covered it live with B Mitchell Reed, no?
I've got the '72 album. I usually prefer studio albums over live recordings with a few notable exceptions. Many of Neil Young's live albums are spectacular, because he really cared about the recordings. Later on I lived only a few blocks from the Santa Monica Civic. Saw many great shows there, including The Kinks, The Pretenders and Elvis Costello. Good times.
This (Ziggy Stardust) is basically a movie, abstract and unworldly. "Five Years" sets it all up. (Kind of surprised nobody has made a movie based on this.) Good story about this. I was working for Billy Jack Productions and had to go to 5th Avenue in San Diego (very big with the pimps, hookers and junkies at the time) I had to collect the ticket money and take it to the bank the next day. Thousands of dollars in my attache case walking to my hotel, which was another story. In planning my trip, I picked the cheapest hotel near the movie theater, (which was a porno house usually except for this one occasion) and the reason why the hotel was so cheap, was most of it was being renovated, and most of the floors were unfinished. Absolutely no one on my floor, and all the adjoining doors were unlocked so I could go from room to room. All I had for entertainment was my little cassette player, Sennheiser headphones and two cassettes, Ziggy Stardust and Alladin Sane. No TV. For one week I played those tapes, so I knew them backwards and forwards. THIS IS THE BEST ALBUM TO HEAR WITH HEADPHONES. (Okay, maybe "Dark Side of the Moon" also) Saw him twice in concert, but the "Ziggy" tour was the best.
As far as reactions go, that Ziggy Stardust hasn’t happened is a crime when you’re delving into Bowie. I can’t pick a favorite. He’s been such a massive influence on my life. I wouldn’t be who I am without him.
I'd suggest his song, Young Americans, from his R&B/Soul phase. The Young Americans album introduced Luther Vandross on backing vocals and vocal arrangements. Carlos Alomar played guitar, he was the house guitarist at the Apollo. As far as favorite Bowie songs, his catalog is so huge it's really hard to put a best list together. No kidding.
The key figure in this period of Bowie's career was MICK RONSON--a totally underrated guitarist who also arranged the music. This entire album is absolutely killer. Another solid and thoughtful reaction, Polo.
With Bowie’s Absolutely Amazing Vocals & Eclectic Songwriting along with Mick Ronson on Piano Melotron String Arrangements and That Other Worldly Guitar Solo makes Moonage Daydream the Best Song among other Amazing Songs from Bowie’s Signature Album Ziggy Stardust
I was 15 when this Lp was released David continued to shake the foundations of the music world for the next five Decades!!!... Love the Mans music!!!....
Congratulations! You just have been exposed to the 70s rock genre of GLAM! You also have discovered one of the greatest rock guitarist of all times, the formidable Mick Ronson, who played with Bowie during this period and on this album. Yes, this is a great song, but not his greatest work, not even on the album it’s from, “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars!” This song is what is called a ‘deep track,’ meaning it wasn’t a single and didn’t get radio play and/or a promotional video. The only ones who heard it were those who bought the album or heard the album some other way. The greater songs in most folk’s opinion (including mine) are Starman, Suffragette City, Rock and Roll Suicide, and a non-single that still got radio play, Ziggy Stardust. This song is great. The other songs will blow your mind to smithereens. Best yet, listen to the album as one complete artistic experience. A great later track from his next studio album the following year, 1973’s “Aladdin Sane” is The Jean Genie. It is also Glam with the Spiders From Mars, including Ronson. Be sure to watch the official video to see Ronson!
Other Glam acts were T-Rex, Roxy Music, and Sweet. By the way don’t confuse 70s Glam Rock with a different genre, 80s Hair Metal sometimes called Glam Metal.
Live Width Of Circle his metal one. In the actual film performing live West Berlin / 1981 Christiane F. The Alienation of Cold war Berlin and School girl Heroin addicts. Various tracks. Heroes. Early 90s I'll Survive melodic rocker.
Just react to the whole Ziggy Stardust album, dude. My favorite Bowie albums are from Berlin, with Brian Eno producing, Low, Heroes, and Station to Station. The Bowie iceberg is about the size of Antarctica. Good luck.
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David Bowie had what seemed like no transition from one full length long playing album/record to the next. When you listen to it all from start to finish it makes sense listening from one era to the next, but back then it couldn’t have. Whether or not David Bowie was “a rocker, a mod, or a soul boy” etc, he was indeed a changeling(chameleon)and a purposeful gender bending performer and a good actor in life as well in performing. A world class performer on the world stage.
HI POLO GREETINGS FROM ENGLAND 🇬🇧 BOWIE IS AN ICONIC ENGLISH SINGER AND HE CONTINUALLY CHANGED HIS MUSICAL STYLE AND YOU SHOULD CHECKOUT SINGING THE SONG "HEROES" LIVE AT THE FAMOUS LIVE AID CONCERT IN 1984 AT WEMBLEY LONDON AND THIS PERFORMANCE IS ABSOLUTELY ELECTRIC AND SO WORTH WATCHING TO SEE BOWIE LIVE IN FRONT OF 100,000 PEOPLE.
Highly recommend a look at the live version of this from the documentary film "Ziggy Stardust". This song features a sort of spotlight moment for guitarist Mick Ronson, who plays the solo here as well. There's one moment when he just lets his guitar feedback with that cool echo effect he uses here, and holds it out just over the audience's heads, facing down, and occasionally girls crowded up front will make contact with the strings, pushing the sound into some pretty novel dimensions...
I love a lot of Bowie and am not interested in some of his catalog, but he is always different and interesting. Ziggy Stardust is a great album. RIP David
This and Hendrix's All Along The watchtower are probably the two most important songs in my life. Discovered them in 82 when I was 15, and coincidently around the time I discovered weed.
Look Back in Anger, We Are the Dead/The Candidate, Queen Bitch, and Cat People (album version and soundtrack version) for rarely mentioned gems, Rock & Roll Suicide for a where-has-it-been-all-my-live classic (OK, really, that goes for every track on ChangesOne).
Great reaction Polo!! You're beginning to understand why Bowie's called The Chameleon! He becomes whatever persona that album represents! Love this track. HIGHLY suggest a few tracks from his 'Thin White Duke' persona (~1983) - Let's Dance, China Girl, Modern Love. This track is from Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust - another track to check is Starman! Something from slightly earlier would be The Man Who Sold The World (1970) You're right - never know what to expect with Bowie (RIP)! Cheers!!
And then he has this long list of "radio friendly" songs in which he doesn't sacrifice his creativity just to please a larger audience. I'm telling you, this guy is a legend. Try "All The Young Dudes", "Panic In Detroit", "Aladdin Sane" (incredible piano solo), "China Girl", "Let's Dance", "Diamond Dogs", "Young American", "Rebel Rebel", I could go on all day! My favorite artist.
Bowie superfan here..Moonage Daydream is part the The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. It especially good in context with the rest of the album- the whole of which deserves a reaction...but just from that album you really need to hear Rock 'n' Roll Suicide, Starman, Five Years, Suffragette City, Ziggy Stardust, Lady Stardust. so really the whole thing...but at minimum Rock 'n' Roll Suicide, and Starman.
Agreed Sir. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide is a minimum react.
I would like to say also that Starman is a great first time listen that has to be experienced but hasn't been in my Bowie playlists for a number of years now.
Rock on! \o/
5 Years
Then understand his morphing into the Diamond Dog short era and then into Young Americans and being the Thin White Duke.....He was non-stop changing. Perhaps do a reaction to "Changes"
There’s only a few albums I put in the flawless category, this one of em
Absolutely right. It's a package deal with Ziggy, in my top 3 albums ever. Takes me back 50 years to being laid back in my residence room with a joint and nowhere to be but there.
David Bowie is so great and yes you can’t help but make stank face listening to that great song.
The song Stay will give you stank face too!
His Diamond Dogs album is so great too!
50 years after release this track stands the test of time it is brilliant and still sounds fresh. Mick Ronson's solo is superb
You know I love most of your reactions as it is but this one was spectacular. Watching your face change as the songs crescendo really started taking off was beautiful. Thank you keep listening to more Bowie.
Jane's Addiction
Electric Eye reminds me of Iggy and The Stooges TV Eye- requested
Mick Ronsons outro solo is class
The live version is a face melter!!
oh, yes indeed!!!
And its so simple tho... anyone can play it, a demonstration that complex isnt better.
anyone can play? but who's to do it?@@AlexTapisevic
@normankennith7919 - I think he was alluding to the fact that Ronson's playing isn't super technical, however it's played with conviction and feeling.
Bowie reinvented himself with every album. One of the most creative artists of all time. Also surrounded himself with the most amazing musicians.
Wait for it
Wait for it
Wait for it
Mick Ronson’s Other Worldly Guitar Solo
Out of This World 🎸
From the heavens.
❤❤
@@Oldschoolnana Japanese Rockers The Yellow Monkey did a Mick Ronson Memorial Concert titled “Play, Don’t Worry in Heaven. They Crushed it playing Bowie Ian Hunter Mott the Hoople & Ronson Songs
Fav!!
Im an alligator!
Mick Ronson was a beast
LIFE. ON. MARS IS A MUST POLO
I absolutely love this song , and the albun , The Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust
Five years and Rock'n'Roll suicide are the best songs from this
David Bowie was a creative being, thrust into an unprepared world LIGHTYEARS ahead of our time. I miss him GREATLY!
Yes! He was way ahead of his time!
Well said .Same.
This whole album and the previous one, Hunky Dory, are two of the best rock albums of all time.
True.
Mick Ronson: guitars and classical arrangements. passed away to soon, RIP Mick
"Oh! You Pretty Things" is one of my fav Bowie tracks.
Nevermind the 'tip of the iceberg', you haven't even see the Bowie iceberg yet ! Deep artist.
Bowie grew up and went to school with Peter Frampton. Framptons father was the headmaster. Had to be a Crazy school.
Please do yourself a favor and listen to the entire Ziggy Stardust album.
On your own time put the whole lp on and get the full effect.
Bowie's peak.
Check out the video of the live version from the final Ziggy Stardust concert (Hammersmith Odeon, 1973). Mick Ronson's solo is beyond mind-blowing!
Yes an absolutely must. Ronson at his best.
Greatest guitar solo of the 70s there.
Yes absolutely.
"Lets Dance," My favorite Bowie track with guitar Solos by the GOAT Stevie Ray Vaughn
I like the groove of golden years
There is no better musician / creator / artist than Bowie. You’ve an amazing journey ahead of you! Try: Aladdin Sane, Panic in Detroit, Stay, Beauty and the Beast, We are the Dead, Station to Station, Rock n Roll Suicide, Jean Jennie, Width of a Circle, The Heart’s Filthy Lesson, Little wonder, that’ll get you going! 😊
For me, PJ Harvey is up there with Bowie for the attributes you described.
LOVE Panic In Detroit
@davidfisher8821 Agree with many. Polo will like the proggy-ness and bass line of "Station to Station". Also, for 'stank face', "Fame". But for Bowie's incredible four-octave voice, "Young Americans" should be on the list.
LOVE Panic in Detroit
Life on Mars
At 14 yrs of age this song and Ziggy album blew our minds!
The Greatest Single Recording of My generation (1970's) Ironically after this album he morphed into a completely different musician and sound & still stayed on on top
Should be listened to as an album in its entirety , not for reaction but for your personal enjoyment
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The live version from Ziggy Stardust the Motion Picture has IMHO Mick Ronson playing the greatest live guitar solo of the 70s.
I’m Afraid of Americans would be a good first listen for you from his later work. Bowie rules.
You're gonna love Bowie's "Life on Mars"
Mick Ronson, the guitarist, was just insane on this entire album. He had some of the greatest guitar hooks ever recorded and man could he shred it when the song called for it like in this. I almost find myself waiting for his magical guitar as much as I do Bowie's incredible vocal performance. Talk about two artists at their peak complementing each other perfectly.
Bowie & Ronson
Perfect Together
In my book, 'Wild is the wind' is one of the best song from Bowie's catalog. 'Panic in Detroit' is also an excellent track.
The vocals on Wild is The Wind…. ❤
Panic in Detroit, for sure!
Wild is the wind is actually at Nina Simone song, but nice cover indeed
@@michaelhansen2922 cool, I didn’t know that! Thanks 🙏
This entire album is phenomenal
Mick Ronson was the real driver in this period of Bowie. Bowie is a great song writer and front man but his real skill was picking collaborators to work with.
Ohh man. You HAVE to do Ziggy Stardust, Life on Mars, Starman, and Changes.....all incredible tracks and all from his incarnation as Ziggy.
Then you could do more of his later stuff like Modern Love. A completely different sound.
Man, I slept on this record for years. Really put it in the rotation heavy and it's ended up on my top 10 rock albums of all time list. Not a bad track.
So glad you did this one it's outstanding, the guitar solo by Mick Ronson is one of the best solos ever recorded, the whole album is a masterpiece...pick any song.. they are mind blowers.
Come on man. It's a great song but The solo is nothing that remarkable lol
@@MidwestFarmToysTo each his own I guess.
Hey Polo. Strong suggestion for Bowie especially during the Ziggy and Spiders from Mars phase, checkout the Live from the Santa Monica Civic 1972 I believe. Spectacular performances from the great Mick Ronson. who I believe has been totally lost in Rock history as a lead guitarist on the same level with Page, Clapton, Iommi, May etc. Anyway great accoustic version of Space Oddity, amazing version of Sufragette City, the Jean Genie. If you want to know what that experience was really like, check this out. available on RUclips. I know how you like to add tunes for when your cruising aroiund. Do yourself a favor and check this live performance out!
Great album, terrible recording. I saw the same tour in Long Beach at the Arena. Not only was Mick great on guitar, but he also sounded like Bowie on vocals, so when you heard them together it was this surreal kind of thing going one.
@@JohnGeorgeHill Yeah I saw this live show but for some reason couldn't remember whether it was '72 or '73. I don't think the recording is all that bad considering it was 50 yesrs ago and a live show. I think KFWB covered it live with B Mitchell Reed, no?
I've got the '72 album. I usually prefer studio albums over live recordings with a few notable exceptions. Many of Neil Young's live albums are spectacular, because he really cared about the recordings. Later on I lived only a few blocks from the Santa Monica Civic. Saw many great shows there, including The Kinks, The Pretenders and Elvis Costello. Good times.
Listen to Stay.
I just love that song!!
This (Ziggy Stardust) is basically a movie, abstract and unworldly. "Five Years" sets it all up. (Kind of surprised nobody has made a movie based on this.) Good story about this. I was working for Billy Jack Productions and had to go to 5th Avenue in San Diego (very big with the pimps, hookers and junkies at the time) I had to collect the ticket money and take it to the bank the next day. Thousands of dollars in my attache case walking to my hotel, which was another story. In planning my trip, I picked the cheapest hotel near the movie theater, (which was a porno house usually except for this one occasion) and the reason why the hotel was so cheap, was most of it was being renovated, and most of the floors were unfinished. Absolutely no one on my floor, and all the adjoining doors were unlocked so I could go from room to room. All I had for entertainment was my little cassette player, Sennheiser headphones and two cassettes, Ziggy Stardust and Alladin Sane. No TV. For one week I played those tapes, so I knew them backwards and forwards. THIS IS THE BEST ALBUM TO HEAR WITH HEADPHONES. (Okay, maybe "Dark Side of the Moon" also) Saw him twice in concert, but the "Ziggy" tour was the best.
Don't miss his last Black Star, very avante garde
The Guitar outro and the orchestration (both courtesy of Mick Ronson) are the making of this track.
Been a megga fan since 1970 and still love him and his songs and variety of disguise he went to to reinvent himself. ❤😢
I saw him three times in the 70's! No better showman on this planet!
As far as reactions go, that Ziggy Stardust hasn’t happened is a crime when you’re delving into Bowie.
I can’t pick a favorite. He’s been such a massive influence on my life. I wouldn’t be who I am without him.
Yay ,more Bowie 🎉. This entire Ablum is spectacular!
This whole album is a masterpiece, a must listen beginning to end. The Mick Ronson guitar movement at the end is epic.
I'd suggest his song, Young Americans, from his R&B/Soul phase. The Young Americans album introduced Luther Vandross on backing vocals and vocal arrangements. Carlos Alomar played guitar, he was the house guitarist at the Apollo. As far as favorite Bowie songs, his catalog is so huge it's really hard to put a best list together. No kidding.
Lots of horns in that one too. Great song!
The Young Americans album is fantastic!
One of my faves from Bowie.
Let's Dance(extended version) and Life on Mars? are must listens
The key figure in this period of Bowie's career was MICK RONSON--a totally underrated guitarist who also arranged the music. This entire album is absolutely killer.
Another solid and thoughtful reaction, Polo.
Youre absolutely right!! No other guitarist like Mick!!
Mick Ronson on guitar. A very underrated man. On guitar.
he never got a chance, he died in the 70s
The Live version of this song is what you're actually looking for.
So much great music from him throughout his career. Too much great music to rank it easily. I just spent two weeks listening to twenty albums by him.
"Suburban Love" by Japan is a nice follow-up, influence-wise.
With Bowie’s Absolutely Amazing Vocals & Eclectic Songwriting along with Mick Ronson on Piano Melotron
String Arrangements and That Other Worldly Guitar Solo makes Moonage Daydream the Best Song among other Amazing Songs from Bowie’s Signature Album Ziggy Stardust
I was 15 when this Lp was released
David continued to shake the foundations of the music world for the next five Decades!!!...
Love the Mans music!!!....
One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite albums of all time!
It just goes to show the variety of '70's rock music.
You will love Stay from the album Station to Station which is all good. I could go on but one at a time.
Not enough people react to this song, one of his very best on possibly his best album
One of his best songs. You should have watched the live performance from the 1973 concert Hammersmith Odeon. Amazing.
Congratulations! You just have been exposed to the 70s rock genre of GLAM!
You also have discovered one of the greatest rock guitarist of all times, the formidable Mick Ronson, who played with Bowie during this period and on this album.
Yes, this is a great song, but not his greatest work, not even on the album it’s from, “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars!”
This song is what is called a ‘deep track,’ meaning it wasn’t a single and didn’t get radio play and/or a promotional video. The only ones who heard it were those who bought the album or heard the album some other way.
The greater songs in most folk’s opinion (including mine) are Starman, Suffragette City, Rock and Roll Suicide, and a non-single that still got radio play, Ziggy Stardust.
This song is great. The other songs will blow your mind to smithereens.
Best yet, listen to the album as one complete artistic experience.
A great later track from his next studio album the following year, 1973’s “Aladdin Sane” is The Jean Genie. It is also Glam with the Spiders From Mars, including Ronson.
Be sure to watch the official video to see Ronson!
Other Glam acts were T-Rex, Roxy Music, and Sweet.
By the way don’t confuse 70s Glam Rock with a different genre, 80s Hair Metal sometimes called Glam Metal.
Ronson doesn’t get the credit he deserved
This album is a Timeless Gift for the Ages !!
Yeah. I agree. A timeless gift.
Live Width Of Circle his metal one. In the actual film performing live West Berlin / 1981 Christiane F. The Alienation of Cold war Berlin and School girl Heroin addicts. Various tracks. Heroes. Early 90s I'll Survive melodic rocker.
Just react to the whole Ziggy Stardust album, dude. My favorite Bowie albums are from Berlin, with Brian Eno producing, Low, Heroes, and Station to Station. The Bowie iceberg is about the size of Antarctica. Good luck.
Another great bowie song is Golden Years
If you thought that Ronson guitar solo was great, check out the live version and get blown away👨🎤🧑🏼🎤👩🎤
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I subscribed before watching. Love that u did this song. Keep up with the classics brother. 🤘🏽
David Bowie had what seemed like no transition from one full length long playing album/record to the next. When you listen to it all from start to finish it makes sense listening from one era to the next, but back then it couldn’t have. Whether or not David Bowie was “a rocker, a mod, or a soul boy” etc, he was indeed a changeling(chameleon)and a purposeful gender bending performer and a good actor in life as well in performing. A world class performer on the world stage.
Go with “Golden Years” or “Starman” of earlier stuff like “Changes”
HI POLO GREETINGS FROM ENGLAND 🇬🇧 BOWIE IS AN ICONIC ENGLISH SINGER AND HE CONTINUALLY CHANGED HIS MUSICAL STYLE AND YOU SHOULD CHECKOUT SINGING THE SONG "HEROES" LIVE AT THE FAMOUS LIVE AID CONCERT IN 1984 AT WEMBLEY LONDON AND THIS PERFORMANCE IS ABSOLUTELY ELECTRIC AND SO WORTH WATCHING TO SEE BOWIE LIVE IN FRONT OF 100,000 PEOPLE.
The word genius is banded around far too easily but in Bowie's case.....he was a genuine genius.
Bowie has a ton of incredible tracks, but his most unique is Fame. Keep listening to him, whatever gets suggested, just don't miss out on it.
Wait till you hear Sweet Thing, his absolute best vocals ever!!
Highly recommend a look at the live version of this from the documentary film "Ziggy Stardust". This song features a sort of spotlight moment for guitarist Mick Ronson, who plays the solo here as well. There's one moment when he just lets his guitar feedback with that cool echo effect he uses here, and holds it out just over the audience's heads, facing down, and occasionally girls crowded up front will make contact with the strings, pushing the sound into some pretty novel dimensions...
What a guitar solo from Mick Ronson - just wow!
Awesome song from a stellar album.
Do yourself a favour and watch the live version of this song. Mick Ronson on guitar does an insane solo stink face times a million.
That guitar in the end is out of this world
I love a lot of Bowie and am not interested in some of his catalog, but he is always different and interesting. Ziggy Stardust is a great album. RIP David
❤❤ pleas listen to Five Years! By David Bowie ❤❤
Bowie was a genius.
Always been my favourite Bowie song !!! Followed close by "PANIC IN DETROIT" and "FAME" ...
51 years after its release and it sounds as fresh
LEAD GUITAR BY MICK RONSON....UNDERRATED!!!!🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Nobody underrates Ronson, there just are people who don't rate him as they haven't heard of him
My favorite Bowie track
Just saw David Bowie show which singer imitates Bowie...and they did 25 songs!!! We all sang along!!!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼❤❤❤❤❤👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Check "Station to Station".
Try 'All The Young Dudes' 'Suffragette City' 'Starman' 'Rebel Rebel' 'Changes'
I loved, love David Bowie!
This and Hendrix's All Along The watchtower are probably the two most important songs in my life. Discovered them in 82 when I was 15, and coincidently around the time I discovered weed.
Amazing artist. So much to choose from but 'Wild is the wind' (longer version esp.) is very moving and different again.
Bowie has a vast catalog...check out I'm Afraid of Americans, China Girl, Young Americans, Everybody Says Hi.
Look Back in Anger, We Are the Dead/The Candidate, Queen Bitch, and Cat People (album version and soundtrack version) for rarely mentioned gems, Rock & Roll Suicide for a where-has-it-been-all-my-live classic (OK, really, that goes for every track on ChangesOne).
This is a classic , from a classic Album , but. MOONAGE DAY DREAM from David live , really kicks arse , like ,Panic in Detroit , LIVE AWESOME, RARARA
Bowie music, like his look and his fashion constantly changes. Try "Changes", "Fame" or "Let's Dance" for alternatives.
This whole album is a masterpiece. Unfortunately forgotten by many today
Did you know David Bowie discovered Luther Vandross? Luther appears on "Young Americans"
Great reaction Polo!! You're beginning to understand why Bowie's called The Chameleon! He becomes whatever persona that album represents! Love this track. HIGHLY suggest a few tracks from his 'Thin White Duke' persona (~1983) - Let's Dance, China Girl, Modern Love.
This track is from Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust - another track to check is Starman!
Something from slightly earlier would be The Man Who Sold The World (1970)
You're right - never know what to expect with Bowie (RIP)! Cheers!!
Great song.
Very experimental, bit like Paul McCartney.
Were drugs involved? perhaps.. certainly felt like a drugs experience in the music.
And then he has this long list of "radio friendly" songs in which he doesn't sacrifice his creativity just to please a larger audience.
I'm telling you, this guy is a legend. Try "All The Young Dudes", "Panic In Detroit", "Aladdin Sane" (incredible piano solo), "China Girl",
"Let's Dance", "Diamond Dogs", "Young American", "Rebel Rebel", I could go on all day! My favorite artist.