omg! now that this is getting picked up by the algorithm after like two years i should set the record straight about why i picked the clips i did for each respective album so you can better understand my thought process david bowie - off to a strange start. art thou feeling it now? perhaps. perhaps not. depends on if you like music hall space oddity - the hippie album and bowie's first "real" album. salutations! tmwstw - lyrically has a running theme of mental illness or instability, hence "are you ready to go crazy?" as in literally going crazy hunky dory - bowie's first few big hits. it's a big ol' talent show(case) ziggy - the breakthrough record, hence "conquering all artistic media" aladdin sane - basically ziggy's younger brother. bowie is well-known for his androgyny during this period, hence "you're not a woman?" pinups was excluded on purpose diamond dogs - halloween jack is a real cool cat (and he wears an eyepatch) young americans - correction: not a *free-form jazz* record, per se, but a *soul* record. the free-form jazz bit was still the most obvious choice, though station to station - bowie is on tons and tons of cocaine during this period. he "sneaks in" this last album before getting off "the stuff" for good low - cocaine withdrawal album heroes - self-explanatory. bowie's mind is an enigma lodger - eno's oblique strategies cards were used extensively on this album. "move on" is "all the young dudes" backwards, "red money" is a re-recorded "sister midnight" (from iggy pop's the idiot, which is as much a bowie album as it is an iggy pop album) with new lyrics, etc scary monsters - this one is hard to explain so i won't. try interpreting it on an intuitive level based on the vibes the album gives off let's dance - dance? let's! tonight - in the midst of bowie's post-let's dance "pop star" phase. you gotta be kidding me! (tonight still has "loving the alien" and "blue jean," though, so it gets a pass from me. it's fine!) never let me down - generally considered to be bowie's biggest misstep, represented by LRH (played, as it happens, by bowie himself, which is the entire point) tumbling down a flight of stairs for comedic effect tin machine/tin machine 2 - bowie rejuvenates himself creatively after his 80s period by basically inventing grunge before grunge, hence "please hit me as hard as you can"-he needed a smack on the head to get the creative juices flowing again instead of just continuing to go through the motions, as he did with his last two albums. could also be interpreted in a completely different way; you decide! black tie white noise - bowie wants to be an artist in the 90s (he's an artist) outside - apocalyptic in *tone,* not in *quality.* big difference. it's really very good. a concept record about ritual-murder for the sake of art with a healthy dose of anxiety brought on by the impending turn of the millennium, hence the apocalypse "we saved the city!" bit earthling - drum and bass hours - the album artwork features multiple bowies; one i particularly like is the "three bowies and a snake" promo photo. if you know you know heathen - bowie has made lots of albums and this is one of them. he is a hard worker reality - anime eyes the next day - bowie's first album after a ten-year hiatus (reality was 2003, the next day was 2013) blackstar - RIP u
I understand now but I do think BTWN could have been improved, It's more than just bowie "Being an artist" in the 90s it's soulful, political, religious, it relates to the Marriage of him and Iman, I'd say the "will I get married" clip would be better but that's just me
@@HonsieurMerr alright, I personally like it, overall this is the most accurate albums portrayed by video on Bowie that I’ve seen, it’s funny, tongue and cheek, as a Bowie and spongebob fan I definitely got a kick out of it, even with albums I couldn’t quite understand I did get what you were going for particularly the heathen and reality album (I thought the heathen clip related to the overall existentialism and Bowie knowing he was getting old but Bowie giving it all in no matter what, I think heathen was proto blackstar and that reality related to the more happy go lucky and jovial sound to reality but I guess I miscalculated or can these clips have our own interpretation), a couple nitpicks is that some of these were more based off the cover or the name rather than the sound (that usually annoys me) but hey maybe they felt right or were the best clip you found which ain’t bad, my favourite has to be either the heroes clip or the last two albums overall 9/10
I don’t know whats more of a botched opportunity: the fact that Bowie was in SpongeBob musical episode and he didn’t sing, or the fact they didn’t make him a starfish, and called him “Ziggy Starfish”
I'm sure Low and Heroes used them to some extent, considering Eno was involved with those two records as well, but to my knowledge, they were used most prominently on Lodger. You can see this, for example, in "Move On" being "All the Young Dudes" backwards, "Boys Keep Swinging" having the same chord progression as "Fantastic Voyage" (that and band members swapping instruments), and "Red Money" being Iggy Pop's "Sister Midnight" (which Bowie co-wrote, him being heavily involved in Iggy's "The Idiot" album) with new lyrics. Probably other things too, but that's just what I remember from the top of my head.
my favorite albums are the berlin trilogy ones (low, heroes, lodger) but they can get pretty out there at times. if that's not your inclination, i'd probably start with stuff like ziggy stardust and hunky dory then make your way from there
omg! now that this is getting picked up by the algorithm after like two years i should set the record straight about why i picked the clips i did for each respective album so you can better understand my thought process
david bowie - off to a strange start. art thou feeling it now? perhaps. perhaps not. depends on if you like music hall
space oddity - the hippie album and bowie's first "real" album. salutations!
tmwstw - lyrically has a running theme of mental illness or instability, hence "are you ready to go crazy?" as in literally going crazy
hunky dory - bowie's first few big hits. it's a big ol' talent show(case)
ziggy - the breakthrough record, hence "conquering all artistic media"
aladdin sane - basically ziggy's younger brother. bowie is well-known for his androgyny during this period, hence "you're not a woman?"
pinups was excluded on purpose
diamond dogs - halloween jack is a real cool cat (and he wears an eyepatch)
young americans - correction: not a *free-form jazz* record, per se, but a *soul* record. the free-form jazz bit was still the most obvious choice, though
station to station - bowie is on tons and tons of cocaine during this period. he "sneaks in" this last album before getting off "the stuff" for good
low - cocaine withdrawal album
heroes - self-explanatory. bowie's mind is an enigma
lodger - eno's oblique strategies cards were used extensively on this album. "move on" is "all the young dudes" backwards, "red money" is a re-recorded "sister midnight" (from iggy pop's the idiot, which is as much a bowie album as it is an iggy pop album) with new lyrics, etc
scary monsters - this one is hard to explain so i won't. try interpreting it on an intuitive level based on the vibes the album gives off
let's dance - dance? let's!
tonight - in the midst of bowie's post-let's dance "pop star" phase. you gotta be kidding me! (tonight still has "loving the alien" and "blue jean," though, so it gets a pass from me. it's fine!)
never let me down - generally considered to be bowie's biggest misstep, represented by LRH (played, as it happens, by bowie himself, which is the entire point) tumbling down a flight of stairs for comedic effect
tin machine/tin machine 2 - bowie rejuvenates himself creatively after his 80s period by basically inventing grunge before grunge, hence "please hit me as hard as you can"-he needed a smack on the head to get the creative juices flowing again instead of just continuing to go through the motions, as he did with his last two albums. could also be interpreted in a completely different way; you decide!
black tie white noise - bowie wants to be an artist in the 90s (he's an artist)
outside - apocalyptic in *tone,* not in *quality.* big difference. it's really very good. a concept record about ritual-murder for the sake of art with a healthy dose of anxiety brought on by the impending turn of the millennium, hence the apocalypse "we saved the city!" bit
earthling - drum and bass
hours - the album artwork features multiple bowies; one i particularly like is the "three bowies and a snake" promo photo. if you know you know
heathen - bowie has made lots of albums and this is one of them. he is a hard worker
reality - anime eyes
the next day - bowie's first album after a ten-year hiatus (reality was 2003, the next day was 2013)
blackstar - RIP
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I understand now but I do think BTWN could have been improved, It's more than just bowie "Being an artist" in the 90s it's soulful, political, religious, it relates to the Marriage of him and Iman, I'd say the "will I get married" clip would be better but that's just me
that's a fair criticism. i'm not the biggest btwn fan, anyway, so i guess i didn't really try as hard on that one. oh well
@@HonsieurMerr alright, I personally like it, overall this is the most accurate albums portrayed by video on Bowie that I’ve seen, it’s funny, tongue and cheek, as a Bowie and spongebob fan I definitely got a kick out of it, even with albums I couldn’t quite understand I did get what you were going for particularly the heathen and reality album (I thought the heathen clip related to the overall existentialism and Bowie knowing he was getting old but Bowie giving it all in no matter what, I think heathen was proto blackstar and that reality related to the more happy go lucky and jovial sound to reality but I guess I miscalculated or can these clips have our own interpretation), a couple nitpicks is that some of these were more based off the cover or the name rather than the sound (that usually annoys me) but hey maybe they felt right or were the best clip you found which ain’t bad, my favourite has to be either the heroes clip or the last two albums overall 9/10
You forgot his album best of Bowie
0:51 its only fitting that David himself describes one of his albums
JustN64
And of his BEST ones
What he says? "Art is whats happens. You learn to _?"
Lodger is one of my favorite Bowie albuns and I didn't get the humour.
He's also holding a box of Eno's Oblique Strategies cards. The creator of this video really knows their shit.
@@NiloGiacomelli when you learn to dream
Didn't understand the joke yet, but thanks
i will never understand why they had david bowie guest star in a spongebob episode, a MUSICAL episode, and he still didn’t sing a song
Might have been a pun from bowie, I think it was intentional
Maybe copyright reasons? Could be similar to when Michael Jackson starred on the Simpsons but wasn’t able to sing.
He worked on the spongebob musical if that makes you feel better. Once you know what song it is it makes a lot of sense.
Probably because having him voice something is a lot cheaper than having him sing
oh my god, that was david bowie?? how did i not know that??
Best part about 1:18 is realizing that LITERALLY IS David Bowie but i’m pretty sure thats the whole point.
Station To Station is too accurate
It should’ve been the milk
Most definitely!
0:30
Ouch
And the song STS is in my top 5
1:55-2:00 this makes me sad but it's hilarious
Imagine how confusing this must be for somebody who only knows like three songs by David Bowie.
That's how I feel, because that's me lol
Same.
lmao
Let me guess lets dance, modern love and china girl? You should check out his other stuff its great.
@@zoeweathers9225 nah fame, let's dance and heroes
@@zoeweathers9225 starman, and scary monsters
The last one hits way too hard
So sad and accurate.
I dont get it
@@hotpikachu its bowies final album, published after he died, one of the songs was written when he knew he was dying, as a self reflection, Lazarus
@@wrac-ic5yv oh :(
Agreed
Never thought I needed David Bowie falling down stairs, but I guess I do
0:50 David Bowie actually voiced LRH!
1:08 This too.
Just realizing that Lord Royal Highness has the same initials as L. Ron Hubbard
Omg. He pulls out Oblique Strategies. This isn’t your average everyday Bowie humor. This is... advanced Bowie humor.
0:17 was the best haha
Ikr
0:07 The Man Who Sold The World intensifies
0:48 that is so accurate, especially because of the milk
Considering Heroes is my favourite album I audibly said "Bruh"
What has milk to do with Heroes?
@@arte0021 David Bowie was on the "white diet" at the time, which consisted of mainly milk and cocaine
>"Nobody cares about pinups"
Oof
am i not wrong
Honsieur Merr I do like it
That hits hard
Also, apparently no one cares about Tin Machine II.
And the buddha of suburbia
Outside should have been the Hall Monitor episode "He's just standing there... MENACINGLY" since it's a murder story and bowie plays all the parts
Earthing and Station to Station are too accurate
This is incredibly accurate. Like, unsettlingly so.
WHY IS THIS SO ACCURATE
I know right
The inner mechinations of my mind are an enigma.
This just made me realize david bowie actually voiced a character on spongebob? And my childhood self never realized that?
It's kinda frustrating how the Atlantis episodes are a musical but yet Bowie doesn't get the chance to sing.
As someone who LOVES Tin Machine... The Tin Machine part was really fucking funny.
Still blasphemous when they had David Bowie on the show in a musical episode and didnt have a sing.
Some of these are DEEP CUT references
Okay seriously I tell my friends this who’s a better British singer?
David Bowie or Ozzy Osbourne?
0:33
I'm dead...
Oh boy. I think I know why...
@@experiment248isgr8t cocainer
we know
Hunky Dory, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust, Diamond Dogs, Station To Station, Never Let Me Down, The Next Day, and Blackstar are true AF imo.
station to station and low fucking sent me holy shit
Perfect choice for Earthling
Oh my gosh you absolutely nailed his late 70s - early 80s stuff
Was waiting for the Station to Station one.
Outside and Earthling got me crying, they're too perfect
I will die on the hill that is Sorrow being a gem that everyone leave behind because it was on Pinups
Funny how in the Atlantis musical episode, David Bowie's character is the only character to not have a musical number.
I feel like the one for The Man Who Sold the World would work for Aladdin Sane as well.
Outside and Earthling were a fantastic one-two punch. So accurate!
The accuracy of this is stunning
Reality is so random and hilarious
Blackstar... Too accurate...
David bowie being in an actual SpongeBob episode was too cool
Why no Labyrinth soundtrack?
It isn’t a studio album just a soundtrack same as “Buddha of Suburbia”
@@Daniel-ct8tf yeah but magic dance and underground are some of the best songs Bowie made in the 80s no cap
Pin ups 1973
@@Zentraker i wouldnt say magic dance, but underground and as the world falls down definitely
I love that you got David describing David
I’m glad that they used scenes from the episode that Bowie guest starred in!
the description of earthling gives me hope for the musical and artistic world
cracked up at Heroes. especially with the milk. thank you for this!
The accuracy.
@ 0:52 it's David voicing that fish, don't believe me search it up
“I’m already hearing voices”
1:40 confirmo
0:30 Squid Tentacles Duke.
I'm laughing too much at the Station to station and Low albums 😭😭😭😭 it's perfectly describes them and there my two favorite albums
I just realized, LRH has two different colored eyes just like David Bowie who voices him
What's funny is Lord Royal Highness (0:50 + 1:16) was actually voiced by him
This is hands down one of the best things I've seen on YT.
The NLMD and TM2 bullying is uncalled for.
I don’t know whats more of a botched opportunity: the fact that Bowie was in SpongeBob musical episode and he didn’t sing, or the fact they didn’t make him a starfish, and called him “Ziggy Starfish”
Would you mind if I use a clip of this?
Never Let Me Down had me laughing myself sick.
From what I've learnt, wasn't Low/Heroes meant to be oblique strategies and not lodger?
I'm sure Low and Heroes used them to some extent, considering Eno was involved with those two records as well, but to my knowledge, they were used most prominently on Lodger. You can see this, for example, in "Move On" being "All the Young Dudes" backwards, "Boys Keep Swinging" having the same chord progression as "Fantastic Voyage" (that and band members swapping instruments), and "Red Money" being Iggy Pop's "Sister Midnight" (which Bowie co-wrote, him being heavily involved in Iggy's "The Idiot" album) with new lyrics. Probably other things too, but that's just what I remember from the top of my head.
The man who sold the world and hunky dory is accurate asf
Could you do TMBG next?
station to station and lodger 💀 tea though
0:51 and 1:18 That is actually Bowie’s voice acting
Heathen & Reality killed me!😆😅🤣🤣🤣😂
Fuck. These are all too accurate.
This is the only good one of these that I've seen.
this is my favorite singer
Me who doesn't know who David Bowie is because I don't listen to muaic: Ah, yes this video is so true.
1:41 - ok *too accurate*
1:08
Brah this had me SCREAMING
I know 0.03 % about David Bowie I just clicked on it bc of LRH in teh thumbnail
The last one was too real. I’m not crying...
A+ for creativity.
You didn't do one for Labyrinth.
Never Let Me Down is too accurate.
Same for The Next Day, Blackstar, Ziggy Stardust, Diamond Dogs, and Station To Station.
😔
Ahaha, the Earthling one was spot on!
what episode is the thumbnail from
Now "Devo Albums described by Spongebob"
i, too, am a fan of the funny whip it band. duty now!
you got my bowie in your bowie in spongebob
I don't even like Spongebob but this is weirdly accurate
0:00 Omg! Tingle!
This is the video I needed
Outside is perfect
Outside is an awesome record
1:41 is too accurate
I’ve never really listened to any songs by him what are some good albums to start with ?
my favorite albums are the berlin trilogy ones (low, heroes, lodger) but they can get pretty out there at times. if that's not your inclination, i'd probably start with stuff like ziggy stardust and hunky dory then make your way from there
New.
Favourite.
Thing.
0:51 what series ???
First one of these I've seen with no context
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH
The one for Young Americans is beyond accurate
Blackstar hit hard
weird to include Tin Machine but not Pinups
Black star be like-
never let me down was too good
this is such a specific idea
Fucking Earthling 😂😂😂
Young Americans was quite accurate
Killer Queen