David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust & Suffragette City (REACTION//DISCUSSION)
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Now i think you need to hear "Dixie Chicken" by Little Feat. Don't sweat it if you don't listen to it for the channel. There are just too many songs to keep up.
@@maruad7577 love some Little Feat, that live album is just awesome
@@daveking9393 I found a live version with Emmylou Harris, Bonny Raiit and someone else joining the band on Midnight Special. It was good but too short.
Cannot be unheard
Hunky Dory is chock full of really great tracks. Surely one of his best.
Seconded.
Yeah, definitely. It's favorite Bowie album after Ziggy.
Rodzilla here. Strangely enough I spent a pandemic-sequestered vacation at home and listened to a lot of Bowie albims again for the first time in decades. Hunky Dory is probably second best after Ziggy. Bowie was prolific but there are a lot of meh tracks on many of those albums (sort of like the Stones that way). But Ziggy and Hunky Dory are start to finish great albums.
Another is Low, though very different, with some Eno-ish almost-ambient on the second side.
@@David-iv6je I'm different. I think Hunky Dory is an absolute masterpiece! "Quicksand" and "Bewly Brothers" are incomparable!
What spilled out in that stuff, along with the rest of the album are so indicative of the brilliance to come.
YESSSS Ziggy, Aladdin Sane, and Hunky Dory..his 3 best, imo
"Don't lean on me, man, 'cause you can't afford the ticket."
Bowie was just effortlessly cool.
I think you'll find it's can't afford the chicken. 😉
@@styot LOL!
It's going to be hard NOT to hear "Can't afford the Chicken" from now on... 😂
I recall a line in Quadrophenia "Don't touch the cloff, Boff'...
All the ladies voted, they were drawn in by Ziggy's guitar, but it is his 'divine behind' that got them to the finish line, and the arachnids are absolutely livid with animosity. As always Peace.
Not sure the arachnids were livid about the ladies vote (suffragettes were agitating to get the right to vote ☺️). The arachnids were rightly livid when Ziggy announced at the Hammersmith Odeon concert it was the last ever without telling them first. 😔
@@suz5862 One of them knew.
This was a great Bowie era. Suffragette City was a massive song back in the day. Great sounds and uniquely Bowie. I suggest tracing Bowie's career chronologically. That way you will learn how he changed and evolved over the years.
Agree. Chronologically.
Yes, the Laughing Gnome is a must.
I love anything Bowie. I grew up in the 70s . I like it when you break down the songs and lyrics. Bowie once said he cuts words out of magazines and toss them on the table to form his lyrics and write his songs. He was a master piece !
Utter brilliance in these two tracks. I loved them in '72, and I love them today.
That synth sound is actually double tracked sax played by Bowie. Gotta go with the Berlin trilogy next. Prime Bowie.
I concur
Your choice of songs really take me back in my life when things was fine and life was much simpler and easy. I'm from a generation to where most everything you'd say to a person either started with "hey man" or ended with the word "man." Was almost like a Cheech and Chong movie everyday. Was the hardest thing I every had to do was when I joined the Air Force and trying to hold back "man" when talking to senior sargents and officers. So funny to think back to that from now.
Imagine being a teen hearing this when first released in 1972.
There is a movie of Ziggy's Last Concert. It's amazing, the visuals are incredible. A leper Messiah is one of my favourite phrases, but the songs ooze beautiful phrases, and evoke the life of a band on the road. I saw him on the Glass Spider tour, which was a blast. And one of my favourite albums is Diamond Dogs, the last one he made before going to the States and making Young Americans, and doing the Cracked Actor documentary.
I don't know the Berlin trilogy and neither Blackstar, but it would be great to discover them through your channel.
Berlin trilogy are Low, Heroes and Lodger: all well worth discovering!
Aladdin Sane is his most glam rock album and is rich sounding with alot piano. i think youd love it. Or you could start Low of the Berlin trilogy or Scary Monsters. Personally you should go with Low next cause it shows his darker side and his more electronic side and he collabs with Brino Eno on most of the tracks
Aladdin Sane is an amazing album. It's the beginning of Bowie's decades long collaboration with pianist Mike Garson. I was 13 when the album came out and was just haunted by Garson's playing on the title track. To this day, nearly 50 years later, the piano is still haunting to me.
I bought the album mid-June '72 week of release. As I recall, it was a $4.98 RCA (US) list price, soon to be on sale, regular-priced $3.99. But, sale-priced during the first week? $2.99! Having just finished my junior year in high school, 'twas a touchstone LP for me, and I know I wasn't alone!
Hunky Dory album is a must!
Just one of my favorite David Bowie songs of the Ziggy music. The band does a great job on these songs. Guitarist Mick Ronson (RIP) has incredible tone which makes Suffragette City a rocker.
When you finish off this album with "Rock'n'Roll Suicide" please also listen to the non-album 1972 single "John, I'm Only Dancing" as it deserves to be reviewed alongside.
John, I’m only dancing is one of my top five Bowie tracks.
Thanks for starting my day off in such an awesome way! Never get tired of Bowie. Hidden gems from him are Cracked Actor and Cat people!! 🤯
David Bowie didn't die...he just went back to his home planet.
Bowie with Ronson is my favorite Bowie era
Great stuff - great album. Love the laughs at the lyrics to Suffragette City (Manchester).
Wham Bam thank you ma'am. Two of the best and most influential rock songs ever.
Hi JP. Dave from London, back from a few days Living On An Island. This album's been a brilliant journey, which hopefully will lead to the follow-up, Aladdin Sane, my all time Bowie favourite, partly because it marks the studio debut of jazz pianist Mike Garson. Mike also played on Mick Ronson's solo albums; the Slaughter On Tenth Avenue title track is such a great cover of the old Richard Rodgers show tune.
Was just thinking about ’Slaughter...' the other day! Great track, love Mick and Mike too, each brought so much to the sound. 👍😘🎶🎹🎸🔥💞
Scary Monsters - for a huge huge contrast, totally iconic. Heavy & somewhat discordant. Harsh Fripp guitars. What's not to love? Really enjoying watching you react to the iconic tunes of my teens.
Soooooooo great to find a reactor that listens to the music then gives his thoughts at the end without interrupting every 10 secs to pontificate about every nuance , at the end of the day it’s the song that draws you in , usually it means a lot to you and you wonder what someone else’s take is. You’ve got it spot on and is exactly what I was looking for , liked/ subscribed 👍🏴
Ty so much Jay! I can only judge the song when I've heard it completely 😃 i appreciate you!
@@JustJP I like the cut of your jib sir and look forward to checking out your other posts 👍🏴
@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering thank you so much for the kindness, I hope you enjoy!
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Hey Justin ~ First off, it's suffra-jet, not get. The term comes from the Women's Suffrage movement, that started in 1903. If you were a member, then you were a suffragette. Secondly, this was, yet again, another incredible album that blew our minds when it came out in '72. Bowie wrote music and played music completely differently than everyone else, and this was another version of his ability and personality. I consider him to be the most diverse musical artist we've ever seen. Ziggy Stardust was a MUST HAVE album. If you didn't have it, people looked at you sideways. My suggestion for your next Bowie album is Heroes. He and Brian Eno collaborated on four of the tracks. Looking forward to seeing your reaction on whichever one you choose, because with Bowie, you cannot go wrong. =)
Whatever direction you go into I hope you listen to Starman and Is There Life On Mars. Two of my favorites.
He actually did Starman a few weeks ago as he has been working his way through the album.
Add "Space Oddity," "The Man Who Sold The World," and "Scary Monsters" and you could put a bow on it. Brilliant songs all!
The g in Suffragette City has a j sound. Classic Bowie album. Thanks for doing the whole album.
Like the J in José, the J in Johann, or the J in Jacques?
@@CCDzine More like Suf-fruh-jet
@@CCDzine Jacques
Ahh, the music of my youth. I haven't heard this in such a long time. Thanks for that.
Thank you! Justin, I enjoy watching your reaction more than any other bowie reaction video out there. I'm 57 and have been listening to bowie since I was 10 yrs. Old. But, I learn so much from your assessment of specifically David Bowie. One day I'd like to hang out and listen to some Bowie and just get to know you. You seem like a cool guy!
My favorite Bowie album. Love Ziggy Stardust. Bowie was ahead of his time 🙂
The older I get, the more I appreciate David Bowie.
When this came out I was a young teenager in primary school. I wasn’t interested in modern music yet, simply because it was barely available and I didn’t hear the music. Just a few years later that changed with with the pirate radio stations on ships on the North Sea and pop programs on television.
These 2 songs are the heart and soul of the album. It doesn't get better than this anywhere is rock music (imho.) As for the next album, consider this a vote for Scary Monsters.
Oh yeah, two great songs, love two song days. Twoooo song daze, you have your extra timely waze… into my soullll. When I rise, I find I can be surprised by just an extra song. They say you don’t belong, but just stay awhile, we’ll live it up in style…
Two song daze…
Peace and flower power Music
Bowie was such a singular talent. May never see his like again.
GREAT reaction! Bowie is my all-time fave. I’d recommend you do quite a few of his albums, there is so much treasure to mine. Aladdin Sane is the logical follow up, it’s been called “Ziggy comes to America.” It’s a tremendous album. The Berlin Trilogy is a perfect choice too. If I could wave my magic wand, I’d have you do Outside. It’s perhaps his strangest album…it’s certainly his most misunderstood and underrated recording. Over the years, it’s been rediscovered and reevaluated and has gained much deserved respect. I’d take it over Lodger or Scary Monsters anyway, it’s the first of his late career classics!
I heard both of these a lot on the radio growing up. Was blessed to have at least 4 classic rock stations broadcasting in my area.
We also had a lot of keg partying back then and these made it to most folks mix tape or playlist...
No matter your music niche you can find something fun and cool about these. Really enjoyed.
Great way to spend a few minutes each day. Thanks again.
This album is flawless. Even the B sides that aren’t in the album are fantastic 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
David Bowie.... genius.... this album is marvelous like several of Bowies albums.
What an amazing musical journey you are doing right now, Justin. It is fun to travel along the road with your videos. And I hope your videos give a lot of fellows the opportunity to discover some really good music.
Keep up the good work!
Ty Zefklop!
Hunky Dory is a great album.
It would be nice to see that since you never really see reactions to it!
Yup. Might shade Ziggy Stardust, imo.
@@kenl2091 1) Ziggy , 2)Hunky , 3) D Dogs, 4) Aladdin , 5) TMWSTW, 6) Scary Monsters, 7) Station , 8) Low, 9) Lodger, 10) Space Oddity .
"Suffragette City" is many things --among them an homage to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground (note stylistic and structural similarity to "I'm Waiting for the Man" and "White Light/White Heat"). And the "horn section" in it was made on a synthesizer.
I just love this album so much .
I've been blasting this album a lot in the car since you featured it in the channel. It still sounds so alive, so vibrant all these years later. 'Suffragette City' is such a wild, breathless ride, isn't it, leaves you gasping. Those Little Richard style keys, played on Trident Studio's famous Bechstein 'Hey Jude' piano, really do add a lot to the excitement, as much as Ronson's guitar and the bass. Where to go next? You could go forward and do the follow-up, 'Aladdin Sane' which features many of the same musicians, or go back one, to the classic 'Hunky Dory' which laid the groundwork for 'Ziggy' and features the stunning 'Life On Mars'. The Berlin Trilogy might also fit in well though as you've been listening to related albums by Iggy Pop and Eno. Whatever you choose, I'm sure we'll be with you!
Background on the word 'Suffragette' - suffragettes fought for the right to vote for women, they were called suffragists in the US, I think.
Great reaction. Love how you started the video by singing Hymn 43 by Jethro Tull. That song rocks😀👍👍
Ty Michael! Its a fantastic song 😁
When I think of David Bowie, this is where I go, it is HIS sound.
Yes that was Mick Ronson on Guitar , Piano , String Arraignments & Moog Synthesizer on Moonage Daydream Ziggy Stardust & Suffragette City
Bowie & Ronson
Perfect Together
Never be sorry for acknowledging the huge role that the bass plays in any song. The bass and the drums are the driving force in most every song. A really great bass player can make all the difference in the world. Paul McCartney for years was voted as one of the best bass players. He started to expand on what it meant to be the bass player bringing it more to the forefront of the band. And Geddy Lee, my favourite bass player and not to be forgotten Chris Squire of Yes who often had the same prominence on the stage he was that good. I like your analysis. To me you are right on the money.
Great choices to wake up to! Love Bowie from start to finish. You do a great job.
Ty Karen!
Bowie is just an amazing musician. He makes everything sound different even with similarities. Very unique
I recall Rolling Stone and possibly Melody Maker, voted Ziggy best rock LP of 1972
It’s suff-ra-jet.
Bowie is famous for his misheard lyrics. I’m glad you read the lyrics when you do your reactions. Also, his songs are open to several translations. He liked to hear other people’s meanings rather than telling us what he was writing about. He was such a wealth of information that I often had to go look up stuff he sang about (this was
before google, of course).
And he was an amazing songwriter. Listen to Cygnet Committee for some Springsteen/Dylanesque type lyrics.
You should have done side 2 in one go. Personally, as i’ve already said, i wouldn’t miss out Man Who Sold the World and Hunky Dory. Two of his best and most personal (lyrically) albums 🤔
An iron fist in a velvet glove...
Of the two tracks I now find I enjoy Suffragette City more . A lot of that is to do with the stereo mix and the hard hitting energy of the track. Bowie was rarely so aggressive, and it comes at just the right time on the album, especially considering the track to follow which closes things perfectly.
JP starts teasing us with ‘Hymn 43’, then into two of Bowie’s most iconic songs. You could jump around to Blackstar or the Berlin trilogy next, but it would make more sense to listen to the predecessors, ‘The man who sold the world’ and ‘Hunky Dory’.
Justin, my own personal opinion is to do them in order because you can follow his evolution better. I would go back to his guitar based, "Space Oddity" album from '69 & then '70s "Man Who Sold The World" album, both released before Ziggy. It helps to understand his growth & the way he was influenced by AND influencing the culture. This is probably not going to be a popular idea, but it can't hurt for me to throw my 2 cents in. I will be watching either way. 👍✌😁
Great bass lines in Ziggy Stardust...I know you would have to call that out! LOL...great way to start my workday!
Great morning, two great songs and a well dressed Justin giving great reviews. Two songs at once make sense when the songs are so short. It gives more flow and understanding of what an album is about. When I first heard this album I wasn't musically mature enough to appreciate it (Wishbone Ash was the best band in the world in my teen-age brain).
One thing I always loved about Ronson's guitar on 'Ziggy' was his intuituve use of 'grace-notes' in the first few bars.
'Ziggy played guitar' dum dum 'PING!'.
It shows his classical influence, and 'working' for the song.
Two of the best songs ever. And they aren't even the only ones on this magnificent album!
These two songs importance has been diminished by overplay on American FM radio. Used to love them but gravitate now towards all the other songs that didn't take the radio beat down. Thank God for self selected playlists!!!!
The odd names of the characters "Weird and Gilly" came from his influence of Stanly Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Bowie himself once stated to Rolling Stone writer David Sinclair that the look for his 1972 classic The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars reflected in part his love of the outfits worn by the sociopathic antihero Alex (played by Malcolm McDowell) and his ultraviolent droogs. Those costumes (black bowler hats, bovver boots, suspenders, codpieces) were the brainchild of designer Milena Canonero; by appropriating elements of “London street style,” she helped lay the groundwork for an iconic (and much imitated) look that wound up seeping into glam, punk, hardcore, and even heavy metal.
As the character of Ziggy got more and more popular the gap between Bowie and Ziggy narrowed and became one and the same. Bowie was living the character off stage too. The lyrics of the track already predicted the end of the band, and Bowie always had a shelf life for the project before moving on. None of the band were aware of it when it came to their final gig, Bowie just shocked them by announcing it on stage. Bowie continued to have the habit throughout his career of dumping his collaborators, not always giving them the credit they truly deserved, and when they were no longer part of his inner circle they were cold shouldered and rarely communicated with again. Glad to see you giving credit to others in the band, and how much they added to the legend.
..Ziggy Stardust.. album was the first I really got into. I love it. Check out the last two albums. From 2013 the tracks , The Stars (are out tonight) and Where are we now. From 2016 the track Lazarus.
You’re my favourite breakdown channel 🙏 love from Liverpool England
Ty so much John!
I love how out of tune the guitars sound in the beginning of Ziggy Stardust. It’s so imperfectly perfect.
Great review on this seminal album JP! Just wanted to give a heads up on an album that was inspired by and has a lot of similarities to Ziggy Stardust. It is Axe Victim by Be Bop Deluxe. This was Be Bop's first album and front man Bill Nelson changed the band's lineup afterwards since he didn't want to be known as a Bowie wannabe. You've listened to some songs from the Sunburst Finish album so you know what an elite composer and guitarist Nelson is. Give it a listen, you'll be blown away.
Two of my fav Bowie tracks.
The songs on this album are all incredible, but the songs that really make the album are 5 Years at the start and then these two songs bringing it home to Rock 'N' Roll Suicide. The album could easily have ended on a high note after Suffragette City, and it would have been perfect that way... and then it brings it right back down to earth, takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth...
Mick Ronson is so underrated. He really added a lot of the instrumental part of the Spiders but never got credit.
I've been watching for a while, love your content and your honesty. Please don't jump to Blackstar. Do Bowie in order of release and you will learn the magic in the same way we did. Not everything worked for me, but enough of them hit that spot to say Bowie IS, WAS, AND WILL ALWAYS BE A LEGEND
Appreciate it Poppa🙂
This is just the channel I’ve been looking for
Happy to have ya and hope you enjoy some good music🙂
I have a 12 string guitar signed by Bowie with his written, in quotes “Wham Bam thank you Ma’am! “
Man, this album has got to be one of my favourite albums of all time, if not my favourite album ever. I must have listened to this hundreds of times, probably 3 or 4 times a year since its release. It formed a massive part of my teenage years in the 70's. In a time when in real terms you had to pay a fair bit of money for music, and there was no Spotify with unlimited access to everything, this album was certainly value for money in spades. Hope you get as much enjoyment out of it as I have.
The Berlin Trilogy was a very interesting and experimental part of his career. Maybe it's because I was in my late teens at that time, but it's my favorite Bowie era, which is saying a lot.
These are two of the first songs I ever learned on guitar in my high school band days can you imagine the rush of hearing a crowd screaming oh wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am
Much as I like a good deal of the mid to late repertoire, probably mostly to do with Eno and Fripp, I've never found myself able to listen to this manifestation of Bowie music more than once.
Hi JP ! Thanks thanks thanks for reacting to Bowie in general, and to these 2 songs in particular ! Not that it is of any significance for anyone but me, but "Suffragette City" is THE song that got me into the Bowieverse when I first heard it, some 10 years after its release... That menacing drone sound throughout the song still gives me goosebumps after all these years !
As to "where to go next", a fair answer would be : "Anywhere your instincts tell you to go : you can't go wrong with Bowie, since all his albums are so different from one another". But I'm still vouching for "1.Outside" for entire selfish reasons :-p ! And if you don't pick this album, you will leave me no choice : I'll have to send it to your P.O Box !
Keep up the good work !
Interesting, Don't think I've heard many recommendations for that one
@@JustJP Not really surprising : Bowie's 70s albums generally get most of the credit, because most of them were groundbreaking and have inspired hundreds of artists in various genres. Also, after Bowie's flirt with mainstream pop success in the 80's, most of earlier Bowie fans just gave up on him and never gave his later material any chance (it's conceivable most of them never even listened to this album...).
One last possibility : this album is VERY challenging, bleak, frightening even sometimes... So much so that his record company asked him to add more "palatable" songs to the original set list after first hearing it ! I guess fans of the "Let's dance" era were just not interested to discover this dark facet of Bowie...
Today, many Bowie fans consider this album a classic, on par with Ziggy Stardust, Station to station or any of the Berlin Trilogy (but there are also many who just despise it and would rank it among its lowest albums...).
@@JustJP One of his best - but as far from Let's Dance as one could get. It's kinda like a fin de siècle Diamond Dogs.
Arguably the best two Bowie songs.
Ziggy Stardust always reminds me of the film, Velvet Goldmine.
Kudos Justin for singing "Hymn 43" by Jethro Tull in your intro 🤘👏
Great reaction and breakdown love this album , Metallica lifted the lyric ..
leper Messiah..( from ziggy ).and named a song of the same name on their master of puppets album .it's an Inspired lyric, but Bowie had a way with words .great channel Jp .
"Scary Monsters" is vastly underrated and deserves your smart and careful attention.
THE BASS THE BASS THE BASS LOVE IT I SAW DAVID BOWIE IN 1983 WESTERN SPRINGS STADIUM AUCKLAND AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND SERIOUS MOONLIGHT TOUR TOURING THE LET'S DANCE ALBUM STILL TO THIS DAY THE BIGGEST CROWD EVER IN NEW ZEALAND for an event
In the 70's it didn't matter the chaos or danger you and your friends were in if suffragette city was playing everyone would manage to get
aaaaaaaaaaah wham bam thank you mam out no matter your situation.
Hi Justin ! Ah! finally !! the outcome of this great album! Come back quickly for the last one! ...
he says "suffrajet" !
Man who sold the world is my favourite, two albums before this one. Heavy and proggy.
One thing that's lost with digital files is that there is no fade-out and no break between "Ziggy Stardust" and "Suffragette City"--just a couple of solo guitar harmonics at the end of the first and then the roar of the opening riff of the second.
Great songs that sound great together Iconic stuff loveYou
Berlin trilogy will be a definite change of direction and was signposted by Station to Station. Hunky Dory (the album before Ziggy) contains some of his best songs, including the immaculate Life On Mars? which you really do need to listen to before too long!
I know those three albums were recorded in Berlin, but I never knew why they are regarded as a trilogy. Musically and spiritually there's a strong connection between Low and Heroes, but Lodger seems completely different.
This album was released when I was in college and anyone who had it ALWAYS played it at full volume. Last track "Rock 'n Roll Suicide" and "Moonage Daydream" my favorites but in fairness there isn't a bad track on it.
My number 1 favourite album EVER !!
Used to enjoy singing along with Suffragette City back in the day, even though I didn't have a clue what the lyrics actually were (except the iconic 'Wham Bam, Thank you Mam' - I know it should be ma'am but he pronounces it Mam so that's what I'm sticking with!) One of his best.
Actually, that's how you pronounce "ma'am", so you're good.🤘
whaha love these reviews, will check more later. I died laughing for the can't afford the chicken part, sincerely a bowie fan.
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Great review. You've got to be tops at this!
"Wham, bam, thank you ma'am!". 'nuff said.
You HAVE to listen to the David Live version with Earl Slick, David Sanborn on sax and Garson on piano.
Brilliant reaction by the way.
You really channeled Ian Anderson there.
Just my $.02, I would recommend sampling some songs from "Scary Monsters" which featured Robert Fripp on guitar. Actually, the title track is a great place to start.