He was and still is the most consistently evolving artistic chameleon of them all and essentially did it all. So many different sounds, theatrics, themes, looks, videos, I honestly don't know how he managed to do it all in one lifetime but the man was a fucking musical and artistic monster.
@@ChasingAnthems It was also aligned to come out as the first moon landing was happening. It was not a celebration of that though. One time Bowie said his early music often was about the illusion of the American Dream. In this song we see the advanced technology failing us as the cliches in space travel commentaries abound.
Great reaction, man! Yes, the song is from 1969 and it was released 5 days before the launch of Apollo 11 mission. Because the lyrics were quite dark, the BBC stopped playing the song until the Apollo 11 crew came home. Bowie said the song was about isolation an alienation. Literally it is about an astronaut who is lost at space because something goes wrong with his ship. There, alone in the vastness of space, he experiences being powerless, floating around a "tin can" while there's nothing he can do to change his fate. Another interpretation would be that his ship is ok, but he just decides to head into the void at full speed rather than keep contact with "Ground Control". Maybe the superficiality of the world he's leaving behind plays an important role in his decision, as the "papers" are only interested in the shirts he wears and the wife probably knows his reasons too ("she knows"). I am personally fascinated now by Bowie's early work. I love "Cygnet Committee", from the same album as "Space Oddity" and "The Man who Sold the World" album, especially "All the Madmen", "After All", "The Supermen". Why don't you listen to them chronologically to see the evolution of his themes and style? It's a lot to listen to, but I'd say it's worth it. Bowie was very interesting all his life. His last two albums are mind-blowing as well.
YES! A chronological journey through his journey through musicdome would be the ultimate bowie experience. No other reactors have ever done that to my knowledge. They jump all over time and it creates a disjointed conception of his own artistic journey.
I don’t think there was anything wrong with Major Tom’s vehicle. “… I'm feeling very still And I think my spaceship knows which way to go Tell my wife I love her very much she knows”
How can you call this a great reaction when he cut off the song's ending and spent more time questioning why it was even written than he did trying to understand it?
@@thecrye6798 This was an honest first reaction from someone who knew nothing about David Bowie. What I wanted to do was to encourage him to listen to more songs. Sometimes people do not understand Bowie at first, but they start to understand him if they listen to more songs. If you start criticizing people for their reactions, they will stop listening and they will develop an adversion for the artist.
David Bowie was always ahead of his time- including his parting Black Star. He is the soundtrack of my life. I adore him still. I love how Major Tom was in David’s last video. What a magnificent Magical Man❤️
Absolutely. I'm also a mad life long fan of Bowies too.I also felt it was very fitting and sentimental to include major Tom in the video of black star..He was also the theme track to my life .Got to see him live twice over his time and it was like an out of body experience .He was extordinarly talented .Bowie Forever ❤
Oh God. Can't even think! Can't imagine folks who didn't grow up with Bowie. They are missing out. I'm so happy they want to listen. However, I cry almost every day. My husband and David died on the same day.
@@elizabethgraeter7899If i had to pick a single musician to listen to because there was only one choice then it'd be him. The range of music over his life was all quite varied. From deep to fun songs.
In his much later song, Ashes To Ashes, he says: Ashes to ashes, funk to funky We know Major Tom's a junkie Strung out in heaven's high Hitting an all-time low
This was a re-recording, due to the huge success of Ziggy Stardust. The original was released in 1969, just before the Apllo 11 Moon mission. The song was inspired by both the Apollo missions and by the film, '2001 a Space Odyssey' which had been released earlier that same year. Btw, if you're wondering who Ziggy Stardust is, it's one of Bowie's stage personas. He'd regularly adopt a persona, especially early in his career, and would become that person for a couple of years. His 2 most famous are Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke. Each change of persona usually indicated a new musical style. Ziggy was best known for glam rock, with some rock and roll and some proto-punk thrown in for good measure. The Thin White Duke, who succeeded Ziggy, was best known for soul, funk and early new wave. Over the course of his career Bowie's written in virtually every major musical genre and has kickstarted a few genres himself. :)
It's not a re-recording. It's the original 1969 release. The video was made in 1972 filmed by Mick Rock after the success of the Ziggy album. It was subsequently re-released in 1975 and got to number 1 in the UK. The original release in 1969 got to number 5.
This song is inspired by the space program, the moon landings, and the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's also about fame, being an artist, drug addiction, and probably any number of other things. Bowie was one of the most intellectual performing artists ever. His work is subtle and layered. It doesn't try to explain itself. He crossed genres, styles, media, constantly changed his public persona, etc. He was, above all else, an artist to the day he died. The video itself is not about anything and is not trying to tell a story. As has been pointed out, the song is several years older than the video, and back when this was made, music videos were not a thing the way they are now. It was really just a a chance for us to watch him sing the song on film. Simple as.
In the late sixties Bowie did a number of novelty songs. He did his own version of Alvin and the Chipmunks entitled, The Laughing Gnome. He performed a song as child. Space Oddity was a novelty song that landed.
Since Country music tends to embrace story songs, I would have thought you'd have understood this story song from Bowie more than you did. Instead, you kept asking why the song was written. What inspires you when you write music? Do you ever write songs that are not actually from your own experience? Some writers like to imagine stories that they relate to emotionally, even if the stories within the songs are not their own experience. Bowie often wrote about emotional isolation. Here he uses the story of an astronaut lost in space to communicate that sense of isolation. His look - which was years before punk - was an original thing that shocked everyone at the time in the same way that you were shocked and confused. Bowie frequently adopted fictional personas for performance. The red hair and shaved eyebrows were a look he adopted for his character Ziggy Stardust. The Ziggy Stardust album is about a rock star delivering a prophetic message from an alien "star man," hence the alien look. The video was shot in 1970 and, unlike material from Pink Floyd's "The Wall," which you referenced, this was not from a movie. In fact it was not even really intended for public. It was a film short used to promote an artist to radio stations. So, yes, it was low budget. Your review cut the song short by a good ten seconds. Would you feel disrespected if someone watched one of your song videos, cut if off early and spent most of the review asking why you even wrote it?
Oh man love Bowie he jumps into so many genres and sounds over the years so if you don’t like one Bowie song they’ll definitely be ones you like he dives into everything. My personal favourite albums being The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 1972, Young Americans 1975, and The Man Who Sold The World 1970 massive 1970s Bowie fan as you can see but Theres a bunch of songs from the 1980s I adore as well many of them singles going into the 1990s as well.
The song came out in 1969, when space themes were big. The first pictures of the earth from space were published, and science fiction was a popular genre. Bowie wrote this song before the first moon landing, but it was released around that time and seems to have met its moment. At least in Britain. It took Bowie a bit longer to catch on in the U.S. As for the video, they were just in the recording studio and decided to shoot something visual to go along with the song. Obviously there's not much budget here, but music videos weren't a big thing yet. A decade later, Bowie was happy to put his talent for stagecraft to work filming music videos that did have a budget and could use more personnel and effects.
I'm not sure what the song is written about, but if this is your first Bowie experience, it is helpful to know that during the 70s when Glam rock was a thing, he created this "persona" called Ziggy Stardust. David Bowie is such a diverse artist that he literally needed a whole other personality to express himself adequately. I can assure you that everytime you listen to him, it will seem like a whole other artist. His music is very varied, his look changed a lot throughout the years and sometimes he even sounds completely different. Hell of a talent. Some of my favorite Bowie songs you should check out: Scary Monsters, Modern Love, China Girl, and Fashion. That's just to get your toes wet. Also, I just wanted to comment on the panning. One thing I notice about this song that I really love is how when he is singing as ground control, it's more than one voice harmonizing. When he sings as Major Tom, he is singing alone. It seems like a small detail, but I feel like it really adds this sense of the plural ground control contrasted against Major Tom all alone in space. It's literally like a conversation happening and I wonder if that might be why they chose to split it? I'm not sure if that's the part you mean since I'm not wearing headphones.
punk rock was born in 1976-77 this video is from 1972 that's the reason why punk rockers (especially british) loved David Bowie he did many things they did before them.
“Space Oddity” was released in June 1969. The punk rock movement began in the US in NYC in 1970 and went full-blown by 1974. In the UK the punk rock movement began around 1976. This official Space Oddity video was released in December 1972, about 3 years after the song’s official release. The significant context you request in your reaction video is provided in an album that Bowie released in June 1992, “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”. Bowie assumed the theatrical persona of his created character, “Ziggy Stardust”. Bowie was always very theatrical on stage throughout his career, and a super extraordinary song writer and musician. He was always ahead of the times.
Goosebumps every time I hear space oddity. My ex had the handle major Tom when we met many years ago on the CB Radio he really got me into Bowie. Such a legend and a beautiful man
There was demo version recorded. It was supposed to be a duet, but his friend backed out before the final recording saying something like "We'll never make it in this biz, I'm going off to do something else"!
Vid shot by renown personal photographer Mick Rock; one of those rudimentary lip synced performance set-up, first time featuring Bowie's new 'Ziggy Stardust' persona ( iconic 1972 famed flaming red hair style)... even though the iconic classic song was pre-Ziggy 1969, it was re released in '72 capitalizing on his Ziggy character's space themed concept LP... Btw: 'Oddity'
This song was released three times, 69, 72 and 75 and charted top ten each time. As George Harrison said (referring to, The Beatles) "if a song sells once, twice, sell it again".
How is it possible somebody "Supposedly in the music business" knows absolutely nothing about Bowie? Who has been making music for 60 yrs, and you are amazed at his use of 2 channels on vocals, something that was done all the time in the 70s. And then asking if he's trying to look punk? My heads spinning, this is one of the most important musicians ever. You all are missing the obvious! ZIGGY STARDUST.
Also, the red hairstyle was created for his 1972/73 Ziggy Stardust tour. The link below has video from that tour, specifically the song "Moonage Daydream." You may know it if you've seen the first "Guardians of the Galaxy" movie. Anyway, the video has Bowie in full stage costume as well as a nice solo by lead guitarist Mick Ronson. The hairdresser who created Bowie's red mullet went on tour with the band a part of the crew and ended up marrying Ronson. ruclips.net/video/BL9Aur-G1yc/видео.html
Bowie had a fascination with his Major Tom character, so much so that he appeared in 5 of his songs: "Space Oddity," "Hallo Spaceboy," "Major Tom," "Ashes to Ashes," and "Blackstar." An astronaut's corpse appears on a planetary surface in Bowie's "Blackstar" video, released in 2016 just two days before Bowie's death. Some music critics have suggested that the astronaut's corpse is the remains of "Major Tom," thus closing the circle of the Major Tom mythology. Check out his PINUPS album, which is his 1973 album of cover songs done by 60s British bands.
One thing you must realize about David is his songs are usually multi-layered and what he says publicly is more of a smokescreen to keep you from getting at the (sometimes painful) truth. When this song was written Bowie was filming a promotional piece featuring songs from his first self-titled LP. with his then current line-up called Feathers (featuring John Hutchinson and Hermione Farthingale).The video is titled Love You Til Tuesday. His then manager insisted it must have 1 new composition so he wrote and filmed Space Oddity for the Promo. Yes it was inspired by 2001 a Sace Oddessy and David was battling drug addiction, but he also was in a break-up with Hermione. He really loved her and was expressing how he felt about the break-up in this song, comparing it to an astronaut forever stranded, unable to correct the situation.The demo mentioned below was recorded with Hutch as a Duo after the film was complete and Hermione had left David with another dancer. Bowie wrote several other songs about her in this period (Letter to Hermione, an Occassional Dream and finally Life on Mars?). In Mars he used the allegory of a girl going to see the same films over and over to express his beffuddlement that she would choose a one dimensional dancer over a man who aspired to tackle so many different art forms. Like the Space Oddity Drug Addiction story, he dismisses questions about Mars as retaliation for his the rejection English lyrics he wrote for the Claude François French song "Comme d'habitude" in favor of Paul Anka's My Way, but the dark truth is much deeper than he admits in public. Yes it's about addiction and alienation, but the "Drug" was love and the alienation was rejection by the object of his affection. You can get a feel for the situation by watching "When I Live My Dream" from the Love You Til Tuesday Promo: ruclips.net/video/QgIa8UtxX4g/видео.html Even though this song was written before the break-up the video features David and Hermione in a chilling snapshot of what was going on between them. Knowing the backstory makes it hard for me to watch.😓
This was 1969 and Ziggy Stardust a character he created with the Spiders From Mars, Bowie reinvented himself most decades, The White Duke. The sequel to this song came out in the 80's Ashes To Ashes.
Bowie was the king of reinvention. Every album he ever did(which were many) displayed an entirely different musical and physical transformation. Each album sounded radically different from all others and his physical appearance during the period of each album also radically changed. This video features his appearance in 1972, but the song was from 1969, when he actually had long curly brown hair, so the appearance and the song are out of context with one another. The song when originally written in 1969 was actually written with the intention of being the musical backdrop played on the BBC during the live broadcast of the first moon landing and was a hit in England at the time, but didn't make it in American until 1972, when this video was filmed. It was filmed at the earliest era of what became known as his Ziggy Stardust character, who went on to look much more outrageous, but at this early stage, the only change he'd made to his appearance for Ziggy was the spacey clothes, shaving his eyebrows and the new bright red hair.
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust is possibly one of the best produced concept albums made. These days most people don't understand concept albums. The music arrangement, track listings, and story were perfect. This is one chapter out of the middle of a large book. That's why it didn't make sense. Bowie was a master at concepts. Not just etched into wax but he himself was a walking concept.
A Rennaisance man, Ziggy Stardust his innovative alter ago, the music and stylistic concerts broke 1970s rock and serious composer's minds and he continued to until his death. The likes of Louis Armstrong, jazz artists, Mick Jaeger, McCartney, and Leonard Bernstein, famed conductor of the New York Philharmonic Symphony at the Met, all fans. genius, painter, photographer, writer, musician, composer, movie actor.
this song came out a few days before the launching of apollo 11 and it is about an astronout "major tom" that astronout loses the signal with earth and so he is dying in space and therefore bowie sometimes sings major tom to ground control and sometimes the other way around
This video quickly recorded in 1972 at RCA studios in NY while on tour. The video in support of the reissue of the original recording from 1969. RCA started to reissue older songs to capitalize on his growing fame from Ziggy Stardust period. Inspired by the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowie merely created his own story of an astronaut who sabotages his own voyage to not return home.
How could you call yourself an "artist" and say you know nothing about David Bowie?, no matter your style of preference, it's like a painter considering him/her self an artist and know nothing about Picasso.
Major Tom makes another appearance in the 80s, in 'Ashes to Ashes'-in which Bowie basically explains the narrative of 'Space Oddity'... The song is an allegory of drug use, where the addict 'lifts off' and then, once in the ecstasy of 'outer space', is enraptured and decides not to return; he succumbs to his addiction; space exploration is a metaphor, as much as it may have been partially inspired by the moonshot and possibly Kubrick. Or, alternatively, it's a trip gone bad. 'Ashes to Ashes' was the first single he released from 'Scary Monsters' almost immediately after he returned from rehab in Berlin (and after the trio of experimental albums he produced during that time as he was getting clean-Low, Heroes, and Lodger).
A lot of the arrangements in the early years of his career were done with his lead guitarist, Mick Ronson. Mick Ronson also worked with John Cougar Mellencamp who credited him with transforming a " nothing song " into a great song, the iconic Jack and Diane.
Mick Rock was a rock photographer and made the video in 72, but the song was written/recorded in 1968, after Bowie saw the fist images of Earth taken from space. Also the Kubrick movie, as someone else mentioned. You mentioned low budget for that video? Yes, 100%. Mick Rock was just getting started, as was Bowie, and the two of them recorded this together on a shoestring. The song has endured, even performed by Chris Hadfield on the international space station, though Bowie himself later said he thought it was “too gimmicky.” (His song, not Chris Hadfield.) If this is truly your first Bowie experience, welcome! You’re in for a treat! His music covers a wide, wide range, from pop to R&B, heavy rock, to jazz. He would sort of create a musical genre, like glam, and then move on and do something new. Too many songs to list, all different.
In the early days of space exploration, nobody was sure how a "spaceman" would respond, psychologically, to the most extreme possible isolation: that of being alone in a tin can, floating in space. Science Fiction was full of stories and TV episodes (such as "The Twilight Zone") about astronauts who go insane during space flight. This song explores that theme, while extending it to include the isolation that an innovative Rock Star goes through as part of being ultra-famous, drunk and drugged out. Bowie was the originator of the look he has in this video. Androgyny, Punk Hair, strange sounds and looks, all leads back to Bowie. In the early 70s, there were three original singers of Theatrical Rock: Bowie, Alice Cooper and Peter Gabriel of Genesis. Bowie was the Glammest of them all.
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I've always assumed that Major Tom deliberately cuts himself off; Bowie read a lot of SF, and by that time (68-9) this sort of existential crisis was taking over from the old Sense of Wonder stories from the Golden Age; as a story, this could have been written by the young JG Ballard. I was 8 or 9 the first time this was a hit, and I remember lying in bed one night singing the song through to myself, for the story of it. Thanks for this, though.
He shaved his eyebrows of when he was in a deep depression and didnt feel good from druguse. But he later became sober from both drugs and alcohol. Bowie was very interested in space. But he hated flying. As said before Bowie was an artist of his own,went his own way,the music is like a sound wall but always perfect. He was a perfectionist always curious. I love the album Toy- that wasn't out on the market at first cause it was leaked out. But later it came out as an album later. I once asked David if he had named his albums in advance? He answered me: No,what was around me at the time gave me the names of the album's.
Like your curiosity. And yes, you were right. Bowie has been through many incarnations and personae, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders metaphorically, had to be killed in order for him to be more commercially successful. One of the most influential artists in popular music, any music. His transition album is "Diamond Dogs", and thus became the Thin White Duke. Great reaction. If you want to know the whole Bowie story, there's a great film "Cracked Actor", BBC documentary.
This came out in 1969 right when the moon launch took place, and thus rocketed Bowie to fame (two puns in there, one that's more obvious and one for true Bowiephiles like me 😉
He has an Unplugged album and talks about the eyebrows. It’s a funny story. Apparently he had written “All The Young Dudes” and he gave it to Mott the Hoople. They had a mega hit with it, so in protest he shaved off his own eyebrows! Hahaha! He laughed at how absurd it was to punish himself for their success. 😂
Ashes to ashes fun to funky you know Major Tom's a junkie. Strung out in heavens high, hitting that all time low. A later song, says it all really. All alone high as a kite no one can help. Helplessness. Bowie was quite intoxicating. Glad I got to see him perform.
Good take C.A. This is the original audio (album) release attached to a later video. A writer (of course), David played many instruments including keyboards, guitar, and sax. You might like a track or two off Let's Dance. "Cat People" (Putting out fire with gasoline) features a guitarist you might know - Stevie Ray Vaughan. It brings the heat and is a good sampling of David's vocal range... tonally and emotionally. "Ashes to ashes" is the obvious next listen for you, in the Major Tom storyline. It is a syncopated masterpiece with an unusual "three-legged" progression in the chorus. Most pop music(choruses) are oriented around 4 or more chords in a repeating pattern (progression). Interesting too, is that the verses are in a major (no pun) tonality and the chorus is definitely minor. Enjoy and happy listening.
You HAD to be there in 1969 when a human walked on the moon! The excitement was insane--the entire world stopped in place, watched, and held its breath! Listening to the blah attitude of people today is completely isolating if you were actually there. (We were all very aware that the odds of our 'spacemen' returning to Earth were NOT good. The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, would die on the launchpad very shortly. So very sad, a huge loss.)
Hi. I like you and most of your reaction to David Bowie. Born just 2 miles from me in South East London. This was made in 1968 although 1972 may be the video date and is about the Space Race between the 2 Superpowers (then ) USA/USSR. My only criticisms ?. After buying my first record 62 years ago in 1960 you paused during my favourite note, which was the (then ) newly invented mellotron and only one or two people (then ) knew how to work it out and this was Rick Wakeman of "Yes" fame and he wanted the session money whenever this was used so for a long time he never told anyone :) My other criticism is that was too clinical at the end as it is more natural to hear the ending rather than you abruptly shut it down. Good Luck.
You have to stop interrupting and pausing all the time! It ruins the whole thing. Music has always changed directions throughout the years and when it is really great is when it is timeless. There is no need to pin it down and identify and tag it while you're listening to it. I am aware that some reactors feel the need to pause so they don't get blocked ...but, there are many who do not and won't do that for the sake of listening to the whole song uninterrupted and letting the artist express themselves. You should try that. Imagine someone listening to your song and pausing and interrupting it while it's playing. It would be annoying to you wouldn't it? You can always talk about it after it is done. It'll be more enjoyable and hopefully enlightening for us and for you! I gave you a thumbs down for asking too many questions and interrupting but I will subscribe and give you a chance to see how you're progressing. Some other Bowie songs that you might try are...Life on Mars, Quicksand, Changes, The Man Who Sold the World, Width of a Circle, Word on a Wing and a real early one...Love You Til' Tuesday. I don't mean to discourage you but it had to be said. Thanks!
David Bowie had at least 5 if not 7 different eras Hated doing the same thing over etc, This is the hit of the first I call theatical Bowie ... The the glam rock Ziggy Stardust era (Fantastic) Then Soul Man with the likes of Young Americas etc.. Rocker again with Fame / Fashion /Panic in Detroit etc...Then: The long Thin Duke era (Darker industrial). Then leading the New Romantic era (Ashes to Ashes) etc The POP rock star era with; Lets Dance and China Doll... followes by his more personally creative later works..... and he had a steller carrier as an actor as well including: The Elephent Man, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Twin Peaks. Labyrinth, The Hunger and the Prestige (as Nicolas Tesla )
You cut the song off! 🥲 And it’s Oddity. However, you did say his name correctly so I’ll give you points for that. Bowie invented the mullet! He was the precursor to many of todays genres. Bowie was an original.
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we know Major Tom's a Junkie - that's all you really need to know to understand the whole song is about a descent into adiction.
Hes not pulling off anything….he invented it……..the song was in anticipation of the apollo moon mission, before the launch it was written. It is a masked story of drug addiction wrapped in a story about being lost in space.
Not trying to be the word police here, but you may want to pay the artist some respect by getting the name of the song correct. "Space Oddity". Not "Odyssey".
It's Bowie. Punk Rock? He was the inspiration for every image. He was Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, The Thin White Duke in so short s time. The Punks respected him but it didn't matter to Bowie because he was moving on. By the time Punk happened Bowie was moving on to New Romantic.
I think the kids forget that as an artist David Bowie wad almost as old as the Beatles. Their first song was 1962. David's first song was 1964. Punk was copying Bowie and iggy pop.
Major Tom is... Wizard of Oz travelling to parallel worlds....!!!!!!! Wizard of Oz turned out to actually be THE Antichrist....!!!!!! (It's about traveling to different dimensions rather than literal space travel.)!!!!!
David Bowie is his own genre that's what makes him one of the best singers ever, so far ahead of his time
"I'm not sure if he's trying to pull off a punk rock thing, or a psychedelic thing..."
He was pulling off a Bowie thing.
He was all things ❤
Bowie was his own. Glam in the early 70s is what you're seeing, but he looked different from year to year. An artist to his death
He was and still is the most consistently evolving artistic chameleon of them all and essentially did it all.
So many different sounds, theatrics, themes, looks, videos, I honestly don't know how he managed to do it all in one lifetime but the man was a fucking musical and artistic monster.
Yeah psychedelic punk rock alien superstar persona. He pulled it off magnificently as Ziggy Stardust.
Song is from 1969 and was inspired by the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick. The video was shot in 1972 in his Ziggy Stardust era.
That makes sense. Much appreciated!
@@ChasingAnthems It was also aligned to come out as the first moon landing was happening. It was not a celebration of that though. One time Bowie said his early music often was about the illusion of the American Dream. In this song we see the advanced technology failing us as the cliches in space travel commentaries abound.
His first jumpsuit fashion came from the droogs in A clockwork orange , the Kubrick movie
First version was recorded in 1964. Was rearranged and recorded when the space race was about to take off (pun intended)
Great reaction, man! Yes, the song is from 1969 and it was released 5 days before the launch of Apollo 11 mission. Because the lyrics were quite dark, the BBC stopped playing the song until the Apollo 11 crew came home. Bowie said the song was about isolation an alienation. Literally it is about an astronaut who is lost at space because something goes wrong with his ship. There, alone in the vastness of space, he experiences being powerless, floating around a "tin can" while there's nothing he can do to change his fate. Another interpretation would be that his ship is ok, but he just decides to head into the void at full speed rather than keep contact with "Ground Control". Maybe the superficiality of the world he's leaving behind plays an important role in his decision, as the "papers" are only interested in the shirts he wears and the wife probably knows his reasons too ("she knows"). I am personally fascinated now by Bowie's early work. I love "Cygnet Committee", from the same album as "Space Oddity" and "The Man who Sold the World" album, especially "All the Madmen", "After All", "The Supermen". Why don't you listen to them chronologically to see the evolution of his themes and style? It's a lot to listen to, but I'd say it's worth it. Bowie was very interesting all his life. His last two albums are mind-blowing as well.
YES! A chronological journey through his journey through musicdome would be the ultimate bowie experience. No other reactors have ever done that to my knowledge. They jump all over time and it creates a disjointed conception of his own artistic journey.
I don’t think there was anything wrong with Major Tom’s vehicle.
“… I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows”
How can you call this a great reaction when he cut off the song's ending and spent more time questioning why it was even written than he did trying to understand it?
@@thecrye6798 This was an honest first reaction from someone who knew nothing about David Bowie. What I wanted to do was to encourage him to listen to more songs. Sometimes people do not understand Bowie at first, but they start to understand him if they listen to more songs. If you start criticizing people for their reactions, they will stop listening and they will develop an adversion for the artist.
“Space Oddity” is the name of the song. Bowie was always moving forward, never resting on his past. A truly unique artist and voice.
David Bowie was always ahead of his time- including his parting Black Star. He is the soundtrack of my life. I adore him still. I love how Major Tom was in David’s last video. What a magnificent Magical Man❤️
Absolutely. I'm also a mad life long fan of Bowies too.I also felt it was very fitting and sentimental to include major Tom in the video of black star..He was also the theme track to my life .Got to see him live twice over his time and it was like an out of body experience .He was extordinarly talented .Bowie Forever ❤
Oh God. Can't even think! Can't imagine folks who didn't grow up with Bowie. They are missing out. I'm so happy they want to listen. However, I cry almost every day. My husband and David died on the same day.
@@elizabethgraeter7899 I love watching people's expressions as they hear his music for the first time.
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The range of music over his life was all quite varied. From deep to fun songs.
In his much later song, Ashes To Ashes, he says:
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low
This was a re-recording, due to the huge success of Ziggy Stardust. The original was released in 1969, just before the Apllo 11 Moon mission. The song was inspired by both the Apollo missions and by the film, '2001 a Space Odyssey' which had been released earlier that same year. Btw, if you're wondering who Ziggy Stardust is, it's one of Bowie's stage personas. He'd regularly adopt a persona, especially early in his career, and would become that person for a couple of years. His 2 most famous are Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke. Each change of persona usually indicated a new musical style. Ziggy was best known for glam rock, with some rock and roll and some proto-punk thrown in for good measure. The Thin White Duke, who succeeded Ziggy, was best known for soul, funk and early new wave. Over the course of his career Bowie's written in virtually every major musical genre and has kickstarted a few genres himself. :)
It's not a re-recording. It's the original 1969 release. The video was made in 1972 filmed by Mick Rock after the success of the Ziggy album. It was subsequently re-released in 1975 and got to number 1 in the UK. The original release in 1969 got to number 5.
This song is inspired by the space program, the moon landings, and the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's also about fame, being an artist, drug addiction, and probably any number of other things. Bowie was one of the most intellectual performing artists ever. His work is subtle and layered. It doesn't try to explain itself. He crossed genres, styles, media, constantly changed his public persona, etc. He was, above all else, an artist to the day he died.
The video itself is not about anything and is not trying to tell a story. As has been pointed out, the song is several years older than the video, and back when this was made, music videos were not a thing the way they are now. It was really just a a chance for us to watch him sing the song on film. Simple as.
In the late sixties Bowie did a number of novelty songs. He did his own version of Alvin and the Chipmunks entitled, The Laughing Gnome. He performed a song as child. Space Oddity was a novelty song that landed.
The music is from 1969...around the time of the Moon landings. The video was shot years later. Sometimes it's best just to listen to the music.
Since Country music tends to embrace story songs, I would have thought you'd have understood this story song from Bowie more than you did. Instead, you kept asking why the song was written. What inspires you when you write music? Do you ever write songs that are not actually from your own experience? Some writers like to imagine stories that they relate to emotionally, even if the stories within the songs are not their own experience. Bowie often wrote about emotional isolation. Here he uses the story of an astronaut lost in space to communicate that sense of isolation.
His look - which was years before punk - was an original thing that shocked everyone at the time in the same way that you were shocked and confused. Bowie frequently adopted fictional personas for performance. The red hair and shaved eyebrows were a look he adopted for his character Ziggy Stardust. The Ziggy Stardust album is about a rock star delivering a prophetic message from an alien "star man," hence the alien look.
The video was shot in 1970 and, unlike material from Pink Floyd's "The Wall," which you referenced, this was not from a movie. In fact it was not even really intended for public. It was a film short used to promote an artist to radio stations. So, yes, it was low budget.
Your review cut the song short by a good ten seconds. Would you feel disrespected if someone watched one of your song videos, cut if off early and spent most of the review asking why you even wrote it?
Bowie sang a duet with himself. One of my favorite things about this song, especially on headphones, is hearing one voice in each ear.
Bowie influenced almost everyone in the music biz!
David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" period was pre-glamrock.
Oh man love Bowie he jumps into so many genres and sounds over the years so if you don’t like one Bowie song they’ll definitely be ones you like he dives into everything. My personal favourite albums being The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 1972, Young Americans 1975, and The Man Who Sold The World 1970 massive 1970s Bowie fan as you can see but Theres a bunch of songs from the 1980s I adore as well many of them singles going into the 1990s as well.
The song came out in 1969, when space themes were big. The first pictures of the earth from space were published, and science fiction was a popular genre. Bowie wrote this song before the first moon landing, but it was released around that time and seems to have met its moment. At least in Britain. It took Bowie a bit longer to catch on in the U.S.
As for the video, they were just in the recording studio and decided to shoot something visual to go along with the song. Obviously there's not much budget here, but music videos weren't a big thing yet. A decade later, Bowie was happy to put his talent for stagecraft to work filming music videos that did have a budget and could use more personnel and effects.
I'm not sure what the song is written about, but if this is your first Bowie experience, it is helpful to know that during the 70s when Glam rock was a thing, he created this "persona" called Ziggy Stardust. David Bowie is such a diverse artist that he literally needed a whole other personality to express himself adequately. I can assure you that everytime you listen to him, it will seem like a whole other artist. His music is very varied, his look changed a lot throughout the years and sometimes he even sounds completely different. Hell of a talent. Some of my favorite Bowie songs you should check out: Scary Monsters, Modern Love, China Girl, and Fashion. That's just to get your toes wet. Also, I just wanted to comment on the panning. One thing I notice about this song that I really love is how when he is singing as ground control, it's more than one voice harmonizing. When he sings as Major Tom, he is singing alone. It seems like a small detail, but I feel like it really adds this sense of the plural ground control contrasted against Major Tom all alone in space. It's literally like a conversation happening and I wonder if that might be why they chose to split it? I'm not sure if that's the part you mean since I'm not wearing headphones.
You might know by now that the song is called "Space Oddity"!
It's actually about heroin addiction. The song "Ashes to Ashes" reveals Maj. Tom is a junkie.
punk rock was born in 1976-77 this video is from 1972 that's the reason why punk rockers (especially british) loved David Bowie he did many things they did before them.
“Space Oddity” was released in June 1969. The punk rock movement began in the US in NYC in 1970 and went full-blown by 1974. In the UK the punk rock movement began around 1976. This official Space Oddity video was released in December 1972, about 3 years after the song’s official release. The significant context you request in your reaction video is provided in an album that Bowie released in June 1992, “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”. Bowie assumed the theatrical persona of his created character, “Ziggy Stardust”. Bowie was always very theatrical on stage throughout his career, and a super extraordinary song writer and musician. He was always ahead of the times.
Goosebumps every time I hear space oddity. My ex had the handle major Tom when we met many years ago on the CB Radio he really got me into Bowie. Such a legend and a beautiful man
There was demo version recorded. It was supposed to be a duet, but his friend backed out before the final recording saying something like "We'll never make it in this biz, I'm going off to do something else"!
David Bowie was the 'influencer'
Vid shot by renown personal photographer Mick Rock; one of those rudimentary lip synced performance set-up, first time featuring Bowie's new 'Ziggy Stardust' persona ( iconic 1972 famed flaming red hair style)... even though the iconic classic song was pre-Ziggy 1969, it was re released in '72 capitalizing on his Ziggy character's space themed concept LP...
Btw: 'Oddity'
This song was released three times, 69, 72 and 75 and charted top ten each time. As George Harrison said (referring to, The Beatles) "if a song sells once, twice, sell it again".
This song makes me so emotional every time I hear it. Such a beautiful piece of work.
How is it possible somebody "Supposedly in the music business" knows absolutely nothing about Bowie? Who has been making music for 60 yrs, and you are amazed at his use of 2 channels on vocals, something that was done all the time in the 70s. And then asking if he's trying to look punk? My heads spinning, this is one of the most important musicians ever. You all are missing the obvious!
ZIGGY STARDUST.
👏👏👏 Amen❗
Also, the red hairstyle was created for his 1972/73 Ziggy Stardust tour. The link below has video from that tour, specifically the song "Moonage Daydream." You may know it if you've seen the first "Guardians of the Galaxy" movie. Anyway, the video has Bowie in full stage costume as well as a nice solo by lead guitarist Mick Ronson. The hairdresser who created Bowie's red mullet went on tour with the band a part of the crew and ended up marrying Ronson.
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For something completely different, try Bowie’s Station to Station, each album is an experience!
Bowie had a fascination with his Major Tom character, so much so that he appeared in 5 of his songs: "Space Oddity," "Hallo Spaceboy," "Major Tom," "Ashes to Ashes," and "Blackstar." An astronaut's corpse appears on a planetary surface in Bowie's "Blackstar" video, released in 2016 just two days before Bowie's death. Some music critics have suggested that the astronaut's corpse is the remains of "Major Tom," thus closing the circle of the Major Tom mythology.
Check out his PINUPS album, which is his 1973 album of cover songs done by 60s British bands.
Major Tom was a euphemism for heroin.
Here is Ziggy Stardust playing Major Tom.
One thing you must realize about David is his songs are usually multi-layered and what he says publicly is more of a smokescreen to keep you from getting at the (sometimes painful) truth. When this song was written Bowie was filming a promotional piece featuring songs from his first self-titled LP. with his then current line-up called Feathers (featuring John Hutchinson and Hermione Farthingale).The video is titled Love You Til Tuesday. His then manager insisted it must have 1 new composition so he wrote and filmed Space Oddity for the Promo. Yes it was inspired by 2001 a Sace Oddessy and David was battling drug addiction, but he also was in a break-up with Hermione. He really loved her and was expressing how he felt about the break-up in this song, comparing it to an astronaut forever stranded, unable to correct the situation.The demo mentioned below was recorded with Hutch as a Duo after the film was complete and Hermione had left David with another dancer. Bowie wrote several other songs about her in this period (Letter to Hermione, an Occassional Dream and finally Life on Mars?). In Mars he used the allegory of a girl going to see the same films over and over to express his beffuddlement that she would choose a one dimensional dancer over a man who aspired to tackle so many different art forms. Like the Space Oddity Drug Addiction story, he dismisses questions about Mars as retaliation for his the rejection English lyrics he wrote for the Claude François French song "Comme d'habitude" in favor of Paul Anka's My Way, but the dark truth is much deeper than he admits in public. Yes it's about addiction and alienation, but the "Drug" was love and the alienation was rejection by the object of his affection. You can get a feel for the situation by watching "When I Live My Dream" from the Love You Til Tuesday Promo:
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Even though this song was written before the break-up the video features David and Hermione in a chilling snapshot of what was going on between them. Knowing the backstory makes it hard for me to watch.😓
This was 1969 and Ziggy Stardust a character he created with the Spiders From Mars, Bowie reinvented himself most decades, The White Duke. The sequel to this song came out in the 80's Ashes To Ashes.
Bowie was the king of reinvention. Every album he ever did(which were many) displayed an entirely different musical and physical transformation. Each album sounded radically different from all others and his physical appearance during the period of each album also radically changed. This video features his appearance in 1972, but the song was from 1969, when he actually had long curly brown hair, so the appearance and the song are out of context with one another. The song when originally written in 1969 was actually written with the intention of being the musical backdrop played on the BBC during the live broadcast of the first moon landing and was a hit in England at the time, but didn't make it in American until 1972, when this video was filmed. It was filmed at the earliest era of what became known as his Ziggy Stardust character, who went on to look much more outrageous, but at this early stage, the only change he'd made to his appearance for Ziggy was the spacey clothes, shaving his eyebrows and the new bright red hair.
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust is possibly one of the best produced concept albums made. These days most people don't understand concept albums. The music arrangement, track listings, and story were perfect.
This is one chapter out of the middle of a large book. That's why it didn't make sense.
Bowie was a master at concepts. Not just etched into wax but he himself was a walking concept.
A Rennaisance man, Ziggy Stardust his innovative alter ago, the music and stylistic concerts broke 1970s rock and serious composer's minds and he continued to until his death. The likes of Louis Armstrong, jazz artists,
Mick Jaeger, McCartney, and Leonard Bernstein, famed conductor of the New York Philharmonic Symphony at the Met, all fans. genius, painter, photographer, writer, musician, composer, movie actor.
this song came out a few days before the launching of apollo 11 and it is about an astronout "major tom" that astronout loses the signal with earth and so he is dying in space and therefore bowie sometimes sings major tom to ground control and sometimes the other way around
This went #1 in the UK. I remember when this vid came out, mind blowing.
Truly cause I was only 5, but I loved the dreamy melody…
This video quickly recorded in 1972 at RCA studios in NY while on tour. The video in support of the reissue of the original recording from 1969. RCA started to reissue older songs to capitalize on his growing fame from Ziggy Stardust period. Inspired by the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowie merely created his own story of an astronaut who sabotages his own voyage to not return home.
How could you call yourself an "artist" and say you know nothing about David Bowie?, no matter your style of preference, it's like a painter considering him/her self an artist and know nothing about Picasso.
Space Oddity
Major Tom makes another appearance in the 80s, in 'Ashes to Ashes'-in which Bowie basically explains the narrative of 'Space Oddity'... The song is an allegory of drug use, where the addict 'lifts off' and then, once in the ecstasy of 'outer space', is enraptured and decides not to return; he succumbs to his addiction; space exploration is a metaphor, as much as it may have been partially inspired by the moonshot and possibly Kubrick. Or, alternatively, it's a trip gone bad. 'Ashes to Ashes' was the first single he released from 'Scary Monsters' almost immediately after he returned from rehab in Berlin (and after the trio of experimental albums he produced during that time as he was getting clean-Low, Heroes, and Lodger).
Major Tom was a euphemism for heroin.
Bowie had seen 2001 A Space Odyssey and was inspired to write his take on space exploration and human frailty.....
This has been used in movies like Valerian, but why not try Ashes to Ashes which was the follow up or maybe Life on Mars and Rebel Rebel?
He wrote this after watching the epic film 2001 A Space Odyssey'. If you've not seen it, I can thoroughly recommend you to
A lot of the arrangements in the early years of his career were done with his lead guitarist, Mick Ronson.
Mick Ronson also worked with John Cougar Mellencamp who credited him with transforming a " nothing song " into a great song, the iconic Jack and Diane.
Ronno also produced Morrisseys Your arsenal album
Mick Rock was a rock photographer and made the video in 72, but the song was written/recorded in 1968, after Bowie saw the fist images of Earth taken from space. Also the Kubrick movie, as someone else mentioned. You mentioned low budget for that video? Yes, 100%. Mick Rock was just getting started, as was Bowie, and the two of them recorded this together on a shoestring. The song has endured, even performed by Chris Hadfield on the international space station, though Bowie himself later said he thought it was “too gimmicky.” (His song, not Chris Hadfield.)
If this is truly your first Bowie experience, welcome! You’re in for a treat! His music covers a wide, wide range, from pop to R&B, heavy rock, to jazz. He would sort of create a musical genre, like glam, and then move on and do something new. Too many songs to list, all different.
I laughed, of course it looks dated! Loved all you said and second it. He is a hero to me.
It was originally released in 1969 After him seeing 2001 space odessy, and the songs called space oddity not odessy.
For a deep cut of Bowie...a track that never got as much play as I would have wanted...try Black Country Rock. A solid jam.
Bowie had storylines in his music
Yeah, he just wrote a song about space. lol
In the early days of space exploration, nobody was sure how a "spaceman" would respond, psychologically, to the most extreme possible isolation: that of being alone in a tin can, floating in space. Science Fiction was full of stories and TV episodes (such as "The Twilight Zone") about astronauts who go insane during space flight. This song explores that theme, while extending it to include the isolation that an innovative Rock Star goes through as part of being ultra-famous, drunk and drugged out.
Bowie was the originator of the look he has in this video. Androgyny, Punk Hair, strange sounds and looks, all leads back to Bowie. In the early 70s, there were three original singers of Theatrical Rock: Bowie, Alice Cooper and Peter Gabriel of Genesis. Bowie was the Glammest of them all.
You'd love bowie's Hunky Dory album. No doubt about it.
Send me a link and I’ll check it out
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How can you be a musical artist & not know David Bowie's music....??
I've always assumed that Major Tom deliberately cuts himself off; Bowie read a lot of SF, and by that time (68-9) this sort of existential crisis was taking over from the old Sense of Wonder stories from the Golden Age; as a story, this could have been written by the young JG Ballard.
I was 8 or 9 the first time this was a hit, and I remember lying in bed one night singing the song through to myself, for the story of it.
Thanks for this, though.
He shaved his eyebrows of when he was in a deep depression and didnt feel good from druguse. But he later became sober from both drugs and alcohol. Bowie was very interested in space. But he hated flying. As said before Bowie was an artist of his own,went his own way,the music is like a sound wall but always perfect. He was a perfectionist always curious. I love the album Toy- that wasn't out on the market at first cause it was leaked out. But later it came out as an album later. I once asked David if he had named his albums in advance? He answered me: No,what was around me at the time gave me the names of the album's.
Funny you should mention mono vocals. This was originally released in mono.
Just to respectfully correct you - the song is called Space Oddity - not Space Odyssey.
We will never catch up with David Bowie.
Bowie was the influence.
Like your curiosity. And yes, you were right.
Bowie has been through many incarnations and personae, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders metaphorically, had to be killed in order for him to be more commercially successful.
One of the most influential artists in popular music, any music.
His transition album is "Diamond Dogs", and thus became the Thin White Duke.
Great reaction. If you want to know the whole Bowie story, there's a great film "Cracked Actor", BBC documentary.
This came out in 1969 right when the moon launch took place, and thus rocketed Bowie to fame (two puns in there, one that's more obvious and one for true Bowiephiles like me 😉
The Grand White Duke, but this was from his "Ziggy Stardust" era. You need to listen to that album and react to it. enjoy and your welcome.
He has an Unplugged album and talks about the eyebrows. It’s a funny story.
Apparently he had written “All The Young Dudes” and he gave it to Mott the Hoople. They had a mega hit with it, so in protest he shaved off his own eyebrows! Hahaha!
He laughed at how absurd it was to punish himself for their success. 😂
Thanks hilarious! Thanks for sharing!
Actually was because he had written Drive-in Saturday, and Mott the Hoople rejected the song, Bowie get so upset that shave his eyebrows lol
He loved Stanley Kubrick’s 2001
I watched a doco and an ex producer was saying Bowie laid down most things in one take
Ashes to ashes fun to funky you know Major Tom's a junkie. Strung out in heavens high, hitting that all time low.
A later song, says it all really. All alone high as a kite no one can help. Helplessness. Bowie was quite intoxicating. Glad I got to see him perform.
Major Tom was a euphemism for heroin.
Good take C.A. This is the original audio (album) release attached to a later video. A writer (of course), David played many instruments including keyboards, guitar, and sax.
You might like a track or two off Let's Dance. "Cat People" (Putting out fire with gasoline) features a guitarist you might know - Stevie Ray Vaughan. It brings the heat and is a good sampling of David's vocal range... tonally and emotionally. "Ashes to ashes" is the obvious next listen for you, in the Major Tom storyline. It is a syncopated masterpiece with an unusual "three-legged" progression in the chorus. Most pop music(choruses) are oriented around 4 or more chords in a repeating pattern (progression). Interesting too, is that the verses are in a major (no pun) tonality and the chorus is definitely minor. Enjoy and happy listening.
The song is "Space Oddity", not "Space Odyssey".
🤣😂 my bad
That Mellotron!!!!
Is no Oddissy;is Oddity, you mook.
Been called a lot of names, but this is a first for Mook. Congrats
😅it's beautiful when you can't easily figure someone out.
Space ODDITY, not Odyssey.
You HAD to be there in 1969 when a human walked on the moon! The excitement was insane--the entire world stopped in place, watched, and held its breath! Listening to the blah attitude of people today is completely isolating if you were actually there. (We were all very aware that the odds of our 'spacemen' returning to Earth were NOT good. The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, would die on the launchpad very shortly. So very sad, a huge loss.)
Hi. I like you and most of your reaction to David Bowie. Born just 2 miles from me in South East London. This was made in 1968 although 1972 may be the video date and is about the Space Race between the 2 Superpowers (then ) USA/USSR. My only criticisms ?. After buying my first record 62 years ago in 1960 you paused during my favourite note, which was the (then ) newly invented mellotron and only one or two people (then ) knew how to work it out and this was Rick Wakeman of "Yes" fame and he wanted the session money whenever this was used so for a long time he never told anyone :) My other criticism is that was too clinical at the end as it is more natural to hear the ending rather than you abruptly shut it down. Good Luck.
This song is just about BOWIE
You have to stop interrupting and pausing all the time! It ruins the whole thing. Music has always changed directions throughout the years and when it is really great is when it is timeless. There is no need to pin it down and identify and tag it while you're listening to it. I am aware that some reactors feel the need to pause so they don't get blocked ...but, there are many who do not and won't do that for the sake of listening to the whole song uninterrupted and letting the artist express themselves. You should try that. Imagine someone listening to your song and pausing and interrupting it while it's playing. It would be annoying to you wouldn't it? You can always talk about it after it is done. It'll be more enjoyable and hopefully enlightening for us and for you! I gave you a thumbs down for asking too many questions and interrupting but I will subscribe and give you a chance to see how you're progressing. Some other Bowie songs that you might try are...Life on Mars, Quicksand, Changes, The Man Who Sold the World, Width of a Circle, Word on a Wing and a real early one...Love You Til' Tuesday. I don't mean to discourage you but it had to be said. Thanks!
I appreciate your feedback.
David Bowie had at least 5 if not 7 different eras Hated doing the same thing over etc, This is the hit of the first I call theatical Bowie ... The the glam rock Ziggy Stardust era (Fantastic) Then Soul Man with the likes of Young Americas etc.. Rocker again with Fame / Fashion /Panic in Detroit etc...Then: The long Thin Duke era (Darker industrial). Then leading the New Romantic era (Ashes to Ashes) etc The POP rock star era with; Lets Dance and China Doll... followes by his more personally creative later works..... and he had a steller carrier as an actor as well including: The Elephent Man, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Twin Peaks. Labyrinth, The Hunger and the Prestige (as Nicolas Tesla )
You cut the song off! 🥲
And it’s Oddity.
However, you did say his name correctly so I’ll give you points for that.
Bowie invented the mullet!
He was the precursor to many of todays genres.
Bowie was an original.
Oddity, not odyssey
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we know Major Tom's a Junkie - that's all you really need to know to understand the whole song is about a descent into adiction.
Check out his song Black Country Rock
Oh man, Space Odyssee, really???
Aclassic
Hes not pulling off anything….he invented it……..the song was in anticipation of the apollo moon mission, before the launch it was written. It is a masked story of drug addiction wrapped in a story about being lost in space.
Not trying to be the word police here, but you may want to pay the artist some respect by getting the name of the song correct.
"Space Oddity". Not "Odyssey".
It’s space oddity ‘oddity’ can you not read!
My very first reaction 🤨
It's Bowie. Punk Rock? He was the inspiration for every image. He was Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, The Thin White Duke in so short s time. The Punks respected him but it didn't matter to Bowie because he was moving on. By the time Punk happened Bowie was moving on to New Romantic.
00:19 Nice one, keep it up!
Did this fellow attend school?
I guess if I were to classify it into a genre, I'd call it glam rock.
Fifty years ago ! Keep examining!
Wow. Time is flying by so fast!
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Whoa, talk about timeless music! Still a masterpiece half century later
I think the kids forget that as an artist David Bowie wad almost as old as the Beatles. Their first song was 1962. David's first song was 1964.
Punk was copying Bowie and iggy pop.
Major Tom is... Wizard of Oz travelling to parallel worlds....!!!!!!! Wizard of Oz turned out to actually be THE Antichrist....!!!!!! (It's about traveling to different dimensions rather than literal space travel.)!!!!!
Major Tom was a euphemism for heroin.
ok. now watch "Ashes to Ashes".... then "Black Star"... Major Tom goes on and on.
It looks like this dude has a glass eye, look closely.