Great reaction! You should just do the whole album, it’s a rare classic, every song is amazing. Bowie adopted The Thin White Duke as his persona for this era, but soon after, he quit characters and just focused on being a musical genius 😄
One of his greatest albums of the ‘70’s. From what I understand he had spent the summer of ‘75 filming The Man Who Fell to Earth in New Mexico and when he returned to Los Angeles, where he was based at the time, in early September, discovered his management had booked a world tour for him beginning in January ‘76. Not having an album to tour on he quickly gathered his backing musicians and with only a few ideas for songs wrote and recorded it in a two week period, which is why it’s only 5 original songs and 1 cover. At the time he was at the height of his cocaine addiction and in cocaine psychosis. He’s go days, even over a week without sleep. The persona he created; The Thin White Duke was his last character and his most extreme. He was in a way still playing his alien character from TMWFTE, but even more detached and alienated. You can identify The Thin White Duke by his slicked back red and blond hair, the white shirt with black waistcoat and trousers. But it was unsustainable; the coke, the character. By the end of the tour he relocated to Europe eventually crashing in Berlin with his friend Iggy Pop for company. There they collaborated on Iggy’s album The Idiot, which is a must listen, before bringing Brian Eno on board and recording Low, his comedown album and as different from StationtoStation as one could get. Another must listen.
@@retropian brilliant comment, I enjoyed reading that. Such a complicated artist by the sounds of it. I know a little about his stay in Berlin as my wife has always gone on about wanting to go visit the bicycle shop when he stayed above it with Iggy Pop to get clean. I clearly need to do some more homework on this chaps personnas given there are so many iterations and reasons for each one! Thanks again
This is my favorite Bowie album. This song is the longest song he ever did. The funny thing is he was so f×$%'d up on drigs, he claims he had no memories making the it. As for vocals, someone mentioned Pray on a Wing, its stunning. The Thin White Duke persona came after the "plastic soul" of Young Americans. This album is the bridge to the important "Berlin" trilology, which includes Heroes. You can go down a deep rabbit hole with this man. He does so many styles, you can get lost on him for months. My favorite Bowie song is on my second favorite Bowie album, the title track "Aladin Sane" - a lad in sane, get it? He was truly one of a kind. Glad you liked this one, much more to discover. Your wife has good taste, maybe she should join you one day in a clip. US Roadie 1 signing off!
@@Pcrimson1 was a good pick for me to get into Bowie I think! Yeah I've heard how much of his career was spent high on something or other. Imagine being so talented that you can literally forget making the song and it still being great!
Played this at his Concert live in Sydney showing my age here! I was awestruck. To make an impression Bowie developed the stark approach of the 1976 staging. The ceiling of fluorescent tubes which had formed part of the Station to Station tour's lighting rig was expanded to create enormous panels of stripped light, hanging like prison bars at the back and on the ceiling of the stage - of which would pulsate in time to the music... The memories are flooding back! oh yes I was in the mosh pit too lol.
Brilliant track! I'm a dj accross many genres.. I played this recently at an Alternative Rock night.. Went down really well.. so glad you liked it! Irish Roadie Colm.. 🤘😎🤘
Not heard this track for a good while Loved Bowie one of my first albums I brought when a youngster around 11 years old was Hunky Dory with my paper round money !! Never looked back 👍
I got this album for Christmas 1976. My first Bowie album. In '77 Kraftwerk referenced this in the lyrics to Trans-Europe Express: "From station to station, back to Düsseldorf City/Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie". Cheers!
You might try the Width Of A Circle (from early album Man Who Sold the World) or the title track from Aladdin Sane. For something really strange try African Night Flight from Lodger.
If you want good Bowie singing..better than Freddie (pure real emotion...unlike Freddie's showmanship vocals), try Word on A Wing from this same album. Goosebumps.
@@MusicForTheSoulReactions Even better...and from the same album, is 'Wild Is The Wind'. Quite possibly one of the greatest vocal performances of our time. ruclips.net/video/YsqlXkkEKxI/видео.html
"Word on a Wing" comes from a level of enlightenment l've never come close to achieving. When l hear David blithely reaching that level of blowing through what we thought was unachievable, his ascension is mine. What would l do without him? What will l do?😮
His reference to The Thin White Duke gives a clue to his persona then. He killed off Ziggy in 1973 and changed that look mid 1974 I think. This is a superb track from the album of the same name. A sort of electronic funk rock. He changed direction music wise with the previous album Young Americans, which was a mix of soul and rock. The cover pic to the Station To Station album is from a scene in the movie The Man Who Fell To Earth, where he played the part of an alien from another planet. Appropriate lol And your wife has taste being a big Bowie fan.
Mate ! You fckin beauty. Probably my fave song up there with Supper's Ready by Genesis. And Hymn From a Village by James. Station to Station is a top album, too...as are most of Bowies' albums between 69 -83.
Sometimes it makes me wonder that there are people who never heard of "Space Oddity". A must listen, unique in its concept and actually at least as famos as "Heroes".
I recognize the name of the song, again mainly through seeing the tracklist on my wife's vinyl of his. Will have to give it a listen. Whats that other one, ground control to major tom or something, thats one I know!
That was quick work! Thanks very much! 😊 Dark song for a sunny day - The Thin White Duke persona. Fuelled on coke, psychosis, the occult and paranoia, Bowie said it was his “nastiest” persona. The “stations” are on the Kabbalah. It’s “bo-wie” according to Bowie 😊
Bowie was a genius and sadly missed. I still love his early work and remember seeing him at The Greyhound, Croydon when they were in a Ziggy Stardust theme. There are some stonkers on the Ziggy Stardust album. Let's dance is a fav too. Great vid out there to watch too. ruclips.net/video/VbD_kBJc_gI/видео.html&ab_channel=DavidBowie Your wife has good taste. I can hardly believe he died at the age I am now.
Great reaction. Life on mars is a must, sweet candidate too, five years is great. Its hard to choose, every album und every song is different, there are so many great songs. You know heroes, but the live video 2000 Berlin shows his charisma. I think your wife knows it.
I appreciate the extra song recommendations, the more obscure sounding the better as there will be a higher chance I won't have heard a peep accidentally through my wife. Cheers
These are the heroin albums low, station to station to station and heroes it’s Germanic and Bauhaus he went to Berlin to with iggy pop to quit heroin ( a strange stratergie) the thin white duke is a strung out Bowie
This is the Bowie that makes David immortal but people don't know about. They listen to Ziggy or Space Oddity and they think they know him. They don't know shit!
@@MusicForTheSoulReactions I suggest you listen to the 3rd track on the Album Word On A Wing it Bowie at a dark place but also a hopeful place you my find in interesting
Really good analysis and reaction! For obscure brilliance, check out Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise). You'll not be disappointed! You've got yerself another subscriber!
Well... Do I like David Bowie? I created a playlist for him. There are very different styles. Usually I preferer late 1960s ("Space Oddity" album), early 1970s ("Aladdin Sane" album, my favorite) or 1980s ("Tonight"), but "Station to Staion" is very interesting too. And the live album "Stage" is really great. Well, "Earthling" is also great, in a very different way. There are a lot of interesting Bowie songs, in very different music genres. Why all the best singers and bands are from UK? Bowie, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Queen, Genesis, Caravan, Yes, Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Greenslade, Colosseum, Atomic Rooster, Cream, The Hollies, Small Faces, The Move, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Procol Harum, The Nice... Ps. About Bowie vocals, do you know "Wild is the Wind"? There is a studio version, great, and there is the video version, recorded live in studio, great too. I prefers "slightly" the music video version.
You're right, there's a lot to be said for amazing bands all coming from the UK 💪 Will have to explore your Bowie recommendation, see which iteration of his I'm in for!!
@@MusicForTheSoulReactions Well, there are great band form other countries too. I could suggest some great bands and singers from Brazil, USA, Nederlands, Italy, Germany... But, in my personal listening, UK have the most of the great bands, the most artists which I like are from UK. Well, I don't writed about my favorite female singer, Lulu, whcih is from Scotland, and I don't writed about NewWave and PostPunk artists, the best are from UK too, in my opinion. For some counterpoint, I suggest my favorite artists from other countries: Brazil - Quaterna Requiem (the best brazilian ProgRock band, in my opinion - usually instumental) USA - Sparks (as Bowie, the syles varies: Synth Pop, Art Rock, Experimental, Electronic, Techno Pop, New Wave, Post Punk, Hard Rock, Pop-Rock... - there are great albums in 1970s and 2000s, although I think that usually "very weird" for a first listening) Italy - Premiata Forneria Marconi "PFM" (the best Italian ProgRock ever - early almost as a "Italian Genesis") Nederlands - Focus (great Prog band - usually instrumental, sometimes with weird and great vocals)
Great choice mate....you owe your mrs a apology mate....I also done the same with metallica.. never really heard anything from them and just thought they were not very good.. I was so wrong.. anyway enjoy your weekend...later dude
@@LeeQuinnell it's strange how we make such random decisions based on absolutely nothing! Happy to be proven wrong though for sure!! Have a cracking weekend buddy
One of his best albums, saw him perform this live in '78. amazing concert. You spoke a few times about creativity, if I may be so bold, I'd like to suggest that you give Beck's reinterpretation of Bowie's Sound and Vision a watch. Two choirs, 10 lead guitars, a yodeler, Indian bells, orchestra, and more. ruclips.net/video/XyO5MRTbL2s/видео.html
@@MusicForTheSoulReactions Did you try the mini-train to Darjeeling? You have the rythm of a train in many old songs, 60s and older, I have a playlist with 17 "train songs" (1847-2018!)
@@erikahlander3489 Wow, that's some playlist. I don't think so. I know we all bought him a train driving experience in the past, but I'll be damned if I remember where! Seen the iconic one over the bridge in Scotland (The Harry Potter train).
Great reaction! You should just do the whole album, it’s a rare classic, every song is amazing. Bowie adopted The Thin White Duke as his persona for this era, but soon after, he quit characters and just focused on being a musical genius 😄
If nothing else, do “Stay” it will blow you away, so far and of its time
@@davidfisher8821 sounds like it could be a plan of this album is a cracker throughout, cheers for the comment
One of his greatest albums of the ‘70’s. From what I understand he had spent the summer of ‘75 filming The Man Who Fell to Earth in New Mexico and when he returned to Los Angeles, where he was based at the time, in early September, discovered his management had booked a world tour for him beginning in January ‘76. Not having an album to tour on he quickly gathered his backing musicians and with only a few ideas for songs wrote and recorded it in a two week period, which is why it’s only 5 original songs and 1 cover. At the time he was at the height of his cocaine addiction and in cocaine psychosis. He’s go days, even over a week without sleep. The persona he created; The Thin White Duke was his last character and his most extreme. He was in a way still playing his alien character from TMWFTE, but even more detached and alienated. You can identify The Thin White Duke by his slicked back red and blond hair, the white shirt with black waistcoat and trousers. But it was unsustainable; the coke, the character. By the end of the tour he relocated to Europe eventually crashing in Berlin with his friend Iggy Pop for company. There they collaborated on Iggy’s album The Idiot, which is a must listen, before bringing Brian Eno on board and recording Low, his comedown album and as different from StationtoStation as one could get. Another must listen.
@@retropian brilliant comment, I enjoyed reading that. Such a complicated artist by the sounds of it. I know a little about his stay in Berlin as my wife has always gone on about wanting to go visit the bicycle shop when he stayed above it with Iggy Pop to get clean. I clearly need to do some more homework on this chaps personnas given there are so many iterations and reasons for each one! Thanks again
This is my favorite Bowie album. This song is the longest song he ever did. The funny thing is he was so f×$%'d up on drigs, he claims he had no memories making the it. As for vocals, someone mentioned Pray on a Wing, its stunning. The Thin White Duke persona came after the "plastic soul" of Young Americans. This album is the bridge to the important "Berlin" trilology, which includes Heroes. You can go down a deep rabbit hole with this man. He does so many styles, you can get lost on him for months. My favorite Bowie song is on my second favorite Bowie album, the title track "Aladin Sane" - a lad in sane, get it? He was truly one of a kind. Glad you liked this one, much more to discover. Your wife has good taste, maybe she should join you one day in a clip. US Roadie 1 signing off!
@@Pcrimson1 was a good pick for me to get into Bowie I think! Yeah I've heard how much of his career was spent high on something or other. Imagine being so talented that you can literally forget making the song and it still being great!
Played this at his Concert live in Sydney showing my age here! I was awestruck. To make an impression Bowie developed the stark approach of the 1976 staging. The ceiling of fluorescent tubes which had formed part of the Station to Station tour's lighting rig was expanded to create enormous panels of stripped light, hanging like prison bars at the back and on the ceiling of the stage - of which would pulsate in time to the music... The memories are flooding back! oh yes I was in the mosh pit too lol.
Sounds like amazing memories, and a mosh pit sounds cool as hell too!
David Bowie had a really good voice, not as good as some, better than others, I really love loving the Alien, released in 1983.
It made me chuckle when you said it was slick, as one of the guitarists is Earl Slick.
Hahaha no way! Love it!
Brilliant track! I'm a dj accross many genres.. I played this recently at an Alternative Rock night.. Went down really well.. so glad you liked it! Irish Roadie Colm.. 🤘😎🤘
@@coheed1000 a DJ, that's super cool!!! 👌
You've checked in. Have a nice journey!
You need to listen to Stay from the same album, it’s killer!
Not heard this track for a good while
Loved Bowie one of my first albums I brought when a youngster around 11 years old was Hunky Dory with my paper round money !! Never looked back 👍
Recommendations Steve from the Hunky Dory album
First two tracks changes and oh you pretty things
Cheers
I got this album for Christmas 1976. My first Bowie album. In '77 Kraftwerk referenced this in the lyrics to Trans-Europe Express: "From station to station, back to Düsseldorf City/Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie". Cheers!
You might try the Width Of A Circle (from early album Man Who Sold the World) or the title track from Aladdin Sane. For something really strange try African Night Flight from Lodger.
If you want good Bowie singing..better than Freddie (pure real emotion...unlike Freddie's showmanship vocals), try Word on A Wing from this same album. Goosebumps.
@@mana3735 will do, thanks for the recommendation
@@MusicForTheSoulReactions Even better...and from the same album, is 'Wild Is The Wind'. Quite possibly one of the greatest vocal performances of our time.
ruclips.net/video/YsqlXkkEKxI/видео.html
Teenage Wildlife, Life on mars Live Tonight Show 1980, Drive in Saturday Live in 1973, Heroes or Stay in live Musikladen 1978
@@Ciargomes perfect, thanks for the suggestions 🙂
"Word on a Wing" comes from a level of enlightenment l've never come close to achieving. When l hear David blithely reaching that level of blowing through what we thought was unachievable, his ascension is mine. What would l do without him? What will l do?😮
His reference to The Thin White Duke gives a clue to his persona then. He killed off Ziggy in 1973 and changed that look mid 1974 I think. This is a superb track from the album of the same name. A sort of electronic funk rock. He changed direction music wise with the previous album Young Americans, which was a mix of soul and rock. The cover pic to the Station To Station album is from a scene in the movie The Man Who Fell To Earth, where he played the part of an alien from another planet. Appropriate lol And your wife has taste being a big Bowie fan.
@@michaellomax2 appreciate the info bud, really interesting read
The persona Between this and Ziggy was called Halloween jack that was mainly for the diamond dogs album
@@bobcorbin3294 Diamond Dogs another good album. I first had it when it came out in 1974. I have the cd now.
@@michaellomax2 I still have my vinyl with the back cover showing David's doggy bits
thin white duke, it's in the lyric... great album!
Mate ! You fckin beauty. Probably my fave song up there with Supper's Ready by Genesis. And Hymn From a Village by James. Station to Station is a top album, too...as are most of Bowies' albums between 69 -83.
@@mana3735 glad to hit one of your faves by sheer good luck!
@@MusicForTheSoulReactions Glad you enjoyed it, bud. It's a good album but only has 6 songs.
@@mana3735 quality over quantity 👌
Sometimes it makes me wonder that there are people who never heard of "Space Oddity". A must listen, unique in its concept and actually at least as famos as "Heroes".
I recognize the name of the song, again mainly through seeing the tracklist on my wife's vinyl of his. Will have to give it a listen. Whats that other one, ground control to major tom or something, thats one I know!
That was quick work! Thanks very much! 😊
Dark song for a sunny day - The Thin White Duke persona. Fuelled on coke, psychosis, the occult and paranoia, Bowie said it was his “nastiest” persona. The “stations” are on the Kabbalah.
It’s “bo-wie” according to Bowie 😊
Trust me, it's lucky I got this out at all, having all kinds of recording software issues! The White Duke has cursed my computer!
@@MusicForTheSoulReactionsThe spirit of Bowie. He liked a laugh!
@@MusicForTheSoulReactionsOver time, Bowie’s vocals will really impress you. Try Young Americans 😊
@@mattleppard1970 I'm sure he will, unless he has plans to destroy every computer I listen to him on 🤣
@@MusicForTheSoulReactionsFor obscure Bowie, try The Heart’s Filthy Lesson live in 1996.
You will be amazed. Gobsmacked.
Bowie was a genius and sadly missed. I still love his early work and remember seeing him at The Greyhound, Croydon when they were in a Ziggy Stardust theme. There are some stonkers on the Ziggy Stardust album. Let's dance is a fav too. Great vid out there to watch too. ruclips.net/video/VbD_kBJc_gI/видео.html&ab_channel=DavidBowie
Your wife has good taste.
I can hardly believe he died at the age I am now.
Have a good weekend. Love your channel, Steve.
@@michaellomax2 appreciate that very much, enjoy your weekend too!
Great reaction. Life on mars is a must, sweet candidate too, five years is great. Its hard to choose, every album und every song is different, there are so many great songs. You know heroes, but the live video 2000 Berlin shows his charisma. I think your wife knows it.
I appreciate the extra song recommendations, the more obscure sounding the better as there will be a higher chance I won't have heard a peep accidentally through my wife. Cheers
This was Bowies funky/soul/rock mid 70s period. Too much co caine!
@@mana3735 Hahaha you know its too much of the white stuff when he's singing about it!
These are the heroin albums low, station to station to station and heroes it’s Germanic and Bauhaus he went to Berlin to with iggy pop to quit heroin ( a strange stratergie) the thin white duke is a strung out Bowie
Hi , loving the channel , can I recommend King Crimson , either Court of the crimson king or starless also Kanas carry on my wayward son
This is the Bowie that makes David immortal but people don't know about. They listen to Ziggy or Space Oddity and they think they know him. They don't know shit!
the title of Station to Station refers to the Station of the cross this album is Bowie at he most sprital
Love it, thanks for enlightening me
@@MusicForTheSoulReactions I suggest you listen to the 3rd track on the Album Word On A Wing it Bowie at a dark place but also a hopeful place you my find in interesting
Really good analysis and reaction! For obscure brilliance, check out Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise). You'll not be disappointed! You've got yerself another subscriber!
Hey, thank you for the sub. And more importantly, thank you for the further recommendations, added to the list
Well... Do I like David Bowie? I created a playlist for him. There are very different styles. Usually I preferer late 1960s ("Space Oddity" album), early 1970s ("Aladdin Sane" album, my favorite) or 1980s ("Tonight"), but "Station to Staion" is very interesting too. And the live album "Stage" is really great. Well, "Earthling" is also great, in a very different way. There are a lot of interesting Bowie songs, in very different music genres.
Why all the best singers and bands are from UK? Bowie, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Queen, Genesis, Caravan, Yes, Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Greenslade, Colosseum, Atomic Rooster, Cream, The Hollies, Small Faces, The Move, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Procol Harum, The Nice...
Ps. About Bowie vocals, do you know "Wild is the Wind"? There is a studio version, great, and there is the video version, recorded live in studio, great too. I prefers "slightly" the music video version.
You're right, there's a lot to be said for amazing bands all coming from the UK 💪
Will have to explore your Bowie recommendation, see which iteration of his I'm in for!!
@@MusicForTheSoulReactions Well, there are great band form other countries too. I could suggest some great bands and singers from Brazil, USA, Nederlands, Italy, Germany... But, in my personal listening, UK have the most of the great bands, the most artists which I like are from UK. Well, I don't writed about my favorite female singer, Lulu, whcih is from Scotland, and I don't writed about NewWave and PostPunk artists, the best are from UK too, in my opinion.
For some counterpoint, I suggest my favorite artists from other countries:
Brazil - Quaterna Requiem (the best brazilian ProgRock band, in my opinion - usually instumental)
USA - Sparks (as Bowie, the syles varies: Synth Pop, Art Rock, Experimental, Electronic, Techno Pop, New Wave, Post Punk, Hard Rock, Pop-Rock... - there are great albums in 1970s and 2000s, although I think that usually "very weird" for a first listening)
Italy - Premiata Forneria Marconi "PFM" (the best Italian ProgRock ever - early almost as a "Italian Genesis")
Nederlands - Focus (great Prog band - usually instrumental, sometimes with weird and great vocals)
Great choice mate....you owe your mrs a apology mate....I also done the same with metallica.. never really heard anything from them and just thought they were not very good.. I was so wrong.. anyway enjoy your weekend...later dude
@@LeeQuinnell it's strange how we make such random decisions based on absolutely nothing! Happy to be proven wrong though for sure!! Have a cracking weekend buddy
One of his best albums, saw him perform this live in '78. amazing concert. You spoke a few times about creativity, if I may be so bold, I'd like to suggest that you give Beck's reinterpretation of Bowie's Sound and Vision a watch. Two choirs, 10 lead guitars, a yodeler, Indian bells, orchestra, and more. ruclips.net/video/XyO5MRTbL2s/видео.html
Of course you may suggest such a song, it sounds interesting with all those different components going on! It's cool you got to see Bowie live! 😎
@@MusicForTheSoulReactions Awesome! I'm very much looking forward to your reaction!
Plz react to Closest thing to Heaven by Tears for Fears , music video version please 😊
More than happy too, thanks for the request
Your to young to recognize an old train when you hear it...
@@erikahlander3489 🤣 my dad's a big train fan, been to see some old steam trains before now
@@MusicForTheSoulReactions Did you try the mini-train to Darjeeling? You have the rythm of a train in many old songs, 60s and older, I have a playlist with 17 "train songs" (1847-2018!)
@@erikahlander3489 Wow, that's some playlist. I don't think so. I know we all bought him a train driving experience in the past, but I'll be damned if I remember where! Seen the iconic one over the bridge in Scotland (The Harry Potter train).