What I love the most about the song is that part leading into the crescendo. "Don't let the sun blast your shadow. Don't let the milk float ride your mind. They're so natural; religiously unkind. Oh no love, you're not alone." What he was saying is essentially, "Don't let the sun pass right through you and take your shadow away. Don't become a ghost. Please live. Don't let the repetition of life take away your joys. Someone delivering milk on your doorstep is normality. All the things you're feeling are normal and natural. You're not alone in this numbness or pain that you're feeling. Be nice to yourself, because you're beautiful just the way you are and there are others who feel the same way you feel." This song has helped a lot of people through so much, and I'm grateful for everyone that has been able to make the strides to continue living because things out there like this song have inspired them. It's beautiful.
Yes, I love what you're saying because that is the message I think what I was trying to say was I know what being a rock and roll suicide is. Living the scene from the mid-to-late seventies all the way through the 80s into the 90s. Having a whole community of friends were just always there and it was Non-Stop. And then things start to crumble and you do start to feel alone but then you do have your friends and you know it's weird but Facebook did that for me I reconnected me with a lot of people that I didn't see for 15 or 20 years. And feeling that there was still something out there for us. So Bravo I really enjoyed reading what you had to say you get it. They'll be days when I'll think I would give anything to be back there right now. I had friends that worked at Warner Brothers that were telling me to go in and apply for A&R and I just never found the time. I would be retired right now. But it's hard to get off the ride when it's going so fast and it's so much fun. Good friends keep you going and help you to realize that even though the ride is different It's Not Over much more Life to Live.
this song saved my life. you uploaded this a few months before i discovered the song. it’s crazy to see people react to it and even crazier to see how so many people have had the same experience as me. i’d give anything to hear it for the first time again.
This was the last song EVER performed by Ziggy Stardust. He infamously fired his band on stage!! He announced that not only was this "the last show of the tour, it's the last show we'll ever do". Check out the concert filmage and you'll see the drummer stagger off stage dazed. "Bye bye, we love you!" These were his famous last words as Ziggy Stardust. Everyone thought his music career was ended, but he came back a few months later, again as David Bowie, having killed off Ziggy.
This song impacted me in 1972, my brother had bought the album, and when I finished listening to it, I definitely became a fan, this song was my anthem, I am now 65 years old, I still love Bowie, and I still love all music, greetings from Leeds.
My first Bowie album bought in 1972. Had no idea who he was. Played at "Maximum Volume" as the back cover demanded!!! Incredible album. Changed my life. I followed him for 50 years until he died. Damn I miss him.
The live version from the movie 'The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust' is awesome...as are several tracks from that video. Bowie in the studio is great; Bowie in concert is unbelievable!
I'm really excited about listening to your channel now because I've been at David Bowie and I am now 57. Growing up going through adolescence I was lucky enough to have older cousins and one of their friends became my best friend and turn me on to Bowie when I was 12. So when normal issues of growing up going through changes, feeling completely different from everybody in your class, finding out you where you belong and being accepted. I don't remember feeling emotional teenage thanks because I always had David Bowie I lived in Hollywood in the late 70s to the 80s. And you do you have a really good grasp on the song. But to a lot of us not actually being a rockstar but being part of that scene. You live your life like there's no tomorrow and eventually time catches up with you and passes You by. Some people just some people are Rock and Roll Suicides, no they don't kill themselves but emotionally nothing really matters you live that life for so long it is literally who you are as a person. The scene slips away after while some people do drugs and never leave their house again some people get married and settle down and then some people just hold that part of their life so dear they don't actually ever let it go. You do live a normal life but part of you just doesn't fit in this world anymore because it's so different now. And you start living life day to today. The scene changes but if you're the real deal you don't. The only regret is that time has passed that and at the time it seems like it would never end but now it seems like it was so short can't we live everyday at Full Speed Ahead. Our friends were one huge Community we were all in a hardcore punk rock, Rolling Stones, David Bowie and thanks to Facebook we're still a lot in touch we're still going to punk shows until this covid thing came about. I'm still excited to see what your take is a different kinds of music cuz to be honest and I'm going to be blunt it's probably not going to be liked but when the Grammys give the song of the year award to a woman singing about her W.A. P it literally makes me want to crawl under the covers and cry. But another's music out there that has heart and soul and is real and mean something and I just think I might hear about it from you. Do Life on Mars. Funny thing is Miss Angie Bowie is my cat's godmother! Yeah my cats cooler than I am. Thank you for such a unique Channel way different than anything else out there. You need to do some Rolling Stones.
R.I.P. David Bowie, one of the great icons in rock. I got to see him in concert twice, and both were amazing. You are missed, but you are there every time your songs are played. You should watch Lazarus. He knew he was dying, and that is his goodbye to us fans. It was released days before his death.
This is arguably rock's greatest finale album track of all time, one of many great one's off of his masterpiece, Ziggy Stardust ... the modulations rival anything on Broadway
The passion in his voice equals the opening track Five Years, a song i love. For longer great Bowie songs i suggest Sweet thing/Candidate/Sweet thing (reprise) and Station to Station and off course Blackstar from the last album The live version of Rock n Roll Suicide - Hammersmith Odeon 1973 is a must see, since it was the last song David Bowie did as his Ziggy persona. Just before this song he declaires (to much surprise for everyone including the band) “Of all of the shows on this tour, this particular show will remain with us the longest because not only is it - not only is it the last show of the tour, but it's the last show that we'll ever do." End of Ziggy..
Lazarus was his goodbye to all his fans. To make an lp like that when you know you are dying, shows his character. R.I.P. David Bowie, I saw you live twice, and they were two of the best concerts I have ever been to. You are missed.
In this song David was singing about unattractive people, young gay people who have a tendency to commit suicide. With this song alone David Bowie had saved many lives. Because the young gay people that were scared, David singing you're not alone and you're wonderful.
At Radio City Music hall in 1973, I think, this was his final song. He "collapsed" at the end and dragged off stage with all the microphone still live. It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life.
More hidden gems. You cracked me up with that line. You ask what our favorite bowie track is. Easy one, whichever track is playing. He is that good. Try god is an American or tvc15
@@coreyilacqua9780 don't know god is an American as a song title. It's part of the lyrics of I'm Afraid of Americans though. In concert, he sometimes put his arms out like he was crucified as he sang that part.
This is the song that made us crawl out our windows at night to share with our friends even though we would get grounded for the rest of our lives. Nobody'd heard anything like this. Still haven't.
Oh Bowie. My handsome prince. Please do Life On Mars. That's my fav. And watch the video why you do. You don't have to show it, but he's just so beautiful and you see how beautiful he is in that video.
My best Bowie track....is hard to say just one. The álbum Zíggy maybe, I still play it after 72/2021 more than 50 years of listening.....and yes, I can sing all the Songs
I think that you need to explore the full spectrum of his works ... his heavier metal rock i.e. Running Gun Blues, Width of a Cirlcle through to Lazarus but to fully appreciate it (Lazarus) watch the video. It was done not long before he passed and it was his way of saying goodbye (in my opinion) I had seen Bowie many, many times and loved his work. I don't know that we'll see such talent again. It also took me a long time to watch the video and it about wrecked me ... even to the end he was amazing
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I can't hear this without hearing "not only is it the last show of the tour, it's the last show we'll ever do. Thank you"
What I love the most about the song is that part leading into the crescendo. "Don't let the sun blast your shadow. Don't let the milk float ride your mind. They're so natural; religiously unkind. Oh no love, you're not alone."
What he was saying is essentially, "Don't let the sun pass right through you and take your shadow away. Don't become a ghost. Please live. Don't let the repetition of life take away your joys. Someone delivering milk on your doorstep is normality. All the things you're feeling are normal and natural. You're not alone in this numbness or pain that you're feeling. Be nice to yourself, because you're beautiful just the way you are and there are others who feel the same way you feel."
This song has helped a lot of people through so much, and I'm grateful for everyone that has been able to make the strides to continue living because things out there like this song have inspired them. It's beautiful.
@@suz5862 Absolutely 😄
When I was a teenager I used to play it a lot. It gave me strength.
Like me now trying to get through a crisis.
@@JessicaPilotGirl I'm there, too... 😕😥
Yes, I love what you're saying because that is the message I think what I was trying to say was I know what being a rock and roll suicide is. Living the scene from the mid-to-late seventies all the way through the 80s into the 90s. Having a whole community of friends were just always there and it was Non-Stop. And then things start to crumble and you do start to feel alone but then you do have your friends and you know it's weird but Facebook did that for me I reconnected me with a lot of people that I didn't see for 15 or 20 years. And feeling that there was still something out there for us. So Bravo I really enjoyed reading what you had to say you get it. They'll be days when I'll think I would give anything to be back there right now. I had friends that worked at Warner Brothers that were telling me to go in and apply for A&R and I just never found the time. I would be retired right now. But it's hard to get off the ride when it's going so fast and it's so much fun. Good friends keep you going and help you to realize that even though the ride is different It's Not Over much more Life to Live.
this song saved my life. you uploaded this a few months before i discovered the song. it’s crazy to see people react to it and even crazier to see how so many people have had the same experience as me. i’d give anything to hear it for the first time again.
Definitely Who Can I Be Now? and Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise)
This was the last song EVER performed by Ziggy Stardust. He infamously fired his band on stage!! He announced that not only was this "the last show of the tour, it's the last show we'll ever do". Check out the concert filmage and you'll see the drummer stagger off stage dazed.
"Bye bye, we love you!" These were his famous last words as Ziggy Stardust. Everyone thought his music career was ended, but he came back a few months later, again as David Bowie, having killed off Ziggy.
Such a great album closer! “Five Years, ” the opener (for Ziggy Stardust) is magnificent
This song impacted me in 1972, my brother had bought the album, and when I finished listening to it, I definitely became a fan, this song was my anthem, I am now 65 years old, I still love Bowie, and I still love all music, greetings from Leeds.
The Sweet Thing trio of songs is awesome. Rough production but a very intimate song, really weird and beautiful.
Love it......”we’ll jump in a river holding hands!”
Not to mention that his voice right at the beginning makes me weak at the knees
My first Bowie album bought in 1972. Had no idea who he was. Played at "Maximum Volume" as the back cover demanded!!! Incredible album. Changed my life. I followed him for 50 years until he died. Damn I miss him.
The live version from the movie 'The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust' is awesome...as are several tracks from that video. Bowie in the studio is great; Bowie in concert is unbelievable!
I'm really excited about listening to your channel now because I've been at David Bowie and I am now 57. Growing up going through adolescence I was lucky enough to have older cousins and one of their friends became my best friend and turn me on to Bowie when I was 12. So when normal issues of growing up going through changes, feeling completely different from everybody in your class, finding out you where you belong and being accepted. I don't remember feeling emotional teenage thanks because I always had David Bowie I lived in Hollywood in the late 70s to the 80s. And you do you have a really good grasp on the song. But to a lot of us not actually being a rockstar but being part of that scene. You live your life like there's no tomorrow and eventually time catches up with you and passes You by. Some people just some people are Rock and Roll Suicides, no they don't kill themselves but emotionally nothing really matters you live that life for so long it is literally who you are as a person. The scene slips away after while some people do drugs and never leave their house again some people get married and settle down and then some people just hold that part of their life so dear they don't actually ever let it go. You do live a normal life but part of you just doesn't fit in this world anymore because it's so different now. And you start living life day to today. The scene changes but if you're the real deal you don't. The only regret is that time has passed that and at the time it seems like it would never end but now it seems like it was so short can't we live everyday at Full Speed Ahead. Our friends were one huge Community we were all in a hardcore punk rock, Rolling Stones, David Bowie and thanks to Facebook we're still a lot in touch we're still going to punk shows until this covid thing came about. I'm still excited to see what your take is a different kinds of music cuz to be honest and I'm going to be blunt it's probably not going to be liked but when the Grammys give the song of the year award to a woman singing about her W.A. P it literally makes me want to crawl under the covers and cry. But another's music out there that has heart and soul and is real and mean something and I just think I might hear about it from you. Do Life on Mars. Funny thing is Miss Angie Bowie is my cat's godmother! Yeah my cats cooler than I am. Thank you for such a unique Channel way different than anything else out there. You need to do some Rolling Stones.
R.I.P. David Bowie, one of the great icons in rock. I got to see him in concert twice, and both were amazing. You are missed, but you are there every time your songs are played. You should watch Lazarus. He knew he was dying, and that is his goodbye to us fans. It was released days before his death.
This is arguably rock's greatest finale album track of all time, one of many great one's off of his masterpiece, Ziggy Stardust ... the modulations rival anything on Broadway
I love how 'not alone' morphs into 'Wonderful' at the end. very Bowie. I think he is singing to his audience.... as well as as to himself.
You got it my friend, the passion in his voice. Always felt it was Bowie singing to himself
The passion in his voice equals the opening track Five Years, a song i love.
For longer great Bowie songs i suggest Sweet thing/Candidate/Sweet thing (reprise)
and Station to Station and off course Blackstar from the last album
The live version of Rock n Roll Suicide - Hammersmith Odeon 1973 is a must see, since it was the last song David Bowie did as his Ziggy persona. Just before this song he declaires (to much surprise for everyone including the band) “Of all of the shows on this tour, this particular show will remain with us the longest because not only is it - not only is it the last show of the tour, but it's the last show that we'll ever do." End of Ziggy..
You should also listen to the title track from Aladdin Sane, (studio version) it’s mind blowing, my favorite Bowie tune....
Check out 'Diamond Dogs' great centerpiece, 'Sweet Thing' 3-piece suite... greatness from a glam dog!!!!
"Lazarus"- I'm afraid of Americans" - Halo Space boy" "Station to Station"
Lazarus was his goodbye to all his fans. To make an lp like that when you know you are dying, shows his character. R.I.P. David Bowie, I saw you live twice, and they were two of the best concerts I have ever been to. You are missed.
Now THAT is the way to close out an album!
In this song David was singing about unattractive people, young gay people who have a tendency to commit suicide. With this song alone David Bowie had saved many lives. Because the young gay people that were scared, David singing you're not alone and you're wonderful.
At Radio City Music hall in 1973, I think, this was his final song. He "collapsed" at the end and dragged off stage with all the microphone still live. It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life.
More hidden gems. You cracked me up with that line. You ask what our favorite bowie track is. Easy one, whichever track is playing. He is that good. Try god is an American or tvc15
It's actually I'm Afraid of Americans with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.
@@valeriekokenge659 that's not the same song. We are talking two different tunes
@@coreyilacqua9780 don't know god is an American as a song title. It's part of the lyrics of I'm Afraid of Americans though. In concert, he sometimes put his arms out like he was crucified as he sang that part.
@@valeriekokenge659 no you are right. Sorry
@@coreyilacqua9780 no worries. Great song, btw.
Bowie had so many masterpieces.
Extremely insightful. Great description and opinions. 👍
This is the song that made us crawl out our windows at night to share with our friends even though we would get grounded for the rest of our lives. Nobody'd heard anything like this. Still haven't.
Just fkn epic ain’t it !! Builds like a symphony and delivers in spades 👍🏴
Probably my favourite Bowie song.
Try the live version from Ziggy Stardust the movie, also try the studio and live versions of Moonage Daydream, killer guitar work!
Agree
Had it in beta video. Ha ha.
Oh Bowie. My handsome prince. Please do Life On Mars. That's my fav. And watch the video why you do. You don't have to show it, but he's just so beautiful and you see how beautiful he is in that video.
Bowie is my handsome prince. Do Life on Mars. And watch the video why you do. He's so beautiful. You don't have to show it, but you should watch it.
You should try 'golden years' or 'fashion', two underrated gems.
sorry not in the same league .
The live version of this with his farewell speech are next level fella
This song kept me alive during the 80s because I was not alone.
My best Bowie track....is hard to say just one. The álbum Zíggy maybe, I still play it after 72/2021 more than 50 years of listening.....and yes, I can sing all the Songs
I think that you need to explore the full spectrum of his works ... his heavier metal rock i.e. Running Gun Blues, Width of a Cirlcle through to Lazarus but to fully appreciate it (Lazarus) watch the video. It was done not long before he passed and it was his way of saying goodbye (in my opinion) I had seen Bowie many, many times and loved his work. I don't know that we'll see such talent again. It also took me a long time to watch the video and it about wrecked me ... even to the end he was amazing
Try the studio version of "Young Americans" by David Bowie in his Prime. Cheers from the Past!
Strangers when we meet.
The Thin White Duke
It ain’t easy off the same album is a solid tune.
You should watch this song live. This is my Favorite Bowie song.
U started at the END of a concept album?
Do u read the last page of novels? Lol (most people do!)
You really should listen to "Five Years" from Ziggy Stardust album
Listen to Ashes to Ashes, it's what's next in the Major Tom story ;)
Listen to that whole record on vinyl
He's singing about jimmy hendrix, song for Jimmy hendrix Xxx.
An instrumental is a song without singing, just instruments.
React to time by David bowie
It's based on a Brel song.
This is The best song in that album
Besides the album, this song also ended all of the Ziggy/Aladdin shows.
'Stolen' musically for a part from Jacques Brel.
Alladin Sane or The Bewlay Brothers
Good comments, "a venom high" find that one if you can
I think you're referring to The Width of a Circle. Good song!
Can you please react to Garbage song called Why do you love me
Please
Listen to lyrics dude
This studio version is distincly average, listen to the "David Live" version from 1974, his live vocal has to heard to be believed.
...why are you still in the closet...?
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