@@brucedillinger9448 Yes, but over time one eye was getting darker than the other, almost pretending to be green, but that was already very old, look at photos of him!
The schoolboy who caused his eye injury was none other than Tony Visconti - who went on to be his long-time (but on-and-off-again) bass player and producer. I saw it on a RUclips video interview with Tony and he said so. Unless he's just taking the credit... lol
Bowie was the first major rock star to tell the world he wasn't straight . In the late sixties and early seventies "Gay" meant not straight in the UK. He took his career in his hands and admitted to the UK press that he was bisexual and this had a massive effect on young queer people like myself. His songs have been the sound track to my sixty years as a gay man. Great reaction x
1. Sweet Thing 2. Station to Station 3. Sound and Vision 4. We are the dead 5. Young Americans Very hard to pick, his discography is so varied in genres and styles. Really enjoyed the video :) Fav album: Diamond Dogs
My top 5 Bowie songs: 1) My Death Waits (Live in Santa Monica '72) 2) Rock'n'Roll Suicide 3) Sound and Vision 4) Cat People 5) Five Years Honorable mention: "Chubby Little Loser"
The Space Oddity video you watched was actually shot 3 years after he originally wrote and recorded the song in 1969. The video was filmed and lip-synched in 1972 after he started going through his Ziggy Stardust era. The song initially flopped in America when it first came out in 1969(although it did fairly well in Britain - in fact, it was broadcast as the background music on the BBC during the live telecasts of the first moon landing), but after his 1972 Ziggy Stardust album he started becoming a star and his back catalog became in demand for the first time in America and that's when the song was deemed worthy of it's first music video. At the time he originally did this song, he had long shaggy hair and it was long before he started exploring playing around with playing "characters".
Imo the absolute peak of Bowie’s genius was the string of Station to Station - Low - Heroes albums from 1976-77. I hope you get to explore these more out-there Bowie albums and have fun doing so!
My Top Twenty!... 1 Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing Reprise. 2 Station To Station 3 Rock n Roll Suicide 4 Cygnet Committee 5 Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud 6 We Are The Dead 7 Aladdin Sane 8 Warzawa 9 Time 10 All The Madmen 11 Life On Mars 12 Sound and Vision 13 Wild is the Wind 14 Absolute Beginners 15 Right 16 Queen Bitch 17 I'm Afraid of Americans 18 Changes 19 Width of a Circle 20 Lady Grinning Soul
Enjoyed this, thank you very much indeed for your fresh insights. Was a massive Bowie fan in my youth, and it’s always good to hear eloquent younger people connecting with music history. For what it’s worth, my top three albums: 1. Hunky Dory 2. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars 3. Low …. And then when you’re hungry for more…. Station to Station, Heroes, Young Americans, Blackstar. The others have great moments, but all these are solid gold.
As far as I'm aware 'Major Tom' became a metaphor for drugs and substance use. He's trying to make contact with Earth through the high, so Ashes to Ashes seems to be about relapse.
Also HOW have you not seen Labyrinth? 'As the World Falls Down' was so pretty (and so creepy, but you kind of have to suspend that to watch the movie if I'm being honest). It was un/fortunately a staple of my childhood but it got me to Bowie, so....
The top 5 songs of his that stay on my playlists are... 1 Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise) 2 Aladdin Sane 3 Lady Grinning Soul 4 My Death (1973 Hammersmith Odeon performances, last tour with the Ziggy character) 5 The Man Who Sold the World All of his albums through the 1970s are truly great. His voice reached its greatest range on the _Aladdin_ _Sane_ and _Diamond_ _Dogs_ albums, before chain smoking gradually began to take its toll (though after he cut down, he had recovered a lot of it by the turn of the century).
omg yaaayyy heyyy !! SO glad you reacted to Moonage Daydream !!!! i'm still watching but had to comment as you mentioned me eeee :D ! Been loving the vid so far, you really are just so creative and insightful !!
Tried to list just five Bowie tracks as my favourites, but had to put six: "Cygnet Committee", "The Width of a Circle", "Five Years", "Time", "You Feel So Lonely You Could Die" and " Blackstar". I could easily list so many more, and looking back at what I just wrote these are all fairly dark songs so I guess I'm feeling down at the moment and another time I'd choose different ones.
David Bowie has helped me navigate through my life's journey. Well, this music has .Was lucky enough to see him live twice..late 70's .then early 2000s .He continued to be the most phenomenonal performer. Top five of my are .Life on Mars.RockNroll suicide. Strangers when we meet .The Stars are out tonight .Wild is the Wind.Enjoy.❤
Honestly, of all the artists out there, Bowie’s trajectory really does require more, in my opinion. Like, a deep chronological dive into, geez, at least half of his albums. You kinda skipped over the entirety of his most experimental and artistic work, the albums ranging from Station to Station through to Scary Monsters. Before that, he was doing the glam thing, you know, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, etc. After the artistic experimentation thing, he made a deliberate choice to go “pop” for a while with the soul-dance influenced Let’s Dance (where Modern Love comes from), kinda floundered for a few years after that but still managed to put out a handful of really solid albums like Heathens for instance, and ending his career with the brilliant Blackstar. My personal fav stuff, though, is that period in the late 70s. Regardless… fun video, I enjoyed it.
I'm an obsessed fan so maybe (just maybe) this is not my definitive top five but at least it's the one at this moment: 5. Win (of the Young Americans album) 4. Dollar Day (Blackstar) 3. Slow Burn (Heathen) 2. Lady Grinning Soul (Aladdin Sane) 1. Station to Statio (Station to Station to Station) Special mentions to Life on Mars, Starman, Modern Love, Under Pressure, Lady Stardust and Absolute Begginers
I really enjoy your discovery videos and that you spend a good amount of time analyzing lyrics. In Bowie's career, he released 30 albums(and was a great actor as well), so you're truly just scraping the surface with those eight songs & videos. It's hard to even do album recommendations since he was proficient at so many different genres. A lot of the things you mentioned like early music videos, studio effects, discordant sounds, and bringing the experimental into the mainstream the Beatles were a big part of pioneering. So I recommend doing a deep dive on them as well if you haven't. I know I sound very cliche saying that. Favorite songs: Station to Station Fame Five Years Young Americans Sound and Vision
46:22 I might be remembering it wrong but I’m pretty sure the let’s dance era of Bowie essentially came from him experiencing sort of creative burn out because he had been so deeply artistic for so long and basically he went “I’m tired of being an artist, fuck it I’m gonna make some fun music and just go dance on stage for a while”
I haven't listened to all of david bowie's albums yet, but these are my current top 5: 1. Blackstar 2. Lazarus 3. Heroes 4. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide 5. Five Years
The "distorted compressed strings" you refer to at 8:17 are actually a mellotron. A mellotron is a quite bizarre but awesome-sounding instrument made famous in the late 60s by many progressive bands like King Crimson and Genesis. It actually IS strings - sorta. A mellotron is a keyboard instrument, but the sounds it makes are actually tape recordings of a single note that exist on a loop that plays over and over again and the note that plays is determined by the key pressed. Most mellotrons (as far as I know - I'm no expert) had 3 different sounds they could make and one of them(used here) is one that is actually the strings of an orchestra. I'm not sure why they always have a phlangy sound to them. But I'm glad they do. That's part of the reason they sound so cool.
This was amazing, thank for taking the time to take a deep dive. please listen to Changes, Under pressure (he didnt just sing, they created it together ) and from his last album Where Are We Now rather than Lazarus. Very touching
I have often heard people say things like "This is one of the earliest music videos" but there always seems to be ones that are older, so I'm not sure when they really did begin. The oldest one I can think of are ones by the Beatles. I've often heard people say that their video for Strawberry Fields Forever (from 1967) is "the first one", but I doubt that is literally true, while it is the oldest one I know of, I have little doubt older ones exist.
Massive Bowie and Labyrinth fan; this is great but watching Magic Dance out of context is a choice 😂 if you’re gonna do that I would’ve recommended As the World Falls Down… little more accessible! Highly recommend watching the movie. Yes, it’s an 80s time capsule, but it’s a classic coming-of-age film that also captures the female gaze in a time where that was even more rare than today. Still, very fun reaction as always!
Albums to listen to: Ziggy Stardust Hunky Dory Aladdin Sane Low Heroes Station to Station Honestly, The Next Day and Blackstar SHOULD be listened to in their entirety, but the full effect of both comes after engaging with the rest of the discography.
My top five are: 1. Life on mars 2. Station to station 3. Sound and vision 4. Teenage wildlife 5. Queen Bitch It often changes, there are so many fantastic songs. You should listen to the album Station to station, Hunky dory and Ziggy Stardust. Thanks for the wonderful reaction.
The entire album Let's Dance was a social experiment of sorts for himself. After being a bit more underground as far as a performer, Bowie said I am just going to become a superstar, and that's what he did, first time out. Absolutely insane.
I could give you 10+ songs that could all be no 1. 5 songs.. 1. Cygnet Committee 1. Ashes to Ashes 1. Lady Grinning Soul 1. The width of a Circle 1. Big Brother
I personally really thing you should listen to the album “1. outside”. It’s like the most underrated album ever to me and it’s extremely unique from all his other stuff
The moon landing is what caused him to write Space Oddity. It came out in 1969, and it is actually his earliest hit - you did go in the right order. (And he didn't have the image down right from the beginning! This was already a couple of albums in. But he did start playing with gender presentation and sexuality very early.) And Ashes to Ashes is at least partly about drug addiction, lol. Would love to see you do some album reactions to Bowie! I think you'd have a great time with the Berlin trilogy (Low, Heroes, and Lodger) because they were huge steps forward for music production, and hugely influential on genre movements like Bauhaus, New Wave, and the New Romantics. From his later work, I really love Heathen and Earthling (his drum and bass album!). But Ziggy is a classic one to do for sure, it's what put him on the map. (The concert film from that tour has some amazing performances you might have fun reacting to - his voice changed a lot. His cover of "My Death" is one of the best live performances I've ever seen: ruclips.net/video/nKmBg-jOYUQ/видео.html. Incredible command of the audience.) I tried to do a top 5 and I simply can't. He did too many different kinds of things, and I love them for different reasons! I could probably do, like, 5 themed top 5s, lol.
Do more Bowie please! I liked your talk about his allowing you to add, and the grounding. That comes through in his interviews, his honesty and presence makes him ever charming. Very human. 1) Sweet Thing,Candidate, Sweet Thing Reprise; (A romance about male prostitution) 2) Rebel Rebel 3) When I'm 5, (has a great video, from when he's 23 or so), 4) Lady Grinning Soul, 5) Time 6) Word on a Wing.7) Win, (The most beautiful song ever); 8) Width of a Circle; 9) Quicksand; 10) Where are we now; 11) Blackstar. Sorry, Just 5 was too hard.
The character of Ziggy Stardust was inspired by English rock 'n' roll singer Vince Taylor, whom Bowie met after Taylor had a breakdown and believed himself to be a cross between a god and an alien. Bowie's lyrical allusions to Taylor include identifying Ziggy as a "leper messiah
My Top 5: 5: the man who sold the world 4: starman 3: rebel rebel 2: heroes 1: absolute beginners honorable mentions: china girl + let’s dance his queerness made a big impression on teenage me (the idea that you didn’t have to be hetero OR gay, he was the first one who made that clear for me. there’s never been enough bi representation) but i only started appreciating his music when I was older, after his passing.
My top ten would have been so much easier, but here are my top five: 1. Moonage Daydream 2. Rock n Roll Suicide 3. Criminal World 4. Five Years 5. Starman
But the first video you showed was Mick Rock's 1972 video for Space Oddity. The original Space Oddity video appeared at the end of 1969's "Love You till Tuesday", a half an hour feature of music videos showcasing Bowie's earlier style. That is where you should have started in my opinion. Or even earlier with "Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders".
Space oddity was released in july 69 to coincide with first moon walk. I got lucky by being born in a time that artists like Bowie and Prince existed. Gen x had greatest mix of music
As for Life On Mars.. I don’t know where I head this. Bowie actually took a couple songs he wrote and cut the lyrics up and repasted them and created the song life on mars. This explains why the lyrics are kind of surreal and hard to interpret. I’m not sure this song actually has a meaning other than what an individual projects on to it.
Those aren't contacts! His best friend laid into him and permanently dilated his eye. That's the way he was for about 50 years. Strange that you'd skip Diamond Dogs, Young Americans and Station to Station. You might second guess yourself. You might be missing something essential. Maybe you don't like an artist for his or her predilections for drugs. You might be right but then again you might have missed the very... You even blew off the first 2/3 of the Berlin trilogy. Why? Stunning decision! Where's "Quicksand", "The Bewly Brothers", and for crying out louid "Rock n Roll Suicide"? The song that had us sneaking out our bedroom windows late at night to share with our friends at the risk of permanent grounding? There's still time. But this? It's Bowie and it's great but ...really?
Those are his actual eyes. He had an accident when he was young that affected his pupil.
close, but it was actually a schoolboy fight that caused the injury - he remained friends with the guy who punched him
yes, over time his eye was getting another colour (only until he got old)
His eyes are NOT different colors. The dilated pupil caused his eyes to APPEAR different.
@@brucedillinger9448 Yes, but over time one eye was getting darker than the other, almost pretending to be green, but that was already very old, look at photos of him!
The schoolboy who caused his eye injury was none other than Tony Visconti - who went on to be his long-time (but on-and-off-again) bass player and producer. I saw it on a RUclips video interview with Tony and he said so. Unless he's just taking the credit... lol
Bowie was the first major rock star to tell the world he wasn't straight . In the late sixties and early seventies "Gay" meant not straight in the UK. He took his career in his hands and admitted to the UK press that he was bisexual and this had a massive effect on young queer people like myself. His songs have been the sound track to my sixty years as a gay man. Great reaction x
1. Sweet Thing
2. Station to Station
3. Sound and Vision
4. We are the dead
5. Young Americans
Very hard to pick, his discography is so varied in genres and styles.
Really enjoyed the video :) Fav album: Diamond Dogs
Omg Diamond Dogs is probably my second favorite album. I don't know many people who like that one. We Are the Dead is brilliant.
My top 5 Bowie songs:
1) My Death Waits (Live in Santa Monica '72)
2) Rock'n'Roll Suicide
3) Sound and Vision
4) Cat People
5) Five Years
Honorable mention: "Chubby Little Loser"
Very dark top 5...but brilliant.
David Bowie himself performs the baby gurgles in Magic Dance because the original intended baby wouldn't "gurgle on demand".
The Space Oddity video you watched was actually shot 3 years after he originally wrote and recorded the song in 1969. The video was filmed and lip-synched in 1972 after he started going through his Ziggy Stardust era. The song initially flopped in America when it first came out in 1969(although it did fairly well in Britain - in fact, it was broadcast as the background music on the BBC during the live telecasts of the first moon landing), but after his 1972 Ziggy Stardust album he started becoming a star and his back catalog became in demand for the first time in America and that's when the song was deemed worthy of it's first music video. At the time he originally did this song, he had long shaggy hair and it was long before he started exploring playing around with playing "characters".
Imo the absolute peak of Bowie’s genius was the string of Station to Station - Low - Heroes albums from 1976-77. I hope you get to explore these more out-there Bowie albums and have fun doing so!
My Top Twenty!...
1 Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing Reprise.
2 Station To Station
3 Rock n Roll Suicide
4 Cygnet Committee
5 Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
6 We Are The Dead
7 Aladdin Sane
8 Warzawa
9 Time
10 All The Madmen
11 Life On Mars
12 Sound and Vision
13 Wild is the Wind
14 Absolute Beginners
15 Right
16 Queen Bitch
17 I'm Afraid of Americans
18 Changes
19 Width of a Circle
20 Lady Grinning Soul
Haha I love how no-one could stick to 5
It keeps ch-ch-ch-ch-changing but my current top 5 are:
1- All the Madmen
2- The Jean Genie
3- Can You Hear me
4- It’s no game, Pt. 1
5- Never get Old
It's No Game (Pt. 1) is underrated! Great opening track
Enjoyed this, thank you very much indeed for your fresh insights.
Was a massive Bowie fan in my youth, and it’s always good to hear
eloquent younger people connecting with music history.
For what it’s worth, my top three albums:
1. Hunky Dory
2. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
3. Low
…. And then when you’re hungry for more….
Station to Station, Heroes, Young Americans, Blackstar.
The others have great moments, but all these are solid gold.
Interesting fact...The video for Ashes to Ashes was the first £100k music video ever made.
As far as I'm aware 'Major Tom' became a metaphor for drugs and substance use. He's trying to make contact with Earth through the high, so Ashes to Ashes seems to be about relapse.
Also HOW have you not seen Labyrinth? 'As the World Falls Down' was so pretty (and so creepy, but you kind of have to suspend that to watch the movie if I'm being honest). It was un/fortunately a staple of my childhood but it got me to Bowie, so....
Yeah, Major Tom cut himself off from the rest of the world and became a junkie.
The top 5 songs of his that stay on my playlists are...
1 Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise)
2 Aladdin Sane
3 Lady Grinning Soul
4 My Death (1973 Hammersmith Odeon performances, last tour with the Ziggy character)
5 The Man Who Sold the World
All of his albums through the 1970s are truly great. His voice reached its greatest range on the _Aladdin_ _Sane_ and _Diamond_ _Dogs_ albums, before chain smoking gradually began to take its toll (though after he cut down, he had recovered a lot of it by the turn of the century).
omg yaaayyy heyyy !! SO glad you reacted to Moonage Daydream !!!! i'm still watching but had to comment as you mentioned me eeee :D ! Been loving the vid so far, you really are just so creative and insightful !!
Thank you babes 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Tried to list just five Bowie tracks as my favourites, but had to put six: "Cygnet Committee", "The Width of a Circle", "Five Years", "Time", "You Feel So Lonely You Could Die" and " Blackstar". I could easily list so many more, and looking back at what I just wrote these are all fairly dark songs so I guess I'm feeling down at the moment and another time I'd choose different ones.
David Bowie has helped me navigate through my life's journey. Well, this music has .Was lucky enough to see him live twice..late 70's .then early 2000s .He continued to be the most phenomenonal performer. Top five of my are .Life on Mars.RockNroll suicide. Strangers when we meet .The Stars are out tonight .Wild is the Wind.Enjoy.❤
I was fortunate to see him live in Toronto in the 80s. His beautiful wife must miss him so much. RIP❤
Thank you for reacting to Lazarus. It has left a mark on me ever since he gifted it to us.
Honestly, of all the artists out there, Bowie’s trajectory really does require more, in my opinion. Like, a deep chronological dive into, geez, at least half of his albums. You kinda skipped over the entirety of his most experimental and artistic work, the albums ranging from Station to Station through to Scary Monsters. Before that, he was doing the glam thing, you know, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, etc. After the artistic experimentation thing, he made a deliberate choice to go “pop” for a while with the soul-dance influenced Let’s Dance (where Modern Love comes from), kinda floundered for a few years after that but still managed to put out a handful of really solid albums like Heathens for instance, and ending his career with the brilliant Blackstar. My personal fav stuff, though, is that period in the late 70s. Regardless… fun video, I enjoyed it.
Bowie and Madonna saved my life, literally ❤
I'm an obsessed fan so maybe (just maybe) this is not my definitive top five but at least it's the one at this moment:
5. Win (of the Young Americans album)
4. Dollar Day (Blackstar)
3. Slow Burn (Heathen)
2. Lady Grinning Soul (Aladdin Sane)
1. Station to Statio (Station to Station to Station)
Special mentions to Life on Mars, Starman, Modern Love, Under Pressure, Lady Stardust and Absolute Begginers
Thank you! Win is definetly top 5 - a real sleeper.
I really enjoy your discovery videos and that you spend a good amount of time analyzing lyrics. In Bowie's career, he released 30 albums(and was a great actor as well), so you're truly just scraping the surface with those eight songs & videos. It's hard to even do album recommendations since he was proficient at so many different genres. A lot of the things you mentioned like early music videos, studio effects, discordant sounds, and bringing the experimental into the mainstream the Beatles were a big part of pioneering. So I recommend doing a deep dive on them as well if you haven't. I know I sound very cliche saying that.
Favorite songs:
Station to Station
Fame
Five Years
Young Americans
Sound and Vision
46:22 I might be remembering it wrong but I’m pretty sure the let’s dance era of Bowie essentially came from him experiencing sort of creative burn out because he had been so deeply artistic for so long and basically he went “I’m tired of being an artist, fuck it I’m gonna make some fun music and just go dance on stage for a while”
I haven't listened to all of david bowie's albums yet, but these are my current top 5:
1. Blackstar
2. Lazarus
3. Heroes
4. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
5. Five Years
Yes. 5 Years is a good one. As is Rock N Roll Suicide.
The "distorted compressed strings" you refer to at 8:17 are actually a mellotron. A mellotron is a quite bizarre but awesome-sounding instrument made famous in the late 60s by many progressive bands like King Crimson and Genesis. It actually IS strings - sorta. A mellotron is a keyboard instrument, but the sounds it makes are actually tape recordings of a single note that exist on a loop that plays over and over again and the note that plays is determined by the key pressed. Most mellotrons (as far as I know - I'm no expert) had 3 different sounds they could make and one of them(used here) is one that is actually the strings of an orchestra. I'm not sure why they always have a phlangy sound to them. But I'm glad they do. That's part of the reason they sound so cool.
That's really cool! I've heard of a mellotron before but never known exactly what it was so thanks!
This was amazing, thank for taking the time to take a deep dive. please listen to Changes, Under pressure (he didnt just sing, they created it together ) and from his last album Where Are We Now rather than Lazarus. Very touching
I have often heard people say things like "This is one of the earliest music videos" but there always seems to be ones that are older, so I'm not sure when they really did begin. The oldest one I can think of are ones by the Beatles. I've often heard people say that their video for Strawberry Fields Forever (from 1967) is "the first one", but I doubt that is literally true, while it is the oldest one I know of, I have little doubt older ones exist.
Bowie himself did many earlier. When I'm 5; Let me sleep Beside you; and Rubber Band are all done years before Major Tom and darned great!
Massive Bowie and Labyrinth fan; this is great but watching Magic Dance out of context is a choice 😂 if you’re gonna do that I would’ve recommended As the World Falls Down… little more accessible! Highly recommend watching the movie. Yes, it’s an 80s time capsule, but it’s a classic coming-of-age film that also captures the female gaze in a time where that was even more rare than today. Still, very fun reaction as always!
Haha fair enough! I'll definitely have to check it out
Albums to listen to:
Ziggy Stardust
Hunky Dory
Aladdin Sane
Low
Heroes
Station to Station
Honestly, The Next Day and Blackstar SHOULD be listened to in their entirety, but the full effect of both comes after engaging with the rest of the discography.
My top five are:
1. Life on mars
2. Station to station
3. Sound and vision
4. Teenage wildlife
5. Queen Bitch
It often changes, there are so many fantastic songs.
You should listen to the album Station to station, Hunky dory and Ziggy Stardust. Thanks for the wonderful reaction.
The entire album Let's Dance was a social experiment of sorts for himself. After being a bit more underground as far as a performer, Bowie said I am just going to become a superstar, and that's what he did, first time out. Absolutely insane.
I could give you 10+ songs that could all be no 1. 5 songs..
1. Cygnet Committee
1. Ashes to Ashes
1. Lady Grinning Soul
1. The width of a Circle
1. Big Brother
I personally really thing you should listen to the album “1. outside”. It’s like the most underrated album ever to me and it’s extremely unique from all his other stuff
The moon landing is what caused him to write Space Oddity. It came out in 1969, and it is actually his earliest hit - you did go in the right order. (And he didn't have the image down right from the beginning! This was already a couple of albums in. But he did start playing with gender presentation and sexuality very early.) And Ashes to Ashes is at least partly about drug addiction, lol.
Would love to see you do some album reactions to Bowie! I think you'd have a great time with the Berlin trilogy (Low, Heroes, and Lodger) because they were huge steps forward for music production, and hugely influential on genre movements like Bauhaus, New Wave, and the New Romantics. From his later work, I really love Heathen and Earthling (his drum and bass album!). But Ziggy is a classic one to do for sure, it's what put him on the map. (The concert film from that tour has some amazing performances you might have fun reacting to - his voice changed a lot. His cover of "My Death" is one of the best live performances I've ever seen: ruclips.net/video/nKmBg-jOYUQ/видео.html. Incredible command of the audience.)
I tried to do a top 5 and I simply can't. He did too many different kinds of things, and I love them for different reasons! I could probably do, like, 5 themed top 5s, lol.
Top 5
1: Heroes
2: Ashes to ashes
3: Modern Love
4: Space Oddity
5: I'm afraid of Americans
Ugh i love david bowie❤❤❤ labyrinth is my fav movie ever!!!!
Do more Bowie please! I liked your talk about his allowing you to add, and the grounding. That comes through in his interviews, his honesty and presence makes him ever charming. Very human. 1) Sweet Thing,Candidate, Sweet Thing Reprise; (A romance about male prostitution) 2) Rebel Rebel 3) When I'm 5, (has a great video, from when he's 23 or so), 4) Lady Grinning Soul, 5) Time 6) Word on a Wing.7) Win, (The most beautiful song ever); 8) Width of a Circle; 9) Quicksand; 10) Where are we now; 11) Blackstar. Sorry, Just 5 was too hard.
You missed his stuff from before Space Oddity [1960s David Bowie].
the song Changes sort of encapsulates his desire to keep switching around new genres
You have great insight, mate. Spot on. Thanks :))
Sweet Thing Candidate Sweet Thing Reprise, Lady Grinning Soul, Warsawa, We Are The Dead, Conversation Piece
Except just call the song "Sweet Thing" when people split the song into three chunks it just spoils the listening experience
The character of Ziggy Stardust was inspired by English rock 'n' roll singer Vince Taylor, whom Bowie met after Taylor had a breakdown and believed himself to be a cross between a god and an alien. Bowie's lyrical allusions to Taylor include identifying Ziggy as a "leper messiah
Listen to all of Blackstar! Its amazing
Fabulous interpretations .🎉
My Top 5:
5: the man who sold the world
4: starman
3: rebel rebel
2: heroes
1: absolute beginners
honorable mentions: china girl + let’s dance
his queerness made a big impression on teenage me (the idea that you didn’t have to be hetero OR gay, he was the first one who made that clear for me. there’s never been enough bi representation) but i only started appreciating his music when I was older, after his passing.
My top ten would have been so much easier, but here are my top five:
1. Moonage Daydream
2. Rock n Roll Suicide
3. Criminal World
4. Five Years
5. Starman
But the first video you showed was Mick Rock's 1972 video for Space Oddity. The original Space Oddity video appeared at the end of 1969's "Love You till Tuesday", a half an hour feature of music videos showcasing Bowie's earlier style. That is where you should have started in my opinion. Or even earlier with "Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders".
Obviously were not meant to think he's actually in the sea.
You can't analyse Bowie's lyrics. He used the cut-up method of random sentences, putting them together because they sounded good.
Actually, he used that method only in some of his albums like diamond dogs and outside.
Space oddity was released in july 69 to coincide with first moon walk. I got lucky by being born in a time that artists like Bowie and Prince existed. Gen x had greatest mix of music
you should definitely listen to his album hunky dory!! it has so many amazing songs (including life on mars)
Life On Mars was actually a dig on Frank Sinatra's My Way. He couldn't stand it.
❤❤❤
As for Life On Mars..
I don’t know where I head this. Bowie actually took a couple songs he wrote and cut the lyrics up and repasted them and created the song life on mars. This explains why the lyrics are kind of surreal and hard to interpret. I’m not sure this song actually has a meaning other than what an individual projects on to it.
That wasn't the best choice of Bowie from across his career. Sorry. I did enjoy your commentary.
Please try The whole Diamond Dogs album.
I recomend to watch the docrumentary about him also called Moonage Daydream
Space Oddity and Ashes to Ashes are about his drug addiction.
You need the song in the context of the film (magic dance)
HOW have you never watched labyrinth
5:05 The book “2001: A Space Odyssey”
I read it was the first man on the moon 🧐
It’s hard to watch Lazarus he looks so sick and he’s shaking like These Are The Days Of are Lives by Queen did the same thing with Freddie
Do Marc Bolan and T. Rex next
Those aren't contacts! His best friend laid into him and permanently dilated his eye. That's the way he was for about 50 years.
Strange that you'd skip Diamond Dogs, Young Americans and Station to Station. You might second guess yourself. You might be missing something essential.
Maybe you don't like an artist for his or her predilections for drugs. You might be right but then again you might have missed the very...
You even blew off the first 2/3 of the Berlin trilogy. Why? Stunning decision!
Where's "Quicksand", "The Bewly Brothers", and for crying out louid "Rock n Roll Suicide"? The song that had us sneaking out our bedroom windows late at night to share with our friends at the risk of permanent grounding?
There's still time. But this? It's Bowie and it's great but ...really?
0:31 thats your list? Lmao ok
Maybe speak less and lesson more if you really want to learn more??