“We Are The Dead” from Diamond Dogs. Masterpiece.

@wpollock1

23 күн бұрын

Truth!

My all time favourite Bowie song.

"The Man Who Sold The World" album is a Bowie masterpiece. Been listening to it since the mid-70s. Fabulous fabulous album....!!!

@vovindequasahi

Жыл бұрын

Can never get enough of it... Bowie doing Metal is the absolute best! He wouldn't be this heavy until he did Tin Machine, although he always dabbles in punk and metal.

@DrVonChilla

Жыл бұрын

@@vincentlatour1190 right

@RichardIIIrd

8 ай бұрын

@@vovindequasahi how old are you?

@vovindequasahi

8 ай бұрын

@@RichardIIIrd How intelligent are you?

@RichardIIIrd

8 ай бұрын

@@vovindequasahi I was mistaken, I didn't want to write to you

David Bowie rules! His whole catalog is out of this world. Every single album is different from the last so for someone to say they don’t like his music; they just haven’t heard the right song yet.

@Tawny6702

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely right! Most people I know who say they don’t like Bowie just haven’t listened to the albums and they just don’t get it, they don’t get that…..in my humble opinion anyway, that no other artist has released so many great albums in succession!

Try She shook me cold from the same album, it’s very Led Zep!

Bowie best song and most honest

So just subscribed to your channel solely based on your Bowie deep dive. Someone before may have reiterated this but most reactors are stuck in a constant Bowie loop of Space Oddity/Ziggy Stardust/Changes/Starman/Young Americans/Let's Dance ... and not to take away from the classics as they are rightfully classics, but Bowie has an absolute diamond mine of a back catalogue and am so glad someone is taking the time to go through it. I could go on for days with deep cut suggestions...but I will say this. If I HAD to pick a favorite...and that is a tall order...would have to say Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise) off of the Diamond Dogs album....It's such a trip. But he has so many eras where he just changes things up. It's like he got bored and decided to try a different genre of music every time. From 60s folk to glam to krautrock to industrial to freakin jazz fusion. Anyway...thanks for taking the journey and I hope it continues.

Totally agree with Anabelle. If you haven't already, you should listen to the track Aladdin Sane from the album of the same name, with one of the most memorable piano solos in popular music, and the Sweet Thing suite - Sweet Thing, Candidate, Sweet Thing Reprise from the album Diamond Dogs for potentially his best vocal performance

Clapping along to all the madmen ,how bloody cool is that ! Thanks for playing such an early Bowie song. Love it

The songs “Quicksand” and “The Bewlay Brothers” are life-changing songs (were for me, at least, lol). They’re on the phenomenal album called Hunky Dory. You gotta check them out. I’ve always perceived them as a kind of duo or companion songs and that’s what I mentioned them both together. Quicksand opens with Alastair Crowley / tarot imagery and gets deeper from there. The Bewlay Bros is about his multiple personalities issue (deals with his use of/need for various alter-egos, which, from his name “Bowie” itself to Ziggy to The Man Who Sold The World as well as the idea behind “The Width of a Circle” and beyond).

All of his albums from 1969 to 1983 are fantastic and worth a full album listen. One of the strongest album runs in rock history. The guitar on this is the amazing Mick Ronson! Just an observation. I see you don't reply to viewers comments. I rarely bother subbing or watching channels that don't reply. The channels that reply to me consistently are ones I return too. "The Man Who Sold the World" is a great album.

Only heard this for the first time myself recently. Has a Syd Barrett feel about it.

@tool_fighter

Жыл бұрын

And a nod to RD Laing

How did I miss this one? This song and the album are sublime. Thank you for going for these hidden gems.

First album I ever bought, 1972 aged 10, still got it.

Genius gem from the legend... check out `Sweet Thing` from Diamond Dogs (all three parts)

Grast reaction. Now that you hsve an idea thst there is much greatness and variety to be heard frim bowie, i would recommend starting with the space oddity album and listen to the whole thing. Then do each album in order. You will see astounding growth and originality. For my money few can compare with his 70s output

Superb song. Great album. x

I'm in a similar boat with Bowie. I've always considered myself a fan, but only had "Changes" on CD and "Changes2Bowie" on cassette. Both essentially greatest hits albums with the latter being a little more deep cuts. I've been rectifying my Bowie deficiencies slowly over the last years, and more actively over the last months, where I've been listening to them sequentially several times each. But I'm only up to Ziggy so far. Hard to believe that's his FIFTH studio album! Lots of fantastic tracks already, both known and unknown to me, including this one.

I would love to see a reaction of bowie s images 66 67 double album compilation, which I really love. A 19yrs old then and so different, ok a bit strange the sonx, like a coming out of age tracks, 😊

Thank u! This song is thought to be about Bowie's brother who had Schizophrenia. I believe that too. Oh! What an album. You should truly check out Aladdin Sane or Sweet Thing suite. Experimental and Sweet Thing suite is my all time fav Bowie song (s) He's not just my fav artist he's truly my hero, sappy as it sounds.. 27 studio albums. I'm not a big fan of his hits either, there's so much more depth in other places.

@andalltheangelssay212

2 жыл бұрын

Same Annabelle, I love Sweet thing, candidate , sweet thing reprise, I love the version on the Cracked actor live album kzread.info/dash/bejne/oGafpM1vopm5e9I.html I also love Time

@bobcorbin3294

2 жыл бұрын

The US release of this album on the Mercury label has a drawing of a photo of the Asylum where Bowie's brother Terry was institutionalized

@tool_fighter

Жыл бұрын

Close . It was a middle finger to the psychiatric establishment as it existed in the late 60s and early 70s . RD Laing was a rock star psychiatrist who largely changed that . Laing gave a voice to madness and revolted against forced drugging and electroshock .

Finally someone who reacts to other songs than just the title track from this album. Thank you! Check also out Saviour Machine, She Shook Me Cold and The Supermen 👍

Commenters have got this half-right. The song is partly about Bowie's half-brother Terry Burns who was on the schizophrenic spectrum and spent a lot of time in residential care. And partly about Bowie's anxiety about his own mental health and/or perception of the world. He seems to have believed that mental illness ran in the family - even though in the revised edition of the book David Bowie-A Life, his cousin provides a fascinating potted history of the family which thoroughly trashes this idea.

I've got one for you Bowie and cher can you hear me it's on you tube my favorite Bowie duet of all time and that's a high bar as we say in the UK a banger

Way back in the early Bowie days. Hunky Dory. His first big album after a few false starts. Hunky Dory is an absolutely wonderful album. And as well as Mick Ronson... the great Rick Wakeman (YES fame) on keyboards. Look up Wakeman’s short doco about Vivaldi!

Hard to choose which one of the early seventies Bowie albums is the best, but The Man Who Sold The World is mine because it’s so out there! Also the 2020 remaster of this album which is called ‘Metrobolist’ is definitely worth getting, and all I will say is that Visconti did some very interesting things!

He says EST.. I believe a Warner Erhardt cult reference.

He followed me home Mum, can I keep him?

@davidcopson5800

Жыл бұрын

Only if you keep him in a cellar dark and grim.

A great reaction video would be comparing Time 1973 Ziggy era with Mick Ronson on guitar kzread.info/dash/bejne/mHmLyrGMndXQZrw.html and Time 1974, moving into his soul phase with Earl Slick on guitar ,kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKae1difkbm5Zdo.html both amazing performances only a year apart but actually worlds apart, I love them both equally for many different reasons. They show how fast his progression was, half way through the 1974 tour, changing from diamond dogs tour to soul tour, his fans must have been confused lol.

I quit Bowie on release of Lets Dance. Everything before that is where its at. All of it.

@misterstubbs1611

11 ай бұрын

I concur, everything up to and including 'Cat People' with Giorgio Moroder I love, from Let's Dance onwards (with the possible exception of 'Blue Jean' I've given a severe body swerve.

@jasonfrodoman1316

11 ай бұрын

@@misterstubbs1611 Cat People LOL. I completely forgot about that album...

@xxcelr8rs

3 ай бұрын

Halo Space Boy, I'll Survive (your naked eyes) New Killer Star.