Drive In Saturday has always been among my biggest favorites. The words, the music, the scenes being described. Spellbinding for me ❤

@djanga166

Ай бұрын

Yes.

@hosehead58

Ай бұрын

Matt, I think it`s one of my all-time favs from him, too

From a 68 year old man who saw Bowie in person several times The very best thing about Bowie albums is they are intended to be listened to at Max Volume As loud as your system can handle

I've been a huge Bowie fan for about 20 years now, and the longer I'm a fan, the more I appreciate this album. Lady Grinning Soul is one of my all time favourite Bowie songs.

Drive-in Saturday is dystopian science-fiction. People have forgotten how to make love the natural way, so they watch old movies as a 'crash course'.

Panic in Detroit is a masterpiece

@kimquinten5298

Ай бұрын

Absolutely!!!!!!!

Every song on this album is an absolute classic. The album is imho is almost without parallel. Unique,.nothing like it before or after.....yeah you could say I like it😊.....this was 1973!!!....amazing.

@anvilstryker

Ай бұрын

I gave up trying to make sense of Bowie songs decades ago. He sings with impertinents, shading impermanent chords.

@markferrett700

Ай бұрын

Quite

What a superb album

@candicephillips5391

Ай бұрын

Bowie would sing of a future as present and recall a past that hadn't occurred (yet) and we all longed for the lost times.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Ай бұрын

@@candicephillips5391 well said

Detroit in 1973 still had the scars of the violent riots of 1967. Panic in Detroit has such a great riff and bass line. "I jumped the silent cars that slept at traffic lights" so good.

For my tastes, the Aladdin Sane album represents Bowie at the absolute top of his game.

@hosehead58

Ай бұрын

Larry, it`s definitely one of his masterpieces, completely underrated and unnoticed..

@briangray00

6 күн бұрын

Good for you; it's the one I know best. I love Mike Garson's input. Tittle track is peak, there's a couple of duds, though.

“Jung, the foreman prayed at work” Bowie’s drops great references in this period-

Twig the Wonderkid apparently refers to Twiggy, one of the first “supermodels” of the 60’s They’re photographed together on the cover of his Pin Ups album.

This album takes me back to a special time in the late 70's , when getting ready to go out on a Saturday night, and blasting this album in my room. These two songs, especially. I hope it's as timeless for you, as it is for me! Cheers!

This is one of those albums that, if asked, I would say I always loved. But in truth, I have not sat and listened to it carefully in decades. Thanks for guiding me back to these tracks.

Every track on this lp, it feels like a movie absolute magic, bowie the more you listen the better it gets. Hunky dory lp bewly brothers, dark mysterious, another favorite.

I'm 67 year old female and the courts sent me to a juvenal center in Boise Idaho we heard that Bowie was going to be playing in a bar we were under age but we escaped for the night & it was great we managed to get away with it

Aladdin Sane projects a very dystopian future.

Check out "Diamond Dogs" album👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

“We’re just gonna go album by album with this guy. He just kind of demands it … you know ? “ Lee … you made my day ! 🎸😎👍

@timpindar

Ай бұрын

Agreed - but hopefully he’ll not miss out the masterpiece that is Hunky Dory….

Don’t forget to go backwards slightly, and listen through Hunky Dory - a masterpiece

My fav Bowie album by a country mile. He rocked

The premise here is that in a post-apocalyptic world, people have forgotten how to make love, so they have to watch films (Jagger, Twiggy) to remember - the ‘story’ here is more of a ‘travelogue’ - Bowie described it as “Ziggy in America” - he basically wrote it in America on tour with the Spiders. I think you might be going to LA next.

Written and recorded on the road, in between concert dates and travel. It's a miracle album from a genius under stress as the newest global superstar.

the cool thing about Bowie is that you might not be feeling a song at first listen, but once you come back to it a few times you all of a sudden love it lol happened to me on quite a few of his songs.

Love Panic in Detroit. That Bo Diddley beat is fun.

Bowie is an endless,magical of soul creativity. It just keeps coming .Love him with a passion ❤

The spiders were awesome

On a VH1 Storyteller he told the story of himself writing Drive-In Saturday for Mott The Hoople who had already had a big hit with his song All The Young Dudes. Mott The Hoople didn't want to record Drive-In Saturday so one night Bowie got so drunk and annoyed at a motel that he shaved his eyebrows off. Mick Ronson was also the guitarist for Mott The Hoople.

ALLADIN SANE is very good one. "CRACKED ACTOR" IS A BOMB 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 LADY GRINNING SOUL. BEAUTIFUL❤ JEAN GENIE. ROCKER!!

The greatest back to back song combo ever on an album is Panic in Detroit into Cracked Actor.

Like the Beatles, no two songs sound alike.🙏RIP🙏

Bowie always had these unique songs that are so good.

@lemming9984

Ай бұрын

My favourite two tracks from this album (probably!). Had it since 1973 aged 13.

Alladin Sane is such a great album!! I love every track n these two are hot ones!! Mike Garson is fabulous!!! Listen to the rest of the album! GARSON KILLS IT! He’s alive n on FB n actually answers comments himself!

Drive in Saturday is one of my favourite Bowie songs, it was a single in the UK so I heard it on the radio. I was only 14 when I had my mind blown by Ziggy, then Aladdin Sane. I had no chance of understanding the meaning or any concepts of Bowie's work, I was just fascinated by the strange lyrics and loved the sound of his voice and the band. The good thing about growing up in the UK back then was the rich diversity of music that made it into the 'pop' charts and mainstream radio (of which there was very limited choice - the BBC or a couple of pirate stations), there was none of this obsession about genre which seems to constrain the mindset of many North American reactors I've watched (present company excluded of course ;-) I guess this is just the cultural difference in how music is broadcast. Looking forward to the next instalment of this great album, sadly often overshadowed by Ziggy. Cheers.

Growing up in Detroit, Panic in Detroit, was heavily played on Detroit rock radio stations in the 70s and 80s along with other such songs like Motor City Madhouse by Nugent and Detroit Rock City by KISS.

I’m looking forward to this! 😍

After fame came…… A Ladd Insane

DAVID BOWIE WAS HIS OWN "GENRE" ❤❤❤❤ "I'M FROM DETROIT, SO " PANIC IN DETROIT" KILLER!!! SAW HIM LIVE FOUR TIMES!!!! ZIGGY STARDUST TOUR DAIMOND DOGS TOUR SERIOUS MOONLIGHT TOUR RETROSPECTIVE TOUR AT DODGER STADIUM!!!! EXCELLENT!!!❤❤❤❤❤💋💋💋🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶

Cracked Actor and Gene Jeannie Are the best 2 left on this album that were Big hits👍🏻👏🏻🎸🎼

@ohfour-seven6228

Ай бұрын

I love them both!!!

"Drive-in Saturday" great 50's do wop vibe and fantastic sax. "Panic in Detroit" solid rocker. If the entire album was at the level of insanity as the title track it would be overkill. I like the variety on the album.

Aladdin Sane is about his time on the road in the USA. Remember - his music was always shifting.

Sheer brillance

Panic in Detroit next please

Heads up, Lee - Cracked Actor goes so hard. It's the filthiest guitar sound this side of hell.

I love Drive-in Saturday deeply. I think you'll like it more if you listen to it more. Bowie music rewards listening to whole albums. You'll hear more things that relate more musically to Aladdin Sane (the song) as you listen on. The album isn't a concept in the sense of a story, although a lot of it has to do with Bowie's impressions of America.

I anticipated this record after ziggy. It always and still does leave me feeling a bit disturbed. Might have been the amount of acid we were indulging in at the time.

@AntonyFleck

Ай бұрын

Still sounds great even after all these decades, especially with some good Hash!!...

Great album! Love Panic in Detroit as well as Time!

I gave up trying to make sense of Bowie songs decades ago. He sings with impertinents, shading impermanent chords. With his words.

@anvilstryker

Ай бұрын

Listen to All The Madmen on the Man Who Sold The World album.

Time is a masterpiece. Can’t wait for you to hear it. Make sure you have the lyrics up!

We didn't really have a name for it , but our parents called it disturbing, degenerate noise.

Drive in Saturday has always been one of my favourite tracks.

@ohfour-seven6228

Ай бұрын

I've always loved it too!

@timpindar

Ай бұрын

Same here - one of his best, especially the FEEL of the song.

@ohfour-seven6228

Ай бұрын

@@timpindar 👍

Another great reaction but give drive in Saturday another listen and it may change your mind.

A lad insane? ‘Panic in Detroit’ is such a banger. I tend to think this kind of music could not come out now, and be successful. Bowie lived at the right time. Although he might have been from the future.

Bowie said the album was about touring the US and all the steangeness he encountered so it's a loose concept akbum although the perspective is all through Aladinn Sane's eyes, a pun on A Lad Insane and he wrote all the songs on the road with American tour going from place to place with the exception of one cover.

A Ladd insane

@cyclops60

Ай бұрын

I've always liked that word play!

One of the bands I was in back in the day used to play Panic In Detroit. If your continuing on with Aladdin Sane, Cracked Actor, Time & The Jean Genie are great songs. Let's Spend The Night Together is a Rolling Stones song that Bowie covered. Do the Stones version.

I always thought Drive-in Saturday was Doo-Wop. Bowie-ized! This was always a favourite album. I was 17 in ‘73.

Bowie's lyrics are often screen shots of dystopia and surrealism...His early characters and many songs (and later songs, including Young Americans) are snap shots of otherwordly aliens (Ziggy Stardust) or Brits (like himself) often exploring the underside of the American dream. Explore surrealistic images of the song "Time Will Crawl," said to have been written after the meltdown of the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl (Ukraine) around 1986 or so.

I think the sax was Bowie on this track, Ken was on Aladdin Sane. Panic in Detroit is peak Bowie in my opinion with a smorgasbord of riffs from Mick Ronson. It took me a while to get to that opinion though.

Aladdin Sane was written as Bowie toured the US so it is his impressions of the US whilst on tour iirc. There's a documentary on him at the time and he looks pretty wasted.

They're my faves from side one, on what I consider an awesome album.

There are plenty of Bowie songs. You don't have to love them all.

We'll never have another Bowie. Diamond Dogs after this one. Don't waste your time with Pin-Ups, it's not essential. Also, when are you gonna do the Be Bop Deluxe I requested?

Drive-In Saturday was offered to Mott the Hoople but they turned it down.

I may be wrong but I've always thought that Ziggy was Bowie's only concept album. Some albums were stylistically themed (Young Americans, Station to Station) but again, I never considered the rest as concept driven. As far as placement, the song Aladdin Sane might have been a good last song but Lady Grinning Soul is the perfect last song. I'm curious if you'll agree!

When you resume with 'Cracked Actor', I strongly suggest you be fully-focused - not talking - when the song starts to play: it has a spectacular opening riff, that deserves your full attention. Cheers!

There is more of that great piano throughout the album.

Is this a remastered version,it just sounds a bit different.

Well. Who didn't like a drive-in Saturday?

Panic in Detroit great Version..but Not the Original LP Version, but an Out take 👍👍

Great album but let down by two sub-standard tracks in Prettiest Star and Let's Spend the Night Together plus a poor mix on Watch That Man. The Diamond Dogs album is sublime all the way through especially the Sweet Thing/Candidate suite and We Are The Dead through to Big Brother/Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family.

@suz5862

Ай бұрын

Agree about LSNT but Prettiest Star substandard? No way!

@John-et9yl

Ай бұрын

@@suz5862 not for me. A weak song that should have been left alone when the original was recorded in 1970 but l appreciate your opinion.

@suz5862

Ай бұрын

@@John-et9yl The version which was included on the album is much better than the original recording. The lyrics “One day, though it might as well be someday” has resonated with me since I first heard it on its release ☺️

Dug this album but Ziggy is better in my humble opinion

gotta be a little careful with Bowie, and not so intent on having it all make sense....listen, enjoy, think..

Trying to interpret Bowie songs in a linear fashion will only frustrate your reactions. I happen to think Aladdin Sane is the more interesting album, but Ziggy isn't even linear in that way. People sometimes mistake these personas or guiding images Bowie adopted for a connecting story thread. In that sense Diamond Dogs and Outside are the only real concept albums he ever made. But his lyrics almost always incline towards abstraction.

Dribe In Saturday is Doo Wop.

The greatest back to back song combo ever on an album is Panic in Detroit into Cracked Actor.

I anticipated this record after ziggy. It always and still does leave me feeling a bit disturbed. Might have been the amount of acid we were indulging in at the time.