I discovered DB in August 1981, I heard Ashes to ashes on the radio when Iwas 13, and I immediately KNEW there was no one like him, i i went to a record store and with my allowance and I bought 13 of his LP's , including Aladin Sane, without knowing anything about him, It warms my heart to no end that people are still having the same reaction . Thanks Pope

@robertocollo2890

Ай бұрын

Hey! This is not just a coincidence, this is me: “I discovered DB in August 1981, I heard Ashes to Ashes on the radio when I was 13, and I immediately KNEW there was no one like him”. Word by word what happened to me (born oct. 68)! I was tidying up my room while recording some music from the radio, then Ashes to Ashes went out and my life took the right way. Still got that tape!!!

One of my favorite songs from David. His vocals are divine.

You do not listen to Bowie, you experience Bowie

this may well be my favorite song by Bowie. I haven't listened to it in years, until now, and i'm glad i heard it again here. it is truely timeless, and so poignantly beautiful.

One of the most beautiful melodies ever written. The whole album is perfect.

Was fortunate to have seen Bowie perform 4 times here in the Detroit area ... an incredible talent. Isolar II Tour, Serious Moonlight Tour, Glass Spider Tour and with Tin Machine. Great reaction ... ❤

Check out the title track, Aladdin Sane, it’s Bowie at his most avant-garde! It’s my favorite song of all time. The more you hear it, the more hypnotic it becomes!

If you think Mike Garson's piano playing on this song is fab (and it is), wait til you hear him on the title song. His solo on that is one of the most extraordinary things ever heard on a pop record.

Bowie is definitely a Pandora's Box of wonders. So many different Bowie's to enjoy!

Mick Ronson on guitars and arrangement, a true genius

Mike Garson's piano shines throughout parts of the Bowie career, but especially on this album. Check out also Aladdin Sane and Time

LOVE your reactions. Mike Garson is an incredible pianist. Bowie's voice is incredible in this. Would still love you to react to Where are we now by Bowie. Cheers bro!

@emander8340

Жыл бұрын

@@vegdagol2843 stunning. Gorgeous and poignant now too.

This gives me goose bumps every time, even after 40 + years. Divine.

One of the most haunting, beautiful strange and ghostly songs ever written and performed. Magic. Great poetic reaction to it too Pope.

this sounds like it could have been a James Bond theme "The Living End"

Great album, might be his best. I’m also partial to Station to Station.

@emmafrench7219

Жыл бұрын

Me too.👍

I miss him being in our world. Thanks Pope. 👍❤🤙

WELL. Now you HAVE TO watch, "The Runaways", with Dakota Fanning, and Micheal Shannon, and Kristen Stewart. Seriously. You would love it. It is a gem, and has a lot of references to this particular album. It is a fantastic movie that captures the time when "punk rock" was starting to pop- better than any movie I have ever seen (and I was there for it).

I've always loved this song. Thank you for having such good taste and playing these great songs.

It's funny that I have never seen or heard him sing this masterpiece live.

May I suggest 'All The Madmen' by David Bowie from his album 'The Man Who Sold The World'. That song is perhaps the most emotional he ever recorded.

EXACTLY!!! Just when you thought you have a favourite…forget it 😂

It completely brightens my day how much you love David Bowie. 🥰 Full album listens are always rewarding with him but if you were going to do one song I'd love to see you react to Word on a Wing.

Best reaction channel for this typa music no cap u da only mf willing to acc take in what ur listening too authentically

A LAD INSANE , I LOVE THIS ALBUM , AND THIS TRACK , LADY GRINNING SOUL . NOW YOU CAN DO THE "BEWLAY BROTHERS" FROM HUNKY DORY , THESE MY TWO FAVE BOWIE TRAX AND "PANIC IN DETROIT" LIVE , IT AWESOME , RARARA

Songs don’t get any better than this would make a fantastic Bond film tune The Drowned Girl is another great showcase for Bowie’s voice and range

@Gems-of-Hope-Rocks

10 ай бұрын

OMG you are so right! That is totally a future Bond Movie title Soundtrack song!

@kimstockwell721

8 ай бұрын

Yep, Bond theme written all over it.

Hi Pópe, also, please react to the live performance of David bowie singing America. He sits on stage and plays a Suzuki Omnichord ! This was in 2001 when he helped a lot in the aftermath of the world trade centers collapsing. He was one of the main helpers behind the scene. This is the opening song of the 9/11 concert for the fireman and rescuers.

A really cool, balls-to-the-walls fuzztone rocker: Cracked Actor on Aladdin Sane.

One of my favorite Bowie songs, and a great album closer.

Great reaction, thank you.

Loved this!!! i think my fav song from bowie has to be We Are The Dead!! def recommend

@POPE.

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/hKxok5aeY6exndI.html

So good it hurts

been waiting for u to find Aladin Sane. its a fantastic album! this came right after Ziggy Stardust. as Ziggy toured America (his first visit to the states) he wrote this album. each song was inspired by a different American city. and Yes! listen to the whole album. song by song or side a / side b or the whole thing 🎧

YES YES YES YES Opps.

Hey Pôpe! I love you and your videos + your videos are introducing me to so much greatness. I think you should check out Bowie’s 1973 performance of ‘my death’. I think I’ve seen that video like a thousand times since I was 14 lol.

That's stunning..thankyou so much.for continuing to play the genius that Bowie is .. I'm a life long fan and I'm still discovering new songs and always something different, thankyou ..Also love that you get and appreciate him too..

Magnificently Beautiful

Sublime!!!

Gorgeous song. One of my favorites. Piano by Mike Garson. Look him up. "The Lady Grinning Soul" is Claudia Linnear, one of the background vocalists on this album.

Bowie No Game, no1

Love early Bowie 🌟

You have such a beautiful soul. Thank you for all these reactions. May you be safe, healthy, and happy. 🙏💜

a classic

Hi Pôpe ! As usual, you've got the best analogies 😂 : Discovering Bowie songs really feels like you're Beauty discovering the Beast's castle. Every song is a new room, every room is filled with strange, fascinating and sometimes weird and unsettling things. But there's no boring room in this huge castle, you may have noticed already 😉. Keep up the good work!

The genius of Bowie. Great song, vocals and instrumentation. A strong recommendation is the song 'It's Gonna Be Me' from 1975.

Miss him so much. Genius.

great reaction!!

Hiya Pope, thanks for your brilliant reaction, check out a track from his Hunky Dory album, Kooks,he wrote for his, then, baby son, Zowie,who then was later known as Joe and now you will know him as the very successful film director, Duncan Jones,,I think you will like it,,,,in fact you already know a number of tracks from this album ie; Life on Mars,,Quicksand and the absolutely brilliant, The Bewley Brothers,,one of the Mans best albums, I bought it 52 years ago and still play it full blast in my car today 😉 take care, Tony

Hi Nyco ! You could try to listen Time & Aladdin Sane tracks... ! 🤨 Sure you'll love 'em !

The accompanying music is hypnotic and intoxicating. It is reflective of the person he describes. I REALLY appreciate you for your recongnition of this music.

You get Bowie my dude...

I can see your love of Bowie -- You really must someday watch The Labyrinth -- It is a very important piece of his persona and I know you would really enjoy seeing him in this dark faerie tale -- I love looking for all the hidden images of Bowie mystically sprinkled all through the film -- Bowie was the perfect Goblin King

@maryelizabethreynoldsprice2135

Жыл бұрын

I am right there with you on that suggestion Kathleen. Between us girls, I'd just like to admit that I had to watch that movie many many many many times to get the story line because I couldn't stop looking at that gorgeous goblin King. He was as hot as they come! hahahahaa! I absolutely adore the song "Within You" in the movie. Magical !

OMG!! I have been waiting for you to hit this one. You said.."Once you step into the castle ...etc.."...I love that!! That piano is Mike Garson. Bowie knew who surround himself with . His musicians were always top notch. And YES YES YES...PLEASE do a full album reaction for Aladdin Sane. You've just made my night! Happy New Year Pope!⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡ There's a live performance of Bowie hosting the GQ awards and he sings the Jacques Brel song "My Death". His vocals on that are so beautiful and Mike Garson is all over this performance. You'll be mesmerized! Here ya go.. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fal-j5ONYKrgYcY.html

@TheoZoffrok

Жыл бұрын

That is a great take, and Mike Garson is an amazing musician - strangely though, my favourite Bowie performance of My Death is the one at the Santa Monica gig, which is just Bowie accompanying himself on 12 string guitar. Just sublime: kzread.info/dash/bejne/o6tn05uNZ9Oqqso.html

@maryelizabethreynoldsprice2135

Жыл бұрын

@@TheoZoffrok Hmmmm, have I seen that one? I guess I'll be checking that out. I do love the performance at the Hammersmith Odeon back in 1973. What am I saying??? I love all of his performances of anything!! hahaha! He could sing Itsy Bitsy Spider and I'd be all over it. hahahaha!

@TheoZoffrok

Жыл бұрын

@@maryelizabethreynoldsprice2135 I added the link - let me know what you think! For me, it's a more focused, intense performance, and vocally it's just fantastic.

@maryelizabethreynoldsprice2135

Жыл бұрын

@@TheoZoffrok AWESOME!! I'm fixing to dive in! Wheeeee!

@maryelizabethreynoldsprice2135

Жыл бұрын

@@TheoZoffrok I thought it was magnificent in a different way than the GQ award show. I wish I was talking in person ..so much to say but I'll try and put it in a nutshell. You see, I'm old...hahahahaha! I have had the distinct pleasure to grow up literally with Bowie. I was a mere 11 years old when I fell in love with him. That's crazy. Eleven years old! I am now 62 so with each album or change he made , I got to witness and/or experience it all. I never faded away even when the album "Never Let me Down" came out. hahahahahahhaa! So, that immediately pulled me back to my preteen years. WOW! I remember the excitement I felt when I heard this man who was nothing like anything or anyone on the planet. So, as I've aged and so did Bowie, I enjoyed tremendously the GQ performance because I heard the control and experience in his voice. And he sounded more mature so listen, any way I get to hear Bowie is ALWAYS something special in it for me.. I still miss him terribly. Always will. I believe there will never be another quite like him.

Legendary backing singer Claudia Lennear says the song is about her and that claim is believable because they were tight back then and Lennear had supermodel looks that also inspired The Rolling Stones tune "Brown Sugar". Aladdin Sane is a great record. I have it on cd, but if you're gonna go for whole albums at a time, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars might make for a better start. Then again, maybe start with Hunky Dory, then Ziggy Stardust, then Aladdin Sane -- in chronological order so that you can hear how his early musical ideas developed from year to year.

My favorite old Bowie song is After all from The man who sold the world. Also All the madmen is one of his best.

Amen to reacting to entire of Aladdin Sane album - wonderful idea ⭐️

Your reactions during and after the song are pure gold. Very authentic.

One of his most beautiful, romantic, and sensuous songs. Inspired by an African-American Session Musician that he found to be 'a rare soul with unbelievable musical gifts.' He was always fascinated by a woman's inner beauty--David was so very enlightened compared with most other men. (Another belief of David's that Iman said was absolute fact. And Iman herself graduated from college in Nairobi at the age of 17. Her university major was political science. Iman was herself a powerhouse intellectual.)

I grew up on this and many other awesome artists at the time. There were so many brilliant artists and bands to choose from I realise I did not appreciate how good they were until compared with the dross served up now. Thank you You Tube for being a time machine into the past.

Heartfelt, intelligent, insightful reaction to one of modern music's most beautiful songs. I've been a fan of Bowie since 1972-- too few reactors getting him. Thank you! Subscribed.

Pope, me boy. How ya doing, my brother in music? Well, it had to happen. Great track, from a great album. See what South London gives the world. David Bowie, Charlie Chaplin, Me. LOL. Peace out.

Hey Pope! With the passing of Jeff Beck, would like if you could pay tribute with a song off of his album Wired. Thanks my friend.🔈🔉🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🎸🎸🎸⚘⚘⚘🕊🕊🕊😥

Not sure how far you're into David's discography, if you ever plan in hearing it all, but I've been obsessed of him for a few years now. I collected all of his 26 studios and I must say, I highly recommend his 90s stuff too. It's way too underrated! Or how to say this different: I just saw your reaction to I'm deranged. I highly recommend Strangers when we meet lol

What a track this is...just beautiful and of course you should react to the album! .The title track ,"Aladdin Sane" shows how incredible an artist Mike Garson is on those keys, he'll blow your mind. Happy New Year Pope!.

You have got to do a full Aladdin Sane album reaction. In my opinion it's harder, dirtier, sexier, more romantic than Ziggy.

You really get him. 👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻👨🏼‍🎤

Magical- thanks for listening- yes talked us through the whole album ❤

Love it!! Thank you, please check out Rush Bytor And The Snow Dog from the album Fly By Night 1975, Rush's FIRST Prog Rock tune with their NEW drummer and lyricist, your collection of Rush reactions remains INCOMPLETE without this reaction, you won't regret it, thanks

🔥❣️🔥❣️🔥amazing!! Great reaction!

Can you do some of the Low/Heroes/Lodger albums? Thanks! ❤🎉 Rick Wakeman on keys I think? Might be Mike Garson but it’s Rick on Life on Mars 😊 Aladddin Sane - a lad insane. All about his brother. Most of all Blackstar music and vid ❤

@jonathanseed6978

Жыл бұрын

Life On Mars? was Rick Wakeman but that was from two albums before this. Aladdin Sane was Mike Garson.

@mattleppard1964

Жыл бұрын

@@jonathanseed6978 Shame on me! I stand corrected 🙏

Please react to more songs from this album. Start with Time then Prettiest Star or his cover of the Rolling Stone’s Let’s Spend the Night Together. Hell, do yourself a favor and react/listen to the whole damn album. You WON’T be disappointed, guaranteed. 🍻

Hi Pópe, if you want to see real beautiful art please watch the 1979 live performance of „David Bowie with Klaus Nomi: the man who sold the world“

Jeff Beck dead at 78😢

Nice track but Aladdin sane is better.........