The tour for this album opened up with the film Un Chien Andalou, infamous for the eyeball slicing scene.. and then the movie stopped, stage went dark and this song starts... it was magical! March 26, 1976, MSG...
Yes, this album and this band were what put me over the edge into Bowie worship. All of it was so good and, you're right, he was on such a strict cocaine diet he writes a song about Iggy's girlfriend being eaten by a TV. You'll like that. Pure bluesy funk!
I've noticed that a lot of Bowie's songs start slow and build to huge emotional endings. Hearing this live was one of the best songs I've ever heard. Another was Bowie's Hallo Spaceboy in 2004. The walls just rocked!
You are hilarious...."opening the bag"! Too funny! Lets hear it for Dennis Davis on drums and George Murray on bass. I caught this show in Detroit in 1976 and it blew me away. This band was TIGHT. I think you might have done "Stay" from this album....another banger!
Once again, sir your sound is really crisp. Great Bowie track. Apparently he was doing lots of blow during these sessions. Then he left LA for Berlin a year later to clean up. Really funny reaction, made me almost fall outta my chair laughing
Tre, just awesome variety on your channel. Im lovin it..i bought this album at shopko when it 1st came out...hey tre, listen to david, live at the tower, in philly..you wont believe how crisp the album sounded when it came out in the 70's..just some of bowies best...rock on man.
great song...and great album. i got to see bowie (for the first time) on this tour. it was fantastic. funny (or maybe not so funny) thing is, bowie was so blasted out of his mind during this time period that he claimed to have NO recollection of recording the album. Glenn Hughes was living with bowie at the time and can attest to the amount of coke that was being done...and he still can't figure out how bowie was able to put together such a great album given the circumstances. i guess...when you're good, you're good!
Dude you are so great because you review the songs from artists that the the true fans want to hear. So many great songs from this album. Keep up the great work.
I am about to turn 60 and have always liked Bowie, but it's only in about the last 10 years that I've really dug into his back catalogue. This album is one of my favorites. Thanks.
What I find amazing is that even strung out on coke he could produce such a masterpiece. It's one of his best albums and his vocals sound totally focused and in control, really hard to believe he was so high he couldn't remember recording it. He was an amazing artist.
“It’s not the side effects of the cocaine, I’m thinking it must be love” , I was 18 when this was released! Bowie is huge in my lifetime soundtrack. Thank you for sharing!
I Read in a book that Bowie, Lennon and Jagger were in a car and lost there coke. One of them Dropper IT on the floor of the car. It was the early seventies. Bowie recorder Fame with John Lennon and Bowie did something on the song It's Only Rock & Roll. (I can't hear it.)
you should watch the 1976 performance of this song in Nassau, I think footage of it is on youtube. its a more darker and louder take on the track and its really good
Tre, I know a positively dope David Bowie deep cut that you'd love. It's a single for a film of the same name, and it's called When the Wind Blows. It's funky, it's beautiful, and it's dramatic. Something you'd really get a kick out of.
Carlos anchors this period. I'm not a prog girl but Dennis Davis drumming is epic the bass is pure funk. Eric Slick plays lead at his best here...and Bowie's lyrics are witty and desperate simultaneously. I have loved Bowie since Laughing Gnome...but this is the record I return to most. Please try the rest of the album. We listened to both sides in those days. It works best that way.
Puzzled for decades over the lyrics here. Tried breaking it down into sections, putting back together. Thought I'd got it right, then later knew that's not it. But lately I've a different idea. Some may call bs, but hear me out. Sure, anyone can say, even him, he was just too high, who can make sense of that? And for sure that's part of it, but so was the public demands of tremendous fame. Look around at the other great stars in music of that time who had to check out for at least awhile: Sly Stone, Miles Davis, John Lennon - and there were many more. Nowadays it's a truism that fame can make a person spin out or do crazy shiz. The artists and the biz knew this but much of the audience did not. Especially if they were young, stuck on hero worship etc. But back to the lyrics here.There was also a great noted dependency on the infrastructure - the trucks, the roads, the venues, the superstructure, the distribution chains in the US/Europe 1970's. This was not happening in China/Russia. "Drink! Drink to the soldiers that protect you and I.... Raise your glass high." He had to come up with a new persona, he had to address what he had seen and created and he needed it all to keep going. What happens when you are on tour? You go from Station to Station. How do you make $$ in the biz? You sell records that ... can only pay for your contract to make records, which spreads your name if it sells, but for Bowie the album sales couldn't pay for the expenses. In the mid-late '70's he was deeply in debt. So how do you make $$? you go on tour. And tour and tour... But creatively, as Mr Changeling, he had to then out pace himself. And keep touring. "It's too late, to be late again." He believed personally in the transformation that art manifests, but also believed in how art can transform the audience. Look back at previous work - 'RocknRoll Suicide- "...no love, You're not alone!", he produced Iggy Pop, Lou Reed's Transformer, made careers for Mott the Hoople and others. He was the first white performer on Soul Train which to the biz then was a huge gamble - with this album - but that really paid off in cultural cache. "it's not the side effects... I'm thinking that it must be love." It's a love letter to his actual audience that isn't a love song. "Making sure white stains". We can understand and appreciate at this late date the notion that white culture has put a stain on the world. His audience wasn't there yet. "The European canon is here." He was manifesting that white stain and telling his audience what it took to tell us. Yet even more a love letter that isn't a love song.
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The whole album is gold. Every song is a 10. It deserves your utmost attention. "Golden Years" "Word on a Wing" "TVC 15" "Stay" "Wild Is the Wind"
It's the shortest ten minutes in music for me. 10/10 album.
True rock lovers love this, never such elegant rock song, Noone else can do it so majestically.
The tour for this album opened up with the film Un Chien Andalou, infamous for the eyeball slicing scene.. and then the movie stopped, stage went dark and this song starts... it was magical! March 26, 1976, MSG...
That guy slicing the eyeball was a real debaser.
Tony Kaye, pre-Wakeman Yes, played with Bowie on this tour
This song always gives me chills...beyond otherworldly
Bowie later said that he was doing so much coke at the time that he couldn't remember the recording sessions for this album.
Sheesh
@@fishoutofwaterseries1424 I was looking to see who beat me to this comment.
Then he should do more coke :)
According to Bowie, he was up to 20 grams a day, which is an unfathomable amount of cocaine!
Wow, what a song. He takes you on a RIDE
Yes, this album and this band were what put me over the edge into Bowie worship. All of it was
so good and, you're right, he was on such a strict cocaine diet he writes a song about Iggy's
girlfriend being eaten by a TV. You'll like that. Pure bluesy funk!
Hope you give "Stay" a listen from this album.
He did it on his previous channel. He loved it!
@@dickiefears5832 You're right! I remember now.
I've noticed that a lot of Bowie's songs start slow and build to huge emotional endings.
Hearing this live was one of the best songs I've ever heard. Another was Bowie's Hallo Spaceboy in 2004. The walls just rocked!
Legendary song from a legendary artist. Reckon you were spot on with your analysis Tre 😳
One of the first Bowie songs I really listened to. Love at first hear - the sound of cocaine psychosis ❤ Thanks for reposting 👍
You are hilarious...."opening the bag"! Too funny! Lets hear it for Dennis Davis on drums and George Murray on bass. I caught this show in Detroit in 1976 and it blew me away. This band was TIGHT. I think you might have done "Stay" from this album....another banger!
Once again, sir your sound is really crisp. Great Bowie track. Apparently he was doing lots of blow during these sessions. Then he left LA for Berlin a year later to clean up. Really funny reaction, made me almost fall outta my chair laughing
Tre, just awesome variety on your channel. Im lovin it..i bought this album at shopko when it 1st came out...hey tre, listen to david, live at the tower, in philly..you wont believe how crisp the album sounded when it came out in the 70's..just some of bowies best...rock on man.
I've just found your channel and impressed you have so many Bowie! I'll be going down the rabbit hole of your reactions!
great song...and great album. i got to see bowie (for the first time) on this tour. it was fantastic. funny (or maybe not so funny) thing is, bowie was so blasted out of his mind during this time period that he claimed to have NO recollection of recording the album. Glenn Hughes was living with bowie at the time and can attest to the amount of coke that was being done...and he still can't figure out how bowie was able to put together such a great album given the circumstances. i guess...when you're good, you're good!
One of Bowie’s best! Great reaction! You should check out a live version around 1977-78, just for yourself, this was always an amazing song live!
Like this one.
Station to Station-
Nassau Coliseum, New York on the 23rd March 1976:
m.th-cam.com/video/XAj2iX9xqCo/w-d-xo.html
One of his best songs imo
When we came to the end of the second part of the song I was waiting for the third just to see your reaction and it's always perfect
Dude you are so great because you review the songs from artists that the the true fans want to hear. So many great songs from this album. Keep up the great work.
Stay with this album. So many great songs, only i think you have reacted to a couple of them allready.
Stay, TVC15, Wild is the Wind, Word on a Wing..
I am about to turn 60 and have always liked Bowie, but it's only in about the last 10 years that I've really dug into his back catalogue. This album is one of my favorites. Thanks.
What I find amazing is that even strung out on coke he could produce such a masterpiece. It's one of his best albums and his vocals sound totally focused and in control, really hard to believe he was so high he couldn't remember recording it. He was an amazing artist.
“It’s not the side effects of the cocaine, I’m thinking it must be love” , I was 18 when this was released! Bowie is huge in my lifetime soundtrack. Thank you for sharing!
My favorite Bowie album
The smirk on your face when the bass introduced itself.
It’s pre - trans- Europe - express, by a long - shot
I Read in a book that Bowie, Lennon and Jagger were in a car and lost there coke. One of them Dropper IT on the floor of the car. It was the early seventies. Bowie recorder Fame with John Lennon and Bowie did something on the song It's Only Rock & Roll. (I can't hear it.)
It’s the best medley ever, disguised as one helluva rock song.
Very showman like!
list to the live 1978 version from the Stage album
Station to Station really gets me there.
The return of the thin white Duke. What a wild ride on this train.
you should watch the 1976 performance of this song in Nassau, I think footage of it is on youtube. its a more darker and louder take on the track and its really good
You should check out some of David Bowie's TIN MACHINE period stuff!!
One of bowies last good lps old style that is, stay is a rock masterpiece soulful too. Tvc15 good to.
Classic reaction 🤣💖
Funny reaction, especially in light of our recent emails, ha ha.
What a damn song!
Tre, I know a positively dope David Bowie deep cut that you'd love. It's a single for a film of the same name, and it's called When the Wind Blows. It's funky, it's beautiful, and it's dramatic. Something you'd really get a kick out of.
U hv to listen this way, Turn off all the lights laying down on couch, a zip of Scoth on rock, n burn some grass. 🙃
This song always felt like a medley - like it should be playing over a montage...
He did the same with another 10 minute song many years later. Blackstar.
Carlos anchors this period. I'm not a prog girl but Dennis Davis drumming is epic the bass is pure funk. Eric Slick plays lead at his best here...and Bowie's lyrics are witty and desperate simultaneously. I have loved Bowie since Laughing Gnome...but this is the record I return to most. Please try the rest of the album. We listened to both sides in those days. It works best that way.
*Earl Slick
Puzzled for decades over the lyrics here. Tried breaking it down into sections, putting back together. Thought I'd got it right, then later knew that's not it. But lately I've a different idea. Some may call bs, but hear me out. Sure, anyone can say, even him, he was just too high, who can make sense of that? And for sure that's part of it, but so was the public demands of tremendous fame. Look around at the other great stars in music of that time who had to check out for at least awhile: Sly Stone, Miles Davis, John Lennon - and there were many more. Nowadays it's a truism that fame can make a person spin out or do crazy shiz. The artists and the biz knew this but much of the audience did not. Especially if they were young, stuck on hero worship etc. But back to the lyrics here.There was also a great noted dependency on the infrastructure - the trucks, the roads, the venues, the superstructure, the distribution chains in the US/Europe 1970's. This was not happening in China/Russia. "Drink! Drink to the soldiers that protect you and I.... Raise your glass high." He had to come up with a new persona, he had to address what he had seen and created and he needed it all to keep going. What happens when you are on tour? You go from Station to Station. How do you make $$ in the biz? You sell records that ... can only pay for your contract to make records, which spreads your name if it sells, but for Bowie the album sales couldn't pay for the expenses. In the mid-late '70's he was deeply in debt. So how do you make $$? you go on tour. And tour and tour... But creatively, as Mr Changeling, he had to then out pace himself. And keep touring. "It's too late, to be late again." He believed personally in the transformation that art manifests, but also believed in how art can transform the audience. Look back at previous work - 'RocknRoll Suicide- "...no love, You're not alone!", he produced Iggy Pop, Lou Reed's Transformer, made careers for Mott the Hoople and others. He was the first white performer on Soul Train which to the biz then was a huge gamble - with this album - but that really paid off in cultural cache. "it's not the side effects... I'm thinking that it must be love."
It's a love letter to his actual audience that isn't a love song. "Making sure white stains". We can understand and appreciate at this late date the notion that white culture has put a stain on the world. His audience wasn't there yet. "The European canon is here." He was manifesting that white stain and telling his audience what it took to tell us. Yet even more a love letter that isn't a love song.
react to Blind faith - Had to cry today
Or Wild is the Wind. You will like this cover from a Nina Simone song
Try Stay from this album.
epic
Courtesy n brought u by LA drug dealership.
Not my favorite Bowie song, but it's still good.