Many repressed, depressed people say this song kept them alive. They felt like misfits, outsiders and so did David. He thinks they are all wonderful, "gimme your hand" and they felt like he had reached a hand out to them all, and what's more, he thought they were wonderful. This album has a narrative (concept) that runs from beginning to end. Hear it altogether to get the full picture. Very worth it.
@@andreaaase1065 Music has literally saved mine too. I am very glad you are still with us, and I am happy to be here too. In my case it was The Beatles "Altogether Now". An unlikely one given I'm a massive fan who has everything. On the day it happened to be that one. It's very cheerful! Also music has helped me through several years of illness, without it I'm pretty sure I'd have had a nervous breakdown. Through my whole life, good and bad, music was and remains, my constant. Keep on keeping on @Andrea Aase Peace, love and music, from East Anglia. x
I think this song could very well have saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of folks. The folks that say art has no power to affect the real world have never heard this song. Art does have an influence in the real world.
I personally think that David Bowie is the star of the 70s. He did not make 1 bad album in the 70s. From The Man who Sold The World, all the way to Lodger are all master pieces. Each album he made in the 70s are different from each other.
Scary monsters is a very good album and he did some good music in the 90s too Outside and Earthling were good (I like Outside apart from the spoken parts) and Heathen from 2002 was decently good not spectacular but decently good. And if you forget he's Bowie and you pretend more from him than from others albums like Let's dance and Tonight were quality pop.
People talk about mental health problems, Bowie was singing about it in 1972, the lines I’ve had my share, I’ll help you with the pain, your not alone” He’s been there and done that, he is reaching out to people who need help 😊
Absolutely one of my favorite Bowie songs. This song has literally saved my life. “Give me your hand, you’re not alone (you’re wonderful), just give me your hands” I really miss David Bowie. His passing affected me to my core. It still does. Losing him was like losing a favorite color in your life.
Bowie does EPIC well, some of his songs are longer. The title track on Station to Station(1976) blows Rock'n Roll Suicide out of the park, but it may be 10 minutes or longer, Stay from the same album at 6 minutes is also iconic. Teenage Wildlife, from his 1980 album Scary Monsters(and Super Creeps) is a bleak, sunken treasure. And if we want to go full Techno, Sound and Vision, and 'Always Crashing in the Same Car' from Low(1977) based on a Bowie experience at hyper speed in a parking garage features the production genius of Brian Eno.
You mentioned that this was an epic song. There's another David Bowie song that is epic and it could have been a James Bond song, it's off the album Aladdin Sane, the name of this song is Lady Grinning Soul.
A little 70s English translation. Wall to wall means a carpet, ie, you’re ready to collapse. The milk float is the little cart that the milkman drove, showing that it’s the darkest hours just before the dawn
Another classic. Having grown up with Bowie since the 70s as an impressionable child, through glam and punk and disco and beyond, I find it incredibly hard to listen to him without tearing up (as I am right now). I feel blessed to have shared the earth with him for 50 years, but still wished he could have gone on forever, RIP Starman
Why the most epic and beautiful songs David Bowie ever wrote about a beautiful naked women is call, "Lady Grinning Soul!" Many people believed that it should have been a James Bond song.
Oh, yes that song is epic! The whole album is a masterpiece, so if you do a whole album review, it’s a good one for it! Definitely check out Panic In Detroit from the Aladdin Sane album - about the Detroit race riots of the 60s. There’s SO MUCH music to check out from him. It’s all worth it. Enjoy!
I’m enjoying your Bowie journey, this is one of my favorites on the Ziggy album- which in my opinion is one of his best! Check out Hunky Dory (album), and Aladdin Sane ( album) both bangers. I like his older music best- anything beyond Diamond Dogs gets too Disco or too Industrial for me. - just my opinion.
Biz, whoever is leading you to this music has great taste. Much respect. Good music transcends genres and can bring us all together if we just enjoy the ride
Yes. Love your reaction. This song is perfect and epic and poetry. The rest of the album is killer of course: *Suffragette City* is a rocker, *It Aint Easy,* is raw and dynamic, *Soul Love* is personal... Maybe after this album you might want to check out some selections from his "Berlin trilogy" where he was doing experimental music in Germany with synth-innovator Brian Eno. So....this is WAY more than you asked for. but.... The Berlin trilogy: *Station to Station* *Golden Years* funky classic *Stay* great percussion and layers of sound *Word on a Wing* really beautiful. from his brief journey into a kind of ecstatic religiosity *Heroes* has a lot of atmospheric music on it. Also: *Heroes* great song and the big hit *Beauty and the Best* funky weirdness *Low* Bowie says he was trying to stop taking drugs and having a real tough time. But....the music is beautiful. *Sound and Vision* this sound was layers of percussion, other instruments, synth. Dreamy. *Always Crashing in the Same Car* Short and sad . Especially if you have, um, smoked a little something. Maybe you need to listen to the whole album that way. 👀 Peace!
Sorry but the Berlin Trilogy is Low, ‘Heroes’, and Lodger. But Station to Station is also great, but make sure to listen to the title track because that is the best one in that album.
I think you would enjoy Aladdin Sane. And Diamond Dogs would probably blow your effin mind. If you listen to Rock and Roll Suicide, over the years, recorded at different locations over the years, every version is slightly different. Check out Life on Mars.
One of my favorite Bowie tunes since it came out. You get it. "Pinups" the album is fun. Bowie covering his favorite rock tunes from the time. "Panic in Detroit" rocks.
Man, I am so impressed with your choice of songs. "Angie", "Rock and Roll Suicide" etc. Songs not often reacted to, but amongst the best. Well done! Might I recommend another Bowie gem: "Lady Grinning Soul"
Can't thank you enough for reacting to this track. It is very underrated . My second favorite song, from all of Bowie's collection of work. I love it but never felt it got enough air play on the radio.
@@watchbizmatik Hi there. Maybe you could do a poll of your subs, and react to a whole album? Once a month or something? Have only just joined you so don't know if you already do anything like this. ✌
Your interpretation of the song opened my eyes, Biz. I like the idea of the "song" being the total of a person's life. Everybody's got a "song", some good and unfortunately, some not so good. Great analysis of a song I've loved since the day I bought the album over 50 years ago.
The album is a master work. But, get ready, because every Bowie album is a new incarnation, a new approach, a new musical world. Bowie was the chameleon. You would be hard-pressed to find another artist or band with a run of albums which utterly transformed the music each and every time like Bowie's 14 year run of 13 albums from The Man Who Sold the World in 1970 to Let's Dance in 1983.
I'd recommend Five Years, Dollar Days, Stay, Conversation Piece, Dead Man Walking. This whole album is a life saving masterpiece, pure gold in its deliverance.
Great insightful comments and infectious enthusisam!! Any album from the 70s by master Bowie is worth to listen to. Best albums are Hunky Dory, Station to station and Low. And of course..his Requiem BLACKSTAR. Obviously.
BM … you get it !! Lovely listening to your breakdown , I’ve loved this for 50 years and nice to see it getting a fresh perspective. Yes , do the whole Ziggy album my friend 👍🏴
Really great art, great poetry, is subject to interpretation, like dreams. It means different things to different people and likely completely different from what the artist meant. All interpretations are correct.
When he sang this in a concert, Hammersmith 1973, the song was HUGE, at least for my taste. Before this song, he dismantled the band by saying ". . .not only the last show of the tour, but the last show that we'll ever do, . . .thank you" . Some of the musicians had no idea, they probably thought WTFFFF? I assume that Bowie had some empathy issues at that time, due to drugs.
David Bowie was in fact inspired by a black musician....little Richie....since he was a little kid.....David Bowie was smart since he was a small he saw the world differently than others and had the pair to do so...!!!!!!
At this time there were so many young people locked in their rooms listening to this raptly. He didn't play and sing along the edges, he fuckin drank our blood and made us realize who we were, all in secret, climbing out our bedroom windows to share it with our friends. Our parents never knew.
it's been almost a year, time to come back to the ziggy stardust album! i recommend the song "five years". when the pandemic started i listened to that song, and it was like bowie knew what was going to happen in 2020. fortunately it looks like we dodged a bullet,but then again it's only been 3 years,so who knows?
Despite all the chart hits, Bowie was always at his rawest and best in his slower numbers. This is his best song ever IMHO. Others include Bewlay Brothers and Five Years.
OH GODDDDD, SO MUCH BOWIE YOU CAN DO BIZ :) SOME GREAT HITS : YOUNG AMERICAN, FAME, SUFFRAGETTE CITY, SPACE ODDITY, CHANGES THERE'S SOME GREAT 1'S :) R.I.P. :( TO DAVID, SO SAD :( HIS MUSIC LIVES ON
The beginning, Time takes a cigarrete . . . Is inspired by some Spanish poem. Sorry, I don't remember which poet, I should google it and tell you. Dead many many decades ago.
As much as i LOVE the album I think it would be great to see the incredible range of styles Bowie had... Folk -Glam -funk -Avant Garde -New Wave etc etc etc.
I’m totally digging your interpretations, are you right? Are you missing the point?who knows but we’re grooving on the journey and you got your brain lit on fire. I feel sorry for people who don’t experience music this way
The whole album is a masterpiece
Yep
Truth. One of my favorite albums of all time
Flawless
Listening to that full album will change a person.
I beleive it
This album made David Bowie, every song is a great song.
I think so🤟
Many repressed, depressed people say this song kept them alive. They felt like misfits, outsiders and so did David. He thinks they are all wonderful, "gimme your hand" and they felt like he had reached a hand out to them all, and what's more, he thought they were wonderful. This album has a narrative (concept) that runs from beginning to end. Hear it altogether to get the full picture. Very worth it.
I’m one of them. This song definitely helped save my life.
@@andreaaase1065 Music has literally saved mine too. I am very glad you are still with us, and I am happy to be here too.
In my case it was The Beatles "Altogether Now". An unlikely one given I'm a massive fan who has everything. On the day it happened to be that one. It's very cheerful!
Also music has helped me through several years of illness, without it I'm pretty sure I'd have had a nervous breakdown. Through my whole life, good and bad, music was and remains, my constant. Keep on keeping on @Andrea Aase
Peace, love and music, from East Anglia. x
I'm one of them too
I think this song could very well have saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of folks. The folks that say art has no power to affect the real world have never heard this song. Art does have an influence in the real world.
@@pleasantvalleypickerca7681 Amen brother.
I personally think that David Bowie is the star of the 70s. He did not make 1 bad album in the 70s. From The Man who Sold The World, all the way to Lodger are all master pieces. Each album he made in the 70s are different from each other.
Yup; I'd extend your range a couple to Let's Dance. Feel free to tell me I'm wrong.
Scary monsters is a very good album and he did some good music in the 90s too Outside and Earthling were good (I like Outside apart from the spoken parts) and Heathen from 2002 was decently good not spectacular but decently good.
And if you forget he's Bowie and you pretend more from him than from others albums like Let's dance and Tonight were quality pop.
5 Years is stunning. If you like this you will love it. Do the entire album, it’s a classic
5 Years is one of my favorites but it's impossible to pick a fave from this outstanding album.
People talk about mental health problems, Bowie was singing about it in 1972, the lines I’ve had my share, I’ll help you with the pain, your not alone”
He’s been there and done that, he is reaching out to people who need help 😊
Absolutely one of my favorite Bowie songs. This song has literally saved my life. “Give me your hand, you’re not alone (you’re wonderful), just give me your hands”
I really miss David Bowie.
His passing affected me to my core. It still does.
Losing him was like losing a favorite color in your life.
beautifully put- his loss made the whole world lose part of its shine. it was like he painted our lives with an indescribable hue
It was Mick Ronson who did all the string arrangements at the end. He was a brilliant guitarist and played great keyboards and wrote arrangements too.
This is one of the best albums ever. Each song is a gem. I believe Bowie did the sax honors himself and maybe acoustic guitar and piano.
Bowie does EPIC well, some of his songs are longer. The title track on Station to Station(1976) blows Rock'n Roll Suicide out of the park, but it may be 10 minutes or longer, Stay from the same album at 6 minutes is also iconic. Teenage Wildlife, from his 1980 album Scary Monsters(and Super Creeps) is a bleak, sunken treasure. And if we want to go full Techno, Sound and Vision, and 'Always Crashing in the Same Car' from Low(1977) based on a Bowie experience at hyper speed in a parking garage features the production genius of Brian Eno.
You should do that entire album. It is well worth the listen.
Outstanding and sincere reaction. And insightful! Wow. You nailed this one brother. Peace.
Thank you
You mentioned that this was an epic song. There's another David Bowie song that is epic and it could have been a James Bond song, it's off the album Aladdin Sane, the name of this song is Lady Grinning Soul.
TBF there are another 4 epic songs Aladin Sane - that's the 2nd sexiest one.
@@briangray00is time the sexiest???
Love Ladyb Grinning Soul btw
A little 70s English translation. Wall to wall means a carpet, ie, you’re ready to collapse. The milk float is the little cart that the milkman drove, showing that it’s the darkest hours just before the dawn
You should definitely do the entire album! It's genius! David Bowie is a master and was all the way to the end. I love Bowie and always will!
Try Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise) from Bowie's 'Diamond Dogs' album.
R.i.p David Bowie. I got to see him twice in concert. You are missed, but your music lives on.
Another classic. Having grown up with Bowie since the 70s as an impressionable child, through glam and punk and disco and beyond, I find it incredibly hard to listen to him without tearing up (as I am right now). I feel blessed to have shared the earth with him for 50 years, but still wished he could have gone on forever, RIP Starman
Why the most epic and beautiful songs David Bowie ever wrote about a beautiful naked women is call,
"Lady Grinning Soul!" Many people believed that it should have been a James Bond song.
Great description Biz. Later Bowie wrote 'Golden Years' which is totally different. Funky I guess.
This is one of the most underrated songs
I have no words to express how much I love David
Ziggy Stardust is his best album.
Oh, yes that song is epic! The whole album is a masterpiece, so if you do a whole album review, it’s a good one for it! Definitely check out Panic In Detroit from the Aladdin Sane album - about the Detroit race riots of the 60s. There’s SO MUCH music to check out from him. It’s all worth it. Enjoy!
YES Panic in Detroit!
I’m enjoying your Bowie journey, this is one of my favorites on the Ziggy album- which in my opinion is one of his best! Check out Hunky Dory (album), and Aladdin Sane ( album) both bangers. I like his older music best- anything beyond Diamond Dogs gets too Disco or too Industrial for me. - just my opinion.
This song is crazy good
I agree completely. Pin Ups was also a great one.
One of my favorites of his
Biz, whoever is leading you to this music has great taste. Much respect. Good music transcends genres and can bring us all together if we just enjoy the ride
🙌🏿🙌🏿
Facts af!
You're gonna love Hunky Dory.
Personally I would stick with albums as Bowie changed skin with every release.
Yes. Love your reaction. This song is perfect and epic and poetry. The rest of the album is killer of course: *Suffragette City* is a rocker, *It Aint Easy,* is raw and dynamic, *Soul Love* is personal...
Maybe after this album you might want to check out some selections from his "Berlin trilogy" where he was doing experimental music in Germany with synth-innovator Brian Eno. So....this is WAY more than you asked for. but.... The Berlin trilogy:
*Station to Station*
*Golden Years* funky classic
*Stay* great percussion and layers of sound
*Word on a Wing* really beautiful. from his brief journey into a kind of ecstatic religiosity
*Heroes* has a lot of atmospheric music on it. Also:
*Heroes* great song and the big hit
*Beauty and the Best* funky weirdness
*Low* Bowie says he was trying to stop taking drugs and having a real tough time. But....the music is beautiful.
*Sound and Vision* this sound was layers of percussion, other instruments, synth. Dreamy.
*Always Crashing in the Same Car* Short and sad . Especially if you have, um, smoked a little something. Maybe you need to listen to the whole album that way. 👀
Peace!
Sorry but the Berlin Trilogy is Low, ‘Heroes’, and Lodger. But Station to Station is also great, but make sure to listen to the title track because that is the best one in that album.
Cygnette Committee is an epic one too.
Greatest male solo artist ever!!!!!
David Bowie; "Ashes to Ashes"
Audio...
I think you would enjoy Aladdin Sane. And Diamond Dogs would probably blow your effin mind. If you listen to Rock and Roll Suicide, over the years, recorded at different locations over the years, every version is slightly different. Check out Life on Mars.
One of my favorite Bowie tunes since it came out. You get it. "Pinups" the album is fun. Bowie covering his favorite rock tunes from the time. "Panic in Detroit" rocks.
Everyone is suggesting Aladdin Sane. I agree! *Panic in Detroit*
The album tells a story...go back and start from the beginning👍
David bowie had such a gorgeous voice ❤️
The next Bowie LP you need to react to is Diamond Dogs. Absolutely stunning.
One of my favorite Bowie albums.
A whole album review please!
Im really thinking about it
Bowie's best
Man, I am so impressed with your choice of songs. "Angie", "Rock and Roll Suicide" etc.
Songs not often reacted to, but amongst the best. Well done!
Might I recommend another Bowie gem: "Lady Grinning Soul"
Yes. This is what Bowie does to you. His genius!
GREAT SONG!!!!
Nobody’s tried QUICKSAND from Hunky Dory. Or
LADY GRINNING SOUL from Aladdin Sane
Keep going !!!!!!!! I love your Bowie reactions!!! Love on ya Biz!
Can't thank you enough for reacting to this track.
It is very underrated .
My second favorite song, from all of Bowie's collection of work.
I love it but never felt it got enough air play on the radio.
This is my second best album of all time, early 70's was bloody fabulous, we where/are the children of the revolution 🌟
One has to listen to this song in the context of the album - the "story" of a rock-n-roll flash ...
Epic is the right word! The whole album is epic also.
The Aladdin Sane album is great, too.
Keep going with this album, worth it.
I will lol
@@watchbizmatik Hi there. Maybe you could do a poll of your subs, and react to a whole album? Once a month or something? Have only just joined you so don't know if you already do anything like this. ✌
Your interpretation of the song opened my eyes, Biz. I like the idea of the "song" being the total of a person's life. Everybody's got a "song", some good and unfortunately, some not so good. Great analysis of a song I've loved since the day I bought the album over 50 years ago.
Thanks for listening
The album is a master work. But, get ready, because every Bowie album is a new incarnation, a new approach, a new musical world. Bowie was the chameleon. You would be hard-pressed to find another artist or band with a run of albums which utterly transformed the music each and every time like Bowie's 14 year run of 13 albums from The Man Who Sold the World in 1970 to Let's Dance in 1983.
Such an icon!! Never be another!
My fave song of all, all Time.
Great review, thank you from England xxx
Please make a reaction on David Bowie's: Wild Is the Wind, Loving the Alien, the Prettiest Star and Heathen. Thank you
I'd recommend Five Years, Dollar Days, Stay, Conversation Piece, Dead Man Walking. This whole album is a life saving masterpiece, pure gold in its deliverance.
The album-shaped music moving forward so my artists say this album was one their main influences.
Building a scene through attention to mundane details gets me- you are right, very poetic
Ziggy is a CLASSIC and this is my SHIT!!!
This is an absolutely favourite of mine ,Always loved this song so much .
Thx, was a pleasure to watch🤗
My pleasure 😊
Great insightful comments and infectious enthusisam!! Any album from the 70s by master Bowie is worth to listen to. Best albums are Hunky Dory, Station to station and Low. And of course..his Requiem BLACKSTAR. Obviously.
If you’re doing more Bowie, I’m subscribing!! For epic try cygnet committee on Space Oddity. Or whatever, there are SO many great Bowie songs
Great song. He can do many things with his voice. And yes, his lyrics are usually good.
BM … you get it !! Lovely listening to your breakdown , I’ve loved this for 50 years and nice to see it getting a fresh perspective. Yes , do the whole Ziggy album my friend 👍🏴
Really great art, great poetry, is subject to interpretation, like dreams. It means different things to different people and likely completely different from what the artist meant. All interpretations are correct.
When he sang this in a concert, Hammersmith 1973, the song was HUGE, at least for my taste. Before this song, he dismantled the band by saying ". . .not only the last show of the tour, but the last show that we'll ever do, . . .thank you" . Some of the musicians had no idea, they probably thought WTFFFF? I assume that Bowie had some empathy issues at that time, due to drugs.
David Bowie was in fact inspired by a black musician....little Richie....since he was a little kid.....David Bowie was smart since he was a small he saw the world differently than others and had the pair to do so...!!!!!!
At this time there were so many young people locked in their rooms listening to this raptly. He didn't play and sing along the edges, he
fuckin drank our blood and made us realize who we were, all in secret, climbing out our bedroom windows to share it with our friends.
Our parents never knew.
exactly... looping this song saved me...
You could spend a lot of time just doing Bowie and Radiohead their discographies are so varied and amazing.
it's been almost a year, time to come back to the ziggy stardust album! i recommend the song "five years". when the pandemic started i listened to that song, and it was like bowie knew what was going to happen in 2020. fortunately it looks like we dodged a bullet,but then again it's only been 3 years,so who knows?
Definitely Blackstar, Black Tie White Noise, Station to Station, and Young Americans. And Hunky Dory.
Despite all the chart hits, Bowie was always at his rawest and best in his slower numbers. This is his best song ever IMHO. Others include Bewlay Brothers and Five Years.
Those were trombones coming it at one point.
Love your reaction.
Work of Art. Yes Epic. He brings you into the emotional life of song.
I’m a alligator 🐊
Great reaction! Bowie was a genius.
Esse som é uma obra de arte,ele possui um certa complexidade.Ele nos leva a uma nova dimensão .
OH GODDDDD, SO MUCH BOWIE YOU CAN DO BIZ :) SOME GREAT HITS : YOUNG AMERICAN, FAME, SUFFRAGETTE CITY, SPACE ODDITY, CHANGES THERE'S SOME GREAT 1'S :) R.I.P. :( TO DAVID, SO SAD :( HIS MUSIC LIVES ON
Lady Stardust is an underrated classic from this album
I'd argue very hard that 3 out of 4 of Bowie's albums up to his death are bona fide classics. It is so varied and brilliant.
Go with Ziggy first. Can’t go wrong
Great reaction
Thank you
This is my favourite album ever made ❤
Totally thinking out of the box.not the same stuff every other reactor does..bravo
May I recommend Station to station by Bowie
I like how David pronounces "cigarette", "mouth" and "finger", in a French way, until the end of the word.
If you hear him live, that concert Hammersmith 1973, he says cigarre, almost inaudible T at the end. That time, rock and roll suicide sounded HUGE.
Kids - you really need to get educated. TWO WORDS: MICK. RONSON. Look him up. Now.This whole arrangement - and astonishing guitar - is Mick.
The beginning, Time takes a cigarrete . . . Is inspired by some Spanish poem. Sorry, I don't remember which poet, I should google it and tell you. Dead many many decades ago.
As much as i LOVE the album I think it would be great to see the incredible range of styles Bowie had... Folk -Glam -funk -Avant Garde -New Wave etc etc etc.
I’m totally digging your interpretations, are you right? Are you missing the point?who knows but we’re grooving on the journey and you got your brain lit on fire. I feel sorry for people who don’t experience music this way
Yes this album is a Masterpiece!✌🤘
💯 🤯 David Bowie was a musical genius‼🔥
wow. no one does this song. this is one of my favorite songs. dope AF
The last song performed by Ziggy Stardust!
Should be listened to in order
There is sooooo.... much BOWIE to go.
Always start the rabbit hole with any bands first album. Anything other then that blows!!!! First album to last in order of time!
He sang this on Midnight Special and nbc blipped the word suicide, guess they thought someone would hear the word and kill themselves!
I felt this album. What amazed me was that he was dead broke after he made this album.
youll love this