Fun fact: the female backing vocals are provided by Mary Visconti, better known as Mary Hopkin, who had a few hits in the late 60s and early 70s, most memorably Those Were The Days.
I only managed to go to one David Bowie concert in my lifetime, but it was the Sound & Vision tour, so I'm happy. It was so awesome. There are many renditions of this song in live form on TH-cam that are even better than this studio recording. Do yourself a treat and look for "David Bowie - Sound And Vision (A&E Live By Request 2002)". I've watched that clip dozens of times. Bowie is best heard and seen live. You'll love it! Go find it! Now!
Short and sweet track. Simple lyrics - just an exhausted artist waiting for ideas. Liked it when it came out, it's one of the more accessible songs from his _Low_ album
"Sound and Vision" dropped when I was ten years old and it's been a favorite of mine ever since. Light and sound share some common wave properties, like frequency, but they are largely different phenomena. For example, overtones play a much greater role with sound than with light, where the frequencies are so great their overtones exceed the visible spectrum. And vision is something else entirely and Bowie plays with the multiple valences of the word to great effect. Was he asking a question about sight or was he asking a question about the scope of imagination? Also check out "Warszawa" from side two of Low. The song is mostly instrumental and can be challenging, that is, it isn't quite what some would call "radio friendly". It wasn't always the case that each generation recombined the music from prior generations. Sometimes younger generations entirely reject the music of prior generations as was more the case with rock and roll in the fifties and sixties as the embodiment of youthful rebellion. Be careful of believing grandiose statements about supposedly eternal processes because that can lead people to get stuck in reactionary and retrograde political arrangements as the cost of deprivations to liberty, security, and prosperity. For a taste of 1950s rejection of the music of earlier generations, check out Chuck Berry "Roll Over Beethoven". The clash between rock and hip-hop, in my experience, is largely a clash between beats, but also between arrangements and song structures. Young Thug is known for his eccentric vocal style and fashion, from what the blurb tells me. So drawing a line from him to Bowie appears to be sensible. And the connection between Bowie and Hip-Hop runs through Nile Rodgers. At any rate, when I was a kid in the late seventies I remember hearing some of the older people complaining about the music of the seventies and how it wasn't as great as the music of the sixties. And I heard the complaint again in the eighties and again in the nineties, somebody complaining about present era music and how it doesn't measure up to the past. I stopped buying the complaint sometime in the early eighties. When I hear or read such talk now I take it as a revelation about the limited perspective of the person doing the griping rather than as an accurate statement about the present. Although on that note I've got to give Rick Beato credit for keeping an open mind to the question even after he makes such assertions.
Mate, so you've arrived at the 'Berlin Trilogy ' ,three incredible ground breaking sonic storms/Lps ! Adding to his own personal genius, taking from Deutcher electronic musik, he changed everything, bringing it more mainstream!! The 'Holy Trinity ' 'Bowie, Robert Fripp and Brian Eno' Hallelujah and Amen!!! ..... Life was never the same after late 70s 'David ' !!!....
One of his absolute best and the entire record is fantastic.
My favorite song from the album "Low". A great album - every song. Yes, more Bowie.
One of my all time faves from him.
Biz I hope you react to David Bowie singing the song Wild Is The Wind maybe one of his best vocal performances.
One of my favorite songs!
“Low” is a pretty great Bowie album. One of the three albums he recorded in Berlin in the mid 70s.
Low was partly recorded in Berlin, "Heroes" fully but Lodger not at all.
Fun fact: the female backing vocals are provided by Mary Visconti, better known as Mary Hopkin, who had a few hits in the late 60s and early 70s, most memorably Those Were The Days.
My favorite Bowie album.
Amazing song. One of his best.
Love this album! Love 'Speed of Life', 'Breaking Glass' and 'What In the World' with guest Iggy Pop.
Cheers, mate.
🖖🏼🫠🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊
I only managed to go to one David Bowie concert in my lifetime, but it was the Sound & Vision tour, so I'm happy. It was so awesome. There are many renditions of this song in live form on TH-cam that are even better than this studio recording. Do yourself a treat and look for "David Bowie - Sound And Vision (A&E Live By Request 2002)". I've watched that clip dozens of times.
Bowie is best heard and seen live. You'll love it! Go find it! Now!
Same here, I went to the Docklands gig … S&V tour also ❤
@@annesmith2259 I saw him at Shoreline Amphitheater, which is right next to Google.
BOWIE!
One of my favorite songs.
definitely on the list, good call
One of my favorite Bowie songs 😊
Great choice 👍
Love this one by Bowie! Check out the live performance, which is so good.
Short and sweet track. Simple lyrics - just an exhausted artist waiting for ideas. Liked it when it came out, it's one of the more accessible songs from his _Low_ album
Great tune 💙
"Sound and Vision" dropped when I was ten years old and it's been a favorite of mine ever since. Light and sound share some common wave properties, like frequency, but they are largely different phenomena. For example, overtones play a much greater role with sound than with light, where the frequencies are so great their overtones exceed the visible spectrum. And vision is something else entirely and Bowie plays with the multiple valences of the word to great effect. Was he asking a question about sight or was he asking a question about the scope of imagination? Also check out "Warszawa" from side two of Low. The song is mostly instrumental and can be challenging, that is, it isn't quite what some would call "radio friendly".
It wasn't always the case that each generation recombined the music from prior generations. Sometimes younger generations entirely reject the music of prior generations as was more the case with rock and roll in the fifties and sixties as the embodiment of youthful rebellion. Be careful of believing grandiose statements about supposedly eternal processes because that can lead people to get stuck in reactionary and retrograde political arrangements as the cost of deprivations to liberty, security, and prosperity. For a taste of 1950s rejection of the music of earlier generations, check out Chuck Berry "Roll Over Beethoven". The clash between rock and hip-hop, in my experience, is largely a clash between beats, but also between arrangements and song structures. Young Thug is known for his eccentric vocal style and fashion, from what the blurb tells me. So drawing a line from him to Bowie appears to be sensible. And the connection between Bowie and Hip-Hop runs through Nile Rodgers.
At any rate, when I was a kid in the late seventies I remember hearing some of the older people complaining about the music of the seventies and how it wasn't as great as the music of the sixties. And I heard the complaint again in the eighties and again in the nineties, somebody complaining about present era music and how it doesn't measure up to the past. I stopped buying the complaint sometime in the early eighties. When I hear or read such talk now I take it as a revelation about the limited perspective of the person doing the griping rather than as an accurate statement about the present. Although on that note I've got to give Rick Beato credit for keeping an open mind to the question even after he makes such assertions.
Mate, so you've arrived at the 'Berlin Trilogy ' ,three incredible ground breaking sonic storms/Lps !
Adding to his own personal genius, taking from Deutcher electronic musik, he changed everything, bringing it more mainstream!!
The 'Holy Trinity '
'Bowie, Robert Fripp and Brian Eno'
Hallelujah and Amen!!!
.....
Life was never the same after late 70s 'David ' !!!....
Low is a great album, which showcased some of Brian Eno's magic.
Facts
Hidden Gem? Its one of his biggest tracks and a radio standard....such a tune!
If you haven’t reacted to it I love to hear your thoughts on “Life on Mars?” From Hunky Dory album
Beck did a great cover of this.
Please more Bowie