A Guide to DAVID BOWIE / 1947 - 1977
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- Hi everyone, Happy New Year and welcome to BOWIE WEEK! I'll be uploading three videos this week, the first being my first half of a huge guide to the man himself. Obviously I can't include every single little detail so if you want to mention anything I haven't to educate the community please do so below.
Look out for part two of the guide on Wednesday, then the final Bowie Week video on Saturday!
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So excited to see a great music critic tackling Bowie's career with passion and honesty
Can you do a guide to the Talking Heads?
Definitely
hell yeah
Talk Talk and Talking Heads would both be amazing
rebecca allison We meet again?
deep cuts Awesome
I share a birthday with Bowie, so I've always had a certain affinity for him. Always a pleasure to see someone trying to do him and his career some justice. One of my favorite humans to have ever lived.
The way I was always told about the vocal capture on "Heroes" was that three different microphones were placed at sequentially further distances and triggered to open when he hit a certain volume. Same story, different mechanics...
You should do a guide to Frank Zappa!
John Thomure That video would be like five hours long at least
Zappa has like a hundred albums!
If anyone could do it, it would be Oliver
Diamond dogs is an absolute monster of an album-Sweet thing/candidate is a masterpiece!!!
Brilliant social overview of a terrifying landscape.He painted vivid pictures which musically and lyrically are still etched inside me. Incredible album and one of his top 3 i would say!
Deep cuts has done so much for the music comunity
Great video! I really enjoy this concept of going through an artist's career, talking about each release and what was going on with the artist's life at that time. I can't wait for part II (1978-2016).
Top 5 Bowie Albums
1. Heroes = Low (IMO Heroes Side A > Low Side A, but Low Side B > Heroes Side B, so it evens out). In my mind, I consider them as a double album.
3. Hunky Dory
4. Blackstar
5. Ziggy Stardust
Note: Station to Station would come as sixth
That's a great list, I might agree with you w/r/t/ Low and Heroes Side A+B balancing each other out, I hadn't thought of it like that
I'm loving your work - covering Bowie's first nine or so albums is an incredible challenge and in 36 minutes you did a great job. I could be picky about you missing some of his big influences, like his first wife, Angie to whom I think he owed a lot of his visual flair and dismissing the importance of Lindsay Kemp, who taught him mime and theatricality, but hats off. You have a new subscriber. Looking forward to your take on his albums from Lodger and beyond.
Keep in mind, while in Berlin, he not only did his own albums, but wrote the music for Iggy’s The Idiot and Lust for Life, with a lot of the same musicians playing on both Iggy and Bowie’s albums.
your videos are always flawless!
Ah you haven't noticed all the captions in the videos then??
deep cuts with those looks I don't think anyone noticed those captions ;0
Ricamortez o
Bowie for me is a quite deep experience, and really personal, and you wonderfully gave the tribute it deserves. Amazing work Oliver!
Part Two of the Guide is here >>>>>>>>> th-cam.com/video/f7uIzljh00Y/w-d-xo.html
4:57 That's creepy, especially when looped.
I know it didn't get picked but a guide to Radiohead would be really wonderful. Also artists like Neil young or Dylan might be pretty interesting. Love these videos so far!
Charlie Pott yeah radiohead please
Thanks Charlie! Radiohead soon!
Neil Young please
Very thorough and intriguing video about one of my favourite musicians, well done! Can't wait for the second version
I think you've missed the point re "Young Americans". You'd already noted Bowie referred to the album as "Plastic Soul". It was intentionally and by definition "inauthentic". Indeed, "Inauthenticity" is an extremely important element of Bowie's oeuvre, and particularly so in the 70s.
Strangely, he was an innovator in a very "Post Modern" sense in that he wasn't an innovator at all! What Bowie had was a fairly decent antenna for the "cutting edge", or, outside edges of both popular culture as well as the arts in general. Where his innovation lay was in taking these "cutting edge" elements and moulding them to his own sound and thereby rendering them as "Pop". This is true of, more or less, everything he did from 1966 onwards and played a very large part in his output between 1969 and 1984. Thus, as starting points, he took, from amongst others: Anthony Newly, Biff Rose, Tim Hardin, Led Zeppelin, Marc Bolan, Roxy Music, King Crimson, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Elvis Presley, The Stardust Cowboy, Vince Taylor, The Rolling Stones, Little Richard, Eno, Kraftwerk, Neu!, Can, The Temptations, Motown, Stax and Philly Soul, musical theatre and Scott Walker etc, etc.
Accordingly, "Young Americans" is no more or less "inauthentic" than the rest of his output. Why this worked for Bowie was for a number of reasons: firstly, these "imitations" were well written, sung and performed. Further to this, he looked great, he was shocking in the early 70s at least re his image and sexuality, his constant "changes" were appealing and novel and he surrounded himself with artists and musicians who could realise his concepts. Finally, he applied elements to his output that generally fell outside of the rock / pop arena and belonged more readily to fine art, theatre, dance and cinema. This was unusual at the time.
Again, Bowie's appeal (in the 70s at least) lay, in a large part, to this very "inauthenticity" you identify as being at the heart of "Young Americans". What attracted people of my generation to Bowie was the very "Outsiderism" that we instinctively felt in him; the fact that he was so "un at home" both within wider, mainstream culture, as well as rock culture and his own skin, - that he was barely "there" as a real person at all! There was a reason why he credited himself as "The Actor" on the sleeve of "Hunky Dory" after all! Strangely then, and somewhat paradoxically, Bowie's innovative authenticity lay in the very fact of his being "in-authentic" in the initial: everything was "surface" by definition if Bowie was doing it!
Literally pop art.
when you think of everything bowie achieved, all the things he said, the music he made, in some ways the fact he became friends with the guy that punched him and messed up his eye indicates just what a genius the guy was
Really well done, you speak so clearly and concisely and your facial expressions when discussing certain aspects and albums show that you have the knowledge and also a passion for what you do. I entered Bowie's world as a mere 13 year old in 1975 along with Young Americans, but quickly went back to previous albums and adore Hunky Dory and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, 1975 was an awakening for me musically, those three albums were my go to trio on the turntable for many months after David's passing. You have done a great justice to 'my' Bowie era and I am so very happy that someone so young cared enough for this most incredible man to research him so intently and present a well informed view for others not familiar with Bowie. I saw Bowie in 1978 in Sydney at 16, my first concert, blew my mind. Thought I was already hooked by then with Station to Station, Low, The man Who Fell to Earth (which was supposed to have Low as the soundtrack) and Heroes, but no, just fell deeper in love.
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Low is without a doubt my favour Bowie record too, if not one of my favourite records of all time. Good choice
ToxicCokeCola love it so much
Could you tilt the camera a tad downwards? Then you fill out the frame a bit more.
It's just a small tip and something i reacted a bit to. I think the video would look more
professional that way. Love the guide - keep em coming!
wow this comments old. how do you have NO likes?
@@dylanrussell5945 Imagine a time when i had 100 subscribers tops.
that makes sense. love your work!
Great first half, looking forward to part two. My knowledge of Bowie started in the 80s on MTV and I got a lot of his later albums, but pretty much only dived back into his earlier work through compilations. I can't believe I never got Low, though, given that I love Brian Eno's work. That has been corrected and I'm listening to it now for the first time.
How did you find it? Heroes next!
The Space Oddity album , I think , is great, some of his most emotional songs and clearly inspired by Dylan in it's lyrics.
The Laughing Gnome is the sound of a young man losing his mind
Oliver, that was awesome! I can't wait till Wednesday. I love your adjectives and your amazing knowledge. I'm off to Spotify now to check all those albums out. I know most of David Bowies tunes but not linked together in the intirety of an album.
"Station to Station" blew my mind. And I feel the same abt "Warszawa". It's followed by "Sons of the Silent Age" on a compilation album, and is the most hauntingly vivid set of songs to lower blood pressure, lol. I MUST listen to them on repeat, esp. Warszawa.
This is the teacher I’ve always wanted
I'm so happy to have discovered this channel! Some of the most interesting, in depth, entertaining guides to some amazing bands/artists. Thank you so much! You're knowledge is insane.
I like the Diamond Dogs cover art :(
I like it as well although I probably am a bit biased since it was designed by a fellow Belgian. (Guy Peellaert)
Yeah, that cover's the dog's bollocks.
Great video, I've never really gotten into Bowie and this is definitely gonna help. I think I'll start with the Berlin records, seems to be more my style.
I never got into him until last year so don't feel bad. Now it feels like he's apart of me.
I’m 5 albums in and I’m gonna go nuts. I think I will skip ahead to the Berlin stuff myself.
Dustin Clark loool I’ve spent the last five weeks or so just saying fuck it and taking in everything he made from 1970-83, it is amazing and I adore 90% of it but due to the sheer mass of information he tied into every project the whole thing has exhausted me aha
Really living up to your channel name! Great work.
I have just become able to access the studio album discography of Bowie. I have listened to quite a few albums and many tracks historically but I am going to do a deep listening to him as I have some time atm. Thank you for your two Bowie 'years between' audiovisuals. I really value your channel but am only now starting to engage in comments.
This video (& Part II) is simply an essential guide to Bowie!
Excellent video. Being old enough myself to have witness the rise of Bowies music and fame at that time , it is interesting to hear you talk about it, looking back at that time.
with Bowie being my guru for 40 years I found this very watchable.thank you
great video. it's great the audience seems to be growing. would you ever think of doing a guide on bjork? thanks for the content.
Could you do a guide to MF DOOM?
You are amazing,
Your channel is a treasure.
Thank you and don't stop making great videos like this.
I'm really shocked by this comment section, deep cuts is doing a fantastic and enormous work for these videos and all I see is " can you do a guide to.... ? " , " You're wrong "
Anyway, thanks Oliver for music newbies like me, your channel is really helping me in the building of my musical culture, thanks a lot ! :)
Loving this channel bro! Your descriptions and choices for artists are so good.
Thank you for this. Some musicians are so coiled up, artistically, that they barely understand themselves. Lovely to have it laid out so concisely.
Can’t believe I missed this one. Bowie is far and away my favorite artist of all time. My personal favorite album is Scary Monsters but I love almost every release he’s done. Hours and Never Let Me Down are the only 2 I don’t really care for, and even they have some good tracks. That stretch from TMWStW to Lets Dance is untouched by any artist, IMO. Literally 12 straight masterworks. And to top it off, his last album, 5 decades into his career, is one of his all time best. Blackstar is a very strong 10 for me.
That stretch from Space Oddity to Let's Dance is a better list.
David Copson lmao it’s literally the same list I mentioned but with 1 extra album, and that album can’t compare to anything that came after it.
Excellent.portrayal of the genius from day one
Thank you for giving Blackstar so much love! It came out my Sophomore year in art school, and it was a tether that tied me together at that time. Such a masterclass in messaging when it comes to the art of the album.
@@LOLZHAHANOTFUNNY Definitely. One of my favorite albums and probably my 2nd favorite album of that decade.
Man you deserve much more views.
Am I the only person who thinks Subterraneans is the best track on Low? Yeah? Ok...
Oliver Harper Nope, I do. Absolutely beautiful song, floors me every time
It is amazing
Low is just fantastic and in a weird way, I think I can hear a few elements in it that some members of Radiohead might’ve picked up. The sonic textures of it all.
It’s perfect black star foreshadowing
I definitely think so. It might be my favourite out of all the Bowie songs I know.
I wished I had seen this when it was first put up... really digging it! Instead, it's 4 years later, so here's a few things.
'Pinups' is one of my favorite Bowie albums. While it may be a record of covers and may have been 'inconsequential' in it's being produced but the album is brilliant. Besides putting a 'Bowie' spin to the songs he gave each one a new life and mood, a new perspective from the originals. I [personally think it is as important an album as any of his best... But then I am a Bowie fan from way back.
'Young Americans' and 'Station to Station' both feature one of the greatest unknown/underrated guitarists of the '70sm on lead guitar... Earl Slick. After replacing Ronson for the tour that 'David Live' is from, the tour for 'Diamond Dogs', Slick later replaced Stevie Ray Vaughn... Think about it, he replaced Ronson and SRV, two completely different guitarists, for DAVID BOWIE.
I only got to Bowie three times, the tours supporting 'Ziggy and the Spiders of Mars', 'Diamond Dogs' and 'Young Americans'. I always wished I had seen him more often. He never disappointed.
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I really love The Laughing Gnome.. I don't know why, really love it till this day
Quite happy to see this video pop up in my feed.
I suspect I may have missed your prior video, and I was worried that something happened as I hadn't seen an update from you in sometime.
Great video.
THE CHANT OF THE EVER CIRCLING SKELETON FAMILY ... is just lovely ..pls don't belittle Diamond Dogs ... Bowie will always live with me.
Love your videos! You obviously have a passion and knowledge that is refreshing. Please keep up the great work! I'm looking forward to your next upload!
Fantastic video and playlist! I've been wanting to get into Bowie for a long time but I've never really known where to start, I have a few good ideas now though. Thanks a lot!
I really like the way you illustrate your reviews I very much like your review ! And I love your accent
Thanks for this. I'm pretty new to Bowie's stuff but Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, and Station to Station are amazing albums. I'm trying not to listen through his discography too fast so each album has space to properly breathe and grow on my.
Unrelated note: Do you hate Swans?
Great video! You seem very knowledgeable about David Bowie. I'm from México, but I grew up with Bowie's music which is very diverse and creative and many of his albums take me back to my teenage years. Diamond Dogs and Ziggy Stardust in particular remind me of my teens and are my favourite albums being Sweet Thing/Candidate probably my favourite David Bowie song. Great videos, by the way, I just subscribed to your channel.
This is so good!
It's quite heartening to learn about how David Bowie struggled during his early career. Even the most talented people only succeed with hard work it seems
not gonna cry not gonna cry not gonna cry
can't help it can't help it can't help it
Cry cry cry cry cry cry
Great video as always, Oliver. I appreciate the amount of effort you put into researching these artists, and you clearly show a high level of respect for their work. I'm looking forward to part two!
I agree with that.
i had stopped being interested in playing music in years then bowie died and i spent weeks listening to him non stop and now im a full time musician
thanks for another more than worthy guide! - wondering if you'd be interested in making one on the Sisters Of Mercy. The Cure also comes to mind. Or, to delve deeper, prolific underground bands like Trisomie 21 or I Start Counting. - cheers either way, oliver, keep up the good work!
I love Nirvana's cover of the man who sold the world.
Great video as always!
Been a bowie fan forever always big in his glam rock area when he i heard he past i was suprised but i played sound and vision first took me years to fall heavey in love with it nice vid
A guide to The Smiths and/or Pixies
FAgraphicandart just listen to golden lights mate x
Heroes Is definitely my favorite Bowie album
zaktmaster I legit can’t pick one.
I love Hunky Dory, Ziggy, S2S and Low. All of them are amazing in their own way.
Blackstar
already came already came already came
On a side note, I think Young Americans is up there with my favorite Bowie records.
When will 5 albums to get you into post punk video come out ? Btw your channel was one of my best TH-cam dicoveries in 2016. Keep up with good work, and I wish you all the best in year 2017.
Great video. I need to check out The Man Who Sold The World.
Young Americans is the shit!
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If possible could you do a Joy Division review? I saw you do Low and was very impressed when you said it was your favorite Bowie and one of your favorite albums ever. It was also Ian Curtis's favorite of all time.
.... love this guy´s knowledge : wonder how : so young .... and yes 1972´s masterpiece ... The Rise And Fall /SpidersfromMars ... was pioneer in all ... coolness : back sleeve stated : TO BE PLAYED AT MAXIMUM VOLUME ... !!! for sure !!! ... he was sure of his intelligence ... for example on one of the Berlin records : included a FAN CLUB brochure ... like a pre-era of digital socializing/connectivity ...
I've listened to young Americans (the song) every day since December of 2015.
love it
What you are doing with these videos is just GREAT, i really hope that it will be helpful for those who don't know these artists, i stopped here because Bowie is my man but i will watch the other videos as well because i like them all, one about Tom Waits would be great if you have some spare time.
Cheers guys.
Your work is absolutely great
Diamond Dogs...a great album. I particularly like Sweet Thing ,and Rebel Rebel. Defiantly way better than most if his albums of the 1980s
The Mime Act You Mentioned Is Quite Important To DAVID'S Carrier - Witness SCARY MONSTES /// SUPER CREEPS.
One thing to note, on the song heroes the microphone was not moved further away, but rather there were a few microphones placed at different lengths with what is called a gate on them (meaning they only work when a certain volume is inputted). This meant that as he got louder, the other microphones would then record and thus create a very atmospheric reverberated sound
thank you 😊
Just started watching it, and so excited that I found your channel!!! If I could suggest, that would be great to see such guide to Lou Reed in future, of course if you're into his music.
not sure if your a cardiacs fan but a cardics guide would be interesting.one of the most unerated bands of all time . i miss bowie so much
However....DBW did bring back songs from this album to create an unreleased album in the Noughts (2000's) called TOY. And that dissapointed him, but he got some of those songs with new arrangements or sonic tonalities to appear on NEXT DAY (I think...). In my book, any song from any time period can be re-vivified and re-recorded and the brilliance that might lie below the surface found and put on display.
That was so good! Can't wait for part II tomorrow.
I agree with most of what you said. But I don't think Young Americans feels like an imitation at all, I actually don't like R&B, but quite enjoy Young Americans because it's not full-blown R&B, you know?
My problem with Aladin Sane and Diamond Dogs is that (I personally feel) Bowie was trying a little too much to be the Rolling Stones, I dunno why! Even Rebel Rebel, sounds more to me like a Rolling Stones song than a Bowie Glam song.
Bring on part II! There's a lot to be said about Bowie's work from '95 to '16, because I honestly think it's up there with his '70s work.
Good luck!
Thank you for uploading this video! I am obsessed Lodger at the moment! lol!
I decided to try to check out his whole discography. I just listened to Hunky Dory, and I must say, I’m bored to tears. I think Space Oddity is the best album by a mile so far. I came to a guide hoping to see if his style would change to something that’s more up my alley. I though most of Black Star was amazing, so I’m holding out for when his music starts heading that direction.
Try 'Outside'.
Try understanding the man and his music more carefully to appreciate the great mans full genius
congratulations you did your homework really well done
The mics on Heroes weren't pulled from Bowie by Visconti; he using gating on a mid-range and distant mic to only pic up vocals for the mix once the volume hit a certain threshold. Also, I'm pretty sure most of Low was recorded in France, and "A New Career" closes off the A-side rather than opening the B-side, which make sense bookending the first side with instrumental rock-styled tracks.
Hey Mate, Like your show. You cover such a variety of artists.
Well done. Thank you.
I'm in love with this channel
It wouldn't be about a single artist, but I'd love to see a guide for old-school rap. Pre-NWA rap doesn't get half the love it deserves because, to be quite honest, all pre-NWA rap gets thrown in with the "advanced Dr. Seuss" style of Run D.M.C. and seemingly ignores Rakim, Kane, KRS, etc
Bowie for life!
back here again
Great guide thanks, I like to hear perspectives when I'm already a fan, it's refreshing :) gotta say though... diamond dogs is my favourite album!
I'd love to see you do a Sparks guide.
Clever informative vid mate
Great work.
Do a Guide to Neil Young
Love your channel, dude :)
Great reviews!
Can you do a guide to: "And Also The Trees"?