You can recognise the 'genius' of something without it being to your taste. I used to 'love' Bowie, from being about 15-35, then for the rest of my life until now find him a bit meh. The only songs I still like are fame and sound and vision. I recognise that Picasso is considered a genius, but even if 99.999% of the population loved Picasso, I'd still never hang anything of his in my house. A child's drawing has more charm to me. Ppl are allowed to have different taste, that's why today there are so many grown man-childs who listen to korn and slipknot, play warhammer and have to have celtic tattoos like all the 'kids'. We don't have an exclusive access to good taste you know. Lots of ppl don't like my favourite bands (depeche mode, fad gadget, siouxsie and the banshees, the cure, pixies, and other mostly 80s stuff, but I'm OK with that. Everyone is entitled to be wrong.
Intelligence doesn't necessarily translate to 'worth listening to' you know. I get what you're saying, and for the most part agree, but there isn't a 'we get it, unlike the rest' club in music or any art. It's a subjective thing isn't it. That's why we are all usually attracted to different things in ppl.
Ps. If you like I'm Afraid of Americans, check out the albums Outside and Earthling. But he's such an eclectic musician that no two albums sound fully alike. My favourite track of his is a song called Shadow Man, which he wrote and recorded in 1971, then shelved and rerecorded in 2001.
How very dare you! 😊 "Life on Mars" is one of my favourite Bowie songs. We had it played at my son's baptism, as well as a couple of others.(He was my son's godfather). What a crazy day that was. Oh by the way not Odyssey, Oddiity.👍
Last year I was in Whitby, and on the cliffs opposite the famous Abbey (as featured in Dracula), there was a pianist blasting out Life On Mars to the sea below. It really knocked me for six. Such a memorable moment. That melody is impeccable.
@@brianc-i2i Aye it's an awesome clip... though as a huge Bowie fan I will never forget that day for all the wrong reasons. Weirdly it started with me packaging up his last album to return to Amazon as my copy had arrived damaged and was being replaced. But it also started a few minutes earlier with my body emptying itself from every possible orifice thanks to what I suspect was food poisoning. Still I thought I'd go to work... Then as I'm sealing the package for Amazon to pick up, the news came on the TV and I felt like I'd been kicked in the face. I stumbled to the bus stop still intending to go to work, crying from the grief but also the sickness... hurled in the alleyway beside it, and got on the bus. Lots of grown adults were crying all the way into town - a good 45 minute journey. I had Bowie on shuffle and every song seemed to hit differently, not helped by the bumpy journey threatening to make my bowels and bladder drop everything they had at any moment. As I got off the bus I was sick again, walked the five minutes to my office, went straight to the bathroom, did what had to be done and then walked back out the office and back to the bus stop to go back home to bed. I spent the next three days lying around with agonising stomach cramps and sickness, trying to stay hydrated and get better, but all the while flooded with grief. It felt like my body was rejecting a world without him in it. Every song took on new meaning... Even innocuous lines in old tracks felt like a hint at mortality now: the one that really got me was a lyric that simply said "I've danced with you too long..."
@@TheDidymusBrush Wow, what a literally visceral story! There's a lot to to be said for the theory that he was the only thing stopping the world going to sh*t, and that it has since he passed away..
Very surprised to learn you’re not a big Bowie fan with your musical background! If I could recommend anything, it would be to watch the Documentary called Moonage Daydream. Fantastic Documentary and shows Bowie’s many musical evolutions, his poetry, his artwork, his live performances, and some interviews. It’s a great way to get to know his work better.
You're missing out with Bowie. One of the greatest and most influential music artists of all-time! I highly recommend listening to more Bowie. Some of his best tracks are actually album tracks. :)
I'm always disappointed if anyone isn't a huge Bowie fan! I take your point about the Ziggy Stardust recordings but there is so much more to that album than the production and mix. Get a greatest hits and burrow your way in. You're missing out on one of the greats imho.
I watched one of my all time favourite dramas named after this song. The end of the drama was iconic and the end bit of the track was played over it. Every time I hear it now I get goosebumps.
I think you need to go into the Bowie journey. As your knowledge feels restrained to a couple of songs. You can’t live in the UK, in your business without just saying he had too much vibrato. The guy is a singer, songwriter, lyricist, poet, painter, acknowledged actor including on stage in Broadway and all round artist. A great, wonderful, intelligent, humorous man.
I like how David Bowies trouser sausage has remained in your mind all this time, so much so that it was the first thing you thought of when remembering that film.
Bowie wrote his own lyrics in English. Paul Anka wrote his own words that were used in the Sinatra version. His second album was also called David Bowie and had Space Oddity as the opening track, which had reached number 5. The rest of the album was more experimental folk and like his first album, it bombed. When Ziggy became a huge hit, all his prior albums shot up the charts and his second was re-titled Space Oddity and had a new cover with his bog-brush orange hair. Life On Mars only lifts the first few chords, then he throws in some lovely 'weird' progressions.
Bowie did many great songs: Changes Life on Mars The Jean genie Star man Rebel Rebel John, I’m only dancing Heroes Suffragette city Life on Mars Sound and Vision Ashes to Ashes Ziggy Stardust Fame The list goes on. He was way ahead of his time.
Rick Beato put out an interview with Wakeman a week or two ago. Fascinating and very very who's who of music. And a fascination with space isn't that weird in the days we were sending folk to the moon. What's way more of a mindfuck is that My Way is only as old as I am. I know that's pretty ancient, but I always thought that song had been around forever (like Sinatra)
I had two heroes of music, David Bowie RIP, and Freddie Mercury RIP. How can you not like Bowie 😮, genuinely shocked. I suppose if we all liked the same thing, life would be dull. Given I was/am a 70s punk
I was at Wembley for the Freddy Tribute concert. I have to say to my mind Bowie was outstanding in his contributions to the show. Mick Ronson was great too.
With Bowie it's less about the singles and more about the albums, "Hunky Dory" is my favourite Bowie album, it is quite light-hearted in many tracks, "Kooks", "Andy Warhol", "Queen Bitch", it also has more popular tracks too, such as, "Changes", "Oh! You Pretty Things", and of course "Life On Mars?" some of my personal favourites on it are, "Eight Line Poem", "The Bewlay Brothers" and "Quicksand" these have less of an immediate appeal but tend to grow on you with more listening, in my opinion of course.
@fayesouthall6604 A lovely present, the tape recorder and the albums, I was 17 in 1977. I had the album on vinyl, I've always liked it, I was a David Bowie and Roxy Music fan in the early to mid '70s and I followed the careers of both throughout the years, but Hunky Dory is still my favourite album of his.
This made me smile, me and my husband , before he passed, had a long running banter where he claimed David Bowies was a squeaky gnome and I slammed Paul McCan'tsing, it was just a witty banterfest which I miss thanks for the reminder 🙂
You obviously don't really know David Bowie. He was brilliant, clever imaginative and exciting. Also he had various different phases. If you cared enough you should follow from his earlier stuff and in the order he made his albums.
Being unfamiliar with David Bowie's prolific and widely varied output is eminently forgiveable and can easily be rectified. You know you like 'Changes' so start by listening to the whole of Hunky Dory. It's a timeless masterpiece. Ziggy Stardust wasn't a spaceman, btw. He was a fictitious character (largely but not exclusively inspired by Jimi Hendrix) that David wrote songs about and then inhabited on stage. Aladdin Sane is a good next stop. It's his first avant garde album, and the first with a lot of overt American influences beyond the straight rock n roll of the Ziggy period. If you're still disinterested after that, you may be beyond help.
Rick Wakeman's "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" is one of the vinyls my father played constantly, together with Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Pictures at an exhibition". They are TOP MUSICIANS
Hunky Dory is an amazing album. It's so diverse that it has stood the test of time. "Queen Bitch" has the best earworm riff EVER (don't listen unless you want it in your head all day).
Life On Mars is one of my favourite Bowie songs along with The Jean Genie, they're both brilliant. Don't worry, won't hate you for not being a Bowie fan, you can't help being wrong 😂
It’s futile to try to make a Bowie starter kit, as his output was huge and heterogeneous. But here is my picks for someone who isn’t fond of Ziggy’s voice: WIN (1975, soul-inspired ballad, great lyrics) STATION TO STATION (1976, long but peak Bowie)
Keeping the phone ringing and swearing in reminds me of the Zeppelin song Black Country Woman, at the beginning you can hear an aeroplane going over and they comment on it and I think Jimmy Page says "nah leave it"
Definitely not heard enough David Bowie if you only like a hand full of songs. I can get trapped in Bowie for days. One of the greatest solo artists of all time.
I think with Bowie, it's not about his voice so much as his art, lyrics, and vision. I saw him live on his 'Serious Moonlight" tour, during his "thin white duke" phase., when "Let's Dance" was big. He had a lot of charisma and a warmth and charm about him - which I didn't expect. I thought he'd be aloof and cool but no, he was very down to earth. I was sad when he passed. 😢
Bowie was an actor even before the music and the weird thing about David Bowie's acting career is his first starring role in a film occurred in 1967 with a rare 'eX' (sic) rated short film called The Image (1969) with Michael Byrne, who went on to have a more sustained acting career - 50 projects (including The Omen; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Braveheart; Gangs of New York and Quartet) vs Bowie's 37 or so (excluding documentaries and music videos) ...although Bowie probably got paid more! 😂 Oh...and it's Space Oddity...btw! 🤣
I must be way older than you, 70 (soon), because whenever I see any reference to 'life on mars' it's always the brilliant Bowie song. Maybe because I have never seen the TV show
Frank Sinatra's version of My Way was not a direct translation, they were new lyrics just set to the music of the original French version. David Bowies lyrics were also new lyrics also just set to the music of the original French song.
If you like his acting, you'll appreciate him in Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. Or you might not. He's playing a soldier in a Japanese POW camp during WWII. I only saw it when it aired. Rick Wakeman was essentially Black Sabbath's keyboardist. You'll recognise his style on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
Try heroes as a starter - inspired by two lovers in Cold War Berlin. He is an artist that can appeal to all - his music changed frequently as he got bored. My dad met him on a plane 😂 - and my dad being uncool discussed education as Bowiés son went to my sisters college 😂
“Space Odyssey”?!?🤪😱. Not just once or twice, but several times - even when reading the song title off the screen! Still, great video, mate. You might want to hire some bodyguards to protect you from the enraged Bowie fans, though. 😉
I think you're wrong when you say you don't like David Bowie. As an American, it's more likely that you're simply struggling to come to terms with the fact that he was a musical genius, the likes of which we'll never witness again, and that you are in fact, his biggest fan. Ever.
Not a good start. How does your thought process go? Who don’t I like, ✅yeah let’s do a video on them✅, give it a title and thumbnail to alert their fans ✅ and then right at the beginning of the video say you don’t like them ✅. Great job 🔥
I would encourage you to look into when he created an internet providor (believing the internet would be how the next generation rebels in the same way the previous had had rock and roll) aswell as raacting to a interview where he takes on mtv on their racism (its easy to find here on youtube)
Yes, AGREE too much vibrato. I lived in London in the eighties and knew a group of people who thought Bowie walked on water. He always annoyed me, and I never got it.
I was going to give you a litte slapping for constantly saying 'Odyssey' but reading through I discovered that you have already been spit roasted for yours crimes 😅 Having said that, I enjoyed your stream as normal and look forward to your next one as usual. Cant wait to hear what you have to say about your "Odyssey" faux pa 😆☺️🇬🇧
theres a clip of bowie talking about ripping off the song on youtube somewhere, he also jokes about how bad his lyrics were for his version of "my way" & wishes they didnt exist lol
If I were to compile a Bowie playlist: Ashes to Ashes Space Oddity Changes Life on Mars Ziggy Stardust Modern Love China Girl Let’s Dance Heroes Starman Under Pressure The Jean Genie Rebel Rebel The Man Who Sold the World Sound and Vision Oh! You Pretty Things Suffragette City Magic Dance Young Americans As the World Falls Down All the Young Dudes Fashion Scary Monsters, Super Creeps Absolute Beginners Fascination Heathen In that order.
Not going to 'hate you' for liking only 3 Bowie songs, but his catalogue is so huge i'm guessing there might be a lot you haven't heard and I can only recommend that you find time to examine his work more closely. one thing I will say - if you listen to the last few bars of the orchestral arrangement on 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' by Simon and Garfunkel, it sounds identical to the end of 'Life on Mars- maybe Mick (seeing as he hadn't done this before) looked around for a little inspiration.
If you are gonna do a Bowie deep dive, here's one "hit" and one Deep Cut song from every Bowie album for you to check out... • David Bowie 1967 - Love You Til Tuesday // When I Live My Dream • David Bowie 1969 (aka Space Oddity) - Space Oddity // Janine • The Man Who Sold the World - The Man Who Sold the World // All the Madmen • Hunky Dory - Changes // The Bewley Brothers • The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust... - Suffragette City // Five Years • Aladdin Sane - The Jean Genie // Lady Grinning Soul • PinUps - Sorrow // Where Have All the Good Times Gone • Diamond Dogs - Rebel Rebel // Rock n Roll With Me • Young Americans - Fame // Can You Hear Me • Station to Station -- Golden Years // Stay • Low - Sound and Vision // Breaking Glass • "Heroes" - "Heroes" // Blackout • Lodger - Boys Keep Swinging // Fantastic Voyage • Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) - Ashes to Ashes // Teenage Wildlife • Let's Dance - Modern Love // Without You • Tonight - Blue Jean // Loving the Alien • Labyrinth - Underground // Within You • Never Let Me Down - Time Will Crawl // Zeroes [nb. Listen to the 2018 mix instead of the 1987 original!] • Tin Machine - Under the God // Amazing • Tin Machine II - Baby Universal // Betty Wrong • Black Tie White Noise - Jump They Say // You've Been Around • The Buddha of Suburbia - The Buddha of Suburbia // Strangers When We Meet • Outside - The Heart's Filthy Lesson // I'm Deranged • Earthling - Dead Man Walking // Battle for Britain (The Letter) • Hours - Survive // Something in the Air • Toy - Shadow Man // The London Boys • Heathen - Everyone Says Hi // Slip Away • Reality - New Killer Star // Bring Me the Disco King • The Next Day - Valentine's Day // (You Will) Set the World On Fire • Extra EP - Atomica // God Bless the Girl • ★ - Lazarus // Dollar Days • No Plan EP - No Plan // Kiling a Little Time
Ps. You can augment his back catalogue with a few albums he was heavily involved with too... • Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes • Lou Reed - Transformer • Iggy Pop - The Idiot, Lust For Life, Blah-Blah-Blah They all pretty much sound like Bowie albums to some extent.
Bowie wanted to be an actor/theatre but never made it so kinda fell into music. Just wanted to write songs and other people sing them but no one wanted his songs so he started recording them.
Hey JJ, Rick Beatto recently did an interview with Rick Wakeman on his YT channel, it's well worth a listen if you have an hour or so spare. Wakeman tells some great stories of his early years.
Don't know if you checked it out yourself, but the original French song lyrics are not remotely related to the Sinatra one, it only uses the tune. The original is about a tired and stale relationship. The title translates 'The Usual'.
Calm down. You only saw the impression through the tight costume. It made the scene where the little elf was kneeling in front of him a little "hmmm" (strokes chin) , however. Sorry if I've spoiled the anticipation for you. I just wanted to spare you the disappointment.
That's OK you don't like Bowie mate, the Stones blew the Beatles out of the water with their silly 4 lyric songs...😬🙄😉😁 One love from Scotland. 💙 🦁 🏴
I can’t believe anyone doesn’t recognise the genius of David Bowie. He was a very very intelligent man.
You can recognise the 'genius' of something without it being to your taste. I used to 'love' Bowie, from being about 15-35, then for the rest of my life until now find him a bit meh. The only songs I still like are fame and sound and vision. I recognise that Picasso is considered a genius, but even if 99.999% of the population loved Picasso, I'd still never hang anything of his in my house. A child's drawing has more charm to me. Ppl are allowed to have different taste, that's why today there are so many grown man-childs who listen to korn and slipknot, play warhammer and have to have celtic tattoos like all the 'kids'. We don't have an exclusive access to good taste you know. Lots of ppl don't like my favourite bands (depeche mode, fad gadget, siouxsie and the banshees, the cure, pixies, and other mostly 80s stuff, but I'm OK with that. Everyone is entitled to be wrong.
Intelligence doesn't necessarily translate to 'worth listening to' you know. I get what you're saying, and for the most part agree, but there isn't a 'we get it, unlike the rest' club in music or any art. It's a subjective thing isn't it. That's why we are all usually attracted to different things in ppl.
Having seen Bowie twice in concert you would have changed your mind. Hearing Heroes live at live aid gave me goosebumps.
That was and still is Live aid for me, unforgettable.
The Man Who Fell to Earth was a great film. They'll all be singing along to Starman at the end of my funeral!
Bowie was an utter icon. His 90s work is particularly underrated.
Ps. If you like I'm Afraid of Americans, check out the albums Outside and Earthling. But he's such an eclectic musician that no two albums sound fully alike. My favourite track of his is a song called Shadow Man, which he wrote and recorded in 1971, then shelved and rerecorded in 2001.
How very dare you! 😊 "Life on Mars" is one of my favourite Bowie songs. We had it played at my son's baptism, as well as a couple of others.(He was my son's godfather). What a crazy day that was. Oh by the way not Odyssey, Oddiity.👍
I remember the song "Laughing gnome" by Bowie.
Last year I was in Whitby, and on the cliffs opposite the famous Abbey (as featured in Dracula), there was a pianist blasting out Life On Mars to the sea below. It really knocked me for six. Such a memorable moment. That melody is impeccable.
There's a clip you can find here on YT of the organist at St Albans cathedral playing this song in tribute on the day his death was announced.
@@brianc-i2i Aye it's an awesome clip... though as a huge Bowie fan I will never forget that day for all the wrong reasons.
Weirdly it started with me packaging up his last album to return to Amazon as my copy had arrived damaged and was being replaced. But it also started a few minutes earlier with my body emptying itself from every possible orifice thanks to what I suspect was food poisoning. Still I thought I'd go to work... Then as I'm sealing the package for Amazon to pick up, the news came on the TV and I felt like I'd been kicked in the face.
I stumbled to the bus stop still intending to go to work, crying from the grief but also the sickness... hurled in the alleyway beside it, and got on the bus. Lots of grown adults were crying all the way into town - a good 45 minute journey. I had Bowie on shuffle and every song seemed to hit differently, not helped by the bumpy journey threatening to make my bowels and bladder drop everything they had at any moment. As I got off the bus I was sick again, walked the five minutes to my office, went straight to the bathroom, did what had to be done and then walked back out the office and back to the bus stop to go back home to bed.
I spent the next three days lying around with agonising stomach cramps and sickness, trying to stay hydrated and get better, but all the while flooded with grief. It felt like my body was rejecting a world without him in it. Every song took on new meaning... Even innocuous lines in old tracks felt like a hint at mortality now: the one that really got me was a lyric that simply said "I've danced with you too long..."
@@TheDidymusBrush Wow, what a literally visceral story!
There's a lot to to be said for the theory that he was the only thing stopping the world going to sh*t, and that it has since he passed away..
Played by Rick Wakeman on the recording 👍
Very surprised to learn you’re not a big Bowie fan with your musical background!
If I could recommend anything, it would be to watch the Documentary called Moonage Daydream. Fantastic Documentary and shows Bowie’s many musical evolutions, his poetry, his artwork, his live performances, and some interviews. It’s a great way to get to know his work better.
You’re definitely missing out with Bowie, he’s so creative and influential it’s hard to quantify - give his stuff a proper listen
You do indeed need to revisit David Bowie. Hunky Dory is absolutely splendid.
You're missing out with Bowie. One of the greatest and most influential music artists of all-time! I highly recommend listening to more Bowie. Some of his best tracks are actually album tracks. :)
space odditty! fuming
*'Space Oddity' (// '2001, A Space Odyssey'
David Bowie // Stanley Kubrick /
Arthur C.Clarke).
Love David Bowie
I'm always disappointed if anyone isn't a huge Bowie fan! I take your point about the Ziggy Stardust recordings but there is so much more to that album than the production and mix. Get a greatest hits and burrow your way in. You're missing out on one of the greats imho.
I watched one of my all time favourite dramas named after this song. The end of the drama was iconic and the end bit of the track was played over it. Every time I hear it now I get goosebumps.
I think you need to go into the Bowie journey. As your knowledge feels restrained to a couple of songs. You can’t live in the UK, in your business without just saying he had too much vibrato. The guy is a singer, songwriter, lyricist, poet, painter, acknowledged actor including on stage in Broadway and all round artist. A great, wonderful, intelligent, humorous man.
You should check out early Yes. Way before Owner of a Lonely Heart.
David Bowie adopted the vibrato from his inspiration Anthony Newley.
Oddity not odyssey JJ.
I like how David Bowies trouser sausage has remained in your mind all this time, so much so that it was the first thing you thought of when remembering that film.
Bowie wrote his own lyrics in English. Paul Anka wrote his own words that were used in the Sinatra version. His second album was also called David Bowie and had Space Oddity as the opening track, which had reached number 5. The rest of the album was more experimental folk and like his first album, it bombed. When Ziggy became a huge hit, all his prior albums shot up the charts and his second was re-titled Space Oddity and had a new cover with his bog-brush orange hair. Life On Mars only lifts the first few chords, then he throws in some lovely 'weird' progressions.
the most surreal bit of TV I have ever seen, was the Little Drummer boy duet between Bowie and the wife/child beater Bing Crosby..........
Bowie did many great songs:
Changes
Life on Mars
The Jean genie
Star man
Rebel Rebel
John, I’m only dancing
Heroes
Suffragette city
Life on Mars
Sound and Vision
Ashes to Ashes
Ziggy Stardust
Fame
The list goes on. He was way ahead of his time.
100%
Watch Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence..starring Bowie and Tom Conti
Score by Riuichi Sakamoto? Forbidden Colours?
@GoldilocksZone-665 also the main vocal theme Forbidden Colours lyrics and vocals by David Sylvian of the band Japan
Bowie was the icon, implore you to sit in the dark n listen to Rick wakeman’s “journey to the centre of the earth”
Rick Beato put out an interview with Wakeman a week or two ago. Fascinating and very very who's who of music.
And a fascination with space isn't that weird in the days we were sending folk to the moon. What's way more of a mindfuck is that My Way is only as old as I am. I know that's pretty ancient, but I always thought that song had been around forever (like Sinatra)
I had two heroes of music, David Bowie RIP, and Freddie Mercury RIP. How can you not like Bowie 😮, genuinely shocked. I suppose if we all liked the same thing, life would be dull. Given I was/am a 70s punk
I was at Wembley for the Freddy Tribute concert. I have to say to my mind Bowie was outstanding in his contributions to the show. Mick Ronson was great too.
again you should try watching "The Hunger" starring Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon.......or perhaps "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence"...........
With Bowie it's less about the singles and more about the albums, "Hunky Dory" is my favourite Bowie album, it is quite light-hearted in many tracks, "Kooks", "Andy Warhol", "Queen Bitch", it also has more popular tracks too, such as, "Changes", "Oh! You Pretty Things", and of course "Life On Mars?" some of my personal favourites on it are, "Eight Line Poem", "The Bewlay Brothers" and "Quicksand" these have less of an immediate appeal but tend to grow on you with more listening, in my opinion of course.
Hunky Dory is my favourite album. My parents bought me a tape recorder for Christmas in 1977 and it was one of the albums that they gave me on tape
@fayesouthall6604 A lovely present, the tape recorder and the albums, I was 17 in 1977. I had the album on vinyl, I've always liked it, I was a David Bowie and Roxy Music fan in the early to mid '70s and I followed the careers of both throughout the years, but Hunky Dory is still my favourite album of his.
Absolutely love this album. From Scotland xxx
@@skye67 Thank you, I'm Welsh, but living in the North East of England.
This made me smile, me and my husband , before he passed, had a long running banter where he claimed David Bowies was a squeaky gnome and I slammed Paul McCan'tsing, it was just a witty banterfest which I miss thanks for the reminder 🙂
You obviously don't really know David Bowie. He was brilliant, clever imaginative and exciting. Also he had various different phases. If you cared enough you should follow from his earlier stuff and in the order he made his albums.
Being unfamiliar with David Bowie's prolific and widely varied output is eminently forgiveable and can easily be rectified.
You know you like 'Changes' so start by listening to the whole of Hunky Dory. It's a timeless masterpiece.
Ziggy Stardust wasn't a spaceman, btw. He was a fictitious character (largely but not exclusively inspired by Jimi Hendrix) that David wrote songs about and then inhabited on stage.
Aladdin Sane is a good next stop. It's his first avant garde album, and the first with a lot of overt American influences beyond the straight rock n roll of the Ziggy period.
If you're still disinterested after that, you may be beyond help.
Five years off Ziggy Stardust is an amazing. David Bowie is one of the greatest artists of all time. Check out the words to young Americans. Wow!
Rick Wakeman's "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" is one of the vinyls my father played constantly, together with Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Pictures at an exhibition".
They are TOP MUSICIANS
Hunky Dory is an amazing album. It's so diverse that it has stood the test of time. "Queen Bitch" has the best earworm riff EVER (don't listen unless you want it in your head all day).
Life On Mars is one of my favourite Bowie songs along with The Jean Genie, they're both brilliant.
Don't worry, won't hate you for not being a Bowie fan, you can't help being wrong 😂
Great and amusing reaction 👏👏👏
Sid vicious version of my way is my favourite.
So Sinatra should have called it 'Somebody Else's Way'.
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Ken Scott was indeed engineer for the beatles before he went on to produce 4 albums with Bowie
You need to listen to Aurora''s cover of Life on Mars
Yes..love Aurora!
It is truly beautiful
It’s futile to try to make a Bowie starter kit, as his output was huge and heterogeneous.
But here is my picks for someone who isn’t fond of Ziggy’s voice:
WIN (1975, soul-inspired ballad, great lyrics)
STATION TO STATION (1976, long but peak Bowie)
Keeping the phone ringing and swearing in reminds me of the Zeppelin song Black Country Woman, at the beginning you can hear an aeroplane going over and they comment on it and I think Jimmy Page says "nah leave it"
Tony Newley was an influence on Bowie and how he sang, check him out
Definitely not heard enough David Bowie if you only like a hand full of songs. I can get trapped in Bowie for days. One of the greatest solo artists of all time.
I think with Bowie, it's not about his voice so much as his art, lyrics, and vision. I saw him live on his 'Serious Moonlight" tour, during his "thin white duke" phase., when "Let's Dance" was big. He had a lot of charisma and a warmth and charm about him - which I didn't expect. I thought he'd be aloof and cool but no, he was very down to earth. I was sad when he passed. 😢
Bowie was an actor even before the music and the weird thing about David Bowie's acting career is his first starring role in a film occurred in 1967 with a rare 'eX' (sic) rated short film called The Image (1969) with Michael Byrne, who went on to have a more sustained acting career - 50 projects (including The Omen; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Braveheart; Gangs of New York and Quartet) vs Bowie's 37 or so (excluding documentaries and music videos) ...although Bowie probably got paid more! 😂
Oh...and it's Space Oddity...btw! 🤣
I just love watching your channel, you make me laugh every time. Love you taking the mick out of us Brits accent , also you can say taking the p*ss❤😂❤
Rick Wakeman's album "The Six Wives of Henry the VIII" was a big hit amongst my artsy fartsy hippie group of friends back in the day.
Did anyone else click on this thinking it was about the TV show? It took me a few second to realise it was about Bowie's music.
I must be way older than you, 70 (soon), because whenever I see any reference to 'life on mars' it's always the brilliant Bowie song. Maybe because I have never seen the TV show
I'm with you JJ, can't get to grips with Bowie
"The Man Who Fell To Earth" is a classic with Bowie in the lead Jean, I suggest you watch it at some point.
Frank Sinatra's version of My Way was not a direct translation, they were new lyrics just set to the music of the original French version. David Bowies lyrics were also new lyrics also just set to the music of the original French song.
I dont like too many Bowie songs either, but Hunky Dory is an AMAZING album.
If you like his acting, you'll appreciate him in Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence.
Or you might not.
He's playing a soldier in a Japanese POW camp during WWII.
I only saw it when it aired.
Rick Wakeman was essentially Black Sabbath's keyboardist.
You'll recognise his style on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
[ has the Blackstar Album cover tattooed on his left shoulder ]
Bowie and Paul Anka weren't translating the original, anybody who understood French could do that. They were writing new lyrics.
For some great piano playing on a Bowie song check the title track from Aladdin Sane with Mike Garson on the old joanna
I’m not a massive Bowie fan but Hunky Dory is a great album. Worth checking out if you haven’t before
Both the Paul Anka and Bowie lyrics to My Way were written from scratch, the original French lyrics were discarded for whatever reason..
0:33 - Wow, you didn't know that My Way was a cover? Who would've thought!!!
Major Tom by Shiny Toy Guns is pretty inspired too
Rick Wakeman "He's Good!" Nice bit of understatement there!
Space ODDITY JJ, ODDITY!!!!! Not Odyssey - that's a series of books and films.
Try heroes as a starter - inspired by two lovers in Cold War Berlin. He is an artist that can appeal to all - his music changed frequently as he got bored. My dad met him on a plane 😂 - and my dad being uncool discussed education as Bowiés son went to my sisters college 😂
“Space Odyssey”?!?🤪😱. Not just once or twice, but several times - even when reading the song title off the screen!
Still, great video, mate. You might want to hire some bodyguards to protect you from the enraged Bowie fans, though. 😉
Lets dance is such a great sounding album.
I think you're wrong when you say you don't like David Bowie. As an American, it's more likely that you're simply struggling to come to terms with the fact that he was a musical genius, the likes of which we'll never witness again, and that you are in fact, his biggest fan. Ever.
suggest 'sweet thing' and 'Quicksand'
Mate, you're actually looking at the word Oditty, but repeatedly saying Odyssey 😂
Frank Sinatra was in some great films in the 1960s and was a fairly good actor.
Its Space Oddity rather than Odyssey - the point was to make fun of the UK Space Programme
This video was such an odyssey
Not a good start. How does your thought process go? Who don’t I like, ✅yeah let’s do a video on them✅, give it a title and thumbnail to alert their fans ✅ and then right at the beginning of the video say you don’t like them ✅. Great job 🔥
I think if you watched to the end JJ changed his mind, so reacting to the video enlightened him to how good Bowie is.
Paul Anka didn't translate it, he did a reinterpretation.
you not being a bowie fan is a shock to me
How can you not like 'Heroes,weird.
You should listen to Hunky Dory, it's a great album. If you like it, try Aladdin Sane, Station to Station, Low and Heroes....Bowie is awesome.
I would encourage you to look into when he created an internet providor (believing the internet would be how the next generation rebels in the same way the previous had had rock and roll) aswell as raacting to a interview where he takes on mtv on their racism (its easy to find here on youtube)
Yes, AGREE too much vibrato. I lived in London in the eighties and knew a group of people who thought Bowie walked on water. He always annoyed me, and I never got it.
I was going to give you a litte slapping for constantly saying 'Odyssey' but reading through I discovered that you have already been spit roasted for yours crimes 😅 Having said that, I enjoyed your stream as normal and look forward to your next one as usual. Cant wait to hear what you have to say about your "Odyssey" faux pa 😆☺️🇬🇧
theres a clip of bowie talking about ripping off the song on youtube somewhere, he also jokes about how bad his lyrics were for his version of "my way" & wishes they didnt exist lol
"Width of a circle" young man.
If I were to compile a Bowie playlist:
Ashes to Ashes
Space Oddity
Changes
Life on Mars
Ziggy Stardust
Modern Love
China Girl
Let’s Dance
Heroes
Starman
Under Pressure
The Jean Genie
Rebel Rebel
The Man Who Sold the World
Sound and Vision
Oh! You Pretty Things
Suffragette City
Magic Dance
Young Americans
As the World Falls Down
All the Young Dudes
Fashion
Scary Monsters, Super Creeps
Absolute Beginners
Fascination
Heathen
In that order.
Check out Rick Wakeman’s interview with Rick Beato.
There is a great interview with Rick Wakeman by Rick Beato it's well worth a watch
Not going to 'hate you' for liking only 3 Bowie songs, but his catalogue is so huge i'm guessing there might be a lot you haven't heard and I can only recommend that you find time to examine his work more closely. one thing I will say - if you listen to the last few bars of the orchestral arrangement on 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' by Simon and Garfunkel, it sounds identical to the end of 'Life on Mars- maybe Mick (seeing as he hadn't done this before) looked around for a little inspiration.
Hey.! It's Space Oddity. Not (2001) Space Odyssey.
If you are gonna do a Bowie deep dive, here's one "hit" and one Deep Cut song from every Bowie album for you to check out...
• David Bowie 1967 - Love You Til Tuesday // When I Live My Dream
• David Bowie 1969 (aka Space Oddity) - Space Oddity // Janine
• The Man Who Sold the World - The Man Who Sold the World // All the Madmen
• Hunky Dory - Changes // The Bewley Brothers
• The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust... - Suffragette City // Five Years
• Aladdin Sane - The Jean Genie // Lady Grinning Soul
• PinUps - Sorrow // Where Have All the Good Times Gone
• Diamond Dogs - Rebel Rebel // Rock n Roll With Me
• Young Americans - Fame // Can You Hear Me
• Station to Station -- Golden Years // Stay
• Low - Sound and Vision // Breaking Glass
• "Heroes" - "Heroes" // Blackout
• Lodger - Boys Keep Swinging // Fantastic Voyage
• Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) - Ashes to Ashes // Teenage Wildlife
• Let's Dance - Modern Love // Without You
• Tonight - Blue Jean // Loving the Alien
• Labyrinth - Underground // Within You
• Never Let Me Down - Time Will Crawl // Zeroes [nb. Listen to the 2018 mix instead of the 1987 original!]
• Tin Machine - Under the God // Amazing
• Tin Machine II - Baby Universal // Betty Wrong
• Black Tie White Noise - Jump They Say // You've Been Around
• The Buddha of Suburbia - The Buddha of Suburbia // Strangers When We Meet
• Outside - The Heart's Filthy Lesson // I'm Deranged
• Earthling - Dead Man Walking // Battle for Britain (The Letter)
• Hours - Survive // Something in the Air
• Toy - Shadow Man // The London Boys
• Heathen - Everyone Says Hi // Slip Away
• Reality - New Killer Star // Bring Me the Disco King
• The Next Day - Valentine's Day // (You Will) Set the World On Fire
• Extra EP - Atomica // God Bless the Girl
• ★ - Lazarus // Dollar Days
• No Plan EP - No Plan // Kiling a Little Time
Ps. You can augment his back catalogue with a few albums he was heavily involved with too...
• Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes
• Lou Reed - Transformer
• Iggy Pop - The Idiot, Lust For Life, Blah-Blah-Blah
They all pretty much sound like Bowie albums to some extent.
Bowie wanted to be an actor/theatre but never made it so kinda fell into music. Just wanted to write songs and other people sing them but no one wanted his songs so he started recording them.
Hey JJ, Rick Beatto recently did an interview with Rick Wakeman on his YT channel, it's well worth a listen if you have an hour or so spare. Wakeman tells some great stories of his early years.
Don't know if you checked it out yourself, but the original French song lyrics are not remotely related to the Sinatra one, it only uses the tune. The original is about a tired and stale relationship. The title translates 'The Usual'.
Hi JJ - you keep saying Odyssey but it's Oddiity.
"Rah! I always thought it was a yank" He says. Dude, Youre still super american......
If you can only name 3 then you obviously haven't heard Laughing Gnome
Hang on a minute... I'VE not seen David Bowie's ding dong! It was in Labyrinth? That was a children's movie, though?
Calm down. You only saw the impression through the tight costume. It made the scene where the little elf was kneeling in front of him a little "hmmm" (strokes chin) , however. Sorry if I've spoiled the anticipation for you. I just wanted to spare you the disappointment.
There was a lot of men’s equipment on display in the seventies 😂 It’s so hard to look away!
@@MissSJ4429 Why bother? If it's on display you have every right to look. Yes and even enjoy it.
I'm guessing a song can't just be translated as the rhyming and length of words would be lost.
The Paul Anka lyrics are not the same as the original French lyrics.
That's OK you don't like Bowie mate, the Stones blew the Beatles out of the water with their silly 4 lyric songs...😬🙄😉😁 One love from Scotland. 💙 🦁 🏴
Is Bowie's Ding Dong similar to Chuck Berry's Ding a Ling?
He neglected to tell us which way he dresses, as he did for Mick Jagger. 🤔
You've probably not heard ENOUGH Bowie songs. Listen to Fame. Hunky Dory is one of the best albums ever, by the way.