Drummer reacts to "Changes" by David Bowie

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  • @MsUrbangirl
    @MsUrbangirl 4 місяці тому +5

    I saw Bowie in '71 and '73. Just absolutely amazing singer, musician, and showman. Unforgettable 😢

  • @wanderer0617
    @wanderer0617 4 місяці тому +24

    "As musical legend David Bowie once said, “Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes! Turn and face the strange.” The song's underlying meaning hints that the only path to self-discovery is through embracing the transformative power of the strange changes life throws at us."

  • @ChasBeauregarde
    @ChasBeauregarde 4 місяці тому +21

    Life on Mars is another banger from this album, especially the verse "It's on Amerika's tortured brow/ Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow..."

  • @davidcopson5800
    @davidcopson5800 3 місяці тому +1

    This is surely one of his greatest songs. It meant a lot to the teenage me in 1971.

  • @lauraallen55
    @lauraallen55 4 місяці тому +11

    Love love love Hunky Dory. 😍Well, love David Bowie all the way round.🤩
    Can't wait for the second track. Changes is so good. My favorite from the album is probably the second track Oh You Pretty Things, or Queen Bitch, or oh I don't even know lol. Gonna take a while to do Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, Low, and Heroes, and Station to Station, and...
    Thanks Scott and Lee!

    • @L33Reacts
      @L33Reacts  4 місяці тому +2

      we did station to station in full already. and ziggy. but that's it in the full album department so far!

    • @lauraallen55
      @lauraallen55 4 місяці тому +1

      @@L33Reacts Oh hell, I didn't know you did S2S already. Neat! I want you to hear all of Bowie's and all of the Beatles - like right now 😅

    • @DrStrangelove3891
      @DrStrangelove3891 4 місяці тому +4

      Oh You Pretty Things is my favorite on this album too. Or maybe Quicksand. Or maybe The Bewlay Brothers. Or Life On Mars. Or Changes... 😄

    • @lauraallen55
      @lauraallen55 4 місяці тому +2

      @@DrStrangelove3891 hahaha! I feel you lol

  • @scottyhotty1003
    @scottyhotty1003 4 місяці тому +14

    According to Bowie, this started out as a parody of a nightclub song - "kind of throwaway" - but people kept chanting for it at concerts and thus it became one of his most popular and enduring songs. Bowie had no idea it was going to become so successful, but the song connected with his young audience who could relate to lyrics like "These children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds, are immune to your consultations, they're quite aware of what they're going through."

  • @lizze490
    @lizze490 4 місяці тому +1

    Lee, Bowie was the soundtrack to high school; memories of the 70s. This song lingers forever....

  • @kevinkuschel2457
    @kevinkuschel2457 4 місяці тому +5

    You have become my favorite reactor. I am nearly 67 and really enjoying your reactions to many of the songs and artists that make me who I am in many ways. I wish you the best in all.

  • @thunderspike1892
    @thunderspike1892 4 місяці тому +9

    The song Kooks on the Hunky Dory album was written for his newborn son Duncan.

  • @stevedahlberg8680
    @stevedahlberg8680 4 місяці тому +5

    This was a massive hit for him early on. It was on the radio all the time. Interesting comments about construction versus deconstructing things.

  • @mikefetterman6782
    @mikefetterman6782 4 місяці тому +10

    Bowie had a thing where every album was a NEW REINCARNATION of David Bowie. The 70s were the decade of the ALBUM. Singles were just popular songs from the album, unlike the 60s where singles were separate from the big records. Every 3-5 years the world got a totally new David Bowie.

  • @alrivers2297
    @alrivers2297 4 місяці тому +4

    One of his very best songs. Honestly, I didn't even know he played sax. Cool

  • @relativetimeworx8459
    @relativetimeworx8459 4 місяці тому +2

    First Hunky Dory track?! You have some great music ahead of you. This is Bowie's "singer/songwriter" album - lower key than most, great songs. Always at or near the top of favorites lists for Bowie purists, like myself.

    • @lauraallen55
      @lauraallen55 4 місяці тому

      Yep, love Bowie and Hunky Dory is in my top 5, maybe top 3 or even 2.

  • @ccollins2890
    @ccollins2890 4 місяці тому +3

    "Ya learn something old every day..."

  • @scottyhotty1003
    @scottyhotty1003 4 місяці тому +2

    You may be only 30 Lee and I am 60 but I will tell you in some ways you are far Advanced musically with the knowledge everyone has shared with you than myself I actually learn from you many times since joining this channel thanks ❤

    • @L33Reacts
      @L33Reacts  4 місяці тому +3

      I’m glad to hear it Scott thank you 🙏 I appreciate yall sharing with me all of this precious stuff

  • @bélalugrisi
    @bélalugrisi 4 місяці тому +1

    Thanks Lee & Scott! Rick playing the perfect part, love the 1/8 note chording in the chorus. Tony Visconti is a production and musical genius. Check out the list of artists he's produced - it's stunning. Some include T-Rex, Jon, Annie Haslam (co-writng, singing, playing and production), Marc Bolan, Thin Lizzy, Paul McCartney and The Moody Blues to name a few. His records are worth seeking out!

  • @mikeross14
    @mikeross14 4 місяці тому +1

    "Changes!" bombed out on first release,later when Bowie got famous they went back and Re-released it! Call it rediscovered greatness!

  • @bartholomewswarmkrunsh3859
    @bartholomewswarmkrunsh3859 4 місяці тому

    Lovin' your reactions. Hunky Dory is, in my opinion, his masterpiece, that said there are still many facets of Bowie to experience: bear in mind, when you get to them, Blackout & Bring Me The Disco King, to show how great and diverse he was.

  • @bendancar
    @bendancar 4 місяці тому +1

    Hunky Dory is one of my favorite albums of all time. It is absolutely worth listening to this more acoustic (somewhat) album with fantastic songs.

  • @shemanic1
    @shemanic1 4 місяці тому +3

    Thank you, such a superb Bowie track & album. "Changes" affect us all, we need to make the best of them.

  • @charrid56maclean
    @charrid56maclean 4 місяці тому +2

    You should watch the live concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1973! No spoilers but if you like Bowie you should see this concert! Then find out what really happened later❤

  • @michaelp.7893
    @michaelp.7893 4 місяці тому +2

    After 52 years, still my favorite Bowie song. It's always fun for me to watch folks react to songs when they recognize it from a remake they're familiar with. 😊 A+

  • @thescrewfly
    @thescrewfly 4 місяці тому +3

    One of his best albums imho. A display of excellent songwriting. So, please get back to this once you're done with Aladdin Sane.

  • @arizrich
    @arizrich 4 місяці тому +6

    There's that year 1971 again. So much great music in one amazing year!

  • @gavinmallett9331
    @gavinmallett9331 4 місяці тому +5

    Bowie was amazing, his sound & songs still are. There won't ever be many quite like him :D

  • @PaulMDove2
    @PaulMDove2 4 місяці тому +8

    Go back to Aladdin Sane then come right back here for the rest of Hunky Dory; the best Bowie album.

  • @stevenmurano7863
    @stevenmurano7863 3 місяці тому

    Another classic from a stellar album. I hope you do the whole album. Crazy when you realize that this gem was sandwiched between The Man Who Sold The World snd Ziggy. Greatest artist of our time

  • @joannparker1977
    @joannparker1977 4 місяці тому +1

    One of those "life instruction" songs for sure. Embrace the changes in life. Especially those strange changes.

  • @davidthrower1553
    @davidthrower1553 4 місяці тому +2

    Hunky Dory…my favourite Bowie album. You must review “Oh you Pretty Things”, “Life on Mars”, “Andy Warhol”, “The Queen Bitch” and, above all “Quicksand” and “The Bewlay Brothers”…my favourite Bowie tracks of all time. 1971…..I was 18 and just ready to go to University…what a summer, what wonderful music and memories and what a time to be alive!!!

    • @lauraallen55
      @lauraallen55 4 місяці тому +1

      I love David Bowie nearly with the passion I do the Beatles, and have a hard time ranking his music, but Hunky Dory is UP there for sure! Oh You Pretty Things beat drop alone makes this album amazing. Queen Bitch, Quicksand, all of them, nothing mediocre there!

    • @davidthrower1553
      @davidthrower1553 4 місяці тому +1

      @@lauraallen55 I am a huge Beatles fan too Lauren…I grew up with their music and what an amazing time it was. Every album release was anticipated and every one broke new ground. The best band ever, Bowie was also a refreshing find for me as he changed from album to album….loved hid Space Oddity to Aladdin Sane period the best.

    • @lauraallen55
      @lauraallen55 4 місяці тому

      @@davidthrower1553 I'm sure it was an incredible time to be around!

  • @barrymuller5131
    @barrymuller5131 4 місяці тому +3

    David put out an album called Pinups. Every song on it is a COVER of songs from 60s and 70s. This great album covers The Who, Pink Floyd, Them, and a few others. I mostly liked the covers better than the originals.

    • @lauraallen55
      @lauraallen55 4 місяці тому

      I love those covers, and I'm picky when it comes to that.

  • @astonsfan
    @astonsfan 4 місяці тому +1

    I see the GFR LIVE album.....F'n great !!!! Rock on dude!!!

  • @willoughby5150
    @willoughby5150 4 місяці тому +9

    Rick wakeman on piano😊

  • @jensvath254
    @jensvath254 4 місяці тому +3

    His best Album

    • @lauraallen55
      @lauraallen55 4 місяці тому +1

      It's really hard for me to rank Bowie albums up through a certain date, but Hunky Dory is definitely up there. Not one mediocre song on it. Same could be said for a few albums, but I just love everything on HD.

    • @bookhouseboy280
      @bookhouseboy280 4 місяці тому +1

      Station to Station just might be my favorite but HD is certainly one of his best.

  • @phoebeandtilly
    @phoebeandtilly 4 місяці тому +1

    My favorite Bowie song.

  • @scottyhotty1003
    @scottyhotty1003 4 місяці тому +5

    I remember in the 80s the brat pack as they call them starred in The Breakfast Club the John Hughes movie and this started the movie "and these children that you spit on quite aware of what they're going through"
    I always related to that and I think a lot of others did as well❤

  • @diamonddavefuller6136
    @diamonddavefuller6136 4 місяці тому +2

    2 suggestions for u L33. The first is Help done by Deep Purple in 1968. A great cover of the Beatles classic. Second is Changes by Black Sabbath. Your viewers would ❤️ both. Bowles Changes is iconic and beautiful.

    • @lauraallen55
      @lauraallen55 4 місяці тому

      I would sincerely love if Lee heard the original Help! before any more covers to be honest.

  • @bookhouseboy280
    @bookhouseboy280 4 місяці тому +1

    I'm reminded of these Neil Young Lyrics: The world is turning / I hope it don't turn away...

  • @ednieto05
    @ednieto05 4 місяці тому +1

    Bowie plays the sax solo at the end. Good luck with everything.

  • @billbitterman9487
    @billbitterman9487 4 місяці тому +2

    ***Yep...another GREAT album from 1971. Keep them coming!

  • @redadamearth
    @redadamearth 4 місяці тому +1

    I hear you about how things are now. At THIS point, there's nothing you can do in Rock that hasn't been done before. It's a limited form, anyway and it was just all done in the 50's, 60's and 70's. It must have been thrilling to live in the 50's to see the BIRTH of Rock, the 60's to see how Rock was developing, the 70's to see how Rock was expanding, etc. Those three decades, I've exhaustively listened to my entire life, but to have LIVED through it and have lived through those changes must have been exhilarating.

  • @BClarke
    @BClarke 4 місяці тому +1

    Just incredible creativity.

  • @827dusty
    @827dusty 4 місяці тому +1

    This is the song that first got him noticed as a young artist. Great song.

    • @johnthursfield3056
      @johnthursfield3056 4 місяці тому

      Except he'd had a no 1 with Space Oddity 3 years before

  • @YN97WA
    @YN97WA 4 місяці тому +12

    Life on Mars

    • @lipby
      @lipby 4 місяці тому +1

      For sheer weirdness

    • @YN97WA
      @YN97WA 4 місяці тому +1

      @@lipby So you don't think Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow?

    • @lipby
      @lipby 4 місяці тому

      @@YN97WA A raving, fascist-yearning cow

  • @333wheeler
    @333wheeler 4 місяці тому

    This one and " Life on Mars" are the two outstanding memories of Bowie that stick in my head.

  • @genegarrett3372
    @genegarrett3372 4 місяці тому +3

    This was my senior year in High School. The girls were really big on Bowie. They loved how theatrical he was.

  • @jeffmiller4832
    @jeffmiller4832 4 місяці тому +2

    I like the live version. “and these children that you SHIT on!”

  • @saturninebear
    @saturninebear 3 місяці тому

    This is where I started with Bowie. The final track on Hunky Dory is Bewlay Brothers and is in my top 5 Bowie tracks.

  • @Hartlor_Tayley
    @Hartlor_Tayley 4 місяці тому +3

    Amazing song.

  • @scottyhotty1003
    @scottyhotty1003 4 місяці тому +5

    Oh, yeah
    Mmm
    Still don't know what I was waitin' for
    And my time was runnin' wild
    A million dead end streets and
    Every time I thought I'd got it made
    It seemed the taste was not so sweet
    So I turned myself to face me
    But I've never caught a glimpse
    How the others must see the faker
    I'm much too fast to take that test
    Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
    Turn and face the strange
    Ch-ch-changes
    Don't want to be a richer man
    Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
    Turn and face the strange
    Ch-ch-changes
    There's gonna have to be a different man
    Time may change me
    But I can't trace time
    Mmm, yeah
    I watch the ripples change their size
    But never leave the stream
    Of warm impermanence
    And so the days float through my eyes
    But still the days seem the same
    And these children that you spit on
    As they try to change their worlds
    Are immune to your consultations
    They're quite aware of what they're goin' through
    Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
    Turn and face the strange
    Ch-ch-changes
    Don't tell them to grow up and out of it
    Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
    Turn and face the strange
    Ch-ch-changes
    Where's your shame?
    You've left us up to our necks in it
    Time may change me
    But you can't trace time
    Strange fascinations fascinate me
    Ah, changes are taking
    The pace I'm goin' through
    Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
    Turn and face the strange
    Ch-ch-changes
    Ooh, look out, you rock 'n' rollers
    Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
    Turn and face the strange
    Ch-ch-changes
    Pretty soon now you're gonna get older
    Time may change me
    But I can't trace time
    I said that time may change me
    But I can't trace time

  • @michaelzzzzzzzzzzzz
    @michaelzzzzzzzzzzzz 4 місяці тому

    Bowie in my top 10 of all time

  • @xlerb_again_to_music7908
    @xlerb_again_to_music7908 4 місяці тому +2

    and in the day, we thought music this good this was all normal / par for the course. Little did we know... meanwhile, the likes of Elton John were knocking out Rocket Man and Candle in the Wind, T-Rex, some Tull and Fleetwood Mac - all so good... We yawned :( Anyhows, Hunky Dory needs a full playthru - its good

  • @scottyhotty1003
    @scottyhotty1003 4 місяці тому +2

    Correct!! Bowie on the Sax!!!❤

  • @ddthor
    @ddthor 4 місяці тому +6

    So you still have not heard Life on Mars. You are in for a treat.

    • @geoffreyb2391
      @geoffreyb2391 4 місяці тому

      another hit that will blow him away🧑‍🎤

  • @LisaThomas-xz3ki
    @LisaThomas-xz3ki 4 місяці тому +2

    The very first 45 record I bought!

  • @Peter-oh3hc
    @Peter-oh3hc 4 місяці тому +1

    Was a sophomore in 1971. Ch-ch-ch-changes sounded like my life

  • @PaulMDove2
    @PaulMDove2 4 місяці тому +3

    The line "Turn and face the strange" is actually sung by Mick Ronson, the rest is Bowie but not that line. There's a "Turn & Face The Strange" website for
    The Story of Mick Ronson.

    • @stevegreen5552
      @stevegreen5552 4 місяці тому

      I wasn't aware of Mick singing that. Fancy.

    • @scottyhotty1003
      @scottyhotty1003 4 місяці тому

      @@PaulMDove2 cool deal as I didn't know that!!

    • @PaulMDove2
      @PaulMDove2 4 місяці тому +2

      Thought I'd check, to be sure what I'd written wasn't nonsense, and I searched but was not able to find any confirmation that Mick did sing this line, but I do remember watching - probably on Top of the Pops - the performance and discussing with a friend afterwards how similar David and Mick's singing voices were. So I'm trusting my memory even though I can't confirm it.

  • @mattleppard1970
    @mattleppard1970 4 місяці тому +1

    Ooh, Tin Machine! Much derided but classic Bowie to a select many ❤

  • @mrgoneshouse3663
    @mrgoneshouse3663 4 місяці тому +2

    And Bowie puts His Flag in the Ground

  • @stlmopoet
    @stlmopoet 4 місяці тому +2

    I didn't know there was a cover of this. Only know the original.

  • @jimmeltonbradley1497
    @jimmeltonbradley1497 4 місяці тому +1

    I was never a particular fan of the Ziggy Stardust stuff (and I know that's heresy), but this album and those he made after he killed off Ziggy, are among my favourite albums of all time, by anybody.

    • @lauraallen55
      @lauraallen55 4 місяці тому +2

      I love Ziggy, but man do I love Hunky Dory (and some of the others)!

    • @L33Reacts
      @L33Reacts  4 місяці тому +2

      Heresy!

  • @spooley
    @spooley 4 місяці тому +2

    My fave Bowie era. If you want a good Sunday afternoon movie try The Breakfast Club. John Hughes used a lot of great music in his films and used this from Changes in the prelude. "And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through...”
    RIP, John and David

    • @cornellrosiu8818
      @cornellrosiu8818 4 місяці тому

      Also are lots of Bowie tunes of this era in movie Life Aquatic of Wes Anderson's

    • @spooley
      @spooley 4 місяці тому

      @@cornellrosiu8818 True. Sets a great vibe in Breaking the Waves too.

  • @konradv7
    @konradv7 4 місяці тому +1

    This song was my first exposure to Bowie.

  • @corawheeler9355
    @corawheeler9355 4 місяці тому +1

    That was a radio hit .. so good

  • @Sergiosmom1-g5g
    @Sergiosmom1-g5g 4 місяці тому +1

    Love this!!!!

  • @Richard2003
    @Richard2003 4 місяці тому +3

    I traded Allman Brothers Eat a Peach for this album in 1973.

  • @GP-mw8ce
    @GP-mw8ce 4 місяці тому +1

    And straight into oh you pretty things

  • @kenlawless7247
    @kenlawless7247 4 місяці тому +5

    Bowie never given enough credit as a great vocalist.

  • @deanroddey2881
    @deanroddey2881 4 місяці тому

    If you watch the famous live concert from the Hammersmith Odeon (I think, and I think it was the last Ziggy Stardust show), Ronson is just a monster. It's just him, a Les Paul, a Marshall stack, and a couple pedals and he is so infinitely creative with such a small palette.

  • @scottyhotty1003
    @scottyhotty1003 4 місяці тому +2

    I believe his wife was pregnant at the time of this song and that also was some of the changes he was talking about❤

  • @scottyhotty1003
    @scottyhotty1003 4 місяці тому

    26K is right there!!! Damn!!🎉💪💯🎶🎯

  • @XFLexiconMatt
    @XFLexiconMatt 4 місяці тому

    Thank you, and you won't go wrong with anything from "Hunky Dory".

  • @scottyhotty1003
    @scottyhotty1003 4 місяці тому

    Breath taken❤

  • @trevorward8496
    @trevorward8496 4 місяці тому +1

    Stay on hunky dory it's a better record !!!

  • @superstardeejay2468
    @superstardeejay2468 4 місяці тому

    It's just poetry really, Keats would very much approve of the platform the English language is given.

  • @shezarae8827
    @shezarae8827 4 місяці тому

    The Struts also covered this, I thought they did it good. These are the years of Bowie that I like. I also like, Suffragette City, Young American, Rebel rebel, and Jean Jeanie.

  • @paulbewlay4527
    @paulbewlay4527 4 місяці тому +1

    Personally, my taste for Bowie's works diminished greatly after Station To Station; there were only a couple songs I can even name after that. But EVERYTHING before that was end-to-end greatness. I can't wait to see you hit Diamond Dogs!

    • @lauraallen55
      @lauraallen55 4 місяці тому +1

      Bowie had a lot of songs after S2S that I really liked. Sound and Vision, Breaking Glass, Heroes, Let's Dance, China Girl, Modern Love, Ashes to Ashes, Subterraneans, Fashion, Scary Monsters, Cat People, I do like all the albums up to S2S as whole entities over the later ones, but there are quite a few across those later albums i do like too. Hunky Dory and Diamond Dogs are gonna be great!

    • @paulbewlay4527
      @paulbewlay4527 4 місяці тому

      @@lauraallen55 I probably haven't even heard the majority of the songs and albums after S2S...but what I did hear didn't pull me in. It may have been the direction he went after the heavy drug use, or whatever, and I'm not calling ANY of it 'bad', just that my 'fanship' for his music had two stages, and the earlier was far more rewarding.

    • @lauraallen55
      @lauraallen55 4 місяці тому

      @@paulbewlay4527 I get it. I love his earlier music far more, and his later music there are several songs i like per album whereas prior to that I loved entire albums. I don't dislike anything he did though.

  • @dalemcmillan7231
    @dalemcmillan7231 4 місяці тому +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @mattleppard1970
    @mattleppard1970 4 місяці тому

    IIRC correctly, he wrote this after playing the first Glastonbury ❤ Or the line “And these children that you spit on as they try to change the world” line at least

  • @scottyhotty1003
    @scottyhotty1003 4 місяці тому +1

    uuuuuu... Look out U Rock N Rollers....
    pretty soon now your
    gonna get older...🎉🎉
    Time May Change Me
    But I Can't Trace Time!!!

  • @genegarrett3372
    @genegarrett3372 4 місяці тому +1

    we'll still need a few regular humans to oil us.

  • @AP-gb3eh
    @AP-gb3eh 4 місяці тому

    Through all the horrible manufactured age wars when I see the young I hear the word “And these children that you spit on as they try and change their worlds are immune to your consultation they are quite aware of what they’re going through. Anyone my age or even older bitching about the young trying to change the world, it just baffles me. “ WTF don’t they remember anything. It’s their future not elders , be helpful or get the hell out of the way ☮️ We were raised in revolution and it’s not over yet , we are in the ugliest bit so far. Wishing the 🌎 the best

  • @shelleys9603
    @shelleys9603 4 місяці тому

    Bowie is only top 15? Ouch. Clearly you need to listen to more! 😊😊

  • @jamescox4231
    @jamescox4231 4 місяці тому

    If you want a tune about people being pushed to the limit try Lives in the Balance by Jackson Browne.

  • @lathedauphinot6820
    @lathedauphinot6820 4 місяці тому

    Rick Waksman plays piano on this whole album. Bowie invited him to join the band, but he declined. It’s a good album, but I like Ziggy better. Recorded one after another, the Spiders from Mars are all here. Queen Bitch is supposedly about Lou Reed, and it’s a pre-punk piece of rock. Mick Ronson does his thing.

    • @lauraallen55
      @lauraallen55 4 місяці тому

      I really love that Bowie did Queen Bitch about Lou, and Lady Stardust about Marc Bolan.

  • @NeonPalm90210
    @NeonPalm90210 4 місяці тому

    Love your channel man! I’ve been dropping comments on your Who vids but you’re not responding much anymore. Just wanted to make a request for next Drumonday or Who Wednesday. There isn’t really any up close footage of Moon behind the kit. I think you’ll appreciate this drum cover of Amazing Journey/Sparks from Live at Leeds, his channel is called The Murty01. All hardcore Moon fans like me agree it’s unbelievably accurate. Check it out you won’t regret it!

  • @genegarrett3372
    @genegarrett3372 4 місяці тому

    Computer says Ozzy and Miley Cyrus and even Springsteen

  • @roberttaylor5997
    @roberttaylor5997 4 місяці тому

    Play the whole album, it lasts longer. Still not long enough, though.

  • @JuandeFucaU
    @JuandeFucaU 4 місяці тому

    for all you millennials wanting to know what genre of music this is........... it's called speech impediment rock.