The words "legend" and "icon" are so overused they're basically meaningless now but they both apply to Bowie in a huge way. You should check out his performances in The Last Temptation of Christ and The Prestige.
His guitarist Mick Ronson was an integral part of Bowie's sound in this era. He was classically trained, a hell of an engineer and his guitar playing was innovative and his tone was HUGE. Great album.
Ronson's on the short list of rock's all-time greatest guitarists. Ronno was no shredder; he was simply tasteful and precise while at the same time being quite sonically adventurous. His tone, especially on his early work with Bowie and then with Ian Hunter, is a landmark in what great rock guitar sounds like. "Suffragette City" is as much a showcase for Ronno as it was for Bowie.
@@fords_nothere_100 Yep. Just in terms of guitarists he worked with the likes of Ronson, Carlos Alomar, Earl Slick, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Reeves Gabrels. I don't think that you can identify any other artist who worked with so many great guitarists -- and with so many guitarists who had such vastly different styles from each other -- over the course of one career. Even Steely Dan, for all the great guitarists it employed, can't match the stylistic breadth and depth of Bowie's roster of guitarists.
Keyboardist Rick Wakeman also brought his talents to Bowie's sound during this era, too. According to the story, their association started when Wakeman was asked to come up to the studio where Bowie was recording "Space Oddity", because Bowie wanted to use the Mellotron in the song and his recording engineer told Bowie that Wakeman was the only keyboardist he knew of who could actually make the cranky contraption work reliably. :-) (The trouble was that the motor mechanism really didn't have enough torque to pull more than one or two tape loops against the spring tension at a time; Wakeman had worked out a fingering technique of only "half-pressing" the keys so that the playback heads were only *just* making contact with the tape, enough to play back the sounds but not enough to drag down the motor, so he could get a full three- or four-note chord out of it.)
I don’t know if I could have done reaction videos when I was discovering music at that age. I used to buy an album of a group and listen to it from beginning to end in one sitting, but it’s great to see how others react to hearing these songs for the first time.
That was really the only way to discover music. You had to buy it. Some record shops let you listen before you buy, but those we few and far between. Most of the time you had to buy it, and if it was new and the plastic film was opened you couldn’t return it. But that’s how I found some of the best music. By listening to the whole album because it was a good investment.
@@susanklasinski1805 At some point I learned that a group might have a lot more great songs than what I heard in the radio so I just go in the habit of buying albums of groups I knew had one song I liked and listen to all of them. I found so many great songs that way.
If you want to check out a reaction channel, the only reaction channel that’s going through entire albums, it’s Out Loud Reactions and he’s doing all Rush, beginning at their first album and moving forward, including their live albums. Tim is currently working his way through All The World’s A Stage. I highly recommend watching the channel.
First concert I ever saw was David Bowie. I was 15 years old in 1975 and he came out glammed up as Ziggy...sat on a stool and opened with Ziggy. He was the master of progressive rock. Well ahead of his time.
By 1975, Bowie had already retired the Ziggy character, changed the members of his band, and started performing his "plastic soul" music such as the song "Young Americans."
"Young Americans" and "Fascination" are off the Young Americans Album, which features lots of Motown artists I believe. so that album has a nice funky tone. "Golden Years" and "Rebel Rebel" are also very good
Panic in Detroit. Interesting anecdote. Bowie was doing a concert in Detroit, came out for an encore. Yelled "and this is...Panic in Detroit!!!" Crowd went crazy, and he leftcthe stage. It really was a Panic in Detroit.
i know it's hard to understand how it was then, but I can promise, the first time you heard Bowie, you just stared at the radio, and thought What? I know there has been similar stuff since, but I can promise you, it was so different than anything at the time, if you would hear three of his songs, you were a fan forever more. Very unique guy.
There are so many great Bowie songs. I'd definitely recommend listening to the entire Ziggy album - so good. There are many eras to the Bowie legacy but if you want a different take, check out the awesome Diamond Dogs from his next album.
It always struck me as funny that a song called Suffragette City includes the lyrics, "Wham Bam, Thank you, Ma'am". I am definitely down with a Ziggy full album reaction but I suggested as much on Patreon months ago.
Cat People (from Let's Dance) , with SRV on guitar would be a great reaction, since you both dig Stevie Ray's work. Other you will enjoy? I Need You by Lynyrd Skynyrd Train Train by Blackfoot Time Machine by Grand Funk and Rock Candy by Montrose. And yes, the full album by Bowie.
IMHO the other Bowie album you both need to listen to is the underrated "Station to Station" - Kraftwerk refer to it in their own album "Trans Europe Express". Station to Station is a very cohesive work and has several of Bowie's best songs on it, including my own personal fave : "TVC-1-5" (Which refers to the Chassis number of a famous CRT TV model (From a number of differing manufacturers) available in Europe between 1974-78. Doesn't sound like a great idea, but it kills it. The other great title is the Title track "Station to Station" featuring a guitar train.
Moonage Daydream if you want guitar, listen to live version 1973 at Hammersmith. Mick Ronson left it all on the stage. The whole Ziggy album is perfection...period!
Andy felt "bad" about Mick Ronson's guitar? Am I hearing this correctly? Bowie playing a character? Oh, please. That's what Bowie did. YES! Do the whole album.
I'm sure you both have heard Hotel California(has anyone not?), but you may not have heard their live performance in the "Hell Freezes Over" album. If you haven't heard that version, you need to for sure. I usually dislike live performances of songs, because the studio version is just so much better, but that is not the case here. It's also an unplugged version, which I think is why it's so good. Please give it a listen, even if it's not a video you should definitely hear it.
Love all that is Bowie! Here is a funk suggestion with funk(y) in the name,,,,,Play that funcky music,,,,Wild Cherry...also another request for Tower of Power's..... What is Hip? Thank you A&A
The studio version is the definitive one. Ritchie Blackmore always played it at too fast a tempo live, and I never got why that of all songs is where he chose to interpolate slow blues.
Bowie was one hell of a song writer, how about checking out Elvis Costello’s (Watching The Detectives). This is very early 80’s in it’s sound and one of my absolute favorite songs. You can’t help but totally get into the music and I always have to turn up the volume. It’s a killer song.
Bowie was the master of re-inventing himself. He was an artist that transcended the mediums in which he dabbled. He even was the first celebrity to sell bonds against his royalties for recordings before 1990. The 10-year notes allowed him the cash to purchase the songs in his catalog which were owned by a previous manager. Unique and avant-garde...that is David Bowie.
"I don't know what that means" - Never has the generation gap been more pronounced. "Wham, bam, thank you ma'am," is an old rough dirty way of saying love 'em and leave 'em.
The famous "Wham Bam Thank-you Ma'am" lyric was the title of one of the tracks on Charles Mingus' 1961 Oh Yeah album (according to Mingus it was also a phrase that his drummer, Max Roach, used when he was "unable to express his inner feelings") and most likely one which Bowie was aware of, being a jazz lover himself, just as droogie don't crash here is a tribute to Stanley Kubrick's clockwork Orange.
@@Keepee66 Ronson......So underrated and misunderstood. Pretty, hunky, platinum-haired, and such a perfect "foil" for this "Bi" period of Bowie's oeuvre. Bowie would actually mimic fellatio on Ronson while he soloed. And, it helped that Mick was a nothing-short-of-a-bitchin' guitarist you could put up against Page, Beck, Clapton, Iommi, Blackmore, and the rest of 'em of the day!
Musically evolve at your own risk. This man was able to skillfully recreate himself several times while retaining and captivating his fans. I will patiently wait for you to react to this *whole* album and more music by this brilliant man.
I love that album. BUT, all the tracks from that album that are on Bowie at the Beebe are so much better, imo. That Bowie at the Beeb is absurdly good. All the Ziggy tracks are incredible!
Bowie was a chameleon, a musical genus. He reinvented himself so many times. Immense catalog, immense style and sounds. I would suggest a different vein of his,,,,"Young Americans", or "Golden Years"
Saw David Bowie perform this live as Ziggy Stardust in London, Aug/Sept 1972. Support act was Roxy Music. They had just released their debut single Virginia Plain.
@@seanie002 yes, that’s correct. It was released in the UK at the end of April 1972 and was a big hit during the summer. It was groundbreaking. To see a man in make-up on tv (Bowie) with his arm round the shoulder of another (guitarist Mick Ronson) was considered risky and outrageous! I loved the song then and now. When I saw Bowie in concert (at The Rainbow, Finsbury Park, London), Roxy Music were the support act, having just released their debut single, “Virginia Plain.”
So Andy, if you want to hear what Mick Ronson can really do, check out Elton John’s Madman Across the Water bonus track from Tumbleweed Connection. Possibly too much guitar, but Ronson's work is life changing on that track.
Great song review, guys. Recommended Bowie songs you haven't yet reviewed are Life On Mars?, Rebel Rebel, Golden Years, Sound & Vision (my favorite), Changes, Panic In Detroit, The Jean Genie, Station To Station (Deep Cut), Let's Dance, China Girl, Modern Love and Under Pressure (with Queen).
More from my favourite artist: Rock n' Roll Suicide, John, I'm Only Dancing, Young Americans, Starman, Sound and Vision, Rebel Rebel, The Jean Genie, etc...
If you want to hear Mick Ronson for gnarly guitar give Cracked Actor a listen off Alladin Sane. It really pounds the spot. I wanna see your expressions for that one 😁
Yep. All those. John, I'm Only Dancing and the Ziggy album was what hooked me into Bowie world, after Space Oddity`. What a dude. Like Prince, there will never be another.
I guess it’s from before your time; it deals with a quick meaningless f**k, then leaving and forgetting about her , which is kind of at odds with suffragette.😎✌🏽☮️🎸
Start looking at Lou Reed. Rock and Roll Animal, a live album, has some of the greatest guitar duo work, with Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner: esp. Rock and Roll, and Sweet Jane.
This is a concept album telling a story, so it's odd to take the songs out of context. They all build up to the climax in "Rock and Roll Suicide," a song that really takes you somewhere else.
@@chrismeadows4216 Station to Station isn't a concept album? I thought the lyrics "The return of the thin white duke" kind of suggested a concept. I think the album coincided with his movie "The Man Who Fell to Earth."
@@richardy5271 Station to Station is a song about The Thin White Duke, but the rest of the album is a loose collection of songs. The album cover is a picture of Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth, so that can be a bit confusing, but TVC-15 is about a demonic television, Word on a Wing is about David looking to God for help with his cocaine addiction, Stay is a reworking of John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) from the Young Americans sessions, and Wild is the Wind is a cover. There aren't themes that connect anything. To make things even more complicated, David's music for The Man Who Fell to Earth was separate from Station to Station. Most of it was scrapped, aside from a few songs released on Low. It all fits into a period where he was The Thin White Duke live, but he didn't concentrate as much effort into making everything cohesive or conceptual as he did recording really great songs.
One thing people are usually confused by is what "The return of The Thin White Duke" means. It builds a curiosity for if David was The Thin White Duke on Young Americans when he didn't have eyebrows and his hair was longer (some people call that transition The Soul Man) or if it was just during public appearances like The Cher Show later on where he was The Thin White Duke. He made a huge stylistic change. The character wasn't mentioned anywhere before the song Station to Station. It seems like it came out of nowhere, and it was never brought up again on the album or anywhere else. David wasn't really in the right frame of mind to understand where he was going with that concept based on later interviews, so I think of it as just a story for one song.
This was 1972. Groundbreaking. The shit that would follow would not be possible without this. No one was doing anything close to this. They broke through and moved the needle. It’s evolution. Wham bam thank you mam.
On the back of the Ziggy Stardust Album were the words: "To be played at maximum volume." Of note, this song was originally released as the B side of "Starman".
One of these days you guys are gonna discover Mott the Hoople, and when you do, and you finally decide to listen to 'All the Way From Memphis', make sure it's the album version. That's got the sax part and final guitar solos that the live versions do not. It also has Mick Ralphs playing guitar before he left for Bad Company.
Great reaction Gents! I love the piano and the drums in this one, just driving that beat. Wham Bam, thank you ma'am is an iconic lyric, a one night stand or, hit it and quit it. You guys need to check out another glam era band and that band is T-Rex! Marc Bolan was a really innovative guitarist and interesting singwriter.
Boys, love you but you really need to do full album - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars - To Be Played at Maximum Volume. EDIT: Bowie is a legend whose career spanned FIVE decades. Bowie continuously reinvented his various persona because for years, the person on-stage was Bowie and not David Jones. He was an artist and an actor who gave us Glam along with Bolan, and then remained at the forefront of every music genre until the time of his untimely death.
Wow, you stumbled on one of the greatest little gems of rock and roll history. You should check out that entire album (The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars).
Hell yes!! You must do the whole album. It is quite the testimony to Bowies brilliance. I was lucky to witness him live on his "Golden Years" tour. He performed Suffragette City and it was spectacular.💥
Back checking out some more from this record, what do you guys think, have we got to check out the full album sometime?! 🔥🙌🏻
His best albums aren't really rock music - Young Americans and Station to Station.
The words "legend" and "icon" are so overused they're basically meaningless now but they both apply to Bowie in a huge way. You should check out his performances in The Last Temptation of Christ and The Prestige.
Too many other must hear albums you should get to 1st. IMO.
Try the song Fame
Three bangers in a row.... Hell of a week boys.... BOWIE is a deep rabbit hole with many corridors to explore..... Love Ziggy
His guitarist Mick Ronson was an integral part of Bowie's sound in this era. He was classically trained, a hell of an engineer and his guitar playing was innovative and his tone was HUGE. Great album.
Ronson's on the short list of rock's all-time greatest guitarists. Ronno was no shredder; he was simply tasteful and precise while at the same time being quite sonically adventurous. His tone, especially on his early work with Bowie and then with Ian Hunter, is a landmark in what great rock guitar sounds like. "Suffragette City" is as much a showcase for Ronno as it was for Bowie.
For sure. And its a great example of Bowie knowing exactly which hugely talented musicians/ppl to work with to get the sounds he wanted.
@@fords_nothere_100 Yep. Just in terms of guitarists he worked with the likes of Ronson, Carlos Alomar, Earl Slick, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Reeves Gabrels. I don't think that you can identify any other artist who worked with so many great guitarists -- and with so many guitarists who had such vastly different styles from each other -- over the course of one career. Even Steely Dan, for all the great guitarists it employed, can't match the stylistic breadth and depth of Bowie's roster of guitarists.
Keyboardist Rick Wakeman also brought his talents to Bowie's sound during this era, too. According to the story, their association started when Wakeman was asked to come up to the studio where Bowie was recording "Space Oddity", because Bowie wanted to use the Mellotron in the song and his recording engineer told Bowie that Wakeman was the only keyboardist he knew of who could actually make the cranky contraption work reliably. :-) (The trouble was that the motor mechanism really didn't have enough torque to pull more than one or two tape loops against the spring tension at a time; Wakeman had worked out a fingering technique of only "half-pressing" the keys so that the playback heads were only *just* making contact with the tape, enough to play back the sounds but not enough to drag down the motor, so he could get a full three- or four-note chord out of it.)
And he did the arrangements for the horns.
If you're going to dig into a whole Bowie record, consider Diamond Dogs.
Why would you want them to do the worst original album Bowie produced during the entire 1970s?
Giddeup to that dude!!! Have loved it since it first came out!!! My fave!! Giddeeup!!!!
1984 off that LP is a great Bowie tune!
@@sirperybLakeney One of my top 3 favorite Bowie Albums. LOL
Life on Mars, his masterpiece! that's next for Bowie
I don’t know if I could have done reaction videos when I was discovering music at that age. I used to buy an album of a group and listen to it from beginning to end in one sitting, but it’s great to see how others react to hearing these songs for the first time.
That was really the only way to discover music. You had to buy it. Some record shops let you listen before you buy, but those we few and far between. Most of the time you had to buy it, and if it was new and the plastic film was opened you couldn’t return it. But that’s how I found some of the best music. By listening to the whole album because it was a good investment.
@@susanklasinski1805 At some point I learned that a group might have a lot more great songs than what I heard in the radio so I just go in the habit of buying albums of groups I knew had one song I liked and listen to all of them. I found so many great songs that way.
If you want to check out a reaction channel, the only reaction channel that’s going through entire albums, it’s Out Loud Reactions and he’s doing all Rush, beginning at their first album and moving forward, including their live albums.
Tim is currently working his way through
All The World’s A Stage.
I highly recommend watching the channel.
my favorite by bowie is young Americans and a good underrated one would be diamond dogs
First concert I ever saw was David Bowie. I was 15 years old in 1975 and he came out glammed up as Ziggy...sat on a stool and opened with Ziggy.
He was the master of progressive rock.
Well ahead of his time.
By 1975, Bowie had already retired the Ziggy character, changed the members of his band, and started performing his "plastic soul" music such as the song "Young Americans."
Wide Of a Circle, The Brewley Brothers ...and of course The Man Who Sold the World. Those are some of my Bowie faves.
“The man who sold the world” is also an awesome song from him. Nirvana did a cover it. For the longest time I thought it was their song. Nope.
Bowie was amazing....no sound was ever wasted and every sound was perfectly placed.
Best Glam rock tune ever!
This was the track that rocked Ziggy Stardust to stardom. The rest of the album deserves a listen.
So many Bowie songs y’all have to hit! Changes, Starman, The Jean Genie, Young Americans!
Also: "Fame" and "Rebel, Rebel"
The start of the song is always reminiscent of late-60s Beatles for me, but it is absolutely a banger of a song and some prime Bowie!
Lou Reed intro and sweet Jane.
rock and roll animal
Best version of "Sweet Jane" is by The Cowboy Junkies.
"This matter-of-fact chick, just put my smile outta place" Love it!
"Young Americans" and "Fascination" are off the Young Americans Album, which features lots of Motown artists I believe. so that album has a nice funky tone. "Golden Years" and "Rebel Rebel" are also very good
Great song...Heroes is my favorite Bowie song...also love Golden Years & Changes...
Panic in Detroit.
Interesting anecdote.
Bowie was doing a concert in Detroit, came out for an encore. Yelled "and this is...Panic in Detroit!!!"
Crowd went crazy, and he leftcthe stage. It really was a Panic in Detroit.
i know it's hard to understand how it was then, but I can promise, the first time you heard Bowie, you just stared at the radio, and thought What? I know there has been similar stuff since, but I can promise you, it was so different than anything at the time, if you would hear three of his songs, you were a fan forever more. Very unique guy.
David often plays acoustic low in the mix. One of the many things i love about his music.
Love Bowie♥️Suggest “Ashes to Ashes”Gene Genie” Changes
There are so many great Bowie songs. I'd definitely recommend listening to the entire Ziggy album - so good. There are many eras to the Bowie legacy but if you want a different take, check out the awesome Diamond Dogs from his next album.
The next and last song on side 2 of Ziggy Stardust ... is, Rock and Roll Suicide- amazing track - you must give it a listen!
It always struck me as funny that a song called Suffragette City includes the lyrics, "Wham Bam, Thank you, Ma'am". I am definitely down with a Ziggy full album reaction but I suggested as much on Patreon months ago.
Bowie at his rocking best.
I am, I said~ Neil Diamond. Actually, the entire Hot August Night album.
You didn’t mention the amazing piano chords in this song. A classic!
i think you'll LOVE "Rebel Rebel" by Bowie. I am very very sure about this!
If you like that acoustic/electric mix, you'll love Starman. But yeah, this whole record is fiyah.
Im telling ya...watch the intro to the city of a thousand planets. Space Oddity is the theme song.
More Bowie!!! Anything from the Hunky Dory or Ziggy Stardust albums
Bowie! You guys must check out The Jean Genie, Panic in Detroit, Rebel Rebel, Modern Love......Enjoy the music I've been listening to for 40 years!
Have you done any April Wine yet? If not, you gotta do "Roller" or "I Like to Rock". Both are kickass classics!!!
fame!!!!!!!!! Golden years!!!!!
The whole album is Awesome!! Ziggy Stardust, Teenage Daydream, Five years, really all of them.
You can't go past Ziggy without a dose of "Rock And Roll Suicide"....imo
Cat People (from Let's Dance) , with SRV on guitar would be a great reaction, since you both dig Stevie Ray's work. Other you will enjoy?
I Need You by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Train Train by Blackfoot
Time Machine by Grand Funk and
Rock Candy by Montrose. And yes, the full album by Bowie.
IMHO the other Bowie album you both need to listen to is the underrated "Station to Station" - Kraftwerk refer to it in their own album "Trans Europe Express". Station to Station is a very cohesive work and has several of Bowie's best songs on it, including my own personal fave : "TVC-1-5" (Which refers to the Chassis number of a famous CRT TV model (From a number of differing manufacturers) available in Europe between 1974-78. Doesn't sound like a great idea, but it kills it. The other great title is the Title track "Station to Station" featuring a guitar train.
Moonage Daydream if you want guitar, listen to live version 1973 at Hammersmith. Mick Ronson left it all on the stage. The whole Ziggy album is perfection...period!
Andy felt "bad" about Mick Ronson's guitar? Am I hearing this correctly?
Bowie playing a character? Oh, please. That's what Bowie did.
YES! Do the whole album.
Suffragette City is such as great song. I don't think you guys have done Diamond Dogs yet. You should. Another great song.
I'm sure you both have heard Hotel California(has anyone not?), but you may not have heard their live performance in the "Hell Freezes Over" album. If you haven't heard that version, you need to for sure. I usually dislike live performances of songs, because the studio version is just so much better, but that is not the case here. It's also an unplugged version, which I think is why it's so good. Please give it a listen, even if it's not a video you should definitely hear it.
Love all that is Bowie! Here is a funk suggestion with funk(y) in the name,,,,,Play that funcky music,,,,Wild Cherry...also another request for Tower of Power's..... What is Hip? Thank you A&A
For me a Bowie super banger and for all, maybe, the first punk song.
"Hang On To Yourself" from the same album is a much better song in general and also arguably proto-punk in style.
great video guys...you need to check out Rainbow singing The Man On the Silver Mountain, live in Munich, 1977...you will be amazed...keep it up!!!
The studio version is the definitive one. Ritchie Blackmore always played it at too fast a tempo live, and I never got why that of all songs is where he chose to interpolate slow blues.
Ziggy playyyedddd geeeetaaarrrrrrrrrr!!!!!
Queen Bitch is my favourite Bowie track
China Girl is a good 80's Bowie tune
Bowie was one hell of a song writer, how about checking out Elvis Costello’s
(Watching The Detectives). This is very early 80’s in it’s sound and one of my absolute favorite songs. You can’t help but totally get into the music and I always have to turn up the volume. It’s a killer song.
You guys need to try a real Scottish single malt (no ice, and with a few drops of water) in stead of that ... ;)
Yes, just plain water (non-carbonated) is a good mixer for whiskey.
Complete Ziggy album.
The Jean Genie, Starman, Rebel Rebel, Diamond Dogs, TVC 15, Ashes to Ashes & Let's Dance
Guys....please stand those records up straight...otherwise, they'll get warped. Take it from a 63 year old with experience.
That was my first thought too! But I'm old like you.
true!
63 is not old.
@@jetblack.7186 Not when you get there!
Do "Young Americans" or the song he wrote for Mott the Hoople, "All The Young Dudes."
Mos' defny
Bowie tried to give Suffragette City to Mott the Hoople but they took All the Young Dudes instead. Good move!
"Young Americans" is my favorite Bowie song!
Young Americans - great song. When Bowie is the subject, I always think of Drew Barrymore and the movie Wedding Singer.
Love Mott The Hoople
( Ian Hunter )
All The Young Dudes ! ✌😎
Young Americans
Fame
Changes
All need to happen. Yes, they’re “hits” but for very good reason.
Absolutely!
They already reacted to fame but def Young Americans
Lilly F cool. ya know, I thought they did but I looked and couldn’t find it
Bowie was the master of re-inventing himself. He was an artist that transcended the mediums in which he dabbled. He even was the first celebrity to sell bonds against his royalties for recordings before 1990. The 10-year notes allowed him the cash to purchase the songs in his catalog which were owned by a previous manager. Unique and avant-garde...that is David Bowie.
The Chameleon
Bowie wasn't just a brilliant musician, he was a brilliant business man as well.
Unique and avant-garde is an apt description... . I was just thinking to myself you cant really put Bowie into a box.. he made his own box for sure ..
"I don't know what that means" - Never has the generation gap been more pronounced. "Wham, bam, thank you ma'am," is an old rough dirty way of saying love 'em and leave 'em.
I think the modern terminology is hit it and quit it??
Yes, that made me laugh.
Ngl I only know it cuz my mom says it lol!
i believe that today you call that hooking up
The famous "Wham Bam Thank-you Ma'am" lyric was the title of one of the tracks on Charles Mingus' 1961 Oh Yeah album (according to Mingus it was also a phrase that his drummer, Max Roach, used when he was "unable to express his inner feelings") and most likely one which Bowie was aware of, being a jazz lover himself, just as droogie don't crash here is a tribute to Stanley Kubrick's clockwork Orange.
Only one Bowie song you need to do, "Rebel Rebel". One of the coolest licks ever.
Yes! A real banger!
We should tell them that, how Bowie uses the word, it's "noun noun," not "verb verb." It affects the pronunciation, y'know!!!😁👍
Yes, Mick Ronson has a most memorable riff. You guys will enjoy it.
@@Keepee66 Ronson......So underrated and misunderstood. Pretty, hunky, platinum-haired, and such a perfect "foil" for this "Bi" period of Bowie's oeuvre. Bowie would actually mimic fellatio on Ronson while he soloed. And, it helped that Mick was a nothing-short-of-a-bitchin' guitarist you could put up against Page, Beck, Clapton, Iommi, Blackmore, and the rest of 'em of the day!
It's a great riff but there are more Bowie songs they need to do.
"David Bowie's a cool dude..." The understatement of the year :)
Musically evolve at your own risk. This man was able to skillfully recreate himself several times while retaining and captivating his fans. I will patiently wait for you to react to this *whole* album and more music by this brilliant man.
@Bill Mason Thanks man
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel - Modern Love
Should play the complete Ziggy Album
Yup. From the first opening beat of Five Years, it just sucks you in. Amazing album.
use headphones!
Definitely 👍
I love that album. BUT, all the tracks from that album that are on Bowie at the Beebe are so much better, imo. That Bowie at the Beeb is absurdly good. All the Ziggy tracks are incredible!
At full volume, in a dark space, elevated state
Mott the Hoople "All the Young Dudes" written by Bowie must be hit
The All The Young Dudes whole album is phenomenal, Mott The Hoople were phenomenal, criminally underrated
All the Way to Memphis and Once Bitten Twice Shy are great Mott songs!
Early Mott rocks! I vote for “Rock and Roll Queen” and “Walking with a Mountain.” There’s plenty of great rock and roll down the Mott rabbit hole!
@@billmaxfield7831 Actually “Once Bitten” is from Ian Hunter’s first solo album. Just saying but agree with your suggestion!
Plus about that time Bowie and Ronson worked on Lou Reed's Transformer album and in 74 the hit single The Man Who Sold The World sung by Lulu.
Bowie was a chameleon, a musical genus. He reinvented himself so many times. Immense catalog, immense style and sounds. I would suggest a different vein of his,,,,"Young Americans", or "Golden Years"
Saw David Bowie perform this live as Ziggy Stardust in London, Aug/Sept 1972. Support act was Roxy Music. They had just released their debut single Virginia Plain.
A big regret, not seeing him live! Not that he ever came anywhere near my home.😉
If memory serves me right, Starman would have been doing well in the charts then.
@@seanie002 yes, that’s correct. It was released in the UK at the end of April 1972 and was a big hit during the summer. It was groundbreaking. To see a man in make-up on tv (Bowie) with his arm round the shoulder of another (guitarist Mick Ronson) was considered risky and outrageous! I loved the song then and now.
When I saw Bowie in concert (at The Rainbow, Finsbury Park, London), Roxy Music were the support act, having just released their debut single, “Virginia Plain.”
@@markgrant5305 I was only 8 at the time but that TOTP performance done it for me. Never looked back.
@Mark Grant I'm a big early Roxy fan, so I totally envy you seeing Virginia Plain et al. I wish A&A would hit Virginia Plain.
So Andy, if you want to hear what Mick Ronson can really do, check out Elton John’s Madman Across the Water bonus track from Tumbleweed Connection. Possibly too much guitar, but Ronson's work is life changing on that track.
Great song review, guys. Recommended Bowie songs you haven't yet reviewed are Life On Mars?, Rebel Rebel, Golden Years, Sound & Vision (my favorite), Changes, Panic In Detroit, The Jean Genie, Station To Station (Deep Cut), Let's Dance, China Girl, Modern Love and Under Pressure (with Queen).
Sound And Vision my favorite too. And Fame
All the mad Men
Heroes
DJ
Width of a circle
Station to Station is a MUST for these guys to do
@@painless465 "It's not the side-effects of the cocaine; I'm thinking that it must be love!"
@@jenuwinedisneyphiles4927 "Its to late,to be late again,the European banner is here"
"Golden Years " would be a Great follow up to this song.
So many good Bowie songs.
"Wham bam thank you ma'm" is a earlier (kinder) phrase like saying "Pump and dump".
More from my favourite artist:
Rock n' Roll Suicide, John, I'm Only Dancing, Young Americans, Starman, Sound and Vision, Rebel Rebel, The Jean Genie, etc...
If you want to hear Mick Ronson for gnarly guitar give Cracked Actor a listen off Alladin Sane. It really pounds the spot. I wanna see your expressions for that one 😁
Life on Mars
Yep. All those. John, I'm Only Dancing and the Ziggy album was what hooked me into Bowie world, after Space Oddity`. What a dude. Like Prince, there will never be another.
Damn I love that man
T-Rex - Bang a Gong - 20th Century boy
Jeepster also rocks.
Great song!!! Yes please
Not sure why, but I've always associated Bowie and T-Rex. And yeah, Bang a Gong and 20th Century Boy are bangers.
The song title is Get It On
The Slider...
Mick Ronson on guitar absolutely made that fat-ass song Was jammin' to this back as a senior in H.S. !!!!
Hold it!!!! Did Alex just say that he didn't know what "Wham Bam, Thank You Mam " means??? Boy, now I know I'm old... 😎
That album really is a "front to backer".
100%
It feels like the soundtrack to a movie...it's a whole dystopian story!!
Mick Ronson was freaking amazing. What a great decade for such an incredible group. So glad we had David and Mick for as long as we did.
Best trashiest guitar sound ever
Bowie was ALWAYS playing characters. On all of his tracks. And YES this is an "album" you should listen to start to finish
It's when he started to believe he WAS Ziggy Stardust. He said he had to end the character.
Recommend you do Mott The Hoople song - All The Young Dudes, from this period, written and produced by Bowie
I remember confusing that song as being Bowie.
Bowie did a couple great versions of that song too and also performed it live
Mick Robson on guitar. Dude was dripping in the sauce.
Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” with Stevie Ray Vaughn on lead guitar will blow your socks off!
This!
ooooh, Wham,Bam ,Thank you Mam! What does that mean? listen and find out.
I guess it’s from before your time; it deals with a quick meaningless f**k, then leaving and forgetting about her , which is kind of at odds with suffragette.😎✌🏽☮️🎸
Start looking at Lou Reed. Rock and Roll Animal, a live album, has some of the greatest guitar duo work, with Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner: esp. Rock and Roll, and Sweet Jane.
Indeed, let's not forget Heroin and White Light White Heat.
@@crimmo54 Sweet Jane
This is a concept album telling a story, so it's odd to take the songs out of context. They all build up to the climax in "Rock and Roll Suicide," a song that really takes you somewhere else.
"is it a concept album?"
If it's a Bowie album, them yes!
Not exactly. Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, and 1.Outside are the only albums that have concepts attached to them.
@@chrismeadows4216 Station to Station isn't a concept album? I thought the lyrics "The return of the thin white duke" kind of suggested a concept. I think the album coincided with his movie "The Man Who Fell to Earth."
@@richardy5271 Station to Station is a song about The Thin White Duke, but the rest of the album is a loose collection of songs. The album cover is a picture of Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth, so that can be a bit confusing, but TVC-15 is about a demonic television, Word on a Wing is about David looking to God for help with his cocaine addiction, Stay is a reworking of John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) from the Young Americans sessions, and Wild is the Wind is a cover. There aren't themes that connect anything.
To make things even more complicated, David's music for The Man Who Fell to Earth was separate from Station to Station. Most of it was scrapped, aside from a few songs released on Low. It all fits into a period where he was The Thin White Duke live, but he didn't concentrate as much effort into making everything cohesive or conceptual as he did recording really great songs.
One thing people are usually confused by is what "The return of The Thin White Duke" means. It builds a curiosity for if David was The Thin White Duke on Young Americans when he didn't have eyebrows and his hair was longer (some people call that transition The Soul Man) or if it was just during public appearances like The Cher Show later on where he was The Thin White Duke. He made a huge stylistic change. The character wasn't mentioned anywhere before the song Station to Station. It seems like it came out of nowhere, and it was never brought up again on the album or anywhere else. David wasn't really in the right frame of mind to understand where he was going with that concept based on later interviews, so I think of it as just a story for one song.
I LOVE this song!! Still broken hearted over losing this treasure of a man!💔
This was 1972. Groundbreaking. The shit that would follow would not be possible without this. No one was doing anything close to this. They broke through and moved the needle. It’s evolution. Wham bam thank you mam.
On the back of the Ziggy Stardust Album were the words: "To be played at maximum volume."
Of note, this song was originally released as the B side of "Starman".
Great song, but "Young Americans" is one of the most perfect pop songs ever.
"Cracked Actor" is even better when it comes to quick Bowie Bangers
Andy wanted more this and more that. This is a prime example of why some albums need to be listened to in their entirety!
@Jeff Schielka
Haha no it was great, just in the moment I thought I wanted the solo to have been longer 😂
@@andyandalex Listen to the album start to finish. You won't be wanting more of anything!
How about Procol Harum “Whiter Shade Of Pale”
Seconded!
@@christinegilbert1078 Thirded
Farted.
Fifthed lol! I'm not sure if they're ready for that kind of sauce though...
@@lizard6444 I'll be looking forward to them reviewing the lyrics.
One of these days you guys are gonna discover Mott the Hoople, and when you do, and you finally decide to listen to 'All the Way From Memphis', make sure it's the album version. That's got the sax part and final guitar solos that the live versions do not. It also has Mick Ralphs playing guitar before he left for Bad Company.
Sure, play the whole album. Also the album Aladdin Sane. In particular Jean Jeanie, Cracked Actor, Watch that Man.
Great reaction Gents! I love the piano and the drums in this one, just driving that beat. Wham Bam, thank you ma'am is an iconic lyric, a one night stand or, hit it and quit it. You guys need to check out another glam era band and that band is T-Rex! Marc Bolan was a really innovative guitarist and interesting singwriter.
😘☮️💗♾️
@@Shadowrider1872 ✌❤😘
Anything off the Electric Warrior album would be totally cool.
@@susanklasinski1805 YES!
Boys, love you but you really need to do full album -
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars - To Be Played at Maximum Volume.
EDIT: Bowie is a legend whose career spanned FIVE decades. Bowie continuously reinvented his various persona because for years, the person on-stage was Bowie and not David Jones. He was an artist and an actor who gave us Glam along with Bolan, and then remained at the forefront of every music genre until the time of his untimely death.
And here I thought the phrase Wham bam thank you mam would be generational.
Wow, you stumbled on one of the greatest little gems of rock and roll history. You should check out that entire album (The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars).
Suffragette is an unusual word to find in hit song. You'll also find it in Jet by McCartney and Wings, a banger.
This was the coolest song ever when I was in high school! She's a total blam blam!
And a mellow thigh'd chick
Hell yes!! You must do the whole album. It is quite the testimony to Bowies brilliance. I was lucky to witness him live on his "Golden Years" tour. He performed Suffragette City and it was spectacular.💥