Great lyrics, fantastic delivery, and yes, guitar. He does a great of choosing guitar lines and guitarists. Heroes, The Man Who Sold the World (of which Cobain did a better rendition, unusually for Bowie pieces).
By the time this song reaches it's end, I always find myself almost in tears. It is just that powerful to me. I will never understand why this wasn't a major hit for him. In my opinion it is the best song on the album. Brilliant.
I guess it doesn't have that immediate accessibility of the pop hits like Starman. On my first listen, I didn't 'get it', but it has since become one of my best 3 Bowie tracks.
I'm pretty sure it's because the song isn't what you'd call "commercial". It's isn't 3 minutes long, it doesn't have a sing-along chorus, the lyrics are obscure if you don't know what he's singing about and it's not particularly fun to dance to. But it is a masterpiece. Is it the best song on the album? I don't know. The first side (in LP terms) is flawless and utterly classic. But is it the one song on Scary Monsters that most people don't know about in spite of the fact that, artistically, it's as brilliant as Ashes to Ashes? Definitely.
When was a kid I used to think that I was settling for this over, say, Ziggy, because it was the only Bowie record in my pop’s house.. Now that I’m in my thirties it kills stronger and longer than anything I can ever hope to hear or write
I'll turn 20 in a few weeks and discovered this song less than a month ago. This will determine the end of my teenage and I cry every time I listen to this song. I want to keep listening to it, believing time will freeze now, and this song will play forever...I miss you David, life has been unfair all along.
I’ve been listening to this song for more than 40 years - and am listening right now - keep the faith, don’t worry kid, it will keep on playing for you forever
You wish time would freeze Im 62 and have adored this man for 51 years, the influence on particularly my generation is unfathomable Your only 20 your on the cusp if life im coming into my Autumn 🍂 and all i want is a time machine and David Bowie with us all Embrace the fundamentals and your life will grow And if ever a song was prophetic Changes all of life is in there ✌️🕊❤️👍
This is one of David Bowie’s personal favourite Bowie Songs .....this is what David said of it back in 2008...... Teenage Wildlife So it's late morning and I'm thinking: 'New song and a fresh approach. I know, I'm going to do a Ronnie Spector. Oh yes I am. Ersatz, just for one day.' And I did and here it is. Bless. I'm still enamoured of this song and would give you two Modern Loves for it any time. It's also one that I find fulfilling to sing onstage. It has some nice interesting sections to it that can trip you up, always a good kind of obstacle to contend with live. Ironically, the lyric is something about taking a short view of life, not looking too far ahead and not predicting the oncoming hard knocks. The lyric might have been a note to a younger brother or my own adolescent self. The guitars on this track form a splintery little duel between the great Robert Fripp and my long-time friend Carlos Alomar.
i agree this is my FAVOURITE DAVID SONG FRIPP is beyond DAVID AND FRIPP OMG i think it was an Anthem for Bowie for me it is like a BOWIE Symphony when he goes up high at the end..i loose it then in comes Fripp crying
Richard, Yes. Yes. Yes. Please add the way Roy Bittan's classical piano interplays with the advent guard guitars. No other sound like it in music. Best studio band ever?
This song and "Because You're Young" really hit home for me when I was in high school/college, in the 80s. They hit home even more today, 40+ years later. Both tracks are nothing short of brilliant, with a relevance that's timeless. David was one of a kind.
@5:22 and onward is probably my favorite Bowie vocal performance. He really gives it his all. The build to the chorus is so over the top. I love it. Then the falsetto over the solo. Amazing.
When songs pop into our head that we havent heard in a long time, it might be because our subconcious is grasping for the most gentle way to tell us something
Amidst Bowie's jewels this song bears the test of time. The spiraling guitar, the dramatic vocal and 'Heroes' ambience, the lyrics... the separate parts (each one affording us intense pleasure). You just want to turn up the volume, strip off, stand alone in the middle of the room and sing it, unashamedly pretending you ARE Bowie!!!!
He had a brain, which makes him head and shoulders above today`s artists. Artifice will only go so far. Eventually one must have some depth. Bowie nails both!
David literally said at the time that it is supposed to sound like Heroes. It is a response to the new generation of ‘New Wave’ artists who were unfairly heralded as replacing Bowie, despite taking much of their influence from Bowie and similar artists. In response, Bowie ripped himself off in this biting piece of satire in a song. Fucking awesome.
@@stevendavidsobol It was Fripp on guitar, who played the memorable sounds to 'heroes' , decided to do a backwards version of Heroes. Still struggle with KIng Crimson, but man could Fripp play. But what the matter of the matter. Bowies's voices soars!
The guitar at 4:15 is one of the best ive ever heard in my life. That particular second is what makes me love this album so much, what makes this one of my favorite songs ever. I really love this song.
I bought this album in 1980 and I still have it. I never liked this song much but after reading your comment I decided to listen to it every day for a week. Today is the 7th day and you initiated a change. Fripp's solo beginning at 4:15 is indeed very good. I'll digest the song for a few days and see if I start yearning for it. In the last week I've also started concentrating more on side 2 of this album. Because You're Young has bitten though as I think about it, it is perhaps little more than a formularized pop song *BUT* a Really, Really good one at that!
I Love all of Bowie's material, but this song off the album is just amazing. I can't say Bowie at his best, as he is always at his best. Thanks David. My Heart is breaking for you Bowie. Love you David Bowie.I first heard Bowie when I was 12 years old in 1972, so I have had Bowie in my life since then. What another amazing song from Bowie.
Mike Bradwell me too. He remains my hero always. I met him twice once in 74 & then in again in 89. He was so nice and easy to talk to. I miss him, I am glad he left us so many wonderful songs to keep us company. ❤️⚡️
This song: Bowie's love-hate relationship with the late '70s-early '80s new generation of pop-rock and post-punk musicians clearly influenced by his 69-77 run. Here you can almost hear him passing the torch to the new generation with ambivalence (Scary Monsters also had other "Writings On the Wall" moments about Bowie's distress and '70s nostalgia, like covering Tom Verlaine's "Kingdom Come", a punk-new wave artist, the remembrance and misery of Major Tom with "Ashes to Ashes", the lyrics of "Because You're Young", the mockery of "Fashion", re-recording one of his very early '60s tunes "It's No Game" and a 1974 leftover "Scream Like a Baby", etc.) Scary Monsters is still a very strong and fresh-sounding album, probably one of his Top5 ever, but lyrically is one of his saddest: it's Bowie being aware that he was getting "old" (or at least not "young" anymore) and running out of ideas, and worse, that the new generation was borrowing heavily from his '70s legacy and stealing thunder from him. It's no surprise that Bowie didn't record a full LP from 1980 to 1983...He had already said it all and done it all; huge mainstream success was the final hill to climb, which he did in 1983-85, but sacrificing his artistic merit and vision for most of the '80s.
Makes me appreciate Blackstar even more knowing that it was his last effort with Tony Visconti after splitting Post-Scary Monsters over 30 years prior. I know that some people like Bowie’s attempt at 90s alternative and industrial, but it really seemed like there was no redemption after putting out shamelessly poppy records for almost a decade. Even Bowie himself has expressed regret in interviews about his capitulation to pop in the 80s, not that I can blame him since RCA was screwing him for royalties for the better part of his artistic heights. It’s understandable that he felt like he earned his pay, and it’s not like his pop-era was terrible, Let’s Dance and Tonight do have some very nice tracks, but they’re missing the animus that all of his albums from Hunky Dory to Scary Monsters had.
I think it more of a warning to the up and coming new successes who don't realize what they're getting themselves involved in, and that they're going to be exploited and abused. Read any account of most successful bands of the late sixties - the Faces, Eric Burdon and the Animals, the jeff. Airplane, and how they were cheated and underpaid and manipulated. And it didnt stop there. Endless touring, told to do this or that for success. Look at poor Amy Winehouse's life. By "Wildlife" he is wildlife as a metaphor, for how wildlife is frequently slaughtered in the march of progress and profit-seeking.
Seriously? All the way until 2013 whenever he released anything that sounded good, everyone said it was "his best album since Scary Monsters". Hardly an underated album if it served as a benchmark for well over half of his career.
I'm 69 and bought this in the days of vinyl (1983) or so. My solution to your dilemna is this is my favourite studio song and Heroes live in Berlin with Earl Slick's sublime guitar is my favourite live Bowie song. Far better than the already OK studio version, IMHO. ua-cam.com/video/bsYp9q3QNaQ/v-deo.html
he was making joking reference to the "best since scary monsters" claim that graced so many bowie album reviews in the decades following its release (correct answer, by the way: '1. outside')
Such a fantastic album, I know most people - myself included, go on about the earlier stuff, which, yeah, were amazing and we all dreaded him going commercial ... but this album has so many BRILLIANT tracks on - just love it so much.
A gift of talent and social awareness. Recorded in history same as with all great artists, they leave us all something like a gift. Thanks David Bowie.
[Verse 1] Well, how come you only want tomorrow? With its promise of something hard to do A real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold Blue skies above and sun on your arms Strength in your stride and hope in those squeaky clean eyes You'll get chilly receptions everywhere you go Blinded with desire - I guess the season is on [Verse 2] So you train by shadow boxing, search for the truth But it's all, but it's all used up Break open your million dollar weapon And you push your luck, still you push, still you push your luck A broken nosed mogul, are you one of the New Wave boys? [Verse 3] Same old thing in brand new drag Comes sweeping into view, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh As ugly as a teenage millionaire Pretending it's a whizz kid world You'll take me aside, and say "Well, David, what shall I do? They wait for me in the hallway" I'll say "Don't ask me, I don't know any hallways" But they move in numbers and they've got me in a corner I feel like a group of one, no-no They can't do this to me [Chorus] I'm not some piece of teenage wildlife [Bridge] Those midwives to history put on their bloody robes And the word is that the hunted one is out there on his own And you're alone for maybe the last time And you breathe for a long time Then you howl like a wolf in a trap And you daren't look behind [Verse 4] You fall to the ground like a leaf from the tree And look up one time at that vast blue sky Scream out aloud as they shoot you down No, no [Chorus] I'm not some piece of teenage wildlife I'm not a piece of teenage wildlife [Verse 5] And no one will have seen and no one will confess The fingerprints will prove that you couldn't pass the test There'll be others on the line filing past Who'll whisper low I miss you he really had to go Well, each to his own, he was another piece of teenage wildlife Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh Another piece of teenage wildlife, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh Another piece of teenage wild... life [Outro] Wild... Wild... life
Even though david bowie was worrying about the new wave knocking him off he had nothing to worry about because he was more successful then all of the new waves later in the eighties and nineties
Sense Of Doubt - Panorama ............I'm huge Bowie fan and have been for 40 some years. Bowie didn't create New Wave nor was he the Pioneer of the Genre. When New Wave was peaking in the early 80's Bowie put out Let's Dance which while his most successful album commercially by his own admission wasn't near his best work.....and it was the farthest thing from New Wave you could get. It was commercial POP music.
Without David Bowie, we would have never had new-wave or post-punk as we know it... him and Eno pioneered the genre on “Low” which while not a massive hit on the charts was picked up and heavily listened to by future new wave/post punk artists ljke Joy Division (originally named Warsaw after the album), David Byrne (of talking heads), Robert Smith, Gary Numan, Steve Strange, Boy George, Duran Duran, etc. most of whom picked up on the perfect blend of guitar rock with electronic synth textures, minimal yet catchy and effective compositions, as well as the way Bowie blends krautrock with pop on the album, and their emerging sounds were greatly indebted to the Low and “Heroes” albums. Of course by the time Bowie’s influence had been realized, he had moved on from his pioneering work and was making big pop anthems like Let’s Dance as you pointed out. Still his influence on New Wave is undeniable.
I've always thought it's incredibly short-sighted how people dismiss Let's Dance as a pop album when it has more layers than even some of his most acclaimed albums and many clear indications of other styles. Nile Rodgers brought plenty of funk to it, and Stevie Ray Vaughan brought blues rock solos. Disco and new wave were present. The singles were shortened because the full songs were too long for the radio formats and the long jams didn't seem to be wanted on pop radio. In a world where people viewed things more fairly, anyone would admit no pop album in the world sounded like Scary Monsters or Let's Dance, or even Never Let Me Down. Tonight is the only album from the period that could really be considered fully generic and not to have taken any great risks.
Bowie's recorded output from 1972 to 1982, including this album, was breathtaking. Does any other artist offer a similar body of work over that period of time ?
+Wexfordman Jack That's a pretty odd timeline you have there. 1971's Hunky Dory is generally considered one of his best albums. I think all of his RCA output '71 to '80 is the great period of work.
True. Artists who have a high-level & sustained body of work over a ten year period, for me, would be: The Beach Boys, Kraftwerk, Prince, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Sun Ra & Arthur Russell.
It's rare indeed for an artist to have more than a decade-long run of classic album after classic album, each marking a creative leap forward from the last (Pin Ups being a small exception).
Adult Bowie singing to Teenage Bowie. Robert Fripp and Roy Bittan with guitar/piano interplay. Best DAM (Davis/Alomar/Murray) rythem section. My favorite Bowie song. #1.
i think Scary Monsters is unintentionally a recap of the 70’s This sounds like heroes, Scary Monsters and Up the hill backwards are back to the ziggy days, Fashion is a lot like Fame.
This is one of my all time favourites. The vocals are brilliant, Fripp's guitar sublime, the production flawless. So many great and subtle details. I still discover something new in this song.
Started responding to questions by saying "don't ask me I don't know any hallways" long story short all my friends think I'm on meth
A small price to pay for salvation.
It's at that exact moment you howl like a wolf in a trap.
@@juggernaut007ful wolf.wolf somebody rescue me from this trap
we know what you meant.
Thanks for sharing, Brandon👏
Side note: I’m not on meth or any other elicit drugs.
Bowie's vocals on this are majestic. Robert Fripp's soaring guitar makes it even better.
It's epic, beyond everything
yes and the BACKGROUND VOCALS FRIPP
Great lyrics, fantastic delivery, and yes, guitar. He does a great of choosing guitar lines and guitarists. Heroes, The Man Who Sold the World (of which Cobain did a better rendition, unusually for Bowie pieces).
YES
By the time this song reaches it's end, I always find myself almost in tears. It is just that powerful to me. I will never understand why this wasn't a major hit for him. In my opinion it is the best song on the album. Brilliant.
I guess it doesn't have that immediate accessibility of the pop hits like Starman. On my first listen, I didn't 'get it', but it has since become one of my best 3 Bowie tracks.
I'm pretty sure it's because the song isn't what you'd call "commercial".
It's isn't 3 minutes long, it doesn't have a sing-along chorus, the lyrics are obscure if
you don't know what he's singing about and it's not particularly fun to dance to.
But it is a masterpiece. Is it the best song on the album? I don't know. The first side
(in LP terms) is flawless and utterly classic. But is it the one song on Scary Monsters that
most people don't know about in spite of the fact that, artistically, it's as brilliant as Ashes to Ashes?
Definitely.
Definitely one of Bowie's classic songs. It still send shivers down my spine.
When was a kid I used to think that I was settling for this over, say, Ziggy, because it was the only Bowie record in my pop’s house.. Now that I’m in my thirties it kills stronger and longer than anything I can ever hope to hear or write
"and it's not particularly fun to dance to" ..... loved that :)
Robert Fripp's guitar is absolutely marvelous.
"I feel like a group of one "
We all do from time to time hon.
@@sylviaciampa7804
Right. And lately people truly say "regroup" and they mean one... we're going crazy.
I'll turn 20 in a few weeks and discovered this song less than a month ago. This will determine the end of my teenage and I cry every time I listen to this song. I want to keep listening to it, believing time will freeze now, and this song will play forever...I miss you David, life has been unfair all along.
I’ve been listening to this song for more than 40 years - and am listening right now - keep the faith, don’t worry kid, it will keep on playing for you forever
You wish time would freeze
Im 62 and have adored this man for 51 years, the influence on particularly my generation is unfathomable
Your only 20 your on the cusp if life im coming into my Autumn 🍂 and all i want is a time machine and David Bowie with us all
Embrace the fundamentals and your life will grow
And if ever a song was prophetic
Changes all of life is in there
✌️🕊❤️👍
omg good on you i was 19 when this came out it gets better with age
and when he hits the high note at the end OMG
I used the nickname Teenage Wildlife since I was 13 and now, at 20, I feel like a part of me is gone. I'm not a piece of teenage wildlife anymore.
The thing about David Bowie's music is you continue to find incredible songs forever!
The thing about/with D.Bowie's music...
Agree. Listening to this for the millionth time and yet ...
Scary Monsters has some of the most overlooked Bowie songs. This, Up The Hill Backwards and Kingdom Come are some of my favourite songs of his.
I feel the same way
Kingdom Come was actually written by Tom Verlaine ex Television- one of few covers Bowie has done
Dam right
@@deepfryblue He did a bunch of covers. Like the whole of Pin Ups.
you are right GREAT SONGS
Quite an underrated gem if you ask me
+DreamPurpleFloyd Yeah, like many others ...
Agreed His Best vocal - best cut on album - in my top 10 Bowie tracks
This was his best track along with Station to Station.
extreme genius
True that
This is one of David Bowie’s personal favourite Bowie Songs .....this is what David said of it back in 2008......
Teenage Wildlife
So it's late morning and I'm thinking: 'New song and a fresh approach. I know, I'm going to do a Ronnie Spector. Oh yes I am. Ersatz, just for one day.'
And I did and here it is. Bless. I'm still enamoured of this song and would give you two Modern Loves for it any time. It's also one that I find fulfilling to sing onstage. It has some nice interesting sections to it that can trip you up, always a good kind of obstacle to contend with live.
Ironically, the lyric is something about taking a short view of life, not looking too far ahead and not predicting the oncoming hard knocks. The lyric might have been a note to a younger brother or my own adolescent self.
The guitars on this track form a splintery little duel between the great Robert Fripp and my long-time friend Carlos Alomar.
Richard Bowie thanks for sharing this
awe yeas~thanks love~
i agree this is my FAVOURITE DAVID SONG
FRIPP is beyond DAVID AND FRIPP OMG
i think it was an Anthem for Bowie for me it is like a BOWIE Symphony when he goes up high at the end..i loose it then in comes Fripp crying
Richard, Yes. Yes. Yes. Please add the way Roy Bittan's classical piano interplays with the advent guard guitars. No other sound like it in music. Best studio band ever?
THANK YOU this was always my fave song love his voice and the song never stops moving and changing
I have a feeling this is going to be one of those songs that will get me teary eyed when I'm older.
it will , trust me : )
it will
it does trust me
It definitely will. God bless him. Been a fan since the 70s and he always hit every emotion and area of my life.
I am.It does.
This song and "Because You're Young" really hit home for me when I was in high school/college, in the 80s. They hit home even more today, 40+ years later. Both tracks are nothing short of brilliant, with a relevance that's timeless. David was one of a kind.
"As ugly as a teenage millionaire" Such a great lyric :)
Boy George's favourite lyric of all time (at least it was in 1985)
@5:22 and onward is probably my favorite Bowie vocal performance. He really gives it his all. The build to the chorus is so over the top. I love it. Then the falsetto over the solo. Amazing.
yes
Wonderful isn't it. He really let's loose on this one. As an album track it's not one known to the public but for us fans it's an absolute treat.
I have nothing factual to back this up other than the timeline, but you can't convince me that falsetto isn't Mic Jagger.
Had this song in my head all week for some reason. Haven't listned to it in maybe 30 years. Still gives me goosebumps.
yes
When songs pop into our head that we havent heard in a long time, it might be because our subconcious is grasping for the most gentle way to tell us something
My absolute fav Bowie album. This IS his master stroke. Happy 40th anniversary Scary Monsters .
Amidst Bowie's jewels this song bears the test of time. The spiraling guitar, the dramatic vocal and 'Heroes' ambience, the lyrics... the separate parts (each one affording us intense pleasure).
You just want to turn up the volume, strip off, stand alone in the middle of the room and sing it, unashamedly pretending you ARE Bowie!!!!
“You” who? I don’t want to sing it and pretend I’m Bowie lol. Speak for yourself.
I just might. Do you think I should close the curtains first?
@@richardwitherow5289 Depends... What are your neighbours like?
@@andreaprodan5616 I don't know. This is Australia - neighbours leave you alone.
this song is so close to chaos...so close. it's beautiful. Taken too early
R.I.P. MISS YOU DAVID
Which is why it is perfect.
I bought this LP back in 1980 and 42 years later this is still one of my favourite Bowie tracks an absolute classic
Robert Frip is all over this and it’s so good!
Top five favorite Bowie songs ever. A masterpiece.
One of my all time favourites. A fantastic movement of music with powerful vocals!
He had a brain, which makes him head and shoulders above today`s artists. Artifice will only go so far. Eventually one must have some depth. Bowie nails both!
tru
It's my all-time-fav too!!
i agree~
Sounds a lot like Heroes................... very good on it's own too.
A much better song than heroes, in my opinion. Scary Monsters is a much underrated album.
@@NarcisseOnze You speak the truth! Bowie changed my life with this record.
agree it's heroes-esque . But hey . What a good thing
David literally said at the time that it is supposed to sound like Heroes. It is a response to the new generation of ‘New Wave’ artists who were unfairly heralded as replacing Bowie, despite taking much of their influence from Bowie and similar artists.
In response, Bowie ripped himself off in this biting piece of satire in a song.
Fucking awesome.
@@stevendavidsobol It was Fripp on guitar, who played the memorable sounds to 'heroes' , decided to do a backwards version of Heroes. Still struggle with KIng Crimson, but man could Fripp play. But what the matter of the matter. Bowies's voices soars!
The guitar at 4:15 is one of the best ive ever heard in my life. That particular second is what makes me love this album so much, what makes this one of my favorite songs ever. I really love this song.
I bought this album in 1980 and I still have it. I never liked this song much but after reading your comment I decided to listen to it every day for a week. Today is the 7th day and you initiated a change. Fripp's solo beginning at 4:15 is indeed very good.
I'll digest the song for a few days and see if I start yearning for it. In the last week I've also started concentrating more on side 2 of this album. Because You're Young has bitten though as I think about it, it is perhaps little more than a formularized pop song *BUT* a Really, Really good one at that!
My favourite Bowie song and vocal performance
I Love all of Bowie's material, but this song off the album is just amazing. I can't say Bowie at his best, as he is always at his best. Thanks David. My Heart is breaking for you Bowie. Love you David Bowie.I first heard Bowie when I was 12 years old in 1972, so I have had Bowie in my life since then. What another amazing song from Bowie.
Mike Bradwell me too. He remains my hero always. I met him twice once in 74 & then in again in 89. He was so nice and easy to talk to. I miss him, I am glad he left us so many wonderful songs to keep us company. ❤️⚡️
My heart still breaks every day
This song: Bowie's love-hate relationship with the late '70s-early '80s new generation of pop-rock and post-punk musicians clearly influenced by his 69-77 run. Here you can almost hear him passing the torch to the new generation with ambivalence (Scary Monsters also had other "Writings On the Wall" moments about Bowie's distress and '70s nostalgia, like covering Tom Verlaine's "Kingdom Come", a punk-new wave artist, the remembrance and misery of Major Tom with "Ashes to Ashes", the lyrics of "Because You're Young", the mockery of "Fashion", re-recording one of his very early '60s tunes "It's No Game" and a 1974 leftover "Scream Like a Baby", etc.)
Scary Monsters is still a very strong and fresh-sounding album, probably one of his Top5 ever, but lyrically is one of his saddest: it's Bowie being aware that he was getting "old" (or at least not "young" anymore) and running out of ideas, and worse, that the new generation was borrowing heavily from his '70s legacy and stealing thunder from him. It's no surprise that Bowie didn't record a full LP from 1980 to 1983...He had already said it all and done it all; huge mainstream success was the final hill to climb, which he did in 1983-85, but sacrificing his artistic merit and vision for most of the '80s.
Makes me appreciate Blackstar even more knowing that it was his last effort with Tony Visconti after splitting Post-Scary Monsters over 30 years prior. I know that some people like Bowie’s attempt at 90s alternative and industrial, but it really seemed like there was no redemption after putting out shamelessly poppy records for almost a decade. Even Bowie himself has expressed regret in interviews about his capitulation to pop in the 80s, not that I can blame him since RCA was screwing him for royalties for the better part of his artistic heights. It’s understandable that he felt like he earned his pay, and it’s not like his pop-era was terrible, Let’s Dance and Tonight do have some very nice tracks, but they’re missing the animus that all of his albums from Hunky Dory to Scary Monsters had.
@@ciananmeagher9005 don't forget Heathen and Reality
@@ciananmeagher9005 animus. Thanks for teaching me a new word today! Solid usage as well, I agree with you.
@@ciananmeagher9005 reeves gabrels always felt a bit regrettable to me after fripp and belew...
I think it more of a warning to the up and coming new successes who don't realize what they're getting themselves involved in, and that they're going to be exploited and abused. Read any account of most successful bands of the late sixties - the Faces, Eric Burdon and the Animals, the jeff. Airplane, and how they were cheated and underpaid and manipulated. And it didnt stop there. Endless touring, told to do this or that for success. Look at poor Amy Winehouse's life. By "Wildlife" he is wildlife as a metaphor, for how wildlife is frequently slaughtered in the march of progress and profit-seeking.
I could listen to"teenage wildlife" for days on end
and I have done 👌
Brings tears to my eyes every time I hear this - I will take this song to my grave smiling God Bless David Bowie
This is the sound that 90's brit pop was chasing.
This is basically the London Suede's entire career
Oughts too. I'm looking at you The Darkness.
Yep. You can see where Suede got their influences and sound from.
This is what I would call a perfect song in all aspects. Never get tired of it.
This was one of the songs of my formative years in college.
So powerful, so beautiful and wild...
I miss me back then.
his most underrated song and album
Agreed on both points. Cheers!
Seriously? All the way until 2013 whenever he released anything that sounded good, everyone said it was "his best album since Scary Monsters". Hardly an underated album if it served as a benchmark for well over half of his career.
@@zavinullava Even Bowie once said whatever he released post 1980 he was aware people would ask if it was as good as Scary Monsters...
yup cause all the elements came together
Wow, what a song
Tune!!
Bowie at it's finest.
Fripp's guitar is so beautiful that I start crying everytime I hear this, it's also Bowies best song IMO, just breathtakingly beautiful
My favourite Bowie song. Sublime. and a guitar lovers dream.
A real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold...
... What a beautiful song..
Always brilliant. One from my teenage love of Bowie.
Can’t decide between this song and Heroes as my all time favorite Bowie song
Also I love this guitar run from 1:32 it’s pure Fripp magic
I'm 69 and bought this in the days of vinyl (1983) or so. My solution to your dilemna is this is my favourite studio song and Heroes live in Berlin with Earl Slick's sublime guitar is my favourite live Bowie song. Far better than the already OK studio version, IMHO. ua-cam.com/video/bsYp9q3QNaQ/v-deo.html
this is the best since Scary Monsters
This, erm, is on the same album. Cheers!
he was making joking reference to the "best since scary monsters" claim that graced so many bowie album reviews in the decades following its release (correct answer, by the way: '1. outside')
@@dice1296 I'll second that. Outside is an underrated album.
Bob Dylan’s equivalent would be “best album since ‘Blood on the Tracks’”.
Genius that will never ever die
4:42 One of my all time favourites guitar solo !
Fripps amazing guitar to an outstanding Bowie vocal....great song from the master
Such a fantastic album, I know most people - myself included, go on about the earlier stuff, which, yeah, were amazing and we all dreaded him going commercial ... but this album has so many BRILLIANT tracks on - just love it so much.
yes, you are absolutely right
I'm now thinking it could even be his best!
Lodger is also a fantastic album.
Always loved these guitars from both Chuck Hammer and Robert Fripp
A gift of talent and social awareness. Recorded in history same as with all great artists, they leave us all something like a gift. Thanks David Bowie.
Minder fra 1981 , det bedste år i mit liv .
Jeg savner 80' erne
i can still smell the air in the record store where i bought this when it came out.
Love you always, Starman.
Why oh why did you leave us so early,David.this was my favorite song of MANY>
I’m so disappointed in myself for only now discovering this.
Farewell, David. Thank you for this song.
Thank you for your whole career as well, David. :)
Except for Tonight.
@@Stinkydo0d oof I felt that one
@@Stinkydo0d tonight got nice songs.his cover of god only knows nails it
another fripp magic
guitar is magical in this song
Maybe Robert Fripp has something to do with that.... haha
How did this not go to #1? How is this not one of his better known songs?
Sometimes, mostly, Bowie was too good for the times..........
This is one of his better known songs for Bowie fans!
Probably too long for the radios...
You must live in a sh**y place like myself.
I think we're gonna have to accept that had all of Bowie's songs gotten the credit they deserve, the world would've exploded.
An absolute gem from Bowie. ⚡❤️
Completely sublime
One of my favorite Bowie’s songs alongside of Width of a Circle and Stay.
You're not playing it loud enough.
I don't care what volume you're listening to this at, you're not playing it loud enough.
Scary Monsters: truly beautiful and truly beautiful. Teenage Wildlife is beyond belief.
This may be his absolutely best piece of work. It kills, imo!
WENT CRAZY for this song and his voice WHEN THIS CAME OUT
"You will get chilly receptions everywhere you go"
i'm used to it~
[Verse 1]
Well, how come you only want tomorrow?
With its promise of something hard to do
A real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Blue skies above and sun on your arms
Strength in your stride and hope in those squeaky clean eyes
You'll get chilly receptions everywhere you go
Blinded with desire - I guess the season is on
[Verse 2]
So you train by shadow boxing, search for the truth
But it's all, but it's all used up
Break open your million dollar weapon
And you push your luck, still you push, still you push your luck
A broken nosed mogul, are you one of the New Wave boys?
[Verse 3]
Same old thing in brand new drag
Comes sweeping into view, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
As ugly as a teenage millionaire
Pretending it's a whizz kid world
You'll take me aside, and say
"Well, David, what shall I do? They wait for me in the hallway"
I'll say "Don't ask me, I don't know any hallways"
But they move in numbers and they've got me in a corner
I feel like a group of one, no-no
They can't do this to me
[Chorus]
I'm not some piece of teenage wildlife
[Bridge]
Those midwives to history put on their bloody robes
And the word is that the hunted one is out there on his own
And you're alone for maybe the last time
And you breathe for a long time
Then you howl like a wolf in a trap
And you daren't look behind
[Verse 4]
You fall to the ground like a leaf from the tree
And look up one time at that vast blue sky
Scream out aloud as they shoot you down
No, no
[Chorus]
I'm not some piece of teenage wildlife
I'm not a piece of teenage wildlife
[Verse 5]
And no one will have seen and no one will confess
The fingerprints will prove that you couldn't pass the test
There'll be others on the line filing past
Who'll whisper low I miss you he really had to go
Well, each to his own, he was another piece of teenage wildlife
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh
Another piece of teenage wildlife, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
Another piece of teenage wild... life
[Outro]
Wild...
Wild... life
You really need the lyrics out when listening to this song lol
Thanks
Verse 4 is so incredibly beautiful.
One of the most overlooked Bowie songs.
Probably say his best
@@got-to-wonder 'probably say'
Schon über 40 Jahre mein Lieblingslied
Wonderful number
Incredible vocals on the fade out, matched superbly by king crimsons guitar ace Robert fripps, solo
It's probably more than 20 years since I listened to this album last time. Teenage wild life is still my song.
Even though david bowie was worrying about the new wave knocking him off he had nothing to worry about because he was more successful then all of the new waves later in the eighties and nineties
Viva hate He actually kind of created new wave and afterwards with this groundbreaking album he pioneered the genre
Sense Of Doubt - Panorama ............I'm huge Bowie fan and have been for 40 some years. Bowie didn't create New Wave nor was he the Pioneer of the Genre. When New Wave was peaking in the early 80's Bowie put out Let's Dance which while his most successful album commercially by his own admission wasn't near his best work.....and it was the farthest thing from New Wave you could get. It was commercial POP music.
Without David Bowie, we would have never had new-wave or post-punk as we know it... him and Eno pioneered the genre on “Low” which while not a massive hit on the charts was picked up and heavily listened to by future new wave/post punk artists ljke Joy Division (originally named Warsaw after the album), David Byrne (of talking heads), Robert Smith, Gary Numan, Steve Strange, Boy George, Duran Duran, etc. most of whom picked up on the perfect blend of guitar rock with electronic synth textures, minimal yet catchy and effective compositions, as well as the way Bowie blends krautrock with pop on the album, and their emerging sounds were greatly indebted to the Low and “Heroes” albums. Of course by the time Bowie’s influence had been realized, he had moved on from his pioneering work and was making big pop anthems like Let’s Dance as you pointed out. Still his influence on New Wave is undeniable.
I've always thought it's incredibly short-sighted how people dismiss Let's Dance as a pop album when it has more layers than even some of his most acclaimed albums and many clear indications of other styles. Nile Rodgers brought plenty of funk to it, and Stevie Ray Vaughan brought blues rock solos. Disco and new wave were present. The singles were shortened because the full songs were too long for the radio formats and the long jams didn't seem to be wanted on pop radio. In a world where people viewed things more fairly, anyone would admit no pop album in the world sounded like Scary Monsters or Let's Dance, or even Never Let Me Down. Tonight is the only album from the period that could really be considered fully generic and not to have taken any great risks.
after years and years of listening to David, I barely realized that his music makes me feel very melancholic and.......sad
Same old thing in brand new drag....David you are a genius
Masterpiece
Hard to chose but maybe my favourite Bowie song! A lacerating critique on the transience of pop-stardom.
Need to hear this brilliant track & album, been a while. Rip David.
a beautiful song
this song is truly amazing. among all bowie songs, this one is my personal favorite undoubtedly
love this song love him
This album has truly stood the test of time; sounds fresh and innovative nearly 40 years later. Thank you David Bowie for this moving performance.
think you David ..Bon voyage ..
Bowie's recorded output from 1972 to 1982, including this album, was breathtaking. Does any other artist offer a similar body of work over that period of time ?
+Wexfordman Jack That's a pretty odd timeline you have there. 1971's Hunky Dory is generally considered one of his best albums. I think all of his RCA output '71 to '80 is the great period of work.
+electricrussell don't forget 1970 and the Man who sold the world album. very underated and better hard rocking album than Ziggy imo.
+Blue Forrester Space Oddity is his best album for me. '69 to '80 anyday. But yeah, The Man Who Sold The World is great.
True.
Artists who have a high-level & sustained body of work over a ten year period, for me, would be: The Beach Boys, Kraftwerk, Prince, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Sun Ra & Arthur Russell.
It's rare indeed for an artist to have more than a decade-long run of classic album after classic album, each marking a creative leap forward from the last (Pin Ups being a small exception).
*FORTY ONE* years ago this came out people!
J’avais 11 ans!!! Merci Maman pour l’initiation. ❤
Canzone magnifica !La voce di David Bowie assolutamente superlativa!Fripp ha fatto il resto che non è poco!!!
Still hurting that he is no longer with us...
Adult Bowie singing to Teenage Bowie.
Robert Fripp and Roy Bittan with guitar/piano interplay. Best DAM (Davis/Alomar/Murray) rythem section.
My favorite Bowie song. #1.
Nearly wore this track out when I 1st got this album in vinyl ❤
"Cant do this to me - im not some piece of teenage wildlife"
outstanding vocal performance from david rip legend
Beau, oui. Très beau.
Song makes me cry
Just brilliant,,',,,,,xxx
i love the ending, with Fripp developing
AND WOW LISTEN TO THE GUITARIST AMAZING 🥰
one of my first bowie songs, hits me right in the nostalgia box even if it was just 2 years ago
i think Scary Monsters is unintentionally a recap of the 70’s
This sounds like heroes, Scary Monsters and Up the hill backwards are back to the ziggy days, Fashion is a lot like Fame.
Scary Monsters and Up the Hill Backwards sound nothing like Ziggy. Teenage Wildlife is better than Heroes
I love Bowie AND Gary Numan!!!
It's amazing album, really
This is one of my all time favourites. The vocals are brilliant, Fripp's guitar sublime, the production flawless. So many great and subtle details. I still discover something new in this song.
Likely his best album