DEEP DISCOG DIVE: David Bowie
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CHAPTERS (w/ Timestamps)
Start 0:00
Prologue 01:57
David Bowie (1967) 02:55
Space Oddity (1969) 04:03
The Man Who Sold the World (1970) 05:15
Hunky Dory (1971) 06:40
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders from Mars (1972) 08:11
Aladdin Sane (1973) 10:37
Pin Ups (1973) 12:23
Diamond Dogs (1974) 13:19
Young Americans (1975) 14:35
Station to Station (1976) 16:35
Low (1977) 18:33
"Heroes" (1977) 21:04
Lodger (1979) 23:14
Scary Monsters & Super Creeps (1980) 24:17
Let's Dance (1983) 25:49
Tonight (1985) 28:09
Never Let Me Down (1987) 29:32
Tin Machine I & II (1989/1991) 31:40
Black Tie White Noise (1993) 32:33
The Buddha of Suburbia (1993) 33:33
1. Outside (1995) 34:20
Earthling (1997) 35:52
Hours (1999) 36:45
Heathen (2002) 37:44
Reality (2003) 39:03
Hiatus 39:55
The Next Day (2013) 41:20
Blackstar (2016) 42:36
Conclusion 44:54
What makes "Blackstar" extraordinary is that Bowie turned dying into art. He knew he was on the verge of death and he did the one thing he knew he could rely on: He wrote songs. About life and death, his own and in general. It's a fitting end to a unique career.
i will use this comment in my power point presentation on his life
It's release was so close to his actual death made his exit event
So Shocking Like a Houdini Amazement
It’s such a bleak album and a hard listen but I love it so much. It’s tied with Scary Monsters and S2S for my favorite Bowie album.
I was a HUGE Bowie fan at thirteen. Probably becos Ziggy. When I heard about David's death, I heard. my husband on the phone to our phone. I remember hearing "Someone's going to have to tell her." I came downstairs for my cup of coffee. My husband said, "Wait a minute. I have to tell you ... David Bowie died last night." I felt electricity prickling all over my body, before I passed out. (This from a woman who had gone through 3 DAYS of labor birthing my 12 lb. baby boy.) I have never recovered.. oh, God, if you actually exist, bring back my David!
I feel like" Blackstar" was a gift from Bowie to the fans. He knew he was dieing this was his parting gift.
Rock n Roll Suicide is such an underrated Bowie song. It's a great ending to the Ziggy Stardust album but also holds out a message of hope. Personally, it has helped me through so much.
It’s my favourite Bowie song
this song literally saved my life multiple times when I thought nothing would help, it deserves more recognition
it’s just beautiful and so hopeful like you said, definitely one of his best
Our child has Type 1 diabetes, and every finger stick I’m like “gimme your hands- ‘cos you’re WONDERFUL”!!!!!
It’s phenomenal. Just had it on repeat today- Iconic
when bowie died i was 16 and only knew the hits. his death caused me to dive into his catalogue and it was one of the best decisions I made for me as a young musician.
Fab .... I hope my Bowie Interpretations on You Tube make him smile .... far far away ... so cool.
You hit the core. Bowie's musical science is very accurate and his breaks through established rules can compare to the best Picasso's daring innovations in painting. He has reshaped harmonic and rythmic capacities beyond conceived conceptions, from Space Oddity to Black Star. His only mistake: having turned prostitute for a while (Let's Dance), though he paid a sheer price in terms of inspiration, which this he lacked all along the 80s. Undiscouraged he managed with will and experience to neatly slowly overcome the disease, rushing back full strength with 'Outside,' once reunited with Eno. The stain, all things considered today, made of him a human, someone capable to fail then learn and rediscover existence through its true lens. Had he enjoyed only perfect attitudes this would have made him a constant shining and boring accomplishment, someone you cannot relate to.
As a human being he saved Iggy's life from unavoidable disaster and helped him reshape his working and then a take-off. He refused twice to be knighted, preferring keeping ties with his people. A classy musician and man indeed, he is in the mind, the heart and a constant investigation for 30+ years. Have a great journey. :)
That’s exactly how I got into him. I was 14 at the time, and on the day of his death riding home on the bus I played star man on my headphones. I was amazed. From then on in the next couple of years all I listened to was him. Low and Heroes are two of my favorite albums of all time now, as it should be lol
That’s exactly how I got into him too, except i was abt 10. All I knew was under pressure as I was alr a queen fan, space oddity and starman, but when he died my uncle played me rise and fall and I fell in love
Saaaaame
Fun fact about the guy who punched his eye, his name was George Underwood- and they where best friends at the time, and continued to be afterwards! George underwood (being a painter) helped Bowie work on numerous of his album covers
I'd love to see talk about The Velvet Underground's discography.
It would be interesting to see "Squeeze" viewed through fresh eyes, not of the same calibur as VU or WLWH but a good listen for die hards.
Plssss
tottally but also there's not much to talk about (four albums and odds and ends and the matrix tapes- the best live album ever)
And a Lou Reed follow up after that.
Lou reed solo stuff too
Do a Soulja Boy Deep Discog Dive next year.
Mic the snare x William Maranci crossover episode now
@@unit-0123 YES!!
What about viper
soulja has like 50 albums lol
you joke, but that would be an incredibly interesting video. Soulja has a fuckton of weird unique songs (Vampire Gang comes to mind), he has several distinct phases (crank dat era + Lil B inspired cloud rap era + descent into sadly generic stuff) and he even beat a few artists to their styles (someone told me Pow was proto Death Grips and i can't help but hear that now)
it'd possibly be an equally long video as this one, and i'd watch the whole thing. and i'm not even really a Soulja fan
God, the release of Blackstar was a weird time. It was coming out and there were really positive reviews pre-release about how it was this jazzy and dark album that feels simultaneously like a throwback to his early years and forward thinking. I actually hadn't listened to any of Bowie's work, but I was getting hyped so I downloaded all his albums and blitzed through them so that I could listen to Blackstar when it dropped (skipping from Let's Dance to Black Tie White Noise, based on the reputation of his middle albums). I fell in love with his music, and then immediately fell in love with Blackstar. It really did feel like an exciting new direction for a singer with a LONG discography. And then he died, and the conversation around the album instantly shifted from "what's next in Bowie's post-haitus post-Blackstar career" to "so, death was a prominent theme in that work, huh?" It's now considered his final artistic statement, and the album is certainly good enough and appropriate enough to warrant that, but I do miss those short two days in between the album dropping and his death, when the Blackstar wasn't a full stop, but the beginning of a new sentence.
I really like thinking of the perspective of something more, the feeling of something to look forward to in bowies discography. thank you for this comment
It sucks that he was always planning for a follow up and just didn’t get to do it.
I feel this so much, as these two days I was really living hope for more adventurous music by Bowie and then on the following monday morning my (now) ex-wife texted me "Bowie has died". Where the fuck did monday go...
Everybody, including Bowie, is too hard on the Young Americans album. It’s a fantastic soul album, regardless of race.
Funny you say that, as all I've seen is glowing praise for it thus far.
@@Neo-Midgar Yeah. If anything, people like that album *too much*. I think the take in this video is correct. The title track, Fame, and Fascination are great, but it's rough as an album. His "Across the Universe" is a legit awful cover, which is wild since Lennon actually played on it.
@@Mark_LaCroix it's a fantastic cover and an equally fantastic album
Yeah I agree, many people I know that aren't huge David Bowie fans (the few and far between and simply listen to heavier rock or rap) do like Young Americans. It is lively and easy and fun to listen to sing along with your friends. Plus it is not too Pop Rock with its complex but not over done R&B that rappers like it and heavier rockers like it for the R&B which Rock and Rap are influenced by.
No. It's not. But a nice try
Why does 2000s Bowie look like the villain from National Treasure
Sean Bean doesn't have those cheekbones. The disrespect. 😤
@1993 Toyota Paseo Seen Bawn
Or jjba
He returns with a 46 minute Deep Discog Dive, holy hell, heaven is real
Let's Dance is awesome! He did not sell out. He simply went into a new musical direction that just so happened to be popular at the time. Nothing wrong about this.
The production on Let's Dance just isn't as good as his other albums. Don't be so dismissive of this album, it really is awesome, especially for the time. Bowie wasn't a sell out, ever.
bowie himself hate the disco he made and the public that went to that concerts
As long as he honestly wanted to make that album he didn't sell out. The whole concept of selling out is overused and lame.
And Stevie Ray Vaughan plays lead on the whole album (8 weeks before Texas Flood came out)
@@randomcharacter6501 Except that he didn't want to make that album! He'd just left RCA after many years, and signed up for EMI who 'insisted' that he change tack and write a money making, catchy, pop, hit single...hence 'Let's Dance' and 'China Girl'.
I have been a constant Bowie fan since 1969 . I am now turning 69 years of age this year. He has never let me down except for his 2 albums after Let’s Dance. He was constantly changing, and after his 10 year break to come back with the brilliant Next album and to finish his astonishing Black Star album 2days before he died. What a parting gift! The greatest rock and live performance star EVER!
Congrats on the big 69🎉🎉
Nice
So "Never let me down" let you down?
I remember the day he passed.
I’d just finished Blackstar the day before, it was just a normal afternoon when I heard what happened, and I legit cried.
It was about half a year before I ever listened to Blackstar again, and my god it just hit so much differently. It seemed to me that Bowie was well aware that his time was near, and he wanted to leave what was the equivalent of his own eulogy for the rest of us. It’s tragic, but a beautiful sendoff to one of my favorite artists
I still can't listen to Blackstar... which is sad because I really loved it when it came out...
I just started listening to blackstar again it was just too much to try and take in but I for sure remember the morning I found out someone came and knocked on my door to tell me and i litterally turned around sat down and dropped the needle on the copy of Aladdin sane that was on the turntable from the night before and just cried.
@@deexypher7373 I opened my eyes that morning and the first thing I saw was a text by my boos, telling me the news and saying how sorry he was for my loss (as if someone in my family had died)
Um
The world went into a five-year decline that day. Five Years. Five fucking years. Which he also saw coming, apparently, all the way back in 1971.
Fun facts about Bowie: I live in the countryside of Tuscany and I'm Always Surprise about the three weird links between my homeland and David Bowie.
1) In the 60's, Italy had the trend to take British and american songs and make an italian cover of that Song by an italian singer (for example i suggest the Italian cover of Stones' Paint it black by Caterina Caselli). We have an Italian cover of space oddity sung in Italian by David Bowie with his strong British accent. It named "ragazzo solo, ragazza sola" and It isn't about space but It was about a teen love story.
2) He Lost a contest for young musicians in 1969 in Monsummano terme, which Is a city Very near to where I live.
3) He starred in an italian Western movie in the late 90's with Leonardo Pieraccioni, the Italian Adam Sandler. And this movie was also made very near where i live, in the Mountains of Tuscany.
Sorry for the wot but i wanna share this trivia with someone
Thats so cool! Thanks for sharing!
THE ITALIAN ADAM SANDLER
MA IO TI AMO
Does Leonardo Pieraccioni have an Uncut Gems style dramatic thriller in his filmography to complete the Sandler comparison?
@@dairebeare7839 sadly not yet
_"Leonardo Pieraccioni, the Italian Adam Sandler,"_ the UA-cam commenter said with a straight face.
So apparently that's a thing that happens to exist in reality. The same reality I live in.
It's sometimes astonishing to realize the full extent of what humanity has gotten up to over the course of it's existence. It makes me genuinely happy to know there is an "Italian Adam Sandler." Something the world didn't know it needed....but thankfully, already has. And there sure as hell better be a Japanese Rob Schneider....and an Ethiopian Kevin Federline. The people of earth deserve that. at the very least. We've earned it. It's been a tough year.
i'm not gonna lie, if bowie were still alive, Blackstar would still be among my favourites of his discography.
If Bowie was alive, there Blackstar wouldnt exist
@@pioneernut7487 he literally released it when he was alive
@@hidbid1 Blackstar seems as if it is a reflection on his life, and many lyrics seem to hint towards his death. 'Look up here man, I'm in heaven' and I can't give everything away appears to reference back to ' A new career in a new town' on low through the harmonica in the intro.
It appears to be Bowie's final goodbye, a reflection on his life and the world.
Agreed. It’s my 2nd favorite album of last decade and my 2nd favorite Bowie album.
@@hidbid1yes but he made it because he was dying. If he wasn’t dying of liver cancer it wouldn’t exist
Blackstar fucking blew my mind. I had a very surreal first listen, flying from Argentina to Panama in the middle of the night. The first time I took a plane outside my country, going to a convention in the States.
Everyone was sleeping and I was floating in the middle of the Pacific listening Blackstar.
i think blackstar might be one of the greatest musical achievements ever quite honestly. to do a record of such quality while suffering and having it be one of the best of your career, better than probably anything you did in the last 25 years at least, is insane to me. and then to have a lot of the album reflecting on your life, as if you know your time’s ending, and then having it release and passing away shortly after - this is all just fascinating to me. i feel slightly inappropriate in saying that the album and its timing was a miracle, but i think it is. it’s really horrible that he died, but i think the fact that he did an exited with such a monumental and reflective statement is transcendent. i don’t think any other artist ever will do what David did by releasing blackstar. it’s as if he made the stars align for that moment, and made the universe take him on his own terms. because of all of this, i think blackstar is one of the most fascinating albums to ever be released. there’s something about it that feels transcendent, like one of the most ultimate statements of art to me. i am not sure why it intrigues me this much, but it really does.
What's even more intriguing is that it sounds like the updated version of music from the year David was born. That has to be symbolic of the beginning and end of David's life meeting with jazz music. The most chaotic root genre for the most unpredictable artist of a century.
Would love to see an episode on Fleetwood Mac
Me, trying to get into Bowie for the first time:
So HOW many records has this guy made??? He had no chill whatsoever!
same thing with prince
Just wait until you hear about Chicago and Frank Zappa!
Bowie’s music from the Labyrinth is SO UNDERRATED ! Within You and As the World Falls Down are some of his hidden gems.
You remind me of the Babe!
@@888berg What babe?
@@archerwagner8209 Babe with the POWER
@@alixkelly9434 what power?
@@archerwagner8209 the power of VUDU
You're honestly one of my favorites channels of all time, ily
he’s funny, informative & cute AF like what’s not to love?
Wait, you two aren't the same person?
jk
this crossover
Says the legend himself.
Yasssss I agree.
Not sure if this will ever happen, but a Weird Al discog dive would honestly be incredibly fun to watch
Yes!
Agreed!
I need it.
Never thought about it but yeah, that video would actually be fantastic.
Fab .... I hope my Bowie Interpretations on You Tube make him smile .... far far away ... so cool.
I love how David Bowie saw the good in all music and took inspiration from everything. That sort of open mindedness is essential for a musician.
Not necessarily. It depends on the artist and what they want to be. Think ACDC or Motorhead. They essentially made the same music through their entire careers and it’s pretty fantastic despite that
@@fase1doughnut both bands are very repetitive and bland imo I respect their influence but yeah
I think what the narrator wanted to say about the Let’s Dance album is “Yes, it sounds INCREDIBLY 80s. But Let’s Dance has aged extremely well because of the fact that when you combine the talents at the level of David Bowie, Nile Rodgers, Tony Thompson, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, great results are bound to happen.”
I think his 90' - 00's is very underrated. I LOVE outside, earthling, heaven and reality
Absolutely. Black Tie, White Noise slaps absolute arse out of most drum&bass from the 90s.
Fab .... I hope my Bowie Interpretations on You Tube make him smile .... far far away ... so cool.
I've been listening to the recent 1992-2001 box set, and have a new appreciation for Hours and especially BTWN. And since it was released, Heathen has always been my favorite record of his.
heathen and reality yea but you can keep the other 2
Heathen*
I took a whole 3 credit History of Music class on David Bowie’s career in college. I got more out of this 49 minute video than the 14 weeks of that class. Well done, I really enjoyed it.
While I agree that his first album was a little hit and miss (leaning towards the miss), I feel it's unfair to dismiss the Space Oddity record as more of the same outside of the title track and CC. Such an enchanting listen: Unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed is a great forshadowing of Bowie's longer, less straight-forward songs; Letter to Hermione is intimate and gorgeous; and Janine is some good pop songwriting.
Where his Debut felt a lot like a young David Jones writing songs, Space Oddity feels to me like the first David Bowie album.
Letter to Hermione is fucking brilliant.
I love unwashed and slightly dazed
Brilliant album - little fluff
I totally agree on the album part, but personally I am a bit shocked that no one has mentioned Memory Of A Free Festival yet. I absolutely adore this track - I was taken aback the first time I ever heard it. I think it's beautiful through and through, and it's definitely one of my favorite songs on that album.
I think the first 2 albums are quite underrepresented in this video. Like any good music, the more you listen to it, the more you understand about it, and the greater it becomes. Hunky dory is one of the greatest albums I've ever listened to, but I didn't think much of it the first time I heard it. Now im addicted to it.
Bowie didn't "pick up an electric guitar' on The Man Who Sold The World, the album was in it's largest part Mick Ronson. Mick was the one that brought the heavy metal sound to that album.
My favorite Bowie song has to be "Word On A Wing", Bowie's performance is haunting but incredible and outstanding, one of the best songs ever made imo
The pIaNo
Oh, that song make me cry every time.
Fuck yes, someone else recognizes that song! It's his best ever. The "sweet name" vocal part just destroys me
Another song I feel a similar way about is Quicksand off of Hunky Dory
the version from the 1976 rehearsals is AMAZING
We need a Talking Heads DDD ill love you forever !!
Yes I agree their discography is super diverse and they drew influence from so many places! Would love to see it!
Maybe even touch on some of David Byrnes solo projects.
I think a cool thing about both hunky dory and ziggy stardust is how they both use orchestral strings, I do t know why he didn’t continue this after those few songs
Black Star really does sound like an album with all the experience and weight of a 50 year career in mixing experimental music and pop. No one else could make that album and it took his whole life to get there.
Bowie's acting career is absolutely fascinating in tandem with his musical career. The Man Who Fell to Earth and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence are two that I think are particularly interesting
Do you know where I can watch mr Lawrence?
@@quinnnewman9538 it’s currently streaming on the Criterion Channel if you’re looking for the most high quality version with other extras (highly recommend Criterion!!). But there are definitely other ‘lesser known’ websites you can find it on (if you catch my meaning)
Although the soundtrack to Mr. Lawrence has NO Bowie music, the soundtrack is hauntingly great. I would recommend getting it.
@@dancalmpeaceful3903 one of my favorite film scores
And then there's Just a Gigolo... which, devoted fan that I am ... oh, no, I really dislike that movie. It's ... well, it's boring.
I love that The Laughing Gnome is the first song on the playlist!!! That’s a deep meme cut right there
This was embarrassingly a bit hit in 1973 , getting to #6 in Britain.
the man who sold the world is great. Its his first great album in my opinion
Fab .... I hope my Bowie Interpretations on You Tube make him smile .... far far away ... so cool.
One of the best
@@occommunitycats7616 glad I'm not alone! People always say Hunky Dory was the first good one but the man whosold the world has so many great songs :)
My opinion is that Space Oddity was his first good album, Man Who Sold The World was his first great album, and Hunky Dory was his first masterpiece
@@iamdamosuzuki_ I still couldn't agree more.
Of all these great albums, I have to say that Blackstar is my favorite. The impactful artwork, the jazz influences, the rawness and vulnerability of his voice, the German electronic touches. Not an album that I listen a lot, because it's very sad, but it's a masterpiece.
Bowie also helped produce Lou Reed's Transformer album (classic), mixed the original version of Raw Power by The Stooges as well as co writing and producing Iggy Pop's albums 'The Idiot' and 'Lust For Life' (he also played a bunch of instruments on it and played keyboard on it's tour which can be heard on the Iggy Pop live album TV Eye) which are two of Iggy's best solo albums.
Love Iggy Pop. He wanted to be a rock singer when he heard “Rumble”. By Link Wray
Transformer is super underrated when talking about classic albums.
@@mackielunkey2205 its not???
Fab .... I hope my Bowie Interpretations on You Tube make him smile .... far far away ... so cool.
my favorite moment was when he said "meme school"
Mine was when he said "meme companies".
There’s just something so special about David Bowie. Whether it’s the music, or the way he sings. I’ve liked him since I know him.
I was kind of hoping that immediately after you said “well-aged” in reference to Let’s Dance, the Asian-eyes thing he did in the China Girl video would play
Maybe you could do a Lou Reed deep discog dive? Dude's career had it's low points, comeback albums, underrated records, all while making lots of changes, and cementing his legacy as one of the most influential artists of all time
Fab .... I hope my Bowie Interpretations on You Tube make him smile .... far far away ... so cool.
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I'd love for Lady Gaga to be added to the pole.
She has a very diverse discography, that isn't as gigantuous as bowies, with some of the best pop albums of all time, some failures and some interesting case studies. would love to see you talk about her, thank you mic!
Artpop best album don't @ me
That would be kinda cool but also odd because he already has a video on artpop and on it he kinda also explains gagas career
@@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303 it's an amazing album, but not the best of all time. But it deserves its place among GOAT pop albums cuz it's so fuckin good.
I’d like for Gaga’s discography to expand a little more and then see what he has to say. But overall, she’s a legend!
Yes PLEASE!
The Labyrinth Soundtrack is very underated.
Fab .... I hope my Bowie Interpretations on You Tube make him smile .... far far away ... so cool.
You, you remind me of the babe
@@Drowning_lessons_123 the babe with the power
@@888berg the power of voodoo
@@Drowning_lessons_123i SAW MY BABYYY
As for the second album, I always felt "Unwashed" was a sign of things to come with a faint and distant Ziggy flare. But "Cygnet Committee" is very Ziggy-esque and yes, a great Bwie song.
YESSSSS EARTHLING IS A GOOD ALBUM I'VE BEEN SAYING THAT THIS WHOLE TIME
It’s a GREAT album?
I also love it
You're fuckin' right
I've been getting into Bowie lately, and all I can say is, fuck yeah Earthling is a banger
Imo it’s a 10. I don’t think I’ve ever loved an album like Earthling.
30:59 This is a rare instance where maybe they shouldn't Mic The Snare
Can we turn it down, its like a shotgun-
Stumbled on this and I am so happy I did. Love David Bowie, sang Starman to my son as a lullaby when he was a little baby, have Bowie lyrics tattooed on my arm, and my wife even bought be a wonderful Heroes themed piece of art for my birthday. The man was an icon and this deep dive captured that very well.
My favorite Bowie songs and albums were the ones most heavily criticized. Curious. But he made his point objetcively. I think "Station to Station" is one of Bowie's best songs ever, and I absolutely love the album "Man of words, man of music" as a whole. And not considering "Hours" an absolute masterpiece, calling it "boring", actually shocked me, but I guess different people have different preferences. 🙂
I always tell people new to discovering David Bowie to start with "Bowie Legacy." Then, whatever your favorite tracks are from that greatest hits compilation, explore the rest of the album they're from. Everyone's got a favorite phase of Bowie, there were so many!
you're my youtuber of the year, keep making some of the best stuff on the website :)
Oh Feldup, contente de te retrouver ici ;)
Waaa kestufé la toi trop bien !!
Hi feld
Bons goûts musicaux Feldup ! Ça m’étonne absolument pas de ta part
The song Soul love from the Ziggy Stardust album is so good. I don't know why. So is Lady Grinning Soul from the Aladdin Sane album.
100 percent
I didn’t really get into Bowie until after he died. My sound of choice is modern pop, but my favorite artist is Gaga. Since she named Bowie as an influence, I consumed all his biggest hits and loved them, but so does everyone else who has a passing knowledge of his work.
Thank you for this DDD Mic. It was heartfelt, insightful, respectful, and fun to watch 💕
Apart from what you said about "Scary Monsters and Super Creep", I really liked this one. Especially for giving "Earthling" some much needed love.
Yeah that really sounded like a take on "Scary Monsters..." from someone who needs to listen to it all the way through 3 or 4 times. Just that it was introduced as in a time of optimism (nothing about its relationship to politics??) felt like it missed the point.
I also have a special place in my heart for this one as I am a relatively new Bowie fan and saw the David Bowie Is ... installation in New York where they had the original (giant) cover art for Scary Monsters. I downloaded it and listened to it for the first time on the plane ride home. The first time I was like ... WTF? -- by the third time I was obsessed with it.
I know it's not for everyone, but I do find myself frequently coming back to Man of Words/Space Oddity/ David Bowie it feels very down to Earth
I think for people to fully immerse themselves in it, hearing Conversation Piece and the Memory of a Free Festival single remake is essential.
It's definitely nice hearing him when he's still figuring out his persona, it's quite unassuming and the Dylan/Elvis impersonations are super endearing. 'Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed' is pretty underrated.
@@elrabeechum5180 I find it incredible that Letter to Hermione isn't markedly more popular. It's one of the most emotionally vulnerable tracks he recorded and I'd think the title would at least bring it attention since the Harry Potter films came out or something, but most people are still under the impression that Space Oddity is the only track worth hearing. Ricky Gervais is the only person I've heard of who has a huge love for LtH as I do. Then Cygnet Committee and Wild-Eyed Boy from Freecloud are sprawling epics that really seem to be underexposed. Lyrically, the album should be in everyone's top 5, imo.
@@chrismeadows4216 Letter to Hermione, cygnet committee, and wild eyed boy are my favorite tracks on the album along with space oddity.
@@jacobgeorgian72 They're so impactful and I hope they gain popularity over time like I see with a lot of tracks. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed and Janine are also really fun for me. The album sure has a lot of depth and variety that most people miss out on.
The track Win on Young Americans, despite being an imitation of soul, is a beautiful song.
Blackstar is such a beautifully haunting record. The intro is just stunning, and it definitely motivated me to check out the rest of his work.
I got into Bowie around November of 2019. My friend said that a character I created reminded her of him, and told me to check out Life On Mars. I fell in love with the song, and related to it on a personal level because although I used social media as an escape from the real world, the real world always caught up to me when I used it. Little did I know what would follow in the coming months...
Bowie’s music, characters, and Inspiration has helped me get through this long, tumultuous, and exhausting year. He’s boosted my self confidence, calmed me down when I feel angry, sad, or frustrated, and even made me realize _I’m Not Alone_ . I even devoted an entire Instagram account to making fanart based on his music and personas, especially Ziggy. All I have to say is... Thank you so much, David Bowie!!!
Bowie's is arguably my favourite career-spanning discography in all of music. I never get tired of listening to ut, talking about it, hearing about it. Its one of my favourite topics of discussion period.
Fab .... I hope my Bowie Interpretations on You Tube make him smile .... far far away ... so cool.
Yeah, he's definitely up there with the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Kanye, Pink Floyd and Kate Bush for me.
finally someone recognizes Alladin sane's greatness. It's my second favorite album oat.
Hunky Dory, ziggy stardust, and Alladin Sane are my favorites. And does alladin sane sound like a lad insane, or is it just me?
@@deespaeth8180 I always thought Aladdin Sane sounding like "A Lad Insane" was part of a weird pun that I'll probably never fully get
That run of Dollar Days - I Can't Give Everything Away is blasting, those few seconds in the beginning are warming as heck, actually heard the whole album a year and a half ago (promised myself I wouldn't hear it until I found a physical version) and I couldn't stop crying from listening the begining of Dollar Days with the sound of those papers and his whisper, to me, it felt like a very intimate moment and like he was about to drop a very very heavy bomb
The same here. I can't bring myself to listen to Black Star, and when I do I can't stop crying...
OH HELL YEAH. I did a listen through of Bowie's discography last year and it made me into such a fan. His evolution over the years was incredible, though he definitely found a cursed monkey paw at the beginning of the 80s (huge commercial success, but at the cost of his worst albums).
EDIT: hot take to counter your hot take: Aladdin Sane is actually Bowie's most overrated album
No its not !
Aladdin Sane can't possibly be overrated when most casual fans think Aladdin is Ziggy and most dedicated fans don't rank it in their top 5 when it reasonably is more creative and cohesive than all but a few albums.
First of all, that Aladdin Sane comment is quite the hot take.
Second, I personally find "hours..." to be his worst album, worse than both Pin-Ups and NLMD (though I would take "Something in the Air" over dramatic Japanese singing any day of the week!).
@@LoraCoggins "hours..." is definitely horrible. Nothing really jumps out about it. It just feels like a mix of Space Oddity and 1. Outside without the fun of either. Never Let Me Down realistically should at least be above the Tin Machine albums, Pin-Ups, and Lodger, imo. What a lot of people miss while they're listening to it is that it's FUN and PRETTY. It seems that most people try to respond to it how they respond to Let's Dance, but there are a lot more layers and a lot more going on than with Let's Dance. The same with anyone trying to listen to Low as if it's Station to Station. The moods are supposed to be different and so are the compositions. "hours..." is a really straightforward album that doesn't necessarily flow within its own sphere, if that makes sense.
@@LoraCoggins granted I've only ever listened to Hours the once, but it's got a few songs I like and go back to every once in a while, though I could totally see how it's overly chill aesthetic could be the reason someone didn't like it.
To clarify, AS isn't my least favorite Bowie album, it's still alright. My least favorite might be Tonight, as it's way too clear that Bowie just wanted to do Let's Dance again but couldn't find the spark that makes that album good
Welcome back dude. An idea for the next DDD would be System of a down since they just released new songs for the first time in 15 years
r they gonna have an album?
Yo dude this is not Brad's comment section. Go home 😂
@@hupsza Ah finally a man of culture🤣🤣
@@hugo07260 Hopefully, but they havent Said anything yet
HOLY SHIT EXPIRED MILK U WATCH THIS TOO???
As a huge Bowie fan I loved the poppiness of Tonight and Let's Dance since they were my window into the world of Bowie. I have since listened to every album and now can never really pick a favorite out of all his albums. The one album I can't bring myself to listen to is Blackstar. I listened to it when it was first released but once he passed I can't bring myself to listen to that masterpiece as I will cry so hard
Wow. The same thing with me. I cry my eyes out when I do....
The "Lady Stardust" demo version - with just Bowie and a piano - is one of my favorite recordings of his. You can find it on the Rykodisc re-release of Ziggy Stardust.
Fantastic! As a self-professed Bowie scholar, this is going to be very interesting for me and I will watch the whole thing. But for your next project, real men do Frank Zappa discog deep dives, haha. And then Miles Davis, lol.
Prince would have an amazing Deep Discog Dive, easily the most expansive solo discography ive ever seen. Good luck avoiding the copyright on that one though.
Bowie was my first deep discog dive. Love his albums.
I remember on my last day of high school I blasted space oddity on my headphones and walked through my school for the last time. It was completely unreal that something was coming to an end for me. I plan to listen to it on my wedding day to.
So, my favorite youtuber comes back after a month of absence with a 46 minutes long video about one of my favorite artists ever?
Well, 2020 might not bad that bad after all!
Great to have you back my man! Now, ok, hear me out: Neil Cicireiga / Lemon Demon DDD???
I need this in my life
Oh my god, that would be amazing.
Your mind
Holy shit. Yes.
Never really paid attention to Bowie until I watched The Prestige and thought “Wow, this actor playing Tesla is great, who is this guy?”
Edit: Having now listened to his entire discography multiple times, David Bowie is a damn legend. My personal favorites being Blackstar, Low, Ziggy, Hunky Dory, and Heroes with the title tracks of Heroes and Blackstar being my favorite songs of his. Heathen, Black Tie, Earthling, Young Americans, and Lodger are albums I also loved that aren't generally considered his "best". Such a great career and still oddly underrated simply because his hits are so overplayed at this point.
Okay, I can't be the only one who really likes the Psychedelic folk sound of David Bowie & Space Oddity.
I'd even go so far to say that The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud might be S tier Bowie.
The Return Of The King
Welcome back Dad ❤️
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Some of the posthumous live releases are sublime. Personal favourites are "Welcome to the Blackout", which IMHO is a better document of an Isolar 2 tour show than Stage and "I'm Only Dancing" which is Diamond Dogs tour period after he went soul. The rawness and clarity of the sound on both is absolutely incredible.
It's the exact same set list. But Stage was messed with in the studio while mixing and stuff
Welcome to the Blackout is straight from the board. It's what he sounded like exactly at that moment. Very cool
Cracked Actor is another post death live one that's got the same set list as David Live. It's also better than the original for the same reason
I would love to see a Beatles deep discography dive
EDIT: And he took my advice
Do a DDD on Clipping. Or Charli XCX.
Also some form of ranked choice voting would be nice in future votes.
CHARLI XCX ESPECIALLY
@@hugo07260 fax.
Clipping would be great.
Specially after he did Death Grips. Clipping is a more elegant take to industrial rap.
I would consider both of those artists to be in the beginning phases of their careers, so it wouldn't make much sense to do a deep dive at this point.
@@thefinkie6459 i mean, *clipping* was formed like a year before *Death Grips,* they've been around for over a decade already, they have four albums (CLPPNG, Splendor & Misery, There Existed an Addition to Blood, and Visions of Bodies Being Burned), a mixtape (Midcity) that's basically another album by length and production quality, and several notable EPs like Wiggle and The Deep. There're a lot to talk about *clipping.*
Hell, they even got a motherfucking Hugo Awards nomination for their work in Splendor & Misery.
A solid summary of Bowie's career. I really appreciate Buddha of Suburbia getting some much needed attention. Although I do want to point out that 1.Outside was not Bowie's full vision. His original vision can (kind of) be heard in bootlegs like "The Leon Tapes". Outside is a more commercial version that doesn't quite edit the album down enough to really work as an accessible album. I personally would recommend cutting the album down when you're listening to it the first few times. The segues, No Control, I am With Name, Wishful Beginnings, and We Prick you are very easy to go without.
My favorite "under appreciated Bowie thing" would be the Glass Spider tour. NLMD isn't a great album as a whole but when it's broken down and mixed in with other Bowie songs it becomes really enjoyable. I also really enjoyed the return of multiple obscure 70s songs like All the Madmen, Time, Big Brother, and Sons of the Silent age especially considering that none of those songs would ever be played again after that tour. I would mainly recommend earlier recordings from the tour like Berlin or even the official Montreal album since later in the tour the more interesting songs would be dropped in favor of oft-played hits.
Honestly, I'm more upset about it than anything else Bowie ever did that he made the decision to not do All the Madmen for the DVD. That song's subject matter was obviously way more important to David than every song on the entire setlist, but he cut it for some reason. There was absolutely no pro-shot footage of him performing it, and it's one of my favorite songs. That really disappoints me, because if he had actually taken the time to play The Man Who Sold the World songs live, they would have been recognized and that album would have become more mainstream than just the title track. They'll remain obscure, and that sucks.
Honestly I really enjoy Outside from almost start to finish it is my favourite 90s album of his.
@@meme6335 I also love all of outside but it can certainly be a bit difficult for casual listeners to enjoy.
Damn, dude. Really? We Prick You? That's one of my favorite songs of all time, by anyone. It still regularly winds up on mix CDs I make for the car.
@@XANAX-Pilled I love We Prick You too but if casual listeners want something more manageable then I don't blame them for starting with the original vinyl version of the album which cuts it. I'm a big 1.Outside fan but I don't blame people for being daunted by it. If you like the song that's great, no one is saying you can't listen to it.
I am writing this now as the song off of Heathen "Slip Away" is about a family member of mine, Uncle Floyd. While his health is not great he still listens to it almost daily as Bowie was a hero for him and to see Bowie write a song about him makes him so happy.
We need a DEEP DISCOG DIVE on Queen 👑
I gotta say, I really love how you're able to make these videos entertaining for people who haven't listened to the artist you're talking about. Like the pinups segment had me really interested to know your thoughts on, despite me never hearing the album or even knowing it existed.
It's pretty bad, but definitely check out Sorrow and Rosalyn.
Welcome back! This video is going to be amazing!
yeah, so I rewatched this. you asked to name off a favorite Bowie performance.....April 22, 2004 at The Greek Theater in Los Angeles. no performance by anyone will ever top this and I'm glad I was there to witness it. It started the day before my 29th birthday and ended around 12:30AM on April 23rd, 2004....my 29th birthday. Happy birthday to me indeed.
27:15 Fun fact: David Bowie invented the music video with Love Me Till Tuesday. The closest thing before this is Bob Dylan in the video where he held up the lyrics to the song. David Bowie got the inspiration for music videos from learning how to mime, and he used that to make video performances where he would mime the lyrics to his own songs.
Hey totally agree with Aladdin Sane. The title track with the broken piano solo-thing sends shivers down my spine whenever I listen to it. There is nothing like it in Ziggy Stardust.
I actually like Lodger a lot, have listened to him today. It's a piece without a major hit and then, unmemorable. But it's really diverse and with different harmonies and pitched that catch me and want me to listen it in a loop.
I understand that people don't care too much, specially compares with most memorables like the 2 previous others, but give it a chance. Easilly, is on my top 5 Bowie albuns.
No real hits on that album, but Bowie made more videos for the singles on that album than the others and they are all classics. The real trick is listening for songs like yassasin and red money that are better than the singles!
Lodger is my go to Bowie album. Each song is different. Move On is All the Young Dudes backwards. Brilliant! Red Sails shows Sailor can dance. He loved being Sailor ♥️. Fantastic Voyage is still relevant and beautiful. The whole album is underrated. Give it a try again! I agree with the rest of your review. Oh except the Reality cover artwork is awesome, lol!
Spot on. "Lodger" is my favorite Bowie album. (To each their own) I have been a Bowie mega-fan for almost 40 years... It's an album for those who dig post-punk travelogues and sublime angular guitar. 💜
"Outside" is another creative high-water mark that deserves more consideration than a superficial review-in-passing. It's music to spend time with. Like "Lodger", it rewards repeated listening.
He's right about "Black Tie, White Noise": it's joyfully creative and accessible.
I remember seeing the Lazarus video the day before he died and I was like "damn.... I wanna learn more about his music!"
I’ve always suspected that Bowie knew his time was short on Next. The line
‘The moment you know, you know you know ‘ on Where are we now to me says it all!
What about Prince? A 10 part DDD series...
How to get into Prince:
Step 1. Start with 1999 and Purple Rain.
Step 2. Listen to Around The World In A Day, Parade, and Sign O' The Times. If you somehow can't dig any of it by this point, stop here. It can't be helped.
Step 3. Listen to Prince's first four albums.
Step 4. Listen to the Prince albums between 1988 and 1995. Unless you're really devoted, you can stop at The Gold Experience.
Step 5. Listen to Chaos and Disorder and go "meh."
Step 6. Hunker down and listen to Emancipation and Crystal Ball. If you're feeling burnt out by this point, you can stop here.
Step 7. Listen to the rest of his studio albums.
Oh yeah? What about... FRANK ZAPPA
@@gabi-chan7806 An 172 part series
@@Betta66 I've been wanting to do this for awhile, and I have some questions.
First, I tried starting from the beginning and stepped back from it 4 albums in because somehow no song had a HUGE resonation with me. I love songs like Little Red Corvette, Darling Nikki, and Batdance. The really early stuff somehow felt to me like a standard new jack swing, r&b, funk deal, and I wasn't able to process it well for some reason even though I love artists like Luther Vandross and Isaac Hayes and Donna Summer.
Which album would you consider his most creatively innovative?
Which album do you feel has the best guitar and vocal work?
Which album is your favorite?
@@chrismeadows4216 Sign O’ The Times is the album I revisit the most, so that would be my answer to questions 1 and 3. For question 2, Purple Rain
As the world falls down always make me cry because it’s so beautiful even though it was written for a movie
I'll love to see a DDD about Genesis. So much to talk about. Great work both for Pink Floyd and David Bowie
Well done. There has never been a better musical artist than David Bowie.
"...Lumbering groove, flanged, drenched white noise, AND a melodica? AND a vibroslap?? Go to jail, Bowie."
Lost it.
He's back. Bowie is the greatest of all time, I can't even explain his importance to me. Great video! :)
40:27 fun fact, in this spongebob special, every character sung (all the songs are terrible), aside from Bowie himself..
I used to argue with a colleague by telling him that Bowie and Madonna had a lot in common. Both were experts at taking other people's musical styles and making good records from them.
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U r right
Out of all Bowie's albums, "Low" is probably my favorite. I didn't know about it until I watched some video on YT and then decided to listen to the Berlin Trilogy. Before doing so I knew most of his classic era and some songs from early 80s, so I had some idea how Low would sound like, and then - I was completely blown away. Brian Eno's influence on this album is fenomenal with use of synths, phase was good with great singles on side A and instrumental movie-soundtrack-like songs on B. They fell like taken straight of a sci-fi movie and I'm really sad they didn't appear in "Man who fell down to Earth" as they were meant to be. Other two albums of the trilogy don't even come close to "Low", especially "Heroes", which, in my opinion, is overrated. It has songs that feel different than anything in Bowie's career. I especially love "Warszawa", which I have a special attachment to, as Warsaw is where I was born and live. How he made this song sound both sad and full of hope is mindblowing, truly how 70s Warsaw would feel to a foreigner. In conclusion, Bowie's discography and "Low" is among one of the most influential albums in his career
At this time Bowie also made two albums with Iggy Pop, The Idiot and Lust for Life.
Holy shit I'm REALLY into Bowie right now, this came out at the perfect time
Station to Station was one of the first cds I ever bought, and I really didn't even know who David Bowie was, I just knew I loved Wild is the Wind. Anyway, I could not believe how good it was, I listened to it on repeat for weeks. Then a couple years ago, I discovered that's when he was at his absolute rock bottom and honestly it makes me feel so strange. The album is a masterpiece, but it came at such a cost and so many people will never know, they'll just bop their heads and sing along, just like I used to.
"By the time he got back to New York, Bowie was living like a king"
Is that a reference to Lazarus?