My mom take to the cinema in 1986 to see this movie!! (here in Monterrey, México) I was a 8 years old child...! now Im 45 and David Bowie still are my Heroe, my God.
I have honestly seen that movie at least 100 times. And this is a fantastic music video for that movie. Pity that only two songs had an official music video, I would have loved to see all five of his songs with accompanying videos. (BTW, the videos were for the songs Underground, and As the world falls down).
Actually, Bowie hit the big time in the early eighties with his let’s dance album and then along came the album Tonight and then his lowest point, the album, Never Let Me Down, which I don’t think is as bad as it’s said to be. I love the song, Time will Crawl from NLMD. And his duet on the song Tonight with Tina Turner is enchanting. You must look that up. It will make you smile, guaranteed. Anyway, this song wasn’t often heard outside of the movie, which flopped in the theaters. I guess people couldn’t figure out what a pop singer and a bunch of muppets were doing in a movie together. Now it’s a cult classic. Again, definitely worth watching.
The funny thing is that he cancelled the single release for this song so Never Let Me Down could move more copies. It did, and actually outsold most of Bowie's '70s albums, but retrospect is that it was a terrible idea. 😅 He threw it onto the '90s Virgin reissue of Tonight as a bonus track, along with This is Not America and Absolute Beginners, so that can be seen as some kind of redemption, although meme culture pulled Labyrinth from the grave with a vengeance matched only by Jareth's codpiece. 😄
I can't find an exact reference for Hallucination, but that player should be Paul Westwood. Will Lee did bass for As the World Falls Down. Both have some great material employing it.
@@annother3350 I'm excited because one of my favorite bands (obviously I've suggested them to Randi quite a bit 😅), Avenged Sevenfold, have recorded next year's album with a headless, fretless, 8 string guitar. There's so much extra depth you can get without frets. Those instruments are for masters of their form. 🙂
@@annother3350 they're generally on the heavier side of things, but do their best to be the most diverse kind of band they can be. M.I.A., Not Ready to Die, I Won't See You Tonight Part 1, Save Me, and Fiction are a few of my favorite songs and would probably give you the best idea of what they've got. They're not the most bass-driven band, but what they do in pockets and with guitars and drums is incredible.
It's a film soundtrack the photo is from the movie and Bowie is with Jennipher Connelly in it. that's why this is different from Bowie "normal music" it's more simple because it was a fantasy movie for children and teens.
In 1985, around the same period as Live Aid, David Bowie and Trevor Jones recorded the soundtrack for a 1986 film called Labyrinth, directed by The Muppets' Jim Henson and produced by George Lucas, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly. The film is about a teenage girl's crush on her mom's rock star boyfriend. Her parents are divorced, and she lives with her dad and stepmom, who she has conflict with. Selfishly, she's very jealous of her baby brother Toby getting most of their attention, and she's angry that she has to babysit him while they go out for the night. Believing in fairytales, she incants phrases from a children's book, to summon the Goblin King Jareth and have him take her little brother away. Jareth appears in the form of that crush, he does, and Sarah has a lot of regret for it, journeying into a magical world to get him back. Jareth requires her to solve a giant labyrinth and retrieve Toby from his castle, serving as antagonist of the film for a great deal of it and thwarting her attempts to escape the maze. Unfortunately for Jareth, he starts to develop feelings for Sarah, and finds himself unable to impede her and make Toby the next Goblin King. Trapping her inside of a crystal ball, the two dance in a masquerade...well, ball... and Sarah finds herself loving Jareth as well, realizing she has to break away from his allure, get past her childish fantasies, and save Toby. Both Sarah and Jareth know they have these feelings for each other, and Jareth tries to hold onto it even though he hates being the Goblin King and knows he wants someone to take his place so he doesn't have to do it anymore. Ultimately, Sarah becomes more important to him than his freedom, and he'd rather suffer his lot in life with her by his side than lose her. Four other Bowie songs in the film are Underground, Magic Dance, Chilly Down, and Within You. It's a very charming and whimsical film, and very provocative. Hallucination was composed largely by Trevor Jones based on the cues that David gave him in writing As the World Falls Down, which is a central song played several times in various forms throughout. What you heard in a lot of the song was a music box that was also in the film. The ballroom scene is something very legendary, and represented in that music box. The horn sounds were produced by various synthesizers, and those really low notes in the track are oboe and trombone programs. Nicky Moroch and Jeff Mironov played the guitars, and Robbie Buchanan played all sorts of keyboards. The Labyrinth soundtrack is a landmark piece of movie history. I strongly recommend watching Labyrinth at some point. That movie is very special in a way that few are. The costumes and set designs are iconic, this soundtrack is obviously fire, and there's a lot of David Bowie camp in the whole thing. His ginormous bulge is a peak meme. 😅 A lot of David Bowie fans don't think very highly of his '80s period, but his soundtrack work is generally well-regarded. Of the three songs I've had you do from David, this one is my favorite song he's ever recorded. Hallucination just makes it that much better. The music video is really short and cuts a lot out, but it's fun as well, and The Ballroom Scene itself is probably the best context. Very weird, though. Thank you so much for doing this!!! 😊🧡
Now that you've heard a bit of '60s Bowie and a fair amount of '80s Bowie, his most-loved period is going to be a really great recommendation. In the 1970s, he released 11 albums in a row that are pretty much all considered classics besides a covers album. Those led up to Scary Monsters, which had Teenage Wildlife on it. These are the songs to do, for sure: Space Oddity (The 1980 Floor Show 1973) Time (Hammersmith 1973) Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise) Heroes (Musikladen 1978) Space Oddity and Heroes will be the most recognizable, though I'd personally point towards the two in the middle if you're interested in the more outlandish tracks. None of them are in the same genre, so you'd be surprised no matter what. The Sweet Thing Suite is what I'll throw into polls, but Bowie becomes highly addictive, and adjusting to him comes easily. Generally, if he wrote a song, it's awesome. 😅
There's nothing within me to add. Just a pointless emotional reaction, and that I think it's absolutely lovely. But music in any shape or form is there to appeal to our emotions, and get them to react.
My favourite scene from the film and my favourite track.
I think the word you're looking for to describe Bowie's vocals is uhmm, iconic. Yeah...pretty sure that's the word. 😌 ✌
I love the song and i love the movie very nice message
My mom take to the cinema in 1986 to see this movie!! (here in Monterrey, México) I was a 8 years old child...! now Im 45 and David Bowie still are my Heroe, my God.
I have honestly seen that movie at least 100 times. And this is a fantastic music video for that movie. Pity that only two songs had an official music video, I would have loved to see all five of his songs with accompanying videos. (BTW, the videos were for the songs Underground, and As the world falls down).
On the plus side, Magic Dance works with just the scene, even if other versions are longer. Chilly Down...well, it's something. 😅
Actually, Bowie hit the big time in the early eighties with his let’s dance album and then along came the album Tonight and then his lowest point, the album, Never Let Me Down, which I don’t think is as bad as it’s said to be. I love the song, Time will Crawl from NLMD. And his duet on the song Tonight with Tina Turner is enchanting. You must look that up. It will make you smile, guaranteed.
Anyway, this song wasn’t often heard outside of the movie, which flopped in the theaters. I guess people couldn’t figure out what a pop singer and a bunch of muppets were doing in a movie together. Now it’s a cult classic. Again, definitely worth watching.
The funny thing is that he cancelled the single release for this song so Never Let Me Down could move more copies. It did, and actually outsold most of Bowie's '70s albums, but retrospect is that it was a terrible idea. 😅
He threw it onto the '90s Virgin reissue of Tonight as a bonus track, along with This is Not America and Absolute Beginners, so that can be seen as some kind of redemption, although meme culture pulled Labyrinth from the grave with a vengeance matched only by Jareth's codpiece. 😄
This song is beautiful, glad you're looking at it.
The first part is call hallucination and is available on labyrinth soundtrack.
That noise was a fretless bass -- popular in the 80s. Jaco Pistorius made that sound famous...
I can't find an exact reference for Hallucination, but that player should be Paul Westwood. Will Lee did bass for As the World Falls Down. Both have some great material employing it.
@@chrismeadows4216 Nice. Kate Bush's Babooshka also had some amazing fretless bass by John Giblin
@@annother3350 I'm excited because one of my favorite bands (obviously I've suggested them to Randi quite a bit 😅), Avenged Sevenfold, have recorded next year's album with a headless, fretless, 8 string guitar. There's so much extra depth you can get without frets. Those instruments are for masters of their form. 🙂
@@chrismeadows4216 I'll check them out when I have a moment
@@annother3350 they're generally on the heavier side of things, but do their best to be the most diverse kind of band they can be. M.I.A., Not Ready to Die, I Won't See You Tonight Part 1, Save Me, and Fiction are a few of my favorite songs and would probably give you the best idea of what they've got. They're not the most bass-driven band, but what they do in pockets and with guitars and drums is incredible.
One of my favourites ❤
It's a film soundtrack the photo is from the movie and Bowie is with Jennipher Connelly in it. that's why this is different from Bowie "normal music" it's more simple because it was a fantasy movie for children and teens.
In 1985, around the same period as Live Aid, David Bowie and Trevor Jones recorded the soundtrack for a 1986 film called Labyrinth, directed by The Muppets' Jim Henson and produced by George Lucas, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly. The film is about a teenage girl's crush on her mom's rock star boyfriend. Her parents are divorced, and she lives with her dad and stepmom, who she has conflict with. Selfishly, she's very jealous of her baby brother Toby getting most of their attention, and she's angry that she has to babysit him while they go out for the night. Believing in fairytales, she incants phrases from a children's book, to summon the Goblin King Jareth and have him take her little brother away. Jareth appears in the form of that crush, he does, and Sarah has a lot of regret for it, journeying into a magical world to get him back. Jareth requires her to solve a giant labyrinth and retrieve Toby from his castle, serving as antagonist of the film for a great deal of it and thwarting her attempts to escape the maze. Unfortunately for Jareth, he starts to develop feelings for Sarah, and finds himself unable to impede her and make Toby the next Goblin King. Trapping her inside of a crystal ball, the two dance in a masquerade...well, ball... and Sarah finds herself loving Jareth as well, realizing she has to break away from his allure, get past her childish fantasies, and save Toby. Both Sarah and Jareth know they have these feelings for each other, and Jareth tries to hold onto it even though he hates being the Goblin King and knows he wants someone to take his place so he doesn't have to do it anymore. Ultimately, Sarah becomes more important to him than his freedom, and he'd rather suffer his lot in life with her by his side than lose her. Four other Bowie songs in the film are Underground, Magic Dance, Chilly Down, and Within You.
It's a very charming and whimsical film, and very provocative. Hallucination was composed largely by Trevor Jones based on the cues that David gave him in writing As the World Falls Down, which is a central song played several times in various forms throughout. What you heard in a lot of the song was a music box that was also in the film. The ballroom scene is something very legendary, and represented in that music box. The horn sounds were produced by various synthesizers, and those really low notes in the track are oboe and trombone programs. Nicky Moroch and Jeff Mironov played the guitars, and Robbie Buchanan played all sorts of keyboards. The Labyrinth soundtrack is a landmark piece of movie history.
I strongly recommend watching Labyrinth at some point. That movie is very special in a way that few are. The costumes and set designs are iconic, this soundtrack is obviously fire, and there's a lot of David Bowie camp in the whole thing. His ginormous bulge is a peak meme. 😅
A lot of David Bowie fans don't think very highly of his '80s period, but his soundtrack work is generally well-regarded. Of the three songs I've had you do from David, this one is my favorite song he's ever recorded. Hallucination just makes it that much better. The music video is really short and cuts a lot out, but it's fun as well, and The Ballroom Scene itself is probably the best context. Very weird, though.
Thank you so much for doing this!!! 😊🧡
I've heard the movie referred to by people at various times, but I've never seen it. It sounds pretty spectacular.
@@BetterEveryDayUA-cam one of my top 5 faves, up with The Fellowship of the Ring, Dragonslayer, Troy, and Aliens. 🙂
Well said! It’s a fun movie, very worth watching.
I like to look for all the Bowie faces in the rocks.
You're a true fan, nothing gives massive nostalgia like the Labyrinth soundtrack, I love it so much.
Written by Terry Jones (from Monty Python) and designed by Brian Froud (love his goblin books).
You gotta watch the movie lol its a classic. Also not very feel good, it's quite tragic in the context of the film.
Now that you've heard a bit of '60s Bowie and a fair amount of '80s Bowie, his most-loved period is going to be a really great recommendation. In the 1970s, he released 11 albums in a row that are pretty much all considered classics besides a covers album. Those led up to Scary Monsters, which had Teenage Wildlife on it.
These are the songs to do, for sure:
Space Oddity (The 1980 Floor Show 1973)
Time (Hammersmith 1973)
Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise)
Heroes (Musikladen 1978)
Space Oddity and Heroes will be the most recognizable, though I'd personally point towards the two in the middle if you're interested in the more outlandish tracks. None of them are in the same genre, so you'd be surprised no matter what. The Sweet Thing Suite is what I'll throw into polls, but Bowie becomes highly addictive, and adjusting to him comes easily. Generally, if he wrote a song, it's awesome. 😅
Love the movie love the songs! React to the movie if you can or at least magic dance and within you
You can do no wrong with Bowie
As a gay man bowie in this movie let me know I could be who I could be regardless of what my family said at 44 I still have him on my wall
I think you should watch labyrinth ... and then react to "WITHIN YOU," x its better in context x
There's nothing within me to add. Just a pointless emotional reaction, and that I think it's absolutely lovely. But music in any shape or form is there to appeal to our emotions, and get them to react.
Can you please react to David bowie song called Blackstar
Please
can you do a reaction to the song "Monsters" by James Blunt
Reaction dimash song stranger
Quite honestly... can you all NOT say Brian...