Kids today don't understand the chill words can create. Nothing paints a picture better than a well written lyric. And this song is a constant chill. Damn I miss this stuff.
Yep and impressive performer skills are quite something too. Lot of people could write as well as Bowie did, but singing at the same level?... The guy was the incarnation of multifaceted talent
@@BGatts666 I would agree this studio recording is brilliantly executed. His delivery of the versus are completely on point with so much feeling and thickness.
Thank you for adding the lyrics. I tried to tell people to listen to the words because they’re more interesting than ever. And how it was written for the book 1984 he was hoping to do a musical, but he could not get the rights from the surviving Mrs. Orwell. They asked him to do the songs for the movie and he declined and the Eurythmics got the job.
I bought this album when it came out for $4.99. I saw him in February 1976 at the forum in Montreal when I was 15. It blew me away. He opened with Station to Station he came out of the mist on the stage , the thin white Duke with his flash of blond/orange hair and white shirt ,black pants and vest smoking a Gaulliose. Beautiful imagery. Diamond Dogs was always my favourite but I loved them all. But I love you in your F-me pumps. Classic David.
Brilliant comment! I too purchased this as soon as it came out and this has always been my favorite album of his. This is my favorite song for its darkness. Shocked my parents. I too saw him in February 1976 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. I was 19. I felt like it was an audience with God. HIs music, words and persona kept me from under the wheels of a subway train many times. I only wish I had been able to see Mick Ronson.
I was there at the Forum that night. I was just describing that opening to some younger fans, the sound of the train coming through the Forum, the fog, him. I saw him again with Iggy Pop at Le Plateau. And I'm sorry I didn't see him again and again all the years he performed. Such an incredible man.
So many perfectly delivered verses in this song. The chorus is beautiful. A thick and twisted love song meant for the characters in 1984 I assume. The commentary is brilliant to me. One of my favorite songs. Next to Teenage Wildlife.
im in the same place Katicas. For me I was drawn to him as an artist when I recently became more interested in my own creative process as a visual artist.
Not only was this album and tour probably his most theatrical, even his voice was theatrical on this song. He really pulled out the stops on each and every line. So powerful!!
He hated it after a while and rejoiced when a bee flew into the driver's mouth causing him to drive off the road and wipe out the props. Not only was David exhausted he needed a change.....He cancelled the last leg of Diamond Dogs He eloped with the "Thine White Duke"and wrote and recorded Young Americans in a few short weeks ....Switched his Image and Presto!!!! All brand new.
good point many people wouldn t notice this the whole making of diamond dogs is interesting to me i admire george orwell s writing and bowie was turned down by orwell s wife in terms of using the book directly don t ask me about the legal niceties
Bowie's walk on the razor between Art & Fame... The vice between Ethics & Temptation... this is one of bowie's deepest works. It rivals the Man who Sold the World.
I purchased this back in 74. I'd since forgotten how good it was/is. I believe Bowie's voice peaked in it's power and control from Aladdin Sane through to Station to Station. Ironically those were his cocaine years.
Listening to Bowie evokes every memory from my childhood. First everything. Enough said… it truly saddens me that he is no longer here in reality but spirit alone will have to do.
So many perfectly delivered verses in this song. The chorus is beautiful. A thick and twisted love song meant for the characters in 1984 I assume. The commentary is brilliant to me. One of my favorite songs. Next to Teenage Wildlife.
Wow. Every once in a while auto play strikes gold. I wore out Changes and most of everything after that but I had never heard this. It made me feel like I was hearing new genius Bowie all over again😍.
This is incredibly prophetic on the level of Orwells 1984....the prophetic gifting is creative and visionary, foretelling as well as forthtelling.....with this album Bowie is spinning a tale of a dystopian world but more specifically America.....with everything going on now I think the stage is almost completely set and we are close to the play being started......
@@davidparsons7284 Yeah, Orwell's estate has always been very careful with the licensing. Though god damn, even though you wouldn't think a musical of 1984 would work, but after you hear the bits and pieces left, it would have been amazing.
totally agree with bill taylor but here s something to get you going - read mockingbird by walter tevis - no this is not a wind up - he s the guy who wrote man who fell to earth - i love this book - it s in my my top 10 along with the master and the margerita - count them 15 round the table white and pressed to kill - because of all we ve seen - it has the same gravitas as paradise lost
It's a wonder he got away with the f word with the censor back then. I thought it was funky pumps for ages until I could get to read the lyrics. One of Bowie's darkest songs.
@@dianaelisabet4309 ua-cam.com/video/upyHkkSdv2M/v-deo.html, it's an alternate take it couldn't replace the one on the album it wouldn't fit but its s great version that I actually prefer, maybe as like the last song check it out
This album was originally going to be his musical homage to "1984" but Orwells estate wouldn't let him buy rights. This album was the result. I can hardly imagine how intense and insane that album would have been.
I sing this out loud when I get stuck behind old hits in the supermarkets I swear they will die in frront of me and I will have to wait for them to be bagged and tagged.
'We are the Dead ' are words that appear in Orwells 1984. Winston and Julia say this to each other as they try to have an affair and defeat the system .... because they know they will eventually be tracked down and killed by the Thought Police
less advertising would help. force a "cognitive drinking disorder ad" for instance, the ad ver tis ment preceding this lovely DAVID BOWIE tune, harming through social media blasphemer because (!) of what was said....desecrater man the advertiser.
Kids today don't understand the chill words can create. Nothing paints a picture better than a well written lyric. And this song is a constant chill. Damn I miss this stuff.
Yep and impressive performer skills are quite something too. Lot of people could write as well as Bowie did, but singing at the same level?...
The guy was the incarnation of multifaceted talent
@@BGatts666 I would agree this studio recording is brilliantly executed. His delivery of the versus are completely on point with so much feeling and thickness.
Thank you for adding the lyrics. I tried to tell people to listen to the words because they’re more interesting than ever. And how it was written for the book 1984 he was hoping to do a musical, but he could not get the rights from the surviving Mrs. Orwell. They asked him to do the songs for the movie and he declined and the Eurythmics got the job.
I bought this album when it came out for $4.99. I saw him in February 1976 at the forum in Montreal when I was 15. It blew me away. He opened with Station to Station he came out of the mist on the stage , the thin white Duke with his flash of blond/orange hair and white shirt ,black pants and vest smoking a Gaulliose. Beautiful imagery. Diamond Dogs was always my favourite but I loved them all. But I love you in your F-me pumps. Classic David.
Brilliant comment! I too purchased this as soon as it came out and this has always been my favorite album of his. This is my favorite song for its darkness. Shocked my parents. I too saw him in February 1976 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. I was 19. I felt like it was an audience with God. HIs music, words and persona kept me from under the wheels of a subway train many times. I only wish I had been able to see Mick Ronson.
I was there at the Forum that night. I was just describing that opening to some younger fans, the sound of the train coming through the Forum, the fog, him. I saw him again with Iggy Pop at Le Plateau. And I'm sorry I didn't see him again and again all the years he performed. Such an incredible man.
So many perfectly delivered verses in this song. The chorus is beautiful. A thick and twisted love song meant for the characters in 1984 I assume. The commentary is brilliant to me. One of my favorite songs. Next to Teenage Wildlife.
❤💀🖖🏽☠️🖤🌑💫⭐️🌑☀️
I love his disturbing poetry. Only his voice can carry it.
Hauntingly Beautiful. Ahh David Bowie 💛
Saw bowie live 10 times.Utter genius.
Most underrated song of all time
R.i.p. David u are the best lov ya.good album.thank you .
+ Harold The fish
You're so spot on... It's a damn shame too... This was the song, that made me fall in love with this album
Underrated??? Diamond Dogs is considered one the most important albums of his catalog.
@@aldan1694 Now it is, but read the reviews when it came out. Just recently it is getting its due.....
I was the Canadian Bowie imersonator;
and now :
this describes Canada, after our last election.
I don't know why but I just started listening to David Bowie and I'm pretty sad I didn't before
same, had to spend like 2 or 3 hours makijg a playlist with all the songs i could fins
You should listen to his older albums then, they are pretty cheerful and happy, compared to his later work.
My first single purchased was Life on Mars, 2nd was drive in Saturday. One the plusses of being born in 1959, I grew up with great music
im in the same place Katicas. For me I was drawn to him as an artist when I recently became more interested in my own creative process as a visual artist.
Hunk dory changed my life
Another of Bowie's countless brilliant songs which are not known to the broader audience
this song blew me away in 74 and it still does.
Me too
Best song by Bowie, he really pushes his voice here. True masterpiece.
I'll be the Judge of that .......
Not lady grinning soul?
Thanks for including the words. Amplifies the power of the song.
I was scanning back through all my Bowie tracks over mutiple decades and this is #1. Farewell mon brave. Your silence competes with hell.
agree
This is one of the best things ever written. ❤️
I adore your post.
Not only was this album and tour probably his most theatrical, even his voice was theatrical on this song. He really pulled out the stops on each and every line. So powerful!!
Makes sense. This album was originally meant to be a full musical.
David live and sweet things ❤️
He hated it after a while and rejoiced when a bee flew into the driver's mouth causing him to drive off the road and wipe out the props.
Not only was David exhausted he needed a change.....He cancelled the last leg of Diamond Dogs
He eloped with the "Thine White Duke"and wrote and recorded Young Americans in a few short weeks ....Switched his Image and Presto!!!! All brand new.
@@christianlewis6252 I saw that second leg of the tour as well. Dubbed Philly Soul tour I believe.
The diamond dog tour blew me away! Absolutely fabulous
A true Bowie classic IMHO
With some of his most cynical lyrics.
"Defecating ecstasy".
It doesn't get more bitter than this.
good point many people wouldn t notice this the whole making of diamond dogs is interesting to me i admire george orwell s writing and bowie was turned down by orwell s wife in terms of using the book directly don t ask me about the legal niceties
Bowie's walk on the razor between Art & Fame... The vice between Ethics & Temptation... this is one of bowie's deepest works. It rivals the Man who Sold the World.
Agree
AGREE
I purchased this back in 74. I'd since forgotten how good it was/is. I believe Bowie's voice peaked in it's power and control from Aladdin Sane through to Station to Station. Ironically those were his cocaine years.
I loved bowie from 13 years ove age. I'm 60 and woke up 4 years ago now all his songs have meaning he was telling us beautiful soul
No one truly appreciates a genius until he is gone.
No I did at the time along with many friends.
I really only appreciated him from 72 to 85.
This is one of my absolute favourite's 💙⚡
Nothing short of a masterpiece.
Listening to Bowie evokes every memory from my childhood. First everything. Enough said… it truly saddens me that he is no longer here in reality but spirit alone will have to do.
Been a Bowie fanatic since ‘73, this has always been my favorite. Exquisite!
Shout out to Mike Garson who plays this nice dreamy electric piano line weaving throughout Bowie's vocal.
Mike Garson is a pure genius. Alladin Sane - Say no more!
Fantastic song from a fantastic album by a fantastic artist
I couldn't agree more
This is the soundtrack of the world and mankind. officially from 2016 to its very ending.
On hearing this I'm instantly transported back in time
To another place
wat other place?
@@urdad9853 my girlfriend at the time
True genius..amazing, he took on Winston's character from 1984 ❤
So many perfectly delivered verses in this song. The chorus is beautiful. A thick and twisted love song meant for the characters in 1984 I assume. The commentary is brilliant to me. One of my favorite songs. Next to Teenage Wildlife.
This song is so great omg thank you for uploading this especially with lyrics.
GOTHAMS #1 FAGIT you're welcome
+Diana Elisabet do you have Twitter
GOTHAMS #1 FAGIT I don't
+Diana Elisabet oof
Una perla rara....molto bella! Grazie per il video....love Bowie forever
*david Bowie has great voice but also the sounds he use in his songs mind blown*
Wow. Every once in a while auto play strikes gold. I wore out Changes and most of everything after that but I had never heard this. It made me feel like I was hearing new genius Bowie all over again😍.
Just put on the complete Diamond Dogs album.
Wow! Powerful!
So far ahead for the time this was released absolute legend mr Bowie
This is incredibly prophetic on the level of Orwells 1984....the prophetic gifting is creative and visionary, foretelling as well as forthtelling.....with this album Bowie is spinning a tale of a dystopian world but more specifically America.....with everything going on now I think the stage is almost completely set and we are close to the play being started......
The unofficial musical to Orwell's "1984" that became Diamond Dogs....
Say "we are the dead" 3 times in front of a mirror in a dark room and a thin white duke comes and stands behind you.
Bowie. The best
I think, if there's ever another Nineteen Eighty-Four movie Diamond Dogs MUST be the album used for the soundtrack!
Bowie intended Diamond Dogs originally to be a musical for Orwell's 1984 but he could not get the rights
@@davidparsons7284 Yeah, Orwell's estate has always been very careful with the licensing. Though god damn, even though you wouldn't think a musical of 1984 would work, but after you hear the bits and pieces left, it would have been amazing.
I felt like it should have been, to begin with!
Gorgeous.
Astonishingly bleak, desolate and powerful. Not sure I will be able to listen to this song again.
These lyrics were created right from a God's mind.
Shesvii Bowie’s finest work
Umm... after dark star one should understand that bowie knew a great musician, but not Father God.
@@kelia.geancamp9775 i agree
@@kelia.geancamp9775 potato-potatoe (cuz they grow eyes too, huh!)
They characterize the moment that Winston Smith and Julia are arrested by the Thought Police in 1984 by George Orwell.
When David gets depressed... it's unique
I’m a big Bowie fan from way back and that’s the first time I’ve ever heard that song.
I ve cried so much on this song
Great job, Diana. Love this song as most of Bowie's catalog.
We are the Dead- the choruses are chants, not rants. i love this song!
The 2 lovers ..of the Novel..... realizing they are doomed if they keep meeting.
Who would Say that he would be that star man waiting in the sky
great book
Yes mate. I can't believe the musical still hasn't been made
It couldn't be made. He never finished writing for it.
totally agree with bill taylor but here s something to get you going - read mockingbird by walter tevis - no this is not a wind up - he s the guy who wrote man who fell to earth - i love this book - it s in my my top 10 along with the master and the margerita - count them 15 round the table white and pressed to kill - because of all we ve seen - it has the same gravitas as paradise lost
Well said.
This song is a major track off Diamond Dogs so gooood!!!!
Hauntingly atmospheric. It takes me back to the times of Peter Cushing and hammer horror
May 2020
Big Brother has us on lockdown,contact is prohibited
Bowie really made that and didnt get a nobel prize wow
A song that he NEVER performed live, by the way. Ever.
just wow so amazing
I know
Thanks
So much!
que temon!!!!!!!
Happy birthdwy, my prince
Happy journey Starman.😂
Ballad of strongmen .... with a hang-over.
thx: Doc Savage
Top 20 , I would say, it is hard to choose, but Top 20 ......
its hit us today 🙈
Big George Orwell 1984 vibes
It's a wonder he got away with the f word with the censor back then. I thought it was funky pumps for ages until I could get to read the lyrics. One of Bowie's darkest songs.
It's the theater of financiers
Count them, fifty 'round a table
White and dressed to kill
Listening to it, I'm pretty sure he sings 15, not 50, whatever the lyrics may say.
Have you listened to the Canidate demo its really great and should have been on the album
I think Candidate is actually on the album, but I know, it's such a great song, I love the lyrics
@@dianaelisabet4309 ua-cam.com/video/upyHkkSdv2M/v-deo.html, it's an alternate take it couldn't replace the one on the album it wouldn't fit but its s great version that I actually prefer, maybe as like the last song check it out
@@dianaelisabet4309 he means the demo version
sounds sooo clears, i discovered one feet or something noise in the studio sound at the end.
Superb
Intense
This and Future Legend, side 1.
Who knew ?
1984
This album was originally going to be his musical homage to "1984" but Orwells estate wouldn't let him buy rights. This album was the result. I can hardly imagine how intense and insane that album would have been.
True
Bowies Diamond dogs tour suffered when rhis song was omitted
I sing this out loud when I get stuck behind old hits in the supermarkets I swear they will die in frront of me and I will have to wait for them to be bagged and tagged.
Genius song. Bieber could never have done this.
Who is Bieber ??? Not even in the same league 😜
Harry Styles might have a chance though
Sweet thing mad men
this is just different bruh genius shit
This whole album is an occult working, as was Station To Station, and peppered with obvious references.
Imagine hearing this from someone else, not in a form of a song and you going ah? Well I do see myself.
Ok ok English is not my first language.
1984 anyone?
Beware the savage shore
I don´t know why but I always assumed this song was inspired by the 1st records by Alice Cooper´s band ( " Love it to Death " ; " Killer " etc " ) .
'We are the Dead ' are words that appear in Orwells 1984. Winston and Julia say this to each other as they try to have an affair and defeat the system .... because they know they will eventually be tracked down and killed by the Thought Police
@@grahambaker9077 " Defeat the system " ?
Now, that ,in turn , reminded me of " Heroes " ( within the context of 1984´s novel that is ) .
You are just an alley of the legion. Not leecher.
This is what 13 year olds in America should be listening to- not cardi b.
exactly
I do, but im in the uk
Really ᕙ(＠°▽°＠)ᕗ
F me pumps wow ..
where is ronson where is rock ???
goth 101
less advertising would help. force a "cognitive drinking disorder ad" for instance, the ad ver tis ment preceding this lovely DAVID BOWIE tune, harming through social media blasphemer because (!) of what was said....desecrater man the advertiser.
totally
suede made a career out of this song
more like 1984 lol
😂