David Bowie Breaking Glass

[123jsbach]

it must be nice to be perfect.

[123jsbach]

it must be nice to be perfect.

[teleny2]

At the same time Bowie was drawing Trees of Life in a coke-demented trance, I was being taught Crowleyan Qabalah from a nice old Jewish guy in a record store.

I sent Tree-themed interfaith Solstice Cards that December.

[sallyfieldrequired]

this feels much longer than 1:53, in a good way too.



[Guitarstratdude]

The best songs are always the shortest...

[mppaiges]

1,2,3..David invents 'dance/rock', years later done by Blondie, Gary Numan, Talking Heads...but before this record, it was either you rocked or went to Disco's like Studio 54...this fucking genius is responsible for so much musical invention it's frightening...I mean, listen to Scary Monsters, he got Fripp from King Crimson to play the blues and funk, Fripp..and he sings like Gawd..my all time favorite Bowie record, still sounds brand new,

fuck...oh yeah side 2 is great for having sex to!!!

[NightmareGanon]

@mppaiges Not to say this isn't a great album, but Fripp was already a pretty damn eclectic performer and there had been several other artists that had messed around doing music that was both "danceable" and "rocking".

[lyonslaforet]

I wonder what David Bowie drew on the carpet!

[LittleMuseListening]

@lyonslaforet He was referring to how he used to draw the Tree of Life (he was interested in Aleister Crowley) or various other symbols that could've been dark.

I looked this up too, and found a few sources that point to this interpretation.

[riverdale999]

Bowie always had kick ass guitar players,

[ulysses1904]

Saw him do this in Houston on the 1978 tour, had a seat up front. Great show.

[clovisr9]

BOWIE



[sallyfieldrequired]

The production on this album is so wonderful

[CommandoReko]

Great.

[MiaoPurrington]

The song's too short

[frostbyteSB]

The snare drum in this track is being proccessed through an Eventide Harmonizer which was a very new invention at the time.

[noff27]

Love this fucking song. Love fucking Bowie.

[wantsomecake328]

I think this might be my favorite song on Low...

[Pe0pleAreStrange1]

I sing this to my cat :)

[djbcat1]

I was excited to get this album when it first dropped in 77...It was a complete change from what he was doing... One side of the LP is all instrumental experimental and the other is a series of cutting edge rock/a;ternative art...love Bowie...his work will forever influence the music world....:

[jeancocteau1]

It's a fraudulant post-modern culture; filled with fraudulant post-modern people....or as Ingmar Bergman said in his 1969 moive "Persona' ..it's all lies and Imitation..everything and everone...

[FierceDiety344]

@jeancocteau1 Dude, shut up. Stop being a psuedo-intellectual prick and just enjoy the music.

[panos4800]

@jeancocteau1 Persona was made in 1966

[MightyMiguel]

@jeancocteau1 you total penis

[Rodjeure]

@jeancocteau1 It's amazing how you suck !!! Don't change , you're too good !!!!

Is your mental masturbation finich ?? Oh Oh it's coming again....

[buggsoscar]

@Rodjeure I love that someone who takes the name of a an artistic dilettante who contributed nothing of value to the cultural landscape, but merely acquainted himself with Coco Chanel, Nijinsky and Diaghilev, and basked in their reflected light, dares to lay charges of "mental Masturbation" against one of the most influential, yet dedicatedly prolific artists of all time in ANY media. Cocteau was a talentless, name dropping little twat, as clearly are you.

[Rodjeure]

@buggsoscar Ground Control to Buggsoscar , your circuits dead , there's something wrong.....

[jeancocteau1]

Bowie in an interview in 1980 for his Scary Mosters Album...said that in 1924 the DaDa's declared that Art is Dead. So what the hell can you do? After this? I mean you cant get anymore radical than that..., and all any artist can do since, is reinterpret what has already been done in new or meaningful way. People today refuse to acknowledge this; it's dishonest, and it shows how venal and corrupt people are today...

[Kainlarsen]

@jeancocteau1 Shut up, you arrogant hipster gobshite.

[laurimiking]

the work of a genius

[MARLACRAIG]

If the music world could be Love Nest......? will you marry me Mr. Bowie?..: )

[vanaimago]

shot lyrics, but really deep

[vanaimago]

*short 

[bexasaurous112]

How he manages to do so much with so little amazes me <3

[PennyLaneAlexa]

Rock n'roll !

[preditor815]

0 people haven't been breaking glass in your room again

[drogheda1966]

Bowie & Eno made lightning over water...

[987m654e321]

Absolute perfection! ~LOVE~

[garethparr]

Contrary to what some other people have said on here, I think the song's shortness is what's makes it powerful. It works great on Low.

[monicaflynn1]

classic untouchable!

[LortheBlair]

This song needed another verse.

[987m654e321]

I want MORE! I want total filthy desperation! I want him to go back in time & in his younger voice, record a dirty, psychotic, vengeful, sick, sexy version. Er, sexIER version. :D

[McCrawwmac]

wish this was longer!

[MultiFinlayson]

painfully good song

[exsoundus]

Probably his best album

[3000herman]

how uber-cool do you want it?

[andzwe]

Peculiar that, a year later, Nick Lowe recorded a song called I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass, that sounded a lot like Sound and Vision.

[ivankaramasov]

@andzwe He also had an album called Bowi. Great humour:-)

[kjsh987]

low get a 249 position onf roling stone´s 500 albums of all time

[ivankaramasov]

@kjsh987 That is way too low! :-)

[kjsh987]

@ivankaramasov offcourse its to low. this album is one of the best i ever heard. its full of life and colour and deserves more.

[19HALLOWEENJACK84]

This shit is PERFECT!!!

[sturmraist50]

It would be funny if the title of this was literal.

[smithhedgehog]

@sturmraist50 we'd all watch that ASWELL! :-)

[halloweenjack1974]

This music is wild ! I Love "Low", "Heroes" & "Lodger".

[BlueSoulJim]

a link between Hendrix and Hip-Hop!

[JesuitFarmer]

@BlueSoulJim hahah interesting. i've never heard that about bowie.



[Toughguysdontdance12]

@BlueSoulJim Hip Hop? Where the fuck is the Hip Hop? You don't know shit, kid.

[BlueSoulJim]

@Toughguysdontdance12 i can hear him rapping when he said "such a wonderful person"!

[garyfiguer]

un temazo de bowie , lastima que sea tan corto, te deja con ganas de algo mas !!