And our talk was old and dust would flow through our veins although it was midnight back at the kitchen door, like the grim face on the cathedral floor <3 BOWIE <3
no one can write with such power and clarity these days..The pop music game is too old-no more odd personal relvolutions that havent been and gone..what a gorgoeous shard
This is a perfect example of how creative Bowie was in the early days that brought him worldwide fame. The song's measures moved throughout the scale, and eventually changed tone entirely. The words were abstract as much of Bowie's material was locking the real world to one of complete fantasy with folklore constituents mixed in. All I know is the song makes me feel something, possibly scared and excited at once. The dude was a genius freak.
Although this song as a whole may not have a story behind it, each phrase and line holds enough individual meaning that it would be easy for someone to make a story out of it. By writing a meaningless song, David created one thousand separate stories.
I red somewhere, I don't remember when, something like this: Bowie: "I don't know really who wrote this song".
Hunky dory (whatever that means-i'm finnish) was the first david-album I bought,
and I do like this song, but the ending is rude,horrible to me ...It's like wandering in a green grassy medows, beautiful, but suddenly you find an orc-head cut out of the body with devillery kind of grin on it's face....
this song is to passionate to be about nothing...its about boys who get to gether and sneak out in drag...he said it wa for the American market to read into it whatever they wanted...but thats a fib thing to say......His Glory days have something to do with going out and being part of the nightlife scene in london with his brother Terry....He's his life is awindow into something Americans little knowlege of, the obscurescene around nacsent British Rock
I guess this song is really about whatever the listener imagines. Bowie said the song doesn't really make any sense ( like layers of ghost ), he wrote it for the American market and that Americans like to read something into something, which makes sense because that is exactly what I did. I always thought the song was about close brother-like friends who are inseparable and planning a suicide pact. For a song that means nothing it is dark and deep !
Always loved this track, the accoustic stuff, the vocals, the distorted bowie vocals at the end of the track...but what makes it for me is the Enio Moriconne -esque spaghetti western-style backing as the accoustic guitar builds in the middle of the track.
i fukin love this song.....takes me back to my folks old gramafone player, which i destroyed,,and stuk loads of speakers all over it.. ,,those were the days
I love Bowie's music dearly, honestly I do. However, I can't help but feel that if he hadn't put that extra bit on the end with the chorus singing, this would be the perfect song.
@chapaev36 All I'm saying is that the varispeed vocals bit clashes so much with the rest of it. The final chorus is so powerful and effective, to me at least, that it seems a bit off that it didn't end there, at its high point.
My Memories of this song... Moldgreen, Huddersfield UK (1971?) sat with 3 teenaged friends, absorbing new album tracks. No drugs no alchohol, just 2 good, music-loving, footy loving pals and a girlfriend, diggin on some QUALITY music. Great Innocent Days, when the sun shone ALL summer long....Well it seemed to.. (:
@TVybe What lovely memories:) And the sun definitely did shine all summer long, and it always snowed at Christmas didnt it when we were young? Such happy days; what would you give to visit the past JUST FOR A DAY, HEY;)♥
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79-80 I worked in Coulsdon Surrey as a Chef and all our Porters came from Cane Hill,the local care centre ,and most claimed to know Davids Brother.Locally it was quite well accepted as fact..They were the nicest peeps I worked with in 36 Years of being a Chef ;-)
Wimbledon 1988 sun rising over city on the hilltops overlooking London-seeing the face of God coming out of the floodlights of the football ground in lovely pastel shades-kicking thistels in a dressing gown in the back garden Elaine chasing a milkfloat in a prom dress and a pair of overalls oh the memories
@LadyBowie1119 Why do people do a lot of things? There were probably many reasons. Ex: Without necessarily 'being' gay or living the lifestyle of a 'transvestite', Bowie had long immersed himself in the world of theatre/mime and projected a very theatrical aesthetic. He badly wanted fame and wearing dresses and makeup was one way to get noticed! He and ex-wife Angie delighted in shocking ppl and blurring the gender boundaries of the time, each appearing neither wholely male or female.
Why, at 0:39, is he wearing a dress? And is that Haddon Hall behind him? I like personal pics, like the one at 1:35. Not just stage pics or album covers.
Why, at 0:39, is he wearing a dress? And is that Haddon Hall behind him? I like personal pics, like the one at 1:35. Not just stage pics or album covers.
Why, at 0:39, is he wearing a dress? And is that Haddon Hall behind him? I like personal pics, like the one at 1:35. Not just stage pics or album covers.
I have read somewhere that the song is about Bowie and his older brother, Terry, who had some psychological problems ... I think he was schizophrenic.
Do any older Bowie fans (I'm only 26), know what inspired Bowie to write this masterpiece? I'm always reminded of Frodo and Sam's journey in Lord of The Rings.
I read in a one of the many biographies written about him that the inspiration has been unclear. It has always been interpreted as a song about Terry, his older half brother who suffered from a family "curse" as he calls it, of having schizophrenia. David was always worried WHEN not IF the illness would claim him. I think he got over that through is cocaine period where he was in a mental state much like that of someone with schizophrenia.
@LadyBowie1119 I dunno. He was pretty out there, you could say the same for a lotta things. Why did he cut his hair into a proto mullet? The world may never know!!! Whatever it was, he looked beautiful <3
Che canzone meravigliosa.Nessuno poteva scrivere una melodia così malata di tristezza e amaro senso del vuoto attorno a noi e dentro noi. I fratelli Bewlay siamo noi, a volte, incapaci di comunicare con noi stessi e quindi con gli altri.Questa processione di dannati scolpisce l'anima di sentimenti al limite della paranoia.Sparare torte al cielo, i re dell'oblio, fratelli Bewlay...stiamo per scivolare via appena fa giorno....
long haired, pre-ziggy bowie always looks so innocent, as if he would NEVER do anything like live on a diet of cocaine and milk or save his semen in jars so that neither witches nor the government would take it . . . i personally prefer my bowie heroin-addicted, thin and white . of course, there's nothing wrong with long-haired . . .
I'd read that he did cocaine and did that stuff. So, he really did it? I also read that he used magic to help him quit... I didn't think any of that was true...
@Cher298262 Yea, I think it was round Alladin Sane that his cocain addiction began. The Ziggy Stardust persona went to his head I guess. I think he kicked off round 1976-1977 in Berlin, with fellow addict Iggy Pop. He made some great music round that period though. Especially Station to Station is obviously influenced by coke.
@Reint25 I doubt it started then, i think it started near the end of the Diamond Dogs Sessions, or possibly shortly before the tour, as Bowie was more fit, and you couldn't see musch symptoms of cocaine, like licking of the lips and snorting, the best example of bowie doing that is during his interview with Dick Cavett in December 1974.
@legomandroid Don't be so unbelivably ignorant. You do realise that Bowie had to put up with such bigoted rubbish most of his life. You do realise that liking Bowie in the 70's automoatically made you a "queer" in the eyes of people no more ignorant than you. And what's a "jem" anyway? people are allowed dislike whatever they want. It's called personal taste.
@alonsoxabilfc Ok. One of the two silly red necks gave his explanation. Now, wondering to hear the next one (I hope it's less aggressive than the expressed by this emo)
gazzah54, with respect, how can you say that? You need to listen properly to Station to Station, Low, Heroes, Scary Monsters, Daiamon dogs. Some of his best songs came after Aladdin Sane (which is one of his laziest efforts, by his own admission).Even et's dance has gems. Sound and Vision and station to station alone are worth far more than what nearly all song writers ever achieve. Personally i think Hunky Dory, Ziggy and Low are his best albums.
@alonsoxabilfc yes! station to station is my favourite song, followed closely by moonage daydream and heroes. it's hard to pick a favourite amongst so many "jems"
I still remember winning the school raffle in 1971/2and being able to pick any album from the "store" in the school. I picked this album and then a year later a buddy of mine discovered Ziggy Stardust. I then played him this album. He really discovered Bowie. This song is one of the reasons that the album is great. A song about David's brother who was sent to a mental institution.
I remember sitting n cooking,on the Devol School steps with my best-friend Jim. I think we played all day n all night.Warhol,Reed,Bowie...Rex He alway's carried his works in a fine calf-leather cashe'.
One of my fave cuts from "Hunky Dory", the necessary preamble to "The Rise And Fall............", when everything exploded and BOWIE became HUGE! Thanks to: izabelabar for the upload, You Tube for the space, and long live and God Save David Bowie! R.O.S.!
Like this song. It is scary the way the sound gets louder sort of like Neil Young's " expecting to fly".
Oh we were gone hanging out with your dwarf-man and so turned on by your lack of conclusions. I was stone and he was wax, so he could scream and still relax, unbelievable.
A love letter to David's older step brother with problems.
Real cool trader wish he had lived to enjoyed David's success.
@notmygeneration well to be fair, a 'has-been' is someone whose best work is well behind them so i guess he is. Bowie's last great record was made in 1980.
The lyrics are the most poetic of his career and were an accident ( waiting to happen?) they are attributed to his relationship with his brother. A nurse who I spoke to said Terry was really pleased about his brothers success and would have probably have had this in a present given to him by their Mother( visiting).
none better ---ever --- i detest pop music and yet i listen whenever Bowie sings anything !!! at 45 years old he is my constant ---- started listening to him when i was 10 ---diamond dogs used to scare the shit out of me with the lights off
What can we say, except David has an amazing voice. There is something so special about the early recordings. The voice is I guess why we first started to listen to him. All of the musical periods are amazing.
@phree2b "Oh, you pretty thing, don't you know you're driving you mama and papa insane!" "Hunky Dory" was very listenable from "ChChChanges" to this incredible closer The Moonboys "The Bewlay Brorthers" GOD SAVE BOWIE!
Anybody else noticed the similarity between the name and themes in this song to a story from the Viriconium books by M. John Harrison; namely, In Viriconium? There are 2 men called The Barley Brothers. They appear in the city and begin to be a kind of fashion amongst the people. They turn out to be gods (at the end of the story). They kind of take over the running of the city and have a dwarf-man in charge of the police. They sit in the gutters and eat pies and spit and swear. Go figure!
He was so far ahead of his time and some of those images of him with the gold circle on his forehead are amazing. I wish I could have seen him then, but I saw him on 3 occasions later on, but he was still great!
'Lay me place and bake me pie, I'm starving for me gra-vy' - Delivered in a broad Cockney accent is quite amusing as well. He was not without humour and was often funny in interviews.
Bowies step-brother terry a schizophrenic was the inspiration for the bewlay brothers along with aladdin sane all the madmen and jump they say.The song is about many things not just terry so as not to misrepresent the song he come up with the word bewlay named after the brand of pipe he smoked. Terry commited suicide in 1985...
I think Bowie can't really remember this one too well because it's a repressed memory. The lyrics sound to me like him missing the days of him and his brother being normal. The second verse: "I was stone and he was wax, so he could scream..." Is Terry, his brother, starting to lose it for the last time before never coming back.
"My brother lays upon the rocks..." Him looking at his brother after being institutionalized.
@AAR182 No, he said he wrote this song for American audiences because they like to over-analyze music. It's mumbo-jumbo. He once smoked a bewlay pipe so he named it Bewlay brothers after (I think) Tony Visconti and Mick ronson saying they're his 'brothers'
Does anybody recall the amazing fuss when Bowie returned from the "Hansa recordings" in Germany and was purported to have made a Nazi salute from the limo at Kings Cross Station. Hey, we had fun in those days? All he was doing was waving to fans!!!!
my best mate overdosed on coke twenty years ago..oh my friend, we were the the bewlay brothers...just a copy, but we were for real...rip ian, i never had time to say you were wonderful
And our talk was old and dust would flow through our veins although it was midnight back at the kitchen door, like the grim face on the cathedral floor <3 BOWIE <3
daviniaosgood 1 month ago
It's so damn difficult to express my feelings for THE MAN...it's all too much to put to words....
TheBitterSweetgr 1 month ago
1971-2012 damn thats older then my ma aha
gotobed79 1 month ago
no one can write with such power and clarity these days..The pop music game is too old-no more odd personal relvolutions that havent been and gone..what a gorgoeous shard
snicks70 1 month ago 4
"Star Trek in a leather jacket."-Roy Carr, 1981.
blackwelderadam 1 month ago 2
Best song ever, happy birthday Bowie!
MrUnknownPleasures 2 months ago 2
cant leave this song
Groblinfull 2 months ago 2
love it
hunky dory is my favorite album
I buy'd it on casset when I was 12 years old in 1992
yes I'm 31 years old now
BOWIE IS THE KING OF MUSIC
darkwaverful 2 months ago 8
LAY ME PLACE AND BAKE ME PIE I'M STARVING FOR ME GRAAAAVY.
xXOneHotLennonXx 2 months ago 2
I love this whole song, especially the ending haha
josk777 2 months ago
amazing
Somaletra 2 months ago
When you read about the life Bowie had , this song is just so powerful. Just always liked it.
This song is just so "private" you can only listen. Brilliant.
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Alamind 3 months ago
Top Bowie record
turner475 3 months ago
my favourite dwarf throwing song.....excellant
hotbuzzard 3 months ago
i listened to this song on mushrooms and it changed my life
crackjuicer 4 months ago
Yeah, well put.
sitwosaints 4 months ago
This is a perfect example of how creative Bowie was in the early days that brought him worldwide fame. The song's measures moved throughout the scale, and eventually changed tone entirely. The words were abstract as much of Bowie's material was locking the real world to one of complete fantasy with folklore constituents mixed in. All I know is the song makes me feel something, possibly scared and excited at once. The dude was a genius freak.
mediascribble 4 months ago
My favourite Bowie song, reminds me of the youth.
WoWerrty 5 months ago
Although this song as a whole may not have a story behind it, each phrase and line holds enough individual meaning that it would be easy for someone to make a story out of it. By writing a meaningless song, David created one thousand separate stories.
Pe0pleAreStrange1 5 months ago
I red somewhere, I don't remember when, something like this: Bowie: "I don't know really who wrote this song".
Hunky dory (whatever that means-i'm finnish) was the first david-album I bought,
and I do like this song, but the ending is rude,horrible to me ...It's like wandering in a green grassy medows, beautiful, but suddenly you find an orc-head cut out of the body with devillery kind of grin on it's face....
jkiistala 5 months ago
@jkiistala whoa, incredible imagery!
katrastrophy 4 months ago
this song is to passionate to be about nothing...its about boys who get to gether and sneak out in drag...he said it wa for the American market to read into it whatever they wanted...but thats a fib thing to say......His Glory days have something to do with going out and being part of the nightlife scene in london with his brother Terry....He's his life is awindow into something Americans little knowlege of, the obscurescene around nacsent British Rock
udohood 5 months ago 2
Was there ever a more beautiful man?
ourownlittle 5 months ago
I guess this song is really about whatever the listener imagines. Bowie said the song doesn't really make any sense ( like layers of ghost ), he wrote it for the American market and that Americans like to read something into something, which makes sense because that is exactly what I did. I always thought the song was about close brother-like friends who are inseparable and planning a suicide pact. For a song that means nothing it is dark and deep !
Rster462 5 months ago
My mates and I used to get loaded and watch clips from A Clockwork Orange while this played on our turntable.
mickeymousebiker1 5 months ago 2
even the vampires in this song could kick edwards sorry ass.
DansEditorials 5 months ago
13 was & is the best place, this song held enchantment,
broadstem 5 months ago
awesome pics!
jemappelledrwholuvr 5 months ago in playlist Music
awesome pics!
jemappelledrwholuvr 5 months ago in playlist Music
Always loved this track, the accoustic stuff, the vocals, the distorted bowie vocals at the end of the track...but what makes it for me is the Enio Moriconne -esque spaghetti western-style backing as the accoustic guitar builds in the middle of the track.
By the way , the lyrics are nonsense . :)
bankruptstate 5 months ago
love these old pics too :)
deadpammy 6 months ago in playlist David Bowie playlist (50 essentials)
One of the best ♥
deadpammy 6 months ago in playlist David Bowie playlist (50 essentials)
Americans should be banned from everything, they carry the cancer of self indulgence........
tanpiltanpil 6 months ago
This or moonage daydream is his best song
tanpiltanpil 6 months ago
i fukin love this song.....takes me back to my folks old gramafone player, which i destroyed,,and stuk loads of speakers all over it.. ,,those were the days
ABOYINSANE 6 months ago
"why is he wearing a dress?"as davy himself said at the time "ITS A MANS DRESS" perfect
siarung 6 months ago
nice photos ive never seen before
blakeyonthebuses 6 months ago
nice
ThePogle 6 months ago
ive adopted my mate as my brother but he now wants me to support him financially now he wants my house and daughter fuck him but i like the tune
gooshie3 7 months ago
fuckin gay
changl72 7 months ago
@changl72 Such a deep comment!
MmeLEnfer 7 months ago
@MmeLEnfer deep in the arse ;)
changl72 7 months ago
@changl72
You say that as if it's a bad thing.
SupperOfTheMightyOne 7 months ago
I love Bowie's music dearly, honestly I do. However, I can't help but feel that if he hadn't put that extra bit on the end with the chorus singing, this would be the perfect song.
SydWarden 7 months ago
@SydWarden If by 'perfect' you mean safe and radio-friendly then yes, it would be perfect.
chapaev36 6 months ago
@chapaev36 All I'm saying is that the varispeed vocals bit clashes so much with the rest of it. The final chorus is so powerful and effective, to me at least, that it seems a bit off that it didn't end there, at its high point.
SydWarden 5 months ago
@SydWarden Sorry if my reply was unnecessarily pompous. Not sure what came over me. It's a great song.
chapaev36 5 months ago
@chapaev36 Hey, no worries. We're all here to enjoy the song in our own ways.
SydWarden 5 months ago
This song is almost amazing as the man singing
iiSOBAKEDii 8 months ago
Bit of a star, eh?
sitwosaints 8 months ago
I swear they used the guitar noise at the end of the song in diablo
brodytheslayer 8 months ago
Maybe our greatest lyricist
TheKenfig 8 months ago
the best Bowie!!!!!! love
edwigederer 8 months ago
Beautiful :)
itwasonlytwoyearsago 8 months ago in playlist Best of
my favourite from this album to knock out on geetar
ABOYINSANE 8 months ago
The only man i know that looks better with age
manandmachine1 8 months ago
@manandmachine1 I knew him as a baby, he looked his best then
TheKenfig 8 months ago
My Memories of this song... Moldgreen, Huddersfield UK (1971?) sat with 3 teenaged friends, absorbing new album tracks. No drugs no alchohol, just 2 good, music-loving, footy loving pals and a girlfriend, diggin on some QUALITY music. Great Innocent Days, when the sun shone ALL summer long....Well it seemed to.. (:
TVybe 9 months ago 2
@TVybe What lovely memories:) And the sun definitely did shine all summer long, and it always snowed at Christmas didnt it when we were young? Such happy days; what would you give to visit the past JUST FOR A DAY, HEY;)♥
ralucagymnast 4 months ago
i love the lyrics so courageous and tell truth
sonicsteev 9 months ago
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MrKortosh212 9 months ago
79-80 I worked in Coulsdon Surrey as a Chef and all our Porters came from Cane Hill,the local care centre ,and most claimed to know Davids Brother.Locally it was quite well accepted as fact..They were the nicest peeps I worked with in 36 Years of being a Chef ;-)
zendog1996 10 months ago
the song shows a love of English ... of words
Timwgtn 10 months ago
"he could be you, he's camelion, comedian, corinthian, and caricature"
TomViolence12 11 months ago 21
Great old song.
1965guitarboy 11 months ago
Hunky Dory the first album i ever bought, started my interest in music, fantastic album !
lovecraft36 1 year ago
@lovecraft36
My first DB album also! Reality was my 2nd!
LadyBowie1119 11 months ago
Heard this for the first time during London visit in early 90's driving south on the
motorway in a SEVERE rainstorm with the Lorry's flying by! Unforgettable, long
version rules, Bowie speaking in tongues at his poetic best!
Thanks IZ!
Fashizle20 1 year ago
Wimbledon 1988 sun rising over city on the hilltops overlooking London-seeing the face of God coming out of the floodlights of the football ground in lovely pastel shades-kicking thistels in a dressing gown in the back garden Elaine chasing a milkfloat in a prom dress and a pair of overalls oh the memories
magiclard 1 year ago
Super-cool, dark and mysterious. Bowie is a total genius!
shinelikethunder100 1 year ago
Why is he wearing a dress at 0:39? And is that Haddon Hall behind him? I like the personal photos like the one at 1:35.
LadyBowie1119 1 year ago
@LadyBowie1119 Why is he wearing a dress? Because he's David fucking Bowie.
NeonAngel1997 11 months ago 60
@NeonAngel1997
Hahaha! He's the only man allowed to wear dresses! But, I'm serious. Why did David waer dresses??
LadyBowie1119 11 months ago
@LadyBowie1119 Why do people do a lot of things? There were probably many reasons. Ex: Without necessarily 'being' gay or living the lifestyle of a 'transvestite', Bowie had long immersed himself in the world of theatre/mime and projected a very theatrical aesthetic. He badly wanted fame and wearing dresses and makeup was one way to get noticed! He and ex-wife Angie delighted in shocking ppl and blurring the gender boundaries of the time, each appearing neither wholely male or female.
LantaGem 10 months ago
@NeonAngel1997 LMFAO ....cool...he looks equally sexy in a dress or a suit ....... i like your comment much :)
callicolady 9 months ago
@NeonAngel1997 best comment on YT......i'm still feckin laughing :D
callicolady 9 months ago
@callicolady Haha thanks :]
NeonAngel1997 9 months ago
@NeonAngel1997
David's fucking Bowie? Oh my god.
DJStimpy 6 months ago
@NeonAngel1997 If you've got the original Hunky Dory album with him wearing a dress look after it---worth money
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LadyBowie1119 1 year ago
I have read somewhere that the song is about Bowie and his older brother, Terry, who had some psychological problems ... I think he was schizophrenic.
Topographer 1 year ago
I love the ending with the spacey crickets. It sounds like little green men!!
frank02111 1 year ago
Do any older Bowie fans (I'm only 26), know what inspired Bowie to write this masterpiece? I'm always reminded of Frodo and Sam's journey in Lord of The Rings.
WoodRatGirl 1 year ago
@WoodRatGirl
I read in a one of the many biographies written about him that the inspiration has been unclear. It has always been interpreted as a song about Terry, his older half brother who suffered from a family "curse" as he calls it, of having schizophrenia. David was always worried WHEN not IF the illness would claim him. I think he got over that through is cocaine period where he was in a mental state much like that of someone with schizophrenia.
LadyBowie1119 1 year ago
@LadyBowie1119 I dunno. He was pretty out there, you could say the same for a lotta things. Why did he cut his hair into a proto mullet? The world may never know!!! Whatever it was, he looked beautiful <3
NeonAngel1997 11 months ago
Che canzone meravigliosa.Nessuno poteva scrivere una melodia così malata di tristezza e amaro senso del vuoto attorno a noi e dentro noi. I fratelli Bewlay siamo noi, a volte, incapaci di comunicare con noi stessi e quindi con gli altri.Questa processione di dannati scolpisce l'anima di sentimenti al limite della paranoia.Sparare torte al cielo, i re dell'oblio, fratelli Bewlay...stiamo per scivolare via appena fa giorno....
Perfidia4ever 1 year ago
long haired, pre-ziggy bowie always looks so innocent, as if he would NEVER do anything like live on a diet of cocaine and milk or save his semen in jars so that neither witches nor the government would take it . . . i personally prefer my bowie heroin-addicted, thin and white . of course, there's nothing wrong with long-haired . . .
newfuckingwave 1 year ago
@newfuckingwave
I'd read that he did cocaine and did that stuff. So, he really did it? I also read that he used magic to help him quit... I didn't think any of that was true...
Cher298262 1 year ago
@Cher298262
The magic thing is BS lol.
WoodRatGirl 1 year ago
@Cher298262 Yea, I think it was round Alladin Sane that his cocain addiction began. The Ziggy Stardust persona went to his head I guess. I think he kicked off round 1976-1977 in Berlin, with fellow addict Iggy Pop. He made some great music round that period though. Especially Station to Station is obviously influenced by coke.
Reint25 1 year ago
@Reint25 I doubt it started then, i think it started near the end of the Diamond Dogs Sessions, or possibly shortly before the tour, as Bowie was more fit, and you couldn't see musch symptoms of cocaine, like licking of the lips and snorting, the best example of bowie doing that is during his interview with Dick Cavett in December 1974.
MrMAHBOI1 1 year ago
Were can i find thoose bowie´s pictures...¿?¿? (with long hair) thank you!!
juanpsicodelico 1 year ago
wow. that was fast. anyway, red neck, queer, emo... i'll just leave you to your problems i think.
alonsoxabilfc 1 year ago 2
@alonsoxabilfc
I wouldn't have bothered arguing with him in the first place lol.
WoodRatGirl 1 year ago
Hey you, the two silly queers who dislike this jem, I wonder what could be your stupid reasons?
legomandroid 1 year ago
@legomandroid Don't be so unbelivably ignorant. You do realise that Bowie had to put up with such bigoted rubbish most of his life. You do realise that liking Bowie in the 70's automoatically made you a "queer" in the eyes of people no more ignorant than you. And what's a "jem" anyway? people are allowed dislike whatever they want. It's called personal taste.
alonsoxabilfc 1 year ago 4
@alonsoxabilfc Ok. One of the two silly red necks gave his explanation. Now, wondering to hear the next one (I hope it's less aggressive than the expressed by this emo)
legomandroid 1 year ago
gazzah54, with respect, how can you say that? You need to listen properly to Station to Station, Low, Heroes, Scary Monsters, Daiamon dogs. Some of his best songs came after Aladdin Sane (which is one of his laziest efforts, by his own admission).Even et's dance has gems. Sound and Vision and station to station alone are worth far more than what nearly all song writers ever achieve. Personally i think Hunky Dory, Ziggy and Low are his best albums.
alonsoxabilfc 1 year ago
@alonsoxabilfc yes! station to station is my favourite song, followed closely by moonage daydream and heroes. it's hard to pick a favourite amongst so many "jems"
fleamarket3000 1 year ago
AFTER ALADIN SANE IT WAS ALL DOWN HILL
gazzah54 1 year ago
am astounded as ever when I hear it again Come to Glasgow, DAvid.
soundsarama 1 year ago
I still remember winning the school raffle in 1971/2and being able to pick any album from the "store" in the school. I picked this album and then a year later a buddy of mine discovered Ziggy Stardust. I then played him this album. He really discovered Bowie. This song is one of the reasons that the album is great. A song about David's brother who was sent to a mental institution.
wpollock1 1 year ago
so beautiful!
PAULisDEADMANnumber9 1 year ago
im staring for my gravy
sallyfieldrequired 1 year ago
Loved your video where do you get the pics from ??
derek6678421 1 year ago
this song is...awesomely moving.
MalcumTurnbull 1 year ago
'I was stone and he was wax so he could scream and still relax...unbelievable'.Brilliant and beautiful.
64adman 1 year ago
I wish the band Sacarin Trust was one of the "Suggestions" on the right, but sadly, they don't appear to be on 'Tube *sigh*
FungusMossGnosis 1 year ago
Thanks for this izabelabar. Hunky Dory was and still is a wonderful album.Great pics too !
johnmckinlay67 1 year ago
Šta reći?
gligorijevicpetar 1 year ago
right on 'tsross13', i listen to this one over and over...
dinkeedee 1 year ago
I could listen to this song 50 times in a row and not get sick of it. LOVE LOVE LOVE this song. My fav Bowie song!
tsross13 1 year ago 3
I remember sitting n cooking,on the Devol School steps with my best-friend Jim. I think we played all day n all night.Warhol,Reed,Bowie...Rex He alway's carried his works in a fine calf-leather cashe'.
" I was most impressed" .....lol
Count22 1 year ago
If you are not Bowie fan...... You just would not understand. PURE CLASS
MrScottclarke 1 year ago
Music critics loved this album but it didn't do well in sales. It might have never been heard by many if Ziggy Stardust had not made him a superstar.
sazerac1 1 year ago
One of my fave cuts from "Hunky Dory", the necessary preamble to "The Rise And Fall............", when everything exploded and BOWIE became HUGE! Thanks to: izabelabar for the upload, You Tube for the space, and long live and God Save David Bowie! R.O.S.!
9erfandex 1 year ago
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Like this song. It is scary the way the sound gets louder sort of like Neil Young's " expecting to fly".
Oh we were gone hanging out with your dwarf-man and so turned on by your lack of conclusions. I was stone and he was wax, so he could scream and still relax, unbelievable.
A love letter to David's older step brother with problems.
Real cool trader wish he had lived to enjoyed David's success.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
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11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@11xzxzxz you mean David's older half or step brother
HAPL0GR0UP 1 year ago
my uncle said that David Bowie is a 'has been' listening to this song... how could one ever think that. I'm going to buy this album for him
notmygeneration 1 year ago
@notmygeneration well to be fair, a 'has-been' is someone whose best work is well behind them so i guess he is. Bowie's last great record was made in 1980.
pythonbyte 1 year ago
brilliant
driedhumour 1 year ago
I HEART THIS SONG!
botbagel 1 year ago
the best thing ever
AsboDolche 1 year ago
The lyrics are the most poetic of his career and were an accident ( waiting to happen?) they are attributed to his relationship with his brother. A nurse who I spoke to said Terry was really pleased about his brothers success and would have probably have had this in a present given to him by their Mother( visiting).
Davmicon 1 year ago
Great song ! Really wonderful lyrics! Bravo David!
pacific1814 1 year ago
none better ---ever --- i detest pop music and yet i listen whenever Bowie sings anything !!! at 45 years old he is my constant ---- started listening to him when i was 10 ---diamond dogs used to scare the shit out of me with the lights off
metalgypsy2010 1 year ago
Ohhhh...Bowie.....xo
rubyrose456 1 year ago
"I was stone and he was wax, so he could scream and still relax, unbelievable"
This record went around the clock when I was a teen. And I was a whole generation and 20 years away from it all.
MrHateregistering 1 year ago
@MrHateregistering same!!!!
AsboDolche 1 year ago
This is about as good as Bowie gets
lrojeda 1 year ago
@lrojeda of all his songs i come back to this
broadstem 1 year ago
What can we say, except David has an amazing voice. There is something so special about the early recordings. The voice is I guess why we first started to listen to him. All of the musical periods are amazing.
Thanks David
tabletop123 1 year ago 3
Still think he copied Syd - but, fair play!
MrLuciferSam 2 years ago
I'm a big Floyd fan, but I think he took what Syd left, and elevated to another level.
Either way both are great arists!
sydgerald 1 year ago
He was simply the best and no one has ever come close...all his lyrics from that era were amazing..he totally screwed me up..lol !!!
olauntlee 2 years ago
i love that haircut he got in that time
kjsh987 2 years ago
... love this.
AnnArckey 2 years ago
bowie was terribly androgynous..
flyingerrplane 2 years ago
My Absolute Fav Bowie Album,Hunky Dory,played this right on in Junior High,drove my Parents Totally Mad!!!
phree2b 2 years ago 2
@phree2b "Oh, you pretty thing, don't you know you're driving you mama and papa insane!" "Hunky Dory" was very listenable from "ChChChanges" to this incredible closer The Moonboys "The Bewlay Brorthers" GOD SAVE BOWIE!
9erfandex 2 years ago 2
Anybody else noticed the similarity between the name and themes in this song to a story from the Viriconium books by M. John Harrison; namely, In Viriconium? There are 2 men called The Barley Brothers. They appear in the city and begin to be a kind of fashion amongst the people. They turn out to be gods (at the end of the story). They kind of take over the running of the city and have a dwarf-man in charge of the police. They sit in the gutters and eat pies and spit and swear. Go figure!
vunderground1 2 years ago
@hinder90 - 'Fakers' it is.
He was so far ahead of his time and some of those images of him with the gold circle on his forehead are amazing. I wish I could have seen him then, but I saw him on 3 occasions later on, but he was still great!
'Lay me place and bake me pie, I'm starving for me gra-vy' - Delivered in a broad Cockney accent is quite amusing as well. He was not without humour and was often funny in interviews.
ViddyOMG 2 years ago
Bowies step-brother terry a schizophrenic was the inspiration for the bewlay brothers along with aladdin sane all the madmen and jump they say.The song is about many things not just terry so as not to misrepresent the song he come up with the word bewlay named after the brand of pipe he smoked. Terry commited suicide in 1985...
affectionatepunch 2 years ago
They thought we were fakirs...
Bowie was the penultimate freak. Nothing ever came close, ever. Godly.
hinder90 2 years ago
happy birthday to the original young dude led the way in fashion and music for 30 years
subsyboy 2 years ago
its about amphetamine
ficklewitch 2 years ago
I think Bowie can't really remember this one too well because it's a repressed memory. The lyrics sound to me like him missing the days of him and his brother being normal. The second verse: "I was stone and he was wax, so he could scream..." Is Terry, his brother, starting to lose it for the last time before never coming back.
"My brother lays upon the rocks..." Him looking at his brother after being institutionalized.
I might slip away,
just for the day.
AAR182 2 years ago 9
@AAR182 No, he said he wrote this song for American audiences because they like to over-analyze music. It's mumbo-jumbo. He once smoked a bewlay pipe so he named it Bewlay brothers after (I think) Tony Visconti and Mick ronson saying they're his 'brothers'
DanBlabbers 11 months ago
@AAR182 the song is about nothing. david bowie said it himself.
xandybander 11 months ago
@AAR182 his half-brother suicided under a train in 1986: Bowie had ignored him for years apparently
livegems 10 months ago
i think this song was dedicated or about his schizophrenic bro,
locriansrevenge 2 years ago
yeah that's the widely believed theory.
charmcchar 2 years ago
u ar spot on
bobburt1 2 years ago
i think there are druggy overtones too as Gravy used to be a nick name for heroin i believe. Just slip away etc. Thats how i read it anyway
stinkybeads 2 years ago
Does anybody recall the amazing fuss when Bowie returned from the "Hansa recordings" in Germany and was purported to have made a Nazi salute from the limo at Kings Cross Station. Hey, we had fun in those days? All he was doing was waving to fans!!!!
xXmollzaXx 2 years ago
ay it was the press that cos that shit
bobburt1 2 years ago
Good grief, this track is still haunting, after
all these years. God bless my vinyl copy of
Hunky Dory, and everybody who loved this
musical genius David Jones.
xXmollzaXx 2 years ago
massive echoes of syd barrett. which is no bad thing.
baboon2525 2 years ago
Maybe a nightmare.Maybe some cuts into David's soul....Real cool traders...We can't shoot pies in the sky. We love You David.
Perfidia4ever 2 years ago
Oh, and we were Gone
Kings of Oblivion
Marvellous!
malfisher 2 years ago
My favorite line of all time!!!
gumborific 2 years ago 2
heard this song last night on David Bowie's live concert on R2....wow.
lightflower 2 years ago
my best mate overdosed on coke twenty years ago..oh my friend, we were the the bewlay brothers...just a copy, but we were for real...rip ian, i never had time to say you were wonderful
63mik 2 years ago 27