This lives outside of time. It is the very definition of dead-center rock, bridging the gap between old styles of rock and a new wave not yet born. It's the missing link, ageless, suspended in midair by its own thermosphere, as it vaults without borrowing style from anything quite like it before. Most classic rock, which is great for its time, will always be trapped in its own era. Bowie music evades the event horizon of being dated, which normal light can't. His energy escapes, like x-ray jets!
Before guitarist Earl Slick started collaborating with the Rock God David Bowie, Mick Ronson was the man. A vastly underrated guitarist. He burned out way too soon. Man, those were the days.
What with that bass line which enters earlier that the rest? I never understood and said how could bowie the producer and master of everything related to recoding and much more, let this pass to the audience? I don't get it and maybe it's intentional like a joke or maybe (the thing I can't understand) like "I want it to be this way" it sounds good like this. Not everyone is into this but... at 38 sec when he says "get back home" 0:35 (.38 bass line). How does it sound to you?
Yeah I will and hopefully there's someone to reply something of value. Not some worthless answer.
Damn man I had changesbowie in vinyl many years ago and play(ed) every bass track and many lead guitar ones "eyes closed". It was almost scratched from many cycles. Then a few years ago unfortunately I was needing money really bad and I sold many of them vinyl's amongst those there was Nevermind from nirvana which I regret selling it as well.
@collector2002 I'd imagine that it was intentional, quite a few great musicians used complicated timings, and david bowie is a very creative person when it comes to song writing, so, it is likely the did that intentionaly. peronally I think it makes the song sound better.
this is such a great song. I do think the golden age of music/film was the 70's. I mean look at it. zepplin, sabbath, bowie, stones, pink floyd, etc etc and all the great films, experimental films of that time. but I think you can't really say 70's, you have to say late 60's, early 70's that period from 67 to 75 or so. that was a true golden age for music and film. can't wait to see the new top of the pops video. funny how back then it was just ho hum, another band, no big deal. now we realize
@alexandermorison "The first transmission of Jean Genie since 1973 will be in a BBC4 documentary, Tales of Television Centre, to be broadcast in the new year." (BBC ~ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-16150178 )
Jean Genie is where the rubber met the road! The Spiders were so far ahead of their time that even Bowie may have gotten a little bit too much credit for his early success. The whole group was in a time bubble that seems to be a bit sad at it's early (if necessary) demise. Bowie calculated right for himself. You know he was going to prevail after Ziggy and Aladdin.
But they were so good as the Spiders, you almost wish there was an alternate universe where they could have stayed five more years.
Three Dog Night released Black And White on an 1972 album Seven Seperate Fools. And this version of the song peaked at number one on the U.S. pop chart on September 16, 1972. So it seems I was 10 and it was 1972 for me also! 1971 version was by the group, Greyhound, not as big a hit for them. Interestingly, the original folk song was first recorded by Sammy Davis Jr. in 1957! The song was inspired by a US Supreme Court decision that outlawed racial segregation of public schools. Just to clarify.
i have found some really strange postings on 2 you-tube sites and am trying to work them out......"qi stephen fry puts alan in his place" and "robert garopa". go through the back comments for about 3 months.
Just tuning into the Jean Genie Video on you site incidentally it was announced today that the video has been found of this performance and has been transferred digitally to HD from the 2"master tape which had been kept by a BBC cameraman it will be shown for the first time in 38years on Wed 21 Dec on TOTP2 Xmas special at 7.30 spread the word.
Every since I was a kid, I"ve always loved David Bowie. Saw the clip of this song(and others) at a mate's place last night on the DVD version of "Best of Bowie", and they sure brought back many awesome memories of our childhoods!! Ahhhh, They don't write tunes like that anymore!!
@lewisner Good choice for a first rock single! Mine was Black And White by Three Dog Night, 1971, a year earlier. I too am proud of THAT choice. A nine years old was fascinated by the need for everyone to have an equal purpose in the world. Jean Genie is the missing link song, I believe, that bridged old-style rock into the new wave. It transcends time, and if it came out tomorrow, would sound as fresh as when it came out in 1972! Even the Stones have dated. Even, dare I say, Zeppelin! Not this!
@MrMajorTime I'm pretty sure that the first album I bought was Space Oddity and I also bought Virginia Plain and For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music. Damn! those were the days 8-)
@lewisner I think my first album (still got it somewhere) was the soundtrack to Live And Let Die, 1973, featuring Paul Mccartney and Wings. Or maybe it was a Hugo Montenegro album featuring music from the movies: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, A Fistful Of Dollars, and For A Few Dollars More. May these early memories bring us fond meanings, even well past our very vinyl days! Happy Holidays!
@thehumandidge the song Jean Genie was recorded weeks before Blockbuster writen by chin-chapman .Those two must have heard some parts of the song that Bowie was recording and they stole the rif to get a new hit for the Sweet .In his book wrote by Steve Priest * he said * it was sad . now we had an number 1 in the UK and we stood at 1 and Bowie at 2 .We both lost sales .I m sure that Bowie was first , however i must say i m a SWeet fan
Listen to his vocalization. This is now just as if he's sitting in the room with you. It doesn't matter. It transcends all time. No chance of dating this. This could come out tomorrow as well as yesterday. It gathers all that was and takes all that will come and balances it in one moment that defines time itself. You can not do better. You can't get more "hip". This is as cool as it gets. As sexy as time allows. The essence of Bowie, mankind, and the space program! We will bow to this in heaven!
I'll make a case, and I've been gathering evidence, that this is the first modern rock song. This is what you get when you look up rock music! This is the very definition of rock. Record sales mean nothing. Everyone copied this and took it into the future, not wanting to admit they knew Bowie or appreciated his genius. This video, this song, on this album, is where the past met the future, for Bowie and the rest of us. Afterward, there was no going back. We had been baptized with the directions.
Depeche Mode exists in the way it is because somebody auditioned David Gahan singin David Bowie's "Heroes", and a lot of comparissions came trough. Due to have almost the same Vocal tessiture, David Gahan was taken to do something more than just simply an audition. A pure example of how a single person can indirectly create something more beyond imagine or propossal.
@noisedownloader Nice thought. I'm sure he'll appreciate your enthusiasm when he gets to read it. Ronson was the purest of rock and rollers. Just out there to please the fans and himself with an innate, incredible sincerity and a feel for what sounds good and right and what just might be appropriate to send you into an audible orgasm of what is possible with a guitar. Kind of guy you could drink a cold one with while he teaches, entertains you with gifted expression, sometimes = Hendrix himself!
Beautiful Cydonia (region of Mars, famous for The Face On Mars [take a look] which is a clue, premonitory of Bowie's face). Beautiful Cyrinda (Foxe) at the Mars Hotel. The parallels are there for those who can read the writing on the wall. THIS was the focal point in time. Cultural brilliance, epic in its historic ramifications, right up there with Shakespeare: And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Understandably overlooked as the balance between old and new, because the next era was yet to come! But now that it has, look back in anger! Bowie was out front again, creating, indeed, DEFINING, the next ten years of pop culture and yet never really being a part of it. He forged the path, but could not be traced, because by the time artistry caught up with him, he was elsewhere. Right up to Let's Dance, he was at the vanguard, the test pilot, paving the way for those who followed. Never caught.
THIS particular song IS the missing link between old rock and all the new waves to follow. It is the most DEFINITIVE rock song of all time! Unrecognized initially, understandably overlooked by its balanced position between eras, as the middle ground between past and future (as Bowie), uncategorizable. Until now. Beginning modern rock. We could never look back again without accepting this promise of things to come. Bowie, by grace, bridged us into the future, relentlessly forward, it had to come.
I hate to say it, but don't these sets of rhyming lists of plain statements loosely surrounding a beat, pretty much pre-date Blondies Rapture rap by several years? It's just so damn good then, you don't recognize the style he invented before it was popular.
I remember a Wendy. She was so honest and down to earth with a slim body and a manly sense of humor. If only I knew then what I know now. She was just off-beat for the time but so ripe for plucking. Ah, oh is this speaker on? As you were.
I've got the original 1972 mix, without that silly snake sound. This is the Aladdin sane version. I'd like to put it on the net but i don't know how. Any ideas?
@tanpiltanpil got video editing software, make a presentation with the lyrics, then using that editing software, import the presentation into it, then edit the music over it
live in nyc - at 16 yrs old had my hair cut the exact way in this video - mullet and color. . . went to his concert at madison square garden and went to school on monday (catholic highschool) kept my bowie hair for at least a year . . my daughter at 10 yrs old found this album and she was probably the biggest bowie fan i knew. . . she loved telling her friends about my bowie mullet. . .fyi i am now a 53 year old bowie fan. . .love him. . .back then and now. . .
Hey VEVO , don't mean to be harsh - but may a gang of deformed , rabid , hillbillies crash your Christmas party and collectively dry hump you all until it causes an aneurysm .
This is the 7th time tonight I have told myself "just one more Bowie song, then I can go to bed." Bowie is just too good and addicting for that. I think it is time to go to bed and put a Bowie CD in and fall asleep to that.
my mate went out at dinner time from school and came back mid after noon with a perfect copy of Bowie's hair . this was early 70s in north east England , you have no idea how much balls you needed to do something like that ! the teachers alone wanted to beat him to death before his parents got there hands on him . i will always remember that day and the faces where a picture . lol
@lewisner sorry , it was the old thorney close comp , it was a lad in my class . i went into the navy in 76 when i came home on leave he was dead , killed outside the mecca . very sad but the good memories live one !
@lewisner I think sunderland was a lot smaller place than it is now and things that happened then spread like wild fire . he was a great lad , always good for a laugh a real crime to die so young . but he lives on in his friends hearts .
Kids in schools today, they don't know what rebellion is. I should know, Im one of them. They walk around in their bright scarves and their rediculous parashoot pants and tank tops and quiffs and whatever it is they feel like wearing and good on them, but no one honestly bats an eyelid, they just think they look a bit daft. That battle was fought in the 70s, when homophobia and preduidice were so high, and there was actual rebellion behind it all.
@PAULisDEADMANnumber9 Cyrinda Foxe, one of Andy Warhol's brood. She was friends with Bowie when he wrote the song, and had an affair with him at the time they shot this video.
@Pietro07061993 sorry mate but if you want the truth your a puff ohh well dont deny it nd enjoy your life go get bum chasing dude ... not mine though its delicate
My brother walks by the computer while I'm watching this and he questions, "The hell are you doing?" And I reply, "Preparing for my finals." I regret nothing.
This lives outside of time. It is the very definition of dead-center rock, bridging the gap between old styles of rock and a new wave not yet born. It's the missing link, ageless, suspended in midair by its own thermosphere, as it vaults without borrowing style from anything quite like it before. Most classic rock, which is great for its time, will always be trapped in its own era. Bowie music evades the event horizon of being dated, which normal light can't. His energy escapes, like x-ray jets!
MrMajorTime 4 hours ago
are they talking about the french novelist?
naifgobory 5 days ago
the only man who could rock a ginger mullet and still look soooo hot!
christinechurch1963 2 weeks ago 10
The first record I bought!
bananasplitsable 2 weeks ago
Mick always looks so pained when he plays
Mudvelum 2 weeks ago
My god was that Monroe look a like feeling it!
MrRastaManDan 2 weeks ago
what the hell is mick ronson wearing at 01.21, he looks ridiculous.
MrLawman10 2 weeks ago
Before guitarist Earl Slick started collaborating with the Rock God David Bowie, Mick Ronson was the man. A vastly underrated guitarist. He burned out way too soon. Man, those were the days.
kilts4u2 2 weeks ago
Happy Birthday, my favourite musician.
TheGornbo 3 weeks ago
Happy Birthday David Bowie! You legend!! <3
paulmccartney7ElvisP 3 weeks ago
David Bowie 65 years young! :) Born January 7th 1947
MittNamnFrigolit 3 weeks ago
@MittNamnFrigolit Correction the 8th.
SuperCrazygirl47 1 week ago
What a great video and song ! Ronson rules !
SIR46661 3 weeks ago
@SIR46661 And deserves far more credit than he gets.
Terryodo2 3 weeks ago
I love the "uhu" ♥
renierdirty 3 weeks ago
Good tune.
thegeezerdan 3 weeks ago
uh yeahhhhhhhh jean jean genie
natsgallani 3 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for David Bowie
this makes me want to eat all your razors and smile like a reptile so simple minded
hudsonBay89 4 weeks ago
Yeah Shawn, Thanks! When you were a toddler I was rocken to this!
CuppyCakeandMe 4 weeks ago
ouai ou plagia de Jacques Dutronc mdr
hairlybrothers57 4 weeks ago
What year was this filmed in?
twopure 1 month ago
What with that bass line which enters earlier that the rest? I never understood and said how could bowie the producer and master of everything related to recoding and much more, let this pass to the audience? I don't get it and maybe it's intentional like a joke or maybe (the thing I can't understand) like "I want it to be this way" it sounds good like this. Not everyone is into this but... at 38 sec when he says "get back home" 0:35 (.38 bass line). How does it sound to you?
collector2002 1 month ago
@collector2002 wtf u saying?? it's a masterpiece
priccelli 1 month ago
@priccelli
Obviously you don't get it. It's not your league. Don't bother go searching in wiki that's not the kind of stuff to go there.
Any bass player here or an average musician for this matter?
collector2002 1 month ago
@collector2002 Sounds like you drink some really really good stuff. Hang in there.
somesongsmakemecry 1 month ago
@somesongsmakemecry
Yeah I will and hopefully there's someone to reply something of value. Not some worthless answer.
Damn man I had changesbowie in vinyl many years ago and play(ed) every bass track and many lead guitar ones "eyes closed". It was almost scratched from many cycles. Then a few years ago unfortunately I was needing money really bad and I sold many of them vinyl's amongst those there was Nevermind from nirvana which I regret selling it as well.
collector2002 1 month ago
@collector2002 maybe he liked it..I like it too :)
minolezgun 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@collector2002 I'd imagine that it was intentional, quite a few great musicians used complicated timings, and david bowie is a very creative person when it comes to song writing, so, it is likely the did that intentionaly. peronally I think it makes the song sound better.
llamatimetobi98 1 month ago
Oh heellll yea this is when they all said I looked like dave bowie, I was 13. Oh yea ""girl""
Llewellan 1 month ago
this is such a great song. I do think the golden age of music/film was the 70's. I mean look at it. zepplin, sabbath, bowie, stones, pink floyd, etc etc and all the great films, experimental films of that time. but I think you can't really say 70's, you have to say late 60's, early 70's that period from 67 to 75 or so. that was a true golden age for music and film. can't wait to see the new top of the pops video. funny how back then it was just ho hum, another band, no big deal. now we realize
fredgarv79 1 month ago
he's gorgeous!
LolaLavonda 1 month ago
Only the 60s came close.
Kevin107ish 1 month ago
The 70s wipes the floor with the 80s. 70s is easily the best decade ever!
Kevin107ish 1 month ago
the long lost video of this will be shown tonight 21/12/11 on T.O.T.P.2 ON BBC2 7.30PM.
gordybabe1 1 month ago 2
@gordybabe1
Saw it back then and saw it today!
Timeless.
youpullitcamaro 1 month ago
Looking forward to seeing the long lost top of the pops clip of this song
yewchew 1 month ago
....music of 70 was second best...after 80s.....but some records are unforgetable....like this.....my uncle listen this song often....
spiddy1969 1 month ago
They have just found the 1973 top of the pops recording of Jean genie. Assumed lost for 38 years. Will you tube put it up? I hope so.
alexandermorison 1 month ago
@alexandermorison "The first transmission of Jean Genie since 1973 will be in a BBC4 documentary, Tales of Television Centre, to be broadcast in the new year." (BBC ~ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-16150178 )
ripefigs 1 month ago
@ripefigs Great, cheers mate.
alexandermorison 1 month ago
@alexandermorison one of my subscribers uploaded it the other day /watch?v=1hGKu5F2prg&feature=g-all-u&context=G2770bafFAAAAAAAAAAA
LolaLavonda 1 month ago
Jean Genie is where the rubber met the road! The Spiders were so far ahead of their time that even Bowie may have gotten a little bit too much credit for his early success. The whole group was in a time bubble that seems to be a bit sad at it's early (if necessary) demise. Bowie calculated right for himself. You know he was going to prevail after Ziggy and Aladdin.
But they were so good as the Spiders, you almost wish there was an alternate universe where they could have stayed five more years.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
Sorry for that bit of confusion. But I wanted to get that right even if I was off by a year.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
Three Dog Night released Black And White on an 1972 album Seven Seperate Fools. And this version of the song peaked at number one on the U.S. pop chart on September 16, 1972. So it seems I was 10 and it was 1972 for me also! 1971 version was by the group, Greyhound, not as big a hit for them. Interestingly, the original folk song was first recorded by Sammy Davis Jr. in 1957! The song was inspired by a US Supreme Court decision that outlawed racial segregation of public schools. Just to clarify.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
Whenever i hear this song i think about david bowie
ManBearBg 1 month ago
Whenever I hear this song, I think of Ian Curtis who was portrayed by Sam Riley in the film "Control" (2007)
WATCH IT.
MrDataCode 1 month ago 2
that 30 second rapper advertisement was god awful...
DavidCentsofHumor 1 month ago
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i have found some really strange postings on 2 you-tube sites and am trying to work them out......"qi stephen fry puts alan in his place" and "robert garopa". go through the back comments for about 3 months.
figbat1 1 month ago
On 03'07 sweet mistake on the bass. "No second take. It will do. Nobody will notice". Music played by human beings.
lust4bass 1 month ago
Just tuning into the Jean Genie Video on you site incidentally it was announced today that the video has been found of this performance and has been transferred digitally to HD from the 2"master tape which had been kept by a BBC cameraman it will be shown for the first time in 38years on Wed 21 Dec on TOTP2 Xmas special at 7.30 spread the word.
AUCHINSTARRY 1 month ago
BOLAN, BOWIE, who's next ?..
MrLFLEX 1 month ago
think its his mrs angie bowie
arthurpussy 1 month ago
@arthurpussy She's Cyrinda Foxe, Steve Tyler's ex-wife
243mateoandres 1 month ago
realise now bowie wouldnt have done so well as ziggy without him
arthurpussy 1 month ago
mick was fucking good man
arthurpussy 1 month ago
Love the girl in the beginning <3 !!
AGRtRo 1 month ago
NICE DAY !
hotdave86000 2 months ago
IS DAT HIS WIFE ??? WOW ! 1
hotdave86000 2 months ago
Blew me away at aged 11.....never been the same since!
jollyzz 2 months ago
love the rythm
christiaan81music 2 months ago
loves chicken walls
far flung
SuperMegaUberGenius 2 months ago
I think David and Alice Cooper are the only two people who can really pull off the compltly strange stage persona
nirvanafan91ify 2 months ago 2
@nirvanafan91ify And Siouxsie Sioux. Watch the video of "Miss The Girl" by The Creatures.
lewisner 1 month ago
Every since I was a kid, I"ve always loved David Bowie. Saw the clip of this song(and others) at a mate's place last night on the DVD version of "Best of Bowie", and they sure brought back many awesome memories of our childhoods!! Ahhhh, They don't write tunes like that anymore!!
Phillip98183 2 months ago
Whenever I hear this song, I think of Gene Hunt.
handstouchinghands 2 months ago 67
@handstouchinghands And I - for Gene Simmons! :D
alexandergenov1984 1 month ago
@handstouchinghands Nice motor
somesongsmakemecry 1 month ago
@handstouchinghands Gene Hunt ?? Gene Hunt??? SAM WHEET SAM WHEET??
MALTYKIA 3 days ago
TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEE
huggybear271 2 months ago
Good old Mick...
pigyob 2 months ago
@pigyob : Mick Was The God Damn Man!!
jirvin3268 2 months ago
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@Kikirimiau007
man, you really have nothing better to do than fap in your mom's basement don't you. fuck off really, nobody cares whatever you think stupid fuck
andreaad27 2 months ago
@Kikirimiau007
man, you really have nothing better to do than fap in your mom's basement don't you. fuck off really, nobody cares whatever you think stupid fuck
andreaad27 2 months ago
thats what we called style, not what we call trends.
mehidalgo18 2 months ago
me encantas david bowie****
reyjackson58 2 months ago
lol, this shit is gay
Kikirimiau007 2 months ago
His smile at 0:07 so hot!
mmaies 3 months ago
reptil
YaredCastle 3 months ago
the jean gene hunt
hlshaw21 3 months ago
Walking quickly to this song makes me feel like a sex machine.
Cobain136 3 months ago in playlist Cobain136's favorites 47
@Cobain136 LOL!
sleepymommy 1 month ago
@Cobain136 Ha ha. In that case, you probably are . . .
somesongsmakemecry 1 month ago
@Cobain136
Same x3 it makes me feel sexy
PunkPopRap 3 weeks ago
Have you noticed that both Bowie and the lead guitarist are actually off their faces on drugs, they look as high as a kite.
MrRobfullarton 3 months ago
20 dislikes they must be hearbroken westlife fans .
gengw69 3 months ago
good times
jenniferjuniper97 3 months ago
timeless
evalex71 3 months ago
Proud to say this is the first rock single I ever bought .
lewisner 3 months ago
@lewisner Good choice for a first rock single! Mine was Black And White by Three Dog Night, 1971, a year earlier. I too am proud of THAT choice. A nine years old was fascinated by the need for everyone to have an equal purpose in the world. Jean Genie is the missing link song, I believe, that bridged old-style rock into the new wave. It transcends time, and if it came out tomorrow, would sound as fresh as when it came out in 1972! Even the Stones have dated. Even, dare I say, Zeppelin! Not this!
MrMajorTime 1 month ago
@MrMajorTime I'm pretty sure that the first album I bought was Space Oddity and I also bought Virginia Plain and For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music. Damn! those were the days 8-)
lewisner 1 month ago
@lewisner I think my first album (still got it somewhere) was the soundtrack to Live And Let Die, 1973, featuring Paul Mccartney and Wings. Or maybe it was a Hugo Montenegro album featuring music from the movies: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, A Fistful Of Dollars, and For A Few Dollars More. May these early memories bring us fond meanings, even well past our very vinyl days! Happy Holidays!
MrMajorTime 1 month ago
the same rif as blockbuster by the Sweet ,
walter4092 4 months ago
@walter4092 yeah they stole it from bowie
thehumandidge 3 months ago
@thehumandidge the song Jean Genie was recorded weeks before Blockbuster writen by chin-chapman .Those two must have heard some parts of the song that Bowie was recording and they stole the rif to get a new hit for the Sweet .In his book wrote by Steve Priest * he said * it was sad . now we had an number 1 in the UK and we stood at 1 and Bowie at 2 .We both lost sales .I m sure that Bowie was first , however i must say i m a SWeet fan
walter4092 3 months ago
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TheRoyuk 4 months ago
Listen to his vocalization. This is now just as if he's sitting in the room with you. It doesn't matter. It transcends all time. No chance of dating this. This could come out tomorrow as well as yesterday. It gathers all that was and takes all that will come and balances it in one moment that defines time itself. You can not do better. You can't get more "hip". This is as cool as it gets. As sexy as time allows. The essence of Bowie, mankind, and the space program! We will bow to this in heaven!
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist Bowie
I'll make a case, and I've been gathering evidence, that this is the first modern rock song. This is what you get when you look up rock music! This is the very definition of rock. Record sales mean nothing. Everyone copied this and took it into the future, not wanting to admit they knew Bowie or appreciated his genius. This video, this song, on this album, is where the past met the future, for Bowie and the rest of us. Afterward, there was no going back. We had been baptized with the directions.
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist Bowie
FUCK THE COMMERCIAL ON YOU TUBE
fededer0 4 months ago 2
This song is about IGGY POP, bitch.
SWISSCOLORVISION 4 months ago
@SWISSCOLORVISION kind off
brandy1000sissy 4 months ago
the only man to have the same stage presence as jim morrison!! two gods, man that would be total mental if they ever played live together eh?
se4nyb0y 4 months ago
david bowie sucks lol JK i love david bowie <3
dezinhamew 4 months ago
Depeche Mode exists in the way it is because somebody auditioned David Gahan singin David Bowie's "Heroes", and a lot of comparissions came trough. Due to have almost the same Vocal tessiture, David Gahan was taken to do something more than just simply an audition. A pure example of how a single person can indirectly create something more beyond imagine or propossal.
noisedownloader 4 months ago
Check out Mick Ronson in "Once Bitten Twice Shy" by Ian Hunter.
lewisner 4 months ago
Mick Ronson Rocks this tune.......! perhaps God take him to Heaven where actually plays the best guitars that God could give him.....!
noisedownloader 4 months ago
@noisedownloader Nice thought. I'm sure he'll appreciate your enthusiasm when he gets to read it. Ronson was the purest of rock and rollers. Just out there to please the fans and himself with an innate, incredible sincerity and a feel for what sounds good and right and what just might be appropriate to send you into an audible orgasm of what is possible with a guitar. Kind of guy you could drink a cold one with while he teaches, entertains you with gifted expression, sometimes = Hendrix himself!
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist Bowie
Beautiful Cydonia (region of Mars, famous for The Face On Mars [take a look] which is a clue, premonitory of Bowie's face). Beautiful Cyrinda (Foxe) at the Mars Hotel. The parallels are there for those who can read the writing on the wall. THIS was the focal point in time. Cultural brilliance, epic in its historic ramifications, right up there with Shakespeare: And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist Bowie
Understandably overlooked as the balance between old and new, because the next era was yet to come! But now that it has, look back in anger! Bowie was out front again, creating, indeed, DEFINING, the next ten years of pop culture and yet never really being a part of it. He forged the path, but could not be traced, because by the time artistry caught up with him, he was elsewhere. Right up to Let's Dance, he was at the vanguard, the test pilot, paving the way for those who followed. Never caught.
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist Bowie
Beautiful Cyrinda, RIP <3
PearTreeEnterprises 4 months ago
THIS particular song IS the missing link between old rock and all the new waves to follow. It is the most DEFINITIVE rock song of all time! Unrecognized initially, understandably overlooked by its balanced position between eras, as the middle ground between past and future (as Bowie), uncategorizable. Until now. Beginning modern rock. We could never look back again without accepting this promise of things to come. Bowie, by grace, bridged us into the future, relentlessly forward, it had to come.
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist Bowie
I hate to say it, but don't these sets of rhyming lists of plain statements loosely surrounding a beat, pretty much pre-date Blondies Rapture rap by several years? It's just so damn good then, you don't recognize the style he invented before it was popular.
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist Bowie
Walking on Snow White. That's so anti-Disney!
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist Bowie
well now we all know what the lead quitar players money shot face looks like.lol ah ha ha.
taepoongtkd 4 months ago
Nice to see Jimmy Savile on bass.
WylieWatson 4 months ago
The Gene Genie!
roxpr2000 4 months ago in playlist Music vids
THIS SONG WAS NOT WRITTEN BY DAVID BOWIE BUT BY FRENCH SINGERS JACQUES DUTROC AND JACQUES LANZMANM IN 1966
LA fille du Pere Noel"
polodemarseille 4 months ago in playlist David Bowie
@polodemarseille what the hell
MrArtreco 3 months ago
DCI Hunt
BENNYSIEGEL90 4 months ago
I remember a Wendy. She was so honest and down to earth with a slim body and a manly sense of humor. If only I knew then what I know now. She was just off-beat for the time but so ripe for plucking. Ah, oh is this speaker on? As you were.
MrMajorTime 5 months ago in playlist Bowie
the girl in the video looks like a cleaned-up nancy spungen
franzchick66 5 months ago
I've got the original 1972 mix, without that silly snake sound. This is the Aladdin sane version. I'd like to put it on the net but i don't know how. Any ideas?
tanpiltanpil 5 months ago
@tanpiltanpil got video editing software, make a presentation with the lyrics, then using that editing software, import the presentation into it, then edit the music over it
MrEmo1989 5 months ago
Happy-go-lucky video. Good,fun stuff!
lavasmokechile 5 months ago
live in nyc - at 16 yrs old had my hair cut the exact way in this video - mullet and color. . . went to his concert at madison square garden and went to school on monday (catholic highschool) kept my bowie hair for at least a year . . my daughter at 10 yrs old found this album and she was probably the biggest bowie fan i knew. . . she loved telling her friends about my bowie mullet. . .fyi i am now a 53 year old bowie fan. . .love him. . .back then and now. . .
pattichucka 5 months ago 3
The Jean Genie resides at M57.
MrMajorTime 5 months ago in playlist Bowie
well THATS a mullet
ManBearBg 5 months ago
trust the jean genie
therealflyingace 5 months ago
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
david82757 5 months ago
Hey VEVO , don't mean to be harsh - but may a gang of deformed , rabid , hillbillies crash your Christmas party and collectively dry hump you all until it causes an aneurysm .
franz909 5 months ago 2
@franz909 until you have to pay for youtube
psych380 5 months ago
god,he was so beatiful when he was young...
sokogorkowy 5 months ago
Is it just me or is Bowie the only one who doesn't look rediculous in the glam outfits?
karlgpienaar 5 months ago 42
@karlgpienaar He knew what he was doing and studied his art with complete control. He looked fabulous at times, ridiculous at other times.
alexandermorison 3 months ago
@karlgpienaar marilyn manson as well :L ?
aeromanson1 2 months ago
@karlgpienaar he looks veeeeeery cool and sexy
Loretotot 2 months ago
Still a great tune Its always gonna be a classic.
dinarathirty 5 months ago
I LOVE DAVID BOWIE!!!! THIS SONG IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES I LOVE IT!!!!!
Sakuya727 6 months ago
@DavidBowieRox123
Bowie lives in NY. Are you a bowie fan?
TheSsalty 6 months ago
this totally could have been a Stones tune
discokidx1 6 months ago
spider's era was bowie for me after that nothing
VamboMarbleye1956 6 months ago
1:13 i want socks like those!!!!
thecuteangel777 6 months ago
Thumbs up if you have a Bowie Boner!
Beatleslove93 6 months ago 18
@Beatleslove93 No 'wrong' androgeny is the territory of the teenager. No 'boner' just love. Cheers....
alexandermorison 3 months ago
17 people let themselves go.
Genkimark 6 months ago
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GirlsinFogandSmoke 6 months ago
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GirlsinFogandSmoke 6 months ago
I liked Labrynth
tealmonkey12 6 months ago
Bowie ... no one else has ever been in the race and ever will be ... thanks for posting this :)
jamezheart 6 months ago 2
This is the 7th time tonight I have told myself "just one more Bowie song, then I can go to bed." Bowie is just too good and addicting for that. I think it is time to go to bed and put a Bowie CD in and fall asleep to that.
AFIfreak4life1 6 months ago 2
who's the girl???
archeringnow 6 months ago
@archeringnow Cyrinda Foxe
TheJesterGirl 6 months ago
@TheJesterGirl thx! shes beautiful :D what a pity she passed away....
archeringnow 6 months ago
I'm in love with him
GhillieXXdhu 7 months ago
Fucking UNF
13hellkaat 7 months ago
my mate went out at dinner time from school and came back mid after noon with a perfect copy of Bowie's hair . this was early 70s in north east England , you have no idea how much balls you needed to do something like that ! the teachers alone wanted to beat him to death before his parents got there hands on him . i will always remember that day and the faces where a picture . lol
dave2806 7 months ago 98
@dave2806 That wasn't in Sunderland was it? I remember a lad getting sent home for that!
lewisner 5 months ago
@thats the place , great days
dave2806 5 months ago
@dave2806 Ha ha Southmoor School!!!!
lewisner 5 months ago
@lewisner sorry , it was the old thorney close comp , it was a lad in my class . i went into the navy in 76 when i came home on leave he was dead , killed outside the mecca . very sad but the good memories live one !
dave2806 5 months ago
@dave2806 Ah sad to hear that. There must have been a Bowie in every school!
lewisner 5 months ago
@lewisner I think sunderland was a lot smaller place than it is now and things that happened then spread like wild fire . he was a great lad , always good for a laugh a real crime to die so young . but he lives on in his friends hearts .
dave2806 5 months ago
@dave2806
Fucking brilliant! :D
Kids in schools today, they don't know what rebellion is. I should know, Im one of them. They walk around in their bright scarves and their rediculous parashoot pants and tank tops and quiffs and whatever it is they feel like wearing and good on them, but no one honestly bats an eyelid, they just think they look a bit daft. That battle was fought in the 70s, when homophobia and preduidice were so high, and there was actual rebellion behind it all.
MysterousBear 4 months ago 3
crasy good
FranciePart 7 months ago
Jean Genet. <3
LechugaVerdeVomita 7 months ago
Randomizerlucy must be thee most informed kid at his HS!
Bowie is the intelligent choice!!!!
SouthernWasp 7 months ago 2
@SouthernWasp cheers :)
randomizerlucy 7 months ago
The late, great Mick Ronson.
krzeaz 7 months ago 2
who is the girl throughtout the video? shes really hot.
PAULisDEADMANnumber9 7 months ago
@PAULisDEADMANnumber9 Cyrinda Foxe, one of Andy Warhol's brood. She was friends with Bowie when he wrote the song, and had an affair with him at the time they shot this video.
CapraPesce 7 months ago
I am heterosexual, but I wish so much sex with Bowie, old or young.
Pietro07061993 7 months ago 3
@Pietro07061993 sorry mate but if you want the truth your a puff ohh well dont deny it nd enjoy your life go get bum chasing dude ... not mine though its delicate
zxcthethird 7 months ago
I want more of that dancing blonde in the background.
Yakovlievich 7 months ago 2
He is so damn hot!
Nk366 7 months ago 2
My brother walks by the computer while I'm watching this and he questions, "The hell are you doing?" And I reply, "Preparing for my finals." I regret nothing.
TheBeatlesfan1991 7 months ago 115
@TheBeatlesfan1991 right!! LOL
bellyboy128 7 months ago
@TheBeatlesfan1991 lol!!!!!!
THEprincessFirefly 6 months ago
@TheBeatlesfan1991 best ever.
abigailbilbo 5 months ago
@TheBeatlesfan1991 i dont get it...
tatugirl676 4 months ago
At 2:54 my pants exploded and at 4:03 Bowie's pants exploded!
christascomments 7 months ago 2