David Bowie-Ashes To Ashes-1980

[crazydiamomd]

David Bowie kept the Dadaist movment going! "But the little Green wheels keep following me...Oh no not again!"

[BaldyBG]

Happy Birthday, David!

[gymrachel]

Happy Birthday to an amazing musician!

[oscarlolage]

Was this filmed with a fucking coffe maker?

[ivankaramasov]

@oscarlolage What ignorance.

[ragtag2]

First use of an iPad (0:43) possibly a Blackberry playbook

[LayefasWave]

type in Layefa's wave summerjoy

[rowanmark21]

This is not trash this is music.Trash is altogether different . Trash smells,this does not smell unless you are tripping.I don't think you have ever tripped even.if you have please listen again.If your trash is like this.what music do you like really.I would be interested to know what kind of music you like?

[DerschlaueDad]

This is not Music, this is trash

[DayDreamAscent]

@DerschlaueDad Why do people like you never use the words "in my opinion".

[11jelkica]

This is the point!

[salmonalexandre]

ouai:

[AzariaViviana]

wow i first thought warpaint did the original xD

[BreenaLee1]

Ashes to ashes, vamp to vampir. We know, Major Tom's a junkie... :P

[anthony0857]

I'm happy, hope you're happy too.

[buttkuss26]

I love the part of 2:42 till the end.



[19desto]

This was the first single i ever bought, 30 years later it's still great.

[68caddilac]

another great song from the master song writer, SELF RAISING FLOWERS

[stonesrule200]

great song and great fucking video

[MsLittlemozart]

Thirteen year old girl from Norway, my hole family loves David Bowie - including me! :D

[ahomevideoonline]

@MsLittlemozart whole

[polescot]

Cant get this ok

[GreenMarshMallowsx3]

Im happeh, hope you happeh too :)

[lh2005ify]

this used to scare the shit out of me......great song

[turner475]

Cool video

[3111083]

The story of my live.

[ArcadePerfect]

This used to scare me when I was seven!

:d*

[renshaw30]

@ArcadePerfect this still scares me

[squezzmylemon]

you are oh so right auto..i was also 16 and i think it was the casey casum countdown. it was state of the art in video and still awsome to hear and watch.

[FatFriendly1]

check him out doing ashes to ashes @ 'the beeb'. look out for the girl rocking the tambourine! :)

[sauckratez]

bowie... another standard on my ipod...

[MrKaike1985]

34 people clicked on the wrong button, or they are deaf... don't mess with my look a 'like.. :-) his music is from a other world..

[casamantha37]

can somebody tell me what is the meaning of the song?

[MmeDesgranges]

@casamantha37 That using drugs doesn't make you happy.

[TheButterism]

love this song, i call it the sequel to space oddity

[mulakify]

marilyn mansons favorite song apparently

[casamantha37]

@mulakify just what i was thinking :)

[JEQvideos]

The thing about Bowie is that he can truly embody the personas he creates. This video is amazing for what he does with makeup and some simple effects and costumes.

I think you could toss him into a room with some random crap and he'd be able to come out as an interesting character and sell you on it.

[MsFanmail]

David bowie is a musical genius

[soopa76]

Killer analog video effects. Radical

[adacom1000]

watch me lip sync this song at adacom1000

[StormPrawn]

Class, defined.

[aa00ization]

damn.this song is beautiful.

[enreka1234567890]

David Bowie is and was extremly important to rock today. Without David Bowie we would never have rock masterpieces like My chemical romance and bands like that.

[ratki13]

@enreka1234567890 i dont think my chemical romance qualify to be called a 'rock masterpiece' i like them and all but they can hardly compare to bands like queen or guns and roses

[MrBabalu35]

Very good song!

[rotarygemini]

major tom must be the brain.......... ground control to major tom



[iSuperdupaloveweed]

oh shit major toms a junky!

[iSuperdupaloveweed]

i' benn like dat wit dis weed an shit this fuckin WOOOH

[radicalbabe]

My god his teeth

[cookieman38111]

Is that Pia Zadora in some of the background vocals???

[MrYT62]

@cookieman38111

Steve Srange and the Blitz Kids

[happylad65]

Major Tom had certainly changed from the spaced-out hippie of 1969 to the "junkie" of 1980! What a difference a decade made!

[Jamie165]

3 minutes 26 seconds in - did The Matrix rip this off or what!

[biggdogg9911]

great vid, can you upload more please biggo??

[pamicocci60]

I believe this was on Letterman's show.

[MsCrunchyTuna]

i was into bowie before it was cool to be into bowie. I was into breathing air way before it was cool. I started eating food before all these posers ate food.

[vockla]

I LOVE the synth guitar from 3:10 till the end.

[buttkuss26]

@vockla agree!!

[praetorianus72]

So 80's

[mihalrots]

Oh David David, why have you disappeared? Wish he would do one last tour... I would soooo be there

Oh, and bigbruthaman- hopefully you jest with your insane "Black Nazi" theories- I say- LEAVE BOWIE ALONE!!!! lol

[ThePsychicMantis]

I regard my Asperger-Syndrome as my personal Major Tom. Seriously, FUCK HIM!

IM COMING DOWN RIGHT NOW!!!!

[adacom1000]

makes no sense but is a really good song.

[bigbruthaman]

Bowie is obviously of German/Nazi blood! Look at his little eyes! Rise up and reject the Nazi people. Place your trust in the first man, the original man, the strong proud SUPERIOR African man. No more will the racist German/Nazis be allowed to destroy us. WE can herd them together like the sub human cattle they are. Peace.

[urdisturbing]

@bigbruthaman I'm German.  Do you want to herd me like the sub-human cow that I am?

[ManBearBg]

@bigbruthaman your logic isn't just making any sense ..... perhaps you have down-syndrome

[radicalbabe]

@bigbruthaman, shut your fat ugly hole

[bigbruthaman]

@radicalbabe Why not change your name to Racist Babe? For shame! Just because I'm black I'm not entitled to my own opinion? 

[radicalbabe]

@bigbruthaman Wow man. Yeah, I must be judging you by your colour, as I can't see you. ????

Just stfu, you're being a rascist dickhead.

"Because I'm black I'm not entitled to my own opinion?"

News flash dickface. I'm black too. But I'm not a rascist bastard.

[bigbruthaman]

@radicalbabe Oh, look at you strutting about crying, Look at me, look at me, I am the big gigantic man! By the way your prejudiced and unenlightened views could best be expressed elsewhere.

[radicalbabe]

@bigbruthaman Back up: Woman. wo-man. Hence the babe in my name.

And yes bigbruthaman, you are definately in a position to label me prejudice and unenlightened.

Try taking your own advice

[bigbruthaman]

@bigbruthaman sorry

[Caspisan]

this vid is so awesome, and so is david! i couldn't do anything than looking and listening~!!

Thanks for uploading <3

[dearfallenjones]

@bigbruthaman

I'm not too sure what's going on, but, I have gotten the gist of it.

One: If there is talk about David Bowie being a "Nazi" - he's currently married to an African American super model named Iman.

Two: No race is superior to the other. End of story.

Three: Race has no relation to this video or song, so that's enough.

and Four: This is a beautiful song by a beautiful, brilliant man.

[LIBERTYTREE98]

another great David Bowie song!

[auteuricon]

@Curdog

I actually remember seeing Bowie and Marianne Faithful doing Bowie's "1980 Floor Show" on the Midnight Special when it aired originally. I couldn't have been more than 8 years old at the time...

[thenowuk]

Last classic song he released-the 80's on was such a huge decline

[ezaube1030]

@thenowuk There is brilliant Bowie stuff from the 90s and early 00s !

[ldonhawk]

This brings back so many memories of my childhood -- this video captivates me still now.

[Z1cky]

About giving up Heroin.

[1desperate1]

David Bowie is just a Genius,.....Greetings from Germany...

[xebob]

I have always understood the line, " i never did good things, I never did bad things, I never did anything out of the blue ". When you are seen as a goody-goody, then you certainly can't add to the weight by doing something good for everyone to see. Likewise with the bad thing, people will be horrified and want you to be punished harder than anybody because it's so out of character. So you have to keep your actions neutral and planned.

[riftalope]

@xebob This is a song about drug addiction. "I never did good things..." This line is about the extremes of guilt and denial most drug users go through, even if they eventually become honest about the ACT of getting high. I read it as "I'm horrible, I'm innocent, everyone's doing it." Bowie likes to overlap meanings in the way he sings out the words too."I never did anything, out of the blue." The comma I put in there is how he lets the listener touch on a junkie letting the world slip by.

[Trystannenoire]

i LOVE his green boots!!!!!!

my god!!!

[ghodium]

i'm stuck with a valuable friend (heavy sarcasm) jonathon ross enters

[SuperTsuchinoko]

Iceland sent me here..

[Donkeyn00b]

@SuperTsuchinoko Wha?

[fingerprint211b]

What a weird video. I love it.

[americamike1]

David Bowie and some of the "Blitzkids" including Steve Strange. Oh Man, what a time.

[auteuricon]

@TonyFever22 So true-- and it's always galled me to no end when peeps used to always proclaim MJ or Madonna as the original 'auteurs' of music video- My Azz. The Bowman blazed the trail and they were lucky to be inspired by him.

[wandererlain]

Say No To Drugs

[auteuricon]

I was 16 years old when this musical-video MASTERPIECE debuted on very late night U.S. TV at the time. I wish I could describe to you what it was like to have already been an '80s high-school Bowie fan then, only to see this gorgeous video. *Noone* was making music vids *this* seriously artistic, beautiful and otherworldly at the time. It will always be my Absolute, Unqualified, Permanent Fave song and video of All Time. So. There. ;)

[TonyFever22]

@auteuricon Agreed. Was 14 when I saw this video on late night TV... Pre-MTV. Bowie was making videos like this before anyone knew what they were.

[Curdog]

@auteuricon

I saw this done on the Midnight Special when I was a kid, and it stuck with me til the present.

[TheLackofattack]

@auteuricon funny to think that back then this was really technically impressive for 1980, whereas now, anyone can create these effects with the simplest of programs.

[catothewiser]

@auteuricon - I can "dig it." Only a few years behind you.....

[runforthehills707]

@auteuricon  Couldn't agree more. It still brings a lump to my throat when I listen to it now.

[AvidPhotog]

@auteuricon I have to agree with you, it's truly an artistic video.

[Horlitz]

Underrated song.

[jeffrefrig]

Too fucking cool.

[beared1]

steve strange from visage is in this video!

[beared1]

steve strange from visage is in this video!

[ThrashRoC]

my name says it , i m total in electric guitars and hard rock (led zep etc)

but david bowie is definetley very cool artist , maybe the best pop music ever , i like his songs

[likeasimbodee]

Goodbeat, good voice, good lyrics, but the music video..WHAT THE FUCK?!

[floppykid]

@likeasimbodee

He was an odd individual alright.

[Rev1913Rev1916]

dowling1981: I would add to my last comment that this song is so about

Bowie's own life and history that it simply does not make sense to me for someone else to be singing it.

[Rev1913Rev1916]

dowling1981: For me, Bowie has musical and artistic genius such as we seldom see. I cannot even think of Ashes to Ashes as anything other than his song.

[MightyZarkon]

Sounds like Nick mason from Floyd at the end- I love this tune it's brilliant.

[Mettwurst1stGott]

@MightyZarkon The Floyd and Bowie, both brilliant.

[crazycatlady68]

I had this LP..that's a "record"..a circular vinyl object much revered by us " old folks"...I remember blasting Scary Monsters all the time...

[Rev1913Rev1916]

dowling1981: Incidentally, the song is autobiographical.... check out "Space Oddity" as a cross reference, for example.

[Rev1913Rev1916]

dowling1981, you are witnessing admirable restraint in the posts of n00blord111. Somehow you are missing something. The original of this song was released in 1980. Samantha Mumba was born in 1983. Either Samantha pulled off a remarkable feat as a minus-three-year-old or Bowie wrote the song.

[dowling1981]

@Rev1913Rev1916 I may have been slightly mistaken but the inspiration came from her. What do you think the best version is?

[sirliono]

Question to anyone - I've seen in a few music videos by David Bowie, he has this little move where he raises an arm and touches the ground. Is there any significance in this? - His group performs this amidst this video, see "Fame" for cross reference.

[LestHeBecomeAmonster]

@sirliono it's also in fashion, but I think it's just a trademark Bowie move

[woahXgirl94]

i love that hat.

[ghodium]

oh no not again

[ghodium]

how to kick perversity to its limits without it becoming porn

[lgveldman]

just enjoy the great music david made.

[filauge]

This is such a great tune! Good work, DB!

[helena2001ful]

ovo se moze smatrati preokretom u muzici,preteca Novog romantizma sto ima dokazano u samom spoti i naravno muzici...

[Ch1n3s3F1r3Cr4ck3r]

@helena2001ful i totally agree..

[jeffrefrig]

Great Bowie music. Thank you. My pain killers are kicking in. Diamond Dogs was a cool album too.

[Hale114]

This is weird, 2 Of david bowie's songs (Life on mars, ashes to ashes) are both UK TV Programmes, and in this video the clown on it is in ashes to ashes series 1

[David8693]

@Hale114 You talk as if it's an unintentional coincidence... ;)

[WAFOSpresentations]

@Hale114 that was intentional btw, not the clown but i c that, ashes to ashes and life on mars are connected, they mention it in the extras in the dvd releases of the sereis

[costa1953]

rome@italy

;O)

[costa1953]

super creep !

love it so much ...

thank you

greetings from costa@rome

[polterter]

geht so

[blurbmuz3]

Great song, brings back memories. Steve Strange is in there too, all made up *L* Love Bowie and Visage so a real treat!

[Maxshard]

@blurbmuz3 Steve Strange is a good friend of my best friend, although I've never met the chap myself. He;s still going strong.

[TheVanlaeken]

I am Clean, I thank God

[LiquidLightShowHire]

a true timeless masterpiece.... 

[dowling1981]

Nice cover, but I prefer the original by Samantha Mumba

[n00blord111]

@dowling1981 Consider comparing the year of this song and the year of Samantha's birth, you may learn something.

[dowling1981]

@n00blord111 Yes, Samantha Mumba did this song years ago, ken?

[n00blord111]

@dowling1981 one thing is certain, your kids will ask you to help them math maybe once or twice, and never agian.

[GoraChannel]

This song is just awsome... I love this track !!!

[Sugsy23]

I'm 27 years old. Why behind the times of this Artist, but I absolutely love his music. How many of the "Artist's" today that wasn't from the yester year can we say we would be listening to their songs 10, 13, 18, 20 years from now.

[luvthedamned]

Why on earth is there an argument over racism on this video? Can I not watch a single video on Youtube without finding an pathetic troll fest on racism or Lady Gaga?

[theSMITH1233]

@zero0zero99 no mate

[zero0zero99]

Piss off cetuniverise, perhaps you'd prefer to fuck a goat?

[The3para]

everyone is banging on about racism the first chance they get are your lives that boring you cannot talk about anythink else

[The3para]

everyone is getting on the bandwagon about racism and its over the top get a life  people you are all a fucking joke

[ezaube1030]

David Bowie, the one and only, the best

[paulscotchbrook12345]

wot a song ,love it

[farine5]

this video is on my memory, when i first saw the tape on tv it was something strange, but the song is still, and will be for ever on my head ! thank you Mr David, for all musics, everything you have made, merci Monsieur, votre Oeuvre est immense :

[TheBookWorm1718]

1:45 Exactly what the hell is supposed to be going on there?

[explosionpants17]

@TheBookWorm1718 i think he is in an electric chair but im not exactly sure

[explosionpants17]

ashes to ashes funk to funky we know major toms a junky haha  this is great

[davehutchinson67]

@explosionpants17 ..yes..it was and still is. I remember being transfixed by this in the early 80s on MTV. All high on weed and staring at the TV tripping to this video. lol..we had cable and the remote had a wire connected to the box and a dial to select your channel. 40 channels I think. Prior to that in Baltimore MD it 5 or 6 tops. Progress...I'd take the early 80s back if I had the chance.

[Kingrob30]

I'm happy hope you're happy too!

[cosmonautgirl1]

Why is it when all you want to do is listen to some of the best music on the planet, arseholes spoil the experience with some fucking petty argument...which means nothing. Just listen and enjoy the genius that is Bowie

[IllBeYourDetonator]

David Bowie / David Robert Hayward Jones: Sexiest Man To Walk The Earth Since January 8th, 1947. ;D

[rebeccasabena]

@IllBeYourDetonator I agree!

[69squirter69]

I think a bit of some powder is necessary to create such great (morbid) music

[KombiPode]

Julian Assange!

[Lengsel7]

Simply and utterly the very best music video of all time. Period.

[58nexus]

It is just a composition from a song writer, with some damn fine musicians. He is an artist. Enjoy the music, not the so called 'message'.

[PayNoAttentiontoCaes]

Holy shit that opening picture is scary

[siarung]

his last decent tune ,what the fuck has he been doing for the last 30 years?

[tiarekhalo1]

...... my mum went to his concert when she was 19 and then in 1991, i spent the whole of the last year of high school listening to him ...... its almost 20 years later & here we are all still listening 2 him ...... timeless music

[TheBookWorm1718]

Does anybody else find it weird that the music video for what appears to be an anti-drug song looks like an acid trip? LOL

[djucpi]

...love it! timeless...

[stardustastronette]

Bowie is such a beautiful creature. I'm in love. <3

[LeonardARobert]

Listening to this, i'm happy, hope you're happy toooo........

[wolfgirl140]

@LeonardARobert It's Bowie! How could I not be happy?! :-D LOL! 

[ramonhernandezmartel]

¡Que tremendo músico!

[Putaspellonyou]

im going to have nightmares...

[dude57sk8]

What;s with the content from channel 4?

[Kingrob30]

This vid is as trippy now as when I first saw it 30 yrs ago. LOL

[likylakyloo]

I want that clown costume

[wwwisidde]

Great song!

[TaylorJohnsonMusic]

David Bowie = THE BEST IN THE UNIVERSE !!!!

[TheHardcoreToast]

niggers.........

[valericool]

well, i am a comment whore then. looks like 27 people ACCIDENTALLY clicked on the dislike button.

[ladymarilynmanson]

estas cañon david bowie

[RYW712]

So this is where that Clown came from in the TV series.

[modbeatlefan]

looks like 27 pepole LOL JK im not a coment whore xP