Fill Your Heart - David Bowie

[jeddazenovka]

best song ever and my mantra during these troubled times!

and erggh u lost the ending :!

[Rster462]

Love it...! Nice piano playing by Rick Wakeman.

[MarkB1ngham]

ouch ! you cut it short☺ (doesn't it segway into an incident in the studio with a sound engineer with a bit of an attitude problem...then, 'Andy Warhol' on Hunky Dory?)

[samuelfaust]

93 this is a fantastic video!

93 93/93 from italy ;)

[LestHeBecomeAmonster]

what year was this sung?

[mymindourdream]

the most beautiful series of surrealistic masterpieces of the whole ytube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thegasworks]

@mymindourdream Thank you Paolo - always so kind. xx

[greatunknowableevil]

This entire album was one long love letter to surrealists and its awesome for that.

[israelcont]

teachings :)

[sagaza91]

Fear is in your Head

So Forget your Head. And you'll be free

The writing's on the wall

And you can know it all If you choose. Just remember..Lovers never lose!!

[StonedOrcs]

Perception is Reality :-)

[Daughterofbaal]

Magritte and David Bowie, what a lovely combination

[thegasworks]

@Daughterofbaal Thank you. : )

[fleamarket3000]

words cannot describe how great this tune is

[StonedOrcs]

93

great video! :-)

93 93/93

[thegasworks]

Ah!!! Will and Love....

Thanks!

[MedusalObligation]

Actually this is a Biff Rose song that Bowie and Tiny Tim covered. If you knew Biff's style, you would understand the over the top singing style in this song. It's very Biff like.

[thegasworks]

I do know Biff's style, that he wrote the song and that Tiny Tim performed it after that. I just didn't think Bowie did it the same way...certainly not like Tiny Tim anyway! lol

[sheshifts]

I question your assertion that Bowie had become disillusioned with these concepts - perhaps, instead, he achieved a level of expanded awareness that allowed him to fully appreciate the truth in the message he delivers. To sing it as joyful and ecstatic as he does is to be in tune with the true nature of our existence. And it CAN be as easy as it is described in the song... for your mind, man, and you'll be free. ;)

[thegasworks]

Perhaps he did. What I enjoy most about Bowie's work is that he always make me question!! : )

[EmpressOfWyoming58]

Tiny Tim did this song. It was the flip side of Tip Toe Through the Tulips. I'd sure love to hear his version again. I love Bowie though. Never knew he recorded this song, too.

[thegasworks]

That's right.

[jackhackett80]

Didnt Tiny Tim first perform this song?

[thegasworks]

Yes he did.

[facelesshorseman]

I'm one who takes the song at face value.

If he wanted to write of his disillusionment with Crowley and mysticism he would have written a song about it.

Oh yeah! He did!

"I Ain't Got the Power Any More"

Bowie was very fond of Biff Rose's work. You can hear his influence very strongly in "Kooks".

[facelesshorseman]

make that "Quicksand"

[ajanifaust]

great song and great videoooooooooooooo!!

[thegasworks]

Thank you!

[barrywide343]

Excellent,5/5 !!

[thegasworks]

Thanks!! ;)

[whoami2244661]

by jove!Great!*****

[thegasworks]

Thank you whoami....wellI know who Iam.ahem ok I'll play...whoareyou? My guess: the cheshire cat! :-)

[SEVFEST]

Biff Rose was the MC at The Atlantic City Pop Fest in August of 1969. he did a GREAT job and even filled in for Joni Mitchell when she ran off the stage and didn't finish her set

[thegasworks]

Really? I never heard of that. Why did Joni run off?

[SEVFEST]

Biff Rose was the MC and filled in for Joni Mitchell when she started to cry and ran off stage in the middle of her 3rd song when the crowd was not paying attention to her performance. She was placed in the rotation directly after Mother Earth featuring Tracy Nelson and the crowd wasn't ready to hear her mild act.

Look it up on Wikopedia Atlantic City Pop Festival.

[SEVFEST]

I was at the AC pop fest  and walked backstage (Nobody stopped me) got to meet Janis, Grace Slick, Frank Zappa & The Winter Brothers that day..... tickets were only 17 bucks for the three day festival.

[thegasworks]

That sounds brilliant. No need to google, I remembered what happened shortly after I replied. She was booed off wasn't she. Poor Joni, she's another favourite of mine.

I hope you got autographs. You'd need to sell your house to buy tickets to see so many people today.

[quentinscrisp]

I would say this is a hugely underrated Bowie song (perhaps partly because it's a cover?). I very much appreciate that you've taken it seriously enough to give the commentary you have, but I'm not sure Bowie attitude is entirely ironic here. Perhaps also wistful? In short, I feel that people *want* to dismiss such ideas - they do not want to face the responsibility of their own potential.

[thegasworks]

Yes it was unlike Bowie to do such a cover. I think you're right about it also being wistful. When the seeker feels like they've been let down they start to rethink the wisdom of their situation. Of course some people are just perrenial seekers and will never realise their own potential. And you're right, it's because they tend to hand the responsibility over to someone else.

[darkandlight331]

Bowie is great,no doubt,this song isn't one of his best,a simple good song on the feeling,not worhy of your excellent choice of surrealistic pics..5 stars..to the great pics....4 to Bowie....

[thegasworks]

Thank you!

[Gewanhogan]

this song was written by Biff Rose

[thegasworks]

That's right - it was written by Biff Rose and Paul Williams.

[bluppper]

It's a beautiful song. Too bad you chose to fill it with photos of an animal murdering goat-humper.

[SlideScreamer]

Nice video. Enjoyed the written background too!

[thegasworks]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

[mymindourdream]

congratulations fot the taste,this is a video really clever***** !!

[thegasworks]

Thank you.

[Rauskucker]

And the mouse too, of course.

[thegasworks]

Thank you very much. I'm glad you like the cat and mouse game I play! lol

[Rauskucker]

"And you can know it all

If you choose"

I love the song and I take it face value. Most of it.

I love Magrittes works.

Both have to do with dream, time and reality.

You have combined both in a breathtaking way.

I love that cat.

[madebutante]

oh irony!

[thegasworks]

LOL ...it's only bad some days!

[madebutante]

And I thought it was just a song about having childlike love making us free...oh, well...goes to show...life suckx. j/k

[thegasworks]

I took the view that it bought into the angst of Quicksand... He has a sardonic air when he sings it. It's as if he's disillusioned, tried everything, nothing works. But that's just my view and probably the way I was feeling when I made the video! lol

[BillyDolls]

Enjoyed the video, great production. This song shows Bowie's more optimistic side, and provides a cogent counterpoint to the angst of 'Quicksand'. Thanks for the post.

[zurapDOR]

Thanks for this!

What a fine way to start the day!

My breakfast vid!

[thegasworks]

"Let there be light" I say! lol Thanks.

[dunny0578]

Love the video

[thegasworks]

Thanks Dave.

[fireflyzip]

Hunky Dory was the first Bowie album I had. I knew every song and I still enjoy it after all these years.

[thegasworks]

It's a brilliant album. I never get tired of it either.

[starfish146]

Very interesting. Amazing images, many I haven't seen before. I am not very familiar with David Bowie other than his "greatest hits" so to speak, so I'm getting educated here.

[thegasworks]

These are some of my favourite paintings. I picked them because I felt their titles suited the lyrics. In my opinion, Bowie is a wonderful artist and well worth getting to know!

[Count22]

Way off on the Aleister Crowley connection to this song.He actually thought Crowley a phony and a fake.  This is just pure joy with Wakeman at the keys. Brilliant !

[thegasworks]

Initially David Bowie was very interested in Crowley. Later he did believe him to be a phony. My take was that he sang the song, in an almost sarcastic way as if disillusioned with the whole 'spiritual journey'.

[Swagman8]

excellent, i like all the dali

[thegasworks]

Thank. I love Dali too and I suppose one could consider David Bowie a surrealist!!!

[IrishBloodinveins]

Excellent video..very well constructed and sublime music!

[thegasworks]

Thanks, I used moviemaker up to this but I used a new software Cyberlink on the Elton John concert. Think I prefer working in images rather than video though.

[IrishBloodinveins]

Yeah, you have alot more control with the editing, its a bit fiddily with video!

[newkillerstardust]

this song always makes me so happy everytime I listen to it.

very nice video & art

[thegasworks]

Thank you I'm glad it has that effect!

[thegasworks]

Thanks for the information Patrick.

[mynokiaeyes]

Do you know it would sell as a book with accompanying DVD. David is releasing another album soon so you could cash in on increased sales. Pity you could not get himself to endorse something related to the project.

[thegasworks]

You tell me how and I'll pay you commission!!!!!!!

[luardeverao]

wonderful pictures on a nice song!

[thegasworks]

Thanks!!!!!!!

[thegasworks]

Thanks glad to hear exams went ok.

[thegasworks]

Thank you.

[mynokiaeyes]

Wonderful graphics once again. This is a step closer to your first Bowie album!!!!!!!

[thegasworks]

Thanks. Do you think it'd sell like his???? lol

[keith25658]

your new avastar is great as your video...is it..."The law of desire"?Anyway,i can well remember or not,but surely your fantasy is wonderful,lol!!!

[thegasworks]

Close enough lol - the pleasure princiiple!!

[Artmic8neo]

ziggy stardust(＾＿＾)

you must video 20世紀boy.

cool video.

thank you.

[thegasworks]

Thank you for the nice comment!!

[tps607]

Very cool video! *****

[thegasworks]

Thanks Tom, don't know why this comment is being hidden.

[tps607]

not hidden now!

[thegasworks]

Lol - yeah I fixed it.

[xxpiggystardustxx]

another great video wtg frances

[thegasworks]

Thanks for commenting...what happened to the rest of the guitar solos?

[mickdaniels1]

Excellent video Frances beautifully done,

I always Mona was stoned, that expression !!

what else copuld it be

[thegasworks]

Exactly!! Thanks Mick.

[thegasworks]

Thanks and we won't go into the 'youthful' side of things!!

[rtutt123]

Great job...cool vid...thanks...RT

[thegasworks]

Thanks very much Ronnie. I'm glad you liked it.

[keith25658]

the way your choice of the paintings accompanies the concepts you speak about is divine!!

[thegasworks]

Thanks Paolo, I originally wanted to use only Magritte but Dali was too tempting!!

[78thesweepstakes]

Another digital masterpiece from the Gasworks stable. It is difficult to believe this song was originally released by Tiny Tim as the B-side to his 1968 hit single, "Tiptoe through the Tulips." The same recording appeared on Tiny Tim's concurrent debut LP God Bless Tiny Tim. You are well on your way to the first Bowie graphical video album

[thegasworks]

Thanks Patrick. I don't find it difficult to believe that it was released by Tiny Tim. In fact I think it's very Tiny Tim..ish when it's taken at face value. I decided not to do that so I could put my own slant on the video,and because I believe Bowie's rendition is delivered in an ironic fashion. The song was written by Biff Rose and Paul Williams in 1966. Biff Rose released it himself, orchestrated by Arthue G. Wright, on his debut album, The Thorn in Mrs. Rose's Side (1966).

[thegasworks]

David Bowie re-recorded the song and released it on his album Hunky Dory in 1971. It was a last-minute replacement for the song "Bombers". Guitarist Mick Ronson is credited as arranger on the David Bowie version, though the rear sleeve on Hunky Dory includes the following notation from Bowie: "Mick and I agree that the 'Fill Your Heart' arrangement owes one hell of a lot to Arthur G. Wright and his proto-type", referring to the Biff Rose recording on which this performance was based.