Yes man! @skateordie2 This song from Arto Saari for movie of FLIP SORRY! lol I'm from Brazil man...crazy! Skate or die! 4ever! SEE lol /watch?v=-JFmGUBv-_Q
I remember The Serious Moonlight Tour. I hoped he would sing "1984". The timing was right. But I understand why he didn't. His voice would have been in shreds if he tried to project this time and again, across the continents, and make it sound right. Our disappointments meet up with reality sometimes. But Station To Station was hard enough to pull off repeatedly. And he chose wisely in order to excel at his gargantuan venue. Still, I wanted to be in the one place in 1983 when he included "1984".
Boys Keep Swinging was inspired video, Ashes To Ashes is sublime! Jean Genie was great, as in most things from the 70's, he looks divine. But The Hunger (he aged too soon), Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (best supporting actor in a John The Baptist beheading), Labyrinth (I know it has a juvenile following, but I've never allowed myself to see it), Absolute Beginners (great song, only fair movie), Cat People (great theme song) he should have starred in it. Serious Moonlight tour should've had 1984!
@LaurawrTheDinosaur Yeah, while we're at it, let's go slap him for not starring in 1984 in 1984! That would have been a better venture than making that terrible "Let's Dance" video. But it's his music from this era that we can't complain about. Apart from The Man Who Fell To Earth, his video judgement was sometimes off track. But the music, which is his main contribution, can't be faulted. I believe it's in the nature of video, stages, it must involve so many other influences. Choices were made.
Way ahead of it's time; Duhh on me for that remark... anyway, LOOOOVE the strings and beat and crescendos... does anyone agree that this may have been the FIRST "disco' song? it's just not 'thought of' as dico-ish....anyway, "...u'll b shooting up on anything, tom'ws never there.."
Many people will jump at the chance to "correct" your facts, when you were really only concentrating on how the music is affecting you personally, which is far more interesting approach to comments than looking up information. Historical trivia has its place and is necessary. But I am much more fascinated by finding someone who gets a true emotional send off and how I might be able to relate to that revelation. More the feel of a thing than the think of a thing. That especially applies to Bowie.
@hippyhauler13 Np. Everybody gets misunderstood from time to time. People are so quick to bite the finger that they neglect where you're pointing at. I get that all the time. Even people that don't know me assume that I might be some kind of an arrogant prick! But those who really get to know me are most certainly sure of it. Fuck it. Just keep telling it the way you see it. YoU CaN't PlEaSe EvErYoNe. NoT EvEn YoUrSeLf, AlL tHe TiMe. I knew what you meant, but not everyone has my keen intellect.
HIPPY HAULER SORRY LOOK AT THE VIDEO THE B/U INCLUDED LUTHER VANDROSS. HE REALLY COPIES EVERYBODY FROM THE TEMPTATIONS TO CURTIS MAYFIELD. I LOVE BOWIE FOR HIS ABILITY TO SYNTHESIZE,BUT DO YOURSELF A FAVOR A SAVOR THE ROOT
@hippyhauler13 The power of his voice was never so strong as in this song. Walls could tumble. "Who could ask for mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooore?!"
Those repeated comments on Linda Hamilton's points were not of my doing. But someone, or some thing, seemed to dwell on that. T2 was a fine movie too, by the way. T3 was a throw-away to cash in on the popularity of the series, alas.
The most compelling part of this song is not the catchy, smooth funk rhythm, which is just fine. No. It's Bowie's voice at its most exhilarating resonance, launching at 1:30. His vocal command: sheer power! Was never before, or since, revealed as strong as on this one track, lending his own best chorus: Who could ask for more? One movement reveals Bowie was INDEED capable of superhuman powers, of tumbling the walls of Jericho! He seldom broadcasted this nth ability, protecting his concert voice.
@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own fair points...
@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own fair points...
@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own fair points...
@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own fair points...
@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own fair points...
@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own good points...
@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own good points...
@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own good points...
Someday they won't let you, so now you must agree The times they are a-telling, and the changing isn't free You've read it in the tea leaves, and the tracks are on TV Beware the savage jaw Of 1984 They'll split your pretty cranium, and fill it full of air And tell that you're eighty, but brother, you won't care You'll be shooting up on anything, tomorrow's never there Beware the savage jaw Of 1984 Beware the savage jaw Of 1984
I think 500 characters is just concerned about people not being concerned with the trend the planet is taking. I have to agree. Maybe the way he acts is not as relevant as what he's saying.
@greatunknowableevil Men like me (and you) can build the world a little bit. And if you want to hate me, and think I'm the worst scum, then go ahead, maybe something worthwhile will come of it. Thanks for the Lovecraft info, though.
1984: Just science fiction. At least there's nothing like Big Brother in 2011, controlling every little bite of what we are able to watch and say these days-------->
No. I'm not an official member of Greenpeace. But the governments suck. Take power back. Think about how bad things are getting. Then take away the sunlight, food, air and water. Take away the fish and birds and trees. Take away good music and free tv. Take away people like Bowie trying to remind us what Orwell tried to remind us. Icecaps are melting while some oil-rich politician says it has nothing to do with hydrocarbon emissions or cutting down the forrests or allowing China to burn anthing.
Look into the future if you dare: Look at Japan's little nuclear accident. Didn't Chernobyl teach us anything? (They still can't go back there). Japan is far worse. Believe "the nuclear power authorities" that tell you what an exceptable dose of fission by-products is? You really think anyone on the planet knows the long-term effects of radiation poisoning on water, air, fish, food? At what range are the children safe? 50 miles? 100? 5000? Nobody knows. Answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
Those little plastic bottles they want you to buy at the store. You drink the contents. Yummy. Leaves a big plastic bubble. So you neatly throw it away. Multiply that by MILLIONS of LITTLE PLASTIC BOTTLES thrown away EVERY FUCKING DAY! Would it kill us to fill a glass? Wash it? Would it kill us to refill a bottle from the tap and drink that instead. How clean will that bottled water be for your children? How expensive to remove the contaminants from an overpopulated and polluted world? Drink up!
@Mr500characters We recycle our plastic bottles. The problem is there don't seem to be enough recycling centers to take it all and instead people opt for just tossing it away because it's easier.
Isn't that a nice gift for our children. Maybe we needed to think what what we were doing. Now the earth isn't quite such a great place for any surviving generations to have to live in. But it's all we got left. What is left of it. "Science" won't figure out a way to fix everything. We, each of us, need to all stop being a bunch of thoughtless assholes and we need to stop treating the earth like a disposable planet. Last time I looked, there's no where else to go. Maybe your tap water is enough?
Someday they won't let you watch tv with rabbit ears. Hey wait a minute... No mistake, the evil is out there. Any time someone can inhibit your ability to do something (without hurting anyone!) it's evil. But it's not just "out there". The evil is in each of us everytime we're too complacent to react when we know someone is trying to control us, take greater power than us. The whole premise of 1984: wake up! Inch by inch we found ourselves in 2011. Now an ocean is a continent of plastic bottles.
Reason why you don't get this kind of thought provoking music anymore is the lack of paranoid people. It's not that there aren't a few artists still sane enough to discourse on important matters. The truth is simpler and scarier than that. There is not enough audience left to make it worthwhile. No one cares: no problem that can't be solved by some new product you never knew you needed. Depression? Worry? Angst? Just take a pill, get rid of "the treason you knew in 65'". The world is just fine!
@Mr500characters In the book 1984 they where trying to keep that kind of paranoia alive, if people oppose Big Brother at all turns that means that they can say that they are combatting violent people who would be even worse, The Party created all the rebelions against it exactly so that they could look better after the defeat of said rebellion. In the same way that the Russian Monarchists justified Stalinism in the minds of many russians by reminding them that there where worse people out there
Controls that be already dictate what you can watch. Made a law to put everything on digital so there can be no analogous broadcasts. Why? Was analogue against The Constitution? Governmental power of control. Anything digital can be manipulated, even by computer programs alone, hands free! You can edit, distort, speed up, commercialize, pasteurize, vaporize or render anything bland and insipid. Lady Gaga is a very popular (and lucrative!) vacuum these days. Sounds great, says nothing. Ideal pop.
@Mr500characters Why are you bringing up Lady Gaga as saying nothing? She is trying to send a message about equal rights for gays that is no matter what you think of the message or how it is delivered does say things counter to what the governments ideology is.
George Orwell's 1984 should be required reading for people by middleschool, BEFORE the taught police teach you algerbra or woodshop or home ec or rewritten history or doublespeak, etc.. Go read 1984 while you still can. Get the UNABRIDGED version (Maybe there's a copy left...). Take a look at Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury while you're at it (If they haven't all been burned yet...)! Good reading. Turn off the tv sometimes if you can. If there is no off button, maybe you can still pull the plug.
so way ahead of his time.... Bowie changed my life, esp. the "Diamond Dogs" album...this song, "1984" is acually a 'disco' song... maybe it wasn't meant to be one- but if u listen 2 the beats n te strings, thumpy bass and 'up tempo' energy, u'll ee what i mean..,
Here's the scariest thing of all: people HAVE changed (whether they know it or not), walk around talking into cell phones and watch tv with more commercials than content. And the content is worse than the commercials! We hate our Government but won't change it. We hate what the world is becoming and yet somehow are o.k. with an acceptable amount of terrorism and invasion of privacy. Soon there will be no privacy to invade. Privacy will be an obsolete word stricken from books, meaning and memory!
@Mr500characters Men like you can't build the world you want. you want to rise up and take the power back but don't attempt to do anything other than sit in your home and complain about how shitty everything, you aren't fighting oppressors you are blindly trying to point fingers at people and say they are oppressors while never actually bothering to understand the world you live in. you are the worst kind of scum the world has to offer a madman who thinks he is the only sane man.
He lent himself awesome POWER here by performing his own background vocals, at once both lamenting and exhilirating! No one else could have found that kind of sincere complexity: to nail down in sound that elusive, treasonous, adrenalized feeling, that anti-authoritarian guilty pleasure rush of rebellion as foretold in the sci-fi novel. So appropriate for Orwell's beautifully drawn nightmare. You can almost hear Winston Smith and Julia singing "Oranges and lemons say the Bells of St. Clement's."
People embracing the rewrite of history. Case in point: In recent years, they've taken the classic Star Trek episodes and erased the old special effects (groundbreaking art created in the past and a primary reason for the shows to become "classic" in the first place) and replaced them with CGI effects to make the show more pleasing to a "modern" ($) audience! Original music is replaced in shows to avoid royalties ($)! Tv is speeded up for more commercials ($). Mark Twain removed from libraries!?
Someone or some THING is checking your recent activity right now! Live cameras in every store and at every street intersection! Satellite surveillance and spellcheck! Credit cards preferred! GPS cellphones and software updates! Police background checks and computer cookies for all! The only problem with Orwell is that he UNDERESTIMATED the invasiveness of the THOUGHT POLICE in the future. And the future is in its infancy. When we start loving Big Brother, we'll know: "He who controls the past".
I foresee the problem with the internet in the future as so much garbage information to sift through to get to what you really need to know. Wait a minute. The future is here!
@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own good points...
@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own fair points...
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS ALWAYS (EXCEPT IN THE CLUBS!) (DAVID) BOWIE DANCE TRACK FROM 1974's DIAMOND DOGS. RCA, IN SPITE OF HIS SUCCESS, NEVER EVER KNEW WHAT QUITE TO DO WITH BOWIE. HAD THEY, THIS RCA 10026 SINGLE WOULD HAVE BEEN A HIT ON THE CHARTS, DITTO CHANGES & REBEL REBEL. FANTASTIC SONG - THANK YOU. DAVEDJ
i wanna play big brother during obamas speeches one day and see what happens and wear a t-shirt that show obama and says we love you big brother wpuld i be jumped
BP oil calling the shots in the Gulf of Mexico. Bankers getting million dollar bonuses off of taxpayer money. Big Pharma drugging our children. "You put up for more".....................
Question: Why don't they ever play this song on the radio? Answer: Because they want to split your pretty cranium and fill it full of Air Supply...................
@blabblab1212 i've heard this song on the airwaves of Bradenton, FL. on our channel 107.3 the eagle... props i gues, id rather hear some older stuff though. but its all one in the same, equally perfect tracks always created.
Someday they won't let you--now you must agree. The times they are a-telling and the changing isn't free.You've read it in the tealeaves and the tracks are on tv. Come see come see remember me. They'll split you're pretty cranium and fil it full of air.Tell you that you're 80 but, brother, you won't care. You'll be shooting up on anything--tomorrow's never there. that's the way it really happened too. Take a look at us now: the way of the world. What the seventies were and the changes came true.
@schoebinger What "background music?" Did you mean the music reminds you of the title track from Shaft? Because the music has no "background music" to it, as far as I can tell.
Early introduction of the thin white duke? Amazing song...
andyr1313 5 days ago
el mejor album de Bowie y una de sus obras maestras
luisgoles 2 weeks ago
Best track from Diamond Dogs.. and Diamond Dogs was a fantastic album
LadyGaGaOfficialCha1 2 weeks ago
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Yes man! @skateordie2 This song from Arto Saari for movie of FLIP SORRY! lol I'm from Brazil man...crazy! Skate or die! 4ever! SEE lol /watch?v=-JFmGUBv-_Q
juliaum 3 weeks ago
@juliaum @skateordie2 And..the next music of movie Saari is "Rock n Roll Suicide" too of David Bowie lol
juliaum 3 weeks ago
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juliaum 3 weeks ago
I remember The Serious Moonlight Tour. I hoped he would sing "1984". The timing was right. But I understand why he didn't. His voice would have been in shreds if he tried to project this time and again, across the continents, and make it sound right. Our disappointments meet up with reality sometimes. But Station To Station was hard enough to pull off repeatedly. And he chose wisely in order to excel at his gargantuan venue. Still, I wanted to be in the one place in 1983 when he included "1984".
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
Boys Keep Swinging was inspired video, Ashes To Ashes is sublime! Jean Genie was great, as in most things from the 70's, he looks divine. But The Hunger (he aged too soon), Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (best supporting actor in a John The Baptist beheading), Labyrinth (I know it has a juvenile following, but I've never allowed myself to see it), Absolute Beginners (great song, only fair movie), Cat People (great theme song) he should have starred in it. Serious Moonlight tour should've had 1984!
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
I love Bowie but I could slap him for not continuing with the making of '1984' musical :'(
LaurawrTheDinosaur 1 month ago
@LaurawrTheDinosaur Yeah, while we're at it, let's go slap him for not starring in 1984 in 1984! That would have been a better venture than making that terrible "Let's Dance" video. But it's his music from this era that we can't complain about. Apart from The Man Who Fell To Earth, his video judgement was sometimes off track. But the music, which is his main contribution, can't be faulted. I believe it's in the nature of video, stages, it must involve so many other influences. Choices were made.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
THE THEORY OF 1984..END OF FREEDOMS AND GOVERNMENT SPYING AND INTERFERING IN OUR LIVES...SO F..ING TRUE....SO BOWIE WAS RIGHT.....
rexrockandroll 2 months ago
YES THAT'S RIGHT FLIP SORRY !!! ARTO'S PART
expressway11 2 months ago
Bowie would have made and excellent Winston Smith back in 1984.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago in playlist Bowie
I agree it was ahead off the time, DIsco? I dont know,but the music does cross lines,Bowie crossed a lot off line,
hippyhauler13 2 months ago
the best album of all times :-)
langlokken 2 months ago
Way ahead of it's time; Duhh on me for that remark... anyway, LOOOOVE the strings and beat and crescendos... does anyone agree that this may have been the FIRST "disco' song? it's just not 'thought of' as dico-ish....anyway, "...u'll b shooting up on anything, tom'ws never there.."
rudendedude9 2 months ago
ARTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
boatsingtao 2 months ago
Many people will jump at the chance to "correct" your facts, when you were really only concentrating on how the music is affecting you personally, which is far more interesting approach to comments than looking up information. Historical trivia has its place and is necessary. But I am much more fascinated by finding someone who gets a true emotional send off and how I might be able to relate to that revelation. More the feel of a thing than the think of a thing. That especially applies to Bowie.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago in playlist Bowie 2
derblaue, read what i said, wasnt, comenting on music , I was refering to his voice, suck the ROOT, thanx Mr Major
hippyhauler13 2 months ago
@hippyhauler13 Np. Everybody gets misunderstood from time to time. People are so quick to bite the finger that they neglect where you're pointing at. I get that all the time. Even people that don't know me assume that I might be some kind of an arrogant prick! But those who really get to know me are most certainly sure of it. Fuck it. Just keep telling it the way you see it. YoU CaN't PlEaSe EvErYoNe. NoT EvEn YoUrSeLf, AlL tHe TiMe. I knew what you meant, but not everyone has my keen intellect.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
HIPPY HAULER SORRY LOOK AT THE VIDEO THE B/U INCLUDED LUTHER VANDROSS. HE REALLY COPIES EVERYBODY FROM THE TEMPTATIONS TO CURTIS MAYFIELD. I LOVE BOWIE FOR HIS ABILITY TO SYNTHESIZE,BUT DO YOURSELF A FAVOR A SAVOR THE ROOT
derblaue52 3 months ago
LOVE IT FOREVER BUT BOWIE IS RIFFING ISSAC HAYES AND SHAFT
derblaue52 3 months ago
Arto Saari anyone?
skateordie2 3 months ago 26
@skateordie2
thats how i really got into Bowie, after watching Menikmati.
Good call, old bean!
Nicksaari 2 months ago
@skateordie2 hell yeah homie
preventingtragedies 3 weeks ago
All back up vocals on this song was bowie, What an amazing voice
hippyhauler13 3 months ago
@hippyhauler13 The power of his voice was never so strong as in this song. Walls could tumble. "Who could ask for mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooore?!"
MrMajorTime 3 months ago in playlist Bowie
terminator was done in 1984 year , not 1974. but still i see the grace of your comment LOL
kjsh987 3 months ago
ziggy, alladin, pin-ups, diamond dogs....young americans? wtf? did bowie turn into some kinda funked-up anthony newley knock-of? um, yeah
ultrakool 4 months ago
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@ultrakool Get the fuck off this video
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hey everybody im on COKE!!! :)
Adarvuli 4 months ago
Those repeated comments on Linda Hamilton's points were not of my doing. But someone, or some thing, seemed to dwell on that. T2 was a fine movie too, by the way. T3 was a throw-away to cash in on the popularity of the series, alas.
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist Bowie
The most compelling part of this song is not the catchy, smooth funk rhythm, which is just fine. No. It's Bowie's voice at its most exhilarating resonance, launching at 1:30. His vocal command: sheer power! Was never before, or since, revealed as strong as on this one track, lending his own best chorus: Who could ask for more? One movement reveals Bowie was INDEED capable of superhuman powers, of tumbling the walls of Jericho! He seldom broadcasted this nth ability, protecting his concert voice.
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist Bowie
@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own fair points...
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@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own fair points...
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@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own fair points...
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@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own good points...
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@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own good points...
MrMajorTime 5 months ago
@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own good points...
MrMajorTime 5 months ago
lisaleeharpwaugh 5 months ago
beware the savage draw of 1984
sarabower1 5 months ago
gotta say, Arto Saari's part in Flip Sorry matched up extremely well with this song and 'Rock and Roll Suicide'.
eisenstein711 6 months ago
I think 500 characters is just concerned about people not being concerned with the trend the planet is taking. I have to agree. Maybe the way he acts is not as relevant as what he's saying.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago in playlist Bowie
I don't buy into your bullshit. Evil is part of your name? How telling.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago in playlist Bowie
@MrMajorTime The name is a reference to HP Lovecraft.
greatunknowableevil 6 months ago
@greatunknowableevil Men like me (and you) can build the world a little bit. And if you want to hate me, and think I'm the worst scum, then go ahead, maybe something worthwhile will come of it. Thanks for the Lovecraft info, though.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago in playlist Bowie
Plastic bottles, the world's biggest problem. Who knew?
MrMajorTime 6 months ago in playlist Bowie
It's very atmospheric background music!
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jamestargetedindiv 7 months ago
1984: Just science fiction. At least there's nothing like Big Brother in 2011, controlling every little bite of what we are able to watch and say these days-------->
MrMajorTime 7 months ago
It happened and we didn't even realize it. It was so subtle.
ChudawgJenkinz 8 months ago
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ChudawgJenkinz 8 months ago
I love 'Diamond Dogs'. No more, no less..
OGCNihao 8 months ago
No. I'm not an official member of Greenpeace. But the governments suck. Take power back. Think about how bad things are getting. Then take away the sunlight, food, air and water. Take away the fish and birds and trees. Take away good music and free tv. Take away people like Bowie trying to remind us what Orwell tried to remind us. Icecaps are melting while some oil-rich politician says it has nothing to do with hydrocarbon emissions or cutting down the forrests or allowing China to burn anthing.
Mr500characters 10 months ago 5
@Mr500characters What does any of this have to do with David Bowie?!
greatunknowableevil 6 months ago
Look into the future if you dare: Look at Japan's little nuclear accident. Didn't Chernobyl teach us anything? (They still can't go back there). Japan is far worse. Believe "the nuclear power authorities" that tell you what an exceptable dose of fission by-products is? You really think anyone on the planet knows the long-term effects of radiation poisoning on water, air, fish, food? At what range are the children safe? 50 miles? 100? 5000? Nobody knows. Answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
Mr500characters 10 months ago
Those little plastic bottles they want you to buy at the store. You drink the contents. Yummy. Leaves a big plastic bubble. So you neatly throw it away. Multiply that by MILLIONS of LITTLE PLASTIC BOTTLES thrown away EVERY FUCKING DAY! Would it kill us to fill a glass? Wash it? Would it kill us to refill a bottle from the tap and drink that instead. How clean will that bottled water be for your children? How expensive to remove the contaminants from an overpopulated and polluted world? Drink up!
Mr500characters 10 months ago 2
@Mr500characters We recycle our plastic bottles. The problem is there don't seem to be enough recycling centers to take it all and instead people opt for just tossing it away because it's easier.
TheBookWorm1718 7 months ago
Isn't that a nice gift for our children. Maybe we needed to think what what we were doing. Now the earth isn't quite such a great place for any surviving generations to have to live in. But it's all we got left. What is left of it. "Science" won't figure out a way to fix everything. We, each of us, need to all stop being a bunch of thoughtless assholes and we need to stop treating the earth like a disposable planet. Last time I looked, there's no where else to go. Maybe your tap water is enough?
Mr500characters 10 months ago
Someday they won't let you watch tv with rabbit ears. Hey wait a minute... No mistake, the evil is out there. Any time someone can inhibit your ability to do something (without hurting anyone!) it's evil. But it's not just "out there". The evil is in each of us everytime we're too complacent to react when we know someone is trying to control us, take greater power than us. The whole premise of 1984: wake up! Inch by inch we found ourselves in 2011. Now an ocean is a continent of plastic bottles.
Mr500characters 10 months ago
Reason why you don't get this kind of thought provoking music anymore is the lack of paranoid people. It's not that there aren't a few artists still sane enough to discourse on important matters. The truth is simpler and scarier than that. There is not enough audience left to make it worthwhile. No one cares: no problem that can't be solved by some new product you never knew you needed. Depression? Worry? Angst? Just take a pill, get rid of "the treason you knew in 65'". The world is just fine!
Mr500characters 10 months ago
@Mr500characters In the book 1984 they where trying to keep that kind of paranoia alive, if people oppose Big Brother at all turns that means that they can say that they are combatting violent people who would be even worse, The Party created all the rebelions against it exactly so that they could look better after the defeat of said rebellion. In the same way that the Russian Monarchists justified Stalinism in the minds of many russians by reminding them that there where worse people out there
greatunknowableevil 6 months ago
Controls that be already dictate what you can watch. Made a law to put everything on digital so there can be no analogous broadcasts. Why? Was analogue against The Constitution? Governmental power of control. Anything digital can be manipulated, even by computer programs alone, hands free! You can edit, distort, speed up, commercialize, pasteurize, vaporize or render anything bland and insipid. Lady Gaga is a very popular (and lucrative!) vacuum these days. Sounds great, says nothing. Ideal pop.
Mr500characters 10 months ago
@Mr500characters Why are you bringing up Lady Gaga as saying nothing? She is trying to send a message about equal rights for gays that is no matter what you think of the message or how it is delivered does say things counter to what the governments ideology is.
greatunknowableevil 6 months ago
@228supernatural Their already giving you a number and taking away your name, (Secret Agent Man).
Mr500characters 10 months ago
George Orwell's 1984 should be required reading for people by middleschool, BEFORE the taught police teach you algerbra or woodshop or home ec or rewritten history or doublespeak, etc.. Go read 1984 while you still can. Get the UNABRIDGED version (Maybe there's a copy left...). Take a look at Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury while you're at it (If they haven't all been burned yet...)! Good reading. Turn off the tv sometimes if you can. If there is no off button, maybe you can still pull the plug.
Mr500characters 10 months ago 2
so way ahead of his time.... Bowie changed my life, esp. the "Diamond Dogs" album...this song, "1984" is acually a 'disco' song... maybe it wasn't meant to be one- but if u listen 2 the beats n te strings, thumpy bass and 'up tempo' energy, u'll ee what i mean..,
rudenudedude9 10 months ago
Here's the scariest thing of all: people HAVE changed (whether they know it or not), walk around talking into cell phones and watch tv with more commercials than content. And the content is worse than the commercials! We hate our Government but won't change it. We hate what the world is becoming and yet somehow are o.k. with an acceptable amount of terrorism and invasion of privacy. Soon there will be no privacy to invade. Privacy will be an obsolete word stricken from books, meaning and memory!
Mr500characters 11 months ago 2
@Mr500characters Tell me who runs youtube I thimk you alreadfy been tagged Better look under your bed
228supernatural 10 months ago
@Mr500characters Men like you can't build the world you want. you want to rise up and take the power back but don't attempt to do anything other than sit in your home and complain about how shitty everything, you aren't fighting oppressors you are blindly trying to point fingers at people and say they are oppressors while never actually bothering to understand the world you live in. you are the worst kind of scum the world has to offer a madman who thinks he is the only sane man.
greatunknowableevil 6 months ago
@greatunknowableevil ok. What are you doing?
MrMajorTime 6 months ago in playlist Bowie
@MrMajorTime I dont agree with him about that i just dont like people who act like that
greatunknowableevil 6 months ago
He lent himself awesome POWER here by performing his own background vocals, at once both lamenting and exhilirating! No one else could have found that kind of sincere complexity: to nail down in sound that elusive, treasonous, adrenalized feeling, that anti-authoritarian guilty pleasure rush of rebellion as foretold in the sci-fi novel. So appropriate for Orwell's beautifully drawn nightmare. You can almost hear Winston Smith and Julia singing "Oranges and lemons say the Bells of St. Clement's."
Mr500characters 11 months ago
People embracing the rewrite of history. Case in point: In recent years, they've taken the classic Star Trek episodes and erased the old special effects (groundbreaking art created in the past and a primary reason for the shows to become "classic" in the first place) and replaced them with CGI effects to make the show more pleasing to a "modern" ($) audience! Original music is replaced in shows to avoid royalties ($)! Tv is speeded up for more commercials ($). Mark Twain removed from libraries!?
Mr500characters 11 months ago
Someone or some THING is checking your recent activity right now! Live cameras in every store and at every street intersection! Satellite surveillance and spellcheck! Credit cards preferred! GPS cellphones and software updates! Police background checks and computer cookies for all! The only problem with Orwell is that he UNDERESTIMATED the invasiveness of the THOUGHT POLICE in the future. And the future is in its infancy. When we start loving Big Brother, we'll know: "He who controls the past".
Mr500characters 11 months ago
@Mr500characters: YouTube can be a Big Brother!
Mr500characters 11 months ago
I foresee the problem with the internet in the future as so much garbage information to sift through to get to what you really need to know. Wait a minute. The future is here!
Mr500characters 11 months ago 2
Love this song
tokimasa121 11 months ago
My favourite sci fi movie is from that year... The Terminator!!!
helenajesstarzak 1 year ago 5
@helenajesstarzak Yeah The Terminator is one of my favourites too,. Much better than any of the sequels by a long shot.
Alexm799 6 months ago 5
@Alexm799 Oh I'm sorry, what about Terminator 2?
DBowie125 6 months ago 3
@DBowie125 Didn't like it. Original Terminator is the only one worth watching in my opinion.
Alexm799 6 months ago 3
@Alexm799 Personally I loved the 2nd one, but if you think the first one's best then that's alright.
DBowie125 6 months ago
@DBowie125 2nd one is a better film. But we got to see Sarah Connors tits in the 1st. So it's a trade-off!
MrMajorTime 5 months ago in playlist Bowie
@MrMajorTime Fair point. And the 1st one is still a really good movie
DBowie125 5 months ago
@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own good points...
MrMajorTime 5 months ago
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@DBowie125 Two fair points: In 1991 Arnold did a nice heroic turn, showing some good acting in T2. In the 1984 T(1) offering, Hamilton showed some of her own fair points...
MrMajorTime 5 months ago
@Alexm799 The internet is not the right place to express that opinion.
SnarfBanks 5 months ago
@Alexm799 I agree!
DirectorACL 5 months ago
@DirectorACL Someday they won't let. Now you must agree!
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist Bowie
@helenajesstarzak Terminator 2 is the much better film. But anyway, this song is sublime.
Ticktock2020 5 months ago
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS ALWAYS (EXCEPT IN THE CLUBS!) (DAVID) BOWIE DANCE TRACK FROM 1974's DIAMOND DOGS. RCA, IN SPITE OF HIS SUCCESS, NEVER EVER KNEW WHAT QUITE TO DO WITH BOWIE. HAD THEY, THIS RCA 10026 SINGLE WOULD HAVE BEEN A HIT ON THE CHARTS, DITTO CHANGES & REBEL REBEL. FANTASTIC SONG - THANK YOU. DAVEDJ
Multi1628 1 year ago
damn british soul. that voice WOWOWOW its awesome.
kjsh987 1 year ago 3
i wanna play big brother during obamas speeches one day and see what happens and wear a t-shirt that show obama and says we love you big brother wpuld i be jumped
EbolaReston12 1 year ago
BP oil calling the shots in the Gulf of Mexico. Bankers getting million dollar bonuses off of taxpayer money. Big Pharma drugging our children. "You put up for more".....................
blabblab1212 1 year ago
Question: Why don't they ever play this song on the radio? Answer: Because they want to split your pretty cranium and fill it full of Air Supply...................
blabblab1212 1 year ago 43
@blabblab1212 i've heard this song on the airwaves of Bradenton, FL. on our channel 107.3 the eagle... props i gues, id rather hear some older stuff though. but its all one in the same, equally perfect tracks always created.
sickssixsick 1 year ago
@blabblab1212 lol....that was so fuckin funny
rudenudedude9 10 months ago
Fucking clever clever clever!
BPCpresents 1 year ago
Someday they won't let you--now you must agree. The times they are a-telling and the changing isn't free.You've read it in the tealeaves and the tracks are on tv. Come see come see remember me. They'll split you're pretty cranium and fil it full of air.Tell you that you're 80 but, brother, you won't care. You'll be shooting up on anything--tomorrow's never there. that's the way it really happened too. Take a look at us now: the way of the world. What the seventies were and the changes came true.
FINNEGANAGENNIF 1 year ago 4
@FINNEGANAGENNIF yes well it seems he is a prophet
friedmeat 1 year ago
i always thought that the background music. Sounds like Shaft soundtrack. lol
schoebinger 2 years ago 24
yeah it does a bit lol
Alexm799 2 years ago 6
@schoebinger
yeah it does...reminds me of somwthing from The Wiz aswell...
PadraigM46 1 year ago
@schoebinger anything with a "wah wah" guitar riff reminds me of Shaft! LOL
doubleder 1 year ago 2
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LennonDSD 1 year ago
@schoebinger What "background music?" Did you mean the music reminds you of the title track from Shaft? Because the music has no "background music" to it, as far as I can tell.
dantean 11 months ago 7
@dantean I think he meant the wah intro
Alexm799 11 months ago 6
@Alexm799 Got it.
dantean 11 months ago
@schoebinger
David Bowie is zeitgeist....I think he di that on purpose
jagdpanther1944 7 months ago
now i listen to this years on, the philadephia influence is in the strings here...now to young americans...
baboon2525 2 years ago
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ziggysguitarman1961 2 years ago
thanks for uploading one of my favorite bowie songs.
IntelligentInfect 3 years ago 2