i love the scene where he looks himself at the mirror , and this starts breaking . I guess it is a symbol of the idea one has got of oneself, until we become more introspective and that idea breaks ,to allow the genuine selfknowing into our conscious mind.
Look back in anger, 'til you come. It's about all the effort and sacrifice made for the object of affection: our higher self. It's Bowie looking for himself, literally. The time spent on searching for the artist, the strut and fret (for some unseen reason) upon the stage, that we all come to grip with, tackles us to the floor as we take consequences for chosing the difficult rather than the easy. The mocking devil of self-doubt, even as we retrace our steps, haunts us as we shut doors behind us.
@spaceman979 That's sweet. Sometimes I kick ass! I don't even always want to be profound (maybe just most of the time!) I'll endeavor to hone my laser Bowie deciphering mind to slice off a bit of what we all know and haven't always put into words. I have this unfair advantage that is so deeply mired in actuality that I can not yet openly discuss it. But I'm glad there is an acutely aware audience that sometimes lets me know that I reach a level of significance equal to the task. I will continue.
I've caught the universe adjusting its garments as I catch sight of it preparing itself before I look upon its illusion. Like the brunette drag queen in Boys Keep Swinging just before she knows she's "on". My intuition of late has been accelerated to the point where quantum mechanics are coyly allowing me glimpses of the backstage preparations before the performance. The cosmos only flashes a light when necessary, conserving energy only revealed when someone is then directly observing the scene.
Waiting so long for return of cosmic sense that evades our grasp. Longing for the spirit that descends at apparently arbitrary times. Any period with a lack of subjective grace breeds contempt in the merely self conscious man. But when it returns and overtakes the soul, all is well again, all forgiven, no time to be hateful. Frustration of intervals between enlightenments is magnified, only because of the knowledge of dimensional contrasts, forbidden fruit once seen causes suffering when denied.
@spaceman979 Thank you. Sometimes I feel compelled to share the information as it develops. I may not always be inspired or even inspiring. But now and then, at the appropriate time, I believe that capacity for insight is a gift too. Right or wrong, I am connected to patent things at the hip with early Bowie works. There is a purity of delivery that contains quantum lessons in lyrics and images. What seems like something insignificant one year, becomes the key for an eureka moment down the road.
@treyspr Funny and true! Poor David, still trying to recollect himself from blowing his mind way back in Station To Station. This is where he picked up the pieces and decided to individualize himself, even during the ashes of the Triptych in Berlin. After Lodger, Scary Monsters would be his last Masterpiece. Finally free to just be David. Major Tom's mission, and the other personas, would soon be shelved once and for all. He was regaining his ego, reentering a connection to independent artistry.
im gay ant i realy was in love with himmmmm...this track takes me back.....when i was a junkie... till u come.butt im doing very well now.....look back in anger driffen by the night...just love it or take a tequilia!!!
I just observed this little detail, it is really funny: for a very long time, maybe still today, he used to wear a small golden crucifix pendant on a chain around his neck which one can see him wearing at very many performances and on photographs, but in this video he has turned the pendant so that it is on his back, and when he is sitting on the bed bending down at around 1:05 one can see it. I think this is somehow cute, I can't help it. ;-)
I'm caught between solid objects, enjoying a gaseous state, as when Isaac Asimov wrote The Gods Themselves (earning the Hugo award for best novel). Sometimes it's about the plasmas between conservatism.
Alomar, Fripp, Belew, they make these albums really interesting. Guitar playing stagnated after the late seventies. Nothing wrong with today's music, it's just not new anymore...
Bowie looking at his own idealized art, knowing that each work takes and gives: Some virtue is lost, dissolves, and is restructured as a birth pang, after the damage, growth, relearning. Price paid is sense of doubt: each excursion censors any other result, yet finds a niche, equal to anything else, moreso, it has manifested as history, and not some abstract possibility. A balance of care goes into each work, knowing it is not all-inclusive, yet all the more important, for being manifest at all.
All out there before us: to speak in apparently ambiguous terms, indeed intentionally manipulating our anticipations of greater manifestations to ensue, it is a worthy exercise in bringing consciousness up to the standards that cosmos speaks fluently about. The truth is held out as a goal to achieve through puzzles of exersise, not lowering to heretofore substandards, rather a becon to attain! Only In this way will mind sweep up the victory prize and continue into the next realm honed, prepared.
As controlled parameters thankfully constrain our expression as knowledge increases, it becomes a self-augmenting exersise in boosting quantitative information packets. Beyond concepts, incorporating language as both emotional and factual conveyance, beyond feeling or thinking. Shakespeare was another mind expanded above his station to expand other stations like running interference for thought-police radar, in order to evade speed traps that don't apply to unknown velocities that perplex rules.
Less mathematical, and more humanistic. This sanity affords a larger living room as one draws into truth. It isn't audacious. It's an adventure, an excursion into quite comfortable worlds, that doesn't threaten, because it knows no aim at hostility. Combinations can always be refined to find infinite (truly infinite!) dead-on reckonings of force proposals, that does not have to detract from, but merely enhance, an already ongoing endeavor, into wholistic times to be had in novel vector tangents.
Very sane he seemed to me: Isn't it though? Closer one gets to sanity, the more dangerous he becomes to himself and the denominator of human consciousness.
Such a threat to draw asymptotically close to pure energy. Not an explosion, but a controlled implosion of energy, to draw one tighter to its own gravity. The pressure plus the control, radiating a finer spectrum (there's always a subspectrum within a wavelength), radio, before afc (automatic frequency control), fine tuning is better manual.
Lodger, an inworking of systems reformulating. A quiet investigation of retrofeelings, close to self-examination, came dangerously near to final purpose of energies, revealed to enhance the world attitude with counfoundedly complex questions about where it's heading. Disguised as unloaded paintings of self in a crying out of a fixated point to tie all the myriad gestures into a cohesive context. No one told him when to run. He ran for all the things he was trying to catch within his own destiny.
"You know who I am", he said. There is much to say. And I've started to say some here. The energy flows stronger as I draw closer to a better mind than I ever had. "He must decrease, as I increase". A transference of energy occurred so long ago, perhaps more than once, even before this life. And certainly during the 80's. The mystery is about to be revealed, the puzzle of why one era drew to a close and why the apparent degradation is actually mutatis mutandis, a behind the scenes reformulation.
The man is only meaningful in movement. It's the motion creating mass, therefore, gravity. Bowie would not have existed staying in one town, or one persona. There are subatomic particles that don't exist unless they are on the move. I think Bowie is the cousin of a boson. It's all part of the equation. I guess I'll just have to write that book.
@Emma8887 Thank you. If I do, I'll make sure it's worth your time to read it. Many moments over so many years have suggested that there is more to Bowie than just a great rock idol (which he is, of course). But he was unique for other reasons as well. Even the eye accident, permanently altering his appearance, that led up to his iconic imagery, an outpouring of destined moments, all was predetermined. Compelled to get incoming concepts to the public, pushing envelopes like a drafted test pilot.
@Emma8887 Yes, must be destiny. Fates for everyone! Some destined for fame and the spotlight. Some are destined for more subtle, but equally important projects on the sidelines. Some will be synonymous with ignominy. Some will never know the complete influence they've had. Others will achieve greatness late in life. But we're all connected to each other: all the somebody people, all the nobody people. All the people matter, all the time. Free will exists, paradoxically, within the fate equation.
@MrMajorTime I agree to that, he definitely is very much more than a great rock idol. I think he couldn't even explain all this meaning himself, although he tends to analyzing art or the artistic process all the time. But I think it is like every great art, that "flows out" of it's creator because it HAS to be created. Bowie even said once in an interview that he also wrote songs he didn't WANT to write.
@ezaube1030 Thank you. "And even greater works shall you do." Edgar Cayce, the "sleeping prophet" needed someone to record, an interpreter of readings. The medium is the canvas for all sorts of impressions that sometimes leave the shaman dumbfounded to know what just happened. Interestingly, fandom can become even more incisively accurate than the cause, and after all, isn't that the goal of art, to inspire in infinite ways, not just reflecting glory, passing a baton, greater than even intended!
beautiful music, and reminds me of Christiane F. I still remember the first time I heard, I was sitting watching christiane f 13 years drugged and prostituted. for me it was the best music of the film. David I love you my idol forever
@Razeluxe01 In addition to his voice I'm often amazed at how much he's changed physically, he doesn't look anything like he used to. And I wonder if he ever looks at himself now and wonders how this happened, because I sure do, I look at the pictures from 70s and 80s and see him now, it doesn't look like the same guy at all, he's transformed repeatedly and changed himself so many times it's amazing.
@boulesquies It is based on Oscar Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Grey. It has a real meaning, it is not just about him having fun with his brushes and a mirror.
@SuperDalton2008 That, a very spooky story, Wilde's parable: the negativity of an evil life cankering the soul, represented as a hidden portrait growing more hideous with each discretion. The antithesis: the possiblity that beneath the normal condition of the human body deteriorating, may be an invisible soul collecting charms, becoming more beautiful, preparing to enter into the next incarnation more refined, with virtuous acts, as the physical canvas loses its temporal charm to erosion of age.
Yea Bowie when the Arch angel came to me he yelled at me and told me to stop my fussing and get busy. He was real mad at me. You don't mess with Arch Angel Michael cause when he is pissed off you can feel it and he was kind of on fire about his anger and that sword was swirling around too. Woe it shook me to the core. I was so sorry for wasting his time. And he told me to stop worrying too cause he said it was a waste of energy. He said time to do something about it.
I do remember this video when it came out. It scared me because I was a child. But I'm so happy to see it again. I had forgotten he crawls under the bed at the end.
@BeanKitchen Yeah, Dennis Davis and George Murray were an incredible rhythm section. They're a big part of what made me really get into Bowie's post-Ziggy-era work.
heavy drumming perfectly fits his voice here, and it's just lovely and shivering how a hard rhythm like this can be melodic as well at the same time. This song puts me in a strange mood!
God...he's so weird. I know that's why I love him. Weirdness is brilliance...but you can't really say the same about the crap they have out these days. Sure, that's probably just a gimmick for him too, but the idiots they have nowadays try TOO hard. Still, love him
Alomar with some really under-rated guitar playing. The rythym and strumming is very complex, and he really gives the song soul around the middle. Bowie with great vocals, too, of course.
my mum and dad used to play loads of bowie stuff to me when i was little and i just began to read dorian gray like last week and my mum said to check out dis vid it was so weird i havent heard it in like ten years but i foundmy self singing along
yesa. too many computer to make a single video. but bowie shows as queen and other singers of that time that u dont need 12 computers to make a perfect music video
This is one of my favourite old Bowie clips. I agree with the comment that it does allude to "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. Its absolutely brilliant the kind of clips he did back then without special effects & a lot of money. There was no HD back then.
I read somewhere that Bowie actually painted the painting of himself as an Angel. Is this true?? Or an urban legend?? If anyone can let me know? I would appreciate it.
@cazangelcat I never heard anything about it, but if it's true, he is FAR more talented than I thought. He's said before that originally he wanted to be a painter and if this is an example of his work, you have to wonder what that portion of the art world lost out on when his primary occupation became a musician.
I wouldn't say Bowie was 'alternative', but I wouldn't class him as mainstream either, I suppose he was in a grey area inbetween the two. There's nowt wrong with mainstream, whatever that is. I like Abba, Thompson Twins, The Smiths allsorts! I also like some of Lady GaGa's stuff. Good music is good music, full stop. Although there are some annoying buggers like Beiber!
@sasybee I only meant that in response to another comment here, saying this was the antichrist of Don't Look Back In Anger by Oasis. Calling it the antichrist implies it was done afterwards as a counterpoint. That is clearly not the case, so I was saying that if any connection exists, it would be Oasis taking the phrase and turning it.
@3212 (ran out of characters) because she's a very hard worker who took over the world with her first album and held it. Not even Bowie can say that. BUT I do agree with you on the slappers point and how good this song is. If only there was a pretty Island for people like you and me
@3212finch Look, im the bastard child of an articulate gay singer who crashes cars more than he speaks to me, ok. I may be foul mouthed but at least I know... when the spirit ruled these lands the videos were better, yes, but it had nothing to do with how much money was involved. If anything we fucking hated having to scrimp around in budgets. People DID more thats the point. The climate was easier to deal with, but so what. Im so sick of old people going on about Lady Gaga
This brings me back to the time when music videos were still an art form. Hell, I even remember when music itself was still an art form. Yeah, I'm an old geezer.
@SerenaRoberson - he's not pretending! he paints & draws too..pretty well too! you can see a lot of his work online. I wouldn't be surprised if the one in the video is his; it's his style
Even from looking at this video, you can tell David Bowie was 10 years ahead of everyone else in fashion and music. I'm assuming this was made in the late 70's and his clothing looks like something a guy would wear in the late 80's. Bowie is the coolest of the cool!
What I love about this song is that you can fit different scenarios to it- as already mentioned, the urgency to the song kind of pushes you to imagine what it means and I love that.
Funny how old music videos are, as a rule, better than the stuff nowadays. They had less money to spend I believe but because of this, they had to be more creative. Most videos are now the female singer with backing dancers choreographed to high heaven, or a male rapper surrounded by slappers. One of my favourite Bowie songs.
@3212finch The thing today is most videos are designed with so many visual distractions to take your mind off the ordinary to terrible music. Young people today don't LISTEN to music ,they WATCH videos.
i love the scene where he looks himself at the mirror , and this starts breaking . I guess it is a symbol of the idea one has got of oneself, until we become more introspective and that idea breaks ,to allow the genuine selfknowing into our conscious mind.
queenofgoblings 1 week ago
Still one year ahead of MTV
lonelylondonladfan 1 week ago
Look back in anger, 'til you come. It's about all the effort and sacrifice made for the object of affection: our higher self. It's Bowie looking for himself, literally. The time spent on searching for the artist, the strut and fret (for some unseen reason) upon the stage, that we all come to grip with, tackles us to the floor as we take consequences for chosing the difficult rather than the easy. The mocking devil of self-doubt, even as we retrace our steps, haunts us as we shut doors behind us.
MrMajorTime 2 weeks ago in playlist Bowie
Happy birthday, Bowie! <3
Caitiebelle00 2 weeks ago 2
Great guitar work by Adrian Belew.
riffman943 3 weeks ago
where can i find david bowie?
AtomheartHippy 3 weeks ago
I just love this song since i heard it for the very first time in the movie "Christiane F.":D
IwantaLexusLFA 1 month ago 6
what a voice
saganemc2 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
I like bowie and everything about this song sucks.
drewsuschrist 1 month ago
Uhhh why?
Groblinfull 1 month ago in playlist More videos from thinwhiteduke76
He's so perfect, mmph.
Caitiebelle00 1 month ago 11
@Caitiebelle00 agree
Groblinfull 1 month ago in playlist More videos from thinwhiteduke76
He's such a darling.
Avery1125 1 month ago
Love Alomar's guitar playing on this one. Or was it Slick...? He's had so many guitarists over the years.
Mineav 1 month ago
please keep sharing , some of it is so profound !
spaceman979 1 month ago
@spaceman979 That's sweet. Sometimes I kick ass! I don't even always want to be profound (maybe just most of the time!) I'll endeavor to hone my laser Bowie deciphering mind to slice off a bit of what we all know and haven't always put into words. I have this unfair advantage that is so deeply mired in actuality that I can not yet openly discuss it. But I'm glad there is an acutely aware audience that sometimes lets me know that I reach a level of significance equal to the task. I will continue.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
I've caught the universe adjusting its garments as I catch sight of it preparing itself before I look upon its illusion. Like the brunette drag queen in Boys Keep Swinging just before she knows she's "on". My intuition of late has been accelerated to the point where quantum mechanics are coyly allowing me glimpses of the backstage preparations before the performance. The cosmos only flashes a light when necessary, conserving energy only revealed when someone is then directly observing the scene.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago
Waiting so long for return of cosmic sense that evades our grasp. Longing for the spirit that descends at apparently arbitrary times. Any period with a lack of subjective grace breeds contempt in the merely self conscious man. But when it returns and overtakes the soul, all is well again, all forgiven, no time to be hateful. Frustration of intervals between enlightenments is magnified, only because of the knowledge of dimensional contrasts, forbidden fruit once seen causes suffering when denied.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
@MrMajorTime wow , . ...... that is all
spaceman979 1 month ago
@spaceman979 Thanks for your interjection.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago
@MrMajorTime love your comments
spaceman979 1 month ago
@spaceman979 Thank you. Sometimes I feel compelled to share the information as it develops. I may not always be inspired or even inspiring. But now and then, at the appropriate time, I believe that capacity for insight is a gift too. Right or wrong, I am connected to patent things at the hip with early Bowie works. There is a purity of delivery that contains quantum lessons in lyrics and images. What seems like something insignificant one year, becomes the key for an eureka moment down the road.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago
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@MrMajorTime please keep sharing , some of it is so profound !
spaceman979 1 month ago
As my friend Alex would say, "Very horrorshow."
YorkistWhiteRose 1 month ago
Incredible!
SKOTP69 2 months ago
sometimes people must be another person to become ourselves....... and it works.... really works
kjsh987 2 months ago
he said this then oasis said don't.
impascetic 2 months ago
Friend lefty hall on face book and see more bowie-including -David bowie w Klaus nomi on SNL 1979
thorshammer1348 3 months ago
thank you for putting this up
nanakistrife 3 months ago
At some point, the past meets the future. And that time is now!
MrMajorTime 3 months ago in playlist Bowie
muzyka jest przekozacka,do tego glos davida i jest przekozacko,
ktrainwreck 3 months ago
YOU KNOW WHO I AM, HE SAID
shellbellmel 3 months ago
OH MY BOWIE, this is straight out of my painting sessions, when inspiration really hits me :O I'm not even kidding... MIND = BLOWN
pinssimies 4 months ago
the gay bachelor pad
treyspr 4 months ago
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GnarlyNutSack 4 months ago in playlist GnarlyNutSack's Favorited Videos
@treyspr Funny and true! Poor David, still trying to recollect himself from blowing his mind way back in Station To Station. This is where he picked up the pieces and decided to individualize himself, even during the ashes of the Triptych in Berlin. After Lodger, Scary Monsters would be his last Masterpiece. Finally free to just be David. Major Tom's mission, and the other personas, would soon be shelved once and for all. He was regaining his ego, reentering a connection to independent artistry.
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist Bowie
im gay ant i realy was in love with himmmmm...this track takes me back.....when i was a junkie... till u come.butt im doing very well now.....look back in anger driffen by the night...just love it or take a tequilia!!!
autodafeh242 4 months ago
the drum playing is insane, sounds like 2 drummers
rhabarberkompott 4 months ago
I just observed this little detail, it is really funny: for a very long time, maybe still today, he used to wear a small golden crucifix pendant on a chain around his neck which one can see him wearing at very many performances and on photographs, but in this video he has turned the pendant so that it is on his back, and when he is sitting on the bed bending down at around 1:05 one can see it. I think this is somehow cute, I can't help it. ;-)
ezaube1030 4 months ago
All of Bowie's pre-MTV vids were pretty damn creative for their time!
lurch321 4 months ago
Carlos Alomar is a great rythm guitar player, very responsible of the records of Bowie those years.
metacosmos 4 months ago
Just bought Lodger, it's a great album
noahcism 5 months ago 2
1:43...he's so sexy :)
SweetenThekitty96 5 months ago
Yep, I've had nights where I just wanted to crawl under the bed too...
NoDestinyLive4Now 5 months ago
I can see how in 1979 this would be a very disturbing video lol
NoDestinyLive4Now 5 months ago
Iluvhimiluvhimiluvhimiluvhim
saganemc2 5 months ago
This song has a momentum that just seems to be on a collision course.
harwicke 5 months ago
ONe of my fave's from the thin white duke....can anyone tell me what key this song's is in??
NYPJO 5 months ago
He just keeps surprising me!! My lord what a talent!
saganemc2 5 months ago
I'm caught between solid objects, enjoying a gaseous state, as when Isaac Asimov wrote The Gods Themselves (earning the Hugo award for best novel). Sometimes it's about the plasmas between conservatism.
MrMajorTime 5 months ago in playlist Bowie
Alomar, Fripp, Belew, they make these albums really interesting. Guitar playing stagnated after the late seventies. Nothing wrong with today's music, it's just not new anymore...
koendelbeke 5 months ago
@koendelbeke dont forget slick
kjsh987 4 months ago
David Bowie has the most beautiful voice I've ever heard!!! *---*
Not to mention HE ROCKS!!! \\õ//
Moonshine3991 5 months ago 2
one of my Bowie's fav. Guitar part on middle is so uplifting
RasputinNovy1981 6 months ago
LOOOOOOOK BACK IN ANGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
ImAfraidOfAmerican 6 months ago
My favorite Bowie song!
Gergyboy101 6 months ago
waiting so long, I've been waiting so, waiting so
macekmacek 6 months ago
"Like children. Exactly like children!" Is true art. Coming through you, only partly of you.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago
Bowie looking at his own idealized art, knowing that each work takes and gives: Some virtue is lost, dissolves, and is restructured as a birth pang, after the damage, growth, relearning. Price paid is sense of doubt: each excursion censors any other result, yet finds a niche, equal to anything else, moreso, it has manifested as history, and not some abstract possibility. A balance of care goes into each work, knowing it is not all-inclusive, yet all the more important, for being manifest at all.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago
All out there before us: to speak in apparently ambiguous terms, indeed intentionally manipulating our anticipations of greater manifestations to ensue, it is a worthy exercise in bringing consciousness up to the standards that cosmos speaks fluently about. The truth is held out as a goal to achieve through puzzles of exersise, not lowering to heretofore substandards, rather a becon to attain! Only In this way will mind sweep up the victory prize and continue into the next realm honed, prepared.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago
As controlled parameters thankfully constrain our expression as knowledge increases, it becomes a self-augmenting exersise in boosting quantitative information packets. Beyond concepts, incorporating language as both emotional and factual conveyance, beyond feeling or thinking. Shakespeare was another mind expanded above his station to expand other stations like running interference for thought-police radar, in order to evade speed traps that don't apply to unknown velocities that perplex rules.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago
Less mathematical, and more humanistic. This sanity affords a larger living room as one draws into truth. It isn't audacious. It's an adventure, an excursion into quite comfortable worlds, that doesn't threaten, because it knows no aim at hostility. Combinations can always be refined to find infinite (truly infinite!) dead-on reckonings of force proposals, that does not have to detract from, but merely enhance, an already ongoing endeavor, into wholistic times to be had in novel vector tangents.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago
Very sane he seemed to me: Isn't it though? Closer one gets to sanity, the more dangerous he becomes to himself and the denominator of human consciousness.
Such a threat to draw asymptotically close to pure energy. Not an explosion, but a controlled implosion of energy, to draw one tighter to its own gravity. The pressure plus the control, radiating a finer spectrum (there's always a subspectrum within a wavelength), radio, before afc (automatic frequency control), fine tuning is better manual.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago
Lodger, an inworking of systems reformulating. A quiet investigation of retrofeelings, close to self-examination, came dangerously near to final purpose of energies, revealed to enhance the world attitude with counfoundedly complex questions about where it's heading. Disguised as unloaded paintings of self in a crying out of a fixated point to tie all the myriad gestures into a cohesive context. No one told him when to run. He ran for all the things he was trying to catch within his own destiny.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago
"You know who I am", he said. There is much to say. And I've started to say some here. The energy flows stronger as I draw closer to a better mind than I ever had. "He must decrease, as I increase". A transference of energy occurred so long ago, perhaps more than once, even before this life. And certainly during the 80's. The mystery is about to be revealed, the puzzle of why one era drew to a close and why the apparent degradation is actually mutatis mutandis, a behind the scenes reformulation.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago
The man is only meaningful in movement. It's the motion creating mass, therefore, gravity. Bowie would not have existed staying in one town, or one persona. There are subatomic particles that don't exist unless they are on the move. I think Bowie is the cousin of a boson. It's all part of the equation. I guess I'll just have to write that book.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago
@MrMajorTime
If you were to write that book, I'd read it.
Emma8887 6 months ago
@Emma8887 Thank you. If I do, I'll make sure it's worth your time to read it. Many moments over so many years have suggested that there is more to Bowie than just a great rock idol (which he is, of course). But he was unique for other reasons as well. Even the eye accident, permanently altering his appearance, that led up to his iconic imagery, an outpouring of destined moments, all was predetermined. Compelled to get incoming concepts to the public, pushing envelopes like a drafted test pilot.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago
@MrMajorTime
So do you believe in a thing you could call destiny or fate? Would it apply only to few people, like Bowie, or does everybody's life have a meaning?
Emma8887 6 months ago
@Emma8887 Yes, must be destiny. Fates for everyone! Some destined for fame and the spotlight. Some are destined for more subtle, but equally important projects on the sidelines. Some will be synonymous with ignominy. Some will never know the complete influence they've had. Others will achieve greatness late in life. But we're all connected to each other: all the somebody people, all the nobody people. All the people matter, all the time. Free will exists, paradoxically, within the fate equation.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago
@MrMajorTime I agree to that, he definitely is very much more than a great rock idol. I think he couldn't even explain all this meaning himself, although he tends to analyzing art or the artistic process all the time. But I think it is like every great art, that "flows out" of it's creator because it HAS to be created. Bowie even said once in an interview that he also wrote songs he didn't WANT to write.
ezaube1030 4 months ago
@ezaube1030 Thank you. "And even greater works shall you do." Edgar Cayce, the "sleeping prophet" needed someone to record, an interpreter of readings. The medium is the canvas for all sorts of impressions that sometimes leave the shaman dumbfounded to know what just happened. Interestingly, fandom can become even more incisively accurate than the cause, and after all, isn't that the goal of art, to inspire in infinite ways, not just reflecting glory, passing a baton, greater than even intended!
MrMajorTime 4 months ago
ahh i just find him incredibly sexy in whatever he does! i am fascinated by him!
Eggs4Eva 6 months ago
i love him so much , PLEASE DO ANOTHER TOUR!!!!! ive never seen him live :(
msbowiedepp 7 months ago 6
beautiful music, and reminds me of Christiane F. I still remember the first time I heard, I was sitting watching christiane f 13 years drugged and prostituted. for me it was the best music of the film. David I love you my idol forever
amybaruch 7 months ago
Bowie looks like a god
AllAroundTheSun 7 months ago 20
@AllAroundTheSun No... Bowie IS a god ;)
BowieGirl95 3 months ago 2
@AllAroundTheSun Definately
ErikaMulheim 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@AllAroundTheSun
Definately.
ErikaMulheim 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
Yes Bowie. It is time we should be going. To my bedroom.
jessgracedavidson 7 months ago 26
@jessgracedavidson Well, his bed looks pretty welcoming as well XD
NightmareLoveForever 1 month ago in playlist YouTube Mix for David Bowie
it's amazing how much his voice has changed.
Razeluxe01 7 months ago
@Razeluxe01 In addition to his voice I'm often amazed at how much he's changed physically, he doesn't look anything like he used to. And I wonder if he ever looks at himself now and wonders how this happened, because I sure do, I look at the pictures from 70s and 80s and see him now, it doesn't look like the same guy at all, he's transformed repeatedly and changed himself so many times it's amazing.
TheBookWorm1718 6 months ago
u guys think he really painted the 'Angel Bowie'?
KingJLace 7 months ago
@KingJLace Yeah he is actually a pretty good painter its entirely possible he made that.
greatunknowableevil 7 months ago
@greatunknowableevil o_o woah! he did!?!?! that's amazing!! :D
Caspisan 7 months ago
@Caspisan I said it was entirely within his talent i dont know if he actually did but it is just such a Bowie thing to do that i think he did it.
greatunknowableevil 7 months ago
@greatunknowableevil hmmhmm true true
Caspisan 7 months ago
Amazing performance on the drums and one of the best opening verses to a song ever.
SlipperyJack 7 months ago 4
Love the guitar work in this song. Alomar did a great job.
Mineav 7 months ago
19 people make me look back in anger
AshAlmond 7 months ago
i never heard this song i need to torrent his discography bithc
bigwordssmallbrain 7 months ago
the song is good but the videoclip is ridiculous
boulesquies 8 months ago
@boulesquies It is based on Oscar Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Grey. It has a real meaning, it is not just about him having fun with his brushes and a mirror.
SuperDalton2008 6 months ago
@SuperDalton2008 That, a very spooky story, Wilde's parable: the negativity of an evil life cankering the soul, represented as a hidden portrait growing more hideous with each discretion. The antithesis: the possiblity that beneath the normal condition of the human body deteriorating, may be an invisible soul collecting charms, becoming more beautiful, preparing to enter into the next incarnation more refined, with virtuous acts, as the physical canvas loses its temporal charm to erosion of age.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago in playlist Bowie
I ... speechless. The voice. Just.
chloenoire 8 months ago
Yea Bowie when the Arch angel came to me he yelled at me and told me to stop my fussing and get busy. He was real mad at me. You don't mess with Arch Angel Michael cause when he is pissed off you can feel it and he was kind of on fire about his anger and that sword was swirling around too. Woe it shook me to the core. I was so sorry for wasting his time. And he told me to stop worrying too cause he said it was a waste of energy. He said time to do something about it.
Mineretta2012 8 months ago
this one is new wave post punk awesome
djmusicjac 8 months ago
such an artist!!
gomongio 8 months ago
I do remember this video when it came out. It scared me because I was a child. But I'm so happy to see it again. I had forgotten he crawls under the bed at the end.
MrDasher01 8 months ago
very dorian gray. not sure why..........
123jsbach 8 months ago
@123jsbach that was the sensation that he wanted to gave you mate
kjsh987 8 months ago
@kjsh987 Yes I understand thats what the video is about but I dont get the connection with the song.
123jsbach 8 months ago
is anybody listening to the lyrics? come out come out wherever you are....
vamppilot007 8 months ago
I LOVE ALL BOWIE.....IN FACT.....I THINK HE'S GOD.....NOT CLAPTON....BUT 4 SOME REASON THIS VID ALWAYS GAVE ME NIGHTMARES
marc08110 8 months ago
Some people called David Bowie wilde, but not me.
thing844 9 months ago
bowie must have massive bollocks 2 write this epic .lol
callicolady 9 months ago
I sing this as loud as I can in the shower :)
martinismification 9 months ago
Mr. Bowie hot as always
Mittcher 9 months ago
Dennis Davis (drummer) really makes this song for me, as well as Bowie's passionate delivery.
BeanKitchen 9 months ago 2
@BeanKitchen And Carlos Alomar's guitar!
Pirate7X 9 months ago
@BeanKitchen Yeah, Dennis Davis and George Murray were an incredible rhythm section. They're a big part of what made me really get into Bowie's post-Ziggy-era work.
crescentfreshbret 9 months ago
A kind of reversed Dorian Gray stuff, isn't it?
Dokuro19 9 months ago 2
@Dokuro19 I was thinking exactly the same thing...
sallyshipton 9 months ago
The double-tracked drum fills ROCK (I think every instument / voice is doubled, except for the the lead). Love the production!
Sincopare 9 months ago
I first thought this was the original from Oasis hit haha pfew glad it isnt! :p
JiS01 10 months ago
this is bowie at his sexiest. hnnnnng...
blwbl 10 months ago
He has one of the most stunning voices ever!!! *-*
And I love both the song and the video! <3
Moonshine3991 10 months ago
heavy drumming perfectly fits his voice here, and it's just lovely and shivering how a hard rhythm like this can be melodic as well at the same time. This song puts me in a strange mood!
sasybee 10 months ago 2
God...he's so weird. I know that's why I love him. Weirdness is brilliance...but you can't really say the same about the crap they have out these days. Sure, that's probably just a gimmick for him too, but the idiots they have nowadays try TOO hard. Still, love him
Janeyblue26 10 months ago
Timeless Bowie.
varsity3111 10 months ago 2
Alomar with some really under-rated guitar playing. The rythym and strumming is very complex, and he really gives the song soul around the middle. Bowie with great vocals, too, of course.
Mineav 11 months ago 18
patrick sent me here
XxSonicSalmonellaxX 11 months ago 2
oh wow
sirvidia 1 year ago
Yet another Bowie innovation: bachelor apartment videos!
gorillabelly1 1 year ago 2
Who could NOT love this awesome song!?!? OMG
MsSwwood 1 year ago
Bowie forever. Thanks to whoever might be upstairs for this genious!
Finntastique 1 year ago
my mum and dad used to play loads of bowie stuff to me when i was little and i just began to read dorian gray like last week and my mum said to check out dis vid it was so weird i havent heard it in like ten years but i foundmy self singing along
GPAKProductions 1 year ago
Dorian Bowie
Estefania89 1 year ago
Amazing and underrated Bowie song, the instrumental fucking rocks !
Lukather1979 1 year ago 4
yesa. too many computer to make a single video. but bowie shows as queen and other singers of that time that u dont need 12 computers to make a perfect music video
kjsh987 1 year ago
a brilliant execution of his song with not much money spent!
lisalucian 1 year ago
This is one of my favourite old Bowie clips. I agree with the comment that it does allude to "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. Its absolutely brilliant the kind of clips he did back then without special effects & a lot of money. There was no HD back then.
I read somewhere that Bowie actually painted the painting of himself as an Angel. Is this true?? Or an urban legend?? If anyone can let me know? I would appreciate it.
I still "lurve" Bowie! <3
cazangelcat 1 year ago
@cazangelcat I never heard anything about it, but if it's true, he is FAR more talented than I thought. He's said before that originally he wanted to be a painter and if this is an example of his work, you have to wonder what that portion of the art world lost out on when his primary occupation became a musician.
TheBookWorm1718 1 year ago
Great video! Remember: 1979!!!!!!!
hajomajor 1 year ago
I wouldn't say Bowie was 'alternative', but I wouldn't class him as mainstream either, I suppose he was in a grey area inbetween the two. There's nowt wrong with mainstream, whatever that is. I like Abba, Thompson Twins, The Smiths allsorts! I also like some of Lady GaGa's stuff. Good music is good music, full stop. Although there are some annoying buggers like Beiber!
3212finch 1 year ago
like the antichrist of Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis?
KHRaccoon 1 year ago
@KHRaccoon Like Oasis stole the phrase from Bowie, more like
scottelliottmusic 1 year ago
@scottelliottmusic they didnt steal, it's some kinda tribute i guess, quite different concept behind the two things
sasybee 1 year ago
@sasybee I only meant that in response to another comment here, saying this was the antichrist of Don't Look Back In Anger by Oasis. Calling it the antichrist implies it was done afterwards as a counterpoint. That is clearly not the case, so I was saying that if any connection exists, it would be Oasis taking the phrase and turning it.
scottelliottmusic 1 year ago
I always loved how the band just rips at 1:24...
Jhensy2012 1 year ago
okay sooo, am I the only one who listens to 'mainstream' songs ( lady gaga, rihanna, taio cruz etc) and to songs like this?
xswirl 1 year ago
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I want to live there
sakrble 1 year ago
YOU KNOW WHO AM I HE SAID!
GnarlyNutSack 1 year ago 61
has anyone noticed the eye at the window at 1:50?
MissNewKillerStar 1 year ago
@MissNewKillerStar The eye..hehe. What about the creepy mannequin thing next to the eye?..
mooneepondskid 1 year ago
@3212 (ran out of characters) because she's a very hard worker who took over the world with her first album and held it. Not even Bowie can say that. BUT I do agree with you on the slappers point and how good this song is. If only there was a pretty Island for people like you and me
georgemichaelbastard 1 year ago
@3212finch Look, im the bastard child of an articulate gay singer who crashes cars more than he speaks to me, ok. I may be foul mouthed but at least I know... when the spirit ruled these lands the videos were better, yes, but it had nothing to do with how much money was involved. If anything we fucking hated having to scrimp around in budgets. People DID more thats the point. The climate was easier to deal with, but so what. Im so sick of old people going on about Lady Gaga
georgemichaelbastard 1 year ago
absolutely a fenomenal song..
vgotnofingers 1 year ago
This brings me back to the time when music videos were still an art form. Hell, I even remember when music itself was still an art form. Yeah, I'm an old geezer.
ral1334 1 year ago
@SerenaRoberson - he's not pretending! he paints & draws too..pretty well too! you can see a lot of his work online. I wouldn't be surprised if the one in the video is his; it's his style
Yasdnil 1 year ago
Carlos Alomar is the shit!!
hoggeboris 1 year ago
@hoggeboris an dennis davis at the drumms. can you hear how fast is playing? its awesome
kjsh987 1 year ago
<<<< 900th like!!!!!
GnarlyNutSack 1 year ago 3
This song, "Look Back in Anger", was from Bowie's album, "Lodger', which came out in 1979...
GemCan78 1 year ago
I like Bowie's kinda craziess.
carrywet 1 year ago
it's like if the Picture In Dorian Gray spell got reversed! agreed about old videos vs. new ones. the old vibes could teach us a lot if we let them.
argoninja2112 1 year ago
Even from looking at this video, you can tell David Bowie was 10 years ahead of everyone else in fashion and music. I'm assuming this was made in the late 70's and his clothing looks like something a guy would wear in the late 80's. Bowie is the coolest of the cool!
misha854 1 year ago
Who wouldn't go nutty living in an attic?
gorillabelly1 1 year ago 4
@gorillabelly1
But what an awesome attic oo I'd live there xD
SailorStar84 1 year ago
Bows in the glory!
This is by far the best song he ever made!
FlowrellikTS 1 year ago
He's got such a beautiful voice and feeling <3 He's practically shining!
rebeccaliebregts 1 year ago 3
He is so beautiful!!!
helenajesstarzak 1 year ago 4
Not a very good song, but man is he hot in that vid!
CrimsonFlower12 1 year ago
is this video inspired by Dorian Grey?
mrlee192 1 year ago 4
@mrlee192 YES, all the way.
ALiberianGirl 1 year ago
@mrlee192 Yes.
loosecanoe 1 year ago
@mrlee192 Yup. It's pretty clear to me, even if it was never confirmed by Bowie himself.
Reint25 1 year ago
THE BEST.THE VOICE.
aalexbotas 1 year ago 3
I don't think he is lying this time.
ndeycard 1 year ago
This is like a bad david brent video. Or Seona dancing hahah
kpworksforme 1 year ago 3
Fantastic song and video! The studio looks alot like Franz Bieberkopf's apartment in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'.
AriaLenskovo 1 year ago
I want that painting!!! One of my favorite Bowie videos!!!
sirensealight 1 year ago 3
What I love about this song is that you can fit different scenarios to it- as already mentioned, the urgency to the song kind of pushes you to imagine what it means and I love that.
And, this is such a cool video too.
OtisCallsItGood 1 year ago 4
Fantastic, just fantastic! This song has an urgency to it.
bluebrett70 1 year ago
Funny how old music videos are, as a rule, better than the stuff nowadays. They had less money to spend I believe but because of this, they had to be more creative. Most videos are now the female singer with backing dancers choreographed to high heaven, or a male rapper surrounded by slappers. One of my favourite Bowie songs.
3212finch 1 year ago 70
@3212finch The thing today is most videos are designed with so many visual distractions to take your mind off the ordinary to terrible music. Young people today don't LISTEN to music ,they WATCH videos.
mooneepondskid 1 year ago