It is so ovbious to anyone who has travelled from the mundane to the next station. There is a more perfect world that coexists with the mere self-conscious matrix. It contains another dimension where reality truly exists. It has no error, has no indifference. It contains all things, with room to move. There are no mistakes there that aren't meant to be. One can rise above doubt because it's all laid out in a beautiful plan, with time enough for love. It's "too late" to fall into worries or fear.
This was a moment in history. He drove himself to deliver this for our benefit (and his own release). He must have known that he was at the peak of his persona. And he delivered this album at a great cost of personal damage. His sanity was guranteed, but his pain of repercussions caused him years of angst. One doesn't get this close to the sun without some melting of the wings. But if he hadn't, we would not have this. This is headlong sacrifice and into the abyss! Bowie foresaw transfiguration!
"I must be only one in a million": to smell the onset of greatness! It was now defined, he was exalted! No matter what else transpired (oddly he drove himself FURTHER with the Berlin triptych), trying to come off the highest of highs. He showed the world that he was not only an actor, but a PERSONIFIER! He WAS TJN: an alien visiting our planet, propelling us into the future, just as much as Nikola Tesla (with HIS electronic patents) in his own unique way, that paved the way for modernistic art.
@sharrison586 Stop skipping! Savor the intro. Shakespeare had a curtain. Song starts and it works to its crescendo. There is reason for the build up. It was Bowie at his best, even better than all before. This was Bowie introducing himself as Thomas Jerome Newton, if only he could have flavored the soundtrack to The Man Who Fell To Earth! Two careers at this point! At once and at once there were mountains, and he could never be down. Who could connect him with love? So honestly exposing himself.
This is One of his Master Pieces!! Bowie The Playwright.... "The Thin White Duke" I still have the Album . No matter what he creates it's PURE CLASS!!!
Happy Birthday Mr Jones!!! I think Bowie even in retirement, by the very act of not trotting out another greatest hits tour like every macca, stones etc.. feel the need to do,has somehow out cooled all of them! Fair play, he knew that his work was done, felt content to say im done, regardless of health problems or not, its an admirable stance, considering the amount he's done and its value! Enjoy your retirement David, you gave us more than enough!!!
Oh, in other words, we all love you! And we wish you the best of health and the most wonderful realization of what you mean to so many! Be happy for all you have done. The universe bows at your accomplishments.
Happy ANKH! It is you and you and only you! It is the love that is beyond all women, it is your image that transcends and endures beyond time itself! A man that sacrificed himself to push that test pilot atmosphere of our early astronauts. You were compelled to lift the whole human race above its infancy, in YOUR infancy! By doing so, we must honor your iconic existence, a sacrifice equal to Egyptian Pharaohs who believed that what they had constructed would last as a representation to eternity!
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Yes, even you shall be surpassed (egad!), temporarily. But not really. You shall remain. Can you have any doubt? If one of us dies, it is only temporal. There is no doubt that you shall remain in me and I in you. There is no chance that you were nothing to not remain. You are the rock that gave water, that dreamt of what must be. Have NO fear.
Your spirit, we want you to know, will live on! You weren't wrong! There is still a chance. You must realize this, Dr. Bryce. "You're the scientist". "You must know there's always a chance." What was THAT all about? There was an exchange, a changeling, a "transference of energy". It was back in '84. "You must believe, MaryLou. We await courage coming forth and know that immortality exists, even beyond your purgatory. Your spirit will live on, I guarantee it. And it will be greater than imagined.
This is where Bowie is now: for a parallel in Merlin's time, living life from old age to youth. The big fear is mortality. Despite the upper chin, the tight lip English way, Bowie always thought that he would not grow old. It's not his fault. When he found out that he had to go under the knife, quickly revert to chapter The Man Who Fell To Earth. Here was a man who seemed not to age throughout the movie, spanning a generation. Everyone else aged. And he had this, for a time. But he will live on.
Shakespeare and Bowie were at about the same level of importance to humanity for their generations: each light years ahead of their time, tugging the whole artistic culture along with them to come up to snuff to enter a new age. It was time; at the right time. "Drink to the men who protect you and I". Their artistry has no limits, no end, because they tapped into cosmic mind itself, which is elegant to allow diverse meanings that splinter and return. "All things begin and end in eternity". True.
Even the best of souls, catching sight of a higher matrix, which includes another dimension of morality: an empathy to actually feel all of humanity, are caught in their own fateful failings, seemingly small though they may be. Once the baptism of fire enters the human body, all hell breaks loose! The elect seems to fall from grace, coming to grips with their imperfections that must be burned out of existence before permanent enlightenment can take place. Chemicalization ensues and is purgatory.
Hence, "I must be only one in a million" (to have this good fortune of grace descend upon me as only a handful of souls have). It is not arrogance, but a point of fact. Temptation always there. The man quickly realizes that this power, infinite potential, must be used for good of mankind. Alas, its nature is aloof, fleeting. It demands the elect to rise up to its own level to taste its fruits. Nothing less than an asymptotic perfection of character is allowed, catching sight of the burning bush.
He was skipping on the surface of all that mere reasoning could offer. But as he saw himself drawing to the dawn of cosmic mind, there was a direct connection to all the few who had actually scene that ghost descend upon their body. A flame overtakes the whole body as one becomes the new creature. It is a transfiguration that is quite astonishing. Quite unexpected, but when it prevails, the soul knows it is home at last, that there is no time for petty jealousies or squabbles, just good fortune.
Bowie, caught up in the self-induced momentum of hyper self consciousness, boosted by growing awareness of glimpses of the next dimension awaiting. All mankind, like poor players strutting and fretting their hour upon the stage, he was catching glimmers of the super conscious mind and the white light that bathes the being into awareness with dangers of aloof temptations to scoff at lesser humans. But just at that point, a dawn of truth, too late to be hateful of anything if it allows connection.
Well I can only respond to the video in my head, since all we have is the album cover. So then I must revert to the song itself. The song is a moment of lonely exalted genius rising beyond a point of what race consciousness was in the mid seventies. And THAT genius had no Bowie as a reference. We have Bowie. He only had to look to himself for a hero. He paved the way, even for himself. If Bowie knew one thing, it was that he had to believe in what he saw in his own abilities to transcend beyond.
@MickVenus81 Thanks for that 180! It's okay. We all go a little mad from time to time (just ask Norman Bates!). Glad to know there's more to you than just that anger. Proves there's hope, afterall. Take care and Happy Holidays to everyone here (especially our video poster ELGROOVER, the one who provided this opportunity from station to station!).
@MickVenus81 Wouldn't get what? I'm not sure what you're trying to say. At one time people were said to have demons. In more "enlightened" times they kindly refer the same condition as neurotic, or worse, hopelessly psychotic. Where does YOUR anger stem from? Perhaps if you refer to something specific that offended you, I might be more able to correspond. My suspicion is that you just want to be heard without anything of your own to offer. I'll step aside, and let you tell me where I'm at error.
"MrMajorTime..why don't you take some'time out of your obvious 'too- much- time- on- yer- hands schedule..and try this one...stick your head up your ass...sideways...and just for good measure,
Station To Station - Low - Heroes - what an unbelievable trio of albums. Don't think any solo artist has matched that run of albums (yes, I'm including the likes of Dylan and Neil Young in that as well).
"Daisy Bell" was composed by Harry Dacre in 1892 IS over one hundred years old. But Stanley Kubrick decided that his psychotic computer HAL 9000 should recite it in 1968. And Bowie connected to 2001: A Space Odyssey with Space Oddity in 1969 about Major Tom. And Bowie revisited Major Tom in 1979 in Ashes To Ashes, and even referenced later in "Hallo Spaceboy", a song by David Bowie from his 1995 album Outside. And I am talking about these things now in 2011 and some people will see that as cool.
@MrDevo5 Song was released 1976: 2011 - 1976 = 35 years ago. Just over a third of your century exaggeration or, even more telling, your underestimation of its pertinence. Name something current as "brill"? Wake up and do the math. Go out and meet people at least 30 years OLDER than your obtrusive self. If you have no respect for the recent past, then how can you have any hope for a younger generation who has not found a way to even launch a human to the moon for 39 years! Your past looms larger.
@MrMajorTime oh dear oh dear oh dear i guess youre the biggest bowie fan that walks the earth.didnt he make all his songs up shuffling bits of newspaper about?pull your head out of your arse and stop trying to analyse people whilst standing on your soapbox
@MrDevo5 No. He didn't make all his songs that way. Bowie utilized the cut-up method borrowed from Willim S. Burroughs on some songs. But that's twice you were in error for someone who's trying tell someone else to pull their head out of their ass. Careful you don't slip off your own soapbox, because it's so far full of holes. What exactly are you trying to say, anyway? If you disagree with me, fine. But what valuable statement are you making? You don't seem to know, or appreciate anything here.
@MrDevo5 ...hahahahahaha...you are exceedingly well versed in David Bowie-ism;
(so you assume) than the gallions of souls on the planet, whatever planet they call home. Oh , and if it makes any difference, the only person on a soap-box is you...lighten up man.....I happen to know David Bowie personally...and you really don't want to know what he'd tell you."
@MickVenus81 Whether you know Bowie personally, or not, doesn't provide you with an excuse for being offensive by being a namedropper. If you have nothing to offer on your own, you might as well know Charles Manson personally! Either way, you show no sense of what Bowie was at his best. Don't take it too hard. Just start over and resolve to be your own person, instead of some angst ridden soul trying to capture reflected glory of some grand delusion that association makes you equal to your idol.
@MrDevo5 You know better. Meeting young AND old artists is vital! There would be no value for young people without respect for moments of past meanings that got us here. Both spectrums can teach us equally. Do not limit yourself to some kind of demon preventing you from acknowledging our inheritance and burden to persevere.
What a colorless world we would see if we didn't acknowledge the giants that can never be quite like that again. I, for one, don't want to forget how clean the air once was.
At time of Lodger, Bowie found his ego again, a way to extricate himself from the Berlin tryptich even as he found himself inside of it! He had learned much, but had regained enough energy and confidence to project pieces of himself as he gained momentum once again. He wasn't looking for hits, but was offering himself in moments of tangents that would precede his last masterpiece in Ashes To Ashes. After a decade of delving into characters and proof of creative alternatives, Major Tom reemerged.
Yes. Another so full of nothing: like other deluded cohorts that abound. Again, I yield the floor to no one who has nothing but ill will and nothing of their own to say. Am I dissuaded by your genius? I've yet to see it, or where you stand. Thumbs way down.
This is something I know (and many suspect, even subconsciously): That, as we gain knowledge of our place in intelligent pespective of the universe (we are, after all, the best part of the universe looking at itself), we are drawing to the closure of one era. The smarter we get, the nearer the end. When our knowledge equals the knowledge that kicked it all off in the first place, then we arrive! And we're almost there. Only with the help of a few eager individuals, and a compassion for humanity.
And make no mistake. If I sound flippant, it's only because of my certainty that we are only NOW at the cusp of realization! As sure as tv was not accident, and that electricity in general is such a major key to our evolution, ( who knows, if dinosaurs could watch the Flintstones...) Anyway, thanks to anyone who ever got any part of anything I ever offered. The truth is far stranger than anyone (besides myself) ever imagined. Yes, Bowie is a key part of the equation: but even he was not allowed.
@ClaydenLee Sure. What are you doing Saturday night.? I'll do my hair and we can talk about quantum physics and entanglement theory. Interesting how spooky mechanics works extraluminously! Just testing the behavior of one particle determines the spin of its counterpart. That and rarefied gas as a solution to enlightened conservation of elevated energy returns per equal voltage! Up for anything dealing with exhausting one plane of existence for one moment of redefining any loose ends that remain!
@jrogers4072 No. No we can't. I would say this album blew DAVID' mind. And HE couldn't leave it at that either. He picked up the pieces and returned with Low, Heroes, Ashes To Ashes, and Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). What a pitty if we just left things alone. The greatest works are ahead! Let's not leave anything in it's premature grave. Let's resurrect the arts to conform to new standards in their proper perspectives. Let's kick things in the ass to keep alive the legacy and do one better.
Bowie was what was called In Norse mythology, a vardøger, a ghostly double who precedes a living person and is seen performing their actions in advance. In Finnish mythology, this is called having an etiäinen, i.e., "a firstcomer". Bowie never had a chance to do anything "out of the blue". That is, he never had the opportunity to proceed with absolute cosmic freedom, to a next level. He was a doppelgänger, a relayer, a medium of what he saw at moments of heightened peak self conscious awareness.
And who was this witness? It is symbolic of course. It is Roeg. It is you and I. It is anyone who sees the movie beyond the first time and comes to discover that Bowie is not acting. David is PERSONIFYING Newton. More than a performance, it is realization that Bowie is BECOMING Newton and Newton is becoming Bowie! There is no seperation. The result is that the artwork bends time to its knees. Newton becomes real! Bowie found himself in this role and lived the remainder of his creativity as such.
@sneakydogz1 I have several names. I must be only one in 9 billion. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, seeing the better man approaching. But the better man is the reality that will shatter the mirror image doppleganger which will be replaced by the reality of the superman, the blueprint. Until we replace our temples, stone by stone, to the better matrix, we are but walking shadows of something that travels in the light. That's as clear as an explanation as I can offer at this time.
A moment in The Man Who Fell To Earth (which immediately preceded Bowie's Station To Station), when TJN was being interrogated about whether anyone saw him arrive on Earth. To Tommy's knowledge, no one had. But they flashback to the beginning of the movie and lo, there WAS a witness. And then they dismiss this for the rest of the movie. Except the final message: Of COURSE there's a chance, you're the scientist, you must know there's always a chance. A chance for what? Hope of helping his planet.
Bowie was almost two souls, male and female, in one body and mind. However, only by amplifying rarefied mind (sometimes with cocaine, etc.) he could accomplish this apparently superhuman work. But Bowie was not able to sustain this state for more than moments, tumbling into ruin after every achievement because he was, afterall, human. It was a suicide mission! To appear larger than human, he could only achieve those heights momentarily. For a more permanent cosmic nature requires even more feat.
Balance point in time. One soul in perfect dichotomy. Yin and yang. Space Odyssey (male, western, British) intellectual progression but with a concentration of lunar imagery. Solaris (female, eastern, Russian) with solar intones. Two opposite perspectives delivering equally good imagery. The soul split by the Berlin wall (corpus callosum), positive and negative energies that generate more voltage due to polar opposition kept apart, not blended. The fall of the Berlin wall preceded art's decline.
Truth IS stranger than fiction. But science fiction becomes the truth! A new man who contains the bow tie, the perfect balance of past and future, yin and yang, enters a phase where he reemerges as not one, but two people. He must decrease while knowledge increases. Commander David Bowman in Space Odyssey inspires David Bowie to speak of Major Tom (Major Time), a man who wants to leave earth (the body) and enter the cosmos (mind) to overcome Ground Control (childhood). Or I could be wrong...Nah!
I might as well tell you, since you are the closest to figure me out. I had a moment of exaltation on that date. And, though it sounds mad, I have had an increase in kowledge that transmuted me into the next dimensional matrix. No kidding. It has not come without a price. But now, today, I know things that no one could know by mere reason or logic. No. Bowie is alive in spirit. And the best of what he was resides within my soul. That is the only way I could know the things I do. It gets clearer.
The most quantum part of it was that meanings would catch up to the future as it would unfold, making them untraceable until they COULD mean something, which was impossible until someone could deliver the sealed meaning as it was realized at the appropriate moment. Not that there ever was a limit of one meaning to any one work. Diversity of layers within the art are encoded like time capsules to individual interpretation. Some more vital than others of course. True mysteries continue to unravel.
@MrMajorTime Let me say that you are without a doubt the most passionate Bowie fan I've ever encountered. Nothing wrong with that either. I was extremely passionate about the man in the 70's when he blew my mind. He is a one of a kind never to be duplicated. Pure friggin musical genius if you ask me. And that is where I leave it. And furthermore, David, Elton John and Yoko are the only artists to have ever worked with John Lennon outside of the Beatles. That says it all. Cheers
@firewithgasoline Thanks, fire (there's something familiar about that name) I am passionate, I suppose, but not exactly a fan (fanatic) in the usual sense. Sometimes (believe it or not!) I don't even like Bowie. At his worst, he was a shallow, egotistical prick: like an errant child who would lose sight of ethics. But I have never stopped loving him because our souls were forever knit together. I had my enlightenment on April 4th, 1984 just as Orwell had predicted. From that moment he decreased.
Remember Changes: "I turned myself to face me. But I never caught a glimpse, how the others must see the fak(e)(i)r. I'm much too fast to take that test!"
Bowie didn't have time to slow down and analyze his work. He dashed it off and performed it or faced the consequences of going mad. There was no option to tell you what he meant, or what could be found. Sure he could tell you some thoughts on intentions and history of unfoldment, but the meanings were more elusive than the feel of the thing.
That Bowie never really had a clue about what he was doing (he was just compelled to do it!), shows it wasn't his job to decipher the importance of his works. Bowie's strength was in projection of what came through him. He was oblivious to most of the esoteric meanings, by necessity. If he realized the depth and weight within, he would have been struck dumb. Ironically, his greatest visions passed through him like a hole in the head coming out clean through the other side landing into his music.
Mind, rarefied with clues, intensifying with pieces, swept up into a patent idea, bursting into utteration! Then crashing into itself, falling away back into devolution. Real enemies are only conquered within. Wall to wall is calling, it lingers, then you forget. But it comes back at heightened awareness, when the shattered puzzle is reassembled. At that moment,another work is possible. With enough energy it could be sustained, but in doing so, one is mutated equal to creation, not human at all.
@MrMajorTime Looks like you put a lot of effort into your commentary of Bowie... to me he is one of the few artists who can claim to symbolise the zeitgeist of an era - multiple eras in fact. The image, sound, underlying ideas and values, culture, emotions create a cognitive montage, giving meaning to all that happened in the 70s.
@comehereformusic Our culture would not be possible without him. In this unlikely, most delicate balance of earth, moon, sun and eyeblink of time, maybe the only place where beings sprang from stardust, given a breath of life, how rare a balance occurred to bring back the splintered remains of The Beginning and make any kind of conclusions about what it all meant and where we are all heading. Bowie's import was much more than just about musical influence; his soul's very existence paved our way!
Cheers, indeed. Oh, if you can get any man today to write, produce, and perform music like this today, high on cocaine or not, bring it on! Otherwise, give the credit to the artist who us got there, by whatever means, because he got there, and gave us this peak, peek into t(h)is realm. It's a once off, and you know it.
David Bowie is no longer. He's since reverted to David Jones. Bowie was a moment of balance, in the past. His works remain. This takes nothing away from the man, except his spirit, which remains as an emblem of what he gave to modern culture. That survives. But the man, the human, will no longer produce patent symbology as he once did, and can't be expected to. To those erroneous faithful, anticipating reemergence of the early genius, I grieve with thee. But no, regather that which was, move on.
Mad or not, my intent and sincerity is real! Don't doubt my veracity! To some, Bowie is just a bit of iconic pop history. To me, he is the receptive half of the twentieth century! And if you want to study where mankind has been, and where it's going, you can glean everything necessary from Bowie's early works: Space Oddity to Ashes To Ashes (The complete chronicles of Major Tom [cockney Major Time] inclusive, proving he's not a one-trick pony for a decade, yet returning to his holy cosmic grail.
A final note: all comments are good. Don't think that anyone can take away from what you have to say. YouTube has many flaws and limitations. But everyone that has a voice has a chance to say something. I personally have derived many inspirations from comments I have not agreed to. If someone can evoke a thought or response in anger, love, jelousy, envy, awe, then it has an uncalculated value. Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself! I am large. I contain multitudes. So do we all.
Bowie sold out in the mid eighties. The negative side of him gave in to age and ambition, and the cold, calculating prick within him gave in to worldly concerns. It was in the scheme of things. He was human (albeit maybe the best human) after all. And one can't be bitter. He carried the weight of human advancement for a full decade, almost single-handedly! It was time to reap some rewards for being the ultimate mechanic of evolution in the seventies. Result was other artist's heroic advancement.
But at the highest level, I think you'll find, that he symbolized time itself. As time passed, he brought the trends in mind and culture with him. No one in music was more critical in bending the future and pre-supposing what was coming down the line. Even the apparent demise of rock music paralleled his own creative talents. As he lost significance, so art.
Bowie was the focal point in time between past and future. Bowie, in his formative career, was the artist's artist, capable of producing cosmic patents delivered directly from "balanced" response. He was simply incapable of producing "anything out of the blue". No thought. Except for his emotional comments to his work, his intellectual interpretation was usually off. That's as it should be. His job was to produce a body of work to be digested not on his terms but the listener's. No diminishment.
The lyrics and the intent can, and should be, taken seriously, as seriously as anything ever given! The information in the early works is as plain as the writing on the wall to those with ears to hear, my dear.
ELGROOVER'S probably going, "What the hell?" But I still believe we are friends on some level. I will believe he will allow me this indiscretion as such. Thanks.
A mystery I'll offer you: Bowie (Aladdin Sane) was absolutely sane at all times! If anyone has faced madness and come back to tell of what is actually going on, I'll take that compliment. I've been omnipresent, have seen two things, truth and lies, and now know the difference. And now I can state things as the arrogant bastard I've been cursed to be with justification. He must decrease, while I will reveal what has really been going on at the measure I deem appropriate in my own time. The nerve!
I was a big fan of bowie in the 1970's. Then I stopped listening to him for a while. I started downloading his music again. I forgot how great this guy was. This music is over 30 years ago, but it is still ahead of its time.
There's a lot of insanity going around these days. It seems to be a growing problem at a time when reason is needed most. Watch out! Next time they're coming for you!
My brother knows this guy that worked in a record store where they actually sold bootleg copies of Ziggy Stardust without paying their taxes. And one of those guys owning the store knows of a guy who photographed the posters of Elton John when he was promoting Rocket Man and we all know that was just a cheap rip-off of Space Oddity and I've been meaning to let them know to tell Elton to ask David for Forgiveness for stealing that idea. And I'm sure David has been appalled and confused all along.
You people astound me. You take Bowie too seriously. David would be appalled and confused over the commotion made over him with some of these hateful comments.
My brother knows David. Not kidding people. I'm actually considering asking my brother to have David check out this site and give his opinion. I think he would be amused, pass and then write another great song. Cheers people
@firewithgasoline Yeah, why don't you get your Big Brother to beat some people up for speaking their mind. Down with Big Brother! Yeah I'm sure you know David so well that he would be "appalled and confused." Bowie might be a lot of things to a lot of people. But those two adjectives just don't ring true for his character. So you're just trying to be impressive with bullshit. Yeah, why don't you get David on the phone and suggest that he should get ready to be "appalled and confused" by YouTube!
@firewithgasoline So yeah, you do that. Get in touch with your brother to have David check out his songs on YouTube. Then we'll really see something, huh? MORE likely, it's you who are appalled and confused. Very confused and probably in need of help.
@MrMajorTime You need to chill Major. I was amused at how the passions over Bowie led to flat out hostility. David would be amused. I'm not confused and never will be. I think David has been and would be a perfect fit for you. Wish it was your brother that knew David and this conversation would not be happening. No offense Major, but David would be amused with the commotion thrust upon on one who writes lyrics in riddles and then has one as yourself take it seriously. Cheers
@firewithgasoline You may be closer to the truth than you know. But I wil leave you with this thought: do not disregard any comment as given (nor will I), there are important derivations of art that go beyond the artist, his original intention, if any. I've said it before, and I say it now, Bowie is not now, nor ever could be, considered good authority on his own works. Indeed, he is one of the WORST interpreters of the importance of his dossier, as necessary for posterity. He delivered. We see.
@firewithgasoline Don't think that I hate your comment. I, by necessity, have many splintered responses. To your scattered bodies go. If there is one point I could make, it is that, in terms of Bowie's works, they may have been given without too much thought (because they were handed purely, to a soul locked in grace), that David has little to offer as explanation is the clue to the source: The cosmos itself fell in his lap at his unique balance point in time. He's simply a conveyance. I am not.
@firewithgasoline I gave some food for thought. No, I'm NOT casual about this subject, because there is much more than meets the ear or eye. My position is that Bowie is NOT the best authority on Bowie! And if you really want to push me into a corner, I'd say that I'M probably the best authority on Bowie for reasons I can't even as yet divulge! Can you imagine the hate mail I'll get for saying that? Some have agreed with me. Some won't. But if you'll allow, I know that which I speak, by my word.
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The guitar solo is one of my favorite things ever. This song is fucking brilliant, I would kill to live at the time this song was being made, or to see Bowie at this point in his life.
@haron131 Bowie was into all kinds of eastern mysticism at the time which would explain the words inclusion but I don't know the meaning of the words.
Coke ref.....Big deal....Grow up man.......The 70's where a trip about a lot of things and yeah coke was one......Write a tune share your stuff. Bowie shared his so if you cant relate then GROW UP! You know why? why do give a F about a coke ref. Dude, ART is ART dig it or leave it! Peace, Vincent
@ELGROOVER It's amazing to see how easy it is to be misunderstood. I remember a time, not so long ago, I was making a joke about the "women" in David Bowie's "Boys Keep Swinging". I suggested that they might be somehow related to Bowie because of the family resemblance. Someone actually thought I was serious and had to "correct me" for not knowing the trio was all played by Bowie (as if I didn't know!). It's amazingly entertaining some of the copy that surfaces. Zoom! Right over their heads....
@ELGROOVER I personally agreed with your statement as stated. In many ways your anti-coke remarks let me know you saw that it's more about the music, what can be found there, how interesting and enjoyable it is regardless of the chemistry experiments and less about how he got there. That disarming lyric foresaw this inevitable reaction to the extraoridinary nature of this unique sport in music. You can't dismiss the results as artificial enhancement. There is much more here than meets the ears.
@ELGROOVER I gave you my own thumbs up to bump my comment (I get enough visibilty as it is, as you can see) so people could see what you said. Definetly worth another look. Some will perhaps finally see that you would like to see more commentary about the music, and not about how much drugs were going around in the 70's. There had to be some meaningful "substance" (of an other kind) pre-existing, underlying within the artist for any catalystic substance helping to release what was already there!
Similarly, the greatest science fiction novel,1984, was important for being the first modern, salient, accessible, literary warning of where the future could take us. Not always a pleasant read, but NECESSARY, and can't become outdated.Other Important works would follow, but as an irreplaceable, and timeless novel, 1984 can't be improved on, or dispensed with. Jean Genie is THE rock song, that can't be improved on for what it is. It is the definition of rock music at a glance: overlooked genius.
Make no mistake, The Jean Genie is NOT greater than this song. Just as the Gemini space program was NOT greater than Apollo. But it had to come first to allow this lunar landing. It was not as raw as Mercury, but the balance between the first orbits and reaching another world. Jean Genie was designed, anticipated, and succeeded as the first modern, dead steady rock song that defined rock as rock. It is the ROCK! of rock. Listen to it again. It has not aged at all. Much of Bowie's music has not.
@EpicWin0CriticalFail It is called a steam engine. Not sure at the moment what he used. Guessing Heavy Pacific judging by the chuffs. Trivia question. What is 4-6-2? You are not allowed to Google. Wiki is not allowed either. Bonus question. What is trailing truck? Hint, few had greater than 4 wheels?
Can't say I'm happy with the all the coke references on commentary. It's obsessive :-| Yes, I do understand the history of the making of this track, yet I prefer to view stationtostation in my own way. In a broader sense...st@iontost@ion is about going places, learning wh@ is useful and what is not and moving on. I'm just saying, there are better things to focus on...don't get into a rut peeps, broaden your views, sing the blues, wh@ever... do it your way. Alright! Stay bright!! ☼ ;-j
@firewithgasoline The greatest rock song? Hmm.. not just song song. Maybe not even favorite song. But the GREATEST rock song would be the most important: important because it was the bridge between old style rock and new wave, may have been The Jean Genie. That was the first rock song that incorporated old style rock and anticipated where it was heading. It was just a dead on, first class, missing link that remains timeless. Satisfaction is great too, in its own way, but can be dated to its era.
@MrMajorTime I don't think I ever said that Station was the greatest rock song off all-time. Satisfaction takes out Station any day of the week. But unfortunately for Jagger and the Stones, Rebel Rebel is king with You Really Got Me in a close second.
@firewithgasoline Although our opinions no doubt do (and should), differ on some of the songs we've mentioned, it all comes down to subjective taste, which is fine. I was suggesting that Jean Genie was vital as the missing link between the Beatles/Stones era and what was to follow. It ushered in a modern sound (not "mod", that's a dated style). Jean Genie just defined modern rock once it hit the air. Henceforth, rock songs weren't defined by the eras they came from, but stood on their own merit.
WHOO WHOO! All aboard the coke train! Indeed, it is said that Bowie did not even remember recording this masterpiece en the rest of the songs on the album.
Bowie once claimed that the creation of this album and everyone who said he recorded it is a conspiracy; he had no recollection of writing or recording ANY OF STATION TO STATION
David has no recollection of making this song or making the Station to Station album. Drugs had taken over and we got brilliance. Don't know where I stand on the drug issue if one can create this stuff on a perpetual cocaine high. He did say it's not the side effects of the cocaine, didn't he on this song?
BEST 10 MINUTES OF MY LIFE.
ilmichaeljjackson 1 day ago
It is so ovbious to anyone who has travelled from the mundane to the next station. There is a more perfect world that coexists with the mere self-conscious matrix. It contains another dimension where reality truly exists. It has no error, has no indifference. It contains all things, with room to move. There are no mistakes there that aren't meant to be. One can rise above doubt because it's all laid out in a beautiful plan, with time enough for love. It's "too late" to fall into worries or fear.
MrMajorTime 4 days ago in playlist Bowie
This was a moment in history. He drove himself to deliver this for our benefit (and his own release). He must have known that he was at the peak of his persona. And he delivered this album at a great cost of personal damage. His sanity was guranteed, but his pain of repercussions caused him years of angst. One doesn't get this close to the sun without some melting of the wings. But if he hadn't, we would not have this. This is headlong sacrifice and into the abyss! Bowie foresaw transfiguration!
MrMajorTime 4 days ago in playlist Bowie
"I must be only one in a million": to smell the onset of greatness! It was now defined, he was exalted! No matter what else transpired (oddly he drove himself FURTHER with the Berlin triptych), trying to come off the highest of highs. He showed the world that he was not only an actor, but a PERSONIFIER! He WAS TJN: an alien visiting our planet, propelling us into the future, just as much as Nikola Tesla (with HIS electronic patents) in his own unique way, that paved the way for modernistic art.
MrMajorTime 4 days ago in playlist Bowie
I always skip the 1st 60 seconds. I know, it's wrong, but I can't wait for the song to start.
sharrison586 5 days ago
@sharrison586 Stop skipping! Savor the intro. Shakespeare had a curtain. Song starts and it works to its crescendo. There is reason for the build up. It was Bowie at his best, even better than all before. This was Bowie introducing himself as Thomas Jerome Newton, if only he could have flavored the soundtrack to The Man Who Fell To Earth! Two careers at this point! At once and at once there were mountains, and he could never be down. Who could connect him with love? So honestly exposing himself.
MrMajorTime 4 days ago in playlist Bowie
This is One of his Master Pieces!! Bowie The Playwright.... "The Thin White Duke" I still have the Album . No matter what he creates it's PURE CLASS!!!
CuppyCakeandMe 1 week ago
Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
brbfbi66 1 week ago
I'm going to thumbs up every comment that has the word "Cocaine" in it...
EymHye 1 week ago 7
It's not the side-effects of the cocaine, I'm thinking that I might not remember recording this album in 30 years. Sh*t.
NCHaze 1 week ago
Twain twacks...
MrMajorTime 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
I can hear the cocaine...
yeahgocoop 2 weeks ago 6
so much reddit....
TheCursedhell 2 weeks ago 5
@TheCursedhell I saw that post too! Right, guys?
PrawnSticks 2 weeks ago
So much cocaine.....
3j75 2 weeks ago 8
Cocaine.
diarrheamilkshake 2 weeks ago 11
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jdpod363 2 weeks ago
Happy Birthday Mr Jones!!! I think Bowie even in retirement, by the very act of not trotting out another greatest hits tour like every macca, stones etc.. feel the need to do,has somehow out cooled all of them! Fair play, he knew that his work was done, felt content to say im done, regardless of health problems or not, its an admirable stance, considering the amount he's done and its value! Enjoy your retirement David, you gave us more than enough!!!
g9o9d9d9e9r9s 2 weeks ago 3
Amazing Bowie Song! Happy Birtday:D
TheForeigner1997 2 weeks ago
Oh, in other words, we all love you! And we wish you the best of health and the most wonderful realization of what you mean to so many! Be happy for all you have done. The universe bows at your accomplishments.
MrMajorTime 2 weeks ago in playlist Bowie
Happy ANKH! It is you and you and only you! It is the love that is beyond all women, it is your image that transcends and endures beyond time itself! A man that sacrificed himself to push that test pilot atmosphere of our early astronauts. You were compelled to lift the whole human race above its infancy, in YOUR infancy! By doing so, we must honor your iconic existence, a sacrifice equal to Egyptian Pharaohs who believed that what they had constructed would last as a representation to eternity!
MrMajorTime 2 weeks ago in playlist Bowie
Hamlet:
And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Yes, even you shall be surpassed (egad!), temporarily. But not really. You shall remain. Can you have any doubt? If one of us dies, it is only temporal. There is no doubt that you shall remain in me and I in you. There is no chance that you were nothing to not remain. You are the rock that gave water, that dreamt of what must be. Have NO fear.
MrMajorTime 2 weeks ago in playlist Bowie
Your spirit, we want you to know, will live on! You weren't wrong! There is still a chance. You must realize this, Dr. Bryce. "You're the scientist". "You must know there's always a chance." What was THAT all about? There was an exchange, a changeling, a "transference of energy". It was back in '84. "You must believe, MaryLou. We await courage coming forth and know that immortality exists, even beyond your purgatory. Your spirit will live on, I guarantee it. And it will be greater than imagined.
MrMajorTime 2 weeks ago in playlist Bowie
This is where Bowie is now: for a parallel in Merlin's time, living life from old age to youth. The big fear is mortality. Despite the upper chin, the tight lip English way, Bowie always thought that he would not grow old. It's not his fault. When he found out that he had to go under the knife, quickly revert to chapter The Man Who Fell To Earth. Here was a man who seemed not to age throughout the movie, spanning a generation. Everyone else aged. And he had this, for a time. But he will live on.
MrMajorTime 2 weeks ago in playlist Bowie
Shakespeare and Bowie were at about the same level of importance to humanity for their generations: each light years ahead of their time, tugging the whole artistic culture along with them to come up to snuff to enter a new age. It was time; at the right time. "Drink to the men who protect you and I". Their artistry has no limits, no end, because they tapped into cosmic mind itself, which is elegant to allow diverse meanings that splinter and return. "All things begin and end in eternity". True.
MrMajorTime 3 weeks ago in playlist Bowie
Even the best of souls, catching sight of a higher matrix, which includes another dimension of morality: an empathy to actually feel all of humanity, are caught in their own fateful failings, seemingly small though they may be. Once the baptism of fire enters the human body, all hell breaks loose! The elect seems to fall from grace, coming to grips with their imperfections that must be burned out of existence before permanent enlightenment can take place. Chemicalization ensues and is purgatory.
MrMajorTime 3 weeks ago in playlist Bowie
Hence, "I must be only one in a million" (to have this good fortune of grace descend upon me as only a handful of souls have). It is not arrogance, but a point of fact. Temptation always there. The man quickly realizes that this power, infinite potential, must be used for good of mankind. Alas, its nature is aloof, fleeting. It demands the elect to rise up to its own level to taste its fruits. Nothing less than an asymptotic perfection of character is allowed, catching sight of the burning bush.
MrMajorTime 3 weeks ago in playlist Bowie
He was skipping on the surface of all that mere reasoning could offer. But as he saw himself drawing to the dawn of cosmic mind, there was a direct connection to all the few who had actually scene that ghost descend upon their body. A flame overtakes the whole body as one becomes the new creature. It is a transfiguration that is quite astonishing. Quite unexpected, but when it prevails, the soul knows it is home at last, that there is no time for petty jealousies or squabbles, just good fortune.
MrMajorTime 3 weeks ago in playlist Bowie
Bowie, caught up in the self-induced momentum of hyper self consciousness, boosted by growing awareness of glimpses of the next dimension awaiting. All mankind, like poor players strutting and fretting their hour upon the stage, he was catching glimmers of the super conscious mind and the white light that bathes the being into awareness with dangers of aloof temptations to scoff at lesser humans. But just at that point, a dawn of truth, too late to be hateful of anything if it allows connection.
MrMajorTime 3 weeks ago in playlist Bowie
Skip to 5:20 for the best part
MrKaddus 3 weeks ago
The Master...
MikSmith72 3 weeks ago
I analyzed the lyrics to this song when we were studying poetry in my AP Literature class. Everybody else's songs just seemed lame in comparison.
impulsivexx 3 weeks ago
@impulsivexx Analyze? Are you serious? Everything else has been lame for 3 decades? Very intro denotes STEAM fucking engine?????????????????????
superunt43 3 weeks ago
brilliant
CorporalFunishment 3 weeks ago
best 6 songs to ever fill one album by one artist
miiwii93 4 weeks ago
Could you stop arguing? Trying to enjoy the music here...
10ellison01 1 month ago 6
Well I can only respond to the video in my head, since all we have is the album cover. So then I must revert to the song itself. The song is a moment of lonely exalted genius rising beyond a point of what race consciousness was in the mid seventies. And THAT genius had no Bowie as a reference. We have Bowie. He only had to look to himself for a hero. He paved the way, even for himself. If Bowie knew one thing, it was that he had to believe in what he saw in his own abilities to transcend beyond.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
"Repeat this BITCH....GO TO HELL...WHERE YOU CAME FROM!!!"'
MickVenus81 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@MickVenus81 Thanks for that 180! It's okay. We all go a little mad from time to time (just ask Norman Bates!). Glad to know there's more to you than just that anger. Proves there's hope, afterall. Take care and Happy Holidays to everyone here (especially our video poster ELGROOVER, the one who provided this opportunity from station to station!).
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
"Oh...I forgot...nevermind...you would'nt get it!!..mr.MajorBullshit.""
MickVenus81 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@MickVenus81 Wouldn't get what? I'm not sure what you're trying to say. At one time people were said to have demons. In more "enlightened" times they kindly refer the same condition as neurotic, or worse, hopelessly psychotic. Where does YOUR anger stem from? Perhaps if you refer to something specific that offended you, I might be more able to correspond. My suspicion is that you just want to be heard without anything of your own to offer. I'll step aside, and let you tell me where I'm at error.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
"MrMajorTime..why don't you take some'time out of your obvious 'too- much- time- on- yer- hands schedule..and try this one...stick your head up your ass...sideways...and just for good measure,
keep it there."
MickVenus81 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Station To Station - Low - Heroes - what an unbelievable trio of albums. Don't think any solo artist has matched that run of albums (yes, I'm including the likes of Dylan and Neil Young in that as well).
5AU5AGEROLL 1 month ago
@5AU5AGEROLL never forget ziggy sardust
theawsomestdude 1 month ago
This was a CLASSIC in it's time. Thanks David Bowie for all you gave us! Another Musical GENIUS!!!
davidson2004fatboy 1 month ago
So wot ever happened to the "Inbetweeners" movie?? lol, anyway this is fuckin awesome Bowie is legend
RaikenXion 1 month ago
"Daisy Bell" was composed by Harry Dacre in 1892 IS over one hundred years old. But Stanley Kubrick decided that his psychotic computer HAL 9000 should recite it in 1968. And Bowie connected to 2001: A Space Odyssey with Space Oddity in 1969 about Major Tom. And Bowie revisited Major Tom in 1979 in Ashes To Ashes, and even referenced later in "Hallo Spaceboy", a song by David Bowie from his 1995 album Outside. And I am talking about these things now in 2011 and some people will see that as cool.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
you.me them fuckers wanna cool it, this song is brill but its 100yrs old.wake up! go outside and meet people at least 30yrs younger than yourself.
MrDevo5 1 month ago
@MrDevo5 Song was released 1976: 2011 - 1976 = 35 years ago. Just over a third of your century exaggeration or, even more telling, your underestimation of its pertinence. Name something current as "brill"? Wake up and do the math. Go out and meet people at least 30 years OLDER than your obtrusive self. If you have no respect for the recent past, then how can you have any hope for a younger generation who has not found a way to even launch a human to the moon for 39 years! Your past looms larger.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
@MrMajorTime oh dear oh dear oh dear i guess youre the biggest bowie fan that walks the earth.didnt he make all his songs up shuffling bits of newspaper about?pull your head out of your arse and stop trying to analyse people whilst standing on your soapbox
MrDevo5 1 month ago
@MrDevo5 No. He didn't make all his songs that way. Bowie utilized the cut-up method borrowed from Willim S. Burroughs on some songs. But that's twice you were in error for someone who's trying tell someone else to pull their head out of their ass. Careful you don't slip off your own soapbox, because it's so far full of holes. What exactly are you trying to say, anyway? If you disagree with me, fine. But what valuable statement are you making? You don't seem to know, or appreciate anything here.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago
@MrDevo5 ...hahahahahaha...you are exceedingly well versed in David Bowie-ism;
(so you assume) than the gallions of souls on the planet, whatever planet they call home. Oh , and if it makes any difference, the only person on a soap-box is you...lighten up man.....I happen to know David Bowie personally...and you really don't want to know what he'd tell you."
MickVenus81 1 month ago
@MickVenus81 Let us both be satisfied with our opinions. You're a crazy asshole jerk. Or I am. Time will tell.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
@MickVenus81 Whether you know Bowie personally, or not, doesn't provide you with an excuse for being offensive by being a namedropper. If you have nothing to offer on your own, you might as well know Charles Manson personally! Either way, you show no sense of what Bowie was at his best. Don't take it too hard. Just start over and resolve to be your own person, instead of some angst ridden soul trying to capture reflected glory of some grand delusion that association makes you equal to your idol.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
@MrDevo5 You know better. Meeting young AND old artists is vital! There would be no value for young people without respect for moments of past meanings that got us here. Both spectrums can teach us equally. Do not limit yourself to some kind of demon preventing you from acknowledging our inheritance and burden to persevere.
What a colorless world we would see if we didn't acknowledge the giants that can never be quite like that again. I, for one, don't want to forget how clean the air once was.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
Very hot album back in the day
chester666able 1 month ago
Ive been searching for this number since i first saw the movie Christine F.. And thats four years ago!!! Can tell how happy iam now :D
Mssvnns 1 month ago 9
@Mssvnns Why didn't you just buy the album? It's a classic, one of the best albums of the 70s.
5AU5AGEROLL 1 month ago
@Mssvnns fantastic song, I bought this Album the day it was released. cheers
frenchmilky 3 weeks ago
@Mssvnns For me its 8 years oO
sune89 1 day ago
Muito, mais muito foda !!!!
NisdeTJS 1 month ago
You can't please everyone.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago
At time of Lodger, Bowie found his ego again, a way to extricate himself from the Berlin tryptich even as he found himself inside of it! He had learned much, but had regained enough energy and confidence to project pieces of himself as he gained momentum once again. He wasn't looking for hits, but was offering himself in moments of tangents that would precede his last masterpiece in Ashes To Ashes. After a decade of delving into characters and proof of creative alternatives, Major Tom reemerged.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago in playlist Bowie
@MrMajorTime so full of bullshit, care to repeat?
Sinriel 1 month ago
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@Sinriel What truth were you refering to?
MrMajorTime 1 month ago
Yes. Another so full of nothing: like other deluded cohorts that abound. Again, I yield the floor to no one who has nothing but ill will and nothing of their own to say. Am I dissuaded by your genius? I've yet to see it, or where you stand. Thumbs way down.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago in playlist Bowie
@MrMajorTime cool story, bro.
Sinriel 1 month ago
@Sinriel Thanks for your generosity.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago
@MrMajorTime Such a good explanation.
skyperdinno24 1 month ago
@skyperdinno24 Thanks for listening to what I had to say.
MrMajorTime 1 month ago
A guy walks into a bank and asks a lady teller,
"I wanta make a fucking deposit!"
Startled, she says, "I'm sorry sir, but we don't allow that kind of language at the bank."
"I don't care, I want to make a fucking deposit!"
"Well, you'll just have to talk to the manager."
The manager walks over, "What seems to be the problem, sir?"
"I told your teller, I want to make a fucking deposit. I just won 3 million dollars on the lottery."
The manager asks, "And this cunt won't take your money?"
MrMajorTime 2 months ago in playlist Bowie
This is something I know (and many suspect, even subconsciously): That, as we gain knowledge of our place in intelligent pespective of the universe (we are, after all, the best part of the universe looking at itself), we are drawing to the closure of one era. The smarter we get, the nearer the end. When our knowledge equals the knowledge that kicked it all off in the first place, then we arrive! And we're almost there. Only with the help of a few eager individuals, and a compassion for humanity.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago in playlist Bowie
And make no mistake. If I sound flippant, it's only because of my certainty that we are only NOW at the cusp of realization! As sure as tv was not accident, and that electricity in general is such a major key to our evolution, ( who knows, if dinosaurs could watch the Flintstones...) Anyway, thanks to anyone who ever got any part of anything I ever offered. The truth is far stranger than anyone (besides myself) ever imagined. Yes, Bowie is a key part of the equation: but even he was not allowed.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago in playlist Bowie
MrMajorTime, i like you. we should hang out
ClaydenLee 2 months ago
@ClaydenLee Sure. What are you doing Saturday night.? I'll do my hair and we can talk about quantum physics and entanglement theory. Interesting how spooky mechanics works extraluminously! Just testing the behavior of one particle determines the spin of its counterpart. That and rarefied gas as a solution to enlightened conservation of elevated energy returns per equal voltage! Up for anything dealing with exhausting one plane of existence for one moment of redefining any loose ends that remain!
MrMajorTime 2 months ago in playlist Bowie
@MrMajorTime...can't we just say this album blew your mind and leave it at that?
jrogers4072 2 months ago
@jrogers4072 No. No we can't. I would say this album blew DAVID' mind. And HE couldn't leave it at that either. He picked up the pieces and returned with Low, Heroes, Ashes To Ashes, and Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). What a pitty if we just left things alone. The greatest works are ahead! Let's not leave anything in it's premature grave. Let's resurrect the arts to conform to new standards in their proper perspectives. Let's kick things in the ass to keep alive the legacy and do one better.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago in playlist Bowie
Bowie was what was called In Norse mythology, a vardøger, a ghostly double who precedes a living person and is seen performing their actions in advance. In Finnish mythology, this is called having an etiäinen, i.e., "a firstcomer". Bowie never had a chance to do anything "out of the blue". That is, he never had the opportunity to proceed with absolute cosmic freedom, to a next level. He was a doppelgänger, a relayer, a medium of what he saw at moments of heightened peak self conscious awareness.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
And who was this witness? It is symbolic of course. It is Roeg. It is you and I. It is anyone who sees the movie beyond the first time and comes to discover that Bowie is not acting. David is PERSONIFYING Newton. More than a performance, it is realization that Bowie is BECOMING Newton and Newton is becoming Bowie! There is no seperation. The result is that the artwork bends time to its knees. Newton becomes real! Bowie found himself in this role and lived the remainder of his creativity as such.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago in playlist Bowie
@MrMajorTime who are you and what are you saying?
sneakydogz1 2 months ago
@sneakydogz1 I have several names. I must be only one in 9 billion. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, seeing the better man approaching. But the better man is the reality that will shatter the mirror image doppleganger which will be replaced by the reality of the superman, the blueprint. Until we replace our temples, stone by stone, to the better matrix, we are but walking shadows of something that travels in the light. That's as clear as an explanation as I can offer at this time.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
A moment in The Man Who Fell To Earth (which immediately preceded Bowie's Station To Station), when TJN was being interrogated about whether anyone saw him arrive on Earth. To Tommy's knowledge, no one had. But they flashback to the beginning of the movie and lo, there WAS a witness. And then they dismiss this for the rest of the movie. Except the final message: Of COURSE there's a chance, you're the scientist, you must know there's always a chance. A chance for what? Hope of helping his planet.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago in playlist Bowie
Bowie was almost two souls, male and female, in one body and mind. However, only by amplifying rarefied mind (sometimes with cocaine, etc.) he could accomplish this apparently superhuman work. But Bowie was not able to sustain this state for more than moments, tumbling into ruin after every achievement because he was, afterall, human. It was a suicide mission! To appear larger than human, he could only achieve those heights momentarily. For a more permanent cosmic nature requires even more feat.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago in playlist Bowie
Balance point in time. One soul in perfect dichotomy. Yin and yang. Space Odyssey (male, western, British) intellectual progression but with a concentration of lunar imagery. Solaris (female, eastern, Russian) with solar intones. Two opposite perspectives delivering equally good imagery. The soul split by the Berlin wall (corpus callosum), positive and negative energies that generate more voltage due to polar opposition kept apart, not blended. The fall of the Berlin wall preceded art's decline.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago in playlist Bowie
DONNOGYN.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
Nothing is insignificant. In time, you'll believe that.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
this time the text was REFRUCHED.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
Go ahead. Think about it. Test the sanity.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
the text I had to type was PINTHYS to allow that entry in YouTube.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
Truth IS stranger than fiction. But science fiction becomes the truth! A new man who contains the bow tie, the perfect balance of past and future, yin and yang, enters a phase where he reemerges as not one, but two people. He must decrease while knowledge increases. Commander David Bowman in Space Odyssey inspires David Bowie to speak of Major Tom (Major Time), a man who wants to leave earth (the body) and enter the cosmos (mind) to overcome Ground Control (childhood). Or I could be wrong...Nah!
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
I might as well tell you, since you are the closest to figure me out. I had a moment of exaltation on that date. And, though it sounds mad, I have had an increase in kowledge that transmuted me into the next dimensional matrix. No kidding. It has not come without a price. But now, today, I know things that no one could know by mere reason or logic. No. Bowie is alive in spirit. And the best of what he was resides within my soul. That is the only way I could know the things I do. It gets clearer.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
Cant people enjoy the damn song?
macho844 2 months ago
@macho844 Who's not enjoying this song?
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
The most quantum part of it was that meanings would catch up to the future as it would unfold, making them untraceable until they COULD mean something, which was impossible until someone could deliver the sealed meaning as it was realized at the appropriate moment. Not that there ever was a limit of one meaning to any one work. Diversity of layers within the art are encoded like time capsules to individual interpretation. Some more vital than others of course. True mysteries continue to unravel.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
@MrMajorTime Let me say that you are without a doubt the most passionate Bowie fan I've ever encountered. Nothing wrong with that either. I was extremely passionate about the man in the 70's when he blew my mind. He is a one of a kind never to be duplicated. Pure friggin musical genius if you ask me. And that is where I leave it. And furthermore, David, Elton John and Yoko are the only artists to have ever worked with John Lennon outside of the Beatles. That says it all. Cheers
firewithgasoline 2 months ago
@firewithgasoline Thanks, fire (there's something familiar about that name) I am passionate, I suppose, but not exactly a fan (fanatic) in the usual sense. Sometimes (believe it or not!) I don't even like Bowie. At his worst, he was a shallow, egotistical prick: like an errant child who would lose sight of ethics. But I have never stopped loving him because our souls were forever knit together. I had my enlightenment on April 4th, 1984 just as Orwell had predicted. From that moment he decreased.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
Remember Changes: "I turned myself to face me. But I never caught a glimpse, how the others must see the fak(e)(i)r. I'm much too fast to take that test!"
Bowie didn't have time to slow down and analyze his work. He dashed it off and performed it or faced the consequences of going mad. There was no option to tell you what he meant, or what could be found. Sure he could tell you some thoughts on intentions and history of unfoldment, but the meanings were more elusive than the feel of the thing.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
That Bowie never really had a clue about what he was doing (he was just compelled to do it!), shows it wasn't his job to decipher the importance of his works. Bowie's strength was in projection of what came through him. He was oblivious to most of the esoteric meanings, by necessity. If he realized the depth and weight within, he would have been struck dumb. Ironically, his greatest visions passed through him like a hole in the head coming out clean through the other side landing into his music.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
Mind, rarefied with clues, intensifying with pieces, swept up into a patent idea, bursting into utteration! Then crashing into itself, falling away back into devolution. Real enemies are only conquered within. Wall to wall is calling, it lingers, then you forget. But it comes back at heightened awareness, when the shattered puzzle is reassembled. At that moment,another work is possible. With enough energy it could be sustained, but in doing so, one is mutated equal to creation, not human at all.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
@MrMajorTime Looks like you put a lot of effort into your commentary of Bowie... to me he is one of the few artists who can claim to symbolise the zeitgeist of an era - multiple eras in fact. The image, sound, underlying ideas and values, culture, emotions create a cognitive montage, giving meaning to all that happened in the 70s.
comehereformusic 2 months ago
@comehereformusic Our culture would not be possible without him. In this unlikely, most delicate balance of earth, moon, sun and eyeblink of time, maybe the only place where beings sprang from stardust, given a breath of life, how rare a balance occurred to bring back the splintered remains of The Beginning and make any kind of conclusions about what it all meant and where we are all heading. Bowie's import was much more than just about musical influence; his soul's very existence paved our way!
MrMajorTime 2 months ago
Cheers, indeed. Oh, if you can get any man today to write, produce, and perform music like this today, high on cocaine or not, bring it on! Otherwise, give the credit to the artist who us got there, by whatever means, because he got there, and gave us this peak, peek into t(h)is realm. It's a once off, and you know it.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
David Bowie is no longer. He's since reverted to David Jones. Bowie was a moment of balance, in the past. His works remain. This takes nothing away from the man, except his spirit, which remains as an emblem of what he gave to modern culture. That survives. But the man, the human, will no longer produce patent symbology as he once did, and can't be expected to. To those erroneous faithful, anticipating reemergence of the early genius, I grieve with thee. But no, regather that which was, move on.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
Mad or not, my intent and sincerity is real! Don't doubt my veracity! To some, Bowie is just a bit of iconic pop history. To me, he is the receptive half of the twentieth century! And if you want to study where mankind has been, and where it's going, you can glean everything necessary from Bowie's early works: Space Oddity to Ashes To Ashes (The complete chronicles of Major Tom [cockney Major Time] inclusive, proving he's not a one-trick pony for a decade, yet returning to his holy cosmic grail.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
A final note: all comments are good. Don't think that anyone can take away from what you have to say. YouTube has many flaws and limitations. But everyone that has a voice has a chance to say something. I personally have derived many inspirations from comments I have not agreed to. If someone can evoke a thought or response in anger, love, jelousy, envy, awe, then it has an uncalculated value. Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself! I am large. I contain multitudes. So do we all.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
Bowie sold out in the mid eighties. The negative side of him gave in to age and ambition, and the cold, calculating prick within him gave in to worldly concerns. It was in the scheme of things. He was human (albeit maybe the best human) after all. And one can't be bitter. He carried the weight of human advancement for a full decade, almost single-handedly! It was time to reap some rewards for being the ultimate mechanic of evolution in the seventies. Result was other artist's heroic advancement.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
But it's far from the end. As you will see.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
Levels of comments:
He's gay, Lady Gaga is way more important.
Good music. I'm straight, but I'd do Bowie.
A brilliant artist. Bravo.
But at the highest level, I think you'll find, that he symbolized time itself. As time passed, he brought the trends in mind and culture with him. No one in music was more critical in bending the future and pre-supposing what was coming down the line. Even the apparent demise of rock music paralleled his own creative talents. As he lost significance, so art.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
Bowie was the focal point in time between past and future. Bowie, in his formative career, was the artist's artist, capable of producing cosmic patents delivered directly from "balanced" response. He was simply incapable of producing "anything out of the blue". No thought. Except for his emotional comments to his work, his intellectual interpretation was usually off. That's as it should be. His job was to produce a body of work to be digested not on his terms but the listener's. No diminishment.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
The lyrics and the intent can, and should be, taken seriously, as seriously as anything ever given! The information in the early works is as plain as the writing on the wall to those with ears to hear, my dear.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
ELGROOVER'S probably going, "What the hell?" But I still believe we are friends on some level. I will believe he will allow me this indiscretion as such. Thanks.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
It's almost like I've been found out. I'll be around.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
The text I had to enter was: ANCESTR (no kidding) to lube the YouTube for another commentary entry. Irony abounds, n'est pas possible?
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
We'll love a lad insane. Think he was talking about himself? Maybe half true... Go figure. No really. Go figure! The clues are all here and there.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
This, an even greater mystery: Every soul is a dychotomy.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
A mystery I'll offer you: Bowie (Aladdin Sane) was absolutely sane at all times! If anyone has faced madness and come back to tell of what is actually going on, I'll take that compliment. I've been omnipresent, have seen two things, truth and lies, and now know the difference. And now I can state things as the arrogant bastard I've been cursed to be with justification. He must decrease, while I will reveal what has really been going on at the measure I deem appropriate in my own time. The nerve!
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
another jolly good show
gudlaffy 3 months ago in playlist David Bowie Station to Station
I was a big fan of bowie in the 1970's. Then I stopped listening to him for a while. I started downloading his music again. I forgot how great this guy was. This music is over 30 years ago, but it is still ahead of its time.
mjguillo 3 months ago
There's a lot of insanity going around these days. It seems to be a growing problem at a time when reason is needed most. Watch out! Next time they're coming for you!
MrMajorTime 3 months ago in playlist Bowie
My brother knows this guy that worked in a record store where they actually sold bootleg copies of Ziggy Stardust without paying their taxes. And one of those guys owning the store knows of a guy who photographed the posters of Elton John when he was promoting Rocket Man and we all know that was just a cheap rip-off of Space Oddity and I've been meaning to let them know to tell Elton to ask David for Forgiveness for stealing that idea. And I'm sure David has been appalled and confused all along.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
this song saved my life, twice
Calumet604 3 months ago
You people astound me. You take Bowie too seriously. David would be appalled and confused over the commotion made over him with some of these hateful comments.
My brother knows David. Not kidding people. I'm actually considering asking my brother to have David check out this site and give his opinion. I think he would be amused, pass and then write another great song. Cheers people
firewithgasoline 3 months ago
@firewithgasoline Yeah, why don't you get your Big Brother to beat some people up for speaking their mind. Down with Big Brother! Yeah I'm sure you know David so well that he would be "appalled and confused." Bowie might be a lot of things to a lot of people. But those two adjectives just don't ring true for his character. So you're just trying to be impressive with bullshit. Yeah, why don't you get David on the phone and suggest that he should get ready to be "appalled and confused" by YouTube!
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
@firewithgasoline So yeah, you do that. Get in touch with your brother to have David check out his songs on YouTube. Then we'll really see something, huh? MORE likely, it's you who are appalled and confused. Very confused and probably in need of help.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
@MrMajorTime You need to chill Major. I was amused at how the passions over Bowie led to flat out hostility. David would be amused. I'm not confused and never will be. I think David has been and would be a perfect fit for you. Wish it was your brother that knew David and this conversation would not be happening. No offense Major, but David would be amused with the commotion thrust upon on one who writes lyrics in riddles and then has one as yourself take it seriously. Cheers
firewithgasoline 3 months ago
@firewithgasoline You may be closer to the truth than you know. But I wil leave you with this thought: do not disregard any comment as given (nor will I), there are important derivations of art that go beyond the artist, his original intention, if any. I've said it before, and I say it now, Bowie is not now, nor ever could be, considered good authority on his own works. Indeed, he is one of the WORST interpreters of the importance of his dossier, as necessary for posterity. He delivered. We see.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
@firewithgasoline Don't think that I hate your comment. I, by necessity, have many splintered responses. To your scattered bodies go. If there is one point I could make, it is that, in terms of Bowie's works, they may have been given without too much thought (because they were handed purely, to a soul locked in grace), that David has little to offer as explanation is the clue to the source: The cosmos itself fell in his lap at his unique balance point in time. He's simply a conveyance. I am not.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
@firewithgasoline I gave some food for thought. No, I'm NOT casual about this subject, because there is much more than meets the ear or eye. My position is that Bowie is NOT the best authority on Bowie! And if you really want to push me into a corner, I'd say that I'M probably the best authority on Bowie for reasons I can't even as yet divulge! Can you imagine the hate mail I'll get for saying that? Some have agreed with me. Some won't. But if you'll allow, I know that which I speak, by my word.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
Your all a bunch of cunts..... Analyse my arsehole why don't you.....
Sudo intellectual fuckwits....!
rmcdonald4 3 months ago 2
@rmcdonald4 One thing's for sure. No one would mistake you for a "pseudo" intellectual, or any other kind, for that matter.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago in playlist Bowie
Sorry for the typo in extraordinary: extraoridinary!. I had my font too small to seeeeee it assss it was spellttttt. TTThhhaannnnnkkkksssssssssssssssssssss forrrr undddderstandddddddddddinggg. Seeeeee yoooooooooooooooou next ttttttttime!!!!!
MrMajorTime 3 months ago in playlist Bowie
The guitar solo is one of my favorite things ever. This song is fucking brilliant, I would kill to live at the time this song was being made, or to see Bowie at this point in his life.
ilikecats74 3 months ago
amazing roller! tgv song! shinkansen song!
most of all a very very sharp arrangment! a beautiful work!
bowie at best! he is the best!
vlnlcn 3 months ago
Monophonic
jidanni2 3 months ago
in the words of this gong there are 2 hebrew words wich r kabalistic symbols - the a words r kether and malchuth..do u know something about it?. g
haron131 3 months ago
@haron131 Bowie was into all kinds of eastern mysticism at the time which would explain the words inclusion but I don't know the meaning of the words.
vorkutaman 3 months ago
@haron131 They are "stations" on the TOL (tree of life).
milofire 1 month ago
omg
love bowie ever
raiugaogeidrMMM 4 months ago
Coke ref.....Big deal....Grow up man.......The 70's where a trip about a lot of things and yeah coke was one......Write a tune share your stuff. Bowie shared his so if you cant relate then GROW UP! You know why? why do give a F about a coke ref. Dude, ART is ART dig it or leave it! Peace, Vincent
ventovince 4 months ago
To ventovince ~ you talking to me...or just projecting.
ELGROOVER 4 months ago
@ELGROOVER I think he is just venting.
samamanjaro 3 months ago
To samamanjaro ~ hrrmpffff!!! I 'spose?!
ELGROOVER 3 months ago
@ELGROOVER (his name is VENTOvince)
samamanjaro 3 months ago
To samamanjaro ~ yes, i did spot that....and that his channel is near derelict....every picture tells a story.
ELGROOVER 3 months ago
@ELGROOVER Being displeased with BOWIE for a COKE reference in 1976??? Really??? SMH.
shouldermove 3 months ago
To shouldermove ~ No, that is not what I stated!!!
No, not at all!!! ☼ ;-j
ELGROOVER 3 months ago
@ELGROOVER It's amazing to see how easy it is to be misunderstood. I remember a time, not so long ago, I was making a joke about the "women" in David Bowie's "Boys Keep Swinging". I suggested that they might be somehow related to Bowie because of the family resemblance. Someone actually thought I was serious and had to "correct me" for not knowing the trio was all played by Bowie (as if I didn't know!). It's amazingly entertaining some of the copy that surfaces. Zoom! Right over their heads....
MrMajorTime 3 months ago in playlist Bowie
@ELGROOVER I personally agreed with your statement as stated. In many ways your anti-coke remarks let me know you saw that it's more about the music, what can be found there, how interesting and enjoyable it is regardless of the chemistry experiments and less about how he got there. That disarming lyric foresaw this inevitable reaction to the extraoridinary nature of this unique sport in music. You can't dismiss the results as artificial enhancement. There is much more here than meets the ears.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
@ELGROOVER I gave you my own thumbs up to bump my comment (I get enough visibilty as it is, as you can see) so people could see what you said. Definetly worth another look. Some will perhaps finally see that you would like to see more commentary about the music, and not about how much drugs were going around in the 70's. There had to be some meaningful "substance" (of an other kind) pre-existing, underlying within the artist for any catalystic substance helping to release what was already there!
MrMajorTime 3 months ago in playlist Bowie
my favorite Bowie's album.
kristapuciitis 4 months ago
Similarly, the greatest science fiction novel,1984, was important for being the first modern, salient, accessible, literary warning of where the future could take us. Not always a pleasant read, but NECESSARY, and can't become outdated.Other Important works would follow, but as an irreplaceable, and timeless novel, 1984 can't be improved on, or dispensed with. Jean Genie is THE rock song, that can't be improved on for what it is. It is the definition of rock music at a glance: overlooked genius.
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist Bowie
Make no mistake, The Jean Genie is NOT greater than this song. Just as the Gemini space program was NOT greater than Apollo. But it had to come first to allow this lunar landing. It was not as raw as Mercury, but the balance between the first orbits and reaching another world. Jean Genie was designed, anticipated, and succeeded as the first modern, dead steady rock song that defined rock as rock. It is the ROCK! of rock. Listen to it again. It has not aged at all. Much of Bowie's music has not.
MrMajorTime 4 months ago in playlist Bowie
He did so much coke, charlie sheen said damn!
macho844 4 months ago
When this album came out, the first time I heard it.
KSAN 95 FM San Francisco played in in its entirety!
Great Album!
vinnieagogo 4 months ago
Damn, fuck, that intro hurt my head! :( LoL
EpicWin0CriticalFail 4 months ago
@EpicWin0CriticalFail It is called a steam engine. Not sure at the moment what he used. Guessing Heavy Pacific judging by the chuffs. Trivia question. What is 4-6-2? You are not allowed to Google. Wiki is not allowed either. Bonus question. What is trailing truck? Hint, few had greater than 4 wheels?
superunt43 4 months ago
To superunt43 ~ Trivia question is about right
ELGROOVER 4 months ago
LOVE IT NO MATTER HOW MUCH COKE HE DID !Thank God he is alive!!!
WESSYS 4 months ago
Can't say I'm happy with the all the coke references on commentary. It's obsessive :-| Yes, I do understand the history of the making of this track, yet I prefer to view stationtostation in my own way. In a broader sense...st@iontost@ion is about going places, learning wh@ is useful and what is not and moving on. I'm just saying, there are better things to focus on...don't get into a rut peeps, broaden your views, sing the blues, wh@ever... do it your way. Alright! Stay bright!! ☼ ;-j
ELGROOVER 4 months ago 2
@ELGROOVER l
Alright. Does this song trump Satisfaction? In my estimation Satisfaction, the greatest rock song of all-time! Satisfaction over Station?
Close call if you ask me. Make your case you Bowie Junkies. Oh, by the way, I'm a Bowie junkie!!
firewithgasoline 4 months ago
@firewithgasoline The greatest rock song? Hmm.. not just song song. Maybe not even favorite song. But the GREATEST rock song would be the most important: important because it was the bridge between old style rock and new wave, may have been The Jean Genie. That was the first rock song that incorporated old style rock and anticipated where it was heading. It was just a dead on, first class, missing link that remains timeless. Satisfaction is great too, in its own way, but can be dated to its era.
MrMajorTime 4 months ago
@MrMajorTime I don't think I ever said that Station was the greatest rock song off all-time. Satisfaction takes out Station any day of the week. But unfortunately for Jagger and the Stones, Rebel Rebel is king with You Really Got Me in a close second.
firewithgasoline 4 months ago
@firewithgasoline Although our opinions no doubt do (and should), differ on some of the songs we've mentioned, it all comes down to subjective taste, which is fine. I was suggesting that Jean Genie was vital as the missing link between the Beatles/Stones era and what was to follow. It ushered in a modern sound (not "mod", that's a dated style). Jean Genie just defined modern rock once it hit the air. Henceforth, rock songs weren't defined by the eras they came from, but stood on their own merit.
MrMajorTime 4 months ago
@firewithgasoline Rebel Rebel really is special. It has a simple charm of anarchy and fun. It's absolutely one of my favorites too!
MrMajorTime 4 months ago
WHOO WHOO! All aboard the coke train! Indeed, it is said that Bowie did not even remember recording this masterpiece en the rest of the songs on the album.
Kanarie1973 4 months ago
Bowie once claimed that the creation of this album and everyone who said he recorded it is a conspiracy; he had no recollection of writing or recording ANY OF STATION TO STATION
cptnwilliamread 4 months ago
Station to Station is my fave album
sarabower1 5 months ago 2
♪♫♥²↑⁀⁀☼ ;-j
ELGROOVER 5 months ago
⊛⊚ ....It's nice to be nice ☼ :-j
ELGROOVER 5 months ago
I grew up listening to nothing but Bowie in the 70's. Trust me, this is his finest moment. pure genius !.
praxylite 5 months ago
David has no recollection of making this song or making the Station to Station album. Drugs had taken over and we got brilliance. Don't know where I stand on the drug issue if one can create this stuff on a perpetual cocaine high. He did say it's not the side effects of the cocaine, didn't he on this song?
firewithgasoline 5 months ago