David Bowie - Without you

[dropkickM]

I just can't stand it when i type David in the youtube search engine the first suggestions i get is David Guetta, at first. Who is that at second Why isnt David Bowie there?! Stupid Youtube.

[alexia26]

@dropkickM Damn Straight!! I was thinkin the same thing. Statement on the current 'culture'. Who's searching for Guetta anyway???

[jing479]

Great track.

[SRQguy1]

damn you David!!!....so much talent...please come back!!

[EsromFF]

wrong cover ??



[Fakename70]

The Bowie purists won't give the "Let's-Dance-was-crap" nonsense a rest, I see. It's been 28 years. Let it go already. If anything, he put most popular mainstream artists to shame with that LP by making it with such obvious accesible & commercial intentions and making it seem so effortless in the process. In hindsight, I think DB was merely curious what it would be like to have a mega-hit record in America. So, he hooked-up with Nile Rodgers and made one. I'd hardly call it a career low point.

[n0rt0nj4zZ]

@Fakename70 just a shame he followed it up with tonight..that was his mistake.

[Fakename70]

@n0rt0nj4zZ

I think the even bigger mistake with Tonight was that it was released just 1 year after Let's Dance. Never Let Me Down was something I actually liked by comparison, even though DB thinks it's crap.

[n0rt0nj4zZ]

@Fakename70 i quite like never let me down, in a cheesy way. tonight was obviously done in a hurry, with just 2 or 3 good tracks. in 1983 lets dance was cutting edge, i think bowie should of followed lets dance ,with another nile rodgers album, but let nile take more control of production.

[Fakename70]

@n0rt0nj4zZ

While that surely would've produced another fab collection of tunes, I don't think it's in DB's DNA to repeat himself just because the formula worked to perfection the previous time. Regardless of what he puts out, I do give him credit for rarely staying in the same place, unlike other artists who play it safe. But, regardless what his critics say, Let's Dance really is a good LP. Particularly, for those --- like yours truly --- who are attracted to it because of Tony Thompson.

[ivankaramasov]

@n0rt0nj4zZ I think Tonight is far superior to Never Let Me Down and has actually improved a lot with age. I think it contains several really good tracks. The main problem is that they seem so randomly put together.

[n0rt0nj4zZ]

@ivankaramasov never let me down was a straight foward commercial album with a rock/pop theme, tonight was just a mix of lame tunes, with the exception of loving the alien and dont look down. i just think never let me down is a more honest album than tonight.

[ilsy74]

What a connector of multiple galaxies... a real star is david bowie... great!!

[simonthompson27]

and , has to be said, none of those distorted versions (all being far less freakish than Bowie) add up to much now. unrelated but - I still love Ashes to Ashes... ...to listen, to dance to. - for all its proximity to club Bizarre/visage etc is does something as a pop record that no descendant of Bowie's has managed to do - that is - make a genuily accepted popular freakish record . for me its one of the last really precise and disposable works he made.

[simonthompson27]

lets dance has its problems... for me it was the first time that i felt the era had reflected itself in Bowies music in a pedestrian manner - he fell prey to style. Where as much of the earlier work demonically steals whats around it, transforms it and somehow becomes the soundtrack to the era. Bowie gets swallowed by the 80's - but in fairness thats because a lot of the 80's was already structured by what he had done - he was surrounded by a million distorted versions of himself.

[rosalbina188]

without you i'm nothing!

[vlnlcn]

lets dance was a nonsense in his career;;; could have done without:::::: it::!

[OutsidersRo]

Masterpiece from a master in music. I feal so sorry because he's not in music business anymore.

[Johnnywhamo]

@OutsidersRo Couldn't agree more! I've been huge fan of his for 40 years and I can't think of an artist I'd actually miss more than DB. His retirement is indeed something I've noticed and I just hope he gives us one more album or a few recorded concerts to give us a formal goodbye.

[symbiotwofive]

RIP

[JapanFan51]

@symbiotwofive he isn't dead.

[leonakita]

Probably the best 'pure songwriting effort' from the Lets Dance album that admid all the poppy commercial stuff, gets somewhat lost in album placement as 'filler' material. Shame, because its a decent tune.

[cossima225]

Whitout you... What would I have listened to all the summer?

[peggy1614]

without u , what coul i do ??? when will u come again?? on live....<3

[28861214d]

this song would have fitted perfectly into Scary Monster Album, with the arrangements of the album of course.

[Johnnywhamo]

I don't know how I missed this song, mind you I wasn't really big on this album or this particular time of his career. Been a fan for 40 years having said that.

I really, really dig this tune just the same.

[treyspr]

Let's Dance was a great 80's album alongside Purple Rain and Thriller

[ASR10MAN]

Shades of ashes to ashes

[thetopman007]

How good is this song. Just forgotten how good. Gonna learn this one.

[KittyaaRudyaa582]

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[Elverksjagarn]

I hate this song. It should be banned tbh

[Pe0pleAreStrange1]

@Elverksjagarn

Why are you listening to the song if you hate it so much?

Your logic intrigues me...

[sergiosozi]

Mamma mia, quanto e' bella ancora oggi, 'sta canzone! Thanx David.

[MadamLambert]

in love with this song <3

[UBER069]

probably the best "B" side in the history of popular music. This song breaks my heart just a little.

[LunaSeaSane]

There's 2 or 3 tracks fro Let's Dance that I actually feel positive about

"Ricochet" "Shake it" "Cat People"

This one's not so bad either.

[ericlebeau]

Great song

[AndyTheNihil]

oh oh...without you..what would I doooooo..... Awesome tune!!!

[huckfinn135]

by the way that's Stevie Ray Vaughan playing lead guitar

[laccord1]

it could easily have been a number one hit.

83 in da house.

[mashamorgan]

i loved 83 and the Seriuos moonlight tour. RIP Stevie Ray

[butterwings77]

Bowie's true commercial breakthrough. Where else could he go after Scary Monsters? This was the logical conclusion, though I do get why it pissed off a lot of Bowie fans. I still enjoy some of the songs on Let's Dance, like this one.

[ivankaramasov]

@butterwings77 Logical step? I only can say that it was a _big_ shock at the time and one of his biggest changes of direction in his whole career, which says a lot. However, that he had made Under Pressure (with Queen) and Cat People (with Moroder) were signs that he was moving in a more commercial direction so it was not totally out of the blue in hindsight.

[butterwings77]

@ivankaramasov : Bowie had made some truly ground-breaking, experimental pop records in the late 70s, culminating with Scary Monsters in 1980. As a musician, he must have felt that he couldn't press the envelope any further musically, so where do you go from there? You make commercial success your experiment. And boy, did he succeed.

[ivankaramasov]

@butterwings77 I partly agree with you. Let's Dance was a very good album, though I have to admit I did not like it much at the time since it was substandard in comparison to the brilliant work that came before. Also, I must admit that I hated the idea that I suddenly had to share my idol with the ignorant masses:-)

[lemmy9head]

this song is not on hunky dory............is alluurpo an idiot smerf

[naldo40]

there's something about this song which reminds me of of 'follow your bliss' by the B52s

[RoadWarrior2006]

Just heard this track after it knocking around most of my life. I Love It.

[Sandboge]

Such a great tune... Have to agree on that Let's Dance really was a great album. A bit of a comeback. It's one of those records that is growing with the years instead of getting dated and shite!

[hufclufc]

I was thinking this was some bonus track off hunky dory. Still good but not his best period IMO

[motherginsling]

"Let's Dance" had only great tracks, it's been unjustly put in the Bowie trash bin, the man is recyclable,there is no such thing as Bowie trash.

[Skulldini]

I've always had mixed thoughts about the Let's Dance album. Some songs I like ( Cat People Puttin Out Fire, Richochet ) and others I finde awful ( Shake It, Modern Love ). As I see it, even Bowies lesser albums have some good in em. He's never made an album that was a complete dog.

[mbfenner]

This song still kicks after all these years....

[THEHITPACK]

cool

[Kaleidoscorp]

"Let's Dance" is the best album among his works lasting several decades.

[marwinraul]

skojare!

[tredissa]

i remember that song,man. the years that have gone by... . beautiful song

[therealsoulproduct]

This is probably in my top 10 favorite Bowie songs ever.

[murfdasurfer]

@therealsoulproduct I hear that, very underated. I played this song on the album way more than "lets dance" "China Girl", etc. This song magic.

[Deliaboard]

What a song!

[BreakingGlass77]

I love this song. I think it's really relaxing in a way. Although, I never understood why people post a song on youtube and show a different album cover than the one it was on.

[70Junito]

actually charted at #73 in 1983

[jimbailey69]

Released as the last single off "Let's Dance" in the U.S. Didn't chart.

[boohousen]

US-Chart-Place:73

[UBER069]

the whole B side of this album is just gold. Bowie for the win

[humdrum99]

I think the thing I like best about David Bowie is that when anyone I see in my day to day life actually reminds me of him, it always makes me smile

[froggycyrus]

I always thought this song was underrated.

[fzkny]

Love it. BOWIE is one of a kind!

[doctorw2]

i love this song its good to sing this one to your wife or girlfriend.

[uclrichard]

or your boyfriend...bowie spent most his career representing the english bisexual community...if you don't accept that - you've no right to listen to our music...i you do accept it...you're fine.

[heymanwelikedancing]

dude, stop freakin out. chill out. ne1 can lissen to this . . . its on utube. its true that its lame for ppl to discriminate based on nething, including sexual orientation, but the fact that doctorw2 didnt mention boyfriends as well as wife/gf dosnt mean hes a homophobic. he was just saying he liked david bowies music- no law against that in any country ive heard of

[MattBushy1983]

Gays are so touchy! )joke 8 ;)

[stargirlly]

LMAO!

[cocklemidget]

They should have released this as a single in the uk. It was released in holland, and was a minor hit in the USA.

[teacherjurandyr]

muito legal a musica, gostei!

[racyweb]

Without you what would I do...

[alluurpo]

Find a better one than me :P

[alex3112smith]

without you from lets dance

[alluurpo]

Thanks!