David Bowie- Teenage Wildlife (slideshow)

[amsterjam66]

Very interesting guitar on this from Chuck Hammer and Robert Fripp

[hehehecolors123]

God made this.

[ral1334]

Cool slideshow. From Ziggy to Jareth!

[kessie184]

I also have to comment on your video. You've chosen so many gorgeous pictures of the legend. I think you've done an awesome job with the slideshow.

[kessie184]

Genius.

[Oblivionator]

I've loved Bowie for years and I only discovered this song two days ago. I was blown the fuck away. I've had it on repeat ever since. Frigging phenomenal song.

[swaffordwhit]

Even as a U.S. Marine am i not more motivated by David Bowie. He should be the represent for human rights. He'd be a perfect "candidate". I am only 21 and I wish we had music like this created today.,, DAMN!

[volleypaula]

great outfits....i`m starting to like the man...

[stiggyh]

sounds like he might have been on drugs when he wrote this one ;)

[charljenky29]

cool man

[109messerschmittbf]

A remarkable song from a remarkable album from an absolute genius that always gets the very best out of his musicians. I feel so lucky that I grew up with this music unlike the poor sods of today who have nothing of consequence or substance to look up to for inspiration. Who could write music today on this level with such challenging sophistication?No one. Bowie first, daylight second....

[n0rt0nj4zZ]

This has to be bowie,s best song of the 80,s. Can anyone think of a song equal to it from that decade.

[alexandermorison]

This is something you just have to let go to. It is a beautiful piece of music which is punctuated by thr most fantastic guitar solo., I have looked through Fripps back catalogue and he never ever played anything as beautiful as this. Bowie never wrote a better song. God I love this!

[GraniteQuarrier]

my favorite bowie song

[11spike7]

Fripp's tone is beautiful.

[NickolasDarling]

Date a Asian lady # lushfmlk.info #

[boibad12]

fripp <3

[tracygalvin]

Thanks for the upload but why no pics from the "Scary Monsters" period? God I love this song. Can't even believe he acknowledged Gary Numan. What a footnote!

[sallyfieldrequired]

we could be heroes.....

[7676yhn]

LEGEND FOREVER I,m bemused as to why it isn,t Sir David Robert Jones.Bowie is more deserving of a knighthood than Jagger or Elton Dick John

[macuaid]

@7676yhn Because the man refused to accept several "honours", another reason to love and admire him....he said, rightly, that he didn't know what they were for

[uversa777]

One of the top 20 rock vocals ever

[buscargo89]

@uversa777 YES WELL DONE

[PifflesTheMonkey]

that mouth on the guitar picture was weird even for david!

[kjsh987]

this song would be nice on the heroes album

[afireintheforest1]

they say it's about gary numan, what a shame.

[EbolaReston12]

@afireintheforest1 numan dressed like bowie so bowie would sing bout him i think it is bout people copying his style

[MaxGiese32]

David Bowie is my favorite and this is one of my favorite songs. He's the best of all time and this is one of his best :) Love it!

[PunkAndFun]

from 3:58 to 4:23

[ritornare]

long live bowie!

[DanBlabbers]

Great pictures throughout

[eyefreesia]

1.55 that is the make up of siouxsie!!!!!!

XD anyway, HI MUSIC NEVER NEVER NEVER MAKES ME TIRED OR SICK, it stands TIME!!!!!

and this is the highest trial for an artist:) and he WINS.

[tabletop123]

You can only love Bowie, even after 37 years.

[kuwait123gaga77]

this is man or women >>derty

[DIONYSES000AD]

some people are deaf ..... this stuff is genius :)

[ComfortablyPlum]

This track is still AMAZING!

I loved this song from the first time. I think it is from Scary Monsters, a copied tape I had many Earth summers ago. Is this a Brian Eno influence I detect? No wonder it is such an outstanding track...

(sigh!)

[joannahacon]

The most delicious voice ever. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MAN I'VE EVER LAID MY EYES ON. I'VE FELT THE SAME WAY SINCE I WAS 6 YEARS OLD WHEN I'D JUST IMMIGRATED FROM KOREA.. I DO MISS HIS BEAUTIFUL OLD TEETH THOUGH. I NOTICED THE CHANGE IN HIS TEETH "POST IMAN". btw, "DAVID LIVE" IS MY FAVORITE ALBUM

[kjsh987]

u like the sweet thing candidate reprise version? i think is amazing

[joannahacon]

i especially like the different takes/ versions. yes, it's fantastical.

[buscargo89]

@kjsh987 THE BEST EVER

[MyCatWatchesMe]

FANTASTIC, FANTASTIC vid. Bowie's just mmmm unique heavenly.

[hung0sowell]

is song is about gary newman& the new wave sceen

[spurtfather]

Oh! I'd forgotten about the guitar solo! Hairs on back of neck moment!

[pastol]

Guitars on this album were played by Robert Fripp and Chuck Hammer and I believe Pete Townsend played on some songs but I'm not sure which. Fripp and Hammer both played on this song (Teenage Wildlife). What a GREAT song.

[barakpick]

Pete - Because you're young

[Eggs4Eva]

i love the pic at 2:49  :D

[beastraeatsall]

who's playing the guitar solo - is it Robert Fripp? It's a pretty solo.

[ivankaramasov]

It is indeed Robert Fripp. I think he is one of the greatest guitar players of all time, and his best work ever I think is his contribution to Bowie's Scary Monsters album where this song is from.

[TheCinemaization]

Bowie - the best!

[MsSenorSenor]

Thanks for posting this! This is one of my best Bowie's song ever, I really enjoy the video, beautiful, dramatical melody and gorgeous vocals! I don't understand why this is not so much known to the people, I want everybody to listen to this and share the great value of this song together.

[jamezheart]

Bowie ... nothing more to say !!!!!

[sweepginger]

I think this album is fantastic. Teenage Wildlife, Ashes to Ashes, Kingdom Come, Scream Like a Baby..... So unique, all of them. He really excelled with it. Maybe that is why people are so harsh about Let's Dance, as it came out after such an amazing compilation as Scary Monsters. I certainly had no complaints about songs such as China Girl, Let's Dance and Without You though.

[7676yhn]

So true,a fantastic album,then David was seduced by the commercial and finanancial benefits of being a much sought after rock star.After coca cola or pepsi payed him 6 million for an advert EMI stepped in and offered him the same to make a "commercial album".Lets Dance sold millions worldwide and is still his most sodl album.David was quoted as saying "a financial high but an artistic low.I think he is right when u compare it to other albums,,,but still a genius

[stoleninfo]

Modern Love?

[normanhightree]

I agree, I think this is his best LP... and don't forget "Because You're Young"

[BWFSabian]

Faaaakin hell.. Ronson shines on this..

[beastraeatsall]

I don't think Mick Ronson played on this song... this was much later than spiders from mars

[jimmymanager]

"But they move in numbers and they've got me in a corner

I feel like a group of one, no-no

They can't do this to me

I'm not some piece of teenage wildlife"

Great lyrics, great song.

[JesZeu]

"..Those midwives to history put on their bloody robes...

The word is that the hunted one is out there on his own..."

Frickin' awesome!

I remember hearing this song (and this album) as a teenager and thinking it was the best thing I'd ever heard.

[Rebel230]

Robert Fripp is a goddamn surgeon on the guitar

[chinasherry1961]

agreed one of the best and he didnt sell out to make money. Check out his other works Blondie Fade Away and Radiate

[ziggysguitarman1961]

Thank you veganstardust. I can't forget that special time in our lives we shared together. xxxx

[veganstardust]

This is for you ziggysguitarman and that amazing summer we spent together xxxx

[livemochaable]

"Scary monsters" is my favorite Bowie album! I wish he had stopped his music carrier after this... Or at least ,If he had chosen to become a graet standard singer like Rod Stwewart , I would still be supporting him 100 %.

[PyramidHead2000]

Ahhh I can't agree, it's true that Tonight was considered not very well done, but it had a charm, and David's later albums were unique with some lovely songs, the world would be a lonelt place ahs he finished after S.M

[chinasherry1961]

agreed this was Davids last great album

[rockywhore11]

I think people are a little too harsh to "Let's Dance." Sure, it didn't have the level of innovation or intellectualism that "Scar Monsters" did, but it was by no means a terrible album. Also, "Heathen" was excellent, on par with the musics from Bowie's height.

[ivankaramasov]

Have you really given any of his post 1990 albums a chance? And comparing him to Rod Stewart? It is like comparing Beethoven and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

[SamSullivan03]

David Bowie = Awesome

Robert Fripp = Awesome

[MrKolopido]

classic song from a classy performer

[sazerac1]

Bowie said of Gary Numan, "His artistic kitsch is integrally spurious." LOL

[chinasherry1961]

any body know where I can get this album on Mobil Fidelity Original Master recording UK pressed vinyl because CDs suck

[tntftbrain]

what the fuck are you sain´..??????

[chinasherry1961]

you tube is a big money loser for Google

[pekoe67]

A masterpiece of composition, performance, production and arranging

[chinasherry1961]

one of my favorite songs of all time. Robert Fripp on guitar is amazing

[genesisrock43]

@chinasherry1961 he really makes this album that bit more incredible!

[flametop93]

Sad about the anti-Numan stance with this song - was that really true, does anybody know?

[affectionatepunch]

Unfortunately this is true.Bowie even refused to appear in an episode of the kenny everett show because he was billed with numan...

[SirHatchporch]

Many songs on the "Scary Monsters" album capture Bowie's disillusionment with the modern world and anger about how he felt old and discarded, particularly in light of the rising crop of new wave artists that he'd helped influence (with Numan being the biggest example). Three years later, he took a major turn towards the commercial with the "Let's Dance" album.

[DIONYSES000AD]

meatloaf is like a fat zit compared this

[SamazRalan]

@DIONYSES000AD yea he is

[jrmetmoi]

@DIONYSES000AD Yeah but I do like the Hot Patootie song from Rocky Horror though.

[ale3andra94]

i love david bowie's music...but the guy was a freak...anyway great song...too much cocaine david...

[harveydylan]

great song

u can hear the obvious influence for iggy pops lust for life

[BowieNutter]

David actually co-wrote Lust for life with iggy pop in Berlin. :D

[anitasseo]

scary monsters es lo massimo desde siempre, papá..

[MissKateUK]

Bowie at his very best. Brilliant song.

[elwarete]

wow... :)

[tabletop123]

You can only love him. Amazing and that is after 37 years of listening to the man.

[Zziggi]

In a recent article for the Mail On Sunday, Bowie revealed that his vocal performance on this song was an imitation of American girl group singer Ronnie Spector

[Zziggi]

watch?v=pXpX-7UrzeI this song specifically perhaps...?

[harryhillys]

This is my favourite bowie track on what i consider to be his best album Scary Monsters. It just has everything in it that is great about bowie, the voice the lyrics and some neat guitar work and harmonies

[ivankaramasov]

I agree with you. This is my favourite Bowie track (at least most of the time). And Scary Monsters is my all time favourite rock album. Too bad most people have never heard this song and that he almost never plays it live.

[hippyshirl]

I sooooo agree with you, this is my second all time fave Bowie song, sharing joint place with Heroes!

[sixfeetjenna]

If I have to pick one Bowie song, this is it. It´s perfect.

[racyweb]

Sublime

[GarforthLUFC]

best bowie SONG EVER!!!!

WHAT A LEGEND

btw can someone tell me what drugs he used to take thanx :)

[Puzzle96]

When he lived in LA he survived on cocaine, milk and pepper.. :P

[Verdruc]

@Puzzle96 I'm pretty sure it was actually peppers...

[LadyBowie1119]

@Puzzle96

Not, "pepper" as in black pepper but "pepperS" as in red and green peppers. And he also drank coffee. So, he took cocaine, smoked his cigs, ate red and green peppers, and drank milk and coffee... He only weighed 85lbs..

[Azreal93]

One the most underrated songs in the history of modern music.

It's cool to see that others would more or less agree. The lyrics

are genius!

[nesplayer94]

I know...at first I didn't think much of this song. But I heard it again a few months later and thought it was the stand-out song on Scary Monsters. It's completely underrated when put up with some of the other Bowie songs but it is excellent.

[ivankaramasov]

This is one of my absolute favourite Bowie songs. I have been listening to it constantly in the car the last few days. It is so extremely complexly arranged with Fripp's genius guitar playing and Roy Bittan's piano. And Bowie's vocals are so powerful and self-assured. Listen carefully to how the very complex "rhytmical counterpoint" (for lack of better description) from about 4:40 to 5:10, that is so sublime!

[MajaILoveYou]

One of my favorite Bowie songs, specially for the piano in the "you fall to the ground..." part

Lovely

5/5

[progjazz]

Great tune,Robert Fripp's best lead work in years.Melody is a little reminiscent of "CONEY ISLAND BABY" by LOU REED(who incidentally had a major influence on BOWIE).

[MandyKazooBowie]

This is awesome! I love it Ziggy rocks!

[beeb1992]

nice !

where did you get the pictures from =]

[Puzzle96]

here and there.. Just spend 3 days and 3 nights on google.

[Derteufell666]

G0D.

[destonio]

cocaine is a hell of a drug

[slope73]

Eat your hearts out, anorexics! (and then barf them up)

[PuddyKatz]

not gay of course

[flamekitty18]

Marylin Manson totaly copied off bowie lol

[KaitouJeanneRules]

Agreed.

[flamekitty18]

Im happy to see im not the only one that thinks that

[SwedenRocks73]

Flamekitty18, Manson is a pathetic nothing compared to Bowie.

[flamekitty18]

ofc he doesnt even come close to Bowie!

[rockywhore11]

Right on. Manson has always struck me as an attention hungry wiener. I mean, one only needs to read between the line of the man's lyrics; he was a nerd and a loner, and his whole persona seems to be an attempted "F-u" to the people that used to pick on him in high school. Bowie may have been attention hungry when he was young too, but he ended up created some of the best pop/rock music ever made.