David Bowie - Sense of Doubt - Rare Video

[fourhawks01]

This song is actually a musical interpretation of the last few moments of life, and the sense of doubt that anything exists afterwards...

[dreamcatcher75418]

He is very magical!! <3

[5tar5z]

what a freaky dude. cool

[IsabelSwan16]

wir kindern vom bahnhof zoo.

[simonjacks1986]

Pop a crystal ball in the hand and you've got yourself a movie!

[limey4783]

Adam Buxton sent me here, or sutin.

[vince25xx]

very strange video

[Eggs4Eva]

Mr beautiful eyes!

[elfje62]

i love this song !!!!! Bowie is the best !!!

[CreateWorlds]

Four dislikes?! Four people need to have their left hands cut off!

[xSkitZx]

Perhaps an attempt at 'art'. Whatever that is.

[Samira00Haque]

Is this his rehersil or something?

[figocooldude]

The synths sound like something of Clockwork Orange

[jonflynn1]

Superb!!!!!!!! Both the instrumental, Bowie and the video.

[gildas2]

Thumbs up if you think that @helenajesstarzak opinion says it all.

[TheCiacibus]

Sad scene in Christine F.

[freegelato]

I too am obsessed with David Bowie but this is such silly footage.

[MarcoShevil]

another planet...

[wuckle]

One of my fav bits of music - so inspired

[Winterwoowoo]

"The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not."

He grasps at the light, yet cannot grasp it.

The freedom he knows is within reach, yet he cannot understand it because of the darkness of the world of 1984.

[BoysKeepSwingin2]

Beautiful song from one of his BEST albums, so in contact with the modern world.

Musical painting of the fear in Berlin before the fall of the Berlin Wall....

[thepinktent]

beautiful, mournful.

[tecEErbe]

so damn depressive

[987m654e321]

Isn't a hand &/or the observation of one's hand a symbol for death? I think of him as Hamlet here. I would love to hear the famous soliloquy recited with this in the background. And yes, I'll break some rules of grammar: OMG HE IS SO BEAUTIFUL ;)

[leonakita]

Its beautiful to be beautiful to the beautiful ..... STOP SAYING AN USING THE ADJECTIVE 'BEAUTIFUL' IMPROPERLY YOU CLOWNS !!!

[ThreeWishesFairy]

No, not scary. For me this music carries an immense loneliness.

[passionistic1]

ART. JUST BEAUTIFUL! this is my first time listening to this by the way. ITS AMAZING!

[passionistic1]

ART. JUST BEAUTIFUL

[GUILDENSTERNSGAL]

This video was brought to you today by the letters W.T and F.

[xwaystranger]

Master at work.

[DanBlabbers]

deus ex machina

[trancis36]

Scary !??? favorite Bowie album of all time...

[MARKRHOMBERG]

Egon Schiele.

[BlueSoulJim]

he was posing same way he did in cover art for Heroes!

[wuckle]

This is an amazing piece of 'music' - Timeless!

[MrSKINFLICK]

Nothing is scary about this track from HEROES - it is very beautiful meditative music with a deeper meaning (sense of doubt) and it also hasn´t got to do anything with the heroin-soap-opera "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo....."

.....a silly movie which was pressed on Bowie´s image from the outside media, ridiculous ! And he just touched that movie a bit (with a very short appearance) and then quickly left that silly scene !

[maxdafield]

@MrSKINFLICK All the songs from Wir Kinder vom Banhof Zoo were written by him.

And they work marvelously in the movie. It's a gut-gripping movie and depicts perfectly the Berlin drug scene of the 1970's, which is what Christiane F. wanted when she wrote the book.

David Bowie plays an important part in that movie...

[bullmeecham]

@MrSKINFLICK Hey I agree, it's not scary, it's deep. But I've heard Christians call Toccata & Fugue in D minor devil music, not knowing it was writ for the glory of god, so people are stupid to say the least. Also, Bowie was heavily into heroine with Iggy while they did the Germany trio of LP's. Very very heavily. The song Ashes to Ashes touches on how far he fell. He was a flat out junkie 70's style. So, that "silly" scene nearly killed them both.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@bullmeecham:Heroin is still a grave danger for our communities+it is a shame that the German state almost lovingly cares about heroin addicts but still criminalizes cannabis smoking. The Czech goverment legalized everything to a certain amount lately+said that it is not the task of the state to persecute addicts or moderate users.

As far as i know Bowie(he said that himself in several interviews)got away from his hard drugs in Berlin - a curious method: To select Berlin of all cities,LOL!

[MrSKINFLICK]

@bullmeecham: I don´t want to express myself on the weird and tasteless "preferences" of many Christians concerning music - i suffered enough in church as a child and young man...but this is over now. If i would have to say something on that topic i would have to get very insulting......

[dlfunky1]

@bullmeecham he had stopped drugs by the time of the heros sessions in berlin '77. He was more a cocaine addict- never heard of him using heroin.

[Vegulcia]

I've been looking for this music for days... and now I have video too... it touched me to my very soul

[leonoel42]

@Vegulcia You'e hit it on the head. Bowie wasn't the first to experiment with electronic music but he did make it very emotional. He put the spirit in the machine.

[Lambrettarossa80]

Scary...I love it

[ZackenZicke]

This song is so scary.....I always have this scene of Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo in my mind when I hear this.

[Volgi1]

music can be scary! david bowie is just ....wow

[ClearOutSamskaras]

nice

[BowieGirley]

It looks like he is practicing the figure for the cover the Heroes album....

[maeusesheriff]

What a unique piece of art. Thank you.

[MultiBrunilde]

Berlin. Wir kinder wom Bahnhof Zoo. That scene is in my mind. IL NULLA. Il vuoto la degenerazione. Tragico e impressionante.

[wolfsRain5577]

O_O This song was on go ask alice

whooooo

[piroschka6]

the hands of an artist...............

[ducessaristocat]

such a great video.thx for sharing.He s so beautiful and strange at the same time.i guess i saw tears in his eyes and this song...god this is a masterpiece!

[Dayonthebog]

He is being Newton... No?

[primecomposite]

what the hell is the hand gesturing supposed to mean??

[thepinktent]

who cares? he is awesome-fuck did a man play as many parts in his time?

[walbianco]

@primecomposite It's inspired by the painting of expressionist painter Egon Schiele

[DBCrowns]

@primecomposite art

[rmherbert1957]

@primecomposite mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm which hand(the left one) plays the dirge-like bass notes in the song? really?listen more talk less.

[helenajesstarzak]

This music is so scary and serious

and yet really beautiful.

David Bowie is soooo beautiful.

He´s music and he´s speciel looking face, it`s art.

[Vasquetz]

@helenajesstarzak u knew he has those (kewl ^^') different eyes, because he was punshed on the eye in a brawl? D:

[Skulldini]

Goes to show that the guy really is a vesatile composer and musician. He can do conventional popular type songs ( singing, lyrics, beat ) AND non-vocal instrumental music. Not many artists could do BOTH ( they can either do one or the other ). Quite a tallent.

[yiommi]

Hes so beautiful

[Frank59932]

der song is ok, warschawa und some are sind wesentlich besser aber dett video raff ich nich: warum glotzt er immer auf seine hand????

[Stoppani94]

I love his eyes, their awesome

[fanamire1]

He's just so utterly captivating! And those eyes! Thanks so much for posting! =D

[demonsbutterfly]

I rolled a car while this song was playing. That was in 1982. This is the first time i have heard the track since.

Still spins me out too much!!!!!

[Saschek]

das klingt doch glatt nach zoo absturz :D

[TheAlinnyLokka]

... Brisa Total! Mas muito, muito Muito muito foda!

[BERTRAMCAT]

pure emotion

[addster82]

sofija95 -- look deeper -- music, image  two different dimensions

[stephenp1968]

I.LOVE.THIS.SONG.

[sofija95]

what is the point of this video? song is awesome, but can't understand video...

[j1n3]

there is none. it's just an amazing and beautiful video.

[zidia7]

I think it's how we can make our future and life and his hand is very powerful and.. omg, what am I saying?! naah,don't listen to me

[gunsanddrugs]

i beleive that is mr iggy pop's jacket he is wearing....!¿?!? and the pose comes from the painting that iggy copied for his 'idiot' lp.. sorry cant remember who it was... or one of the similar paintings

[perhapsnow]

the painting is by the austrian artist egon shiele

[hurovi]

Actually, the covers of Bowie's "Heroes" and Iggy's "The Idiot" are both based on Erich Heckel's painting 'Roquariol'.

[maya0510]

absolutely song

[Onoffstar]

I'd really like to know what was he thinking while composing those deep grave notes... was in it his sense of doubt or in the movement of his hand and fingers?

[brookeelsner]

I bought both the "Heros" album and the "Low album when they came out. I remember what Bowie called these songs that encompassed the entire B side of both albums. He called it "texture" music at the time.

[Onoffstar]

you've pleased me with your answer but anyway I'm at the same... what did he mean with "Texture Music" what's its essence? Do you know anything about it? I'm getting curious now! I received Heroes as a gift from a friend of Ilinois in 1977. Just a few of my friends liked, only me and sincerely I loved it!

[nanoulize]

It is just you!

[harrisongsrule]

is it just me or does that somehow not look like bowie?

[fiat131abarth1]

I love this song and all the other instrumental songs in The Berlin Trilogy.

It's so cold and futuristic. Brilliant!

:D

[zielak1939]

psychodelic

[SpideyCat1]

BEAUTIFUL!

[graphXmedia]

Gänsehaut Song!!!

[Shannenna]

Creepy, Boring. Not what im looking for. :)

nice try olddude.

[macquiggsy]

This is f*cking AWESOME!!

[ironbuttermilk]

I love Bowie. . .but I'm afraid this 'piece' could bore the tits off a lizard.

just my opinion of course.

I'm going to go watch 'Wild is the Wind' again I think.

[ProgressiveTito]

bastante psicodelico

[PRODIGE221]

I never seen it before it's wonderfull in you tube we find every day anothers news marvelous sounds and visions

[WoodRatGirl]

Of course I knew he was trained as a mime artist.

HELLO! you're talking to a Bowie fan here duh Dynamo.

[ALPQZM654]

Magnifico.

[lapiel]

this song is not used in the film kill bill??

[spaceplayer]

No, you're thinking "A Silhouette of Doom" by Ennio Morricone. The piano sound is similar, good call.

[BowieGirley]

I love watching his hand its hipnotizing! :P

[spurtfather]

what strange spell is magus bowie performing here then? I suppose it's credit to the man that he can do something like this and somehow not come across as a pretentious idiot. Maybe it's the eyes.

[deaconline]

This was issued as the B-side to Beauty And The Beast. Would love to have heard the day this was selected on the pub jukebox.

[kinkygiraffe]

Close to god.

[lizzardpoodle]

I love David Bowie, he's so bizarre... in my opinion, almost never an insult.

I remember the first time I heard this song, it was really late at night and it creeped me out extremely badly...

[WoodRatGirl]

I know he's a mime artist aka trained as one.

So whoever tried to be clever by telling me that fact, well I already knew that fact so duh!

[WoodRatGirl]

He's like a mime artist in this video.

[sh1gsy]

he is a mime artist

[adamanadam]

many thanks for sharing this....

[Gerb65]

Beautiful vid SuperCherry, thank you very much for posting it!

[PyramidHead2000]

is this playing on a loop?

[earvesicle]

what the hell does this hand thing mean!!! its very similar to heroes cover.. looks like the jacket hes wearing too

[ivankaramasov]

The strange gesture on the cover of Heroes alludes to a painting by Egon Schiele.

[nature3]

sto pezzo mi fa cagà sotto..

[delfino78]

a me gia da bambino :D

[HelenAndreaMartinez]

b a g  c ....

[weezamcoco]

This isn't the video to Sense of doubt. It's footage from the TV ad for "Heroes". There is a vid for Sense, it was filmed at Hansa by the wall and is on Youtube else where. . . This is still a very worthy contribution to the Bowie myth though thanks very much to the uploader (Supercherry) for taking the trouble. . . .

[whateveritsnoyes]

@weezamcoco Wasn't filmed at Hansa, but in Italy.. in October 1977. It may look like Hansa, but it isn't. Just wanted to make that clear to you :) Cheers.

[Garrison2]

Very..very cool. Bowie is a genius

[abaltazar9]

This is rare, where did you get this. I would love to have ur connections

[Josenismyname]

weird.weird.very strange.but yet so beautiful.

Never before heard this song. it reminds me of the "Heroes" cover.

[Verbunko]

Did I just look for like 3 minutes at Bowie's hand.

[LadyScreaming]

Listening to this song always gets me in a strange mood... thanks for sharing!!! I have never seen this before. Bowie is Bowie is Bowie... Love him!

[animefaggot]

this is a weird ass video but i love it

[fzkny]

To me, listening to this song in the early 80's was like having access to another world. The Doors of Perception, if you know what I mean. Bowie, the only one!

[ganznormaleheldin]

Only Fear.

Ich geh fixen....

[violenthues]

'eye' love it

[PierreSuburban]

Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

i like this song

[ali0tis]

This was not only my 1st Bowie but album ever purchased by & for myself. Imagine a lil' 3rd grader listening to this on her Walkman with Low batteries. Solid even when warbly, thanks for posting the best B side ever!

[lumpsums]

Oh we can be heroes :c

[tuepoulsen]

This reminds me a whole, whole lot of A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick. It's like the music that runs with the narrative during the film.

Anyhow, the tune really lives up to the song title, Sense of Doubt, just brilliant.

[augustusdes]

Thats an interesting observation. I think the music in Clockwork Orange is way ahead of its time, like most of Kubricks work..

[24dcambridge]

The Clockwork Orange soundtrack was the album "switched on Bach" by Walter Carlos, later know as Wendy Carlos. It's really innovative use of synthesisers didn't appeal to all Kubrick could see it's genius.

[24dcambridge]

Well it was more or less the soundtrack. There were some variations. Get the album, it's great.

[sparkalot]

No other artist has referenced and informed a wider spectrum of the arts. Well beyond the public and private realm, he perpetually radiates creative intention and invention. This particular era(of his work)remaining leagues ahead of its time and place, yet he projects EXACTLY as he did as far back as his first independent student film performance. Same as it ever was, and will always be (sigh!...looking towards the heavens...)

[AshtonArcher]

Never seen this before. Was this shot at the same time as the "Heroes" video?

[laubowiebass]

BOWIE BOWIE AND BOWIE, ALWAYS BOWIE. tHX FOR THIS RARE VIDEO.

[littleheaven11]

B O W I E

[simonbnyc]

This was always astonishingly dark but beautiful. I remember that John Peel described this that it sounds as if sonething has "gone terribly, terribly wrong".

[redhevminerva]

Beautiful....he is,always will be.....a Hero!!

Major respect. X.

[aliensatemybrain]

nice, i didnt even know this existed

[scanner1978]

oscuro,frio, hipnotico e innovador,la mejor epoca de bowie sin lugar a dudas. La unión con philipe glass, brian eno y no me acuerdo quien más ha sido uno de los encuentros más increibles de la historia de la musica moderna.

[mondobay]

This is just awesome stuff !! wished he released this !! i'm a fan since 1973 !

[bowiegirl]

I love the Heroes album cover. It was my first Bowie album, ever. Ran out to buy it after the April 15, 1978 concert at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City. I was 13 years old. Is it possible to know whether the album cover was shot based on this photo op of sorts? I mean, video op? :)

[motellife]

same here. it was my first Bowie album too. though i didnt buy it. i rented it from the library and never returned it back. ha. oh wait, nvm. ziggy stardust was my first, second Heathen, third "Heroes". anyhow, yeah, the album cover could've been based on this video

[ShovelDuct]

Sense of Doubt and Neukoln are some of my favorite pieces of music in the world.

[videoguyy]

yeah man, that and the second side of Low are just completely beautiful pieces of music ever recorded

[bobbyiscool1992]

I agree on that!

[bobbyiscool1992]

i love at the time 1:31 when they play those four notes going down and going back up instantly. that is one of my favorite dark moments. one of my favorite instrumental songs, too.

[moraldecay7]

david bowie is so cool. so unique. i don't think there's anyone like him, which is a rare thing...

[SuperCherry]

David Bowie is a way...

[moraldecay7]

my 2 year old cousin says that her favortie animal is david bowie hahah...

[motellife]

Hahaha.

that's great. i hope you're not saying it to be mean thought. that's very cute of your cousin though, in a way...

[nitinjosh]

Only Bowie could pull this kind of 'art' off to a bit of odd music- don't you agree? Can't think of another artist in his shoes -can you?

[transfobby]

A Sense of Doubt is a part of 'Heroes' symphony by Phillip Glass, based on Heroes album, created in collaboration with Brian Eno and Bowie himself.

[connyvanhaan]

Great!!!!

[baud198746]

not especially crazy about the video but the song....

[baud198746]

To put it extremely simply, this is possibly the best song ever written.

[annandalesham]

It's not a music video - you can plainly see its a video of the photo shoot for the cover of the album heroes - Hello the flashes are a hint

[SuperCherry]

Not really actually. This was part of the sessions of the "Heroes" video as well as the "Black-out" one. In the original footage you could hear the first verse of the instrumental being played and stopped over and over.

(And his haircut is not the same on the cover)

[tenunderscores]

fantastic ~ i'd never even heard this existed...

[MattDonaldson]

It almost worked

[grapefruitking]

wow

[mauerblumchen]

AWESOME!!!! (And, yes, his left hand is beautiful.)