David Bowie Teenage Wildlife

[ziljd1an]

Mark my words. David is already the Marcel Duchamp of the Rock Industry. His kind has passed. Just be thankful that we were all there. Ziljd1an signing off xx

[andreaprodan]

Best song on an album that re-awakened interest in Bowie. At the time this song was overshaddowed by Fashion and the great Ashes to Ashes...no?

[amsterjam66]

brilliant vocal by David and guitar work both Robert Fripp and Chuck Hammer,

this song has saved me many times, passion turn to the....

[alexandermorison]

Numan must be so miffed, he didn't even get name-checked. In probably the best Bowie track of all time.

[jesustheres]

dave what shall I do?

[FredGandt]

We are blessed to be hearing this. How many just don't know? If one ever needed to justify spending a fortune on amplification; this is it!

"As ugly as a teenage millionaire!"

[ejulpboy]

Maybe the best from Bowie - at the very least, it is his best vocal performance.

[alexandermorison]

@ejulpboy I agree but Bowie sings it straight and it is just as good

. What an amazing song and this band was out of this world.

[MrAlliecaulfield]

@ejulpboy you are right on the money. best vocal performance.

[TheDudeKicker]

The single best Bowie song of all time.

[alexandermorison]

@TheDudeKicker Totally right about that. What a scorcher.

[MrAlliecaulfield]

@TheDudeKicker Man im glad im not the only one who thinks this might be his best work.

[JasnoGT]

Everytime im really wasted I come here

Bowie=Brilliance

[DominicanAllSaints]

After all these years, this is still one of my faves by David. Very personally emotional. A few months before the album came out, both my parents abandoned me and for a while I had nowhere to go until an aunt tool me in. David was my idol and his new albums were always events for me. 'Scary Monsters' was like a huge present when it came out! It actually helped channel much of my hurt and anger. In my mind, Teenage Wildlife was like a letter written just to me from DB himself!

[ellethekitty]

@DominicanAllSaints

I felt the same. I lived in a small conservative town and I was ..unusual, unconventional. I had nowhere to turn. This song was like it was written directly for me.

'you'll take me aside and say "David what shall i do, they wait for em in teh hallways" and I say, don't ask me I don't now any hallways. But they move in numbers and they've got me in a corner and I feel like a group of one.'

[TheEnoch007]

@ellethekitty No no they can't do this to ME!

[spurtfather]

Oh man! That second guitar solo!

[LivinWorstNightmare]

The funny part with this being directed at Numan is to look at where they are today.

Numan tries to sound like the very people that cite him as an influence, and he struggles in record sales.

Bowie hasn't released an album in quite some time, cause he's still selling and he don't have to sell out and try to be like NIN or Manson. Any rock band that claims they were not influenced by Ziggy Stardust are liars.

[Carloshache]

"Well, David, what shall I do?

They wait for me in the hallway"

I'll say "Don't ask me, I don't know any hallways"

So goood!

[TheThinduke01]

beautiful song

[b3yonc3LLLuva]

Great song!

[outnaway]

I've always thought that the song was about a man in his mid-thirties having a brief but volatile relationship with a much younger man.

[jrmetmoi]

@outnaway it's about Gary Numan

[outnaway]

I have always heard the song as being about man in his mid-thirties having a brief affair with a man much younger than him.

[ellethekitty]

@outnaway

no. I think its about the trapping of fame, groupies, being alone, treated like an animal-and hunted. but also is full of resignation about the situation

[outnaway]

Another theatrical piece of musical drama...great lyrics, beguiling, pointing in a clear enough direction but with enough personal enigmas to make the exact meaning clear only to Bowie, yet the emotion comes through if not the precise meaning.

Bowie's lyrics are vastly underrated.

[seankoverland]

sorry all you rocker spider boys, but that's the legendary Chuck Hammer ripping it...

[DreamMorpheus42]

I'm shocked how long it took me to clue into the fact that it was Fripp playing on my two favorite Bowie albums. I had been a LONG time fan of Krim when I first started getting into him, Heroes and SM became far and away my favorites, THEN I learned he played these. Honestly, Bowie's bizarre voice, Fripp's fractured but strangely perfect guitar choices make a perfect match. I would love to see the two of the, (plus Eno) collaborate again. (I actually like Heathen and Reality)

[vlnlcn]

musically perfect, but the sophisticated lyrics::: fuck i feel i dont speak english anymore!!!!

a piece of  wild lyrics!

great album :!!!!!!

[Jofph]

Those damn commercials ruin the clips

[Yaugzebull]

3:57 <3

[House38500]

I could die listening to this song.

[tequilamockingbird]

fripp's signature guitar tone might be the best guitar tone of all.

[mijand]

i was never a piece of teenage wildlife,god i love this song

[costellodan]

Why is sharing on Facebook now disabled?

[Drackkor]

Great album! I loved the 80's Bowie album's there way under rated. Much better than anything of the 90's. I did like Heathen of the 2000's. Reality sucked. And Bowie's late 70's album's like Low and Heroes truly are irrelevant and terrible. Rock on Scary Monsters best Album since Ziggy Stardust.

[n0rt0nj4zZ]

Sadly Bowie,s last truly great song, he made some very good one,s after this, but nothing ever came close to Teenage Wildlife.

[mrfudgeyhead]

@n0rt0nj4zZ

I think some shit on Outside and Earthling came close, but from 68-80, Bowie was probably the best around.

He's a legend, a hero.

I want statues of him with voice automation to tell children about the Homo Superior.

[swlabr413]

Robert Fripp totally takes this song to a different level.

[jrmetmoi]

Even though this song is supposedly a put down of Gary Numan, I do love this song, it sounds so good, as only David could do it! And let's face it David IS my other husband!!

[alexandermorison]

@jrmetmoi Hi mate, I love your take on the Numan thing. My take is different, slightly, I am a massive Bowie fan as you can probably imagine.

I think that this is a commentary about what it it is to survive a 'Punk'/'New-wave revolution. And come out of the meat grinder at the other end with your reputation intact at a time when yer Eltons and yer Genesis' were finding it a tad troublesome.

For David to release this in 1980 and show that he was such a survivalist is a real triumph!

[jrmetmoi]

@alexandermorison Yeah for some reason even though it's a rumor, it's been a huge rumor for a long time now that David was talking about the New Wavers/Goths/New Romantics etc.but Gary Numan was the biggest at the time and supposedly he once got Gary thrown out of a studio and show where they both happened to be.

And then he came out with this song about the same time, so....

[SHBlacky]

@alexandermorison

i think you're right, because lyrics are definately about his relationship with Iggy Pop

[kosmischesynth]

@SHBlacky I heard it was about Gary Numan....

[xxtaxidermyxx]

@kosmischesynth it is. he was attacking Gary for ripping him off. kind of a Downer, because in retrospect, a lot of the similarities are pretty superficial.

[halloweenjack1974]

Wow-I listened to this L.P. back in 1981 when I was 14,I didn't dare let my friends hear this record for some time-when they later did it was like "What the hell?" Especially "Scream like a baby"That is way out there;I guess that why it's "Scary"

[WESSYS]

This is God Singing to us.

[anyfantasyyouwant]

my sister in law loves this song! shes only 16 n she loves the classic rock

[sallyfieldrequired]

we could be heroes..

[RobbieGDelirium]

My all time fave Bowie song...what a brilliant composition :) :)

Plus Fripps guitar work owns...

[btwentwo]

@RobbieGDelirium Right there with you. Fripp just tears across the sky in this song.

[ellethekitty]

@RobbieGDelirium

My favorite as well.

[astrophonix]

I was only 21 when this came out, but I was already 'mourning' the loss of my teenage wildlife!

[jackdelawack]

when this record came out it scared the shit out of everyone.....

[alexandermorison]

@jackdelawack Hi mate, It's probably the last album by an English musician which actually did that.

[jrmetmoi]

@jackdelawack why?

[jackdelawack]

@jrmetmoi there wasn't much going on @ the time ,Beefheart just dropped an lp John and Yoko were about to basically it was and syill is a revolutionary record....

[DanBlabbers]

@jackdelawack Why? I wasn't alive then, can you explain please?

[kecsap]

@jackdelawack could you elaborate on that?

[gmills65]

@jackdelawack I've seen this comment more than once regarding this album, but I don't get it? I remeber well the release of this album and don't remember it "scaring the shit" out of anyone.

[chingchangchongfly]

@gmills65 You didn´t do the right drugs

[mclaib]

David....one of my favorites

[hotstuffhaney]

So i'm reading a story on Fictionpress called: teenaged wildlife and i thought cool its a real song so i'm going to listen to it. I'm only heard a few of his songs, he's before my time and my parents don't like him much. but i like him just fine!

[PeeteyP]

1:33-1:50

[PeeteyP]

big fan fripp guitar solo

[raytheprinter]

@PeeteyP WOW that was Fripp! never knew,thanks

[jjamo5]

awsome!

[lombmusic07]

Thanks for the lyrics. One of my favourites. Certainly nothing like it. And very little else gets to that place. Amazing to hear someone hurl it out.