Eight Line Poem - David Bowie

[jhmoonman]

Very nice n heartwarming song!!!

[3DDoor]

This is a magnificent song, and it's nice to relate it to anyone's childhood. You can read the poem in different ways, but I like to read them as a (self)portrait...

The tactful cactus by your window - Surveys the prairie of your room - The mobile spins to its collision - Clara puts her head between her paws - They've opened shops down West side - Will all the cacti find a home - But the key to the city - Is in the sun that pins the branches to the sky

[3DDoor]

Thanks a lot for this beautiful vid!!! Those curls are very funny indeed...me and my boyfriend had them too at that time, I think everybody had them. It did cost a lot btw to have them made...

[2mattfilms]

i was brought up listening to this music.. my life was enhanced by the music of bowie amongst others. thank f8ck for people like him i reckon.

[iiSOBAKEDii]

Tactful damn predictive text

[iiSOBAKEDii]

Tactile cactus by your window

[LestHeBecomeAmonster]

I enjoyed every one of his looks and personas, and I haven't found a song I haven't liked, i'm discovering each song slowly so I don't go through all the albums too quick. Hunky dory seems to be my favorite so far

[LestHeBecomeAmonster]

2:01 napolean dynamite  oh hell yes

[LessAiredvanU]

Loved the images. However, the song is a Mick Ronson showcase - a far more subtle and delicate use of tone and plain picking than was usual. As the title suggests, the lines are a poem backed by a fairly sketchy piano arrangement (and obviously played by The Man, as Ronson or Wakeman would have been far more proficient), allowing Ronno to express his sensitive side. Brilliant.

[DanBlabbers]

Great Photos

[powdfing]

Amazing song, and the best 8 lines of lyrics ever !

[MultiFinlayson]

Beautiful

[ralucagymnast]

This is such a beautiful song; melancholy, it makes me sad, but its so fabulous. This is a piece of art, so is the whole Hunky Dory album; theres not one single bad song on it. Loved it as a kid and love it even more now as a middleaged adult!

[WoodRatGirl]

This whole album is amazing, and this song is too underrated.

[margethemouse]

David! You handsome devil! I am your #1 fan!!! Okay, maybe not quite. I've only bought 2 of your albums so far. Dang. I kind of suck...

Wait! I know! I'm the #1 fan of your 'fro, and that's a fact! (I seem to be the only one who likes it. A LOT:)

[dfg297lpopdirk]

You said thanks for watching

thank you for posting

[Link71596]

wonderful musician and should be greatly respected

[maziuksecurity]

For a fun, free Bowie quiz, download Trivia Hut on your iphone

[RandomRosa]

scobiedog1 - I don't think it is. His father died in 1969.

[scobiedog1]

ok thanks, any idea when this photo was taken then? it's just that, at first glance, i thought the guy on the left was bowie; same hairline & very similar profile.

[RandomRosa]

Not sure, sorry!

[scobiedog1]

question for RandomRosa: 2nd photo; is that his father? Fascinating photos, great song, thanks for uploading.

[scobiedog1]

jeez he was a skinny bastard when he was young! possibly the best poet of the times, better than dylan imo. more relevant & succinct. (dunno if i spelt that last word right!?) my favourite song since this whole era (67-74) is 7 years in tibet.

[spookyben]

Used to listen to this all the time......saw Ziggy and the Spiders at Santa Monica in 72, great days.

[Mr08aug08]

makes me think of the days when i was still cool

[SekaiNoMu]

There would be good music today, but every artist with any sort of potential does not want to become mainstream, and therefore becomes 'indie." It's miserable. This is why I listen to music. Does everyone else to 1960-1994 as being the "life" of music?

[pq4u2]

1994 is bang on. Since then the share holders will not allow investment in anything new. Have you noticed that all mainstream releases sound like other songs? The share holders own the songs being recycled and they make profits keeping pop music the same. Chart music is for 8 to 13 year old children; has been since 1994. It has to be simple and crap from now on; except on-line.

[vegki]

Here in sweden we got some great musicians, but we got lots of crap to. I just try to ignore the crappy ones.

[pq4u2]

reminds me; CNET used to have a great selection of new artists in all genres (2005-8) and so easy to search by region I'm sure I've been to Sweden and remixed some of it's artists, but it closed down and I lost the plot. The internet is the best place to find new stuff, or old stuff we didn't know existed. Some good tunes on 'noisehead'. Bad music is just predictable. Rock'n'Roll caused riot squads at the start and warehouse raves caused riot squads at the end. Original music lives again on line

[SiliconHeavenExcists]

There is still good music today. It is just musicians like Soulja Boy that make it seem like the apocalypse of music. Even in the golden age of music there was shitty songs and musicians.

Australian music is doing pretty well. I do agree though that Bowie is one of a kind.

[pq4u2]

Hey !!! check out 'Jason Ninnis' @ noisehead. He has a very Bowie-like voice and seems to be influenced by Bowie's early 60's stuff. He has that 'searching for a style' sound that Bowie charmed us with and I must admit it is fun to listen to his accent. Sometimes it's like discovering a new Bowie album of unreleased songs from the cutting room floor. As you might have figured from previous comments, I'm 'ain't' easy to please. Check him out; I'd love to hear what another Bowie fans thinks.

[pq4u2]

Bowie: yet another genius who would have been told to give up if he was on the x-factor. I feel sorry for todays kids; they have nothing but watered down U.S chart soul R'n'B clones; pointless junk which will never be remembered the way we remember and still thrill to hear Bowie. Music evolved and developed for hundreds of years and each change was a thrill for each generation...then it all stopped changing around 1994; thanks to the shareholders.

[Gorviee]

I feel bad for myself too D: . Todays music sucks. Nothing special. Too bad I was born in 1994, just when the good music stopped.

[pq4u2]

Have heart; there is good 'new' music on the net which will never be heard on TV and radio, like in the good old decades. It takes some finding though and it is mostly modern genre and sub sub genre (invented names for the same thing) you might find something on the 'noisehead' site because of it's standard genres. For good modern style you might try googling 'DJ 100' , HIS 'MONSTER MASH UPS' are choice showcase selections of the best in modern style unsigned music from CNET before it shut down.

[TheEccentricHippie]

Amen. Same here dude... Although I think good music stopped a little before that... Except for Phish!

[Fafonapili]

Plenty of good musicians around today, just stay away from the mainstream pop crap and you will still find there are some gems.

The Twilight Sad, Interpol, Arcade Fire, Fleet Foxes to name only a very few.

[13EMAIN14]

@pq4u2 im 16 and i dont listen to watered down xfactor shit :).

[Campestral]

@pq4u2 i understand your sentiment but looking at history of the tv or any show medium there have always been talent shows, folk like bowie or even folk not at that level, cause it's a high level, make their own way. it's right wing politics vs left wing, how many bands can the republicans of america get to endorse their elections? right wing media love us to enjoy the freak show and we love it too because a university education is too expensive for the freaks. bowie et al seen the irony

[chrispycritter2]

Why thank you!

[facelesshorseman]

Tactful cactus by your window,

Surveys the prairie of your room

Mobile spins to it's collision

Clara puts her head between her paws

They've opened shops down on the Westside

Will all the cacti find a home?

But the key to the city

Is in the sun that pins the branches to the sky.

(lodged in my head since '71)

[leeroy556]

respect bowie, wot a tune!!!

[pq4u2]

Hia accent and emotional craft; nothing sounds like him and his music

[leeroy556]

too true!!

[KoreWanandeshita]

If your talking to me I dont have a problem with the way David Bowie dresses or his sexuality I was referring to the guy that did

[MalquiLans]

That's Bowie on the piano. Rick Wakeman played only the complicated parts; 'Life On Mars?', 'Fill Your Heart' - Bowie played 'Oh, You Pretty Things' too.

This one is quite easy to play on piano. Mick Ronson on guitar & Bowie's vocals are superb.

[Thbenjaminsson]

Don't forget that this happens to be - from my humble point of view - David Bowie's Claw of the Lion! And by the way, it's Rick Wakeman on the piano, awesome! - Tobbe in Sweden -

[CosmicRuis]

Very beautiful and full with emotion.<3

[KoreWanandeshita]

Yeah apart from his sexuality. Hes bisexual by the way not that that matters his music is Brilliant

[MalquiLans]

Christ! That was so long ago dude & even more irrelevent than it was then - 1972!!!!! Catch up

[daisyandsteve]

This song is so sweet, but always brings me great despair...bittersweet

[sholt115]

Y'all have to move past his hair and enjoy the beauty of his music!

[BdALpye]

I'm sorry, but I had to lower your rating because you put the word "squee?!" in your video.

[madjacles]

Thank you so much Rosa, love the vids, I am a fan, I have seen him a few times live in the 80's and I wore my red shoes :)

I adored him before though, I think Space Oddity was the first song to make me think about music and I bought all his singles with my pocket money, Keep up the great work Rosa :)

[RandomRosa]

It's my pleasure! :)

[davewhittno1]

@madjacles "I think Space Oddity was the first song to make me think about music" SNAP!

[sazerac1]

Is this Western music? As in Country and Western? I've always loved it.

[sittnick1]

"I thought his hair was straight. "

NOTHING about David Bowie is "straight."

[Xavienne]

Have you never heard of a perm? Men get them too.

[RandomRosa]

During the 60s, his hair was shortish and really curly, and he grew it out so around 1969, 1970 they sort of morphed into waves, because of something to do with the weight of the hair I think. Then he got it cut short for Ziggy, before letting it grow in the mid - late 70s. And I know from experience that if you have curly hair, get it cut short, then grow it out again, it won't come back the same.

[skotoseme]

In my late teens I had almost perfectly straight, long hair; now I'm 25 and it's always rather wavy when I grow it out. A friend of mine who is a licensed cosmetologist (no less pretentious way of putting it; she doesn't do hair for a living right now) says this kind of change is common for men even into their 20's.

[MandyKazooBowie]

Yes it does make me squee! David is so hot! I love his curls in those pics, awesome video!

[fireflyzip]

I have always enjoyed this song. I heard it when I was 12! It was the first Bowie album I listened to.

thanks for posting

[mousemousedogmouse]

My too! And I am twelve!

[josepolo950]

me too hunky dory is my favorite thank you for those gorgeous pics I NEVER SAW SUCH A YOUNDDAVID BEFORE. cant get enough of this great guy, a typical english gentleman and GENIOUS

[Thbenjaminsson]

Ellie; My Dear Friend - No, I really mean every word - of course I do, 'cause you DO have some absolutely quite unique fingertip touch when it comes to compile real good and suitable pics to the everlasting Bowie music vids that you have created. It means very much to me to watch them because they sort of takes me back to a period of my life that was so important to me! I sent you an invite & I see today that you've accepted it - Thanks Ellie, I'm so honored, just great; I'll talk to you more! ☮

[Thbenjaminsson]

Laughs; "Squee"? Haha! ☞ "The tactful cactus by your window | surveys the prairie of your room | the mobile spins to its colission | Clara put her head between her paws - They've opened shops down on the West Side | will all the cacti find a home - But the key to the city, is in the sun that pins the branches to the sky - ooohooooeyh!" Ellie - I'll send you a thousand splendid lovely tactful cactuses for your gorgeuos job! The pics that you've choosen bring me down on my knees! Love them TB!

[RandomRosa]

*Big Grin* Wonderful praise, us usual! Thanks for everything - I doubt I'd have the confidence to keep putting these out without your support! Thanks again, Ellie x

[racyweb]

Lovely, thanks Rosa.

[izabelabar]

I love it and I love Hunky dory.

I adore his accent and this early pics;)

Many thanks for share:)