Finally some music that makes you feel different than the usual emotion used in songs like love and parties. I love this song for when I am inspired, down, or having a bad day of pain. I now regret that I didn't get to Hunky Dory faster.......at least I can enjoy it for as long as I live.
boys, dont listen to this music that tells you to dont belive in yourselves, listen you justin bieber or katy perry , they sing about love and trust ,not about evil things
He says: "Don't believe in yourself. Don't deceive with belief. Knowledge comes with death's release." He means knowledge > belief. Gaga or Bieber couldn't wrap their minds around profundity like that
My theory: this song is from the perspective of Hitler just before he commits suicide. Hence the repeated line "And I ain't got the power anymore." Also the references to Churchill, to "Himmler's sacred realm". Also, "I'm frightened by the total goal" (the Final Solution perhaps)? Anyway, I think it's about how Hitler realizes right at the bitter end the consequences of all he's wrought, and perhaps for the first time experiences doubt in himself and his ideas.
@ThePenguineater Amazing analysis . Funny though, it seems also the script of my life. And anyone else who thought there was a reason, only to find that Death is ultimately the great Teacher, the great “God” before whom all little creatures like us must untimely bow and reveal our insignificance, our meaningless moment infinity. I don’t think Hitler felt this way. I think he despaired of his Preachers and Warlord at having failed him.
@BaalZobel I looked up the song on Wikipedia and here's what it says: "Lyrically the song, like much of Bowie's work at this time, was influenced by Buddhism, occultism, and Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the Overman.[2] It refers to the magical society Golden Dawn and name-checks one of its most famous members, Aleister Crowley, as well as Heinrich Himmler, Winston Churchill and Juan Pujol (codename: Garbo)." I agree, I don't think Hitler was actually into that stuff.
@BaalZobel I looked up the song on Wikipedia and here's what it says: "Lyrically the song, like much of Bowie's work at this time, was influenced by Buddhism, occultism, and Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the Overman. It refers to the magical society Golden Dawn and name-checks one of its most famous members, Aleister Crowley, as well as Heinrich Himmler, Winston Churchill and Juan Pujol (codename: Garbo)."
I agree, I don't think Hitler was actually into that stuff.
@BaalZobel All that is imagery. I doubt Bowie imagines Hitler to have been so sensitive at his moment of suicide. The song is about a manic-depressive genius who has fallen from thinking of himself as God-like into the despair of self-knowledge of his limitations. In this moment of hopelessness, he is trying to talk himself into killing himself.
@dfg297lpopdirk Your statement to me is self-contradictory. And to say that great literature/poetry/lyrics mean whatever you want them to mean is a great insult to the minds that wrote them.
@namordespuesdelnamor loco, we all are full of prejudices, thoughts and feelings which come from our perspective as human beings, and even as wonderful as we all are the truth is we may be wrong in a lot of things and we don't know it yet. So, I enjoy a lot this song because it reminds me to be humble because of my ignorance.
@namordespuesdelnamor Music is supposed to extenuate your feelings and your soul, not force you to shroud behind a message of ignorance. The messages of the songs you listen to are so empty… No one is faithful all the time! Everyone has doubt in their morality and self-worth, and I’m sure that you either have or will.
Until you acknowledge that part of your morality, you’ll NEVER understand what this great man has brought to the world of music. (Also, fuck you.)
Well no matter if Bowie understood or not what he was saying. This beautiful word salad of sound, Set me closer to the Golden dawn that Bowie ever was, and Immersed me in Crowley’s Uniform of imagery far deeper than he could ever be, for much of my young life. I thank him for that, regardless of his thoughts upon the matter.
He cut up words out of books and newspapers and randomly fitted them together- cmon if you think this is some sort of deep message you have been seduced into believing bullshit. I guess he has the last laugh!!
He did that only for some songs but he wouldn't just put random words together just like a modern artist doesn't paint random shapes with random colours.
cmon folks.. WAKE UP.. he's an SS-nazi golden age piece of child murdering scum... and you would do very well to steer clear of his musical affirmations that in some part link YOU to his actions.. dont beleive me.. it makes no difference to the truth.
Look im not a hater.. i loved this music most of my life.. i just woke up and smelt the REAL coffee of whats going on within the occult media were surrounded and brought up by each day.
I wouldn't say he's a nazi because he mentions himmler.
in my opinion this song must have been written some time after bowie started questioning religion, and thus, it's moral.
Why else would he be "portraying himmler's sacred realm" while he's "the twisted name on garbo's (a double agent who used more than one name who, furthermore, BETRAYED THE NAZIS) eyes"?
he just threw away the morals, just like they did, despite their actions not being good.
also, hermetic orders weren't all about "let's summon baphomet and offer some children in sacrifice"
it's just that, in the middle-modern ages, the ones who found the books about hermetism that were supposed to have been burned misunderstood "perfection through knowledge" and thought there was some magical way to obtain this knowledge...
if he followed crowley's teachings, why mention nietszche?
he just acknowledges crowley because he, too, wanted to achieve perfection imho.
Bowie had a real collision with something like "shakti" however it happened.....all the guy swho went and visited Gurus... of them he seems most affected by it all I always felt he means " I trained myself to look into all these Ideas and I cant carry it on......." Artaud speaks of the "bardot "
magnificent. the highlight of a truly breathtaking album. im not bowies biggest fan but hunky dory deserves to be mentioned alongside the iconic albums - dark side of the moon, white album, let it bleed well your hear viewing this so you know the usual suspects
@BaalZobel I like the song! BUT! Golden Dawn? Crowley's Uniform? Himmler's "sacred" realm? Garbo's eyes! Divine symmetry! "Can't take my eyes from the great salvation of bullshit faith" Think about it buddy! Do really know what he is talking about? Again, Yes! i like the song too! but i am really disturbed with the underlying concept. if you do not know who Aliester Crowley or Himmler or Garbo are then do some looking around! "This" is what "This" is! do write back! i'll wait.
@FrostDecon i don't think there's a message in the song, it's just a reflection on thought. you know like when you think for ages and you come to like ridiculous conclusions, like 'don't believe in yourself'. as he says in the song, he's sinking in the quicksand of his thought. morality has nothing to do with it.
He is immersed in crowley's uniform -the main editor for the ars goetia, the lesser key of solomon, first user of the word 'magick' and, to many religious persons, a satanist; part of the hermetic order of the GOLDEN DAWN- , he's got the potential of nietsczhe's superman
He says it himself, he's not aiming for the light, nor the dark; he's talking about the perfection of man without such trivial concepts as "good" or "bad", it's knowledge, not belief, that counts
@Ganexas Thanks ... someone who has a bit of common sense... YES he WAS and still IS immersed not only in crowleys magic... but Crowleys exact techings which means he woulda been privy to quite a few child sacrifices thorughout his career...
.. and most people are unaware "ahh isnt this beautiful".. without ANY real knowledge of what music IS and DOES to the psyche.. let alone the energies summoned into EVERY single thats officially released.
@FrostDecon so true .. Knowledge comes when you die ?? How can he know that ? just because someones claims that he knows the mysteries about life, doesnt mean that hes right(Aleiseter Crowley) .. And dont kill yourself just to see if he was right .. You never know if there is a hell
One of the top 50 albums of all time. The various negative comments about Bowie make me laugh, but I agree with "lest He Become aMonster" that it is a shame when they are placed in one of Bowie's artistic gems. Lets not give these morons any more attention?
Why did people ever like this womanly loser again? What a disgrace. You people need to man the fuck up and listen to real rock music. The day I start listening to a guy who wears fucking MAKEUP is the day I shove a buttplug up my ass. But hey at least the gay makeup helps seperate good music from shitty poser music thats all about image and not about passion for music
@switchinlaaaaaaaanes Well, I guess today is that day sir, how gently would you like it shoved up your ass?? I usually just listen to the music and ignore you jerks, but I don't understand why you would come to a lesser known DB song and then rant, people like you make me fear for humanity
"Quicksand" I'm closer to the Golden Dawn Immersed in Crowley's uniform Of imagery I'm living in a silent film Portraying Himmler's sacred realm Of dream reality I'm frightened by the total goal Drawing to the ragged hole And I ain't got the power anymore No I ain't got the power anymore
Well this is beautiful but the only thing is do I tell people to listen to this before they die giving them the peak and smile at the end of life or do I say listen tot his and have them no that nothing else will be as good in life as this? Maybe it don't matter you can live on this song on it's own.
im having a terrible day. my head is killing me, my belt carries with my sorrow and this song is the antidote that i have against anything and the best one
Bowie was channeling a bit of Anthony Newley, with a nod to Bob Dylan on this album. This was a very artsy album and it stands the test of time. Nice work on piano by Wakeman here.
hes always been a changing man, i think that maybe music has run his course for him. A highly spiritual person, I think his creative energys are placed into something else, thats not an exhibitionist way
You are right somehow, yes, but why shouldn't he be able any longer to create really good music? I know, he is not interested in just being popular. He has set very high standards for himself which can hardly be ecxelled. But a late work of his creativity would be such a fine thing. Highly appreciated by his starving fans.....
bowie had a heart attack in 2002 and since then it seems he has reavaluated his life.He no longer smokes or drinks. and tends to live a quiet life in new york, and spends his time with his young daughter.
He's talking about Aliester Crowley, gnosticism and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and also attacking the Christian Church. He also refers to the Golden Dawn it in "Oh You Pretty Things".
@kjsh987 The only person who made songs like Bowie was Bowie. He can't do it anymore, though. The fire in his belly is gone. He's got nothing to prove anymore. Plenty of good music out there now, though. It's just not bowiw or on mtv or the radio.
Beautiful chorus lyrically and musically but best bit for me is the piano from 4.42 to the fade which I think might be Rick Wakeman. I could listen to that on a loop.
@superdertie Do you pehps mean Aleister Crowley, the notorious british occultist? Crowley was obsessed with gematria, a form of numerology. He would cringe at the misspelling of his first name.
Its about a young man totally blown away by all the mystical and occult images and thoughts he has accumulated thus far in his life. And how at the point when he is asked to make the great sacrifice, the great choice, he falters, realising it is maybe not even worth the effort, maybe nothing more than an illusion.Thus he says he no longer has the will to maintain their existence in his mind. And this state of distress is resolved within by the formulation of a very wise statement.
This is easily my most favourite Bowie song. Don't get me wrong, I love every piece of awesome music Bowie puts out to bits but something about this song, the lyrics, the tune... its just breathtaking!
this os a special album in bowie´s career. allways there is the sound of crazyness and depression but not in this album. this have kooks, quicksand, song for bob dylan, changes and oh you pretty thing. i mean it has a happy soul.
Bowie knows so much about what "really's going on". Torn between the light and dark<good vs evil> Should I kiss the vipers fang or herald loud the death of man. <be a sinner or worldly person or tell everyone to wake up and look at what we are doing to ourselves. Yet Bowie tells us only when we die does true knowledge come and thats the rub people. We must die to know if knowledge truly comes.....David Bowie wrote this 30 plus years ago yet so true and powerful today.... a true masterpiece....
David's music sets itself apart, and always has. He's been a leader for others to follow. He's charismatic, Immensely talented, and absolutely more gorgeous than any other man I've ever seen.
the only real dissapointing thing about this man is that he either really does, or he pretends to forget his past creativity. What small creativity I produce I never forget, yet always in interviews he makes out that he does not remember, and sometimes, even care, about things long past. Oh, did I do that, I really don't remember. He is lucky that others do not forget
Finally some music that makes you feel different than the usual emotion used in songs like love and parties. I love this song for when I am inspired, down, or having a bad day of pain. I now regret that I didn't get to Hunky Dory faster.......at least I can enjoy it for as long as I live.
1973ziggystardust 2 weeks ago
boys, dont listen to this music that tells you to dont belive in yourselves, listen you justin bieber or katy perry , they sing about love and trust ,not about evil things
namordespuesdelnamor 3 weeks ago
@namordespuesdelnamor You're not real.
RotnRoll77 3 weeks ago
One of Bowie's top ten, and that's saying something.
chingchangchongfly 1 month ago
pure class
smithym9 1 month ago
great!
alejandrodemorizi 1 month ago
He says: "Don't believe in yourself. Don't deceive with belief. Knowledge comes with death's release." He means knowledge > belief. Gaga or Bieber couldn't wrap their minds around profundity like that
13donstalos 1 month ago
My theory: this song is from the perspective of Hitler just before he commits suicide. Hence the repeated line "And I ain't got the power anymore." Also the references to Churchill, to "Himmler's sacred realm". Also, "I'm frightened by the total goal" (the Final Solution perhaps)? Anyway, I think it's about how Hitler realizes right at the bitter end the consequences of all he's wrought, and perhaps for the first time experiences doubt in himself and his ideas.
ThePenguineater 1 month ago
@ThePenguineater Amazing analysis . Funny though, it seems also the script of my life. And anyone else who thought there was a reason, only to find that Death is ultimately the great Teacher, the great “God” before whom all little creatures like us must untimely bow and reveal our insignificance, our meaningless moment infinity. I don’t think Hitler felt this way. I think he despaired of his Preachers and Warlord at having failed him.
BaalZobel 1 month ago
@BaalZobel I looked up the song on Wikipedia and here's what it says: "Lyrically the song, like much of Bowie's work at this time, was influenced by Buddhism, occultism, and Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the Overman.[2] It refers to the magical society Golden Dawn and name-checks one of its most famous members, Aleister Crowley, as well as Heinrich Himmler, Winston Churchill and Juan Pujol (codename: Garbo)." I agree, I don't think Hitler was actually into that stuff.
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@BaalZobel I looked up the song on Wikipedia and here's what it says: "Lyrically the song, like much of Bowie's work at this time, was influenced by Buddhism, occultism, and Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the Overman. It refers to the magical society Golden Dawn and name-checks one of its most famous members, Aleister Crowley, as well as Heinrich Himmler, Winston Churchill and Juan Pujol (codename: Garbo)."
I agree, I don't think Hitler was actually into that stuff.
ThePenguineater 1 month ago
@BaalZobel All that is imagery. I doubt Bowie imagines Hitler to have been so sensitive at his moment of suicide. The song is about a manic-depressive genius who has fallen from thinking of himself as God-like into the despair of self-knowledge of his limitations. In this moment of hopelessness, he is trying to talk himself into killing himself.
chingchangchongfly 1 month ago
@chingchangchongfly no your wrong the song is what ever it is you want it to be and thats the meaning of it
dfg297lpopdirk 1 week ago
@dfg297lpopdirk Your statement to me is self-contradictory. And to say that great literature/poetry/lyrics mean whatever you want them to mean is a great insult to the minds that wrote them.
chingchangchongfly 1 week ago
music of today like Bieber and Gaga shows us to belive in our soul but this ancient music of evil says :Don't believe in yourself
what kind of message is that¿
namordespuesdelnamor 2 months ago
@namordespuesdelnamor you're a fucking moron.
slangshotstudios 1 month ago
@namordespuesdelnamor
You're either a troll or a fucking idiot
SuperSquishface 1 month ago
@namordespuesdelnamor loco, we all are full of prejudices, thoughts and feelings which come from our perspective as human beings, and even as wonderful as we all are the truth is we may be wrong in a lot of things and we don't know it yet. So, I enjoy a lot this song because it reminds me to be humble because of my ignorance.
brazodeorion 1 month ago
@namordespuesdelnamor Music is supposed to extenuate your feelings and your soul, not force you to shroud behind a message of ignorance. The messages of the songs you listen to are so empty… No one is faithful all the time! Everyone has doubt in their morality and self-worth, and I’m sure that you either have or will.
Until you acknowledge that part of your morality, you’ll NEVER understand what this great man has brought to the world of music. (Also, fuck you.)
SpoonsAtMidnight 4 weeks ago
@namordespuesdelnamor wow you're retarded.
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this songs drives me to bliss
kjsh987 2 months ago
Well no matter if Bowie understood or not what he was saying. This beautiful word salad of sound, Set me closer to the Golden dawn that Bowie ever was, and Immersed me in Crowley’s Uniform of imagery far deeper than he could ever be, for much of my young life. I thank him for that, regardless of his thoughts upon the matter.
BaalZobel 2 months ago
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BaalZobel 2 months ago
I'm not a prophet,
or a stone age man
Just a mortal
with the potential of a Superman.
I'm living on.
bobbybowman1 3 months ago 4
HIMMLERS SACRED REALM... any one else remember when they caught bowie with all that nazi memorabilia
VonHeintz 3 months ago
He cut up words out of books and newspapers and randomly fitted them together- cmon if you think this is some sort of deep message you have been seduced into believing bullshit. I guess he has the last laugh!!
bigcoolviking 3 months ago
@bigcoolviking
He did that only for some songs but he wouldn't just put random words together just like a modern artist doesn't paint random shapes with random colours.
LittleMuckyMe 3 months ago
Why the two-and-a-half minutes of silence?
YourFaceWillDie468 3 months ago 3
By 'Bardo' he is referring to the Bardo Thodol, The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Come on, keep up!
64adman 3 months ago
Fuckin awesome.. music will never be the same
The90Pinky 4 months ago
cmon folks.. WAKE UP.. he's an SS-nazi golden age piece of child murdering scum... and you would do very well to steer clear of his musical affirmations that in some part link YOU to his actions.. dont beleive me.. it makes no difference to the truth.
Look im not a hater.. i loved this music most of my life.. i just woke up and smelt the REAL coffee of whats going on within the occult media were surrounded and brought up by each day.
madJedi1 4 months ago
@madJedi1 I'm in no way calling bowie an SS-nazi
I wouldn't say he's a nazi because he mentions himmler.
in my opinion this song must have been written some time after bowie started questioning religion, and thus, it's moral.
Why else would he be "portraying himmler's sacred realm" while he's "the twisted name on garbo's (a double agent who used more than one name who, furthermore, BETRAYED THE NAZIS) eyes"?
he just threw away the morals, just like they did, despite their actions not being good.
Ganexas 4 months ago
@madJedi1
also, hermetic orders weren't all about "let's summon baphomet and offer some children in sacrifice"
it's just that, in the middle-modern ages, the ones who found the books about hermetism that were supposed to have been burned misunderstood "perfection through knowledge" and thought there was some magical way to obtain this knowledge...
if he followed crowley's teachings, why mention nietszche?
he just acknowledges crowley because he, too, wanted to achieve perfection imho.
Ganexas 4 months ago
wow-im home
Sianseguin 4 months ago
Bowie had a real collision with something like "shakti" however it happened.....all the guy swho went and visited Gurus... of them he seems most affected by it all I always felt he means " I trained myself to look into all these Ideas and I cant carry it on......." Artaud speaks of the "bardot "
udohood 4 months ago
People are fuckin stupid. This
Songs the shit.
daedsidog15 5 months ago
knowledge comes with death release. pure sartre
kjsh987 5 months ago
Reminds me of a friend....hope you pull thru x
sound2girl 5 months ago
magnificent. the highlight of a truly breathtaking album. im not bowies biggest fan but hunky dory deserves to be mentioned alongside the iconic albums - dark side of the moon, white album, let it bleed well your hear viewing this so you know the usual suspects
1888vance 6 months ago
This is incredible, by the way. This song saved me form the "quicksand" as it were.
MiaoPurrington 6 months ago
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MiaoPurrington 6 months ago
4 people are submerged under quicksand.
MiaoPurrington 6 months ago
David Bowie y Frank Zappa, dos enormes revolucionarios. Perfectos expansores de sentido, creadores de nuevas realidades. Artistas. O.
preciosaindiferencia 6 months ago
this is a lie!
a farce!
Stupid and misguided
FrostDecon 7 months ago
@FrostDecon We should thank you for your enlightening comment, which should make all think and consider.
What indeed is the mysterious “This” about which you speak.
Why is it that this “This”, is a lie ?
Why is it a farce ?
Why Stupid and Misguided ?
All of this could be true , but first we must deduce what indeed is "This"
I do actually believe that all of the substance which I believe to be “This” is pointless and ultimately doomed. But hey I still like this song :)
BaalZobel 6 months ago
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BaalZobel 5 months ago
@FrostDecon i don't think there's a message in the song, it's just a reflection on thought. you know like when you think for ages and you come to like ridiculous conclusions, like 'don't believe in yourself'. as he says in the song, he's sinking in the quicksand of his thought. morality has nothing to do with it.
c0nzo12 5 months ago
@c0nzo12 I'm afraid I disagree:
He is immersed in crowley's uniform -the main editor for the ars goetia, the lesser key of solomon, first user of the word 'magick' and, to many religious persons, a satanist; part of the hermetic order of the GOLDEN DAWN- , he's got the potential of nietsczhe's superman
He says it himself, he's not aiming for the light, nor the dark; he's talking about the perfection of man without such trivial concepts as "good" or "bad", it's knowledge, not belief, that counts
Ganexas 4 months ago
@Ganexas Thanks ... someone who has a bit of common sense... YES he WAS and still IS immersed not only in crowleys magic... but Crowleys exact techings which means he woulda been privy to quite a few child sacrifices thorughout his career...
.. and most people are unaware "ahh isnt this beautiful".. without ANY real knowledge of what music IS and DOES to the psyche.. let alone the energies summoned into EVERY single thats officially released.
Your a real rare find, thanks for the backup.
madJedi1 4 months ago
@FrostDecon so true .. Knowledge comes when you die ?? How can he know that ? just because someones claims that he knows the mysteries about life, doesnt mean that hes right(Aleiseter Crowley) .. And dont kill yourself just to see if he was right .. You never know if there is a hell
wesdwesdwesdwesd 5 months ago
Dinosour jr. made a beautiful cover of this song.
Pogoesel 7 months ago
this is my favourite album.
kjsh987 7 months ago
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"I'm closer to the Golden Dawn Immersed in Crowley's uniform Of imagery". Has Bowie got something to do with occultism?
sudokuwkroku 7 months ago
One of the top 50 albums of all time. The various negative comments about Bowie make me laugh, but I agree with "lest He Become aMonster" that it is a shame when they are placed in one of Bowie's artistic gems. Lets not give these morons any more attention?
wpollock1 7 months ago
churchill is one of history's greatest butchers.
at least behind hitler and stalin....
herpesdemon 7 months ago
Chills up and down my spine when I listen to this masterpiece! :)) David Bowie is a genius! And that's a motherfucking fact of life!
Gioma771 7 months ago
Why did people ever like this womanly loser again? What a disgrace. You people need to man the fuck up and listen to real rock music. The day I start listening to a guy who wears fucking MAKEUP is the day I shove a buttplug up my ass. But hey at least the gay makeup helps seperate good music from shitty poser music thats all about image and not about passion for music
switchinlaaaaaaaanes 7 months ago
@switchinlaaaaaaaanes Moron.
RLBacklund 7 months ago
@switchinlaaaaaaaanes Well, I guess today is that day sir, how gently would you like it shoved up your ass?? I usually just listen to the music and ignore you jerks, but I don't understand why you would come to a lesser known DB song and then rant, people like you make me fear for humanity
LestHeBecomeAmonster 7 months ago
@switchinlaaaaaaaanes
if you are bashing Bowie for wearing makeup, then you truly know nothing about rock music.
neosoulchild 7 months ago
@switchinlaaaaaaaanes You are funny you know :) you seem totaly unaware of how stereotypical your reaction is.
BaalZobel 7 months ago
@switchinlaaaaaaaanes
i think you should rethink your idea about music
read the fuckin lyrics listen to the timing
this man was a great musician..
let me guess
you like s.o.a.d. and that kind of shit ?
MrJonarnar92 6 months ago
@MrJonarnar92 System of a down,are as important in music as Mr Bowie.
Just read their lyrics iff you dont like the music.
teknohead1970 1 month ago
@teknohead1970 HAHAHAHA! Thanks, I needed that. SOAD aren't flip compared to the immortal genius that is DB.
upyerrzzz1 2 weeks ago
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought.....my new favorite song
LestHeBecomeAmonster 7 months ago
Altotas77 8 months ago
My older sister would not take me to see bowies ziggy stardust. I was ten and she was fifteen, long time ago, still hurts :(
craggk 8 months ago
4 persons doesn't like my musics...
Alamind 8 months ago
Definately the best album track ever.A song that is timeless and will be played 100 years from now
john1bundyboy 8 months ago
i allways never going to understand why i didnt lived on the 60 and the 70´s to hear such good music.i think i lost my time
kjsh987 8 months ago
total utter brilliance!
BabylonAGoGo 8 months ago in playlist David Bowie Hunky Dory
"... drawering toward a ragged hole..." These are true poetics. " Knowledge comes with deaths' release".
kvkrob 8 months ago
Well this is beautiful but the only thing is do I tell people to listen to this before they die giving them the peak and smile at the end of life or do I say listen tot his and have them no that nothing else will be as good in life as this? Maybe it don't matter you can live on this song on it's own.
rekoonsghjkl 8 months ago
@rekoonsghjkl ....
lol,,, bless.... as long as as you pass that spliff on..you and everyone else will be fine.
BlogBitch 8 months ago
@BlogBitch I'll pass the message not a spliff :) great song and I hope you had a good day xx
rekoonsghjkl 8 months ago
What a freaking masterpiece.
OrthodoxDarwinist 8 months ago 31
Great song, Dinosaur Jr also do a very good cover of this.
eddievanhallen5150 8 months ago
The desert is judah.
TheBlindPig1 9 months ago
as a youngster this one kept me company during dark times.
ohcrob 9 months ago
@ohcrob me too
pussypop100 9 months ago
4 people are presumably deranged & have access to the internet.
LogicalSimba 9 months ago
that album is a Masterpiece
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 9 months ago 2
should I kiss the viper's fang? did you ever wonder what that "knowledge" @ death's release would be, that our lives were pointless perhaps?
Lionsgrrr 9 months ago
im having a terrible day. my head is killing me, my belt carries with my sorrow and this song is the antidote that i have against anything and the best one
kjsh987 9 months ago
"can't take my eyes from the great salvation of bullshit faith" should be USA's motto
Lionsgrrr 9 months ago 14
@Lionsgrrr well said
pussypop100 9 months ago
Odd but beautiful. Poetry that challenges our thoughts and perceptions. Well done.
Broblem12 10 months ago
Bowie was channeling a bit of Anthony Newley, with a nod to Bob Dylan on this album. This was a very artsy album and it stands the test of time. Nice work on piano by Wakeman here.
wpollock1 10 months ago
i helped david write this song, we was in londen drinking scotch and i says to him, hey lets write a song about londen., we came up with this song.
whatfay357 10 months ago
@whatfay357 I can really smell the BS today
TheNEWfilmfanatic99 10 months ago 2
hes always been a changing man, i think that maybe music has run his course for him. A highly spiritual person, I think his creative energys are placed into something else, thats not an exhibitionist way
riffraffrichard 11 months ago
Is the song praising or critiquing Thelema? I can't tell...
CountvonAge 11 months ago
@CountvonAge neither.
ZefWaddy 11 months ago
quite simply the best he wrote...not the best song....but jeez what lyrics
rcrellen1980 11 months ago
That's a chorus to die for. Damn, it's well made.
Carloshache 1 year ago
You are right somehow, yes, but why shouldn't he be able any longer to create really good music? I know, he is not interested in just being popular. He has set very high standards for himself which can hardly be ecxelled. But a late work of his creativity would be such a fine thing. Highly appreciated by his starving fans.....
ezaube1030 1 year ago 2
@ezaube1030
bowie had a heart attack in 2002 and since then it seems he has reavaluated his life.He no longer smokes or drinks. and tends to live a quiet life in new york, and spends his time with his young daughter.
dfg297lpopdirk 11 months ago
@dfg297lpopdirk thank you, yes, I know (it was 2004, though). Anyway, it is so sad that he somehow "hides" away for years now...
ezaube1030 11 months ago 2
It´s funny to think that the best Rick Wakeman ever did was the playing on this album.
blaharns 1 year ago
@blaharns - What about Space Oddity? Surely Rick Wakeman's finest minutes!!!
MIDNIGHTFLIER 1 year ago
This is the song that I want played at my funeral.
evergrim 1 year ago
What can one say about Hunky Dory ? ; it's a unique musical, artistic and poetic experience
kenfig 1 year ago 40
@kenfig true. but somehow i prefer the man who sold the world.
imposiblenata 10 months ago
@kenfig
He's talking about Aliester Crowley, gnosticism and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and also attacking the Christian Church. He also refers to the Golden Dawn it in "Oh You Pretty Things".
"Living proof of
Churchill's lies
I'm destiny
I'm torn between the light and dark "
OrthodoxDarwinist 9 months ago
I'm tethered to the logic
of Homo Sapien
Can't take my eyes
from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith
OrthodoxDarwinist 9 months ago 2
@kenfig Hurray, you learned what music is.
AssassinTheHasson 8 months ago
@kenfig It is perfection.
VENUSxINxFAUXxFURS18 5 months ago
@isaac8399 i am adding this song to play list L)
i have over 4000 videos collected you should take a look at before 2moro
lilshook1 1 year ago
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KCwellard 1 year ago
knowledge comes with death's release!
save the Golden Dawn
MultiDevir 1 year ago
why they dont make songs like that one anymore?
kjsh987 1 year ago
@kjsh987 The only person who made songs like Bowie was Bowie. He can't do it anymore, though. The fire in his belly is gone. He's got nothing to prove anymore. Plenty of good music out there now, though. It's just not bowiw or on mtv or the radio.
bilbomarks 1 year ago
I think this version is slowed down a bit.
Silkscreened 1 year ago
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Shouldn't that lyric be "Goebbels" not "Garbo's"?
AdoreLucifer 1 year ago
Shouldn't that lyric be "Goebbels" not "Garbo"?
AdoreLucifer 1 year ago
@AdoreLucifer
no it is garbo.
Relates to Juan Pujol García
davey1309 1 year ago
@AdoreLucifer Is this song pro-Nazi?
nicknameSGB 1 year ago
@nicknameSGB
People think Nazis were extreme, or even an "end" in themselves.
I'd say it's a transhumanist piece. The dream never died, just became more informed.
AdoreLucifer 1 year ago
@AdoreLucifer hahaha your name.
bilbomarks 1 year ago
4 dislikers are trapped in the quicksand
kjsh987 1 year ago 2
Has been my # 1 Bowie song forever!
monotrious 1 year ago
The best song I have ever heard. End of.
moontownmusictv 1 year ago
I like the beginning... it's awesome! First heard it on a skateboarding video. I kinda wish the whole song was just guitar
22ness0hayden 1 year ago
Beautiful chorus lyrically and musically but best bit for me is the piano from 4.42 to the fade which I think might be Rick Wakeman. I could listen to that on a loop.
Nicomagic6 1 year ago
Thumbs up if you realise that this is a tribute to Crowley.
karlkarlkarl1234 1 year ago
@karlkarlkarl1234 I realise that this tribute is not only to Crowley but it's also to his god the Anti-christ, Horus, Ray or watever he believes in
Dark3ny 1 year ago
How do you see to live in such darkness and ignorance.
Have you not yet understood how beautiful and lost we all are without exception
Knowledge comes with deaths release.
Those who claim to know more than this are the real demons and devils in this life.
BaalZobel 1 year ago
67 bones: fear not ! probably the finest little album to grace this music-foresaken place since ............
tigryonok 1 year ago
Fantastic slice of musical composing greatness.
booden 1 year ago
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kjsh987 1 year ago
I love it
skurvoala 1 year ago
I love it
skurvoala 1 year ago
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superdertie 1 year ago 7
@superdertie Do you pehps mean Aleister Crowley, the notorious british occultist? Crowley was obsessed with gematria, a form of numerology. He would cringe at the misspelling of his first name.
alexdroogie100 1 year ago
@alexdroogie100 lol perhaps I do
superdertie 1 year ago
@alexdroogie100 aiester. aight? re Allah
Baphometxii 1 year ago
@superdertie facebook therionri@yahoo.com
Baphometxii 10 months ago
@superdertie Thanks jackass, but i think i know who ALEISTER Crowley is.
Teenager2thecore 10 months ago
what is this song about? dose anyopne know?
Link71596 1 year ago
Its about a young man totally blown away by all the mystical and occult images and thoughts he has accumulated thus far in his life. And how at the point when he is asked to make the great sacrifice, the great choice, he falters, realising it is maybe not even worth the effort, maybe nothing more than an illusion.Thus he says he no longer has the will to maintain their existence in his mind. And this state of distress is resolved within by the formulation of a very wise statement.
BaalZobel 1 year ago
With each tick that tocks this tune becomes ever more real .. how real are you? .. room for improvement perhaps? .. Love and Light to you all XxXxX
reggyb44 1 year ago
One of the finest Bowie songs of ALL times.
walbianco 1 year ago
Pure Alchemy.
boyscoutalchemist 1 year ago
Attention whoring lyrics.
YerJob 1 year ago
Not of this world! 10/10! :)
LornaEGL 1 year ago
This song is terribly beautiful.
meursaultnvinegar 1 year ago 2
this song is proof, if needed that Mr David Jones is a genius.
pythonbyte 1 year ago 2
very GEEKED OUT. wows david
capablekel 1 year ago 2
This is one of the finest David Bowie songs you will ever hear, simply wonderfull.
toliver1982 1 year ago 2
@toliver1982 wrong its one of the finest songs sung by anyone
pussypop100 1 year ago
This is easily my most favourite Bowie song. Don't get me wrong, I love every piece of awesome music Bowie puts out to bits but something about this song, the lyrics, the tune... its just breathtaking!
commie3000 1 year ago
this os a special album in bowie´s career. allways there is the sound of crazyness and depression but not in this album. this have kooks, quicksand, song for bob dylan, changes and oh you pretty thing. i mean it has a happy soul.
kjsh987 1 year ago
Bowie knows so much about what "really's going on". Torn between the light and dark<good vs evil> Should I kiss the vipers fang or herald loud the death of man. <be a sinner or worldly person or tell everyone to wake up and look at what we are doing to ourselves. Yet Bowie tells us only when we die does true knowledge come and thats the rub people. We must die to know if knowledge truly comes.....David Bowie wrote this 30 plus years ago yet so true and powerful today.... a true masterpiece....
BowiesDog 1 year ago
Hunky Dory is amazing, can't get enough of listening to this album. Quicksand and Bewlay Brothers ftw
nannbells 1 year ago
My favorite Bowie song
iamthatold 1 year ago
this album sounds like something a bi sexual would produce.
royalnash 1 year ago
I wonder how many people watching this actually know the meaning behind the lyrics ;)
karlkarlkarl1234 1 year ago
@karlkarlkarl1234 I've been trying to figure that out for the past month.
metalgearman242 1 year ago
@karlkarlkarl1234
there is no specific meaning, in my opinion
and if it would, just Bowie know it
what's makes you think that you know what experiences inspired David to make this song?
dreadmaniaco 1 year ago
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I was 10 when this album came out, but I knew it only in 1977 and these songs were the soundtrack of "my first time"...
I'll never forget for the rest of my life this album, that girls and those emotions
maxbilly61 1 year ago
I was 10 when this album came out, but I knew it only in 1977 and these songs were the soundtrack of "my first time"...
I'll never forget for the rest of my life this album, that girls and those emotions
maxbilly61 1 year ago 2
David's music sets itself apart, and always has. He's been a leader for others to follow. He's charismatic, Immensely talented, and absolutely more gorgeous than any other man I've ever seen.
naumnn 1 year ago 8
the only real dissapointing thing about this man is that he either really does, or he pretends to forget his past creativity. What small creativity I produce I never forget, yet always in interviews he makes out that he does not remember, and sometimes, even care, about things long past. Oh, did I do that, I really don't remember. He is lucky that others do not forget
BaalZobel 1 year ago
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whatta satanic BITCH
Asblacasdaylight 1 year ago
Oh FUCK this song is depressing.
BlazeInRhye 1 year ago
I love Bowie.....hes one of the best artists in the world. enough said
PossibleGSTcheque 1 year ago 3
Bowie know's the Anunnaki also the Reptilians also Astral projection also remote veiwing and he really knows there IS life on Mars....
BowiesDog 2 years ago
His best.
Morrisseyisdead 2 years ago
It's a beautiful song and brings back amazing memories....it's interesting to analyse the lyrics but above all, it simply sounds lovely.
VeganRake 2 years ago