Aladdin Sane is such a fucking amazing album. Other albums may have better songs but Aladdin Sane is consistently good throughout. Low has some of his best tracks but too big a block of instrumentals; I think the songs with lyrics should have been interspersed throughout it. TRaFoZSatSfM is let down by 'It Ain't Easy' and the rest is almost too good. I know it so well that I barely listen to it. Station to Station is good but I'm not hugely into that Bowie era. Aladdin Sane is number 1.
@danmang92 Yes. Definitely underrated. Isn't it great how few know what greatness is? If everyone loved this song, then it would lose its appeal. Ironic isn't it? Just be glad that you are among the few who know better. Sssshhhhh.... quietly walk away so that they don't interfere with your advanced insight. Garbo in Mysterious Lady is the closest parallel to this. No one knows. Indeed, Garbo and Bowie are very similar in many ways. Their Individual charm and androgyny outshines even their works.
"Battle cries and champagne, just in time for sunrise." This cabaret atmosphere already foreshadowed his Tutonic fascination. There's is an ambivalence in german culture that was appealing to Bowie. The mathematical brilliance of perfecting nuclear bombs coupled with Dietrich's decadent instabilities. A need to embrace this insanity creates a feeling of being on a lofty objective plane of, say, a neutral Swedish spy à la Garbo, getting caught up in romantic intrigues, residues on her wine glass.
when you want to go through a list of the best rock alternative songs to show to your friends on a night of drinking. You must pull out the aladdin sane.
Everyone is entitled not to like something,,, I personally think this track epitomises the best of Bowie, Mike Garson et al, after so many decades of loving Bowie I am still tired of this track!
Mind-bending lyrics coupled with catalystical music innovation. To what purpose? Surely not to climb to the top of the record charts! Bowie, at his peak, if he so chose, could have taken the world for everything it had. He could have been the total pop culture money-making bitch of his day (You fill in the blanks, Lady). But he could not. He had things to deliver: Integrity and messages from the future, that had little to do with money or sales. He sold enough to survive, while staying poignant.
"Battle cries and champagne, just in time for sunrise." Come on! Who's writing lyrics like that today? Someone will, soon enough, soon enough... "Latest sensational, Paris or maybe hell." It's coming. The vacuum will be filled. And it won't be limited by record sales. This was merely a premonition of possibilities.
"Millions weap a fountain, just in case of sunrise". No throw-away lyrics dumbing down to the common denominator. If you get it, count yourself among the fortunate. If not you, who?!
It's okay to contradict yourself. Sometimes you have to. Rules that apply for something in one situation, do not necessarily apply at another time and place. I understand (and sympathize) with artists not wanting to broadcast lyrics. If they are printed and left on paper, they do not have to remain, or mean what was written alone. But sometimes (usually) it is better to know the origin of the concoction, even if only to compare what you've cooked up in your own head, against original intentions.
"Show more " should always show lyrics, at a minimum. And repeated comments are not always the fault of the commentator. YouTube is not perfect, but as long as we know that, it's a wonderful asset to our ability to recall wonderful pieces of art. This song is awesomely unique. The drive of the piano strings takes on a life of its own. What a great balance between novel lyrics and novel instrumentation! To my knowledge, their is nothing even close to this piece. This greatness is equally divided.
Here Bowie still had that pouty angst in his voice, like he wanted to get fucked hard. That's cool. Later in his career, he would be more bass, intentionally develop a more soulful, universal appeal as he aged. But he remained androgynous until his thirties, when he would have to adopt a more hetero stereotype. He didn't want to be seen as some ageing drag queen afterall. And he was still a handsome man for years. But the early days, during his greatest physical strength, was infinitely sublime!
lady gagas music is not bad her first album had a lot of catchy songs. there not as good as alladin sane but they were good enough. Her music after that sucked.
i thought i was so fucking cool for realizing it said a lad insane before even hearing this song, just to see someone have that exact same conclusion on the top comment.
oh c'mon u all are fucking douchbags! u knw u all live in ur own world, u all say today's music sucks and blah blah, david bowie is awesome and he ispired genrations of music, including lady gaga, if david bowie or led zeppelin, prince and michael jackson were like u liking only classical music i bet u wouldnt even have knw them, they chnaged their music with time, c'mon ppl there is gud music and bad music, even tday ppl r making gud music u have to listen to it, and pop isnt bad!
the album cover is an epigram..the Image... the blaze (always) means the "deadly wound that is healed" from chapter thirteen Revelations...Its an Angel...it the face of a female Angel who will come to earth to battle the "false prophit'...he's unwitting once again....David Bowie got caught-up in astral existence....He spoke of this time as of one completly concerned with the Idea of earth visitors.....he tryed to come down with "young americans"
City lights, oh so bright, on broadwaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. The mind up in lights, charged by whatever the soup du jour is, not caring about the damages of war until the next morning. Then it will be time to pay the pianist. But after the afternoon's recovery, by next evening time, you know you'll be ready again for another go. It's the way of youth and rock n' roll. The night changes and you change with it, becoming werewolves of london, until sunlight blasts away those illusions.
Bowie's voice was commandingly romantic, he was having fun, finally at a point where he was enjoying some recognition, and still experimenting with what he wanted to do with music. Ah, would that he could have sustained that moment a little longer. But time marches on, and changes came fast for everyone, our hero included. There would be more important songs to follow, but he was definitely at the top of his game here. There was something of a sense of relaxation at knowing he could please fans.
Everyone talks about how great Garson's piano playing is on this song and deserving so but you gotta give Bowie props for outstanding saxophone playing also.....listen how both go together ....masterpiece in music making.
@stridertenryu Hip hip hoorah! Tally ho! (Trelane from The Suire of Gothos). Or, In the immortal words of the mortal replicant Roy Blatty in Blade Runner, after he was smashed in the head by Rick Deckard, "That's the spirit!"
Battle cries and champagne, just in time for sunrise.
Sounds like a great way to wake up.
TTTThhhhheeeeeeyyyyyy'rrre Ggrrrrreat!!!! (Tony The Tiger Tank)
Time to wake up and die. There is something optimistic about facing certain annihilation. What have you got to lose? You might as well take a chance on something at that point. Who was it that said, "There is something sublime about the threat of destruction, air raid sirens and bombs exploding over head as you cling to life?" Oh, it was me.
This is the first time today that I ever gave aladdin sane a chance in my interest and this actually sounds really good. The piano kicks ass. I'll definitely listen to this album on a day to day basis from today to forever.
There was something very nonthreatening about the Aladdin Sane album. Bowie, for a moment, just seemed to be Bowie. Almost at a rest on the move. Always on the move, like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. A theory of mine equates Bowie with bosons, subatomic particles on the move. He was the shadow of something real within, only glimpsed in a hyper-accelerated state. It's kind of complex in this limited space. That statement kind of says it all. To reflect a higher gravity, speed of motion.
@MrMajorTime aladdin sane, in my opinion was the last true bowie album, the one,s which followed, for want of a better word, were concept albums, each trying to be different from the last. the exception to this, was his last 3 albums, hours, heathen and reality which had only subtle differences.i think it was bono who said "bowie is at his best when he,s not trying to be michael jackson or picasso, i would agree with that, and the aladdin sane album is a perfect example
@n0rt0nj4zZ There is a considered truth to that which you say: Hunky Dory, The Man Who Sold The World, The RiseAnd Fall Of Ziggy Sardust And The Spiders From Mars, Aladdin Sane, all succeded as complete albums which worked cohesively as complete listening experiences. Subsequent albums, although containing some fantastic, even brilliant, individual songs, did not have same momentum of fluidity (albeit by design) due to growing instability, production flaws, manifesting as high and low disjoints.
@ASR10MAN can you read, or is english your second language, you don,t seem to understand my comments, i suggest you read them again .............slowly
OMG how I love this song, I never get tired of it and I listen to it now for decades. (I could say that about the major part of Bowie's songs). Genius!
@getula4003 Thank you. There's a lot of neglected elegance going on here. The more I listened to this, the more necessary it became, filling a void that says we must find ways to embrace our madness or it will come to strangle us in our sleep. Observation of our instabilties, facing our fears, dissolves their power into useful insight that can be channeled into more pleasant and controlled pursuits. Me thinks a little horror on our own terms is better than subconscious demons building up within.
Highly underrated because, like so many Bowie tunes, it's hard to categorize. What kind of style is this? Invented its own style as it happened. Beautiful and frightening at the same time. Envision Germany, world war i at night with nerve gas, Garbo, shots echoing, a modest champagne party above the trenches, whenever I hear this. The puckish pattern of a playful piano picked and plucked, pursuing perfect psychotic pleasure, tiny hammers replicating madness in your ears as you let the damage in.
why are people getting so upset about lady gaga,s lightning bolt and the occasional reference to bowie.....................have i missed something..........
@n0rt0nj4zZ Well for starters you're about 3 years behind. She references all pop culture in her work so I don't know why people get upset at all, it's what she does. She breathed life back into the bland fake pop world. She has me here right now listening to Bowie, something I wouldn't probably otherwise had done. ;)
@Lonsterlmfu What's pop? People who consign it and strip mine it define it. Michael Jackson realized that pop is universal music; its about core concerns and fantasies. Case in point, 'Beat it' is about a kid who could potentially be killed by local gangs if he doesn't bug the hell out of his neighborhood. It's a gangster genre narrative. 'Smooth Criminal', same basic deal. 'Thriller' is a nod to the zombie/monster genre. Pop piques the interest of the literate by being articulate and melodic.
You can hear your dendrites being plucked and manipulated as everything you ever did results in scars on your grey matter. Or is it that the intensity is a little too close to your own fragile hold on sanity? Life IS brain damage! Each occurance leaves indelible marks, permanently recorded on your soul which you carry forever and can't erase. Careful what you do with your time because, once done, it is part of you for all eternity. Even forgiveness won't change the past, only the way you see it.
@xKissMeInTheDark you think this is Lady Gaga's ray and I should fuck myself? This must be dick missing in your life. (Actually, I didn't say anything about Lady Gaga)
Bowie-Gaga comparisons are not too off the mark. Both Art-School fashionistas, both plunder 20th Century Art and Surrealism to create what appears a 'unique' style....Dali, Cocteau, Camus, Marcel Marceau et al having explored it all decades before. But then.....nothing's new under the sun! Of the 'divas' who preceded her, Gaga's the most visually and word-literate. She might yet surprise us all!!!
When we wake up to the truth of life, inspired music like this will emerge and flourish again, and all the uninspired crap that people call "music" these days will fade away and be forgotten. Search "Truth Contest" in Google and click the 1st result, then open The Present and read what it says to learn the truth of life.
genius simple as that , Bowie has influced genres in music not just artists, remember this was the early 70,s and the attitudes were so different b then then say now.
i remember bowie being dismissed as all glitter and effects in the early 70s, especially by fans of pink floyd, genesis etc, it takes time to see how a major artist develops, in 10 years lady ga ga could be doing some really good stuff, or could be completely forgotten. lennon once said of bowie,s music,.. it,s just rock n roll with lipstick on.
@n0rt0nj4zZ All glitter and effects? But Bowie sings (meaning he can actually sing in tune), plays guitar, saxophone, etc. Does GaGA even play one instrument? Does she write her own songs? She's just Madonna turned up to 11. Bowie was never mere spectacle with no substance.
@PathosDistanz Lady Gaga has been playing piano since she was 8 I think. And she writes all her songs.Look it up. I saw her in concert and she doesn't even lip sync and yeah Madonna isn't involved with her music at all. Bowie is AMAZING!
@PathosDistanz Lady Gaga has played piano since she was 4, not 8. She also plays synth and in general, is one talented muthafudger, vocally. She also writes and does most of the production on all of her songs. Granted, she has some low points, but if you dig past all the marketing and pop, you'll get a genuine artist.
@LaceyBellissimo A genuine artist who prefers empty visual shock value over her "products". David Bowie attempted to convey something more meaningful through his reforms, she's dressed like a retard to accompany meaningless and pathetic pieces.
Under the glitter, David Bowie is raw talent. The music is awesome. Modern rock stars are all glitter, no talent. That's generous of you to think Lady Gaga will ever make good music. I regard her as a dud, a flash in the pan. David Bowie's lasting power was his talent. He's got "it". Lady Gaga WISHES she had "it", but she's just Britney Spears in costume.
Maybe, I'm starting to sound old, but I don't care. New rock sucks! I'm still waiting for a new rockstar that can sing
@riverlioness I am 55 and this album was the first i ever brought with my own money, went totally off Bowie after Heroes. I have seen many artists over the years who i thought were dudds when I first heard them yet turned out to be "stayers". I have also seen bands that in my opinion are totally crap but still get played such as U2 and Oasis who I consider to be the equal most overated bands of the last 40 years.
@riverlioness Pink, Adele, Alecia Keys, Amy Winehouse, can all sing! There are more in the underground Indie/rock/blues scene. To compare GaGa to Britney spears is like comparing Steve Perry to Milli vanilli. You have got to be kidding me. You know GaGa writes, produces, composes all her music right? She's also a classically trained pianist who has an acoustic version of her pop radio songs that she does brilliantly. She's bridging the gap between theatre and Pop, a performance artist.
@n0rt0nj4zZ People couldn't recognize that every time he asserted a new face for the stage it was to distance himself from himself: he was about people immersing themselves in the characters in his rock operas not the musician. Hence why his personas were never predicated on accenting Bowie the person. He wanted to remain mercurial like his music.
@MrMajorTime bowie loved the fame that came with lets dance,and if the follow ups, tonight and never let me down had been half as successful as lets dance he would of carried on in that style. i remember bowie being very excited and proud of the whole glass spider thing. the creation of tin machine was to appeal to a younger audience and hopefully create more sales, when that failed he quickly undertook a greatist hits tour, promising all his big songs- how main stream was that............
@n0rt0nj4zZ There is no way that Bowie hoped to attract a big audience with Tin Machine. He may have hoped to be cutting edge again, and I believe he succeeded in that, but it was certainly not a commercially motivated move.
@ivankaramasov what you say is not wrong, however bowie from 83-87 went all out commercially with letsdance,tonight and never let me down, each album selling less than the other, therefore i think bowie made a calculated gamble with tin machine, hence the greatest hits tour after the tin machine album. i think black tie white noise was bowies last attempt for a big hit, after that albums moderate sales bowie choose to do as he pleased, knowing whatever he did, would pretty much sell the same
@n0rt0nj4zZ As far as I know Bowie was persuaded by his record company to do the greatest hits tour, and I think it is probably one of his least inspired tours ever. BTWN was not that commercial and is in fact one of my favourite albums (although it had to grow on me for a long time before I appreciated it). I have read an interview with Nile Rodgers who co-produced BTWN where he complained a lot about Bowie's attitude while recording this.
@n0rt0nj4zZ Apparently, Nile Rodgers thought they were going to to Let's Dance II, and was frustrated when Bowie refused to do the things he meant was needed to make it more commercial. For example, the track that he meant should be used as a single, Lucy Can't Dance, was only included as a bonus track.
Who will love a lad insane?
moluvsage 8 hours ago
How about skipping the poxy ads altogether?
MrWhoswho1 2 days ago
I'm 12 and what is this?
MrBabyBitch666 5 days ago
Aladdin Sane is such a fucking amazing album. Other albums may have better songs but Aladdin Sane is consistently good throughout. Low has some of his best tracks but too big a block of instrumentals; I think the songs with lyrics should have been interspersed throughout it. TRaFoZSatSfM is let down by 'It Ain't Easy' and the rest is almost too good. I know it so well that I barely listen to it. Station to Station is good but I'm not hugely into that Bowie era. Aladdin Sane is number 1.
TenWhoWereTaken 1 week ago
The most recent issue of Rollig Stone magazine's cover is David Bowie. Check it out.
carrywet 1 week ago
@n0rt0j4zZ: this is Elton John on piano. Impressive, eh??
gr8skpz 1 week ago in playlist Liked videos
13 people who dislike this masterful piece are mere "earthly oddities"... Bowie and his connoisseurs come from outer space anyway... :-)
warhols25 1 week ago
David Bowie is the sole remaining mathematical CONSTANT throughout my torn and frayed existence... And he's an ALIEN from a far away galaxy... :-)
warhols25 1 week ago
Bowie wrote this after reading the novel "Vile Bodies" by Evelyn Waugh, about the deacdence among British aristos in the 1920s.
Staggerbaroque 3 weeks ago
@Staggerbaroque Thanks for the insight.
MrMajorTime 1 week ago in playlist Bowie
love this one..thanks
berkeley94608 3 weeks ago
that chorus with that guitar sound is great
royalnaz1 1 month ago
one of the best rock songs
royalnaz1 1 month ago
Love Alad in Sane
Szellerie 1 month ago
Less views = Good music
gogoyubari03 1 month ago 14
Such an underrated song.... clearly one of his best if not the best
danmang92 1 month ago
@danmang92 Yes. Definitely underrated. Isn't it great how few know what greatness is? If everyone loved this song, then it would lose its appeal. Ironic isn't it? Just be glad that you are among the few who know better. Sssshhhhh.... quietly walk away so that they don't interfere with your advanced insight. Garbo in Mysterious Lady is the closest parallel to this. No one knows. Indeed, Garbo and Bowie are very similar in many ways. Their Individual charm and androgyny outshines even their works.
MrMajorTime 5 days ago
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The worst Bowie song I have ever listened to...Piano is just banging on keys....terrible...This is S&*t
savoybill 1 month ago
@savoybill Wow. And you are?
triplettam 1 month ago
no me alcanza el cerebro para entender todas las armonías que usa Garson en ese solo!
kotomba 1 month ago
Magic ! Mike Garson is a genious.
ronin20scam 2 months ago
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ronin20scam 2 months ago
"Battle cries and champagne, just in time for sunrise." This cabaret atmosphere already foreshadowed his Tutonic fascination. There's is an ambivalence in german culture that was appealing to Bowie. The mathematical brilliance of perfecting nuclear bombs coupled with Dietrich's decadent instabilities. A need to embrace this insanity creates a feeling of being on a lofty objective plane of, say, a neutral Swedish spy à la Garbo, getting caught up in romantic intrigues, residues on her wine glass.
MrMajorTime 2 months ago in playlist Bowie
who the hell dislikeed this song. this song is crack.
royalnaz1 2 months ago 2
when you want to go through a list of the best rock alternative songs to show to your friends on a night of drinking. You must pull out the aladdin sane.
royalnaz1 2 months ago
mike garson is an insane genius.
kaini 2 months ago
@kaini no hes not insane
aidanpasons 1 month ago
13 People don't love Aladdin Sane. Duh
UndefeatedOfTheWest 2 months ago
wow this song is very emotive, never liked bowie before, i think i do now
BikiniDeathSquad 2 months ago
on a fait une chorégraphie sur cette chanson, délicieuse
anaismonamour1 2 months ago in playlist David Bowie Aladdin Sane
Bowie is made of Hero meat and Super Machines.
BansheeMilk 2 months ago
the most bowie of all bowie songs, this song seems to be haunted, with the devil himself on the piano.
n0rt0nj4zZ 2 months ago 3
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PERROORION19 3 months ago
@PERROORION19 sure man, sure......
leukat11 2 months ago
My favourite song of his, it just really amazes me every-time I hear it, it's a work of art!
TheNinjaIke 3 months ago in playlist TheNinjaIke's favourites
@TheNinjaIke I hear ya, but I can honestly say I have a favorite song of his on most of his albums. Seen him live several times. Amazing talent.
CosmikDebrisFZ 2 months ago
em, did any one spot the "deliberate" mistake! "not "tired of this track, well done!! ha!ha!
ewancorral1959 3 months ago
Everyone is entitled not to like something,,, I personally think this track epitomises the best of Bowie, Mike Garson et al, after so many decades of loving Bowie I am still tired of this track!
ewancorral1959 3 months ago
wow first time hearing this one, i must say i love it!!! i was born in 87 :D
jaeGT7 3 months ago
Perhaps a little too cerebral for those who dislike...they just don't GET IT!
So, please., go out and get it.
And then come back and join the party.
CatatonicBliss 3 months ago
13 people are insane!!!!!
tauro1730 3 months ago 3
who the hell in there right mind can dislike this song. this song is one of the best .
royalnaz1 3 months ago 3
I'm a black girl being Aladdin Sane for halloween, haha. fybowie
Chacha5678 3 months ago 2
@Chacha5678 you rock it girl!!
tapeatsbill 3 months ago
Who hates it?
I love it!
Xenobarbarul 3 months ago
Mind-bending lyrics coupled with catalystical music innovation. To what purpose? Surely not to climb to the top of the record charts! Bowie, at his peak, if he so chose, could have taken the world for everything it had. He could have been the total pop culture money-making bitch of his day (You fill in the blanks, Lady). But he could not. He had things to deliver: Integrity and messages from the future, that had little to do with money or sales. He sold enough to survive, while staying poignant.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago in playlist Bowie
"Battle cries and champagne, just in time for sunrise." Come on! Who's writing lyrics like that today? Someone will, soon enough, soon enough... "Latest sensational, Paris or maybe hell." It's coming. The vacuum will be filled. And it won't be limited by record sales. This was merely a premonition of possibilities.
"Millions weap a fountain, just in case of sunrise". No throw-away lyrics dumbing down to the common denominator. If you get it, count yourself among the fortunate. If not you, who?!
MrMajorTime 3 months ago in playlist Bowie
It's okay to contradict yourself. Sometimes you have to. Rules that apply for something in one situation, do not necessarily apply at another time and place. I understand (and sympathize) with artists not wanting to broadcast lyrics. If they are printed and left on paper, they do not have to remain, or mean what was written alone. But sometimes (usually) it is better to know the origin of the concoction, even if only to compare what you've cooked up in your own head, against original intentions.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago in playlist Bowie
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
Who are we to contest this ultimate piece of wisdom?
MrMajorTime 3 months ago
"Show more " should always show lyrics, at a minimum. And repeated comments are not always the fault of the commentator. YouTube is not perfect, but as long as we know that, it's a wonderful asset to our ability to recall wonderful pieces of art. This song is awesomely unique. The drive of the piano strings takes on a life of its own. What a great balance between novel lyrics and novel instrumentation! To my knowledge, their is nothing even close to this piece. This greatness is equally divided.
MrMajorTime 3 months ago in playlist Bowie
a great song from a great album.....
blacknite077 3 months ago
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blackandtanful 3 months ago
IamJosefFritzl1 You sick fuck.
adebarde1 4 months ago
Mike Garson´s piano is just fucking awesome!!! How can pop music have all that "information" in the keys?
kotomba 4 months ago
Mike Garson´s piano is just fucking awesome!!! How can pop music have all that "information" in the keys?
kotomba 4 months ago
Mike Garson´s piano is just fucking awesome!!! How can pop music have all that "information" in the keys?
kotomba 4 months ago
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RIP David Bowie, you will be missed
IamJosefFritzl1 4 months ago
@IamJosefFritzl1 He's not dead, shut the f... up!
BistouflyTheGreat 4 months ago
@IamJosefFritzl1 You are a sick piece of crap.
adebarde1 4 months ago
Here Bowie still had that pouty angst in his voice, like he wanted to get fucked hard. That's cool. Later in his career, he would be more bass, intentionally develop a more soulful, universal appeal as he aged. But he remained androgynous until his thirties, when he would have to adopt a more hetero stereotype. He didn't want to be seen as some ageing drag queen afterall. And he was still a handsome man for years. But the early days, during his greatest physical strength, was infinitely sublime!
MrMajorTime 4 months ago
lady gagas music is not bad her first album had a lot of catchy songs. there not as good as alladin sane but they were good enough. Her music after that sucked.
royalnaz1 4 months ago
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royalnaz1 4 months ago
Bowie was one dude that you got up and took notice ,this album for it's time is timeless !!Brilliant Bowie !!!
1jackiea 4 months ago
THE david b. masterpiece...and what a body of work this boy has had.
LanceHelmut 4 months ago
i thought i was so fucking cool for realizing it said a lad insane before even hearing this song, just to see someone have that exact same conclusion on the top comment.
fuck me.
wwjd4someslayer 4 months ago
oh c'mon u all are fucking douchbags! u knw u all live in ur own world, u all say today's music sucks and blah blah, david bowie is awesome and he ispired genrations of music, including lady gaga, if david bowie or led zeppelin, prince and michael jackson were like u liking only classical music i bet u wouldnt even have knw them, they chnaged their music with time, c'mon ppl there is gud music and bad music, even tday ppl r making gud music u have to listen to it, and pop isnt bad!
ozair16 4 months ago
the album cover is an epigram..the Image... the blaze (always) means the "deadly wound that is healed" from chapter thirteen Revelations...Its an Angel...it the face of a female Angel who will come to earth to battle the "false prophit'...he's unwitting once again....David Bowie got caught-up in astral existence....He spoke of this time as of one completly concerned with the Idea of earth visitors.....he tryed to come down with "young americans"
udohood 4 months ago
por que a 12 personas no les gusta esto? siento lastima por ellos
darioandthejicks 4 months ago
ok so blur was definitely influenced by bowie
Chacha5678 4 months ago
haha i love the crazy piano solo. love love love
Chacha5678 4 months ago
Aladdin Sane operated on your head and now you think that way.
ArrDeeSee9 4 months ago
12 dislikes?? Must be fans of Lets Dance.
bassmanjoe 4 months ago 39
@bassmanjoe What, a person can't like both songs?
brinpol 3 months ago
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bassmanjoe 3 months ago
@bassmanjoe Yes but no need to look down upon or feel superior to those who might like it...
brinpol 3 months ago
@brinpol Don't take it so serious, it's all fun and it's based on opinions.
bassmanjoe 3 months ago
@bassmanjoe elton john on piano here. SRV on guitar on 'lets dance'. any questions?
gr8skpz 3 weeks ago
@gr8skpz Elton John on piano? Try Mike Garson on piano here!
bassmanjoe 3 weeks ago 5
@gr8skpz I don't think Elton John is playing on this song, I could not find a reference to it anywhere?
jeannemarie1661 6 days ago
City lights, oh so bright, on broadwaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. The mind up in lights, charged by whatever the soup du jour is, not caring about the damages of war until the next morning. Then it will be time to pay the pianist. But after the afternoon's recovery, by next evening time, you know you'll be ready again for another go. It's the way of youth and rock n' roll. The night changes and you change with it, becoming werewolves of london, until sunlight blasts away those illusions.
MrMajorTime 4 months ago
this track will never age so beautiful Garson's piano !
mashamorgan 5 months ago
suena a los doors...
fraries 5 months ago
takes me back to being 13, amazing times and fits in with being hormonal and the insanity that is of being a young teenager! Wonderful!
tillybert1 5 months ago
Whooooo will love a lad insane ?
ps3cls 5 months ago
Best piano solo ever!
astrophonix 5 months ago 39
@astrophonix musical genius......saw the station to station tour at the nassau coliseum way back in the seventies.....simply mind blowing....
migo53333 1 month ago
Bowie's voice was commandingly romantic, he was having fun, finally at a point where he was enjoying some recognition, and still experimenting with what he wanted to do with music. Ah, would that he could have sustained that moment a little longer. But time marches on, and changes came fast for everyone, our hero included. There would be more important songs to follow, but he was definitely at the top of his game here. There was something of a sense of relaxation at knowing he could please fans.
MrMajorTime 5 months ago in playlist Bowie
my favorite david bowie song.
royalnaz1 5 months ago
Everyone talks about how great Garson's piano playing is on this song and deserving so but you gotta give Bowie props for outstanding saxophone playing also.....listen how both go together ....masterpiece in music making.
truthforme1 5 months ago
Love that number. Make me think back to my earlie teenage year. 40 years agove <3
hejual 5 months ago
Bowie's greatest album ever.................
stonelove919 5 months ago
@stridertenryu Hip hip hoorah! Tally ho! (Trelane from The Suire of Gothos). Or, In the immortal words of the mortal replicant Roy Blatty in Blade Runner, after he was smashed in the head by Rick Deckard, "That's the spirit!"
MrMajorTime 5 months ago
Battle cries and champagne, just in time for sunrise.
Sounds like a great way to wake up.
TTTThhhhheeeeeeyyyyyy'rrre Ggrrrrreat!!!! (Tony The Tiger Tank)
Time to wake up and die. There is something optimistic about facing certain annihilation. What have you got to lose? You might as well take a chance on something at that point. Who was it that said, "There is something sublime about the threat of destruction, air raid sirens and bombs exploding over head as you cling to life?" Oh, it was me.
MrMajorTime 5 months ago
@stridertenryu Fantastic! ;) I'll join you. Also, tomorrow.
Lonsterlmfu 5 months ago
Bowie fell from grace.
MrMajorTime 5 months ago in playlist Bowie
@stridertenryu Way off base.
Lonsterlmfu 5 months ago
Oh, I get it.
TheButterism 5 months ago
Piano riff kills me every time...oh yeah the guy who wrote and sang this pretty good too
Kubrickfan1 5 months ago
Lady Gaga shouldn't have copied his lightning bolt, but i still love her music aswell as david bowies
bodd66 6 months ago
@bodd66 bowie makes good music but lady gaga lives just for the fashion and not for music
Wakeupdream 6 months ago
Too Good..A Lad insane indeed.
badoocee 6 months ago
Ooooooh we love a lad insane!
LiveAndSolo 6 months ago
this is bowie at his best for me .I will never stop listening to it
carnwath 6 months ago
This is the first time today that I ever gave aladdin sane a chance in my interest and this actually sounds really good. The piano kicks ass. I'll definitely listen to this album on a day to day basis from today to forever.
Ghaiyst 6 months ago
Pure artistry.genius.
trudginon 6 months ago
Tequilaaa !!!
cronosopium 6 months ago
Dig the piano here~ pure passion&class...what do u think jon jon ?
vincieful 6 months ago
There was something very nonthreatening about the Aladdin Sane album. Bowie, for a moment, just seemed to be Bowie. Almost at a rest on the move. Always on the move, like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. A theory of mine equates Bowie with bosons, subatomic particles on the move. He was the shadow of something real within, only glimpsed in a hyper-accelerated state. It's kind of complex in this limited space. That statement kind of says it all. To reflect a higher gravity, speed of motion.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago
@MrMajorTime aladdin sane, in my opinion was the last true bowie album, the one,s which followed, for want of a better word, were concept albums, each trying to be different from the last. the exception to this, was his last 3 albums, hours, heathen and reality which had only subtle differences.i think it was bono who said "bowie is at his best when he,s not trying to be michael jackson or picasso, i would agree with that, and the aladdin sane album is a perfect example
n0rt0nj4zZ 6 months ago
@n0rt0nj4zZ There is a considered truth to that which you say: Hunky Dory, The Man Who Sold The World, The RiseAnd Fall Of Ziggy Sardust And The Spiders From Mars, Aladdin Sane, all succeded as complete albums which worked cohesively as complete listening experiences. Subsequent albums, although containing some fantastic, even brilliant, individual songs, did not have same momentum of fluidity (albeit by design) due to growing instability, production flaws, manifesting as high and low disjoints.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago in playlist Bowie
Pink Floyd? Glitter??....ect,ect
You really need to sit down and revaluate what you think is music!
Its just a nice way of saying youre a MORON!!
ASR10MAN 6 months ago
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@ASR10MAN can you read, or is english your second language, you don,t seem to understand my comments, i suggest you read them again .............slowly
n0rt0nj4zZ 6 months ago
OMG how I love this song, I never get tired of it and I listen to it now for decades. (I could say that about the major part of Bowie's songs). Genius!
ezaube1030 6 months ago
@getula4003 Thank you. There's a lot of neglected elegance going on here. The more I listened to this, the more necessary it became, filling a void that says we must find ways to embrace our madness or it will come to strangle us in our sleep. Observation of our instabilties, facing our fears, dissolves their power into useful insight that can be channeled into more pleasant and controlled pursuits. Me thinks a little horror on our own terms is better than subconscious demons building up within.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago
The last genius of the 20th century. Lady Gaga? WTF is Lady Gaga?
mortinsonoffice 6 months ago
Full blast in the car
7676yhn 6 months ago
Highly underrated because, like so many Bowie tunes, it's hard to categorize. What kind of style is this? Invented its own style as it happened. Beautiful and frightening at the same time. Envision Germany, world war i at night with nerve gas, Garbo, shots echoing, a modest champagne party above the trenches, whenever I hear this. The puckish pattern of a playful piano picked and plucked, pursuing perfect psychotic pleasure, tiny hammers replicating madness in your ears as you let the damage in.
MrMajorTime 6 months ago
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nothing time machine liquid sky succubus year 2011 bowie
champagne sunrise
SuperMegaUberGenius 6 months ago
why are people getting so upset about lady gaga,s lightning bolt and the occasional reference to bowie.....................have i missed something..........
n0rt0nj4zZ 6 months ago
@n0rt0nj4zZ
Yes- You missed good music
Bowies music doesnt SUCK
ASR10MAN 6 months ago
@ASR10MAN you have no idea about my taste in music
n0rt0nj4zZ 6 months ago
@n0rt0nj4zZ Well for starters you're about 3 years behind. She references all pop culture in her work so I don't know why people get upset at all, it's what she does. She breathed life back into the bland fake pop world. She has me here right now listening to Bowie, something I wouldn't probably otherwise had done. ;)
Lonsterlmfu 6 months ago
@Lonsterlmfu What's pop? People who consign it and strip mine it define it. Michael Jackson realized that pop is universal music; its about core concerns and fantasies. Case in point, 'Beat it' is about a kid who could potentially be killed by local gangs if he doesn't bug the hell out of his neighborhood. It's a gangster genre narrative. 'Smooth Criminal', same basic deal. 'Thriller' is a nod to the zombie/monster genre. Pop piques the interest of the literate by being articulate and melodic.
IggyTthunders 6 months ago
@IggyTthunders I don't disagree with you.
Lonsterlmfu 5 months ago
a lad insane..
aekoriginale21 6 months ago 25
@aekoriginale21 Its a play on words wow i would never have realised that thanks :)
iiSOBAKEDii 6 months ago
You can hear your dendrites being plucked and manipulated as everything you ever did results in scars on your grey matter. Or is it that the intensity is a little too close to your own fragile hold on sanity? Life IS brain damage! Each occurance leaves indelible marks, permanently recorded on your soul which you carry forever and can't erase. Careful what you do with your time because, once done, it is part of you for all eternity. Even forgiveness won't change the past, only the way you see it.
MrMajorTime 7 months ago
I love this song. i can imagine a music video now.
bellyboy128 7 months ago
Why does everyone hate this song so much? It's gorgeous, beautiful and cool. I like to dance to this song in my room, haha :D
tokimasa121 7 months ago 9
@tokimasa121 i love this!!!
bellyboy128 7 months ago
@bellyboy128 I know! I have this album on Vinyl, i always listen to it<3
tokimasa121 7 months ago
@tokimasa121 What!? Who hates this song?
DBowie125 3 months ago
And it's only now that I realise Lady Gaga copied the "Lightning bolt" makeup off him....
wakashitakaa 7 months ago
@wakashitakaa She didnt copy him. It was a tribute. xD She said it her self. She loves Bowie
TheSingingBoy1234 7 months ago
Wow, it's a visionary love song about his future lover Iggy, written before he even met him...
pureloveracing 7 months ago
the piano? Brilliant, played by some mad and derranged hunch- back in some broken down old medieval castle
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 7 months ago 2
I love the sax and the very end when it goes into "On Broadway".
MsThebeMoon 7 months ago
@MsThebeMoon Funnily, there is a live performance of "Aladdin Sane" where Bowie sings a little bit of "On Broadway".
ezaube1030 6 months ago
Piano heaven! <3
daviniaosgood 7 months ago
Stupid people who think that this is Lady Gaga's ray.
joaoqtc 8 months ago 51
@joaoqtc Bloody rays, rays are against God and against nature.
alecbg919 7 months ago
@alecbg919 wtf
joaoqtc 7 months ago
@joaoqtc Mustn't go on youtube while drunk
alecbg919 7 months ago
@alecbg919 surely dude
joaoqtc 7 months ago
@joaoqtc Lady GAG GAG
ThePeterstrasser 5 months ago 2
@joaoqtc Fuck you.
xKissMeInTheDark 5 months ago
@xKissMeInTheDark you think this is Lady Gaga's ray and I should fuck myself? This must be dick missing in your life. (Actually, I didn't say anything about Lady Gaga)
joaoqtc 5 months ago 2
Awesome! One of Bowie's best tunes.
Mike Garson' solo is simply fantastic... unpredictable!!!
ScudoBR 8 months ago 5
@ScudoBR but is there a pattern though
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 7 months ago
Bowie-Gaga comparisons are not too off the mark. Both Art-School fashionistas, both plunder 20th Century Art and Surrealism to create what appears a 'unique' style....Dali, Cocteau, Camus, Marcel Marceau et al having explored it all decades before. But then.....nothing's new under the sun! Of the 'divas' who preceded her, Gaga's the most visually and word-literate. She might yet surprise us all!!!
jimdivax 8 months ago 2
When we wake up to the truth of life, inspired music like this will emerge and flourish again, and all the uninspired crap that people call "music" these days will fade away and be forgotten. Search "Truth Contest" in Google and click the 1st result, then open The Present and read what it says to learn the truth of life.
vividDC 8 months ago
don't you think he's weird but good .
j50saxton 8 months ago
GLORIOUS.
plunkza 8 months ago
Great Mike Garson tune and, oh yeah, Bowie's on it too.
hamlanzon6 8 months ago
best bowie song
royalnaz1 8 months ago
crazy piano
frecklesdk 9 months ago
I will love Aladdin Sane. :3
xXXVIDEOxchickXXx 9 months ago
genius simple as that , Bowie has influced genres in music not just artists, remember this was the early 70,s and the attitudes were so different b then then say now.
ivymercer 9 months ago
i remember bowie being dismissed as all glitter and effects in the early 70s, especially by fans of pink floyd, genesis etc, it takes time to see how a major artist develops, in 10 years lady ga ga could be doing some really good stuff, or could be completely forgotten. lennon once said of bowie,s music,.. it,s just rock n roll with lipstick on.
n0rt0nj4zZ 9 months ago 30
@n0rt0nj4zZ All glitter and effects? But Bowie sings (meaning he can actually sing in tune), plays guitar, saxophone, etc. Does GaGA even play one instrument? Does she write her own songs? She's just Madonna turned up to 11. Bowie was never mere spectacle with no substance.
PathosDistanz 9 months ago
@PathosDistanz Lady Gaga has been playing piano since she was 8 I think. And she writes all her songs.Look it up. I saw her in concert and she doesn't even lip sync and yeah Madonna isn't involved with her music at all. Bowie is AMAZING!
jkjasminemc 9 months ago
@PathosDistanz Lady Gaga has played piano since she was 4, not 8. She also plays synth and in general, is one talented muthafudger, vocally. She also writes and does most of the production on all of her songs. Granted, she has some low points, but if you dig past all the marketing and pop, you'll get a genuine artist.
LaceyBellissimo 9 months ago
@LaceyBellissimo A genuine artist who prefers empty visual shock value over her "products". David Bowie attempted to convey something more meaningful through his reforms, she's dressed like a retard to accompany meaningless and pathetic pieces.
Bleumange 9 months ago 2
@n0rt0nj4zZ
Under the glitter, David Bowie is raw talent. The music is awesome. Modern rock stars are all glitter, no talent. That's generous of you to think Lady Gaga will ever make good music. I regard her as a dud, a flash in the pan. David Bowie's lasting power was his talent. He's got "it". Lady Gaga WISHES she had "it", but she's just Britney Spears in costume.
Maybe, I'm starting to sound old, but I don't care. New rock sucks! I'm still waiting for a new rockstar that can sing
riverlioness 8 months ago
@riverlioness I am 55 and this album was the first i ever brought with my own money, went totally off Bowie after Heroes. I have seen many artists over the years who i thought were dudds when I first heard them yet turned out to be "stayers". I have also seen bands that in my opinion are totally crap but still get played such as U2 and Oasis who I consider to be the equal most overated bands of the last 40 years.
patmac565 8 months ago
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riverlioness 8 months ago
@riverlioness Pink, Adele, Alecia Keys, Amy Winehouse, can all sing! There are more in the underground Indie/rock/blues scene. To compare GaGa to Britney spears is like comparing Steve Perry to Milli vanilli. You have got to be kidding me. You know GaGa writes, produces, composes all her music right? She's also a classically trained pianist who has an acoustic version of her pop radio songs that she does brilliantly. She's bridging the gap between theatre and Pop, a performance artist.
Lonsterlmfu 6 months ago
@n0rt0nj4zZ i am a fan of pink floyd but i love equally david. fans those days were dicks :P
Afereth 6 months ago
@n0rt0nj4zZ People couldn't recognize that every time he asserted a new face for the stage it was to distance himself from himself: he was about people immersing themselves in the characters in his rock operas not the musician. Hence why his personas were never predicated on accenting Bowie the person. He wanted to remain mercurial like his music.
IggyTthunders 6 months ago
@IggyTthunders Good point. Bowie was most effective in blackface. But when he emerged as himself, say, Let's Dance, he made money but lost poignancy.
MrMajorTime 5 months ago
@MrMajorTime bowie loved the fame that came with lets dance,and if the follow ups, tonight and never let me down had been half as successful as lets dance he would of carried on in that style. i remember bowie being very excited and proud of the whole glass spider thing. the creation of tin machine was to appeal to a younger audience and hopefully create more sales, when that failed he quickly undertook a greatist hits tour, promising all his big songs- how main stream was that............
n0rt0nj4zZ 5 months ago
@n0rt0nj4zZ There is no way that Bowie hoped to attract a big audience with Tin Machine. He may have hoped to be cutting edge again, and I believe he succeeded in that, but it was certainly not a commercially motivated move.
ivankaramasov 5 months ago
@ivankaramasov what you say is not wrong, however bowie from 83-87 went all out commercially with letsdance,tonight and never let me down, each album selling less than the other, therefore i think bowie made a calculated gamble with tin machine, hence the greatest hits tour after the tin machine album. i think black tie white noise was bowies last attempt for a big hit, after that albums moderate sales bowie choose to do as he pleased, knowing whatever he did, would pretty much sell the same
n0rt0nj4zZ 5 months ago
@n0rt0nj4zZ As far as I know Bowie was persuaded by his record company to do the greatest hits tour, and I think it is probably one of his least inspired tours ever. BTWN was not that commercial and is in fact one of my favourite albums (although it had to grow on me for a long time before I appreciated it). I have read an interview with Nile Rodgers who co-produced BTWN where he complained a lot about Bowie's attitude while recording this.
ivankaramasov 5 months ago
@n0rt0nj4zZ Apparently, Nile Rodgers thought they were going to to Let's Dance II, and was frustrated when Bowie refused to do the things he meant was needed to make it more commercial. For example, the track that he meant should be used as a single, Lucy Can't Dance, was only included as a bonus track.
ivankaramasov 5 months ago
This is the most brilliant piano solo I've ever heard. I wonder who played it and if it was improvised. Bowie was a true pop innovator.
tbhamdg 9 months ago