David Bowie - Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed

[WhenTheMusicsOver2]

man why does the government keep asking me questions about us military spending before i jam to some bowie, isn't that kind of self defeating?

[kimoxxx]

'God of Rock'

[64MELTON]

CLASSIC!!!!!!!

[BACasey81]

the pigtails without phalluses disliked this

[Hobbit997]

Bowie is absolutely brilliant, but I can't watch his concert videos because, frankly, they make my skin crawl!

[tanpiltanpil]

They may have been out of kilter, but the RCA covers of Space Oddity and The Man Who Sold The World from the Ziggy period were so much better than the originals. By the way, fantastic song!!

[katwalana]

@tanpiltanpil is that so? curiouz...say...where can i find 'em?

[TheEternalDread]

@tanpiltanpil In your (misguided) opinion.

[TheJuliejoolz]

Fab track - and so what if Bowie gives the nod to Mr Bo Diddley? ALL music is plagirism. Everyone is influenced by someone.

[fuzzballzz36]

Three people need to be slapped upside the head by a phallus in pigtails.

[chrisz31974]

@fuzzballzz36 Their tissue needs rotting, too

[OWCBigJ]

Touch of class, no more needs said

[shanehenning26]

great song

[chrispycritter2]

I had a dream last night and I was jamming to this song! I remembered every lyric and it was the best dream I have had in a long time! Thanks Bowie, we share the same birthday and same music!

[DarnSarf]

Great track from a classic album. Love the Bo Diddley beat!

[MichalFokt]

a bit like Lennon early solo works :)

[bowiemichelle]

Loved this since I was a kid! Thanks for letting the world see his GREATNESS from way back when!! XOXO

[dragmio]

A brilliant intro. But then at 1:11 it becomes simply terrible.

[purvicide]

@dragmio Nope. Simply wrong.

[leonakita]

1:10-1:16 >> the classic 'Bowie Beat' appears. Found in so many of his songs, its like a trademark that stamps this 'BOWIE MATERIAL!'

[dig6dog]

@leonakita thats a really smart opinion !! too bad everyone and his dog was doing it twenty years earlier in america!

[leonakita]

@dig6dog perhaps,..but not nearly as stylishly as bowie does.....thats y everyone and his dog in america didnt make it and bowie did!

[fuzzballzz36]

@leonakita It's actually Bo Diddley's signature beat from the 1950s.

[leonakita]

@fuzzballzz36 actually, you're so full of shit its coming out your ears!... Don't ever compare some garbage coon to the master!

[fuzzballzz36]

@leonakita Okay, have it your way. If you don't want to listen it's up to you. and racism doesn't help your cause.

[NeonAngel1997]

I loooove this song ❤ Bowie is awesome

[bodosegogo]

harmonica hero!

[99starzinthesky]

Happy Birthday <3

[halloweenjack1974]

"And my tissue is rotting--where the rats chew my clothes" I hate when that happens.

[franygogs]

My absolute fave Bowie track even @6.12 you just want it to go on and on. The band are just so tight just like a jamming session they are enjoying just for themselves and we are privileged eavesdroppers.

[IoEstasCedonta]

"I'm a phallus in pigtails and there's blood on my nose."

...in forty years, he never topped that line.

[halloweenjack1974]

Who couldn't love this album ? shame most people have never heard it.

[gazzah54]

THIS WAS BOWIE AT HIS BEST

[LiamForeman]

this is how I feel Dr Bowieroot, locked in a nut house

[MultiCapobianco]

@LiamForeman i was and still am a millwall supporter and somewhat slightly dazed

[thedoggedtruth]

Who did not like this song? Really?

[WhenTheMusicsOver2]

@000jacksparrow000 I did the superman b-side from hunky dorey and got accused of naziism :|

[sw1witch7]

ok...having a Bowie moment or two....hours!!

Another favourite...oh dear, the state of my mind...! One of the best lines ever written though..........

"I'm a phallus in pigtails" ...lol!!!

[nuccipooch]

I just cannot get to listen to anything else right now. i've tried.

[isaacpowns]

That's a great picture of him in space

[averilleX]

There is another dimension where I am married to David Jones. We live in a council house in Crystal Palace with loads of children but no money. We do the shopping in Asda and are totally happy.

This song reminds me of it!

[spookyben]

In 1972 me and my friends thought DB was god.

Caught him and the spiders at the Santa Monica Civic

Good times!

[jasoninertia]

does he say smell like cat shit ?

[stand49]

and my eye sockets empty see nothing but pain . great song [ lyrics ]

[JJackAL52]

An incredibly great song from an incredibly great album. A totally unique piece in the Bowie catalog and one of my favorites. Genius throughout, from start to finish !!

[tabletop123]

Bowie's voice is always amazing, but there is something about the early Bowie material that is special. I guess that is why we first started to listen to the Man.

Beautiful. Thanks David

[zaynzaynzayn]

@tabletop123 i agree about his voice. there is a fragile young power that is fascinating.

[curtisrunstedler]

Harmonica extraordinaire

[ivankaramasov]

This is a very underrated album, I actually prefer it to The Man Who Sold the World which is generally held in much higher esteem.

[MrPerry4me]

A great cd a superstar David bowie:)

[ViddyOMG]

Still a great track after all these years since it was written! I like the last verse that starts at 03:03, which starts with 'Now you run from your window, to the porcelain bowl' and when it gets to 03:23 where he sings 'Very catching', you can hear him laughing at that point, mid-way through 'Catching' so it sounds like' Catch-heh-heh-heh-heh-ing', and ends with the last sound of the laugh, as a high 'huh' that could be an intake of breath.

Seems like he had fun doing it. Great stuff.

[aqajahua]

this is the song that took me (permanently) into bowies early music

[harrier0]

This was the first album I ever bought from my first wage packet. A very long time ago now, but I still have the album and its still brilliant. He remains a true musical genius.

[derek6678421]

the first album i bought was ziggy sd so where about the same age . i had a saturday job and took this album down to the local youth club

[IanBrains]

My favourite Bowie track - just superb

[ultrakool]

brilliant use of the bo diddley beat

[acfg59]

the graphics you used were great - i wanted more.

[theemceemurdah]

Classic...simply beautiful

[bobburt1]

just like the rest of the album

[dagsbollox]

the sun machine is coming down ?? we gonna have a party!!!!

[dagsbollox]

the sun machine is coming down !! we gonna have party !!!! and some1 passed some bliss amonge the crowd ...... mushroom season mmmmmmm. dagsbollox

[dagsbollox]

i take it you like bowie jardinOZ me old m8 ..??? theres not much 2 add 2 what you have already said apart from superb song superb album by a superb artist .. so everything is Hunky dory !!!!!!!!!!!!

[gunnerear57]

a little bit Dylan and a touch Bolan, nice mix David

[mikalb41]

" I'm a phallus in pigtails"

Lyrics can't get any better than that!

[Skulldini]

@mikalb41 Yes, this song does have the most peculiar lyrics, doesn't it ? In addition to that one you've quoted there, theres also .. " Seeing electric tomatoes on credit-card rye bread. There are children in washrooms holding hands with a queen and my heads full of murders where only killers scream " .. hmmmm ?!

[daven58100]

@mikalb41 A sort of disturbing image, though

[rabidbanshee]

@mikalb41 you said it.Amen for Brother Bowie.

[Leadhead444]

@mikalb41 Psssh! you ain't kidding Bowie's one of the best and most creative songwriters

[yellow6100]

@mikalb41 cant agree with that-"dont turn your nose up well you can if you need to is much better" ;)

[jumble23]

@mikalb41 "and there's blood on my nose"!

[ultrakool]

@mikalb41 grow 'em and braid 'em. bowie ripped off bo diddley

[TheEternalDread]

@ultrakool That's a ridiculous comment as this sounds like no individual Bo Diddley song. He, like every other musician, was influenced by what came before . . . and if you're biging up Bo then a basic would have been to afford him the courtesy of writing his name using an upper case B & D!

[plastic58frog]

The first album I ever bought, still as good today, brilliant

[bonbon1995]

I am 13 and absolutely worship Bowie. Unfortunately, I have never seen him live. I'm not saying he should do a 'comeback' tour. He's too cool for that, but he should do a tour because I NEED to see him before one of us dies.

[StrangeRapunzel]

I concur!

[jmbsol]

i love this album. haven't listened to it in years. Now listening to this song, i feel like i hear some Dylan influence.

[kblixt]

I've loved and still love everything Bowie has put out even his "sell out" material.

[davet3450]

All young rockers need to go to a David Bowie concert, he we show you how it's done. Mr, Bowie can still rock circles around todays  young artist.

[almadora]

quite plainly one of the finest pieces of pop music i have ever heard. wholly scary, hard, glittering, aerodynamic, cool, bloodthirsty, and utterly sincere. amen.

[jupitorman]

i was singing this at work painting a window and now i hear it for real after 27 years fffffffantastic for got how good this was just brill x

[etowahslim]

THE best song on this album - but I guess that can't be right? It being one of the best albums of all time, lyrically, every song is a work of art. This is the song that turned me onto playing harmonica - the blues came after this for me! Harp in the key of 'F' if you want to play bluesy along with it... And man, 'I'm a phallus in pigtails and there's blood on my nose"! . . . peace guys.

[bolson567]

one of the best songs on that album, second to space oddity. and cygnet committie

[goatatl]

I've always thought Bowie to be a brilliant lyricist, but "I'm a phallus in pigtails" might just take the cake.

[albatros777]

I thought it was "My hair is in pigtails."

[FurnitureFan]

LOL, could be a reference to sailors, maybe?

I've started reading Patrick O'Brian.

[SniffPeters]

It might refer to a phallus in pigtails. Or am I being too Freudian?

[panzermort]

Bowie would get newspaper magazines and he would cut words out of them, then he would put them into a container and jiggle then he would pull woulds out and write his songs, there is a few documentaries with him doing just this (this was by no means how he wrote all his songs) just what he did at a certain time

[joshuabeijing]

Sick from ears? Why not open up Bowie's Tin of Stewing Steak.

[shoemanbundy]

the beginning reminds me of the "and it makes me wonder" section of stairway to heaven :p

[lioralourie3]

This is one of his best albums, I've always loved the simple naivite in songs like Letter to Hermione...

[DrWinston0Boogie]

this song rules

[xsammy1x]

sorry bout spelling couldn't fit more digits in

[xsammy1x]

david bowie was the chameleon of pop he cud turn his hand to any genre of music, not necesarily meaning he sold out but if he wanted to do a certain style he had the ability to. he is not a selout in todays terms jst a very talented individual, he learned, adapted to, and mastered alot of popular music styles. it's just the confirmation of what a brilliant artist he is, HE DID NOT SELL OUT just a wonderful ability to interpret music the way it should be done, a genius and a fantastic role model

[panzermort]

99.90% of commercial artists ofc have sold out come on they have to eat, they have to have a home and wear clothes to say otherwise would be very naive very few have had the guts to walk away i once saw geoge harrison explaining how a few record companies had turned down certain albums MUSIC is a business get your head round it

[tonkali]

thank you for this :)

[momilitia]

Just ran across this, Bowie always was and always will be a commercial sellout, no talent.

[chainedpunkgirl]

Wow. Because he got so mainstream, right? He was amazing BEFORE he ever got any recognition. Learn, please. What about this song is sellout?

[momilitia]

I mean didn't he actually sell his future as a corporation years ago? Also in a Playboy interview in the 70's he flat out said he would say or sing what would sell.

Sorry, he did some decent stuff, but he is a commercial enterprise.

[chainedpunkgirl]

Um, all bands are sellouts. The goal of being a musician is to sell out. No one becomes a musician and says "I wanna be a starving artist with no fame." Plus, I'd like to see this playboy interview.

[Manwithcam]

Bowie didn't always mean what he said in the 70s. He doesn't even remember much of the 70s due to heavy cocaine use. Sure, some of his later music, such as the 'Let's Dance' album and much of what followed, were sellouts in an attempt to completely commercialize his sound, but you must admit that almost everything he touched between 1970 (or even '69) and '76 was pure genius. And after that, even the Berlin Trilogy is far from commercial - c'mon, man. Admit it - you worship David Bowie. :P

[metrosfan]

Umm I don't think that the Berlin trilogy was completely commercial, listen to Warszawa and tell me that its commercial. but yes 69-79 Bowie is in my opinion the greatest music ever made.

[abergreg]

I agree, I have maintained for twenty-five years that Bowies first five albums (and maybe low) constitutes the gratest work of art (all art) by an individual since mozart.

[ezaube1030]

@abergreg I would include some of his later ones, too, for example "1.Outside"!

[7h3Wh0]

everyone wants to be successful, but not everyone wants to make music for money. Some people just make music because they enjoy it, and it is an art form. I know that personally I would rather my music be less commercially successful if it would be more artistic and complex.

[Andybato]

love what you said man.

[peaceonearth777]

Always wondered what Braque he was refering to?

[Droyd21]

The painter I suppose since:

1) I only know one Braque

2) Bowie also has a passion for painting.

[peaceonearth777]

The painting of course. He did hundreds. I still wonder, he had to have one in mind. Peace

[uclrichard]

good to hear this song again - bowie was a huge talent even before anyone knew it, even himself, he gave up music for a year after this album crashed.

this is very dylanesque, of course, but it is still hugely good and enjoyable.

[guy0307]

Actually, this was his sucessful 1969 album. The "disaster" album was the 1967 one, called David Bowie, although the 1969 album is sometimes known as David Bowie.

[livewire1989]

Love this song, fantastic album.