He is an absolute genius. He is never derivative. The Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars is probably the best concert I have ever seen.
Whenever I saw the Ziggy Stardust concert I was watching it on my Ipod at about 3 o clock in the morning. I felt like I wasn't going to make it to the morning. It was as if all of the power in the universe was crammed into my room throughout the duration of the program. I looked at my alarm clock that said 4:25 and I thought "Oh God I'm Still Alive!". Then I had the single most sickening, twisted, and brutally honest realizations of my life - I was still a virgin, but am no longer.
Width of a Circle is so incredible. Whenever I first saw that I was a bit put off at the end whenever he bent down and said "do it again! do it again" as though he was engaging in homosexual sex. This was because I really wasn't focusing on the lyrics. So then I pulled up the lyrics online and it seems like the song is about God fucking with his mind! Or being too hard a concept to grasp, or something of that sort. How brilliant! Not to mention the insane miming he did in that song.
The Diamond Dogs concept album inspired by 1984 is so compelling. Sweet Things/Candidate/Sweet Things Reprise is just magnificent.
The Man Who Sold the World album just has great, great songs. All the Madmen is overwhelming wicked. I am convinced that he is simultaneously commenting on insane asylums and Vietnam.
There are times while listening to David Bowie songs that it is almost as if he is trying to lure you into thinking he is going to say something trite, but then he blows your mind.
Example: It's No Game Pt.1 and Pt. 2
He starts saying... put a bullet in my head, and it makes the pay-
He leads you to think that he is saying something unimaginative. Put a bullet in my head and it makes the pain go away.
But then he says "Put a bullet in my head and it makes the papers"
Brilliant!
Lots of bands have songs that get stuck in your head from time to time.
David Bowie songs don't get stuck in your head.
David Bowie songs echo in your mind.
He was just so majestic.
Some videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfdAAeEKMfI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygc1R7LKrKo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAveRvYGbJg
Oh, and look at the incredible symbolism in his music video of "The Heart's Filthy Lesson"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAveRvYGbJg
In the video he shows how thin a line there can be between art and horror. I believe this is an allegory for the thin line between love and tragedy.
Whenever I saw the Ziggy Stardust concert I was watching it on my Ipod at about 3 o clock in the morning. I felt like I wasn't going to make it to the morning. It was as if all of the power in the universe was crammed into my room throughout the duration of the program. I looked at my alarm clock that said 4:25 and I thought "Oh God I'm Still Alive!". Then I had the single most sickening, twisted, and brutally honest realizations of my life - I was still a virgin, but am no longer.
Width of a Circle is so incredible. Whenever I first saw that I was a bit put off at the end whenever he bent down and said "do it again! do it again" as though he was engaging in homosexual sex. This was because I really wasn't focusing on the lyrics. So then I pulled up the lyrics online and it seems like the song is about God fucking with his mind! Or being too hard a concept to grasp, or something of that sort. How brilliant! Not to mention the insane miming he did in that song.
The Diamond Dogs concept album inspired by 1984 is so compelling. Sweet Things/Candidate/Sweet Things Reprise is just magnificent.
The Man Who Sold the World album just has great, great songs. All the Madmen is overwhelming wicked. I am convinced that he is simultaneously commenting on insane asylums and Vietnam.
There are times while listening to David Bowie songs that it is almost as if he is trying to lure you into thinking he is going to say something trite, but then he blows your mind.
Example: It's No Game Pt.1 and Pt. 2
He starts saying... put a bullet in my head, and it makes the pay-
He leads you to think that he is saying something unimaginative. Put a bullet in my head and it makes the pain go away.
But then he says "Put a bullet in my head and it makes the papers"
Brilliant!
Lots of bands have songs that get stuck in your head from time to time.
David Bowie songs don't get stuck in your head.
David Bowie songs echo in your mind.
He was just so majestic.
Some videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfdAAeEKMfI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygc1R7LKrKo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAveRvYGbJg
Oh, and look at the incredible symbolism in his music video of "The Heart's Filthy Lesson"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAveRvYGbJg
In the video he shows how thin a line there can be between art and horror. I believe this is an allegory for the thin line between love and tragedy.
