Black Tie, White Noise unfairly gets maligned. This song is a standout on a very good album some people wish to dismiss. I think the whole album is fantastic! It was in my opinion the beginning of David's creative rebirth. He didn't look back after this one, thankfully.
Yes indeed as with 92s outside sometimes concept werx and Bowie is the master of even conceptual lifestyle self imposed rocker ziggy sets out to make himsef a rock god then kills him off lol because he’s to popular, enter the space junkies with issues as his capsule hurls into the Abyss lol major Tom, thin white duke etc Bowie’s awesome and missed , strung out on heaven’s high hitting an all time low,,, SPROCKETS!!!! Gday all!! they say JUMP! ! Fades out out out ou o c --
I do agreee Non conventional Song. Funky and acid jazz mixid up with class and talent. The more you listen ti It the more It grows the Better It sounds
tESLA WAS ALESOMELZ ELEGANT ON an equal measure! It ain't a coincidence that he portrazed him in a role from THE PRESTIGUE. The 2 geniuses colided there. And the elegant suits, of course!
@@duncan3998 I'm talking about the length of time of Bowie created and released music in his career (1966-2016; 52 years, if you count his early work with the Lower Third), fool. 😒
Not a huge fan of the album it comes from (Outside remains my favourite overall album from Bowie) but this is probably my favourite track he's ever done.
Someone had an interview with Bowie once and insensitively mentioned Terry to him.Bowie then looked very sad and the interviewer then changed the subject. These videos of him also resemble mini movies.I may not understand everything,but it is worth watching. I like the instrument in the background.Something sad about it,too.And the 2 voices at times,very nice. But yes,it is sad. At the end,he looks a bit like that death scene in Merry christmas mr.Lawrence when he eventually died.
I’m sorry I’m not very good at this as I keep apologizing I’m glad I didn’t make a comment stating that I absolutely agree with you the man was always beautiful, before he knew he was beautiful perhaps, but for all of the true heartbreaking, heart feeling reasons that man is eternally beautiful! Thank you for your comment❤️
Again, I was so silly and don’t know really how to work any of this other than saying that it sounds like you were being kind which some responses are not. I absolutely adore David Bowie and I have through thick and thin and have very funny stories I wish I could talk to people about but I don’t know how to do anything other than text or use this Avenue because I’m so dysfunctional with technology but basically I have adored David Bowie my whole life which was rather comical having my parents wonder why my walls were covered in photos and posters of him and boy George and the cure and the Smiths I’m surprised they didn’t get me locked up when I am just a really ridiculously vanilla girl I guess they call me. I don’t call me anything I’m just me!
Here’s a trivia tidbit if you don’t know: the trumpet solo was also the played by “Bowie,” but not this Bowie. A trumpet player named Lester Bowie who “the” Bowie asked to play on the song. Pretty cool.
I absolutely LOVE that shot of him at 1:36 walking out of his office and everyone rising as he walks past while checking his watch. Just so classy and suave and badass.
the way david copes with the idea of grief is so subtle and powerful. he always manages to make a big deal out of the most intimate details. this song is about terry, his schizophrenic brother who eventually committed suicide. jeez, what a song. the chorus can be easily misinterpreted as inspirational, as in 'jump' means 'take a risk and change your life' but something makes me think that again he talks of the alienation of mental illness. he even references the movie 'la jetee' in this video. david was just on another level artistically and visually compared to any of his contemporaries. light years ahead.
Yeah I think you're right upon assuming, because he says "don't listen to the crowd" near the end. The crowd is telling the subject to jump. Very ahead of his time in spreading awareness of mental health.
Born in 1969, whereas David released his first unbelievable album in 1967, like the Beattles. I Turned back the clocks to make up for lost time and discovered his whole genius through his numerous quality visionary albums. This title was as usual ahead of its time, so gripping...RIP no ones compares to you. Imam was a lucky Lady to gather his inner thoughts. I admire him is an euphemism.
Not only my favorite Bowie song but one of my favorite songs ever created ever in the history of human music. I can't listen to it enough or heap enough praise on it. It is relentlessly listenable, energetic, and it to this day has this future sound that nothing in the past 20 years has come close to touching. This is what music today should have sounded like. Instead music today simultaneously sucks enough to be distressing yet bland and soulless enough that I can't really even remember the names of any recent songs released at all. Thank God we got to have Bowie to leave us actual, real music to listen to for these dark and creatively dead times.
I think pop radio in general is mostly unfocused(yet at the same time derivatively corporate) slop but there are wonderful musicians in many genres outside the top forty and genre cliché bullshit. You just have hear of them by mouth. Here are my recommendations- Marcus King (already becoming a badass top 50 rock guitarist) Ren (an art pop rapper and talented classical guitar player/that is one of the most in important post modern word smiths in the rock and rap game) The Yawpers (one of the tightest bands on the indie rock scene who never fail to deliver originality yet still not afraid to reference all the artistic greats that come before them) Naked Giants ( fun indie rock with a blues twist) and I recently discovered the electro noise/folk rockers The Nude Party and for Metal/Harder rock there are great bands like Kaleo, Royal Blood and Brian Jonestown Massacre. Just go and explore further than the crap by Taylor Swift, Machine Kelly and Nicki Minaj for real entertainment and artistic expression
I think Sam Fender and Tom Grennan are promising in the current era, but no one will ever hold a torch to David. The man was just a genius.. voice, composition, subject matter, everything.
Bowie and Kate Bush were the best single artists produced last century in the UK. Both are musical geniuses. No one like them before or since. Creative original and non commercial
1.) Has anyone ever made a more beautiful music video? No. 2.) While doing so, has anyone so poetically and specifically communicated about paranoia---with such incredible love? Of course not.
OMG!!! The virtual reality goggles he's wearing is like the cloth and buttons he wore in Lazarus!! I never made that connection before. He just got cooler and cooler.
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No, the reference was the film A Clockwork Orange. Bowie liked the movie since Ziggy Stardust.
Fernando Graca: Wrong. Nothing in this video references the A Clockwork Orange film. You won't even find that claim anywhere online. > The video specifically and heavily references the '60s short film La Jetee by obscure French film maker Chris Marker, (which was much much later adapted into the full length feature film 12 Monkeys by Terry Gilliam in the mid '90s) which is widely regarded as a classic. > It also specifically refences 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick. Yes, Bowie was a Clockwork Orange fan - but it's in the track Girl Loves Me on his final album Blackstar that he partly references it, (by using a lot of Nadsat language words in that song). Not in this video here.
Also, the video references Orson Welles' adaptation of Kafka's 'The Trial' (the faces at 0:18, people standing up in a wave at 1:37, and the use of architecture throughout).
@@lefunk22 Yes, and last scenes of him on the car reference the 'most beautiful suicide', a photo of Evelyn McHale, who threw herself off the Empire State Building in the 1940s and landed on the roof of a car in a near identical pose.
Its for his brother who suffered from mental illness and jumped in front of a train , tore bowie up took him 7 years to accept it to a degree and he wrote this song .True
This album was the beginning of the last Bowie phase where he produced music that easily rivals the early catalog. I love how hard he pushes the arrangements to almost breaking.
Ikr? Some of his stuff sounds like it's on the verge of falling apart into chaos, but he almost always manages to keep it coherent somehow. The tension is endlessly fascinating and it's why I never get tired of his music.
... in which he' walks on the shore with an old woman, who's vividly gesturing, while he'sings "My mother said to get things done..." That cannot be a better video, than this one. I admit, the song is great though.
Bowie looks so handsome in this video. I love his facial expressions in the microphone scene. It's crazy how upbeat this song sounds sonically, but it's about his brother that passed away.
I have often seen this album referred to as ‘utterly forgettable’ and the likes, and, well, I’m just here to yell out loud that I think it is a downright fantastic album and this song one of my favourites on it. You’ve got to give kudos to bowie for not repeating himself very much. God how I miss him, by the way.
It seems like David Bowie David Bowie created a new image and sound with every album/project. Prince, the genius he was, his image changes weren't drastic and all his songs had a distinct sound that you know was Prince soon as you heard it. Though he did change it up when he wrote for other people. Bowie on the other hand, you wouldn't know it was his songs except for the sound of his voice and he created a new persona with different albums. Star Man, Life on Mars or Rebel Rebel sound nothing like Fame, Golden Years or Let's Dance. A true genius that is sorely missed.
[Intro] When comes the shaking man A nation in his eyes Striped with blood and emblazed tattoo Streaking cathedral spire [Verse 1] They say They say They say He has no brain They say He has no mood They say He was born again They say Look at him climb They say jump They say jump [Verse 2] They say He has two gods They say He has no fear They say He has no eyes They say He has no mouth [Chorus] They say 'hey that's really something' They feel he should get some time I say he should watch his ass My friend don't listen to the crowd They say jump They say jump Watch out! [Breakdown] Watch out! Watch out! [Chorus] They say 'hey that's really something' They feel he should get some time I say he should watch his ass My friend don't listen to the crowd They say jump [Outro] Got to believe somebody They say jump Jump Got to believe somebody They say jump Jump Got to believe They say jump Got to believe somebody Jump Got to believe Jump Got to believe somebody Jump Got to believe Jump Got to believe somebody Jump They say jump They say jump They say jump They say jump
This song came one year after my cousin, who was one of my best friends, took his own life, after he and hid girlfriend ended their relationship, and he left us a letter. First time I saw this clip and heard the song the tears just fell off. The message was clear to me. But I didn't know, only until years later, that it was written about David's half brother, who committed suicide as well. The song and the clip are a masterpiece, and the trumpet solo is truly unique. I have always loved Bowie and his creations, but this song, together with Heroes, had special meaning for me. RIP Starman 🙏 . P.S I think that the eyes cover that he used this clip gave him the inspiration decades later for Lazarus eye cover.
to me, this is one of his best songs and certainly from an album that doesn't get enough love. especially as he went through not just a creative rut after "let's dance" and then find inspiration again through tin machine. this was a really personal song as it says a lot about the loss of his half-brother terry and how his schizophrenia and mental illness really drove him to suicide.
I keep going back to this every once and a while but the current most striking thing to me is the seemingly endless climbing of the scale at the very end. It's like, "when does this stop going up?!?" and then to FADE OUT on it! Just brilliant on so many levels.
I think that this is an attempt to talk about the effects that life in a hyper competitive world may have. This is why, according to me, the scene is located in a coorporation. If you want to achieve something, thenb"Jump! They say", namely do what you can and more! But this gets to frustration and madness and the only jump that can stop suffering is the one from the rooftop
David Bowie was a man of great compassion with a massive heart of pure gold this song globally could have changed the whole way on how we veiw Schizophrenia ' this song was how he felt on his beloved brother Terry 'who had inroduced him too music' when he was very young...David was deeply affected by his brothers condition growing up..This song was a tribute to Terry' this song was an anthem of change in him trying to breaki down the shocking stigma of mental illness...I penned a letter too David in 1992 asking would he help myself and my daughter ' who was suffering from this condition and was fading away into oblivion ' he went beyond that request ' he wrote a song jump they say..Nobody else cared' no family ' or friends' nobody listened to me' not even our caring media ' who used our story for their ratings' and the magazines' press ' who all just cashed in on our story in making money out of a devestating condition' their indifference was just nauseating' ..We did our campaign of awarnenss in trying to break down the myths and misconceptions of schizophtenia' in order to help othr folks' and aid in their recovery ..The aftermath was gross towards us both ... David Bowie was my last resort because i had tried every other avenue ...He was the only person who understood my plea..So i'm just stting the record straght on this deep thinking great artist...He had a heart of pure gold' he had a great understanding on this condition' he tried his best in the only way he knew best..That was through his art of singing ..he was a Earth Angel..Now he sings in Heaven ' for the Univsal Spirit ..King of Kings..So now you have it the truth..
This song is accurate of what is going on today..... more so now than ever. ..Devastating news everytime I pick up the news paper....David knew the pain of losing his brother in the most dreadfully awful tragic way.....compassion is scarce.....young lives are getting lost jumping off bridges and dying on the railway lines....is all we hear is lessons have been learned...and hearts are getting hardened...people encouraging youngsters to jump to their death like it is some sort of sport.....David could not of shouted any louder with this song.....this song shows the agony of mental illness.......it reached number 9 in the UK chart ...Definitely should of been number 1......David could not of been any clearer with this song...he made it obvious to us all to the anguish of mental disorder...I personally believe he wanted to bring it out into the open.....I miss David Bowie genius music...🎶🎵🎼🎸🎷🎺🎹🎻🥁🎤
@@Fightingforms Where would I begin? I wrote him because I had a flash of intuition, and felt he would help to support our media campaign at the time..I just felt he wanted to do something for the tragic big brother he lost in such tragic circumstances., Like his own legacy for Terry ...I had always loved his music from the first album Aladin sane,I was given as a birthday present, in my young days.I feel it could have been his legacy for his brother, and to help others in the future..I just feel it wasn't allowed ..I never thought in my wildest dreams thought he would pen a song. like jump they say... The song remains eternally a memory forever etched in our hearts ...As for me, the price would prove to be a hellish struggle to survive because everybody who ever knew my name ganged up on me and outcasted me...Yet I would do it all over again on my own, In a heartbeat, because my kid survived all the hell, and we are closer than ever today she can now do her beloved art again, something that wasn't possible back then...I got my kid back..Like I said in my earlier post ..God knows David's soul and he sings with the angel realm now.. Thank you for your kind comment..
This is absolutely consistent with everything I read about Bowie while he was dying from cancer. My understanding is that he did what he could to help the others undergoing treatment be more comfortable. He put them at ease. Just a stellar human being in every possible respect which makes losing him in 2016 so much more painful.
He defined every decade in which he released records. What a unique and wonderful talent. It's fantastic to see all these reminders dropping in my inbox again. Every day's a Bowie day!
@yaboi judas Black Tie White Noise in general is a highly divisive album; for every person who praises it as Bowie's return to form, you'll get another who decries it as nothing different from Tonight or Never Let Me Down. I myself have yet to listen to the album in full (largely because I prefer to listen to music on CD, but don't always have the time to seek out copies), but the songs I have heard off of it, this one included, sound pretty decent. Not _quite_ on the level of 1. Outside, but still a good listen in its own right. Also, I'm not sure why Vinny was surprised that this was the only song represented on the Jump CD-ROM; it was a fairly popular single in 1993 and the lead single from Black Tie White Noise, so it makes sense to make it the focal point of the interactive CD. It was simply an ad for the then-upcoming album, nothing more, nothing less.
@@jessica5497 there's a video of Vinesauce (Vinny) playing a CD-ROM game Bowie put out in the early 90s, and a running joke in the video is the fact only this song is included in the game, and half of the stuff you click just make you watch this music video again.
Even if he is not physically alive, he will always live in our hearts, and his music will always remind us that he made them with love and meaning so it reminds us that no matter what, he will still live and still be David Bowie. 😄
This song got me out of a depressive episode today. I'm more of a Berlin Trilogy/Outside kind of Bowie fan, but this song absolutely rocks. And the backstory of this song is really sad, which makes it more effective for me.
To me, there are some elements in this video that are reminiscent of The Man Who Fell to Earth, from the corporate intrigue to Bowie being thrown out a window like Buck Henry's character, to Bowie being blindfolded and tortured, not unlike Newton's fate in the movie. I've always loved this song and video.
I've been trying to think why this music video was causing an ache in my heart and what you said makes sense completely. It 100% has the vibe of of man who fell to earth, especially the part where he gets taken and tortured. It is also sad because it's for his brother.
Even though he's gone, I feel blessed to have grown up with his music and performance art.David Bowie was a huge influence on my formative years. The world may never see his like again.
