Thank you thank you thank you This record has never gotten the attention it deserves - one of his very best. Ronson is on fire. Thank you for doing this album
He really is amazing. He is under appreciated even though he is super appreciated. It’s not enough! And not enough focus on his costars as well… mick and woody are insane lol
@@L33Reacts You have barely scratched the surface too ❤️ His drum n bass/industrial album “Earthling” will blow your mind. Also Outside, Heathen, Reality. Did you do Blackstar already? I need a spreadsheet to keep track 😂
There are some very special songs by Bowie, that hardcore fans always give a particular nod to. 'All The Madmen' would be one of them I guess, but 'After All' most certainly is one of them. In the same way as special reverence is rightly given to 'Lady Grinning Soul', 'SweetThing/Candidate/Sweet Thing', and 'Win' for instance. Frankly there's quite a few of them.
2:17 I think the synthesizer here is the Stylophone, which was used on Space Oddity, a small, cheap instrument with a keyboard of electrical contacts played with a stylus connected to the electrics by a wire.
I've always been fascinated by "After All". A uniquely Bowie concept....contrasting a jaunty carnival-like sound with deeply thoughtful lyrics...brilliant. One of my favorite overlooked Bowie songs.
Glad to see someone reacting to this MOST underappreciated of all Bowie releases. I wore it the fuck OUT when first purchasing it in 1979. It rocks HARD from beginning to end--and so do you for showing it. Thanks.
It's been decades since I've heard these songs!! Can't believe I remembered the lyrics. You have got me moving into all of your Bowie reactions! Thank you for the really fond memories! He was my very first concert as a teen!
Teenage Bowie idolised his older step-brother Terry who unfortunately, around this time developed serious mental health problems and had to be committed to an institution . There were also other members of his Mothers side of the family who had mental health problems . This may be why a lot of Bowie's songs deal with this kind of subject. Great reactions. Always a great journey to go on.
This album is so great and it was really ahead of its time. It took about twenty years, but then it became one of his most influential, at least with the harder genres of rock.
Lee, Bowie played the Stylophone on "After All", Ralph's synths happened in the third verse breakdown. All three tracks are brilliant in their own way.
I used to make a 7- to 8-hour drive to see family: TMWSTW, Pin-Ups and the first two Black Crowes albums were always in the mix - great music for warding off road-weariness.
I always thought the intonation and warbling of some of the vocals in Black Country Rock was a tip of the hat to Marc Bolan, who was a friend and would have been a sort of rival at the time - in the sense that they both seemed to have a chance of breaking through to the mainstream.
One of the Bowie themes is mental illness as David's half brother Terry was institutionalized. This comes through in songs like All The Madmen and Bewley Brothers (Hunky Dory album). If you love this, you will LOVE Hunky Dory and especially Diamond Dogs that is based on the 1984 (Novel theme) as it based on a dystopian society.
Never really liked Bowie doing rock, which is why I've never enjoyed The Man Who Sold the World album with the exception of the title track, "The Width of a Circle" and above all the darker "After All", which is closer to what I like about Bowie and one of my favourite tracks from his discography.
I bought this album back in the 70s, but only liked the title track. The rest of it seemed to me to be a young Bowie still working out how to do it. The great album from that era was and remains Hunky Dory, with, for me, the best Side A of any album ever.
