Suffragette City - David Bowie | College Students' FIRST TIME REACTION! 

His best albums aren't really rock music - Young Americans and Station to Station.

The words "legend" and "icon" are so overused they're basically meaningless now but they both apply to Bowie in a huge way. You should check out his performances in The Last Temptation of Christ and The Prestige.

Too many other must hear albums you should get to 1st. IMO.

Try the song Fame

Three bangers in a row.... Hell of a week boys.... BOWIE is a deep rabbit hole with many corridors to explore..... Love Ziggy

Ronson's on the short list of rock's all-time greatest guitarists. Ronno was no shredder; he was simply tasteful and precise while at the same time being quite sonically adventurous. His tone, especially on his early work with Bowie and then with Ian Hunter, is a landmark in what great rock guitar sounds like. "Suffragette City" is as much a showcase for Ronno as it was for Bowie.

For sure. And its a great example of Bowie knowing exactly which hugely talented musicians/ppl to work with to get the sounds he wanted.

@@fords_nothere_100 Yep. Just in terms of guitarists he worked with the likes of Ronson, Carlos Alomar, Earl Slick, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Reeves Gabrels. I don't think that you can identify any other artist who worked with so many great guitarists -- and with so many guitarists who had such vastly different styles from each other -- over the course of one career. Even Steely Dan, for all the great guitarists it employed, can't match the stylistic breadth and depth of Bowie's roster of guitarists.

Keyboardist Rick Wakeman also brought his talents to Bowie's sound during this era, too. According to the story, their association started when Wakeman was asked to come up to the studio where Bowie was recording "Space Oddity", because Bowie wanted to use the Mellotron in the song and his recording engineer told Bowie that Wakeman was the only keyboardist he knew of who could actually make the cranky contraption work reliably. :-) (The trouble was that the motor mechanism really didn't have enough torque to pull more than one or two tape loops against the spring tension at a time; Wakeman had worked out a fingering technique of only "half-pressing" the keys so that the playback heads were only *just* making contact with the tape, enough to play back the sounds but not enough to drag down the motor, so he could get a full three- or four-note chord out of it.)

And he did the arrangements for the horns.

The Chameleon

Bowie wasn't just a brilliant musician, he was a brilliant business man as well.

Unique and avant-garde is an apt description... . I was just thinking to myself you cant really put Bowie into a box.. he made his own box for sure ..

Absolutely!

They already reacted to fame but def Young Americans

Lilly F cool. ya know, I thought they did but I looked and couldn’t find it

Mos' defny

Bowie tried to give Suffragette City to Mott the Hoople but they took All the Young Dudes instead. Good move!

"Young Americans" is my favorite Bowie song!

Young Americans - great song. When Bowie is the subject, I always think of Drew Barrymore and the movie Wedding Singer.

Love Mott The Hoople ( Ian Hunter ) All The Young Dudes ! ✌😎

A big regret, not seeing him live! Not that he ever came anywhere near my home.😉

If memory serves me right, Starman would have been doing well in the charts then.

@@seanie002 yes, that’s correct. It was released in the UK at the end of April 1972 and was a big hit during the summer. It was groundbreaking. To see a man in make-up on tv (Bowie) with his arm round the shoulder of another (guitarist Mick Ronson) was considered risky and outrageous! I loved the song then and now. When I saw Bowie in concert (at The Rainbow, Finsbury Park, London), Roxy Music were the support act, having just released their debut single, “Virginia Plain.”

@@markgrant5305 I was only 8 at the time but that TOTP performance done it for me. Never looked back.

@Mark Grant I'm a big early Roxy fan, so I totally envy you seeing Virginia Plain et al. I wish A&A would hit Virginia Plain.

That was my first thought too! But I'm old like you.

true!

63 is not old.

@@jetblack.7186 Not when you get there!

Best trashiest guitar sound ever

Yes! A real banger!

We should tell them that, how Bowie uses the word, it's "noun noun," not "verb verb." It affects the pronunciation, y'know!!!😁👍

Yes, Mick Ronson has a most memorable riff. You guys will enjoy it.

@@Keepee66 Ronson......So underrated and misunderstood. Pretty, hunky, platinum-haired, and such a perfect "foil" for this "Bi" period of Bowie's oeuvre. Bowie would actually mimic fellatio on Ronson while he soloed. And, it helped that Mick was a nothing-short-of-a-bitchin' guitarist you could put up against Page, Beck, Clapton, Iommi, Blackmore, and the rest of 'em of the day!

It's a great riff but there are more Bowie songs they need to do.

I think the modern terminology is hit it and quit it??

Yes, that made me laugh.

Ngl I only know it cuz my mom says it lol!

i believe that today you call that hooking up

The famous "Wham Bam Thank-you Ma'am" lyric was the title of one of the tracks on Charles Mingus' 1961 Oh Yeah album (according to Mingus it was also a phrase that his drummer, Max Roach, used when he was "unable to express his inner feelings") and most likely one which Bowie was aware of, being a jazz lover himself, just as droogie don't crash here is a tribute to Stanley Kubrick's clockwork Orange.

The All The Young Dudes whole album is phenomenal, Mott The Hoople were phenomenal, criminally underrated

All the Way to Memphis and Once Bitten Twice Shy are great Mott songs!

Early Mott rocks! I vote for “Rock and Roll Queen” and “Walking with a Mountain.” There’s plenty of great rock and roll down the Mott rabbit hole!

@@billmaxfield7831 Actually “Once Bitten” is from Ian Hunter’s first solo album. Just saying but agree with your suggestion!

Plus about that time Bowie and Ronson worked on Lou Reed's Transformer album and in 74 the hit single The Man Who Sold The World sung by Lulu.

Yup. From the first opening beat of Five Years, it just sucks you in. Amazing album.

use headphones!

Definitely 👍

I love that album. BUT, all the tracks from that album that are on Bowie at the Beebe are so much better, imo. That Bowie at the Beeb is absurdly good. All the Ziggy tracks are incredible!

At full volume, in a dark space, elevated state

This!

@Bill Mason Thanks man

It's when he started to believe he WAS Ziggy Stardust. He said he had to end the character.

So many good Bowie songs.

@Jeff Schielka Haha no it was great, just in the moment I thought I wanted the solo to have been longer 😂

@@andyandalex Listen to the album start to finish. You won't be wanting more of anything!

If you want to hear Mick Ronson for gnarly guitar give Cracked Actor a listen off Alladin Sane. It really pounds the spot. I wanna see your expressions for that one 😁

Life on Mars

Yep. All those. John, I'm Only Dancing and the Ziggy album was what hooked me into Bowie world, after Space Oddity`. What a dude. Like Prince, there will never be another.

Damn I love that man

And a mellow thigh'd chick

100%

It feels like the soundtrack to a movie...it's a whole dystopian story!!

Sound And Vision my favorite too. And Fame

All the mad Men Heroes DJ Width of a circle

Station to Station is a MUST for these guys to do

@@painless465 "It's not the side-effects of the cocaine; I'm thinking that it must be love!"

@@jenuwinedisneyphiles4927 "Its to late,to be late again,the European banner is here"

Not exactly. Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, and 1.Outside are the only albums that have concepts attached to them.

@@chrismeadows4216 Station to Station isn't a concept album? I thought the lyrics "The return of the thin white duke" kind of suggested a concept. I think the album coincided with his movie "The Man Who Fell to Earth."

@@richardy5271 Station to Station is a song about The Thin White Duke, but the rest of the album is a loose collection of songs. The album cover is a picture of Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth, so that can be a bit confusing, but TVC-15 is about a demonic television, Word on a Wing is about David looking to God for help with his cocaine addiction, Stay is a reworking of John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) from the Young Americans sessions, and Wild is the Wind is a cover. There aren't themes that connect anything. To make things even more complicated, David's music for The Man Who Fell to Earth was separate from Station to Station. Most of it was scrapped, aside from a few songs released on Low. It all fits into a period where he was The Thin White Duke live, but he didn't concentrate as much effort into making everything cohesive or conceptual as he did recording really great songs.

One thing people are usually confused by is what "The return of The Thin White Duke" means. It builds a curiosity for if David was The Thin White Duke on Young Americans when he didn't have eyebrows and his hair was longer (some people call that transition The Soul Man) or if it was just during public appearances like The Cher Show later on where he was The Thin White Duke. He made a huge stylistic change. The character wasn't mentioned anywhere before the song Station to Station. It seems like it came out of nowhere, and it was never brought up again on the album or anywhere else. David wasn't really in the right frame of mind to understand where he was going with that concept based on later interviews, so I think of it as just a story for one song.

Jeepster also rocks.

Great song!!! Yes please

Not sure why, but I've always associated Bowie and T-Rex. And yeah, Bang a Gong and 20th Century Boy are bangers.

The song title is Get It On

The Slider...

Indeed, let's not forget Heroin and White Light White Heat.

@@crimmo54 Sweet Jane

I remember confusing that song as being Bowie.

Bowie did a couple great versions of that song too and also performed it live

Why would you want them to do the worst original album Bowie produced during the entire 1970s?

Giddeup to that dude!!! Have loved it since it first came out!!! My fave!! Giddeeup!!!!

1984 off that LP is a great Bowie tune!

@@sirperybLakeney One of my top 3 favorite Bowie Albums. LOL

😘☮️💗♾️

@@Shadowrider1872 ✌❤😘

Anything off the Electric Warrior album would be totally cool.

@@susanklasinski1805 YES!

That was really the only way to discover music. You had to buy it. Some record shops let you listen before you buy, but those we few and far between. Most of the time you had to buy it, and if it was new and the plastic film was opened you couldn’t return it. But that’s how I found some of the best music. By listening to the whole album because it was a good investment.

@@susanklasinski1805 At some point I learned that a group might have a lot more great songs than what I heard in the radio so I just go in the habit of buying albums of groups I knew had one song I liked and listen to all of them. I found so many great songs that way.

If you want to check out a reaction channel, the only reaction channel that’s going through entire albums, it’s Out Loud Reactions and he’s doing all Rush, beginning at their first album and moving forward, including their live albums. Tim is currently working his way through All The World’s A Stage. I highly recommend watching the channel.

I guess it’s from before your time; it deals with a quick meaningless f**k, then leaving and forgetting about her , which is kind of at odds with suffragette.😎✌🏽☮️🎸

"Space Oddity" = David Bowie song released in 1969 about a character named Major Tom "Major Tom" = Peter Schilling song released in 1983 about the same character

@@gregsager2062 ty...oops, I even had the album.

Yep

I like

Same! Not a huge fan of his music, but grateful for what he did for Lou Reed & Nile Rogers.

When you say that, do you like his music at all, or absolutely not? I like his music a lot, but there are a few albums I have listened to several times, but just had to let go.

I admire and applaud you for your comments about admiring his work, but not so much liking it. How refreshingly honest 👏❤️

I completely agree .got to see him live twice during that 5 decades and as you can imagine was absolutely out this world.

I've always felt that Bowie was consistently ahead of his time. And then thirty years after the Glam Rock stuff of my day, my daughter got into him and thought his music sounded very contemporary for her day.

Seconded!

@@christinegilbert1078 Thirded

Farted.

Fifthed lol! I'm not sure if they're ready for that kind of sauce though...

@@lizard6444 I'll be looking forward to them reviewing the lyrics.

I have begged them to do "The Confessor" 6 or 7 times over the last 3 years or so but no luck yet.😩 I know they will love it if they ever hear it!💯😁 My absolute favorite Joe Walsh song!🔥🤗❤️✌️

@@tomaleshire4145 This is my 3rd or 4th request! When left the site, I had to go listen to it!

That's a killer tune. Definitely a deep cut.

@Jeffrey Rigby I was part owner of a foosball hall in 1974-76 and we played that album (literally) all the time!

@Jeffrey Rigby I freakin' love every song on the Montrose album!🥰 Every song is a banger!🔥 Between Ronnie Montrose's screamin' guitar and Sammy Hagar's vocals, damn!😲🤤 As a matter of fact, I'm gonna go listen to "Bad Motor Scooter" and "Rock Candy" right now!😂🤣✌️❤️

And here I thought the phrase Wham bam thank you mam would be generational.

Yes

And Hey Nineteen

Yeah.

Yep. More Dan please guys.

Agreed. I'm still affected by his loss. The stuff with Ian Hunter, Ellen Foley & his solo albums are gems in my collection. His solo on Genya Ravan's Junkman is great too. I was delighted to come across a track he did with Phil Rambow more recently. Ahh, what other great stuff could he have done...

Agree, The coolest guy in the whole world, after David.... produced Let's Dance and more , Nile Rogers 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🤟✌️

Exactly! I never cared what the words were about it’s just such a jammin pounding song!