| David Bowie – Heathen (The Rays) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Unfortunately it doesn't seem like many do care about anything Bowie did after 1990. It's a shame, really, because that part of his work is probably my favourite. | |
| David Bowie – Atomica Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I really like this song! There's a lot of energy on this and it could be a single. I'm surprised this wasn't on the main album. | |
| David Bowie – Up the Hill Backwards Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Underrated? Nah. Everyone likes to compare every Bowie album to this one. "Best since Scary Monsters!" is included in every review of every album since 1980. | |
| David Bowie – Never Get Old Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I know this comment is quite literally a decade old, but I agree with it and although Bowie says that many of his songs aren't personal, I think this one could be. Meeting Iman seemed to really change his life and I think he started to value living a bit more. He realized that he can't live in the present-focused way he did when he was a wild kid back in the 70s. Perhaps the 'you' is Iman, or his daughter. He doesn't want to get old and die because he wants to continue to be around them and love them. | |
| David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I feel like this is a victory song for Bowie. He, like Major Tom, had "hit an all-time low". And while Major Tom was not so fortunate, Bowie was able to make it to the other side of addiction. This song is the funeral for Major Tom, but Bowie is able to be the one singing it. If he'd died young, it was pretty much guaranteed that we'd be hearing endless mournful songs about Major Tom from other artists (other artists were already singing about Major Tom, after all. Think of Peter Schilling.). Bowie survived, however, and could end things on his own terms in his own way. So I really love this song. Not just because of the excellent music, but what it meant for Bowie as an artist. Things could have gone in a much, much worse direction for him but they didn't; this song is a reminder of that. It almost makes you proud of him. |
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| David Bowie – Ricochet Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I really like this song; it seems very different and almost off-beat. Bowie said he felt the syncopation in this song was pretty bad in hindsight, but oddly enough I think that's why I like song. The spoken "Ricochet-- it's not the end of the world!" doesn't really fit very well but it's there anyway and I love how unique it is. | |
| David Bowie – New Killer Star Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I've listened to many different versions to try and see if it's just on the original, but I keep hearing it even MORE in live versions-- the way Bowie sings "All the corners of the buildings/ Who but we remember these" (and sometimes a few lines following) sounds like he's doing a parody of an Southern American accent. It kind of sounds to me like he's doing a Bush impression? You can especially hear it when he says "buildings" in live performances; it's just such a weird way to say it, yet he consistently sings it the same way. This combined with things I've read online lead me to believe the song is a criticism on how Bush handled 9/11. Bush was infamous for pronouncing "nuclear" the wrong way, and the title (as people have pointed out) is pretty much a play on this mispronunciation. The "ready, set, go" lines evoke the image of a race, and could be about what many people believe was Bush's rush to invade Iraq. "I got a better way" is sung right before "ready, set, go"-- perhaps it's showing that Bush didn't consider other "better" options? "I discovered a star" could be Bush's claim that there were WMD in Iraq-- a few lines later, the line is swapped with "a new killer star" which probably means nuclear weapons. "Oh, my idiot trance/ All my idiot questions" I think at this point it's a bit self-explanatory. It's one of my favourite Bowie songs because its meaning is subtle yet it makes its point. |
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