David Bowie- Queen Bitch (REACTION//DISCUSSION)
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Song Link: • David Bowie - Queen Bitch - Hudba
Bowie was a true artist. Not only did he explore all kinds of music, he thoroughly explored his own sexuality and made it part of his music. At various times he told the press that he was bisexual, gay, and years later, settled on "closet heterosexual". Witty and wise, he always felt comfortable in and around the gay community and was a true friend and supporter to the end. Usually, there is no particular reason to go into an artist's private life. But in this case, it so informs his 70's work, that one must acknowledge the elephant in the room.
Justin, in tribute to Bowie's most artful and brilliant album, I feel it would be rather appropriate that you don your best bibbedy boppity hat during your review of The Bewlay Brothers.
“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”
― David Bowie
To help ya out.
After tributes to Warhol and Dylan, this is a hommage to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground. I just love Ronson's guitar on this track.
For your next Bowie album why not turn to his first proper album - 1969's Space Oddity? It's not like any other album in Bowie's catalog, being a folk/psychedelic rock record, but it still has some great songs on it and some of Bowie's best vocals.
Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud, Cygnet Committee, and Memory of a Free Festival are really underappreciated tracks.
And Rick Wakeman, for Justin the Yes lover!
The previous song was Bowie in Dylan mode and this time it's Bowie in Lou Reed mode ! This is Hunky Dory's rockiest track. it already points to the glam-rock side of Ziggy & co. but for me, it's even better. For Bowie's next album, you actually have several options. Either you stay in this register with Aladdin Sane, or you go ahead with the Berlin trilogy (Low, "Heroes", Lodger) or you take the tangent with the soul of Young Americans !!!
Or, finally, get to Man Who Sold The World... now that's an album
@@jfergs.3302 That's another option but personally apart from "The Width of a Circle", "After All" and the title track, I never liked this album.
I know Aladdin Sane is an album that some love and others hate. Me I love it. I love Rick Wakeman's piano on other albums' for Rick's expert playing, but I remember almost 50 years ago falling in love with Mike Garson's piano on Aladdin Sane.
@@PaulMDove2 As far as Aladdin Sane is concerned, it's an album that I don't hate but there are nevertheless two or three dispensable tracks such as "Drive-In Saturday", "The Prettiest Star" and the Stones cover "Let's Spend the Night Together". My favorite tracks on the album are "Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)", "Time" and "Lady Grinning Soul".
@@a.k.1740 Interesting... My fave Bowie album, but i've always considered the title track the weakest on it. You've gotta love music eh.
I always thought this was about Lou Reed. He's another one that deserves some attention. Transformer is a brilliant album, (produced by Bowie.) Also, the first Velvet Underground album with Nico. Genius.
Transformer and Berlin! Lou Peaking. JP, (not me him), should delve into those LPs. Particularly as Transformer features Ronson.
Yeah, that’s what I always heard, especially cos Lou was always known around the factory for being bitchy.
It was. For Bowie’s 50 birthday concert they played it together
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My favorite Bowie song, for all the reasons you mentioned. Your Key & Peele reference is perfect ! Hilarious!
I don’t know how to share a photo but David attended the Glastonbury Festival in 1971 and he wore a frock coat and bippity bobberty hat. Quoted in the Bowie Bible, “During his time on the festival site, Bowie wore a blue ‘magician’s cloak’, and a floppy-brimmed hat bought from the Universal Witness, Paul Reeves’ shop on London’s Fulham Road.” And there is a picture of him too
Just found your channel through your Carpenters reactions, and you're an instant sub for me, JP! I LOVE that you listen to the whole song without pausing, give little nods and glances to the camera, then give your thoughts at the end. This is SO rare among reactors, and it completely works! And have such a great grasp of the musicality *and* emotion of a song. Tbh I've got a little crush on you already, man: you're a genius :-)
Aw, thank you so much Slash! I really appreciate that a lot :)
Bowie's tribute to The Velvet Underground!
So much energy!
Because of the name of the song it never got radio play. I hadn't heard it in decades until it played over the closing scenes of "Life Aquatic with Steve Zizzou".
That's odd. It didn't stop Elton John's The Bitch is Back from becoming a Top Forty hit. It was a few years later; maybe that was the difference...
@@Habichiwoowoo true, maybe a few years made the difference. Because Bitch is Back actually has the word Bitch in the lyrics while Bowie 's song doesnt use the word, it's just in the title.
I've been reminded throughout this album review of just what a magnificent record this was from Bowie. Not a weak track on it.
Musically, this is unremarkable but as a finished recording, it's excellent. It's the little extras that make this memorable rather than the melody line. Yes, the vocals are almost proto-punk, the guitar is dirty and the rhythm section are always in danger of being left behind. Sounds like an outtake from White Light/White Heat and that's exactly what he was going for.
OMG! This song just gets me going. Why didn't I say...no no no.... You Betcha, Oh yeah, Uh huh, Mmmm... LOVE IT! Great reaction Justin..as usual!
Just love this track. It's so playful and bright.
Bowie & Ronson
Harmonies during the Chorus just Hits Different
My favourite David Bowie song, one of many
This song erupts volumes of fun and sunshine.
There's an excellent live version of this song from an old English TV show. Very cool!
Old Grey Whistle Test? czcams.com/video/GMv3L4Kia1U/video.html
Bowie could perform any genre he wanted.
One of my top Bowie numbers. A fine tribute to the Velvet Underground.
As a proper piano-hater, this is my HD highlight... til Bewlay Brothers.
After this album you should close off this era with Aladdin Sane, and then transition into the Berlin trilogy.
Yep!
Bowie's charming handwritten liner notes on the back cover of Hunky Dory say in regard to this song, 'Some VU White Light returned with thanks', (referring to the song White Light/White Heat). It's a cliche now but hardly anyone was aware of the Velvets until Lou Reed's solo career focused attention on them. In the beginning outside of Warhol's Factory crowd and the New York art and avant garde scene they were largely ignored. They sold hardly any records in their lifetime, but again as the cliche goes (popularised I think by Eno), everyone that saw them formed a band. Bowie was probably one of the few people at the time that was listening to them in the UK in 71 when Hunky Dory came out. Of course later on he produced Transformer for Lou, with Mick Ronson doing the piano arrangements. This is another reason why I love Bowie. The amount of other bands he got me into growing up in the 70's, from The Stooges and The Velvets to krautrock bands like Kraftwerk, Can and Neu during his electronic phase. He never stood still, always ahead of the curve. I said on another comment thread the other day, for people like me growing up in the Uk in the 70's he was my generations Elvis.
Justin, loved the way you looked up & smiled every time you got to the "bippity boppity hat" lyric! It always had that same effect on me as a teen when I got this album back in the day. It was the little things like this that captured my imagination about Bowie. My inner voice was screaming "Who IS this guy?!" & fueled my interest further. Fun to see it effecting others like this, just sayin'! 😁
Haha thank you Chris!
Great Song DAVID rocks.
Remember that being one of my favorite tracks from that album. Funny story, but mostly for - exactly as you said - how that guitar got me awake.
LOVE this song
It could have been me. Oh yeah, it could have been me!
But, it wasn't; it was me!😀
A joy to watch you listen... QB stole his man. 'A little VU returned with thanks.' is in the liner notes.
Definitely one of my top 5 Bowie tracks. It just swings non stop.
This is Bowie paying tribute to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground. Similar riff to Sweet Jane.
You can hear future NY Dolls in the guitar.
Bowie forever!
I used to mix this with Rocks Off by the Stones. The punks thought rock was dead when Hunky Dory and Exile on Main Street were barely five years old. Talk about youthful impatience!
For a change of pace: Scary Monsters.
He did all of Station to Station last year.
Hey, Just JP community, what can we do to help JP to get more subscribers. He's criminally underappreciated.
Plus, dammit, I want to go through Tommy with him!
Now THIS is a choon ! Yes it’s Bowie but more to the point it’s Bowie and Ronson! Ronsons guitar on this is like a buzzsaw and the finished product is just awesome , there’s a video of this from the old grey whistle test music show in the uk and it’s the coolest vid I e ever seen they all look super cool and the song just makes it so much better as a whole . This is the album version which I don’t think is as good but still awesome , never thought I’d see the words bibbly bobbly hat in a sentence 😆
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Bowie must have watched the Disney movie Cinderella with his kid, because in the film, the Fairy Godmother sings "Bippety Boppety Boo" while she's casting spells.
he was def a part of proto-punk, along with iggy, and lou reed....u should do lou reed's "transformer" album, a MASTERPIECE PRODUCED by Bowie AND mick RONSON, it f'n amazing....anyway, good reaction as always, man:)
You betcha ☮️❤️
Such a playful song and it it needed since there are some weighty songs on this album. You are about to experience the Bewley Brothers which is one of my favorite Bowie songs.
My vote for next album is Aladdin Sane or Young Americans.....after those, you will be primed for the Berlin Trilogy. Aladdin Sane has such breath-takingly beautiful songs on it. Mike Garson makes Rick Wakeman seem like a piano novice.
Brilliance!
Sadly Woody the drummer is the only surviving member of the spiders from Mars , rip the other 3 👍🏴
Classic, Bowie at his best.
Rifftastic, toe-tappin' stuff ---makes me appreciate all the more "Suffragette City" for what it is
Here's a notion for the next move: *Transformer* by Lou Reed...basically a Bowie/Ronson side project (under the watchful eyes of Uncle Ken Scott) that served up one indelible track amid a whole bunch of other goodness ---a rock album quite like none other, and fast approaching its 50th birthday...
And a perfect album it is
Transformer is excellent and a very Bowiesque album.
And only rightly so, of course, what with Dave himself heading up the project; getting his pal Ronno to help at the board, play guitar, and compose and arrange backing instrumental tracks; drafting in session wiz Herbie Flowers to play bass(es), Ronnie Ross on sax, and (even!) a tuba player; and laying down exquisite backing vocals on "Satellite of Love" and "I'm So Free," mm hmm ---only the royal treatment for one of his heroes and inspirations, whose own career got a kickstart from it that would sustain for the very rest of his rock 'n' roll life
Such a great cut. Love the riff , we all had to learn this song.
Killer album! It's like at least three different artists made it. I too love the rhythm/punk vibe. He even had a more punk Ziggy look if you check out the earliest videos of Pretty Things, Five Years and Starman. Did you already do 'Oh You Pretty Things?' JP love your stuff.
Proving that Bowie made the very first bottle of SunnyD,
Bowie's love letter to Lou Reed with a riff lifted off Eddie Cochran's "Three Steps To Heaven". Loads of Velvet Underground references on the lyric. You can hear the birth of Ziggy Stardust in VU's "Beginning To See The Light" & "Waiting For The Man" - "Queen Bitch" is the genealogical bridge.
One of my fav. DB songs 🎵 👌 😍
This homage is 'Loaded'. with 'White Light/ White Heat'! That Queen Bitch ( No not Freddie!) will 'Squeeze' you into becoming a 'Transformer'! But what do I know? I'm just a lonely 'Lodger feeling kinda 'Low' waiting for 'Heroes' to battle 'Scary Monsters...And Super Creeps'! Peace.
A Man Who Fell To Earth sometimes needs a friend to Fashion up a Conversation Piece to giggle to and push toward A Better Future.
@@-davidolivares Very nice, but I believe that Days Of the Future have passed, and that gives me The Moody Blues!
My #1 Bowie song... Good reaction...
Ty Ste :)
Hey JP ! Nice review, as always :) !
You realize, of course,that you've created havok in the comments just by mentioning the next Bowie album to review :D ?
Naturally, I'll go for "Outside", which I'm pretty sure you'll love, but since it's probably not popular enough (and this channel is not here for my own little pleasure, alas...), I'd suggest you move out of his Glam years and step forward a few years to his Berlin Trilogy. "Low" would be a great choice, I guess.
Btw, I don't think you ever reacted to the Velvet Underground yet ? "The Velvet Underground & Nico" is one of those albums that not only influenced rock music : it created a whole branch of genres. Rumor has it, that only a handful of people listened to this abum when It got out. And each one of them created a rock band ! Don't know if it's true, but the thought itself is beautiful ^^ !
What a toe tapping eye opener of a love spurn. Sweet Jane keeps popping up in my head now.
This has been a dive into an unknown Bowie pool and it been interesting. I hope against all odds, he he, that we can shoot forward to mature Mr. B and swim in the Heathen (David Torn) or Earthing ( Electronica) pool. It’s a long shot but I have to take it.
If not, I’ll just play them at work and get side eyed all day.
Peace and long shot Music
Either Young Americans or Low. ✌
Best song on the album. I was on my way out the door but saw this and couldn't leave before hearing it.
The Killers’ Mr. Brightside samples this with their lyrics:
and she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke and she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed and my stomach is sick
HONKY DORY was my favorite DB for a long time! The overall feel and diversity are brilliant. If you lived back then you would have felt where GLAM bands like Bowie, Roxy Music and Eno unique styles were headed and who they influenced later
A bit racist, methinks!😄
Fantastic track. Ronsons guitar is epic.
This is basically bowie,s version of velvet underground,s 'sweet jane' just a little faster
Celebrating the king of New York, Lou Reed.
Liked this before I even saw your reaction! This song is in my top 5 Bowie songs.
One of the best. Ronson is a god!
JP, One cool thing you might have noted, this is on the same LP with Life on Mars, Kooks and Quicksand. Who has that kind of range in one LP? Right?
Thanks, John Press (JP2).
What I love about Queen Bitch is that it's supersharp but also looseygoosey. If you know what I mean.
I hear some Green Day. Rocking acoustic guitar
Dude. I'm the only human that you will ever know who can dance to the entire album. I lost my respect for Ronson when I saw him onstage in 1972. Yes, he is a most excellent arranger.
One thing that I often see in comments About Queen Bitch vs The Killers Mr Brightside is if QB influenced MB. Mostly I think that's because of the lyrics around "I'm phoning a cab" and "she's calling a cab" are sung in a similar cadence in both songs. But maybe this similarity is more than just coincidence, I don't know.
not just the lyrics that are so similar..
Great track. You've also gotta play "Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed" which I think is a real rockin' track. Don't skip Bowie's earlier great music.
Why? Do you think I've got eyes in my backside?😆
Excellent review. Huge David Bowie fan. Just like Sparks. 😀
Yes, an excellent review. No amateur hour here. The the town is big enough for both of you.
Afternoon JP, from a fresh, breezy sunny East Coast of England. I've been waiting for you...and I do love me some Bowie. Saw him in 81 I think. Was he amazing, gorgeous and God like? LOL What do YOU think. Looking forward to your reaction; pretty sure you will love it.
Breezy and sunny, can't get better :) Thank you Dawn
Probably my favorite song on the album, and one of his best rockers. Seems like a Ziggy song almost, but I prefer this album. And there's a BBC performance from this time I like even better. I don't know if you go and listen to other versions of things after reacting here.
This is my favorite Bowie, hands down. As others noted, the roots of Ziggy Stardust are here (especially next to "Hang On To Yourself" or "Suffragette City").
Far as I could tell on my own, this song is about 'guy gets ditched by his boyfriend, who decided to chase after a sex worker.' Sounds like I wasn't that far off the mark. XD
Glam can still rock hard.
Knew you would!!
Isn't this about Lou Reed?
I always think it’s a take of walk on the wild side.
We can say that it is a precursor to "Walk on the Wild Side". The two tracks were recorded and released a year apart.
Yes, true.
Ziggy is great. Aladdin Sane is even better. Then you’ve got Diamond Dogs, which is Glam meets Goth…you can’t go wrong with any of them on your road to the Berlin Trilogy!
Love Diamond Dogs! :D
I vote for Scary Monsters
A bitchin' track if ever I heard one. :)
Loved this reaction.. great job.. 👍
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This song would never exist if Lou Reed hadn't existed. But Lou Reed could never have written this song, for as "out there" as the Velvet Underground were,
being Americans, they didn't have quite the same grasp of campiness as the Brits do.
This song is a RIOT. Hysterically funny, sexy and hard rocking at the same time. Lou Reed's sense of humour was far too serious for this sort of thing.
The closest he got to it was arguably on "Transformer", which, surprise surprise, was produced (and largely written) by Bowie!
Anyway, it's a hell of a feelgood song, and there aren't too many of those in the Bowie discography. Shame, really. He was great fun when he let loose.
Would love you to react to David Bowie Where are we now. It's a gorgeous song. Fantastic reactions man!! An old punk pal loved hunky dory. Said it was really punk.
Thank you Emander!
Are you planning on hitting the rest of The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown in the future?
Yup :)
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Afterglow genesis live 1987 montroex please please please.
Can you please react to Robert palmer song called Know by now
Please
Please react to "Los Jaivas - La poderosa muerte".
If you ain't got a 'bippity boppity hat' then you ain't got a hat .. LOL
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Now i admit that The Velvet Underground may have suffered a slightly bigger injustice than DB as far as my ability to listen without prejudice is concerned.
I take DB for granted, and leave it be on most occasions. But this song took me to Transformer by Lou Reed, which made me realise that The Velvet Underground has remained underground, out of earshot for me.
Wow. You’ve just mentioned them! That’s symmetrical synchronised sensibility innit.
So to summarise, John Cale says Yeah I’m Welsh but Lou isn’t, nor Nico eirher but give us a chance.
Listen without Prejudice Vol 2?
Alternatively, the Triffids are movin in on me, JP! Time is short. Try the 2 openers on Born Sandy Devotional, you’ll be moved I’m sure.
Ta!
It's a very caddy, gay culture song, very much a nod to Lou Reed and VU.
Gender is a bit squishy in this number.