Through my life...I pretty much watched the rise of David Bowie and loved him through all his multiple phases. I was a young girl of 14 when I first discovered him in a Melody Maker magazine and thought he was the most fascinating entertainer I'd ever seen. I'm now 65 and he still mesmerizes me to this day. I hate knowing he's no longer with us and creating his magic. Gone way too soon. Great video reaction!!
And yet, on another channel, one commenter was blowing up that the reactor was talking about the song and not just glowing about the singer! I'm with you though.
Bought this single by accident as a 11 yr old. I thought I was buying 2001 a space odyssey lol. Took it home a pop it on the record player and am like wtf. 😳 who the hell is this. Then I started listening and said wow not bad. Would sit in my dark bedroom with this playing dreaming I was major Tom 😎
You should listen to "Ashes to Ashes" (where Major Tom makes another appearance). Also, you might want to check out Bowie's song "Black Star" (the official video). Major Tom appears in that one too. It warms my heart to see a young person learning to love Bowie. I am 67 years old and have been listening to him since 1969. I still have original vinyl pressings of his albums, bought so many, many years ago.
“That’s why we listen to music.” Brilliant reaction to the masterwork of a true musical genius. A Day in the Life reference. Wow. Might be the best reaction video I’ve seen.
To have never heard Bowie before?? Wow! I've always loved his music and was fortunate to see him perform live. A legend, and a wonderful back catalogue to explore.
You would be richly rewarded by just going track by track through all Bowie's albums as the breadth and scope of his work will delight and astound you. His ability to change his look, his sound and his insatiable search for growth and education is unique in the world. David is the rarest of artists, a polished, unique, unfettered music will only inspire and nourish your appreciation of all musical genres. Can't you tell I love him - but his work is phenomenal - best reaction to one of his songs ever - don't just do the singles or just the popular stuff - the album tracks are magnificent.
Good choices! I rarely recommend Live performances as a first exposure to a song, but the BBC video of "Five Years" is sublime! The slow drum intro and outro are so visceral. In a time of Pandemics and Climate Change, the song was never more emotionally relevant.
David Bowie’s catalog is real deep... all his albums sound different... in other words this is one deep rabbit hole. “Ashes to ashes funk to funky we know Major Toms a junkie”
I love watching people react to the stereo effects in this song. People who try to listen to it with a shared set of headphones (which I truly don't understand) miss so much!
Every album up to and including Scary Monsters. Plus Blackstar. You'll get the whole Major Tom story. I actually teared up a bit watching this, seeing the power of recognition for an artist who shaped my life. I'm so grateful for his music. I love your comments. Hope you enjoy your path of discovery too.
You should do a Bowie Marathon just as you did for Zeppelin. There are so many incredible Bowie Songs, many of which I have not seen any reactions for on youtube.
There are sooo many from Bowie to recommend! "Stay" from Station To Station is a personal fave. Those amazing vocals of his, and rippin' lead guitar! The song "Station To Station" kicks ass as well! Then he REALLY shows off his vocals on "Wild Is The Wind". And of course anything from Ziggy Stardust. Oh, I could go on and on!
Bowie is my favorite artist of all time. You’ ve quite a musical journey ahead of you! Try Station to Station, Moonage Daydream, Aladdin Sane, the man who sold the world, Ashes to Ashes, so many great songs. Bowie did two sequels to Space Oddity, Ashes to ashes and Black Star... but watch the videos that accompany them, so much artistry!
plus a stripped down acoustic version of space oddity in 1979. The video premiered on Kenny Everrits TV show at midnight 31 dec 1979, seeing in the new decade. Shades of that video appeared in Ashes later in the year, and also shades of The Man who Fell to Earth in the 1979 /1980 video. actually the video I posted link to heer has been edited to include Ashes scenes which came months later. czcams.com/video/z5wMEqEuTTA/video.html
Great reaction..made me emotional about a song I've heard thousands of times... I was you in 1976. Some personal Bowie favorites- Width of a Circle Bewlay Brothers Rock and Roll Suicide Starman (try to watch video from Top of the Pops- great moment in rock history) Life on Mars (video is a must also) Lady Stardust Sweet Thing/Candidate Drive-in Saturday Young Americans Station to Station Wild is the Wind Stay Win Fantastic Voyage Sons of the Silent Age Sound and Vision Blackstar
You could jump into any period of Bowie's journey and find songs just as powerful, sad, uplifting. That's how amazing he was. He was my musical education and teacher from being a 12 year old arty kid in 1976 who suddenly found his tribe.
If you can do some of his songs from his Ziggy Stardust days such as Ziggy Stardust and Rebel Rebel...also his song Heroes is a gorgeous creation also!
A true genius. You'll find that Major Tom makes an appearance in later songs too, up to the last album of his life. I won't list those 3 or more songs here but will leave that a mystery, as you will certainly be hooked into this exploration of Bowie.
This came out around the time of the Moon landings and after the release of the movie 2001 A Space Oddesy.... So many people thought it was going to be a time of frequent space travel.... But alas... We're still mostly all here.
If you want to hear a song with a lot of contrast to this one, please react to Win from his album Young Americans. It was one of his all-time favorite tracks he ever recorded and it's absolutely beautiful.
Also, I'd like to recommend songs that are equally masterful. As the World Falls Down Letter to Hermione The Drowned Girl Look Back in Anger Teenage Wildlife
Bowie's first love was musical theatre, he is a frustrated musical writer, and what he couldn't achieve in musical theatre he packed into his songwriting and performances, creating epic stories and characters like Ziggy Stardust, The Thin White Duke, Aladdin Sane, The Lone Alien, Pierrot, The Blind Prophet not to mention his acting roles... A lot of people don't realise his hero was Anthony Newley who wrote Stop The World I want To Get Off, Scroge and most famously Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (candy Man was a huge hit for him). Bowie's vocal style is modeled on Newley's style. That's why Bowie was so creative, he wanted to write musicals and tell stories through his songs, so not being able to do that in the theatre he did it through pop music and his live performances.
45 years ago I visited for the first time a Bowie concert. As a young musician I felt his talent and his incredible universe of music. I'm glad, to see you Emmanuel, reacting on Bowie's different layers of Art. Over the decades I discovered a lot of his hidden music jewels. They are not so popular but not less good. If you like, I'll give you a title or two.
It was a stab to my heart when he died. This song is about his alter ego....drug addiction. He was masterful in painting a picture of space and so on but he struggled with drug addiction...he overcame but never forgot about his struggle yet in his last years he struggled with cancer. He is so missed !
The thing to know about Bowie's music is that it does not stand still... Indeed, he was so ahead of his time that by the time everyone else was about to catch up, he'd have moved on, renewing, adapting his style to new ideas, new concepts. A truly brilliant man!
David Bowie was way ahead of his time. He didn't reach mass appeal until his first pop album in the 1980s. Go down the Bowie rabbit hole because you'll love it. The song was inspired by the classic Kubrick movie, Space Odessey.
You are right that this one goes dark, as does much of Bowie's work (the better pieces are semi-autobiographical). Try "The Man Who Sold the World," "Aladdin Sane," "Sweet Thing/Candidate," "My Death," "Rock and Roll Suicide," "Wild Is the Wind," "Scary Monsters," "Cat People," "Dead Man Walking" - and if you ever react to an entire album, both _Aladdin_ _Sane_ and _Diamond_ _Dogs_ are breathtaking trips.
The Moon Landing anthem! They looked in the 60s for people in the military that are pilots and aeroengineers to be astronauts hence, "Major Tom." It's not easy to become an astronaut that's for sure.
Kudos to you Emmanuel for really getting at its fullest extent and just that one first hearing, the greatness not just of this masterpiece, but that of the full body of work by the Spaceman during his time with us in this plane of existence. I will recommend ya "Five Years", "Rock'n Roll Suicide" ,."Wild is the wind" and "Lazarus". Only to begin with. Bye for now and keep up the grand acknowledging.
I hope you became a true Bowie fan!! There's a lot of music of his out here on YT, I recommend all of it!! It's sad he left us so soon, he was one of a kind. RIP David!! 😥
Props to you for appreciating a song 60 plus years old. You also undetstand the meaing of the song because Bowie was facinated with idea of space travel. I have always loved this Bowie song.
It was around 1971 and I was in school in Britain and one afternoon we were between lessons and in the room next door was our maths teacher Mr Tom who was not liked, so we played this song quite loudly so he could hear it as the walls were quite thin. Disappointedly I seem to recall he didn’t react which was a shame because we thought it was so cool.
Emmanuel, I cannot express my level of enjoyment at your reaction to, Space Oddity. Music at the time of Bowie’s ascension was truly made up of ‘other worldly talents’, which made for spellbinding listening in many genres. David had enormous creativity and production skills, to bring about the emotions you experienced. Your sincerity was obvious and heartfelt, great job.
Emmanuel, I love that your generation is listening to and analyzing the music I took for granted. Bowie was ahead of his time during the 60's, 70's, 80's ... till he died recently. Again, I appreciate that you're listening to a true genius and not some pseudo genius of a lot of contemporary music. Best wishes on your voyage to Bowie. Almost every one of his albums is incredible. Pick any one of his albums and you'll hear the magic. I'm going to subscribe to your channel and watch your videos. Right on Mr. Flores., right on.
Sweet Thing/ Candidate/Sweet Thing Reprise. Brilliant as was his decades long career. Aladdin Sane,Lady Grinning Soul, Conversation Piece,Blackstar, Life On Mars. that's just a handful. Keep it up w/ him,it's a life changing journey.
There is a ‘sequel’ to this song - “Ashes to Ashes,” also about alienation but Major Tom’s issues there are about addiction, anyway, It’s another gorgeous, well written song.
51 Years old and still a moving track.....i remember hearing this in Radio at teh beginning of the 70´s. I was only about 5 or 6 years old but this caught me.
It's nice to see younger generations getting into David Bowie. This is one of my favorite Bowie songs. It came out when I was a small child and I didn't hear it until I was in college. The song blows me away. Heroes is a good one too.
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!
Welcome to Bowie. If you're looking for a perfect duo, see David Bowie and Bing Crosby doing Little Drummer Boy. I remember when this song aired. It has stayed with me as a beautiful pairing of the most disparate men. So completely different in approach but completely perfect together.
Bowie would appreciate your reaction, posting my reply it was 54 years after it was written, and people still marvel at the song writing and production.
Great reaction! Bowie never stays in one place musically which I love. This is early Bowie and he goes from more acoustic to rockers, to soul, to avant-garde artist. I personally love the many changes he goes through. Life On Mars, Rock and Roll Suicide, Lady Grinning Soul, Stay, Station to Station ....that gives you a good smattering of his talent. The sequel to this song is "Ashes to Ashes" although they are completely different song styles.
A lot going on in this song but in its simplest form, it was inspired by the Apollo 11 astronauts landing on the moon. Bowie had a knack for capturing the world's mood. Chris Hadfield a modern day astronaut re-recorded it with updated lyrics from the International Space Station. Bowie approved. In 1982 Peter Schilling created the song Major Tom as a tribute to this song.
You make me cry... I first heard it in 1974... couldn't believe my ears then... been a lifelong Bowie fan since... until the day i join major Tom Life On Mars up next... cue it up!
Through my life...I pretty much watched the rise of David Bowie and loved him through all his multiple phases. I was a young girl of 14 when I first discovered him in a Melody Maker magazine and thought he was the most fascinating entertainer I'd ever seen. I'm now 65 and he still mesmerizes me to this day. I hate knowing he's no longer with us and creating his magic. Gone way too soon. Great video reaction!!
The same to me, the first song I heard was Genie, his voice was so unique just like his looks. Got to see him in 2 concerts. God bless him :)
Miss him so much! ;(
Finally, a reaction that understands the song meaning and doesn’t just comment only on the singing. Thank you!
And yet, on another channel, one commenter was blowing up that the reactor was talking about the song and not just glowing about the singer! I'm with you though.
Right? It was great to see someone GET IT....❤
Bought this single by accident as a 11 yr old. I thought I was buying 2001 a space odyssey lol. Took it home a pop it on the record player and am like wtf. 😳 who the hell is this. Then I started listening and said wow not bad. Would sit in my dark bedroom with this playing dreaming I was major Tom 😎
@Reginald Joseph bots
Thats some good shit my bro!!! Best mistake ever
I wouldn't want to dream I was major tom, but I see what you mean and it makes me think of moments like that for me as a kid
You should listen to "Ashes to Ashes" (where Major Tom makes another appearance). Also, you might want to check out Bowie's song "Black Star" (the official video). Major Tom appears in that one too. It warms my heart to see a young person learning to love Bowie. I am 67 years old and have been listening to him since 1969. I still have original vinyl pressings of his albums, bought so many, many years ago.
Starman, Jean Genie, Suffragette City, Rebel Rebel, Changes, Life On Mars. There are so many.
The same as always 🙄
Heroes
Cygnet Committee, When I live My Dream, Quicksand, All The Madmen, Because You'e Young, etc etc etc etc
Ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, changes!
Moonage daydream life on mars ashes to ashes let's dance ziggy stardust so many outhere
Canadian astronaut, Chris Hatfield, brought his guitar and streamed his version of this song from the International Space Station! It was awesome!
“That’s why we listen to music.” Brilliant reaction to the masterwork of a true musical genius. A Day in the Life reference. Wow. Might be the best reaction video I’ve seen.
Brought bumps to the arms and tears to my eyes to see him react to a song I've listened to dozens and dozens of times... subscribed.
OMG! How could I not mention Rock N Roll Suicide from Ziggy Stardust! That song saved my life.
OMG - that’s my line! That song also saved my life, seriously.
that song saved a lot of people's lives
To have never heard Bowie before?? Wow! I've always loved his music and was fortunate to see him perform live. A legend, and a wonderful back catalogue to explore.
You would be richly rewarded by just going track by track through all Bowie's albums as the breadth and scope of his work will delight and astound you. His ability to change his look, his sound and his insatiable search for growth and education is unique in the world. David is the rarest of artists, a polished, unique, unfettered music will only inspire and nourish your appreciation of all musical genres. Can't you tell I love him - but his work is phenomenal - best reaction to one of his songs ever - don't just do the singles or just the popular stuff - the album tracks are magnificent.
Great comment.
Every song by David Bowie is a masterpiece!! Do more!! There's alot!!!
Makes you realise how brave and pioneering those first cosmonauts and astronauts were...
Five Years, Life on Mars, Rock N' Roll Suicide
Good choices! I rarely recommend Live performances as a first exposure to a song, but the BBC video of "Five Years" is sublime! The slow drum intro and outro are so visceral. In a time of Pandemics and Climate Change, the song was never more emotionally relevant.
David Bowie’s catalog is real deep... all his albums sound different... in other words this is one deep rabbit hole.
“Ashes to ashes funk to funky we know Major Toms a junkie”
Strung out on Heaven’s high, reaching an all time low…” 🎶🎧
David Bowie, absolutely amazing artist.
For me this is the greatest song ever. I know I can be wrong but just the way I feel when I listen to it, sad and happy at the same time.
Also my favorite song.
Its the best reaction I ever heard. It is intelligent as well as full of feelings about this song, which is one of my favourite ever made.
2:11 that part always gives me chills and I love seeing people react to it David Bowie was awesome
Everything Bowie did was beautiful.
I love watching people react to the stereo effects in this song. People who try to listen to it with a shared set of headphones (which I truly don't understand) miss so much!
Life on Mars by Bowie!!! A masterpiece!
I saw Bowie many times during the 70's . . i think i was in love lollll . . BRILLIANT
David has a ridiculous number of incredible songs! He's in the top 3 or 4 most influential artists of all-time, for good reason! :)
Such a sad and beautiful song. One of Bowie's best.
Every album up to and including Scary Monsters. Plus Blackstar. You'll get the whole Major Tom story. I actually teared up a bit watching this, seeing the power of recognition for an artist who shaped my life. I'm so grateful for his music. I love your comments. Hope you enjoy your path of discovery too.
Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb Live at Pulse. Wish I could forget this live rendition and listen to it for the first time again.
You should do a Bowie Marathon just as you did for Zeppelin. There are so many incredible Bowie Songs, many of which I have not seen any reactions for on youtube.
Bowie is someone who is going to become more and more popular even after his death there is so much to discover of his music
There are sooo many from Bowie to recommend! "Stay" from Station To Station is a personal fave. Those amazing vocals of his, and rippin' lead guitar! The song "Station To Station" kicks ass as well! Then he REALLY shows off his vocals on "Wild Is The Wind". And of course anything from Ziggy Stardust. Oh, I could go on and on!
Was released in 69. Everything about this song really was ahead of its time...
Bowie is my favorite artist of all time. You’ ve quite a musical journey ahead of you! Try Station to Station, Moonage Daydream, Aladdin Sane, the man who sold the world, Ashes to Ashes, so many great songs. Bowie did two sequels to Space Oddity, Ashes to ashes and Black Star... but watch the videos that accompany them, so much artistry!
plus a stripped down acoustic version of space oddity in 1979. The video premiered on Kenny Everrits TV show at midnight 31 dec 1979, seeing in the new decade. Shades of that video appeared in Ashes later in the year, and also shades of The Man who Fell to Earth in the 1979 /1980 video. actually the video I posted link to heer has been edited to include Ashes scenes which came months later.
czcams.com/video/z5wMEqEuTTA/video.html
Great reaction..made me emotional about a song I've heard thousands of times... I was you in 1976.
Some personal Bowie favorites-
Width of a Circle
Bewlay Brothers
Rock and Roll Suicide
Starman (try to watch video from Top of the Pops- great moment in rock history)
Life on Mars (video is a must also)
Lady Stardust
Sweet Thing/Candidate
Drive-in Saturday
Young Americans
Station to Station
Wild is the Wind
Stay
Win
Fantastic Voyage
Sons of the Silent Age
Sound and Vision
Blackstar
Great choices! Yes Bowie's singles were amazing but there were also some album tracks which are absolute gems!!!
@@HBee5 And his name was always Buddy...
Finally a real bowie fan. You can tell by the selection. 🤩
He’s good if he’s got sweet thing.
Excellent 👌 Bowie the master. Regards from Liverpool 🇬🇧
This song can be so emotionally overwhelming.
You could jump into any period of Bowie's journey and find songs just as powerful, sad, uplifting. That's how amazing he was. He was my musical education and teacher from being a 12 year old arty kid in 1976 who suddenly found his tribe.
If you can do some of his songs from his Ziggy Stardust days such as Ziggy Stardust and Rebel Rebel...also his song Heroes is a gorgeous creation also!
A true genius. You'll find that Major Tom makes an appearance in later songs too, up to the last album of his life. I won't list those 3 or more songs here but will leave that a mystery, as you will certainly be hooked into this exploration of Bowie.
Amazing reaction, the moment when you put your head down, and you realise you have been visited by pure genius.
Dave is FULL of Meisterwerks. SO MANY to try. Right from Young Americans...too beautiful
This came out around the time of the Moon landings and after the release of the movie 2001 A Space Oddesy.... So many people thought it was going to be a time of frequent space travel.... But alas... We're still mostly all here.
I don’t want to correct you. This song came out in 69, around the time of the moon landing.
Try The Man who sold the world and, Width of a circle.
And Kurt Kobain does a great cover of “The Man Who Sold the World” too! I love both versions.
“Can you hear me major tom”
Just in my heart 😭
One of the best songs ever written. Period.
Oh to be able to relive the joy of listening to Space Oddity for the first time .
I remember being a teenager and being blown away by this song
If you want to hear a song with a lot of contrast to this one, please react to Win from his album Young Americans. It was one of his all-time favorite tracks he ever recorded and it's absolutely beautiful.
Also, I'd like to recommend songs that are equally masterful.
As the World Falls Down
Letter to Hermione
The Drowned Girl
Look Back in Anger
Teenage Wildlife
Piece of art. A Mona Lisa, a Guernica, a David, this is what you show to aliens when they ask: what's so special about you?
Bowie's first love was musical theatre, he is a frustrated musical writer, and what he couldn't achieve in musical theatre he packed into his songwriting and performances, creating epic stories and characters like Ziggy Stardust, The Thin White Duke, Aladdin Sane, The Lone Alien, Pierrot, The Blind Prophet not to mention his acting roles...
A lot of people don't realise his hero was Anthony Newley who wrote Stop The World I want To Get Off, Scroge and most famously Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (candy Man was a huge hit for him). Bowie's vocal style is modeled on Newley's style. That's why Bowie was so creative, he wanted to write musicals and tell stories through his songs, so not being able to do that in the theatre he did it through pop music and his live performances.
45 years ago I visited for the first time a Bowie concert. As a young musician I felt his talent and his incredible universe of music. I'm glad, to see you Emmanuel, reacting on Bowie's different layers of Art. Over the decades I discovered a lot of his hidden music jewels. They are not so popular but not less good. If you like, I'll give you a title or two.
The best reaction Space Oddity so far... im enjoyed
It was a stab to my heart when he died. This song is about his alter ego....drug addiction. He was masterful in painting a picture of space and so on but he struggled with drug addiction...he overcame but never forgot about his struggle yet in his last years he struggled with cancer. He is so missed !
Mate, you haven't even scratched the surface. David Bowie was a musical chameleon genius.
Another good one from Bowie:
- Life on Mars
And other good choices:
- Cygnet Committee
- Time
Ashes to ashes
As a big Led Zeppelin and Bowie fan its great to see your reactions
R.I.P. David Bowie. He'll be rockin out on mars with Ziggy Stardust, Micheal Jackson, Queen, and the Starman rn!
The thing to know about Bowie's music is that it does not stand still... Indeed, he was so ahead of his time that by the time everyone else was about to catch up, he'd have moved on, renewing, adapting his style to new ideas, new concepts. A truly brilliant man!
David Bowie was way ahead of his time. He didn't reach mass appeal until his first pop album in the 1980s. Go down the Bowie rabbit hole because you'll love it. The song was inspired by the classic Kubrick movie, Space Odessey.
You are right that this one goes dark, as does much of Bowie's work (the better pieces are semi-autobiographical). Try "The Man Who Sold the World," "Aladdin Sane," "Sweet Thing/Candidate," "My Death," "Rock and Roll Suicide," "Wild Is the Wind," "Scary Monsters," "Cat People," "Dead Man Walking" - and if you ever react to an entire album, both _Aladdin_ _Sane_ and _Diamond_ _Dogs_ are breathtaking trips.
The Moon Landing anthem! They looked in the 60s for people in the military that are pilots and aeroengineers to be astronauts hence, "Major Tom." It's not easy to become an astronaut that's for sure.
Kudos to you Emmanuel for really getting at its fullest extent and just that one first hearing, the greatness not just of this masterpiece, but that of the full body of work by the Spaceman during his time with us in this plane of existence. I will recommend ya "Five Years", "Rock'n Roll Suicide" ,."Wild is the wind" and "Lazarus". Only to begin with. Bye for now and keep up the grand acknowledging.
"This is why we listen to music!" Hell yeah man
Bewley brothers, Quicksand, Life on mars, Time, Sweet thing, Loving the alien (Live), Ashes to ashes, Conversation piece, all masterpieces.....so many
I'll always love 💕 Bowie for this song.
Bowie influenced practically everybody especially the bands of the early 80s and 90s.
I hope you became a true Bowie fan!! There's a lot of music of his out here on YT, I recommend all of it!! It's sad he left us so soon, he was one of a kind.
RIP David!! 😥
Life on Mars live 99 in Paris is absolutely incredible. His voice literally is heartbreakingly beautiful. I feel it in every fiber of my being.
The best reaction by light years of this song out there. Thank you so much for such a beautiful and intelligent response.
Props to you for appreciating a song 60 plus years old. You also undetstand the meaing of the song because Bowie was facinated with idea of space travel. I have always loved this Bowie song.
It was around 1971 and I was in school in Britain and one afternoon we were between lessons and in the room next door was our maths teacher Mr Tom who was not liked, so we played this song quite loudly so he could hear it as the walls were quite thin. Disappointedly I seem to recall he didn’t react which was a shame because we thought it was so cool.
I've listened to it many many times, and it always retains its emotional impact. A masterpiece for sure.
60/70s ❤ God i miss it! 🙏
Emmanuel, I cannot express my level of enjoyment at your reaction to, Space Oddity. Music at the time of Bowie’s ascension was truly made up of ‘other worldly talents’, which made for spellbinding listening in many genres. David had enormous creativity and production skills, to bring about the emotions you experienced. Your sincerity was obvious and heartfelt, great job.
My favourite singer seance I was a child!! He was amazing the best
i was 13 when i heard this im 65 gets me ever time
I get emotional at this song all the time.
Emmanuel, I love that your generation is listening to and analyzing the music I took for granted. Bowie was ahead of his time during the 60's, 70's, 80's ... till he died recently. Again, I appreciate that you're listening to a true genius and not some pseudo genius of a lot of contemporary music. Best wishes on your voyage to Bowie.
Almost every one of his albums is incredible. Pick any one of his albums and you'll hear the magic. I'm going to subscribe to your channel and watch your videos. Right on Mr. Flores., right on.
Sweet Thing/ Candidate/Sweet Thing Reprise. Brilliant as was his decades long career. Aladdin Sane,Lady Grinning Soul, Conversation Piece,Blackstar, Life On Mars. that's just a handful. Keep it up w/ him,it's a life changing journey.
There is a ‘sequel’ to this song - “Ashes to Ashes,” also about alienation but Major Tom’s issues
there are about addiction, anyway,
It’s another gorgeous, well written song.
you need to listen Station to Station by D. Bowie. He was so high during the recording does not remember making it yet it is a masterpiece.
I was 20 years old when this song came out. Still my favorite David Bowie song. It is just unforgettable!!
This song is very close to my heart. Thank you so much for listening to it, this has been my favourite reaction by far :)
51 Years old and still a moving track.....i remember hearing this in Radio at teh beginning of the 70´s. I was only about 5 or 6 years old but this caught me.
Same way I felt when I heard this in the late 70s as a kid.
Penned so many masterpieces but, Life on Mars has to be up there. Ashes to Ashes David💔💔
It's nice to see younger generations getting into David Bowie. This is one of my favorite Bowie songs. It came out when I was a small child and I didn't hear it until I was in college. The song blows me away. Heroes is a good one too.
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!
Welcome to Bowie.
If you're looking for a perfect duo, see David Bowie and Bing Crosby doing Little Drummer Boy. I remember when this song aired. It has stayed with me as a beautiful pairing of the most disparate men. So completely different in approach but completely perfect together.
He takes you on a journey 😊
music like this have to return to young minds
Bowie would appreciate your reaction, posting my reply it was 54 years after it was written, and people still marvel at the song writing and production.
Great discription when he said it's such a visual song. Great lyrics
Some songs are like watching an Opera.... this is one I put in that bracket... a complete performance and story in one song!
Great reaction! Bowie never stays in one place musically which I love. This is early Bowie and he goes from more acoustic to rockers, to soul, to avant-garde artist. I personally love the many changes he goes through. Life On Mars, Rock and Roll Suicide, Lady Grinning Soul, Stay, Station to Station ....that gives you a good smattering of his talent. The sequel to this song is "Ashes to Ashes" although they are completely different song styles.
Great reaction , best line , “ and I think my spaceship knows which way to go “ ! H
The Man Who Sold The World, Queen Bitch, Blackstar, China Girl, Ashes to Ashes, Life In Mars, Where Are We Now The list goes on ❤R.I.P. David Bowie
Really great introspective reaction.....so glad to see someone appreciate the greatest artist ever.
A lot going on in this song but in its simplest form, it was inspired by the Apollo 11 astronauts landing on the moon. Bowie had a knack for capturing the world's mood. Chris Hadfield a modern day astronaut re-recorded it with updated lyrics from the International Space Station. Bowie approved. In 1982 Peter Schilling created the song Major Tom as a tribute to this song.
He wrote it after seeing 2001.
You can just picture him floating off into space
I first heard this around the autumn of 1975 and was blown away...” this definitely is my favourite Bowie song”!
You make me cry... I first heard it in 1974... couldn't believe my ears then... been a lifelong Bowie fan since... until the day i join major Tom
Life On Mars up next... cue it up!