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David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes

"My mama said to get things done, you better not mess with Major Tom." Always liked this song and its tempo. Video is dated, but then the song was released in 1980. From the album `Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)`.

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LittleHorn : LVL 7: VP 1.6: said:

LittleHorn

1 votes NegativePositive

357 days 12 hours ago...

5/5 for David Bowie just because he played Jareth the Goblin King in Labyrinth.

Chuck U Farlie : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Chuck U Farlie

0 votes NegativePositive

357 days 1 hour ago...

The First time I heard of this song is when it was referenced in The Young Ones episode,"Nasty", when Rick was imitating the Priest. "Ashes to Ashes, Funk to Funky LOL. Love it 5/5

Any chance on uploading "China Girl"??

Violetninja420 : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Violetninja420

1 votes NegativePositive

356 days 23 hours ago...

^LoL, ive seen both of those as well =)

How bout the song "5 Years"?

lynx.me : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

lynx.me

1 votes NegativePositive

356 days 18 hours ago...

Man... I miss the days when music was good...

Any chance someone can upload Ziggy Stardust (was there even a video for that)?

ChrissyChiChi : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

ChrissyChiChi

1 votes NegativePositive

356 days 9 hours ago...

Not so sure about the video but this is one of my favourite Bowie songs. From an age where pop music was actually written by the people peforming them..and they didnt use pitch shifters on the records and didnt dub their shit live the whole time. Long live Bowie!

Townsville : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

Townsville

1 votes NegativePositive

352 days 19 hours ago...

5/5 I`ve been a David Bowie fan since I was a tot.

Bits of trivia: His real name is David Jones, but he had to use Bowie because of Davy Jones from The Monkees.

His eye color isn`t a birth thing. It changed after a friend of his punched him over a girl.

@Chuck, ShapeSphere

Iggy Pop and Bowie wrote `China Girl` together, but Iggy did his version first. Listen to Iggy`s version, and you`ll never listen to Bowie`s take ever again.

Chuck U Farlie : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Chuck U Farlie

2 votes NegativePositive

352 days 17 hours ago...

THX for the info Townsville! Will look up Iggy`s now.

wigger69 : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

wigger69

-1 votes NegativePositive

352 days 17 hours ago...

BY FAR THE BEST SONG EVER MADE, PERIOD!

huntsman_420 : LVL 7: VP 1.6: said:

huntsman_420

-2 votes NegativePositive

352 days 16 hours ago...

Captain! The Gaydar has gone off the charts!

ricemonkey : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

ricemonkey

0 votes NegativePositive

352 days 16 hours ago...

i never liked this because it meant Space Oddity was a druggie song. I`m perfectly happy taking that song at surface value

and i hate bitches who try to call everything a druggie song.

seriously, it gets fucking annoying on the forums.. hell you could turn the star spangled banner into a durggie song if you looked too deep into it

still bowie get`s a definite 5/5

ShapeSphere : LVL 46: VP 5: said:

ShapeSphere

1 votes NegativePositive

352 days 15 hours ago...

Townsville - Iggy Pop is one of my favourites, and his album "The Idiot" is one of the best out there. I know China Girl from that album. But I still think Bowie`s "China Girl" is way better. Sorry!

EntropY* : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

EntropY*

0 votes NegativePositive

352 days 13 hours ago...

I sympathize with the experimental sound of the music, but it`s not my style.

He played a hell of a Tesla in Prestige, though.

UberDelegate86 : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

UberDelegate86

1 votes NegativePositive

352 days 12 hours ago...

Great song. Bowie always gets a 5/5

Now if only we can get "Starman" uploaded... Dunno if he ever performed that live.

Townsville : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

Townsville

2 votes NegativePositive

352 days 3 hours ago...

@Shape

Oh well, ya like what ya like!

wigger69 : LVL 2: VP 1.1: said:

wigger69

1 votes NegativePositive

345 days 16 hours ago...

The video is so fitting to the song. The song itself while truly unique morphs into some depressing drone at the end which is quite remarkable considering the stacato sound it starts with.

Sure it may not be your thing, but there has never been a more complex pop song than this and a clever, expensive video scene to follow.

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