Analyzing Bowie: Cygnet Committee

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[@adaharrisonn]

Why doesn't this video have more views? Such a shame 😔 thank you so much for your effort in making this analysis. I wish more people knew about cygnet committee

[@fiaschampion3379]

This is one of my favorite Bowie songs along with Memory of a Free Festival from the same record. Unwashed is also great, the Space Oddity album is very overlooked.

[@some_phantom2599]

I have always thought that the "we want to live - I want to live - live" sequence at the end sounded more and more desperate, as the marching rhythm of the accompaniment implies a desperate militant counter-revolution, with the sole objective of being allowed to "Live".

[@jamiespark3952]

This is my favourite person of all time.

[@PartyDude_19]

To think this was less than a year after "Ching-a-ling" the tonal shift between Mod Bowie & "Major Tom" mirrors the ideological shift of the 1960s as a whole.

[@jamiespark3952]

when somebody sneezes people say bless you and they don't even know why the words "bless you" are said therefore, that's f****** mad. Right. We shouldn't just say things just because we heard others say it. I'm sure David Bowie is just setting a scene as most of his art as is theatrical. Two people. One person tying their shoe laces and the other one sneezes the person who is tying their shoes says bless you to the person who sneezes. Maybe maybe he or she realizes I don't even know why I said bless you.

[@jamesohara4295]

This guy's got a lot to answer for 😡

[@keala4320]

To be honest, the fact Bowie had this reductive understanding of the '60s politics is beyond embarrassing. Like, this is such a white-male-centric view of the '60s movement - for instance, the movement in '60s very much paved way for the rights of black people and LGBT people for years to come. I think I have always had- and will always have rocky relationship with Bowie's politics. We can obviously do better than him, politically speaking. (Also, Time is a much better song than Cygnet Committee. They both use a similar chord progression.)

[@thebronze3098]

The radical leftist politics of the late sixties severely harmed the struggle for black and LGBT rights, and did not advance them in any way. This is so obvious that it is not even debatable. Bowie was proven right.