ART MAJOR!! DAVID BOWIE - QUICKSAND + LYRICS REACTION

[@lindakessler8768]

Hey!! Welcome back Pope...hope you had a blast in Greece. We missed your face. Bowie, ahhhhh. 👍❤🤙

[@RichardDiaz-sc5bu]

THanks Pope

[@tbay]

Released in 1971, that album, all the way thru, is incredible.

[@holyjon]

Thank you😍

[@gamling7271]

This is the seccond reaction I watch from you and it's striking how natural and straight forward you are, I love it! Keep up the good work (sorry for late reaction)! "Knowledge comes with death's release." What I think he means by that, is that if theres ever a time where we will know how we have ended up here, where we are from, how life has come up etc etc it would be at deahts release. Death are one of lifes big mysteries and that is what I think he referes to here. Anyhow he was a great thinker and I love his music.

[@bigneon_glitter]

Rick Wakeman of Yes on piano. Strings arranged by guitarist Mick "Ronno" Ronson. One of Bowie's most dense, philosophical, & emotionally heavy songs, the chorus is immaculate beauty. Great reaction.

[@andydavies1810]

Thank you sir. Bought Hunky Dory 1975 in foster care

[@britt-janneolsen689]

Bowie was a geni love David Bowie 🖤🙏

[@doubleducks814]

Oh! You Pretty Things

[@FatDave2112]

This reminds me so much of my reaction to first hearing Quicksand. The "whoa" on that guitar crescendo, the laughing at "bullshit faith", and just being swept away. Such a great song, and so happy to see people still becoming new Bowie fans. Great music stands the test of time.

[@williamschrom1584]

Friggin Brilliant 👏

[@leonline3424]

One of his best songs !!

[@davidvornsand9551]

You bring me a huge smile watching you get Bowie! Keep it up!☮️❤️🙏😎

[@looneygardener]

Great album Hunky Dory!!!

[@mataharilied5507]

My First Bowie album

[@michaelminch5490]

To understand this song, you'll need to do some research. Look up Alistair Crowley and his Golden Dawn, Heinrich Himmler, Greta Garbo, Winston Churchill....he does a lot of name dropping in this one. The bardo is a Buddhist concept. As a teenager, he considered becoming a Buddhist monk. He also trained as a mime with the great Lindsay Kemp. That's where he got most of his stage moves. Also, keep in mind that David was just 24 in 1971.

[@eugenesouza3819]

Happy Birthday and thank you, thank you for coming back. Great to see you again.

[@POPE.]

thank you 🙏🏿

[@henrikdamgaard3838]

It’s so great to see that you see the light, and understand. 👏🏻👏🏻

[@TONE11111]

Wakeman............Genius.

[@Muckylittleme]

Top reaction and one of my favourite Bowie songs, but then I have a lot of favourite Bowie songs 😊

[@cynthiacurrie5589]

Just out of hospital. This is the perfect song--balanced on the edge of light and dark. Not completely sunk in the quicksand of my thought, but knowledge comes with death's release. Thank you, Pope.

[@dwoehrma]

on the Sound & Vision tour he played two sets. coming back from the intermission he did not turn down the lights. no warning. he just strolled out onto the stage. alone. 12 string in hand. and launched into this beautiful song. catching us all by surprise. as the song grew in intensity the lights slowly dimmed. bringin us all back into his grasp. Bowie was always looking for new and unique perspectives and angles and ways to do things. till the end he was an artist.

[@blindreactions9498]

David Bowie in and music in movie Labyrinth♥

[@leggabel]

I envy you listening to David for the first timer remember my first time I was also blown away by one mans talent..he never made the same song twice .

[@CristinaMarshal]

Glorious to see you return back to Mr. Bowie.

[@stephenmichael8837]

Wow! These Bowie songs have changed the direction of my current music experience. Thanks for your musical intelligence. Recommend Procol Harum

[@tommccormick5140]

Bowie catalog is a deep and wonderful dive brother. Love your videos. Keep it up!

[@anahatatutu]

Thanks for doing this one

[@timmorin2304]

I've been waiting for you to do this one. Thank you. It's my Funeral Song. When that time comes.

[@daniellastuart3145]

found this about thus great song from Wikipedia Quicksand" was recorded on 14 July 1971 at Trident Studios in London.[3] This ballad features multi-tracked acoustic guitars and a string arrangement by Mick Ronson. Producer Ken Scott, having recently engineered George Harrison's album All Things Must Pass, attempted to create a similarly powerful acoustic sound with this track.[4] Bowie said of the song "The chain reaction of moving around throughout the bliss and then the calamity of America produced this epic of confusion. Anyway with my esoteric problems I could have written it in Plainview or Dulwich" and that it was a mixture of "narrative and surrealism".[5] Lyrically the song, like much of Bowie's work at this time, was influenced by Buddhism ("You can tell me all about it on the next Bardo"), occultism, and Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the Superman.[6] It refers to the magical society Golden Dawn and name-checks one of its most famous members, Aleister Crowley, as well as Heinrich Himmler, Winston Churchill and Juan Pujol (codename: Garbo). Quicksand is about David Bowie’s philosophical struggle with the unknown. He is stuck in deep thought about unanswerable questions. What does it mean to exist? What is after death? He eventually comes to the conclusion that answers to these perplexing questions only come “with death’s release. from the wep” This depressing song is masterfully followed by “Fill Your Heart” which proposes a solution to Bowie’s paralyzing introspection: filling his heart with love.

[@treetopjones737]

Alan Watts about death, said if there is nothing after, "If you went to sleep, into unconsciousness for always and always, it wouldn’t be at all like going into the dark; it wouldn’t be at all like being buried alive. As a matter of fact, it would be as if you had never existed at all! Not only you, but everything else as well. You would be in that state, as if you had never been. And, of course, there would be no problems, there would be no one to regret the loss of anything. You couldn’t even call it a tragedy because there would be no one to experience it as a tragedy. It would be a simple - nothing at all."

[@tedmcdonald6428]

I don't know if the performance was captured on video, but, if you can, take a listen to "Loving the alien" from Bowies Reality tour. I would like to hear your perspective on this take.

[@kennethbent5586]

It took me years to understand the lyrics of this song

[@jkirtleyheacting]

Great to see you on Bowie again. Just got back from the cinema where I saw "Moonage Dyadream2. It's fantastic. You have to see this movie if you like Bowie. x

[@pianocovers4227]

Hi Nyco ! good to see you again ! .. my birthday today ! Thanx for the gift ! Quicksand is a pearl in H.D. ! You can go to Aladdin Sane whole album track by track ! You'll be blown ! 😉 Aladdin Sane, Time and Lady Grinning Soul are great pieces !

[@CristinaMarshal]

For one that did dance upon the edges of artistic and social guises, I'll recommend you his song from 1995's Outside album, 'I'm Deranged', one to show you, his fire never went out with outgoing age.

[@kevinlowercase]

Yes! I was going to suggest Pope react to something off of Outside. Such an amazing track.

[@CristinaMarshal]

@@kevinlowercase Oh, most certainly.

[@daniellastuart3145]

HI Pope i really love seeing you journey with David Bowie an artists that really means a lot to me he my list of bowie song or track you may want to look at , yes in the obverse ones but lyrically interesting in my view hope you don't mine this. keep up the great work album: "Space Oddity "Cygnet Committee" "Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud" Memory Of A Free Festival" album:The Man Who Sold The World" All The Madman album: "The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars: Five Years, Moonage DayDream album: "Aladdin Sane" Time, "Lady Grinning Soul album: "Young Americans" Right , Bonus track "Who Can I Be Now?""It's Gonna Be Me" album: "Station To Station" Word on A Wing album: "Lodger" "Yassassin (Turkish For Long Live)" "Look Back In Anger" album: "Scary Monsters" "Teenage Wildlife" album: "Heathen" "Slip Away" 5.15 The Angels Have Gone" album: "The Next Day ""You Feel So Lonely You Could Die" album: "Blackstar" "Dollar Days" "Blackstar"

[@stevenmurano7863]

The genius of the late, great mick ronson on string arrangements. Not bad for a first timer eh? Fantastic song

[@johndalbey8364]

Thin White Duke aka Bowie sings my all yime favorite that is undoubtedly a difficult choice. In 74' singing this song, he so soflty, whispers " You're Not Alone". When it was recorded in studio, that verse comes out louder that any pitch, note. But on the record. Just another example he had no fear to change a verse to very high. To whisper it on David Live, uh..still in my head. Being a drummer, lyrics are irrelevant. This new hobby of reading lyrics does for me as for you. A few tunes back, you said "What is he talking about "...in thought you apparently understood. Currently researching lyrical line on Life on Mars. "Mickey mouse 🐭 grew up a 🐄 cow. ☆☆Say ₩hat!!!. In closing our mayor of Philadelphia created a signed proclamation in his honor. One week during January is known here as David Bowie Week. Speechless. Sigma Sound technicians are known as The Sigma Kids. Want to make a monetary contribution for you, just because you ought "Stay" we fans need "Somebody" a lyric in "Stay" Thank you Jedijon.

[@stevebeaton2172]

Take a look at the credits on any of his albums you see he played many of the instruments and wrote many of the lyrics and music

[@kevinlowercase]

Hunky Dory-era Bowie featured none other than the great Rick Wakeman of Yes on keys. Bowie asked Rick to join his band that he was putting together, the fledgling Spiders From Mars, but Rick declined because Jon Anderson had just asked him to join Yes THE NIGHT BEFORE. Can you imagine, if Wakeman had become Bowies’s keyboardist instead of the equally legendary Mike Garson?? What an even wilder ride that would’ve been!

[@michaelminch5490]

But we wouldn't have gotten Garson's amazing piano on Aladdin Sane.

[@TheoZoffrok]

The band on Hunky Dory was a mixture of his soon to be regular crew (Mick Ronson, Woody Woodmandsey and Trevor Bolder) and studio ace and Yes man Rick Wakeman on piano. On this song Bowie is playing the 12 string acoustic guitar. Elsewhere he plays piano on a couple of songs, and alto and tenor sax.

[@timmorin2304]

Check out the Seal cover of this. It will blow your away emotionally.

[@Katehowe3010]

He is Seal isn't he? 🙃

[@CorrineSunQueen]

Tony Visconti. This name you should know. He was a bass player who also produced Bowie. They had a lifelong relationship. The mixes he did for the Moonage Daydream film took my breath away. The soundtrack is available for streaming from the David Bowie channel here or page on Facebook or Instagram. Free.

[@russellsearch7925]

Thanks for reacting to this brilliant song. Insane out worldly lyrics. I’m sure he was an alien. Something different for you, would love to see your reaction to U2’s Mothers of the Disappeared, with lyrics. One of their best songs and vastly underrated IMO.

[@mataharilied5507]

Bewley Brothers is the best song on this album but not one of them are really bad when you think about it