David Bowie - Golden Years REACTION to a Song My Subscribers Don't Like

David Bowie - Golden Years REACTION to a Song My Subscribers Don't Like
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[@Shichiaikan]

Who the hell DOESN'T like this song? This is a damned classic.

[@miguelosuna1401]

Exactly!!!

[@hughdavidvisor1769]

Don't let me hear you say life's taking you nowhere.

[@chantellecline6945]

Agree!!

[@schrodingersgat4344]

Soulless and joyless people.

[@c5quared626]

Young people have strange ideas of what is actually good. They stick to a genre that they feel represents their personality, or image or whatever it is. Being into anything from folk to disco to frikkin gangster hip hop. (Prefer that 90s tho) Also heath ledger danced to this in knights tale. And he's the best actor of our generation. So, yeah.

[@mrod7692]

I don't know anybody that doesn't like it.

[@grimsbyuk8311]

Me neither

[@randywhite3947]

Same

[@TheCornishCockney]

Me neither.

[@personalcheeses8073]

Me neither. It’s great

[@Pntngbrn]

This is one of my many favorites of his. I also don't know what people who say they don't like this one are talking about.

[@curtjarrell9710]

This is one of my favorite David Bowie songs.

[@Inediblebulk]

Mine too!

[@jencooper3371]

I love the funk fell of it.

[@timbillings6884]

Yup

[@lawla76]

Yup

[@georgianguylol]

same dude

[@rb7007]

This is one of his best songs!!! Who would dislike this?! 🤔 Next David Bowie song “Fame”. It’s also🔥🔥🔥

[@ileneweinstein4577]

Why are u all listening to commercial Bowie like fame I can't understand with so many outstanding songs

[@rb7007]

@@ileneweinstein4577 Cos we like them! 😂 I’m not a lover of his Major Tom era. I like his funk style songs. Ashes to ashes and Let’s dance was also good.

[@maccladoz]

I don't understand why people wouldn't like this? This is an absolute banger!!

[@annother3350]

click bait?

[@johnnyferaud8538]

Nah. It's a bop. That's not saying anything bad about the song, there's plenty of choice bops out there! But a banger, a jam, and a bop are way different vibes.

[@CBGB_1977]

So very few people actually “hate” this song. This was when he was going into his Philadelphia funk sound. I love it!

[@torbjrnlund903]

It's one of his best.

[@NoahBodze]

Bowie’s best phase was in Philadelphia.

[@ladyvader139]

I don't trust anyone who doesn't like Golden Years. It's one of my favorites.

[@90charmedndangerous]

I can't help but thinking of Heath Ledger when I hear this, it was used in a scene in A Knights Tale 😊😊

[@peggieschafer485]

Same

[@donnaabbato508]

Saw David in concert in the late 70’s. PHENOMENAL CONCERT!!!! He’s so theatrical!!! BRILLIANT 👍👍👍

[@johnpublicprofile6261]

I suspect disliked by those who don't like when music goes strange or too different. Personally I love the mixture of groovy funk and unusual rythym in this track.

[@mikecalderon5251]

Anyone that says that they don't like this song are trolls. This song is pure classic!

[@iplaybass6690]

there are people who don't like this song? That shit is 🍌....its a great song

[@personalcheeses8073]

I know I think he was tripping. It must have said they love this song

[@waterbaby1013]

DAVID BOWIE was the coolest dude ever.

[@maurashannon4797]

This song was pretty damn sophisticated for 1975. The way each segment changes is great.

[@carloscerdan2782]

1976

[@andre5411]

Did you know...? He preformed this song on Soul Train. Much Respect!!

[@brucedillinger9448]

He certainly did. And unless things have changed he was 1 of only 2 white performers to do so. Do you know the other one? (Hint: Reginald Kenneth Dwight is his birth name).

[@andre5411]

I believe it's Sir Elton John

[@brucedillinger9448]

@@andre5411 you got it!

[@andre5411]

@@brucedillinger9448 Thank you sir😁

[@t.scipio7841]

David Bowie has more hits than I care to name... His music is a treasure❤️ "Bow'-eeee" like the knife ..not "buoy" like a water float...

[@gwooledge]

At least he didn't rhyme it with "Howie" like young Avril Lavigne.

[@eleni33koro88]

Or if he hasn’t heard of the knife, like me:), it’s like bow and arrow with a hard e.

[@blakewestwood8096]

He has more hits than Ike and Tina Turner's marriage!😋

[@ktiemz]

Not even David himself knew how to pronounce his name, so...

[@exquisitecorpse__]

You can pronounce it any way you like

[@iplaybass6690]

Try "I'm afraid of americans" it is a complete left turn from average David Bowie songs, it was made with Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails, has cuss words, and a creepy video, and a must listen!

[@brettg274]

Yep, I don’t care for it.

[@anabellelei8540]

Love it! And that album.

[@bemused9522]

Yes, please listen to this song! Must be the video version!

[@rb7007]

I agree with a few of the other commenters, it's not that great tbh. But i do like the video!

[@barndude5562]

Amazing song! Please react!!!!

[@Codex7777]

If it's Bowie, you know it's going to be at least interesting and at best a masterpiece. :)

[@bashuppark]

You won't get a cooler song than this. 10/10.

[@princebloodgrave8097]

ANYTHING that David Bowie does, is FIRE!!! One of my favorite singers, for as long as I can remember.

[@brucedillinger9448]

Oh yeah! Ditto.

[@chrisf.7980]

I would have listened to him snoring, if he had recorded it! (Hell, maybe he did!) Even the stuff I don't love sparked my imagination in some way. GENIUS!

[@reality1958]

Golden Years has always been one of my favourites by him

[@jonscott6459]

I’ve never heard a David Bowie song I didn’t like. I still think you’d adore Young Americans.

[@veryape1]

I don't know what they're talking about either... this is my favorite Bowie song.

[@geoffsullivan7902]

Bowie....nice......I love him, and everything he ever did....such creativity and again that’s a vocalist. Who doesn’t like Bowie? No one was cooler than Bowie.....RIP....heaven has one hell of a band. 🎼🎶🎶🎸🎸🎹🎼🎶🤘😎🎧🔥❤️

[@JamesKovacic]

Station to Station: Best post-Ziggy album from Bowie

[@joelscottarnold3262]

Elvis Presley was absolutely obsessed with this song, and, in all honesty I could have heard Elvis singing this. He had tapped Bowie to produce his new album prior to Elvis passing in 1977. I think the song still sounds as fresh as the day it was recorded!

[@jazziered142]

I have never heard of anybody not liking this song. This was like one of my first favorite songs. I was so lucky to get to see him in my lifetime. Amazing!

[@robertboyer1086]

Fun idea for a holiday themed review. David Bowie and Bing Crosby singing Little Drummer Boy, live on Bing Crosby's Christmas Special.

[@blakewestwood8096]

Yesssss

[@landmarkconstruction821]

Yo this song was millions of miles ahead of its day. The tones, beats, lyrics & layers....Genius.

[@dmeskdankies]

So good. I was born in 89. My parents loved bowie. Apparently I did before I knew it cuz they would play it to burn me out and get my lil ass to bed

[@jzero32]

"BO" WEE Bowie , Thx .

[@rdm4509]

Booowie is still great tho'

[@mikecaetano]

"Golden Years" was a top ten hit back in the day. I remember hearing it on the AM-pop radio station my parents used to listen to when I was a kid -- "Run for the shadows, run for the shadows..." That line used to catch my attention when I was a kid. It's also the song Bowie sang that time he appeared on Soul Train. That makes it a crossover hit too! I still like the song a whole lot! As for popular songs that I don't like, well, I tend to forget about them as fast as I can! That said, a lot of people like Bowie's "Modern Love" more than I do, but my reasons for not liking that song much have less to do with the song itself and more to do with the oversaturated airplay the song got back in the 80's when it was still new. Same for "With or Without You" by U2. Both songs sounded great to me the first few dozen times I heard them, but I must have heard them both several hundred times by the time they dropped off the charts, by which point I was sick of hearing them.

[@debjorgo]

Oo. I forgot about Modern Love. I might have to redo my Bowie top 5. When Love Comes to Town with BB King is just about the only U2 song I care to listen to.

[@chrisf.7980]

There are sooo many great songs in his vast catalog that just don't get heard. Would be great to get more of these reactors to try a few that never got radio play. I guess it would be daunting for them to know where to start.

[@musiclover2.06]

“This Is Not America” from “The Falcon And The Snowman” movie soundtrack was hauntingly beautiful... Bowie was so varied in his style over the years..quite the artist. 👍🏽

[@BethHutter]

Who DOESN'T like this song??? What the actual hell? It's funky as hell, and classic Bowie.

[@CBGB_1977]

He actually performed this song on Soul Train. Luther Vandross sang backup on the Young Americans album this song is from.

[@chrismeadows4216]

This song is from Station to Station.

[@JimGeigerMusic]

@@chrismeadows4216 yup...part of his Thin White Duke trilogy of albums.

[@chrismeadows4216]

@@JimGeigerMusic It's not really a trilogy. On Diamond Dogs, he was Halloween Jack, on Young Americans, he was a really vulnerable version of himself, and on Low he was using music he had originally written for The Man Who Fell to Earth but didn't have a character. Station to Station is the only album where he had that particular focus on The Thin White Duke. The soul era was transitional, and it led into The Berlin Trilogy, where David Bowie was the David Bowie that everyone grew to recognize by his own persona. Station to Station was where The Thin White Duke started and stopped.

[@riko3766]

This is from album Station to Station released 1976. It´s absolutely one of Bowie´s very best records.

[@brucedillinger9448]

Agree wholeheartedly!

[@moondancejackson5081]

I absolutely love this song and David Bowie. He is MAGNIFICENT. Who are the twits who don't like the song!

[@syntone61]

James, if you'd like a glimpse into this mans true artistry, I whole-heartedly suggest you react to his video "Lazarus",.. recorded shortly before his death, as a thank you,.. and goodbye, to his fans...

[@JenniferSwiftBlood]

I still can’t listen to Lazarus without breaking down, but damn it’s beautiful

[@stevenmix3723]

This whole album Station to Station is pure genius. It plays extremely well as a single listening experience, from beginning to end. But for this journey, do TVC 15 next, for the same feel.

[@littlemouse7066]

his singing here is amazing.

[@veganapiranha7365]

Everyone's taste is different, but this is one of my favorite Bowie songs.

[@paulsiebeneicher4536]

I can imagine modern artists sampling this , if they haven't already. I didn't say you wouldn't like it :-) I'm not sure there is any bowie song you wouldn't like, although his stuff with Tin Machine was boundary pushing in a way that might not please. But Bowie solo is pretty solid.

[@SPAMDAGGER22]

Tin Machine is fucking awesome.

[@Litharriel]

This is actually one of my very favorites of his songs. (Then again, I've never a song by him that I didn't like!)

[@cartoonerystudios]

It is REALLY hard to think that ANYONE wouldn't like this song.

[@olafkersten6816]

Remember this came out in the 70's !

[@wpollock1]

I love this song! First rap song? When he goes into that rapid fire torrent of words....in 1975. WAY ahead of his time.

[@djimaging2]

Pronounced Bow-E Glad you liked it because it is a very good good funky song

[@johnenglish1955]

🤠This is my ALL TIME David Bowie tune!!! 👍

[@taniaPBear]

I love this song too. Keep in mind, if someone says it's there least favorite Bowie song, that doesn't mean it's a bad song. If you know what I mean

[@CorrineSunQueen]

It's actually BOW-eee and this is one of The Legend's 100 best songs.

[@chrismeadows4216]

For me, I think it ranks somewhere between 20 and 15.

[@Compuman202]

This song always gave me a creepy serial killer vibe LOL. Probably because it’s use in a lot of weird movie scenes but there was always something about it. Artistically it’s very creative and unique

[@bills5744]

Many people don't like this because they felt Bowie was selling out doing a Disco song. I always thought of it more of a "Funk" song. He was actually inspired by the song "On Broadway" recorded by the Drifters in the 1960s. Well before Disco.

[@sacrimonius]

Yes sir my brother it rocks. The album cut is about 45 seconds longer. The reverb comes I and finished off perfectly.

[@sacrimonius]

Correct thank u. I love when that reverb comes in it just rings.

[@schrodingersgat4344]

His performance on Soul Train was amazing! Luther Vandross did backup vocals on this album.

[@JD-zm6ot]

His songs are brilliant and he was the master of creativity, he gets a lot of credit for the use of Keyboards. His life is a great story!

[@dominicpelle7841]

Who ever told you that it was their least Bowie song.. thay have no musicality about them, they like POP. *This song is complex.. with fire fills.*

[@jameskennedy721]

Massive hit for the Zigster ! His highly original approach to stories and sounds will be missed !

[@crystalpistey-lyhne3406]

One favorite singers!🥰😭🥺🤣😱💕🙆❣️💃🎶

[@paulpipkin3554]

Bowie is the under music of what was popular back then ..thank goodness they played his music .. wow 🤩

[@dwoehrma]

This was big on the radio for many years. Bowie has several different incarnations. Maybe fans of early bowie arent fans of mid 70s Bowie? His legacy is worth examining through every era. His attention to detail is amazing.

[@robertjewell9727]

It's hard for me to believe this is on anyone's don't like list. It's a gem.

[@superstrigoi]

This song is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@sabrinamarkos7099]

I've always liked this song because it was Bowie and I liked the beat. I just found out 2 weeks ago that it was written for a friend that he was encouraging to still see life in their golden years. Now that I'm 65 it makes more sense. I love it even more now👍🏾👵🏿💖.

[@x_aj_x1157]

I am a big Bowie fan... and this is one of my favourites. Never actually met anyone who didn't like it tbh.

[@olafkersten6816]

His songs are classics and never go out of date ! Every album was different from the other ! Bowie the kameleon !

[@maha77]

This song was released Nov 1975 I remember being 7 year old and my brother playing this on the AM radio. Seems like lifetimes ago and another planet. how time flies, those were the Golden Years

[@rick139208]

Well,Golden Years is one of my favorite David Bowie songs.

[@kristimarriner7673]

This is such a great song! I want to know why people don’t like it. It is so funky. Great reaction!

[@dishields7808]

Exactly. It's my fav bowie song

[@blacknwhitecookie8967]

True Bowie fans love this song. Period

[@robertasirgutz8800]

Bowie was trying to figure out what to do with his career and this is his "Plastic Soul" sound, to reach a wider audience. He had to metaphorically kill Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders in order to make the transition to the "Thin White Duke" Mick Ronson was his better half. Always on the pulse of the public. The most influential person in pop music. There's haters everywhere. He's just too cool.

[@kesleycottrell1416]

This song has a unbelievable groove. Just makes a person move.

[@lisarainbow9703]

" ...hwah hwah hwah..." 🎶🎶🎶 I LOVE this song!

[@lauraheim8381]

Love this. I’m super surprised that it could be anyone’s least favorite. Shocked actually!!

[@uscman]

David Bowie wrote this song for his late birthday brother: Elvis Presley, he declined it. I still wonder how he’d of approached this song as it was perfect for him!

[@phillipsarrazine9072]

I love all of David's songs. That's what a true fan does. 🤗👍

[@Poss1]

"...subscribers don't like"? Well, this one loves it. I mean, I like to like things, but this is another great one. Funky AND smooth, textural, unique... I don't know what they're talking about. Here we go! EDIT: Not surprised you agree.

[@Mx.RumpusParable]

Oh, also, his last name is said with a hard O. When I first heard of him as a teen I misspoke with it, too, until someone updated me. It's like “Bo” like “no”.

[@bashuppark]

One of the coolest songs ever written.

[@whatanitemare]

Like anything that doesn't fit with the familiar, it polarizes people. That's what made Bowie so great... especially his older stuff. He influenced a whole generation of music.

[@guyinnyc1]

This is a song I cannot get enough of. So catchy so funky...bowie's catalogue is amazing and that this tops my list of his songs says a lot.

[@GrowingUpJersey]

Nothing wrong with this song. a little disco funk. one of my favorite Bowie songs

[@richardkeating3575]

I have never heard of anyone who doesn't like this song. Maybe at the very beginning because it was such a radical change from what he'd been doing before but most people got over themselves after the second time hearing what was, in my opinion, one of his finest songs.

[@traci4187]

What? This song is great! It was used PERFECTLY in the movie "A Knight's Tale".

[@thethesaxman23]

Honestly same! This is a fantastic Bowie song!!! It grooves hard. My guess is the hate came from the “purists” out there who only like Bowie’s more experimental songs. They tend to frown on his more “commercial” pop songs. The truth is that Bowie was a musical master and he nailed whatever he worked on.

[@catalinafang]

Bowie is the man and this song is a classic. Some of your subscribers don't know jack about jack.

[@anthonygriffin9275]

One of my favorites and a great eclectic Bowie song

[@bemused9522]

David Bowie was never a stagnant artist, his music changed as the decades changed... So I can imagine that there might be people who don't like certain musical stages he went through.... but personally, all good here. He is one of my musical 'Heroes'. China Girl and Let's Dance are two of my faves of his from the 80s..... you might want to check them out. Different decade, different sound.

[@twanadenson1293]

This is a GREAT song. David Bowie is an icon

[@chrismeadows4216]

I think you should check these songs out to get a great idea of David's talent and versatility: My Death (live Hammersmith 1973) Lady Grinning Soul Teenage Wildlife Letter to Hermione As the World Falls Down

[@JenniferSwiftBlood]

If he reacts to ‘as the world falls down’ he needs to watch the video with it, now that might mess with him but he’d be fully Immersed in it 🐬

[@chrismeadows4216]

@@JenniferSwiftBlood Agreed. I wish it had the full song, because I love the extra suspense leading into the solo, but it absolutely won't be boring with a shorter version and such great visuals.

[@JimGeigerMusic]

My favorite song of his. Such a dope groove. About as fumky as Bowie ever got.

[@alittlelooney5361]

Straight up Funky. I think "Young Americans" is my favorite though.

[@hawklee9702]

Killer song. Also Fame. Bowie was ahead of the times. Sounds like a great band playing what they like hearing.

[@emdusha5590]

This IS one of my favorites! Boh-wee. He was married to the super model, Iman, until he died.

[@gwenstell2571]

Great song by Bowie

[@letitbesummer6536]

I love this song, to heck with the subscribers lol. And you probably know by now it’s Bow-ie, not Boo-ie

[@daveferguson937]

As a teenager I like Bowie but did not like the idea of him doing soul music; I was not a soul fan. Then someone said I should listen to the Station to Station album that this track is on. I did and I loved it. For one thing he had shaken off the cockney twang in his voice and opened his range a lot more. Then he was doing something new. Station to Station has a sound but none of the tracks on it are much like each other or anything else, it mixes Soul and metal and electronic krautrock. Wild is the Wind is one of his best vocals ever and its a cover of a song from twenty years before. These days I can appreciate soul a lot more.

[@negativeperson7358]

Let’s not forget what a hero Bowie was for going on MTV in ‘83 and asking them to their faces during an interview why the hell they weren’t playing enough black musicians; and then calling their answer BS.