David Bowie - Stay Reaction

In this video we're checking out David Bowie. As popular as he is, we almost expect a block but, we're excited to hear some Bowie that we don't know. Enjoy!
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[@mistersnitty7721]

I'd be wealthy if I had a nickel for every time me and my friends got high and danced to this song back in the 70s. The whole LP is amazing.

[@antarcticorb9197]

Have you heard the live version of this? Jesus, it wails!

[@clubmogambo3214]

Tons of great Bowie songs, but Stay was without question his coolest song.

[@stevenr3134]

One of the best intros to any Bowie song. That guitar has transfixed me since 1979 when I heard it for the very 1st time.

[@richardlouistownson769]

The bass towards the end is sublime. Funky.

[@hijikaelemenope3127]

Hi ! Thank you for reacting to one of my favorite songs out of one of my favorite Bowie albums ! Few reaction chanels reviewed it at this time, and it's a shame, really, for it's one of Bowie's stronger (and live favorite) songs. A bit of context could explain why the vocals seem a bit "weird" : This song is part of his album "Station to station", which he made right after his soul-oriented album "Young americans". Hence, the funky part of the album, in this song particularly. But at the same time, for this album, Bowie developped a new character, the Thin White Duke, some kind of amoral, decadent artistocrat, with an obsession to occultism, controversial statements (about fascism, for exemple) and an inability to feel, while being able to sing with affected passion (a monstrous and icy crooner, to sum it up). This poisture is at the core of this song : the music is funky, groovy, almost carnal, while the vocals are, in the verses, totally cold and almost hesitant, like a man who'd be practicing in front of a mirror, and in the chorus, loud and sounding a bit desperate. The sum makes for a brilliant "cold disco" groove, years before groups like Public Image Ltd or the like popularized it. Oh, and you may not have noticed (I didn't before years of listening) : the tempo is regular 4/4, except by the end of each group of 4 verses, where it is 3/4, adding a sense of unbalance to the song and chasing away the risk of sounding repetitive and static. A very subtle and nice touch : the Bowie touch :) !

[@hanierfamily]

I (Chris) noticed the short beat. But I'm often looking for odd changes in the music.

[@wpollock1]

Great comment....a true Bowie fan, obviously. I caught this tour in 1976 in Detroit and it was unbelievable.

[@vincentvancraig]

@@hanierfamily bowie was also in a "coke storm" in this period, this album was the height of his cocaine addiction/problem....but i made a seperate comment regarding the 3 albums thst follow this one....for those 3, his "berlin trilogy"...recorded in germany, he really, really made an effort to get sober, and by 1980, he had pretty much suceeded spectacularly, and pretty much quit everything: drugs, alcohol, and was sober until his last days (except of course, obviously, whatever painkillers he had in the end for the cancer, but that doesnt count...:( still miss him) ....anyway, yeah, he was high as a kite with this classic as F album, theres a song on it called "tv-c 1-5", thats about getting in a fight w/ his television that he thought was trying to suck him into another dimension, or some such madness, lol....anyway, again, great reaction....also, at the L.A. recording studios where he made the album , frank sinatra was using the studio across the hall, and they became good friends, (a song on the station to stsion album called "wild is the wind" was frank's favorite)...anyway, high as F, or not, bowie was always the "gentleman rocker"

[@clubmogambo3214]

Man, and here I thought I was a Bowie diehard who knew all the inside scoops on him and his music. That was a lesson you just gave us there bro, excellent take!!!!

[@powellpatterson4928]

My personal Bowie favorite. Followed closely by "Stone Love" from the stardust album

[@hanierfamily]

Thank you for that. We needed more Bowie on our list.

[@Packard63]

The first time i listened to this track i was transfixed and amazed at what Bowie was doing and knew i had to get the LP.

[@mangasky7]

The Thin White Duke brings the cocaine-fuelled funk. Interesting fact: the song has the exact same structure as John I'm Only Dancing (Again), his disco remake of his Ziggy-era track. You should've reacted to the amazing live version he did of this song on the Dinah Shore Show -- Bowie needs to be SEEN as well as heard.

[@hanierfamily]

That explains why I keep thinking of that song after hearing this

[@w5winston]

I think the "Tour Rehearsals 1976" video has the best version. Stacey Heydon is playing OUT of his damn mind.

[@antarcticorb9197]

Oh my God! First time time reaction!!! First time this has been played to my knowledge! Love it!!!

[@hanierfamily]

If you have more Bowie that most people don't react to, we'd love to hear them. We figure we know most of his hits, though.

[@vincentvancraig]

wow....this is obscure as F...a really classic deep album cut, the kind of deep cut that gives deep cuts their deserved reputation for awesome-ness...hell yeah, ur community is cool to suggest it, and y'all are even cooler for checking it out...im subbed...this whole album is bad ass, it only has 6 songs, but the opening song is 10 minutes long, and the album's running time ends up being what was required for length back then, but he did it w/ 6 songs, and not 12, or 14 songs...."station to station", i think, is bowie's sgt. pepper...his epitome, which is impossible to believe when u first get in to him, and u hear the ziggy album, u think "it cant get better than that", but it does, and somehow, with the "station to station" album, he was just getting started with his work being a revolutionary; basically, this album, which came out in 1975/1976, and the three albums that followed, started the 80's, it was the start of New Wave music, i think anyway....anyway, great reaction:D

[@vincentvancraig]

the quirkiness of the vocal is almost like a theme of the album....not "a theme", maybe more like a motif...it kinda all started, in a more exaggerated way with his prior album, "young americans", that: jerky, halting, almost mumbled, and eccentric vocal style that definitely went on to inspire people like david byrne of the talking heads....anyway, yeah, to my mind, this album is the first new wave, or "80's" album, and it came out in 1975, lol...bowie was such a genius, and also the cliché shape-shifting, "chameleon"...but clichés are usually true

[@moderndancer9071]

Station to Station is a great album all the way through. If you also listen to Young Americans it is also very funky - the Philadelphia sound (with Luther Vandross as one ot the background singers!) Also, David does talk/sing in his own unique way, which I love!

[@hanierfamily]

Young Americans was a great song by Bowie. I think it was on the Dick Cavett show we saw him perform that one.

[@davidfisher8821]

Great song, great reaction! You should try thr live version from Stage, it’s even better, just try it for yourself if nothing else!

[@EvanWeber1234]

great tune!

[@davidfisher8821]

Yes, Baby’s on Fire is epic, one of the best songs of the 1970s

[@clubmogambo3214]

A little common thread here. Robert Fripp, he of the original King Crimson, played lead guitar for Baby's on Fire, but also was the primary lead guitar on two of Bowie's albums, Heroes & Scary Monsters.

[@heathcornbeef]

Kia ora hello my friends hay my dad took me and my younger sister to DAVID BOWIE in 1983 just before my 13th birthday it was at Western springs stadium in Auckland THE SERIOUS MOONLIGHT TOUR for the LET'S DANCE album it's still to this day the largest crowd of people in one place at the same time in Aotearoa new zealand it was sold out and thousands of people pushed the fences over and rushed in I'm 52 now and i remember that like it was yesterday a tidal wave of people coming through the hurricane wire fences as DAVID BOWIE STARTED HIS SET AND THE BAND KEPT ON PLAYING IT WAS AWESOME TOTALLY WICKEDLY AWESOME 👍 R.I.P THE WHITE DUKE DAVID BOWIE

[@vladpewt5896]

Bowie appears live in West Berlin singing Station to Station in Uli Edel's Christiane F. 1981 The setting of heroin addiction Cold War Berlin and the Bowie sound track all merge into one another in this German teens nihilistic reaction to West world alienation.

[@kevinmccready4114]

Good God, what an outro. Everyone is just into the stratosphere. The band cooked the whole time.

[@stevenr3134]

Agreed the ending guitar jam is amazing

[@lewismaddox4132]

This album is insane! Trust me. No white man ever did funk like Bowie. And if you think this is funky you gotta check out the entire Young Americans album, particularly "Right". It'll turn you inside out!

[@antoniocarlin5026]

You need to react the BBC LIVE 2000 versión...and the versions LIVE with Adrian Belew (King Crimson and Talkin Heads guitar) live from 1990

[@hanierfamily]

We can put it on our list but it's likely to get blocked either by BBC or by King Crimson.

[@antoniocarlin5026]

@@hanierfamily Yes Robert Fripp of King Crimson blocked all his music.... but the David Bowie shows from 2000 when hes play again STAY on his shows, I dont think so... theres another versión funky live of STAY in 1978, with Adrian Belew on the guitar too

[@johntipeti4597]

his thin white duke persona stage was epic

[@moderndancer9071]

Also check out these clips from David on the Dinah Shore show singing Stay & a nice interview! kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6qykqOugLufgdk kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4PYlaN_rb2Nbqs

[@robertwands9185]

oh come now on you have t do BrianEno.s just kidding I know you do not try to to relateable to close together but you know you gonna have to do it someday, just because cynthia will hate Eno,s vocal style(lol) but it has one hell of an effect and Robert Fripps guitar work is amazing." BABY,S ON FIRE "offof his first album Leaving ROxy. album is callled"Herecome the warmJets" gee I wonder what that could be related to I would love to be that butler at the lower left of the album cover

[@AntonyFleck]

Love Enos music! The world's Greatest non musician!!! Simply Genius!!....

[@RD-dl9ms]

Great to see you both enjoying this - especially Mrs H's world-class head dancing. This is a joyful live performance of it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYDLm42ArrOCrpY

[@hanierfamily]

She had a laugh about that comment. She loved to dance growing up, and her mobility has lessened greatly since. She's suffered with flatback syndrome since her Harrington rod surgery as a teen. She moves what she can :)

[@wpollock1]

Stay on the Bowie train!?....try some more funk from Young Americans album: "Right" or "Fascination"!

[@ardentdesir5796]

How are you a family when there's just two of you? Are the kids out of shot? Or are you really a Couple ? Anyway, enough distractions, glad you liked Stay. You should hear the live version from Nassau 1976! It completely blows you away.

[@hanierfamily]

Our boy is an adult, and we let him live his life. I recommended that he show some of his talents online but he's hesitant. Our oldest lives with her boyfriend in the northern part of the city. We had the teen girls on for our Scentsy unboxing. They generally do their own thing. The intention was to bring them in more but, we don't know what we'd do.

[@robertwands9185]

some how I lost your song by the beat it was a cover, I know by now your thinking I m a Bryan Ferry Nerd But the music is that good especially his covers. He also does a "Smoky " cover " The Tracks Of My tears"and he does a "Sam Cook cover" ( What A) Wonderful world"

[@hanierfamily]

We understand your passion for Bryan Ferry's work. I (Chris) have a great passion for Prince's work. When an artist grabs your musical heart, you have to share that passion. I really wish I could do reactions to Prince. But I know most of it, and he always had a tendency to block people using his material, and that policy doesn't seem to have lightened up since his passing. I might attempt a Prince song one day, to see what happens.

[@robertwands9185]

Did you know that "Prince"did a cover of " Bryan Ferry" song " More Than This Most recognized from the movie " Lost in Tanslation" with Bill Murray

[@krs181067]

👨🏻‍🎤 try young Americans…..funky

[@hanierfamily]

we know and love that song