VISIONARY!! DAVID BOWIE - SOUND AND VISON WITH LYRICS REACTION

[@POPE.]

my last bowie reaction was ALLADIN SANE not ZIGGY STARDUST 😅

[@Elijah2x]

Scary Monsters should be your nice choice.

[@dwoehrma]

Another game changer. This is the album that made me realize he was much more than just a rock star.. its not for everybody but there is nothing else like it.

[@pelegrim3264]

This song is truly a classic! And the album “Low” is a masterpiece.

[@melvinwomack3717]

Always crashing in the same car from this album is amazing.keep going

[@retropian]

You should listen to the whole album. Low was groundbreaking in 1977. It still holds up today. He left America for Europe after his 1976 tour ended. He knew his coke addiction would kill him if he didn’t make a change. Low is his comedown album recorded in the fall of 1976. He’s wearing a Duffle Coat on the cover with the collar turned up. They’re still made today. A classic.

[@hellemarc4767]

The "classic" Duffle Coat exists since 1850, there have been new designs, but this one has barely changed since then. Timeless, like the album (and it's a still from TMWFTE movie). I agree, the albums ought to be listened in their entirety. Back then, records had an A and a B side; he put all the instrumentals on the B side on purpose, because he knew untrained ears would find them a bit hard to listen to, but I love "Subterraneans", Weeping Wall" and "Warszawa". On the non-instrumental side, another great track is "Always Crashing In The Same Car".

[@GrimrDirge]

I know I haven't given Bowie enough attention over the years, thanks for exploring this with me Pope.

[@SLB4523]

Im always amazed that’ Lodger’ is universally ignored by both the pro and con pundits, what an amazing album. And how ‘Red Sails’ wasn’t a monster hit is confounding. A true masterpiece of original and unique creation.

[@cosmiccat6708]

Great album and, "Always Crashing In The Same Car" is one of my fave tracks on here, (the guitar solo is so sublime, I learnt to play it!) but the whole album is fantastic. Since early on in his career, Bowie was a story teller, by his own admission: "I love to write stories"...though in his own inimitable style, of course. Check out, "The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud" , "God Knows I'm Good" and "Cygnet Committee", all from the album, "Space Oddity". Incidentally, the cover of the "Low" album is a clip from the movie, "The Man Who Fell To Earth", one of many Bowie movies, but the absolute best and most appropriate casting for him, check it out and you'll see what I mean!

[@scotsean]

Always crashing in the same car is one of my top three Bowie tracks...love it

[@bevil4aday]

Beck does an amazing "re-imagining" to this song. This is my personal favorite Bowie song, glad it was recommended to you and that you picked up on it. Enjoy sound and vision, my friend.

[@79BlackRose]

I love this track from the first time I heard it on release. 💖 It is just a perfect song. His clever use of vocals is featured here.

[@andreaaase1065]

Low is one of Bowie’s most experimental albums. Sooo good! Definitely recommend checking out the whole thing.

[@cynthiacurrie5589]

Completely agree!

[@valeriekokenge659]

Love this song so much! Listen to Word on a Wing, Blackout, What in the World, Warzawa, Time will Crawl, Loving the Alien, Lady Grinning Soul, Win, Fascination, Teenage Wildlife, Width of a Circle, Stay…

[@dagnabbit6187]

I was a College student when this came out . Already a fervent David Bowie fan. Can you imagine how hard it was concentrating on academics back then with all that awesome music coming out all the time ? Great reaction !

[@geraldsettlemyer4033]

Wild Is The Wind is another must listen. Originally done by Nina Simone. He asked her to dinner to personally get permission to do it. Absolutely mesmerizing.

[@nateo2131]

By no means to intend to diminish Nina Simone, but Bowie's version cuts through my soul.

[@JuliaF60]

Hey Pope glad to have you and Bowie back!❤🎉 LOW is a great album one song flows into another.

[@robertjewell9727]

The cover of the album is from the movie he starred in in 1976 THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH which I'm proud to say friend Candy starred with him in. And the cover is a visual pun meaning "low profile" Get it? The word KIW and his profile.. In other words, the music had a subdued quality in exploring soundscapess. The first more simple song generated; the second primarily instrumental delving into more ambient orchestrations.

[@michaelminch5490]

1977. The beginnings of his foray into electronica and experimental music. A major influence on this period was a German band - Kraftwerk. Check them out - start with Autobahn. The album cover art image is a still from "The Man Who Fell to Earth," a strange film from 1976 that he starred in. The cover image from his Station to Station album is also from that film.

[@nicknickson3650]

Many times I've woken up with this song playing in my head. It's so good

[@glennmartin1632]

Been into Bowie since I was a dj in the early 70s.Check out his early folky albums “the man who sold the world” Running gun blues

[@wodehouse1]

The Man Who Sold the World, give this a listen all the way to the end, ti's 👍 great.

[@velvetclaw2316]

The cover is a still photo from the movie THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH - if you’re a Bowie fan you must se this movie

[@jeffreyes6236]

I love your comments about stopping to appreciate the ability to see all the colors and hear all the sounds. We often take so many things for granted until we lose them. And many people are already suffering from various maladies such as not being able to walk or hear well enough to understand what their children or grandchildren are saying to them. We always wish for more in life, but we should really appreciate all that we do have, no matter how much that is.

[@joancarlesclaros9217]

Low is a fucking sensational work, to be listened in a row with Heroes, Lodger and the Iggy's albums Lust for life and The idiot. An experience every time.

[@mattleppard1970]

Musical heaven. Total beauty. Pure art. One of my earliest childhood musical memories ❤❤❤❤ Swag? Bowie was and always will be the king. Album cover from the movie The Man Who Fell to Earth.😊 Suggestion: Blue Jean. Bowie pop. Need I add more?

[@holyjon]

Absolutely fantastic song from the LOW album.

[@Atackoftheevilvendingmac-pb5iq]

i was just listening to sound and vision thats crazy man

[@bobwowk8440]

Great reaction! I have this album. It’s a clear red vinyl album. So cool!

[@myyoutubechannel3124]

This is my favorite song. I like the "clean" keyboards and smashing drums, and I like the sad, resigned singing. I always thought it was about a solitary person going insane with "waiting for the gift of sound and vision" being waiting for the visual and auditory hallucinations. The album cover is a visual pun. He went to Berlin to keep a low profile and get off drugs, and the album cover has the word "Low" and then a picture of his profile below.

[@Farmlandsfallfan]

TVC 15 out roughly the same time is also classic Bowie.

[@gzucc]

I am doing this right now and I have recently, in the last two years, had a major brain injury.......and I am waiting for sound and vision... I have been so 'productive' as it were, in my live....I've accomplished....I am accomplished....and you are so calm and quite sweet and the way you are discussing this track is changing MY MOOD about myself. It's jangling simplicity, it's weird drum intros that kind of go no where....and then repeat. I'm pretty sure that is because the musicians are loves and I'm pretty sure that you are a love and I'm pretty sure that I love you.

[@annewoodard6803]

There is only one David Bowie. Icon

[@chrismccormickARTV]

Thank you for sharing Pope

[@fatovamingus]

It's very good to see you. The world is upside down right now but this is the season of peace. May it fall on everyone. This is a great song on an unusual album. Bowie was working with Brian Eno at this point. I never really got into this album but this song is bitchin.

[@valeriekokenge659]

That album cover photo is a still from the movie: the Msn Who fell to Earth as is the Stationtostation album cover.

[@Linda-y9h]

Hey Pope...hope you're doing OK. Bowie can always make me feel better. Much aloha to all! ❤

[@Linda-y9h]

And...how about them Niners? 😊

[@POPE.]

mccaffrey is a monsterrrrr

[@Linda-y9h]

@@POPE. 😊

[@SLB4523]

A low-fi masterpiece. He once adain flagrantly ignored the status quo and did his own thing. He was the king, and Kate Bush was the queen. I can only fantasize at what a collaberation may have spawned

[@vincentschmitt7597]

As my inner thoughts fade when i wake up in the morning i lay there waiting for sound and vision to sufficiently motivate me to get my ass out of bed. This is an average morning in my retirement.

[@jaymez3461]

This song is from the Berlin trilogy era of his career, possibly his most creative and adventurous. The late 70s was a great time in his discography. Low, Heroes and Lodger are the albums he made in Berlin in collaboration with Brian Eno. He went on to release Scary Monsters in 1980 and many of his fans consider this to be the 4th album in the Berlin trilogy and a high point for him, creatively. You can’t go wrong with anything he did in this part of his career. I’m not undermining the greatness of his earlier work, but this is where things get really interesting for me.

[@terfteeps]

Good to see you back! Hope your feelings are bit better?!

[@Gittoplo]

Argentina top. Cool video selection. Yes yes.

[@wesmcquillen]

This song was always an oxymoron for me - it sounds so upbeat but it's about being depressed and alone, hiding in your room. "Blue, blue, 'lectric blue That's the colour of my room Where I will live Blue, blue Pale blinds drawn all day Nothing to do, nothing to say Blue, blue"

[@POPE.]

was thinking the same thing, electric blue with pale shades nothing to do…wow.

[@JoesTheBestInTheWorl]

Depression is noisy, no wonder. This talks of contemplation, he was Buddhist after all.

[@shepmathe]

Thanks. One of my fave recordings of his! All great tunes! Have it on that pretty orange vinyl from RSD. My original copy is very well played. Keep listening.

[@NormanHarrison-ro7kq]

Bowie didn’t just do his own work, he also produced albums for Lou Reed, Mott The Hoople, and Iggy Pop, as well as writing songs for Tina Turner, Ava Cherry, Peter Noon, Iggy Pop, Mott The Hoople, and Paul Nicholas

[@Joshualuv13]

This is an absolute favourite of mine ..heard it was inspired by the arist .Van Gouh..

[@chrisbridgen2711]

One of the three 'Berlin trilogy' albums. The best in my opinion. Produced by ambient music legend Brian Eno.

[@MultiFinlayson]

Thanks a lot for this. The lyrics come in so late, about the half-way mark, most of the songs on the album are lyric-less and you kind of feel this one was trying to be too, but he managed to shoehorn in some simple, but beautiful thoughts to alter the soundscape, but it could have been another instrumental.

[@Matt-bd5wc]

Awesome. Thank u. Check out BECK, sound and Vision, EPIC!!

[@mikecaetano]

Nice! I was ten years old when this dropped. Bowie's music always stood out on the radio back then. Nick Lowe dropped a hit the following year, "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass", that visits a similar sonic groove as "Sound and Vision". Compare for contrast. "Warszawa" from side two of that album is mind blowing. It inspired Joy Division, Nine Inch Nails, and Red Hot Chili Peppers among many others. And composer Philip Glass adapted it for a symphony in the early nineties.

[@TheoZoffrok]

I was at the world premier of the Low and "Heroes" symphonies! Unforgettable evening, which included getting Philip Glass's autograph on the CDs.

[@vickithurston3696]

Thanks so much you are great

[@TheGrizzypoo]

I am in South London. would love to buy you a beer some day for your reactions to this absolute legend

[@POPE.]

☺️

[@maryelizabethreynoldsprice2135]

Ahhhhhhh...Pope and Bowie. How to make me happy. Visionary and swag...YEP! Always "Crasning in the Same Car" is a great song on this album. Cygnet Commitee is probabley my all time favorite Bowie song but it's so hard to pin down a favorite. If you've not done any songs off of the Lodger album, you should. Keep 'em coming!

[@POPE.]

which song off of lodger ??

[@maryelizabethreynoldsprice2135]

@@POPE. Oh Wow..So many great ones.How about Fantastic Voyage.

[@maryelizabethreynoldsprice2135]

@@POPE. Fantastic Voyage

[@murraymejka]

Some say his best album by far is Low.The duffel coat he is wearing is a still from the movie The Man Who Fell To Earth.

[@GeorgeinScotland]

Low and Heroes made in Berlin

[@ignatzmuskrat3000]

He was describing his Berlin hotel room when he was trying to record this record with Brian Eno. Not unusual as P.G. Wodehouse did the same to create works of art for the masses. Creativity, at work. I imagine he had a "Do Not Disturb" at his hotel room threshold....unless you are a china girl,who knows how to hold your lip.

[@cynthiacurrie5589]

The Aladdin Sane album was my first Bowie album when I was 14. The song Time is my favorite but the entire album is amazing, just like Ziggy Stardust. I remember the critics panning "Low," they did not understand David and his creative evolution journey AT ALL. So frustrating back then!

[@terfteeps]

You need to get into the album Hunky Dory!

[@joshuabruner9676]

6:30 Bewlay Brothers

[@Elijah2x]

You need to review/react to the Album Low

[@TheoZoffrok]

The album photo and title make a visual pun. "Low" + profile shot = "low profile" - and the album was rather low profile in comparison to his preceding 70s work.

[@holyjon]

Hi Pope I recomand you listen to Fantastic Voyage & Red Money or the whole DB album LODGER.. Thanks and take care :)

[@chrisstones1249]

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[@kaiiida4661]

Brooo you gotta do his stuff from Earthling

[@rogercaruso9337]

Yo bro it's been awhile how you doing.

[@POPE.]

not bad, how about you ?

[@dcg4mn]

Love studio versions but his live performances are almost always better. Check out how FUNKY this Ashes to Ashes (and I’ve now officially fallen in love with this guitarist😆 and I’ve seen that beautiful talented freelance bass player several times live with other bands- sorry I’ve forgotten her name) kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZjOYneZe99gi8Usi=cKhAXEV6aGYea50q THIS song grew on me over decades until it’s one of my all time faves by him. But nothing will ever knock Heroes (about lovers at the Berlin Wall) out of #1 - there are a few great live performances on video out there.

[@mikepiccione886]

I truly love you guys but the standing is a little awkward😂❤

[@daudder]

Howie, and undeniable talent, but one who just never got to me, as he did many. Found him to be more chameleon than original. Marc Bolan, Roxy Music, the Philly sound, disco, etc were all the originals, that Bowie crammed from. Cannot deny his talent at this, but much prefer the originals.

[@timholder6825]

The album cover is a still from the film he made, where he played an alien who came to Earth to steal Earth's wayer to save his dying planet. It's called, The Man Who Fell To Earth. Weird, but very clever and interesting. Smoke some good green before you watch it and it'll all make sense (was he from an alien planet or Earth's future?)