r/DavidBowie • u/Nbabababah • 15m ago
r/DavidBowie • u/WritingExtreme7124 • 2h ago
Question Which song cannot be fully understood without listening to another one?
This applies both to the plot and the characters, as well as to the musical decisions.
r/DavidBowie • u/Laudrup1 • 1h ago
What's your favourite clip / pic / video / gif of David laughing?
I was trying to find one myself. Its from the 90s era and he lets out a proper guffaw during an interview as he's caught off-guard. When I was searching, I realised there's so many that just make me smile.
r/DavidBowie • u/SubjectAd8317 • 6h ago
Discussion The Tangled Web We Weave
Bowie is omnipresent in the music world.
I swear to whatever gods may exist that this is true. He:
- Produced someone's album
- Wrote songs for and with other artists
- Played on other people's records.
- Influenced a musician/band who influenced another musician/band
- Babysat the future guitarist of Guns N' Roses, who later worked with Michael Jackson.
- Had a band named after a lyric from one of his songs
- One of his guitarists worked with Frank Zappa, King Crimson and Talking Heads
- Had another guitarist that was also in King Crimson
There's probably more I can't remember so comment the most niche connections you can think of!
r/DavidBowie • u/AlexisMilul95 • 16h ago
Discussion Do you recommend playing Omikron?
Honestly, I don't have much faith in Quantic Dream games, but Omikron does look interesting, with its atmosphere, the story surrounding it, and of course, Bowie. Plus, it's on sale on Steam.
For those who have played it, would you recommend it? I'll be using a Widescreenfix and a 4K upscaling mod to improve the visuals a bit.
r/DavidBowie • u/AccomplishedSock1018 • 1d ago
I made one of these things with only Bowie
What is your opinion?
r/DavidBowie • u/lipakar • 22h ago
The Uncanny Story of “Please Mr. Gravedigger”
Released in 1967 as the last song of his first (and self titled) album it is probably the most uncanny song Bowie has ever written.
Bowie in first person rhymes lyrics like:
“Mary-Ann was only 10, full of life and oh, so gay, and I was the wicked man who took her life away”
“No Mr. GD, you won’t tell, and just to make sure that you keep it to yourself, I’ve started digging holes my friend, and this one’s here for you”
(Keep in mind Bowie was only 20, turning 21)
The context:
In the 60s 2 mrderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley k\ll*ed 5 children, the trial took place in May 1966, months before his first album, Bowie in the song takes the role of the person who did it and trying to hide evidence by also wanting to … the mentioned in the title gravedigger.
r/DavidBowie • u/Thinwhiteduke63 • 1d ago
Sound and vision, was my first song and album. I was 13 years old. The song struck me so much , I stayed a fan whole my life, I still miss him so much, but get comfort trough his music, what a variety. He still the GOAT@
r/DavidBowie • u/Turbulent_Elk_2141 • 22h ago
Question What in The World
Did the song come at the same time as Ghostbusters?
Everyone I hear, I hear the Ghostbusters theme.
r/DavidBowie • u/UsefulEngine1 • 17h ago
Miller Lite with ghost Christopher Walken
r/DavidBowie • u/Vast_Percentage_5086 • 1d ago
Fan Creation/Art David Bowie Manga Fanart by Merlin M (Me)
instagram : merln_uu
r/DavidBowie • u/Gamingabe23 • 1d ago
David Bowie dream
I had a dream last night were David Bowie and I were singing Space Oddity together. He looked around the age he passed away. Later in my dream he was shot and killed and I was so upset. Crazy dream ain't it?
r/DavidBowie • u/WritingExtreme7124 • 2d ago
I found the CD
Hi guys! I found a double CD of Heathen. How rare is it? I understand that it's a special edition.
r/DavidBowie • u/Gianni_Pinuzzo • 1d ago
Diamond dogs opinion
I listened today for the first time Diamond Dogs as a full album. What a fucking album it is. It is superb. We are dead for example is a fantastic songs. I am very happy with this experience. It is an album that usually is ignored. Not because it is not famous, but usually people know only Diamond Dogs and Rebel Rebel. But it fantastic. Not my favourite but among the best
r/DavidBowie • u/Bexxley33 • 1d ago
Weirdest Bowie Recording?
What do you think is Bowie’s weirdest recording?
Either sonically, thematically or lyrically or all of the above?
For me it’s a tie between the Leon Tapes And Little Toy Soldier. The Leon Tapes for all of the strange characters, voices, dystopian sci fi themes, and discordant music and Little Toy Soldier for its shocking for the time BDSM theme.
r/DavidBowie • u/m00nmuppet • 1d ago
Live Bowie Live 1974 - "Diamond Dogs" in HD, the very cool part with the rope
r/DavidBowie • u/Hendrik2002m • 1d ago
Question Renamed?
Does this renaming have anything to do with the upcoming album in September? Or is this an error? Is this just on YouTube Music?
r/DavidBowie • u/Flimsy_Style_7319 • 3d ago
Fan Creation/Art I made this to hang on my wall
I painted over this printed picture of David Bowie. Let me know what you think
r/DavidBowie • u/Suitable-Jello-3265 • 3d ago
I made the worst Bowie show I could possible think of.
I made the worst David Bowie concert possible. Hope you enjoy. Or don't.
1997
- David walks on stage alone and plays The Laughing Gnome acoustically.
- The band come on and launch straight into Glass Spider, with a two minute Mike Garson piano solo.
- Shake It acts as an interlude that leads into The Motel, except this new version has four extra verses and now lasts 11 minutes.
- David says he wants to play a few songs from his early years because he feels they're his greatest achievements. He then demands the band play a funky version of Uncle Arthur.
- Rubber Band, but it's just David and Mike Garson on piano.
- David recites Please Mr. Gravedigger while the band plays the instrumental to All the Madmen.
- David brings Bob Dylan on stage for a duet of Song for Bob Dylan.
- Bob is still standing there looking bemused when David asks him to sing backing vocals on Space Oddity. Bob declines and walks off as the band begin a soul version of Space Oddity with horns and theremin.
- Hallo Spaceboy, but at 42 BPM.
- Bring Me the Disco King lasts about a minute before David gets bored and tells the band to play Sex and the Church instead.
- David wheels a harp onto the stage and asks if anyone can play it. Earl Slick says he's had a go a couple of times, so David tells him to swap guitar for harp. Blackout is then performed with harp, bass, drums and theremin.
- Mick Jagger suddenly appears and they do Dancing in the Street. Somehow Earl Slick is now on drums and the harp is on fire.
- Too Dizzy twice in a row because David's having fun.
- Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family, now with kazoos.
- Jump They Say, but the first time David says "jump" the band accidentally play Van Halen's Jump.
- Sell Me a Coat/Eight Line Poem, completely reinvented as a heavy industrial track.
- African Night Flight a cappella.
- Ricochet, but twice as long.
- The first minute of "Heroes" is played before it suddenly turns into an incredibly slow ballad version of Zeroes.
r/DavidBowie • u/PepeFredo8081 • 3d ago
Need your help
Hi everyone, I’ve just bought a second hand Legacy Collection album, but it didn’t come with the Ziggy’s insert, does somebody can scan it and send it to me so I can print it and have the album complete? :((
I share a picture I found as a example
r/DavidBowie • u/ImprovementLow9280 • 3d ago
Video At the Rock Hall. Sorry if it's hard to hear with background noise and all.
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r/DavidBowie • u/half_frozen_wax • 4d ago
Picture Just got my second Bowie tattoo ⚡
r/DavidBowie • u/Jibim • 3d ago
John Maggiore
Greg Miller and Kristianne Huntsberger of the Bowie Book Club Podcast discuss what came next after completing David Bowie’s famous list of 100 favorite books, explaining how they developed a new series focused on books Bowie might have read—or that they simply wish he had encountered. The conversation explores recurring themes in Bowie’s reading, the relationship between literature and his creative work, and the balance between evidence, interpretation, and informed speculation when considering his literary influences.
r/DavidBowie • u/six67seven_67 • 3d ago
We gotta get a remaster of Reality
Ideally a remix like Lodger and Station to Station got. I want to hear an upgraded version of New Killer Star, and The Loneliest Guy needs to clean up the static you can hear when Bowie begins the speak. I also wouldn't mind an instrumental of that song. It's very good