Monthly Archives: December 2016

Of all the Bowie songs about death, this is the only one I can think of in which the narrator apparently wishes the death of another.  Who?  That's not clear, but whoever it is is a  sneak.  I have read…

This is yet another of Bowie's prayer-songs.  For a long time I heard this as an entreaties to an out-of reach prospective lover. I viewed is as similar to "Be My a Wife" in that in exchange for love, Bowie…

This song is about someone realizing his happiness is about to end because his girlfriend has chosen someone else.  The night that is about to come is a post-break up depression.  That's what the song is actually about.  I'm posting…

This is really one of Bowie's prayer-songs.  It is a demand of God for a better future.  Read in a more cynical way, it is a demand of a political leader teetering on the brink of heroism.  I am posting…

A year ago I was eagerly awaiting the new Bowie CD to arrive from Amazon. I had already seen the video for "Blackstar" and heard, "Sue, (Or In A Season of Crime)" and was looking forward to the album (would…

I intended to post this song on this day for nearly a year, from just after I started this tribute. It's an obvious selection now, but it's hard for me to imagine how unusual the pairing of Bowie and Bing…

You didn’t think this was a Bowie song!  Actually, it isn’t.  The version you hear on the radio does not include Bowie.  But he joined in at Live Aid in 1985 and in fact sings the opening line.  And its…

I had been saving this song for around Christmas because it is Bowie's happiest song. It is one extreme on the arc of contrasts from the Hunky Dory album- happy songs like this and "Kooks" on the one end of…

Bowie supposedly kicked this song around for many years before finally recording it. That notion came from Bowie himself, which suggests he cared more about this song than most. For me, it seems like a lament about the past. I…

I've read that Bowie was inspired to write this song by the idea of soldiers who invaded a desert for oil only to end up searching for water in order to survive. I don't see that in the lyrics. It…