Jim Adams is our host and this was the first song that came to mind with this week’s theme to find songs with recognizable intros suggested by Clive from Take It Easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLxnAlZ63o8
One of my favourite Bowie songs and the lyrics are in the clip.
Courtesy WIKI
“Sound and Vision” is a song by English musician David Bowie. It was released in January 1977 by RCA Records on side one of his 11th studio album Low. RCA later chose it as the first single from the album. Co-produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti, the song was recorded at the Château d’Hérouville in Hérouville, France, in September 1976, and completed at Hansa Studios in West Berlin in October and November. The song began as a simple G major chord progression that Bowie gave to the backing musicians, writing and recording his vocals afterward. It features backing vocals from Brian Eno and Visconti’s then-wife Mary Hopkin.
Released as a single on 11 February 1977, “Sound and Vision” was a commercial success, making number three on the UK Singles Chart, aided by its appearance in BBC television commercials. It peaked at number 69 on the Billboard Hot 100, signalling Bowie’s commercial downturn in the US until 1983. Music critics and biographers consider “Sound and Vision” one of Bowie’s greatest songs. He performed it only once on his 1978 Isolar II world tour, but frequently on later tours. Remixes of the song have been created in subsequent decades and it has appeared on several compilation albums.
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I was never a Bowie fan so I never heard this but it is good! Good choice
Thanks! I wasn’t a fan either, but there were some I really liked and this was one of them.
I have to be honest and say that unless it was one of his greatest hits I never listened to him and I suppose didn’t know anyone that did. Strange though, he is a big name.
I’m like that with most of the artists of today anyway!
I love this song too and it also has a very long intro almost one minute fifty seconds 💜🙂🙂💜
I think at the time it was the longest intro ever.
Yes indeed 💜💜
I never get tired of hearing this one;
It’s cold outside
And the paint’s peeling off of my walls
There’s a man outside
In a long coat, grey hat, smoking a cigarette
Now the light fades out
And I wonder what I’m doing
In a room like this
There’s a knock on the door
And just for a second I thought
I remembered you
So now I’m alone
Now I can think for myself
About little deals & S.U.s
And things that I just don’t understand
Like a white lie that night
Or a sly touch at times
I don’t think it meant anything to you
So I open the door
It’s the ‘friend’ that I’d left in the hallway
‘Please sit down’
A candlelit shadow on a wall near the bed
You know I hate to ask
But are ‘friends’ electric?
Only mine’s broke down
And now I’ve no-one to love
So I found out your reasons
For the phone calls and smiles
And it hurts
And I’m lonely
And I should never have tried
And I missed you tonight
It must be time to leave
You see it meant everything to me
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Gary Anthony James Webb (aka; Gary Numan)
Are ‘Friends’ Electric? lyrics © Universal/momentum Music 3 Ltd.
Good one Glyn
‘Sound and Vision’ was intended to be an instrumental at first, which is why Bowie’s vocals take so long to come into this song. Nice choice Di.
I remember it having the longest intro at the time.
Never heard that one 😊
Wow!
Its good but I don’t think it was as popular as some of his others – at least not in the US.
I wasn’t a fan but liked Space Oddity, China Girl, Life on Mars, The Man Who Sold the World, Let’s Dance, Ashes to Ashes and Starman. Not so keen on The Laughing Gnome though.
You either loved Bowie or you didn’t. He wasn’t my thing, but I liked the intro to his song! ☺️💕
🙂