A Sense of Doubt blog post #3618 - THIRTEEN Bowie Songs for January Thirteenth - Music Monday for 2501.13

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3618 - THIRTEEN Bowie Songs for January Thirteenth - Music Monday for 2501.13

Me again, and I am late. It's Thursday 1/16, and I am sending this back in time to Monday 1/13.

It's David Bowie week in my classes, which means that I play a lot of David Bowie and talk about what he means to me. I am not sure that I manage to convey his influence truly, how profound it has been,

I decided to make a new mix, just to have some songs to play in class, and I restricted myself to thirteen songs for January Thirteenth.

I tried to do a good cross section of his career and my favorites, but in thirteen songs it's not possible to capture a career spanning 26 studio albums and so much more beyond just those. That's why I was all right with TWO from Scary Monsters and Super Creeps, the first and last songs, two of my all-time faves. I would have to say -- if you force me to choose -- that "Ashes to Ashes" is my favorite Bowie song. 

After I made the mix, I wish I had included "Golden Years," but I had the two songs with angels, one from Heathen and the others from Hours... I was going to share "Changes" but then since "Life On Mars" is also from 1971's Hunky Dory, I chose it instead. 

I wanted "Shadow Man" from Toy that was released posthumously. And then songs I listen to a lot, like "Sound and Vision" and "Strangers When We Meet." And "Young Americans" plays well in class. "Five Years" is the song that had me in seconds, and I fell in love with Bowie, even though Scary Monsters and Super Creeps is my favorite album not The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. And then a couple more. "Sons of the Silent Age" sticks with me. And I will always select the "Sweet Thing/Candidate/Reprise" sequence from Diamond Dogs.

I knew I wanted "I Can't Give Everything Away," which is like his last words to us as it is the final track on his last album Blackstar.

Beyond the first line, the rest of the first verse is somewhat inscrutable, though I am sure I could find other people's explanations online.

But the second verse? It seems response to the lines in "Ashes to Ashes" in which he sings "I've never done good things, I've never done bad things, I never did anything out of the blue." He gives us his final thoughts on ALL he has ever meant, the message he sent. He's contradictions. He's increasingly less passionate? Not sure what he means by "feeling less." Lots of ways to take that.

Enigmatic to the last. It's kind of in the title.

That's why I love David Bowie.

Thanks for tuning in.

[Verse 1]

I know something's very wrong

The pulse returns the prodigal sons

The blackout hearts, the flowered news

With skull designs upon my shoes

[Chorus]

I can't give everything

I can't give everything away

I can't give everything away

[Verse 2]

Seeing more and feeling less

Saying no but meaning yes

This is all I ever meant

That's the message that I sent

BOWIE MIX - THIRTEEN SONGS FOR JANUARY THIRTEENTH

[1] David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes (Official Video)

[2] David Bowie - Young Americans (Live, 1983)

[3] David Bowie - Sons Of The Silent Age '87 Sydney

[4] David Bowie - Life On Mars? (Original Ending Version) [4K Upgrade]

[5] David Bowie - Five Years (Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972)

[6] David Bowie - Sweet Thing-Candidate-Sweet Thing (Repr.) | Live at the Universal Amphitheatre | 1974

[7] David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away

[8] David⚡️Bowie - Sound and Vision (2017 Remaster)

[9] David⚡️Bowie - Strangers When We Meet (live)

[10] David Bowie – 5:15 The Angels Have Gone (Live Berlin 2002)

[11] David Bowie - New Angels of Promise

[12] David Bowie - Shadow Man (Unplugged & Somewhat Slightly Electric Mix) [Lyric Video]

[13] David Bowie  - It's No Game (Pt. 2) (2017 Remaster)

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Also, a post about my favorite Bowie album.

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A Sense of Doubt blog post #3257 - All the Bowie Albums and my TOP TEN

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2501.13 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3482 days ago & DAD = 138 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.