Make it stop!

The_Enemy wrote:

This was a great Singer when I was 14.

Doesn't age well.

Sorry, to me the solo sounds like Daffy Duck piano-dueling Donald Duck in Roger Rabbit.

not 4 th faint of heart nor anybody who cant tolerate avante garde jazz

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funny comments ..the thing i think is most interesting is google somehow managed to already index the radioparadise comments into their search engine

Wow, the distribution here is clearly love it or hate it; too me this is like "modern" jazz which puts me in the latter camp. Painful!

I wish I could cut the piano out...the rest has/had potential.

haljordan wrote:

Bwahahahahahahaaaa

Well, at least he took chances if we must say something nice about this one.

Generally like Bowie, but this one misses.

I heard sounds like the piano ovetrack once after taking some magic mushrooms... thought I was having a flashback...

Hey - it takes a true celebrity to get away with this kind of crap.

auburntigerrich wrote:

Thus the title..."A Lad Insane"

So I suppose you'd HATE to hear King Crimson's Cat Food (a favorite here)!

With this BPM, a likely segue candidate would be Jimi's Foxy Lady. (Or the aforementioned Cat Food.)

Garson is still Bowie's pianist. I used to find him grating and obvious (like Steve Naive is now) but, after all these years, he's a pleasant heaping helping of rock and roll. Catch him on Bowie's VHI Storytellers episode and you'll see him do some really beautiful heartfelt stuff.

Gotta stop typing - here comes the Garson part! CRANK IT UP! How do you take acoustic piano and make it abrasive and emotive? It's harder than you think. And rock and roll isn't easy or comfortable, sometimes...

sharkartist wrote:
Thank God there's at least one person with good taste posting on this song. It's amazing how intolerant people are of any song that doesn't sound boring and generic.
And yes, Mike Garson is amazing.

plaid wrote:

I registered just to say that I couldn't stand this song. I know some people like that kind of stuff, I don't.

sharkartist wrote:

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Mugro wrote:

The combination of "The piano thing" and somebodies computer in the office going crazy making the Microsoft "Ta-da" noise over, and over, and over again makes me want to punch my monitor.

pattiecovert wrote:

True, I turned mine down here at my desk, BUT would an insane lad play the piano any other way!!!??

This was a great song when I was 14.

Doesn't age well.

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Hmmm. I'm not totally sure about this. There's much to like, but also some that's a bit annoying. Gotta hear it a few more times...

The piano thing is annoying.

It is annoying when my darling two year old does it. It is even more so when David Bowie does it.

Just because you are a musical genius does not mean that you get to assault musical instruments and our ears like that!

please make it stop...

Sounds like he might have made this when he was hanging with Warhol. Not always an effective inspiration. Phew!

A whirling tornado of senselessness and insanity. No thanks. Call me when the producer gets out of rehab.

Barfo.

okay the jazzy piano is kinda cool ... bumped from sucko barfo to marginal

rbigelo wrote:

Agreed.
Yeah, Bowie's had so many incarnations. Think of this one as a transition from Ziggy to Thin White Duke (one of my favorite periods).

the piano part is making us nuts! too much dischord for the work place.

a Bowie classic. avant garde jazz from the thin white duke.

Great song....!