Aug 11, 2026 · 52 min · 12 segments
David Bowie's soundtrack to a movie you probably haven't seen is an unusually sentimental affair. Sure, it didn't make the same splash as *Ziggy Stardust* or *Low*, but it is every bit as…
That's the same year as In Utero by Nirvana and the first Wu-Tang Clan album.
I'm thinking about it.
Doesn't he seem, I don't know, old-fashioned, out of date, even safe, maybe artistically conservative?
Yeah.
I'd always known Rebel Rebel and stuff like that, but when I first listened to David Bowie intentionally, I was in high school, and my reaction was, this... is as far as you can get from where I am.
And that was so appealing to me.
And I sometimes get the impression that if there is like a thread that runs through all of David Bowie's music, an emotional thread, I mean, maybe that thread is something along the lines of, I want to be somewhere beyond this.
Beyond where I am.
And it's not in a Bruce Springsteen way.
Like, Mary get on my motorcycle and we'll get out of this town forever.
It's not like that.
It's not escapism.
It seems to be coming from a point of view that says, I'm in this particular headspace and I want to be in a different one.
Yeah.
You know, the period of time that people might consider his golden years,
you know? Golden years, boom, boom, boom, boom.
People would consider his golden years like the 70s, right? And it's amazing that he survived those years.
He seemed miserable.
The drugs, flirting with fascist iconography.
He said that later.
He just seems miserable.
That's the same year as In Utero by Nirvana and the first Wu-Tang Clan album.
I'm thinking about it.
Doesn't he seem, I don't know, old-fashioned, out of date, even safe, maybe artistically conservative?
Yeah.
I'd always known Rebel Rebel and stuff like that, but when I first listened to David Bowie intentionally, I was in high school, and my reaction was, this... is as far as you can get from where I am.
And that was so appealing to me.
And I sometimes get the impression that if there is like a thread that runs through all of David Bowie's music, an emotional thread, I mean, maybe that thread is something along the lines of, I want to be somewhere beyond this.
Beyond where I am.
And it's not in a Bruce Springsteen way.
Like, Mary get on my motorcycle and we'll get out of this town forever.
It's not like that.
It's not escapism.
It seems to be coming from a point of view that says, I'm in this particular headspace and I want to be in a different one.
Yeah.
You know, the period of time that people might consider his golden years,
you know? Golden years, boom, boom, boom, boom.
People would consider his golden years like the 70s, right? And it's amazing that he survived those years.
He seemed miserable.
The drugs, flirting with fascist iconography.
He said that later.
He just seems miserable.
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