| David Bowie – V-2 Schneider Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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@[exobscura:49385] Thank you! I had forgotten that I'd written this, lol. I should really update it if possible because I gave the wrong song name for Hunky Dory... Oh you pretty things, and Belway Bros are direct references to hidden ww2 "truth." Quicksand is more about Nietzsche's concept of the Superman, or Ubermensch... which by coincidence, was a concept that the Nazi's had a lot of interest in... Also definitely worth listening to cygnet committee on his first album... Definitely worth listening to that one. TMWSTW is a classic album, with good lyrics throughout, and I also really appreciate Mick Ronson's guitar... My own personal favourite album is Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. I think musically it's flawless. The guitar tones, the drumming... omg the drumming on that album! And the attention to detail, like the little saxophone fills on Soul Love... But also it marked a change in Bowie's approach... I don't know about you, but my personal experience of trying to have a direct conversation with people whereby you provide them with the truth about certain things, tends to result in the other people shutting down and then you end up acquiring labels like conspiracy theorist....and then it seems, that one becomes ever-more socially excluded until there's noone left to listen.... Ziggy marks the start of Bowie finding creative ways to switch people on and get them listening... Plus Rock n Roll Suicide is an amazing closing song for an album |
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| David Bowie – V-2 Schneider Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| He’s trying to put a picture together for you so that if you choose to, you can see the world as it really is... what’s the significance of the v2? To understand the answer, you first need context. Bowie provides this for you on Hunky Dory and The Man Who Sold The World - Quicksand and Bewlay Brothers for what really happened in WW2... Also, This album was heavily collaborated on with John Lennon, who lyrically devoted his entire solo career to exposing the truth. | |
| David Bowie – All the Madmen Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[paranoidandroid83:24617] Amusing that you like Radiohead, and are my age, and actually made the connection to the Nazis, but the experiments he’s talking about are the MK Ultra projects that were conducted in the US, UK, Canada, France, and Germany by Nazi scientists on civilians. Bowie is writing about his “creation.” It doesn’t take much to see that someone who changed persona abruptly, repeatedly, has dissociative identity disorder - he’s telling you what happened to him as a child to make him how he was. Librium and E.S.T (electric shock treatment) are clues as they featured in programming sessions - Combined with him, they make 3 (the magic number)... in other words, they split his personality In the middle, when he says they must be dim, you can hear a little child saying “can I keep him?” - inferring a pet. Then at the end, ouvre le chien - open the dog. A hallmark of MK Ultra was giving a child a pet, and then once the child was bonded to the pet, they’d be forced to kill it - causing a trauma sufficient to create a dissociative split. Finally, it’s clear throughout that he’s being threatened with severe consequence for non-compliance. Given the point in his career he’s writing this, the other references on this album, the fact that the following year he releases hunky dory which all but spells it out for you in Quicksand and The Bewlway Brothers, I think it’s reasonable to conclude the song’s meaning is literal, and about Bowie himself. He’s trying desperately hard to get out of being what he would become because he understood that no matter what he did, that he and his talent were going to be used to further an agenda he didn’t agree with. In my opinion, that is |
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