David Bowie Songs

Enjoy the works of the master of the quick change with these David Bowie songs. David Bowie is an artist that shifts gears not to reflect his audience, but to show his inner self as he waits for the public to catch up to him. LIsten, absorb, dissect and dance to these great tracks:

1. "Life on Mars" With a musical feel that makes you think of a child spinning in place faster and faster until he's forced to stop lest he collapses to the ground, "Life on Mars" fills the mind with unbalance. Softly plodding at times and peaking sharply at others, this slow song by David Bowie delivers more questions than it answers and more frantic tension than you'd expect from the tempo. David Bowie delights the listener by bringing them down into the morass of uncertainty while never letting go of their hand.
2. "Ashes to Ashes" Both the music and lyrics have a tangible bizarreness as the song delves an artful madness. A purposefully strained voice lends desperation to David Bowie's voice here as he questions happiness, ensuring that you don't believe his own happiness. Powerful through its creation of a terse environment with the meshing of vocals and music, "Ashes to Ashes" contains a foreboding about the future everyone can participate in.
3. "Fame" "Fame" kicks off from the start with the sounds that make it instantly recognizable as a David Bowie song. Beats and sounds commingle and birth random yet perfect notes that guide the song along. This song traipses along aurally as it moves to and fro, letting Bowie visit whenever he feels like it. A great David Bowie track that mixes and matches but never once feels like the parts don't make the sum so much greater.
4. "Magic Dance" It would be difficult to come up with a singer more suited to create a song for the Henson movie "Labyrinth" than David Bowie. Funny, silly and completely devoted towards the magic in the movie, "Magic Dance" finds Bowie performing his own vocal sorcery. This song has a feeling of puppet mastery behind the magic, as Bowie's words attach themselves gently to every one around and then starts moving limbs and thoughts at his discretion and direction.
5. "Under Pressure" What makes this a truly special David Bowie song is that it is simultaneously a heart wrencher and a rally cry onwards. In collaboration with Queen, Bowie takes "Under Pressure" to the heights it deserves as together they tackle the everyday pressures that can get the better of people, showing the audience that no one is really alone and no one goes through life without having to face the world's weight. Freddie Mercury's voice complements Bowie's voice flawlessly as both deliver the strength and compassion that this song needed lest it fall flat and end up an insincere shallow image of a song about the weariness of mortality.