David Bowie - Heroes REACTION/REVIEW

the guitarist on the title track is robert fripp from king crimson !

Listen yo hunky Dory and scary monsters before Blackstar

If the universe had a definitive playlist of our best songs Heroes would be in it

one of the best album reaction channels rn. one the most consistent for sure

GEORGE HARRISONS ALL THINGS MUST PASS NEXT 🙏🙏

i feel like at least scary monsters before black star, maybe hunky dory as well

Wow now only like 20 Bowie albums left

I’ve been riding along for your Bowie reactions, and this is the first instance (your past 4 Bowie videos) of Bowie album reactions where I feel the listener is able to truly grasp Bowie’s artistic visions and really channel his output in a way that does the starman justice. I’m Gen Z, major major David Bowie fan, it’s great to see more people my age (or around my age) delving into his discography and continuously letting him “Blow our minds”. I recommend the album Diamond Dogs next, before you move onto Blackstar. The suite of Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise) is some of Bowie’s best work. Blackstar is a behemoth of a final album, and I feel you should at least one or 2 more of his 70s albums beforehand to really feel the heavy pull of a Blackstar, and to better grasp just how much of a genre-bending chameleon Bowie was, in a way unlike anyone before or after him. I’m glad to have found a great reaction channel

Secret Life of Arabia led you into the next album which between Bowie, Eno and Talking Heads , invented "World Music". The Album is "Lodger" and is the final album in what became the Berlin Trilogy. It takes in Bowie's travels around the globe and has some fantastic songs and no instrumentals. It's a worthy addition to your reactions.

DROPPING EVERYTHING FOR ANOTHER SMAGS BOWIE REVIEW YEEESSSSSSSIIIIIIRRRRRR Also please check out a few more essential ones (Hunky Dory, Let’s Dance) before Blackstar, those ones will really round out how unique and important his 70’s period was and how he kept his career alive into the 80’s

First time commenting on KZhead, but I had to suggest you check out Bowie's "1. Outside". It's a concept album that is both an evolution of his sound while simultaneously being wildly, WILDLY different than much of the rest of his discography. Considering what seems to really tickle your ears, I think you'd find it a pretty fascinating listen. Keep up the great work, Smags! Love yer reactions bro!

I’d love to see you react to 1. Outside. It got really mixed reviews but it’s one of my favourite from that time period. It also brought Eno and Bowie back together.

Great, great record. Some notes: The reason for the different/interesting lead guitar - Robert Fripp plays lead on this record. He was the "ambient" guitarist, did two amazing records with Eno. Invented his own style of playing called Frippertronics. Heroes at this point is an all time classic in pop music, hence the massive increase in plays. It has been released by Bowie in English, French and German. Lots of interesting experimenting on this Heroes. The e-bow like effect on the guitar drone was constructed by Fripp and producer Visconti. The way bowie's shouting "heroes" explodes out as he gets louder used a very unique technique devised by Visconti with multiple microphones and different gates. The album was recorded in Cold War era Berlin, in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, which definitely had an impact on the vibe. There are references to this in the song Heroes as well as the dark sound of the ambient tracks. Neukolln is a district in Berlin Eno played a big part on the record, assisting on many tracks and co-writing 4 of them. "How did the rockets turn into a synthesizer?" One word: Eno. The Sax was played by Bowie. **If you love Ambient music, check out either of the first two Fripp/Eno albums, (No Pussyfooting) or Evening Star.**

You can wait for Blackstar. Doesn't matter how much you wait, it'll always pay off. And the more you know about Bowie, more impactful it will be. Diamond Dogs is a must do album. The three part suite Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing Reprise is one of the best pieces of music I've ever heard. Rebel Rebel kinda makes part of the suite because it follows right after a click track at the end of Sweet Thing Reprise in the same rythm as Rebel Rebel. Crazy Sax solos by Bowie in this suite and just great distopian atmosphere. Another album on the must do list is Let's Dance, Bowie's pop magnum opus, featuring great names such as Nile Rodgers, Omar Hakim and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

I think you should check out Hunky Dory and Scary Monsters before Blackstar. And maybe Let's Dance and Outside, but those are slightly less essential.

Great to see you reviewing more Bowie. And I know I keep requesting this, but please do the last Bowie/Eno album - Outside from 1995. It's both brilliant and bonkers

Can't recommend Emergency & I - Dismemberment Plan enough

NO WAY BRUH. I just searched up “David Bowie Heroes Smags” wondering if you ever made a vid on it! I love this album. Also don’t just listen to his most popular albums on RYM. Listen to Scary Monsters and Diamond Dogs also.

Bowie's Berlin trilogy consists of 3 albums: Low, Heroes and Lodger. Since you have reacted to the first two albums, you need to take one more step with Lodger and complete the trilogy.

God I love Heroes. I think my favorite from the trilogy (and the only one to truly be made in Berlin), Heroes is the darker, edgier and more chaotic brother of Low and it uses that to the max, it's awesome. An amazing side A full of energy and madness, and what an anthem of a title track, moving and grand, it's a highlight for sure. And the dark instrumentals of the second half are amazing, I agree that I overall like Low's instrumentals better, but man, Moss Garden is smth else. I adore Secret Life, it's fun, it's catchy, it's funky even, but I also understand that it can be a bit jarring as a closer, it would've fit perfectly in the next album though. I hope you keep doing these, I love seeing you react to Bowie, so much fun! My requests for him rn would be either Diamond Dogs or Scary Monsters, both are awesome!!

do hunky dory next, absolute bangers on that one

Philip Glass did an orchestral version of Heroes, then Aphex did a remix/mashup of the original and the Glass version. Worth checking out.

If you loved the sound of Robert’s guitar be sure to check out Scary Monsters and Super Creeps his guitar is all over that record mostly. You might aswell do lodger as it is kinda underrated and not many reactors give it a chance.

Do idiot by iggy pop next. It showcases bowies skills as a producer well.

I'm glad you done Eno's Another Green World. It's an all-time unique record and on my list of one of the best records of the 70s. You can see the influence here.

Moss Garden cleanses my soul every time

One of my favorite David Bowie albums. Blackout is one his best songs imo. Robert Fripp is the guitar player on the album, he was in the band King Crimson and played a lot on Brian Eno's albums. I recommend The Idiot by Iggy Pop. It was co-written and produced by David Bowie during the same year he made Low and Heroes while him and Iggy were living in Berlin trying to get clean from their drug addictions. The Idiot combines the punkier music Iggy had made previously with The Stooges with the electronic-infused art rock that David was making at the time and it was a huge influence on post-punk.

Scary Monsters, then 1. Outside before Blackstar. I saw some love for 1. Outside and it is indeed one of the best albums of the 90s (I dont mean one of DBs best in the 90s, I mean that I like it as much as Mezzanine or Dummy or Downward Spiral). In my opinion, some songs on Outside foreshadowed what Radiohead later did with KidA. Heathen would be worth it, too.

The first half of the album for me is very chaotic. It feels very melancholic to me, like someone spiralling or on the verge of a nervous breakdown. And then the second half is a kind of dreamlike bliss of overcoming that.

Joe the lion was inspired by performance artist Chris Burden. He literally nailed himself to the front of a VW beetle. He also shot himself in the arm, locked himself into a school locker for two weeks, went to an airport and fired a Magnum at an airliner...and more!! Definitely an interesting character to do bit of an Internet deep dive on. BTW he was a respected figure in the art world and created a lot work that wasn't so nuts but just as thought provoking.

V2 Schneider was named after Florian Schneider from Kraftwerk. You really need to check out some Kraftwerk. Maybe Trans Europe Express, Computer World or Man Machine.

Definitely need to do scary monsters

Heroes is my favorite song of all time

DIAMOND DOGS PLEASE!

1. Outside next PLEASE, always going to be my favourite Bowie album.

Heros is the only song that can reliably give me chills whenever I hear it

the perfect chronology you should follow is ALADDIN SANE (1973) - DIAMONG DOGS (1974) - SCARY MONSTERS AND SUPER CREESP(1980) - 1.OUTSIDE (1995) EARTHLING (1997) - BLACKSTAR (2016).

Check out Diamond Dogs, basically it’s a musical based on the novel 1984.

It’s been cool to see a fresh perspective on these albums.

your thumbnails are art

You should watch "Moonage Daydream" (2022). Its a really cool docu with mosltly live footage of David. Very trippy.

I love love love the placement of the secret life of Arabia after the ambient stuff for some reason. Such a pick me up

Having done a few albums where Brian Eno was involved I think you might want to consider two that he produced by Talking Heads: Fear of Music or Remain in Light. But I would also higthy recommend one of his own albums post Roxy Music (in order of preference): Another Green World, Taking Tiger Mountain by Force, or Here Come the Warm Jets.

hope you do scary monsters and hunky dory

I think Hunky Dory is a must before going in post 1980 Bowie. And maybe Scary Monsters too.

DIAMOND DOGS!!

Great reaction! I suggest 2013’s The Next Day rather than Blackstar next. It was his comeback album after a decade of silence and looks back on the ‘70’s and his Berlin period. Especially Where are We Now, which is the centerpiece of the album. It’s a rare look back. Then do Blackstar in which Bowie once again looks to the future. That future being the ultimate one everyone must face. Of the Berlin albums his collaboration with Iggy Pop on The Idiot is a must. Recorded before Low, Bowie cowrote it with Iggy and was the producer.

before blackstar listen to scary monsters and aladdin sane, i know it seems like a lot overall but that's just how good he is

Do the Man Who Sold The World. Creepy and oddly prophetic lyrics. Nirvana covered the title song, very faithful rendition

I think you should listen to every Bowie album before blackstar. This will make the reaction to his last (and probably best) album legendary

next bowie has to be earthling or hunky dory

yeah you will love blackstar!!

You ought to do the albums The Idiot and Lust For Life by Iggy Pop. Bowie produced them at the same time as making Low/Heroes

The most wild mix up would be to go from Heroes to Young Americans to Blackstar.

PLEASEE DO LODGER NEXT ITS SO UNDERRATED

Scary Monsters next plz :D. "Heroes" might take a few spins to fully sink in, I'm curious where this will rank in your eventual ranking

Lodger next up please!!

PLEASE COULD YOU REACT TO MODEST MOUSE - THIS IS A LONG DRIVE FOR SOMEONE WITH NOTHING TO THINK ABOUT

Moss Garden should have been 30 minutes long button

Awesome video man, Highly recommend Graceland by Paul Simon, the bass on that album is great!!

Ive been waiting for this one❤

You gotta do Scary Monsters and Hunky Dory before blackstar, that's mandatory stuff! I'd do a 90s album (probably Outside) and The Next Day (the 2013 album he did before Blackstar after a ten year gap) as well

Enjoying your reaction,and bringing back memories of my first time☺️.blackout will grow on you.still think you should lesson to black star after all the major Bowie albums....few more to go the the (this is the day)

“Heroes” Blackout (especially live) Secret Life of Arabia

SADNESS I WANT TO BE THERE PLEASE

You absolutely need to listen to Scary Monsters album .. follow it with Let's Dance for a bit of a contrast :-)

Sense of Doubt always conjures up bleak sci-fi scenes: dead seas lapping at diamond beaches, radiation arcs across the sky. Like a 60s sci fi book cover.

OK judging by your appreciation of Heroes, I think you've got to try Scary Monsters next.

BRO im telling u now like u gotta reacct to king krule six feet beneath the moon like its been too long man i dont know how much longer i can do this for im begging u man

you should check out the flaming lips - the soft bulletin!

Scary monsters!!!

LUV U SMAGS

Earthling please!!!

LOVE YOUR VIDEOS MY GUY a few recommendations: Process - Sampha (experimental r&b, great production) Nurture - Porter Robinson (light summer electric with fun production) Koi No Yokan - Deftones (very heavy, sexier and heavier radiohead imo) Hypochondriac - Brakence (very experimental emo rap, glitch pop) Reading Writing And Arithmetic - The Sundays (the smiths ish, with beautiful female vocals)

PLEASE Do diamond Dogs

Great video man, please could you review the album “wind” by Gigi Masin

Yves tumor - heaven to a tortured mind. I’m going to keep requesting

Ngl this made my day (I can’t wait to say this for the third eye blind reaction)

Robert Fripp from King Crimson did the guitar on the song Heroes, so that's why it's so good lmao.

listen to repeater by fugazi

8:00 it was Robert Fripp of King Crimson lol, you can tell he knows what he's doing

As you said, both Low and “Heroes” are part of the Berlin trilogy and were recorded in Berlin at the time of the separation of the city between East and West, with Bowie living and recording not far away from the wall. This is also the reason for the abrupt split between brighter and darker songs on the albums. I think it was his way of describing the feelings the city gave to him, artistically stimulating from one side, but scary and threatening on the other. If I had to give you my suggestion, btw, I think I would leave Blackstar as the last one. It’s more enjoyable (and moving) if you know what came before, imo.

Smags is my hero(I’m gonna keep making comments like this for the Bowie videos)

Work forward, Scary Monsters then 1. Outside then maybe Blackstar. Blackstar will be better the more you know David.

i hear heroes and think about mordecai and rigby and then think about being young and then i weep

Atrocity exhibition by Danny brown is a must

Duuuude U-Ziq - Lunatic Harness Gonna keep bugging you until you do it lol. IDM classic. Was gonna superthanks but seems you don’t have the option turned on.

Definitely listen to Aladdin Sane!

Title track is one of the best songs ever made

Apparently David Bowie really loved dolphins

SYMBOLIC BY DEATHH PLEASSE

Please do Blood on the Tracks 🙏🙏🙏

YOU MUST DO BLACKSTAR PLSSSS

Listen to lunatic harness by u-ziq. Electronic album, similar to Richard David James album but without silly songs

Dont forget Lodger. I love this album and then the Berlintrilogy is complete.

Few album requests: The King of Limbs - Radiohead The Argument - Fugazi Entertainment! - Gang of Four The Stooges - The Stooges Black Star - David Bowie

dude u gotta check out something from The Go! Team sometime theyre so fucking good

Haven’t watched the video yet but bro is about to FEEL the title track Edit: yeah he definitely felt that shit, also the person playing guitar is Robert Fripp the lead guitarist and main guy behind king crimson

You want to listen to the _"Heroes"_ bonus track: *"Abdulmajid"* - often included with the album in past releases. Artist/LP recommendation: Suede _Autofiction_ (2022) Suede _Sci-Fi Lullabies_ (1997) Best UK band of the past 30 years. For fans of Bowie.

Caligula next?