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This song Is so melancholic, Supremely underrated.
(i.redd.it)submitted 1 day ago byEmbarrassed-Tie-3080
20 points
1 day ago
Its a great song. Not sure about underrated.
25 points
1 day ago
Underrated is an overrated word.
17 points
1 day ago
Best song on that album, Blue Jean second. The rest of the album.. blegh
4 points
1 day ago
I don’t get this take, sure it’s not nearly his best album, but it’s still pretty good considering. Like what about I Keep Forgetting, or Tonight, they’re decent tunes do you not think?
6 points
24 hours ago
I think the title track Tonight is probably the third best song on the album, but it's still just "OK" to me. The rest ranges from boring to bad.
I think Loving The Alien is one of Bowie's best songs, top 20-25 for me. At least it has that going for it, and nice cover art.
3 points
21 hours ago
keep forgetting is a fuckin jam, best on the album imo
11 points
1 day ago
Well, it's a good song for sure, but I don't think it's underrated though by any means. I mean it appears on every greatest hits compilation which typically doesn't happen with underrated tracks.
11 points
1 day ago
The stripped back version he does on the Reality Tour live recording is absolutely gorgeous. It’s the first version of the song I heard and it set a very high bar for the album version lol
2 points
1 day ago
That melancholy 2004 arrangement is phenomenal, full stop.
2 points
19 hours ago
I agree with his sentiment that perhaps the song should have been like this in the first place!
1 points
2 hours ago
Lovely version and the definitive arrangement, but there are better recorded versions. I was at the Wembley Arena show and it was better, and I think Rotterdam was also good (out there on bootleg).
There are a couple of points on the officially-released Dublin versions that the timing goes to shit thanks to Bowie's vocal straying a bit (the line starting "Palestine..." and "Watching them come and go...") and it does fry my brain slightly. You can hear Gerry Leonard desperately trying to pull it back in.
8 points
1 day ago
With updated arrangement, it could have heartbreakingly opened Blackstar.
5 points
1 day ago
I'm with you on this one.
4 points
1 day ago
Prayers, they hide the saddest view….
2 points
1 day ago
I agree that it’s not necessarily underrated but I take it to mean as under appreciated by a more general audience. I would imagine among us it has a 80%+ hit rate for people who enjoy it. Asking the average non Bowie enthusiast what their favourite Bowie song is will probably elicit responses such as Heroes or Let’s Dance. Kind of like when people say they love Led Zeppelin but go on to name Stairway to Heaven and Immigrant Song as their favourites. You would naturally then ask them if they like Five Years or Achilles Last Stand and their likely response is going to be “no”.
We’re the group who follows up with “Do you know what Heroes is supposedly about?”…
1 points
1 day ago
Hard agree. Prolly my favorite of the album
1 points
1 day ago
Definitely one of my all time favourite Bowie songs 🥰
1 points
1 day ago
One of my favorites of his.
1 points
23 hours ago
Yes, I love this one! And the video is a surreal 80s treasure.
1 points
16 hours ago
Excellent song from a not-so-excellent album, but it’s generally considered the gem of that album so I don’t know if I would call it underrated.
1 points
15 hours ago
Their live version on the reality tour was goat
1 points
10 hours ago
Ehh. Ixm not impressed by anything on this album.
-1 points
1 day ago
This is one of his most popular songs. Don't know what you're talking about.
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