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David Bowie – I Can't Give Everything Away
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At the beginning we can hear in the background a harmonica theme taken from “A New Career in a New Town,” Bowie’s song from the 1977 album Low. A song about moving on and starting
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Spoon – I Can't Give Everything Away
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[Verse 1] / I know something's very wrong / The pulse returns the prodigal sons / The blackout hearts, the flowered news / With skull designs upon my shoes / [Chorus] / I can't
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Nine Inch Nails – I Can't Give Everything Away (Farewell Mix)
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[Verse 1] / I know something's very wrong / The pulse returns the prodigal sons / The blackout hearts with flowered news / With skull designs upon my shoes / [Chorus] / I can't
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David Bowie – Dollar Days
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“Dollar Days” is 6th track on David Bowie’s twenty-fifth and final studio album, Blackstar (stylized as ★). It was released on 8 January 2016, the date of Bowie’s 69th birthday and
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David Bowie – ★ (Blackstar)
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“★” (pronounced “Blackstar”) is perhaps Bowie’s most experimental work since 1977’s Low. It contains several total shifts in instrumentation, but whilst images of death crop up
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David Bowie – Girl Loves Me
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Of all the tracks on Blackstar, none is more opaque than “Girl Loves Me”. The song’s lyrics are half Nadsat, the language used in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, and half
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Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure
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A duet about how the pressure on our lives makes us nearly crumble. The collaboration emerged from a hectic day of partying and composing by David Bowie and the four members of
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David Bowie – 'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore
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The B-side to Bowie’s 2014 single, “Sue (Or In A Season of Crime),” takes its title from a John Ford play by the name of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore. It acknowledges the “shocking
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David Bowie – Lazarus
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Originally written for an eponymous off-Broadway production revisiting the character Thomas Gerome Newton 30 years after The Man Who Fell To Earth, the film adaptation of which
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How David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ Deals With Death
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The late icon confronts his own mortality through art on his final album.
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David Bowie – The Next Day
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The video of “The Next Day” takes place in a bar called The Decameron. If we follow the reference, we find a masterpiece written by Boccaccio, an Italian author. In this book, a
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David Bowie (Ft. Queen) – Under Pressure
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Mmm num ba de / Dum bum ba be / Doo buh dum ba beh beh / Pressure pushing down on me / Pressing down on you, no man ask for / Under pressure that burns a building down / Splits a
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David Bowie – Everything’s Alright
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[Verse 1] / Oh, little baby / You know I've been away / Oh, little baby / You know I'll come today / Don't you know that / [Chorus] / Everything's alright / (everything's alright
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Original Broadway Cast of Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Ft. Aaron Tveit & Karen Olivo) – Elephant Love Medley
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[CHRISTIAN, spoken] / All you need is love / [SATINE, spoken] / You're being ridiculous / [CHRISTIAN, spoken] / All you need is love / [sung] / Just one night, give me just one
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David Bowie – Changes
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Despite its poor chart performance, the song frequently appears on “Best of” compilations including Changesonebowie, which takes its title from the track.
“Changes” originally
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David Bowie – Under Pressure (Live at the Phoenix Festival, Long Marston, 20th July, 1997)
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Mmm num ba de / Dum bum ba be / Doo buh dum ba beh beh / Pressure pushing down on me / Pressing down on you, no man ask for / Under pressure that burns a building down / Splits a
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Death Angel – Under Pressure
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Pressure - pushing down on me / Pressing down on you, no man ask for / Under pressure that burns a building down / Splits a family in two / Puts people on streets / That's OK
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Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure (Rah Mix)
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[Intro: David Bowie + Freddie Mercury] / You say New york / New York is dangerous / 'Cause [?] / Even the blind man could see that's not so / Love, love, love, love, love / People
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David Bowie (Ft. Gail Ann Dorsey) – Under Pressure (Live Phoenix Festival '97)
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[Intro: Gail Ann Dorsey] / Mmm num ba de / Dum bum ba be / Doo buh dum ba beh beh / [Verse 1: David Bowie & Gail Ann Dorsey] / Pressure pushing down on me / Pressing down on you
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Harry Styles – Sign of the Times
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“Sign of the Times” is a slow paced pop-rock track about avoiding emotion and reality during times of grief and hardship. The song draws inspiration from ‘70s rock songs from
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The Protomen – Under Pressure
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Pressure pushing down on me / Pressing down on you, no man ask for / Under pressure that burns a building down / Splits a family in two / Puts people on streets / It's the terror
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The Amazons – For The Night
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Tell me what you're running from / Where'd you think you're gonna hide / Even if it's all gone wrong, that's just life / I've been searching for too long / Something I can't seem
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David Bowie – The London Boys (2001 Re-Recording)
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Bow Bells strike another night / Your eyes are heavy and your limbs all ache / You've bought some coffee, butter and bread / You can't make a thing cause the meter's dead / You
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Karen O (Ft. Willie Nelson) – Under Pressure
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Pressure pushing down on me / Pressing down on you, no man ask for / Under pressure that burns a building down / Splits a family in two, puts people on streets / Um-ba-ba-be / Um-
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Pan Amsterdam (Ft. Jason Williamson) – Hall N Oats
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[Pan Amsterdam, spoken] / Sup / So you're already validating something / This early in the game? / [Verse 1: Pan Amsterdam] / Shoes and gloves comes in pairs / We're wolfs[?] to to
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Micky James – Give It To Me Straight
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“Give It To Me Straight” sees Micky James pleading for clarification about a questionable relationship. Even as his debut single, it got coverage from publications such as
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David Bowie – The London Boys (Live at BBC Radio Theatre, London, 27th June, 2000)
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Bow Bells strike another night / Your eyes are heavy and your limbs all ache / You've bought some coffee, butter and bread / You can't make a thing cause the meter's dead / You
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