If YOU were in charge of making music videos for Bowie tunes, how would you make them?

HEROES -- Bowie in a superhero costume with a lightning slash and a B, flying across a city holding a lady

AFRICAN NIGHT FLIGHT -- A jungle scene with the side musicians and dancers in movie-type explorer attire (complete with pith helmets) and The Gentleman himself, tantalizingly - and scantily - clad in a faux-leopard-skin Tarzan garment that exposes much of his glowing torso and just about covers his "lowers," swinging from a vine onto an elephant's back and singing

DEAD MAN WALKING -- Bowie spinning through time and space

BETTY WRONG -- Bowie and a lady dancing in the middle of a postnuclear wasteland.

SCARY MONSTERS -- Bowie chasing classic movie monsters through Manhattan

NEIGHBORHOOD THREAT -- An urban street scene, with sidemen and dancers dressed as gang teens and The Gentleman in a motorcycle jacket, five o'clock shadow, and slashed jeans, him and his dancers dancing and swinging switchblades.

CRIMINAL WORLD -- David dressed as a thief, with a mask, sneaking into a lady's house, background dancers dressed as police officers

OK, what are YOUR fantasy videos for Bowie songs -- pick any tune u wish, as long as it's by Bowie

I have a ready made video in my head when I hear Uncle Arthur.It's like Madness meets Carry On.

Thanks, Sparkina, that was the funniest post ever!

I love your literal interpretations of the song titles!

OKay, sorry for being a bit rude there, here's a proper answer

I actually did an alternative slide video to Hearts Filthy Lesson on my photography degree back in '96, it was a slideshow of about 200 images, very inspired by the movie Seven, I used a red lens filter, low key lighting, scary characters & general blood and gore. I photographed my friend bandaged up, a cow carcass, a graveyard at night, a friend wielding a hunting knife, etc..

It culminated with the bandaged guy in front of a church, mimicking Jesus on the cross. For the I'm already five years older I tried to capture decay by photographing fruit once a day for a few weeks so you could watch it quickly decay over a few seconds. Thought it worked really well in the end.





Strangers When We Meet is the song I would do an alternative video for, I always think of it telling the story of an elderly man with Alzheimer's disease and everytime he meets his wife at the care home it's like they're strangers as he has no memory of her except when he plays the piano as the music triggers recalls of their life together.

The video would have been shot in a care home with washed out visuals and flashbacks of his life with her whilst in the present time he would be playing piano in the care home common room.

I had specific scenes in mind:
The guy stood in the doorway, with brilliant light behind him, shaking the snow of his coat, preening ourselves in the snow
Cold tired fingers tapping out your memories as he has flashbacks of happier times when he plays the piano

The guy semi paralysed sat in the dark with only the light from the blank screen T.V.

etc...

You have to admit though, Alan Titchmarsh, that my fantasy video for AFRICAN NIGHT FLIGHT would set many a female B-fan's heart all aglow.

Such a daily infusion does make my day. Should be available in packs of 20.

"Cold tired fingers tapping out your memories as he has flashbacks of happier times when he plays the piano"

I visualise a guy typing at a typewriter with no letters on the keys, and a blank sheet of paper.
Yes I do.


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I love lions.

Interesting how people interpret the same lyrics differently.

I love Young Lions.


Edit, Dunce's visualisation of the lyric would look pretty cool. As would backwards footage of a guy typing, making the words disappear, a bit like the backwards murder intro to Memento.

NEIGHBORHOOD THREAT -- An urban street scene, with sidemen and dancers dressed as gang teens and The Gentleman in a motorcycle jacket, five o'clock shadow, and slashed jeans, him and his dancers dancing and swinging switchblades.
This sounds a bit like the video to Michael Jackson's Beat It or Bad.




CRIMINAL WORLD -- David dressed as a thief, with a mask, sneaking into a lady's house, background dancers dressed as police officers

Whilst that sounds a bit like George Michael's Outside with the gay policemen



And for some reason, this: AFRICAN NIGHT FLIGHT -- A jungle scene with the side musicians and dancers in movie-type explorer attire (complete with pith helmets) and The Gentleman himself, tantalizingly - and scantily - clad in a faux-leopard-skin Tarzan garment that exposes much of his glowing torso and just about covers his "lowers," swinging from a vine onto an elephant's back and singing
makes me think of Tight Fit's The Lion Sleeps Tonight:

With the exception of China Girl, Mr. Bowie's videos are not especially programmatic (no more than his lyrics, come to that) and I find that very appealing.

It was definitely murder - but was it art?

I thought of Ultravox' 'Love's great adventure' when I read your idea for 'African Night Flight' Sparkina!

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Whew!! mty Brain is going into Overdrive with thoughts on Bowie clip
I can see me in Space with Boba Fett and Bowie floating around with me
and Bowie singing Major Tom
bats

Point well taken, Alan T
But leave us not forget

MICHAEL JACKSON is not BOWIE
TIGHT FIT are not BOWIE
and GEORGE MICHAEL is not BOWIE.

The Gentleman would give this imagery fresh spark and charm (Plus, think of it. Bowie in, for example, Tarzan attire. I mean, DAVID BOWIE. In TARZAN ATTIRE )

Age,loose skin and gravity, batwings and man boobs. I thought that the Thursdays Child vid said a lot. The imagination is a far happier place.