David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday Lyrics

iF YOU DONT DO A LITTLE DANCE EVERYTIME YOU LISTEN TO THIS, YOU HAVE NO SOUL.

My first album I bought too and still my favourite Bowie album xx

Takes me right back great times and epic music

I was 16

love it

Puts me back into my bedroom with a vinyl record player in the late 70s listening to vinyl - what an album, what an artist. Sing the lyrics out now as I did then - annoy the fcuk out everyone!

terrrificcccccccc

I was introduced to him by Top of the Pops in 1972 and saw him live in 1973. Nobody better

This album smacked the arse of the donkey jacket miner's strikes. Billy Elliot anyone ?

I love the bassline.

Trevor Bolder, HUGELY underrated bass player.

love love love...

I played this song in my music appreciation class my jr year of high school. I dont think anyone but me and my best friend ( he played 7 Screaming Diz-Busters) appreciated it.

I LOVE YOU!

One of my favorite bowie tracks

Robert Smith has a point

Robert Smith sent me...

Interview right? Lol

Love this song from the genius of the late great David Bowie.RIP

Amazing as always ♡♡
Would have been cool to meet him

First album I bought, my dad said "are you queer", no but I know good shit when I hear it, RIP. Love is a strange thing.

Love is the drug, I'm thinkin' of ... Eno and Bowie were the bomb

@ Paul Stevens
Maybe your Dad was queer ?
And he was trying to come out to
you ?

Take it he was a Yorkshire man my old man was rip same ha ha

As a hetero male...there's something admirable, in the uninhibited expression, of Bowie, Jagger, et al....cafk...in my humble opinion..

@2msvalkyrie LOL

One of his finest

The layers in this masterpiece

God what a genius

Forever and ever David. You'll never die

Gee, it's hot lets go to Dark Star!

Love the sax

I wonder if they had drive ins in the UK.

afraid we did'nt

R.I.P David I loved you 😪.
Edit:it’s actually Saturday and I’m being driven home by my dad!

Got this album for 10 at a charity shop in 1982

That supposed to be 10p

It took me 20 years to find this song, I'm ecstatic!!!! He was so beautiful, such a perfectly sculpted face

It took you 20years???the fuck how? Are you actually real? Jesus!!

Almost as nice as my face 😉

@Alexander The Great I couldn't remember who sang it, then I stumbled across it

@Alexander The Great Calm down Alexander, You died of malaria 2,000 years ago!

And try to get it on like once before...

Fuck all u new cunts and u boy, non man. Well I would'nt really it is just your jealousy you see wot us lads + girls had back in our day, ey? Just as your very own Will Young, oh dear i let the cat out the bag, did he? I tried as i might to tell Enoch Powell that his speech was wrong. When I phoned his seccretary to enlighten him she asked wot I wanted to say to him then the wo man put the phone down. I just wanted to tell him there were darker more evil forces at work . the majority of these naughty men are now on the wing in prison or on some psych ward. o wo wo wo they sing on their instructional tellhees these days. what of our girls, that right 'Money for nothing and your kicks for free' as Dire Straits pronounced. Can anyone tellme who is this wo where does him/her live, is it a book or a film, cos i dunno i have not looked at a tellhee in 45 yrs so i dunno i'm out of the loop as it were except for the occasional blimps i have seen whilst in mummies on her tellhee as i wait for the kettle to boil for my tea drug of choice before retreating from the scene to the bedroom. lets cut to the chase, hey face, is wo fuckable, cos i wanna know, and anyone local please serve me up the nearest Ecstasy dealer and do they sell Ketamine too?

Nice in the test tube what can be done with just a hint of polish, that to u blue is the shiner, not the country. All the Rebel Rebel girls genes have been destroyed in the lab. So get over your paranoid fears you all have nothing to fear, for yours. Polished faces are not an attractant to me. 'I bore in the boat with my enemy, I'm taking the boat the long way home' innit great us all one big humungous homogeny with our androgony. DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT REPLY. as per your usual, dose.

Ah mean, Brian has not even hit the scene yet.

Thou, est, Art groupie that's hooked.

Me too, Robert

David miss you so much 😢

takes me right back to tying up my purple / red platform shoe laces

brian goodwin , I had platform shoes too in those days. They were blue slip ons This was the,follow up single to Jean Genie, and a hit,in early 1973. I loved it and so did my Dad. It was one of his favourites.
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when I first heard this I thought it was heaven.Yeah,still do....

I concur

still ther perfect song...Thin White Duke....we miss you

i remember wen this came out how old is that. he is still great my lovers

1973 i got it when it come out an still play it

my first girl give me this album i still have it but she is lost in time happy trails

Twiggy StarKiller

Lulu too, lol eater, he did.

only Bowie could have written the words in the second verse, sc-fi mixed with mythology and dressed up in fifties be bop. please don't try to convince me that there are ANY comparable artists these days. I don't believe it.

Despite the surrealism of Bowie's lyrics during the Aladdin Sane period, has anyone noticed that he seems to be predicting the arrival of Viagra and other similar medicaions?
"It's hard enough to keep formation, amid this fallout saturation" is a thinly disguised reference to erectile dysfunction, but "He's crashing out with Sylvian, the bureau supply for ageing men" is unmistakeable.

love the sax were it kicks in

Love that honking sax

I am a black women but I like his music not bad.

la musica no es racista, porque comentas algo asi?

all that matters is that you are a dude , ,and you are girlie xxx

Why would it matter that you're black? Bowie transcends race/religion/ethnicity, his wife was Somali supermodel Iman......come on!

Simpleton alert!

OMG!! If a white man said that, it would be viewed as racist and patronising and condescending.
Have a listen to the lyrics of " Black Fella, White Fella" by Australian Aboriginal band called The Warumpi Band.
" It doesn't matter what the colour, as long as you a true fella, a good fella"

silly story - ill in bed one day when i was in the 70 s - much better then - but i m biased - there was one bad bus that had toilet rolls hang ing out the windows - what area was that - can you still write a message even though the clock is ticking and your life is up against the wall - anyway the bus turns up on time - but i wasn t aware of it - i was listening to boddhisatvna by steely dan in my bedroom which was really cool because it looked onto a road - playing air guitar to steely dan in staddiscombe and the whole goddamn bus is looking at me - take a dive

just say no to the drugs my boy happy trails

i love this song

Sebastion Phantomhive it's not as good as panic in Detroit iggy

Sebastion Phantomhive so do I got it on loop it reminds me of me x

His name is always Buddy !!

Planet earth is blue. RIP Starman.

my love Eternal........................................................

Me too, FOREVER

Total Pish !

the drugs ones more /////////////////////////////

Maybe to you

esta es probablemente la canción mas linda que escuche en mi vida

Bowie was miles ahead of Bolan.... Shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath

what amazing memories of a lost love singing this to me

orange RCA label

Without Bolan, Bowie wouldn't exist

Bolan was a one trick pony. Can't say that about Bowie.

Absolute idiot . Bolan was a Fantastic but a one trick pony

Bolan did some great stuff ; but, gee, he was little more than a bloated subject of ridicule by mid '70's. He yearned for the global fame, respect, influence and adulation of Bowie. To have any other perspective is, to be honest, to be oblivious of both careers.

Actually they wouldn't have existed without each other. I love Bolan but he copied Bowie ala 71 Man Who Sold The World. Nothing imo wrong with that because Bolan was a huge talent.

@Alexander The Great he wrote ,produced and directed for iggy pop , hardly a rip off , Lust for life,some weird sin ,tonight,successs,turn blue,fall in love with me and neighborhood threat were all written and produced by bowie for the Lust for life Album

The first video recorders went on sale in 1979, so in '73 "video films" were a product of his fertile imagination.

8mm, Super8?

You´re speaking about video machines for consumers. But videotape technology had already been in use much earlier.

thats great! my favourite singer mentioning my favourite model in his song XD

You're too kind. Ronson had as much raw talent as anyone in the industry, MORE than most really, only I don't think he had very "industrial" inclinations. One of Bowie's greatest and much overlooked talents was charming (ultimately, manipulating) the hell out of unsuspecting people into getting deviously planned results. They actually needed each other's strengths to get as far as they did. The resulting Spiders is a shared legacy we are still speaking of all these years after—and rightfully so!

MrMajorTime thanks for your insightful comments. Wish you’d share more if you have anymore!

Oh— it's good to here from you! And thanks for the compliment. Always willing to argue a good point on the subject (hell, I'll argue about a lot of things if I'm in the right mood). Regards,

Mick Ronson does deserve as much praise for the music—sort of, almost kind of. Bowie was sneaky here. He played mind games to make Mick competitive, not really worried about it, but pretending to upstage one another— pushing each other to be their best! My gut feeling is that Ronson wouldn't have been so ambitious (though equally talented) left to his own devices. So, I have to hand the successful mind-fuck to Bowie— for bringing out the best in Ronson despite his ordinarily relaxed disposition.

bollocks

@charles gilmore hollyocks i say, swearing is for naughty adults, the haughty haughty haughty.

and? I hate the "I'm young and I listen to Bowie" comments. There are a lot of young people listenin' to good music. You're not cooler! I'm young, too! But I'm not gonna say I'm cool. This music is great and just that. People who listen to Justin Bieber, it's their life! They can't ruin our likes, so we with theirs! We're from different worlds.

PS: Long live to David Bowie and Queen and The Beatles (the list continues xD)

This and 'Young Americans' remind me of losing my virginity....

"She's uncertain if she likes him, but she knows she really loves him"
"It took him minutes, it took her nowhere..."

Ha - I'm so bitter!

the bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar, comes to mind.

please please me, too. by the Beatles. Heaven forbid. she'll take anything.

is 'twig the wonderkid,' twiggy?

just like, blue blue electric blue, was Lulu.

@Tracy-Paul O' Brien Really, How so?

Nice guy Mr Jones. Met him in a pub near Bath in England while he was at Real World studios nearby. Answered all the usual dumb questions. Wound up talking about football and in particular West Ham.
One of us owes the other a pint. Can't remember which.

Mr. Kavanagh, note the first line, second verse: "Jung the foreman prayed at work, neither hands or limbs would burst...". This is in reference to Dr. Carl Jung, 'the father of synchronicity'. I'm presuming you know what that is. I was actually in the very studio where this song was recorded (RCA studios, New York City); 'The Jean Genie' also being recorded there. This was the late spring, 1973, and my brother and I had just driven into (on Saturday nonetheless) New York to record an album for RCA with, among others, a Tina Turner backup singer (she previously had been an 'Ikette'). 19 years later, my brother was introduced to Bowie at another New York recording studio while he was working on the 'Black Tie, White Noise' album. I asked him what it was like to meet David Bowie. He said-"I couldn't believe how nice he was. He was really nice!"

Another under-played Bowie tune.

Isn't "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence" wonderful?

simply a genius at work...adore this track
just had a weekend of Bowie movies ;
Man Who Fell to Earth and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
love all his work especially the futuristic post apocalyptic stuff
Bowie and Jagger....best we've ever had !

I am so glad that I was only 13 when this came out. I loved Bowie immediately and was a Bowie freak in high school. Everyone liked Bowie except the "cool stoners" who thought he was just glitz and glamour. They didn't get him. There were many good bands back then. But Bowie is up there with Sinatra, Davis, Holiday, Michael Jackson, Jim Morrison and Nat King Cole. What a genius.

Bowie is so interesting and unusual that you have any choice apart from loving him. He seems coming from another planet.

totally classic stuff pity he is a recluse in the us and doesn't tour, oh well he's done it and has worn the t-shirt

you're a fucking special snowflake.

Ive seen 10 year olds going on about how much they love Bowie, he has universal appeal

I'm 17 and I love him! ♡

"knob cheez"!

Bowie needs to do another tour. I am loving all of the anniversary stuff for Ziggy. Aladdin Sane is arguably the best of his work tho!

thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you

only forever

how many years do you want ?

danceswithcritters 5

he should still be producing stuff as good as this , i blame that prick igg stooge for fucking with his head

Great song but the album is a mess and I don't really like it

Control lol.

He could suddenly AFFORD to tentatively relax a little, be sardonically ironic (great sense of humour) within his own image, a premonitory casuality of his unique position, due to confidence in his abilities finally equalling public acknowledgement, appreciation. He WAS Garbo, afterall! People just wanted to see/hear HIM. What he was doing was even secondary to appeasement of his avid fans. That the material on the Album was superior, and his voice was in superb form, was a tribute to integrity.

Aladdin Sane is ICONIC. If one were to pick a moment to make a Bowie figurine, a poster, an animated tv show, a time when Bowie was at his career potential, if not its peak, it would be HERE. The future (hell, he WAS the future of rock at this point!), lay ahead of him. And, in retrospect, he MORE than met expectations! This was Ziggy/Bowie and, like the beginning of any great movie, could go almost anywhere. And NO one knew at the time how much we would depend on Bowie for creating that decade!

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Aladdin Sane IS Bowie, at HIS leisure, the blueprint, suspended at the top of his game, briefly, temporarily UNCHALLENGED! He knew it. His fans knew it. Posterity will see it. It's really so casual in its immediacy. Ziggy Stardust strived, left his mark, clinched the fame. Aladdin Sane left Bowie to become relaxed in his abilities. He was so quick to realize that now he was already the old pro. Recording industry, notoriously fleeting, he was betting he had more time than most. And he was right!

You sweet talker, you!

@gottalovemymovies fuck you

Wisdom of self-preservation allowed him to realize he could not continue as Ziggy. Although he acknowledged gratitude to that character, with its vital career boost, he also knew that he would literally go insane if he knuckled under pressures to remain there. There were so many other facets to his artistry yet to be discovered, that he wasn't ready to become another rock and roll suicide. One genuine character DID remain constant however, uncompromised though often dormant, betwixt: Major Tom!

Fans went apeshit over Ziggy Stardust. But Bowie, not wanting to get typecast in one role, soon (wisely) decided to disband a great band in favor of new avenues (Diamond Dogs, Halloween Jack, Orwell, "plastic" soul, Young Americans, et. al.). His next real, complete persona was to be Thomas Jerome Newton, bringing as much to that role as the writers. The Thin White Duke became a theatrical extension from THAT alienating experience; just as Aladdin Sane was a reflection of Ziggy after THAT high.

This album is archetypical Bowie. Time stood still (for a moment). Unlike Ziggy Stardust, which was a character he was intentionally exploiting, Aladdin was more a comment on David's experience in America, and not nearly as much about a new persona as it was about reactions. It's a moment reflecting on his newfound success. Interestingly, even more than his great music, a greater fascination is Bowie's unique poise of balanced entity, and how it came to fill that void in culture's consciousness.

it's a crash course for the ravers..

I love the lyrics to this song! I will never understand them, but still!

David Bowie the Thin White Duke Ziggy Stardust Jareth the Goblin King a Lad Insane...
and the spiders from mars.

EPIC!

On the second album that I could do all of the words from. First was Ziggy. Sad old git!

In 1973 I had already heard Starman and Jean Genie and they had made me curious. Then I noticed Drive-In Saturday single in jukebox in local bus station . Put a coin in, listen ... and I was sold for life. Next Christmas I got Aladdin Sane as a C-cassette. It was my first ever LP, and it still rules above all others.

don't laugh babe it'll be allright ;)

Control <3

The casual genius of this album was never matched. Bowie was riding high on Ziggy fame, knew he was worthy of putting out his offhand burlesque, what a grande vacation for the Lad! All the talent was there, but he wasn't trying to push it too hard. Bowie was Bowie here, perhaps for the shortest and longest moment. Here he just was doing his talent, on top of his game, biding his time, projecting himself, but not really worried. He'd done something to confirm his legacy, now he was just cruising.

"with snorting heads he gazes to the shore" Nobody can write lyrics like David Bowie.

@slurm33 Not nearly enough, apparently.

@Skoob1999
He also called his sax the sme