David Bowie - Big Brother/Chant of the ever circling skeletal family video free download


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"Big Brother" is a song written by David Bowie in 1973 and intended for his never-produced musical based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. In 1974 it was released on the album Diamond Dogs. It segued into the final track on the record, "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family".

Lyrically, the song reflects the ending of Nineteen Eighty-Four, where Winston Smith's brainwashing is complete, and he loves Big Brother. This was described by Bowie biographer David Buckley as "a frightening paean to the Super God",while Nicholas Pegg considered that Bowie was showing how "the glamour of dictatorships is balanced with the banality".

The opening trumpet line, played on a Chamberlin, has been compared to Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain.The melody in the chorus was echoed in Bowie's own "Shining Star (Makin' My Love)" from Never Let Me Down (1987).

"Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" is a song written by David Bowie in 1974 ending his Diamond Dogs album.

The song ends with the endlessly repeating sound of "bruh-bruh-bruh...", the first syllable of the word 'Brother' from "(Big) Brother" (the title and refrain of the preceding track) as though the record had broken. Bowie's initial intention had been for the machine to repeat the whole of the word 'Brother', but accidentally discovered that just the first syllable sounded much better.

The Goth-band Skeletal Family took their name from this song.

This song is David Bowie's interpretation of George Orwell's "two minute hate" from his novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Its mesmerizing chanting represents the mind-numbing influence that the two minutes has over the brainwashed citizens of Oceania, 1984's totalitarian government.

Comments

8 years ago

Scott E.

Spooky.

9 years ago

John Wiseman

Told Ya It Was A Dream My Friends 

9 years ago

sexobscura

angie is cutchouol

9 years ago

Joanna Ivison

"Give me steel, give me steel, give me pulsars unreal"#metals *DB, Big Brother/Chant of the ever circling skeletal family*

9 years ago

allon33

Some brave Apollo.

9 years ago

jesustheres

run run run run

9 years ago

Philip Workman

1974 year of the me

9 years ago

Nicky G

Why doesn't someone do "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" on X Factor ? Better still, sing "Big Brother" and point at Simon Cowell. Or just piss on him and do us all a favour.

9 years ago

Gabe Hernandez

Happy birthday!

9 years ago

Alessandro Mello

masterpiece

9 years ago

Bibi Free Aerle

It would be great to have a brother , when you had one i think you will miss them very much!!

9 years ago

Jeanne Griffin

I love Big Brother which makes me doubleplusgood

9 years ago

latha mallika

brilliant after so many years this chant is mind bogglingi love it 

9 years ago

Bobbi Jo Woods

again again again

9 years ago

heyss

THE BEST SONG EVER

9 years ago

John Wiseman

Thank You My Friend For Brining Me Back ? XXX

9 years ago

John Wiseman

As good now as it ever was ! Still sends a chill over my soul 

9 years ago

lucia villani

★★★

9 years ago

tetraskelion

Intro reminds me of a spaghetti western just before someone dies, always has.Is it possible to choose the best Bowie album ???Just when you think you have it nailed, along comes the next album & your back to square one again ???Problem is, all of them are so damn good,. Changes are such a good thing don't you think ???

9 years ago

megaEDWIN3

Should have had the spiders on it

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