Instrumental — 9/10
Vocals — 9/10
Lyrics — 9/10
Overall Rating — 9/10
I have been posting these reviews since October of last year and I am yet to review a David Bowie track! Well, I couldn’t think of a more fitting song than this for today.
‘Drive-in Saturday’ features on Bowie’s album, ‘Aladdin Sane’, which was released in 1973. It’s a track that has so much going on with that being glam rock elements, sci-fi sounds and of course Bowie’s lyrics and vocals.
This track is supposedly about people from the future and forgetting how to make love. They then must look back on books from this strange dome that has appeared. This is where the sci-fi aspect of the song starts. If I’m being completely honest, until I researched this track, I didn’t have any idea what this song was about, but it was always a one I sang because of how catchy it is. It really is quite a peculiar story for a song.
A saxophone can be heard throughout most of this track. It’s the bass guitar that is the driving force for this song. As well as both features, backing vocals also play a key part in this song.
I love Bowie’s belting vocals in the chorus. It opens with, “His name was always buddy”, which is sung with such passion. Throughout some lines, it’s like Bowie is shouting the lines rather than singing them, but this still sounds great.
My favourite line is:
“When people stared in Jagger’s eyes and scored”.
