Comments on: Cygnet Committee

By: Richard Burkholder

Richard Burkholder — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 09:49:56 +0000

It’s amazing and really blows me away, how anyone could write a song like this. Truly a work of art. God bless you Mr. Jones. Bless you madly. All we simpletons can do is marvel.

By: Anne Frederick

Anne Frederick — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:55:19 +0000

In reply to Byron Nottingham. Such a beautiful and true sentiment!!! Lovely like Bowie himself!!!

By: Byron Nottingham

Byron Nottingham — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 16:32:55 +0000

In reply to Ellie Fisher. Ellie, You don't find the home, you make it. There really are others like you, quite a lot actually. Seek them out; they are your home.

By: Ellie Fisher

Ellie Fisher — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 01:27:58 +0000

It’s unbelievable that Bowie’s comments in 1973 are remarkably still true, and ever more so. This song always, always brings me to tears. As a new 20 year old in America, I see what happens all around me and I am frightened. I am frightened because of my youth, of love, of loneliness, of aging and decay…I am frightened by the world around me, my “own” society. I feel I am fighting, white knuckled. Trying to find a decent time to listen to this song alone, and letting all tears fall down in their purity. A release of pain and pressure. How do I find home if there is nowhere I wish to belong fully? Maybe in Bowie’s words. “To live” what does this mean anymore…who’s definition? I cry, I want to live and I think I mean it.

By: Goat2055

Goat2055 — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 18:09:28 +0000

Cygnet Committee is one of my all time favorites that hardly anyone knows about….

By: Mindi Reich-Shapiro

Mindi Reich-Shapiro — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 22:17:03 +0000

Cygnet Committee is both very specific and also very universal. It describes an apocalyptic future when we become that which we have fought against: “I will kill for the good of the fight for the right to be right.”

I was 12 (1970) when I started listening to Bowie. I used to turn out the lights in my room, put on my headphones, play this song and interpret it through dance. I’ve always loved it and never knew that other people did, too.

Except… One day in 1973, walking home from school I ran into a friend who was walking with a guy I knew from school, but didn’t really know. I started to talk about Bowie, and he said he was also a fan. I said my favorite song is the one that nobody really knows, its 9 minutes long, “Cygnet Committee.” He started to sing it… Six years later we got married.

By: M J Sheehan

M J Sheehan — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 06:34:38 +0000

I grew up with all of Bowie’s classic hits but never delved into deeper tracks. When I finally did, this is the first song that really stuck out. Lyrically, it’s one of his epics. He was such a smart and observant guy. He had the ability to look at things from many angles. This song is a great example.

By: Peter Carroll

Peter Carroll — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 22:15:26 +0000

Where do you start with DB. I love this track so much and always felt Bowie went to a higher level of excellence on songs where he truly pours his heart out. As well as this, another example of what I mean would be 'Time' on Aladdin Sane and his "guilt for dreaming". If you like DB's stuff you might forgive me plugging my own songs: Supermodel Amour Long Way To Go

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 18:54:22 +0000

When this song was released on Space Oddity in 73 in the states I won third place using it in the state’s Dramatic Interpretation finals.
Loved Bowie then and still do. RIP Mate.

By: JeffKaos FC

JeffKaos FC — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:27:52 +0000

These lyrics and Bowie’s comments In The interview are prescient and are as relevant today as they were when he made them , if not more