Author Topic: David Bowie (Read 37676 times)

Not Bob · « **Reply #200 on:** January 8, 2013, 09:00:31 pm »

Happy Birthday to the man!

Armchair expert · « **Reply #201 on:** January 8, 2013, 09:54:23 pm »

Hope people like it because its good and not for nostalgia reasons and because its Bowie as let's be honest he hasn't made a decent album for about 30 years.
And the less said about Tin Machine the better.

coolbyrne · « **Reply #202 on:** January 9, 2013, 02:44:25 am »

Will try to avoid hearing the single until the album's release here in March. I want to sit down, put on my Sennheiser earphones and listen to the entire thing from start to finish.

It's going to be a long 2 months.

MichaelA · « **Reply #203 on:** January 9, 2013, 04:12:57 pm »

A very nice - and very prescient - music & video mix from Soulwax.

Phil M · « **Reply #204 on:** January 9, 2013, 04:50:56 pm »

Quote from: Armchair expert on January 8, 2013, 09:54:23 pm

Hope people like it because its good and not for nostalgia reasons and because its Bowie as let's be honest he hasn't made a decent album for about 30 years.
And the less said about Tin Machine the better.

I dunno, Outside was decent and I enjoyed Heathen aswell. 'Slow Burn' and 'Everyone Says Hi' are great tracks imo.

Lawnmowerman · « **Reply #205 on:** January 9, 2013, 05:46:00 pm »

I love it. Real ear worm.

Drake31 · « **Reply #206 on:** January 9, 2013, 07:13:22 pm »

fantastic looking forward to the album, hope it does real well and he decides to tour again

John C · « **Reply #207 on:** January 10, 2013, 11:37:01 pm »

Hmm, not sure if he'll tour but I think the album will need pre-ordering. Looking forward to it.

Phil M · « **Reply #208 on:** January 11, 2013, 09:17:22 am »

I'd rather he didn't tour again as much as I'd love to see him in the flesh playing live but at 66 and with a previous heart problem it's hardly
the most sensible thing he could do.

peelyon · « **Reply #209 on:** January 11, 2013, 01:18:10 pm »

Really love his new song. Im (fairly) young and my first bit of Bowie was all the stuff from Labyrinth (watched it over and over as a kid). Dunno why though but I'm almost listening to this new one on repeat!

Haemoglobin · « **Reply #210 on:** January 11, 2013, 02:58:35 pm »

Quote from: peelyon on January 11, 2013, 01:18:10 pm

Really love his new song. Im (fairly) young and my first bit of Bowie was all the stuff from Labyrinth (watched it over and over as a kid). Dunno why though but I'm almost listening to this new one on repeat!

Mate, I've been feeling all wistful for days now, ever since this new song of his soaked into my brain.

In amongst the meditating I've been doing on people I don't see anymore, places I miss, specific emotions that I intangibly 'recall' having felt at various times... I've just been giving some thought too to how much of an influence this Brixtonian (via Mars) gentleman has had on the shaping of my life and my person through music, film, art... you name it. And I didn't even exist during the entirety of the 1970s, his most fertile period!!

- Every Christmas since I was very young indeed, Bowie, rocking an utterly awesome festive jumper, introduces the timeless magic of The Snowman into my family home.

- He's the fucking Goblin King ffs, a creature who I both loved and feared for many years of my childhood.

- One of my eariest memories of feeling genuinely moved by a live music performance was watching Bowie's performances at the Freddie Mercury Trubute concert in '92 (with Annie Lennox incidentally dressed up as Pris from Blade Runner for some reason).

- The highlight of Kurt Cobain's last album released in the year he took his life was an early Bowie masterpiece, and it was during my Nirvana-obsessed period (which all 14-16 year olds in the Western world from Generation X onward must traverse, as a rite of passage) that I really began plunging deep into Bowie's back catalogue.

- A film that well & truly blitzed my tiny adolescent mind wide open, David Lynch's Lost Highway, begins and ends with an odd little obscure gem of a Bowie track, from his supposed 'shit period':

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/NI61MEUT_ak" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/NI61MEUT_ak</a>

^ All that before I'd even properly, seriously 'got into' his music as a curious mid-teen. And that's not even to mention Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, all those strikingly strange music videos, the classic-TV 'Little Drummer Boy' duet with Bing... all of this would've stealthily seeped in to my mindscape long before I gave Low my first full listen.

Influential isn't the word. Don't mean to gush like, but there it is.

I very much doubt I'll be able to stop crying the day he does leave us all permanently, so I'm totally appreciating these moments and buzzing for the new album, as well as hoping it all means he's over any mere-mortal health scares for a good while yet, if not forever.

MichaelA · « **Reply #211 on:** January 12, 2013, 08:48:08 am »

I've been battering his back catalogue all week. I'm hard pressed - right now - to think of a finer song than 'Sound & Vision' it just captures the wonder of music, the wonder of Bowie, perfectly.

DanJay87 · « **Reply #212 on:** January 12, 2013, 10:04:19 am »

Sound and Vision has been doing the rounds all week on my ipod too.

Something magical about it, indescribable

Haemoglobin · « **Reply #213 on:** January 12, 2013, 02:35:24 pm »

What I think I love most about 'Sound & Vision' (apart from it just being a boss track anyway, whatever the meaning of it might be) is that it's a great song created out of and inspired by... wait for it... Bowie's lack of inspiration, and his difficulties in creating great songs! In other words, an inspired work about the process of seeking inspiration itself; sort of like a great novel about writer's block. Very clever, very meta - ahead of its time in a lot of ways.

The fact that the whole album is absolutely phenomenal, genuinely groundbreaking and choc full of ideas, only makes its message comes across even stronger; a quite humble account of just patiently waiting for that gift to be bestowed upon him, that it's something he channels rather than contrives. He's merely a conduit for this gift we can all share in. Loads of artists I respect have said much the same about their best work; that it just seemed to flow into them from somewhere mysterious, that they weren't in full conscious control of the process. Very deep, meditative stuff.

MichaelA · « **Reply #214 on:** January 12, 2013, 09:35:37 pm »

I buy the mental block thing - definitely a plea for musical inspiration.

xavidub · « **Reply #215 on:** January 12, 2013, 10:26:38 pm »

Quote from: MichaelA on January 12, 2013, 08:48:08 am

I've been battering his back catalogue all week. I'm hard pressed - right now - to think of a finer song than 'Sound & Vision' it just captures the wonder of music, the wonder of Bowie, perfectly.

It's great, but the competition on that album is intense, none more so than 'always crashing in the same car'. And then just when you are picking yourself up off the floor after that, side two envelops and enfolds and entrances you and you can't remember what else you had to do that evening.

One of the greatest musical experiences available, imo

xavidub · « **Reply #216 on:** January 12, 2013, 10:30:50 pm »

Spent a superb hour listening to 'Station to Station' this evening.

'Stay' and 'Word on a Wing' are just the definition of sublimity

thekremlin · « **Reply #217 on:** January 12, 2013, 11:56:07 pm »

Quote from: Armchair expert on January 8, 2013, 09:54:23 pm

Hope people like it because its good and not for nostalgia reasons and because its Bowie as let's be honest he hasn't made a decent album for about 30 years.
And the less said about Tin Machine the better.

See this irritates me. He HAS made a few decent albums since 1980. Buddha of Suburbia, Hours and Heathen for a start. Have you heard these? Not to mention tracks like Hello Spaceboy, Little Wonder, I'm Afraid of Americans, The Lonely Guy... even Let's Dance, China Girl and Loving The Alien were good songs. If you have seriously given time to his post 1980 albums and think none of them are decent, you have cloth ears.

xavidub · « **Reply #218 on:** January 13, 2013, 12:00:28 am »

Quote from: thekremlin on January 12, 2013, 11:56:07 pm

See this irritates me. He HAS made a few decent albums since 1980. Buddha of Suburbia, Hours and Heathen for a start. Have you heard these? Not to mention tracks like Hello Spaceboy, Little Wonder, I'm Afraid of Americans, The Lonely Guy... even Let's Dance, China Girl and Loving The Alien were good songs. If you have seriously given time to his post 1980 albums and think none of them are decent, you have cloth ears.

In my opinion after Scary Monsters Bowie stopped setting trends and started following trends. I've heard everything he has recorded and nothing after Scary Monsters can hold a candle to what came before it.

flw · « **Reply #219 on:** January 13, 2013, 02:44:46 am »

Still think he s great. Looking forward to his new album. At 66 he can still put a song across , sadly there are a few of his generation who cant any longer.

coolbyrne · « **Reply #220 on:** January 13, 2013, 03:21:56 am »

Quote from: thekremlin on January 12, 2013, 11:56:07 pm

See this irritates me. He HAS made a few decent albums since 1980. Buddha of Suburbia, Hours and Heathen for a start. Have you heard these? Not to mention tracks like Hello Spaceboy, Little Wonder, I'm Afraid of Americans, The Lonely Guy... even Let's Dance, China Girl and Loving The Alien were good songs. If you have seriously given time to his post 1980 albums and think none of them are decent, you have cloth ears.

The Hearts Filthy Lesson is wonderful, too.

gritsvanilla · « **Reply #221 on:** January 13, 2013, 03:57:46 am »

Quote from: flw on January 13, 2013, 02:44:46 am

Still think he s great. Looking forward to his new album. At 66 he can still put a song across , sadly there are a few of his generation who cant any longer.

But Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Scott Walker and Donald Fagen have all released decent albums over the last couple of years.

Sadly i agree with XaviDub, post Scary Monsters has been a bit shit, i hate Let's Dance as it's basically a Duran Duran album in all but name, so flaccid, so utterly vacuous, i tried Hours and Heathen and was bored rigid and his new single leaves me cold too, it's just so safe, so predictable, a nothing of a tune that would collapse under a mild breeze, still he's 66 and has health problems so it's understandable.

Saul Goodman · « **Reply #222 on:** February 26, 2013, 11:18:44 am »

Another new song.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/gH7dMBcg-gE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/gH7dMBcg-gE</a>

Beav · « **Reply #223 on:** February 26, 2013, 11:48:32 am »

Awesome.

Armchair expert · « **Reply #224 on:** February 26, 2013, 09:57:42 pm »

Quote from: thekremlin on January 12, 2013, 11:56:07 pm

See this irritates me. He HAS made a few decent albums since 1980. Buddha of Suburbia, Hours and Heathen for a start. Have you heard these? Not to mention tracks like Hello Spaceboy, Little Wonder, I'm Afraid of Americans, The Lonely Guy... even Let's Dance, China Girl and Loving The Alien were good songs. If you have seriously given time to his post 1980 albums and think none of them are decent, you have cloth ears.

With the list you have just given me I rest my case.

coolbyrne · « **Reply #225 on:** February 27, 2013, 01:57:45 am »

Quote from: Saul Goodman on February 26, 2013, 11:18:44 am

Another new song.

Considering who's in my avatar, you KNOW I'm over the moon about this video!!

Phil M · « **Reply #226 on:** February 27, 2013, 09:12:37 am »

I'm loving the new track, and the wonderfully kooky video.

Armchair expert · « **Reply #227 on:** February 27, 2013, 11:27:31 am »

When I saw it was called the Stars Are Out onight I thought he'd ripped off Gary Barlow for a minute....

Saul Goodman · « **Reply #228 on:** March 1, 2013, 01:16:39 pm »

Whole of the new album is available online in certain places this morning.

Madvillain · « **Reply #229 on:** March 1, 2013, 04:55:22 pm »

I'm half way through The Next Day. It's spectacular so far.

El_Macca_17 · « **Reply #230 on:** March 2, 2013, 02:48:29 pm »

Quote from: Saul Goodman on March 1, 2013, 01:16:39 pm

Whole of the new album is available online in certain places this morning.

iTunes being one of them.

coolbyrne · « **Reply #231 on:** March 2, 2013, 03:19:11 pm »

Beck Reimagines David Bowie's "Sound and Vision" I'm usually nonplussed by most covers, but I can't deny that Beck and a 160-piece orchestra have done something quite interesting with this one.

Lucas21 · « **Reply #232 on:** March 5, 2013, 10:44:04 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pp7nDmb5K4&hd=1

Just saw this ad on tonight. It's the Sony Xperia "Sound and Vision" remix. Sounds amazing

Mal · « **Reply #233 on:** March 7, 2013, 09:04:26 pm »

I'm on as big a back catalogue re-listen as I've ever had...

Easy to forget just how immense he is. On the way home from Germany today I listened to Heroes, Hunky Dory, The man who sold the world and the rise & fall of Ziggy Stardust & the spiders from mars.

It's almost an obsession at the moment...

hixxstar · « **Reply #234 on:** March 7, 2013, 10:52:36 pm »

just got a copy of 'The Next Day-deluxe' ...... you know when somebody has 'it'..... just 'it'... well, headphones on... beer at hand.. Fuck yeah... just yeah
i mean, no sound alikes or copying.. just bowie being bowie (i know he's not everyone's cup of tea) but at his age still doing original stuff..
to quote Noel Gallagher... 'he could do gigs of old stuff, but no... the more i hear it the better it gets, to hear his voice singing something new.....

The more you hear 'Where Are We Now?' the better it gets. The video's mad – like his fucking cat directed it."

noel tongue in cheek..

MichaelA · « **Reply #235 on:** March 7, 2013, 11:27:24 pm »

Immenseness. Magnitudinal. Giganticity.

Filler. · « **Reply #236 on:** March 8, 2013, 12:27:38 am »

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/8k_ObVz6sgM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/8k_ObVz6sgM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US</a>

'Conversation...'

Mal · « **Reply #237 on:** March 8, 2013, 05:52:00 pm »

That's ace Rob.

I love the idea of big Dave the marriage guidance counsellor...

Mal · « **Reply #238 on:** March 10, 2013, 08:39:34 am »

How did Kooks go from being a decent ditty to completely obsessing my brain...?

Red in Korea · « **Reply #239 on:** March 10, 2013, 09:02:28 am »

Quote from: coolbyrne on March 2, 2013, 03:19:11 pm

Beck Reimagines David Bowie's "Sound and Vision" I'm usually nonplussed by most covers, but I can't deny that Beck and a 160-piece orchestra have done something quite interesting with this one.

That's fantastic.