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do you say david hau-ie
or david hoe-ie
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Just shared by they who run the official Bowie fb page:
TIN MACHINE IS 23 AND BETTER THAN YOU REMEMBER
(all caps was theirs not mine)
― Hare Kinsey (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 08:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
The guy who runs this blog is currently going through the TM period.http://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/
― banal like a null (snoball), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 08:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
good luck with that
― ahhhhhhh shit here comes the motherfuckin thread cops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 10:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
some of his best writing
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 11:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
best thread title
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
best opening post too
honestly this band would have been fine if it weren't for the rubber rodeo guitar dude. i hate those solos. if bowie had just found some stooges-oriented players it would have been great. his voice sounded fine. the batshit dystopian lyrics were a hoot. but his band sucked.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Who could've been more "stooges-oriented" than Hunt and Tony, i.e. Iggy's rhythm section from Idiot onward?
― poxen, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like Reeves, too. Bowie was the weak link, really, he was aping Pixies and it wasn't working
― poxen, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Who could've been more "stooges-oriented" than Hunt and Tony, i.e. Iggy's rhythm section from Idiot onward?"
lots of people!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
the idiot and everything after the idiot is not the stooges.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm finding this really interesting reading - I've never heard either Tin Machine album but the entries on the mid-late '80s era have been great. Love the idea of Bowie wanting to make music inspired by flying buttresses.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Scott you know I know you know etc. You can blame Gabrels for Tin Machine's crapness and I'd disagree but I wouldn't argue. But the rhythm section? Tim Machine I's ability-to-rock is let down by a crappy mix, not by a crappy bass and drums.
― poxen, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
why don't we blame Bowie and the terrible songs he was writing and singing?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
there's a lot of blame to go around. i was never really impressed with the brothers. i like their dad...
just think crazy songs bowie came up with would have gone better with a younger sloppier band. he should have had hanoi rocks backing him up.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
these songs aren't any more crazy than any other bowie songs. what is crazy about them? except for some of the slapdash lyrics? particularly the 2nd album, which was pretty slick and I think had some pretty good songwriting for bowie in this era (goodbye mr ed, shopping for girls)
― akm, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
the singing is dreadful!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
he's oversinging more than usual to keep up with the racket behind him.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
(...um, I genuinely love that 1st tm album. sry...)
― Stravinsky joins the Zulu nation (zero of the signified), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
the songs are terrible, just terrible
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
To my ears, Bowie's able to keep a TM song chugging along 'comfortably', so that it's not special, not classic, but just FINE, until he drops such a stinker of a line, a huge bomb, the worst thing ever, that makes you realize just how uninspired he was at the time, cribbing so deeply (to my ears) from Frank Black, trying to achieve FB's same sense of non sequitur and failing, flailing:
Hallo humans, can you feel me thinking?I assume you're seeing everything I'm thinkingHallo humans, nothing starts tomorrowI'm the baby now
When his voice cracks on that last line, OH, it's just the worst thing... that "Andy, where's my fifteen minutes" line, unspeakable Lovecraftian horror in hearing those moments.
Anyway YAY to Soupy Sales
― poxen, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
"They're just a bunch of assholes / With buttholes for their brains"
I mean, come ON!!!!11!1!
― Stravinsky joins the Zulu nation (zero of the signified), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
My hot date with Tin Machine.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ha! Great post Ned, I vividly remember watching Tin Machine on "In Concert", in fact when I think about them that's always the image the comes first to my mind.
I can't remember if I dug it or not, probably not. I haven't heard the records in yrs, though they are oddly facsintating to me being not particularly a Bowie-phile. I should give them another listen.
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh no you shouldn't
― ahhhhhhh shit here comes the motherfuckin thread cops (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bowie's lime green suit and his and Gabrels' headless guitars guaranteed no one could take them seriously.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:34 (1 year ago) Permalink