He still is today, to the extent that KC actually exists.
― aloo mutter, aloo fatter (WilliamC), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/TheBlackDog/status/288675073995460609
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
The title of the album The Next Day evokes numerous reference points, notably Macbeth’s speech ‘Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow ’ which deals with the relentless onward push that any unnatural position of power requires. It also has the existential element of Waiting for Godot with waiting for The Next Day – these all seem to question the nature of existence so a monochrome palette seemed most appropriate to this feeling.
*barf*
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
I actually think I would have liked the cover if they had done it irl - a handwritten note taped to the cover or something. But snoball is OTM with the 'mspaint' crack.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
btw: Doctrine
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
i'm really hoping that actually is the cover
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
Are there/there must be other artists that have reused their own album cover artwork?
― willem, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 3:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Neu!
― 29 facepalms, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 3:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not sure this counts - it's more of a recurring motif, right? Otherwise you could say Henry Cow socks count.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah i bet they just took the Microsoft Arial font and 'oh that is a new font we have been working on'. It really isn't particularly interesting.
The new song, yeah it's kind of a snore, but it's also nice to listen to. I don't need to be blown away by everything i hear. This was a really nice thing to hear this morning.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
I do think Henry Cows socks count!
I like this well enough, it would have been one of the better songs on Hours... but thats damning with feint praise really.
― 29 facepalms, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
Momus cover! Blimey, that didn't take long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF1QQW0LHNQ
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
Cool way to go Momus!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
The new song is kinda boring, but it's also rather nice and I like it. It's plainly an album track though - it's like he's deliberately going for a low-impact comeback, and why not?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
Bass on the new track is by Tony Levin. He was in King Crimson in the 80s.
Tony Levin has played with everyone. Paul Simon, John Lennon, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Seal, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Bryan Ferry, etc.. He also played on the last two Bowie records.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
Quick ILX Presents...?
01. The Next Day 3:5102. Dirty Boys 2:5803. The Stars (Are Out Tonight) 3:5604. Love Is Lost 3:5705. Where Are We Now? 4:0806. Valentine's Day 3:0107. If You Can See Me 3:1608. I'd Rather Be High 3:5309. Boss Of Me 4:0910. Dancing Out In Space 3:2411. How Does The Grass Grow 4:3312. (You Will) Set The World On Fire 3:3013. You Feel So Lonely You Could Die 4:4114. Heat 4:25
― sandwich shortage (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
I actually think I would have liked the cover if they had done it irl - a handwritten note taped to the cover or something.
Kinda like...?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/AnotherMontyPythonRecordCDCover.jpg
― Rocking Disco Santa (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
The record should sound like that. Just Bowie shouting the title over his old songs: "Ziggy played guit-LOVE IS LOST LOVE IS LOST and the Spiders from Mars; he played it left LOVE IS LOST LOVE IS LOST"
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:07 PM (1 hour ago)
This is going to become a meme, I think.
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
Given that I thought Bowie had retired from making music completely, I'm happy with what I can get at this stage!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I'm hoping this is an 'album track that got released as a single due to a poor decision, rest of album rocks out a bit more' situation.
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
You know what to do.
ILX Pre-Covers Bowie's _The Next Day_
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, January 8, 2013 6:39 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't understand this point of view - you really like an artist, so you're content with them putting out crap simply because it has their name on it?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
you don't have to listen to the crap when you don't want to
― iatee, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
I mutter a bit.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
I like the song ok. That album cover is terrible.
― dmr, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
It's not too tough to understand, outside of some real garbage albums like Total Devo or hell even some of Bowie's post-Let's Dance junk, if you're a fanatic then theres almost always SOMETHING to like about a new album. As iatee says if you don't like it just throw it in the trash.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
― emil.y, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 7:12 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Of course not, and that's not what I'm saying at all (especially since I think that Tonight in particular is an awful album). More that I'm delighted that we're getting a new Bowie album at a time when I thought he would going to produce no more new music, and I'm not going to be all on a downer until I've given the album a fair hearing. I also have very reasonable expectations of this - it would be stupid to think that he could match Station To Station or Low in 2013... but if it's as good as Reality or Heathen then I'll be a very happy bunny.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
*would=was.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
This isn't crap though. It's just understated and subtle.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
Besides, if the album isn't any good, I don't think it'll particularly matter. Bowie's discography is already so huge that there's plenty to keep coming back to, and the album at least exists for Bowie fanatics to get their teeth stuck into and cherry-pick from.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
Ach, fair enough T. I will disagree with Adam, however, it's pretty bloody crap. It reminds me of Keane or something, ffs.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
After thinking this is like a chopped-and-screwed "Absolute Beginners", I found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSbxBTY4YTU
― sandwich shortage (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
Lovely song. I'm happy he's back and Visconti producing (I'm a "Heathen" stan).
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
Word is at the moment, no tour, no promo or interviews, just the record.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
the best part of the single is after the first minute if you kind of stipe the lyrics; listen to them sonically without intent to understand
― everlasting fonts of (soda), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
Another new promo photo:
http://www.davidbowie.com/sites/davidbowie.wmg-gardens.com/files/styles/blog_image/public/2013_db_by_jimmy_king_v2_600sq.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
great video by tony oursler (and i love the song)
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
ugh. he looks like he's doing his marina abramovic impression.
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
This really does sound like one of the "stately" numbers from the numbing hours
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I'm sticking with the "Fantastic Voyage" x hours... combination as the shorthand for this. I do enjoy it but it's skating close to the edge at points.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 01:58 (eleven years ago) link
who is that with burroughs in the background photo?
― jed_, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
um...
― one bish two bish red bish blue bish (fadanuf4erybody), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
Don't push me cuz I'm sleeping on the edge.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
haha, sorry.
― jed_, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
well burroughs always looks like burroughs and the other guy (thought it was a woman, actually) could have been any old hipster.
― jed_, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
lest we forget
http://www.chartstats.com/images/artwork/36017.jpg
― gimme some reggae! (get bent), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
i don't hate this and is not bad. was expecting a lot worse after reading the thread first before listening.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
I really like the song! Sounds a lot to me like one of Momus' melancholic tracks (no surprised he's covered it) but with good production.
― daavid, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 05:44 (eleven years ago) link
Perhaps ironically, the Momus cover is awful.
― daavid, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 05:45 (eleven years ago) link
David Bowie track 'not eligible' for UK singles chart
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
I kind of home the whole album is creepy and understated, it would be a good album for him to go out on, face it, it's unlikely we'll get another one after this. not too surprised he won't tour but too bad, he could do a focused and intense set around his more neglected material. he didn't really tour for heathen either, except for some isolated shows which I think were split between heathen and low material. something like that would be great.
― akm, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link