David Bowie - The Next Day

"It was all Andy's fault. What am I expected to do, DJ and play the records as well?"

COnversely, the M bloke manages to do an interview in Uncut about Mick Ronson, and manages to admit things about himself in relation to Mr Ronson...

http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/ly5fwalNxmk/0.jpg
The M bloke: "I really like Mick Ronson. His stuff is real pop pop pop, pop music."

would love to see the instrumental credits on this single:

guessing matt chamberlain on drums?

god i hope he tours, otherwise this will all be for nothing

I'm guessing he's not real eager to get back out in front of audiences anytime soon...
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.spinner.com/media/2007/12/david-bowie-spinal-tap.jpg

Don't it make your brown eyes blue...

was that lollipop thing the same day he had a heart attack? and what's with this "alleged depression"?

The lollipop incident was at a different concert, a week before the heart attack.
Reports of "alleged depression" seems to be based on the Sherlock Holmes like deduction that someone who's had heart problems that require them to take it easy and more or less stop working might get a bit depressed.

He had been misreading a heart attack warning sign for weeks, thinking the pain in his neck/shoulder was a pinched nerve.

If the rest sounds like this song, it'll be a quiet show at Joe's Pub.

People who have heart problems/bypasses/pacemakers installed often experience changes to personality, which can manifest as depression.

The medicine you have to take for heart problems also tends to have depressive side effects.

This album is going to be his 'Double Fantasy', with this single his 'Starting Over'.

What a weird thing to say. Do you mean he's gonna be murdered? Iman will be singing half the tracks?

Competent pastiche type single leading everyone to hope the forthcoming comeback album's going to be good, followed by a big disappointment when the album actually appears.

What is this single a pastiche of?

"Fantastic Voyage" for sure.

Or if not pastiche, it's the template -- but what's great is what he does with it. It's not said song redux.

Yes, the Fantastic Voyage link is significant - the original is how it feels things might go and the fear of it, and this is looking back knowing how it did go.

Do yoi think it's great? Your blog post sounded meh.

I'm not screaming masterpiece from the rooftops, but Eyeball Kicks just summed up kinda what I take from it. The few times I've played it I've gone between, "Hmm, okayish" to "No, wait, there is something here" and a little back again.

Still sounds like "The Pretty Things Are Going to Sleep"

So according to his official page...

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/19225_10151174237357665_1508078948_n.jpg

Here's another treat from Jimmy King...an exclusive photograph of David Bowie taken while having lunch at a Japanese restaurant yesterday.

Now that is the look of a man at peace with himself having just heard about some of the reaction to yesterday's announcements...possibly.

Kinda hope this Andy Capp phase of his keeps going.

strike a light guv, it's 'im from mary pawpins

Bowie (thinks) "Damn, those pisstakers from ILX are doing a pre-covers album..."

Dude looking fucking great. I like this. I hope the album is quiet, considered, statesman-like. I have too high hopes. Oh god.

hours and Heathen were quiet and statesman-like, no?

xp yeah i was just saying to my gf that his superimposed face in that video finally has him looking his actual fucking age, but it must have been an illusion. i work w/ dudes hovering around 40 looking worse off than that. what is his secret.

the song is solid.

whose is the other face in the video?

Enjoying this. Production is a bit blah, but there IS something affecting about the song.

Artists reusing albums covers (back cover version):

http://phobos.express.ge/ZoneG/20/mp3//Duran_1997_Medazzaland/.photo/Duran%20Duran%20-%20Medazzaland%20-%20Back.jpg

http://www.phiiliip.com/iciclesa1.gif

Can't find a full picture, and i've never actually gotten this album, but the cover for Phiiliip's 2000 CD Icicles and Spike Sculptures appears to be the Beatles "White Album" w the Beatles crossed out and Philip written in.

Effecting enough to make ya forget how to spell effecting!

Still think the single fades out and ends too quickly - was waiting for an epic (or at least traditional) turn at the end but was left hanging. Production sounds terrific - kinda expecting the album to sound like a Gilmour or Ferry solo album. Not such a bad thing either.

I thought for sure the other head in the video was Bjork's.

http://filmmakermagazine.com/62222-david-bowie-returns-with-a-new-single-and-a-tony-oursler-video/

Video director's wife, apparently.

Man, what a beautiful vocal performance.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BAOVkeoCYAEgdMF.jpg

Republica?

fuck yeah dropkick murphys consecutive sundays

or someday i suppose

"David Bryne".

"AlanaGeorge"

"Fisherspooner"

"Totally Enourmous Extinct Dinosaurs"... I'll stop now.

"Band That Plays While You Go And Queue Up To Buy Beer"

"Is this an old poster?"

Well, put it this way: "La Roux" means it's not more than five years ago, and "Adam Ant" tells me it must be this year...

This has been doing the rounds on Twitter but is pretty wtf:
http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2013/01/09/david-bowie/