David Bowie - The Next Day

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I provoked a fight on the Bowie blog comments thread last month when I intentionally referred to Bowie albums as product.

Commenters: b-b-b-b-but ADORNO and capitalism!
Me: Tonight, bro.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowie_Bonds

BOWIE BACK IN UK TOP TEN AFTER 20 YEARS

"Where are we now?..."

BBC Radio 1’s Official Chart show has just announced David Bowie's return to the Top Ten in the UK with the placing of his new single, 'Where Are We Now?', at Number 6.

It's Bowie's highest charting hit since 'Absolute Beginners' reached Number 2 in 1986. It's also his first Top Ten hit since 'Jump They Say' reached Number 9 in 1993.

This is an impressive result for Bowie, particularly when one takes into account the figures are based on just five days' sales (it's a full week normally), and that the track was available in the digital format only.

The surprise release of 'Where Are We Now? on Tuesday sparked a media frenzy which saw the single get off to a flying start and the song remains on both the BBC's A playlists for 6 Music and Radio 2.

Though 'Where Are We Now?' is included as an instant download with pre-orders of The Next Day, understandably those particular sales are not included towards the Official Singles Chart.

Martin Talbot, Managing Director of the Official Charts Company ( http://www.officialcharts.com/ ) says "It is great to see a great British musical icon such as David Bowie returning to the Official Singles Chart. He had has first Top 10 with Space Oddity in 1969 - so the fact he is still scoring chart hits more than 40 years later is quite remarkable. Welcome back David."

And so say all of us! Well done David and thanks to all of you reading this that bought the single or pre-ordered the album.

BBC News article

YAY press now using cheery recent(ish) photos of Bowie.

Having transitioned from listening intently to the song over and over when it was first released - and possibly overthinking my response to it - to just hearing it in the background on the radio when it comes on, I have to say it's very lovely. In a way, I'm disappointed about Visconti's (and others) hints that it doesn't represent the more-rocky album to come. I would gladly take a whole album along these lines over another Heathen/Reality, which is probably what we'll get. (Those albums do have their moments.)

Mind you, I am listening to Reality as I type, and if the new album is close to this standard it will get a lot of love.

Reality >>> Heathen

Recent Bowie slow songs >>>> Recent Bowie uptempo songs.

Hang On, Haven't We Heard Bowie's 'Where Are We Now?' Somewhere Before?

Hats off to CraigrowBrooklyn for spotting the similarity between Bowie's downbeat comeback track, and his "chubby little loser" cameo performance in Ricky Gervais' Extras.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/eKdTM_X6V1s

1) I also think this sounds a bit like Robert Wyatt, or could have used a touch of Wyatt

2) It also sounds more than a little like his "Silly Little Fat Man" song from Extras, in terms of vive and cadence.

― Josh in Chicago, dinsdag 8 januari 2013 15:04 (6 days ago)

Some more info from Visconti, going into individual songs: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-bowies-the-next-day-album-a-track-by-track-preview-20130115?link=mostpopular2

I may have to wean myself off these Visconti interviews/previews. While I'm excited to hear this record, I'd like to listen to it on my terms.

Funny that people keep asking "How many songs on this are rockers?" like, really, how many songs on Hunky Dory are rockers?

it's not so much that anyone's hoping for Ziggy Stardust 2 as that they're fearing 12 "Where Are We Now?"s

Well hopefully he will tour and buy a black leather jacket and get his hair done up in frosted tips etc. etc.

Really, what's wrong with growing old?

"Well hopefully he will tour and buy a black leather jacket and get his hair done up in frosted tips etc. etc."

Glass Spider!

Wouldn't it have been impossible to get the train to Potsdamer Platz back in Bowie's day?

he is still alive, you know

Is he? Still not convinced this isn't a hoax.

Visconti accuses Fripp of leaking Bowie plans, Fripp calls bullshit.

http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=22980

Had I had been invited, in my current non-performance mode, it would have been a very hard choice.

Too bad the Frippster isnt involved...would have been fun to hear.

Maybe he is on the album, but it is just totally double-secret secret, and this is all just further misdirection.

possible.

Maybe he just listens on it.

Oblique Listening Strategies.

Maybe he is on the album, but it is just totally double-secret secret, and this is all just further misdirection.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, January 17, 2013 2:24 PM (1 hour ago)

If so, his online diary for the last two years would be the most amazing long con since, uh, that football player's dead girlfriend.

i like the new song more now than the day it came out, really nice

the advertising i've seen around here (W12) is kinda funny - they've just stuck those white 'The Next Day' squares in the middles of existing posters.

When it come out?

Oh 11th March

Crap- you can pre-order the vinyl on amazon.co.uk but not amazon.de

for the record, koogs - don't think those are existing posters, just big backing posters meant to look like existing posters.

pity if it is, because i thought it was a good idea. will check tonight / tomorrow.

no, i was right, that's exactly what they've done. you can see if you can get close to one - the squares are new, the posters underneath are the previous ones. (the one on the walk home i remember from before, and one of the ones i saw yesterday was slightly wonky in relation to the poster underneath)

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/12964_10151265346397665_116740186_n.jpg

Geriatric David Bowie sounds like Geriatric Paul McCartney.

We Are The Dead

love it

We got song

http://www.vevo.com/watch/david-bowie/the-stars-are-out-tonight/USRV31300002

song comes off like it was written by somebody who didn't speak English fluently

I actually liked the other song but this is terrible

That's an awful video, too.

Tilda Stardust fan service vid is spectacular. Song is cool at first blush but lacking something. Need to spend more time with it.

"double with haim" lol

Rave reviews in Telegraph, Independent and an incoherent review in the Guardian.

Got a feeling this is going to be like Skyfall.

<3 Bowie as alien/Men Who Fell to Earth still on the cover of the Pantheon Weekly.
Tilda as Bowie is obv. inspired by the RSWX/Bowie project.

Song's a bit bland on first listen but like MFB I need to spend more time with it

Vevo link doesn't work in my part of the world, so I'll share this youtube link here: http://youtu.be/gH7dMBcg-gE

I'm a bit underwhelmed. It's not bad but sort of Bowie by numbers. He waited 10 years just to give us a track that could have been on Reality? I prefer the first single and am hoping the rest of the album is better than this