David Bowie - The Next Day

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

Tilda Swinton in this?

Sounds a bit like "She'll Drive a Big Car."

for an aging rock legend - it's a good track.
and better than the previous imo

Great to see Tilda Swinton with Bowie. When she was doing press for We Need to Talk About Kevin she looked uncannily like he did on the cover of Low.

reminds me a bit of the old-person horror sequence from Mulholland Drive.

A couple of months before I interviewed TS on the same afternoon DL did (and he's right, Low is exactly what she looked like and most people couldn't get away with the pine/midnight blue combo she was working) I got a commission to interview Nic Roeg and he said he'd cast her if he was to remake that film with a female lead.

It's a decent song. I really like the production, pure quality, the strings and the way the bass bobs along.

I've played this about a dozen times now. It would have been joint best song on Reality, with New Killer Star. There's an urgency to it that I reckon is a step up from most of the best 2000s material.

Hahah so apparently this Tumblr's been around for a while -- its creator is duly gobsmacked

http://tildastardust.tumblr.com/

http://www.theawl.com/2013/02/david-bowie-stars-are-out-tonight#more-158524

otm on the "Beethoven" connection.

That video is incredible.

Quietus review: http://thequietus.com/articles/11500-david-bowie-the-next-day-review

Interesting:

"Moreover, it closes with two mind-blowing, show-stopping, grandstanding epics: one as baroque as 'Rock And Roll Suicide' ONLY MORE SO; one as frazzled and sinister and ticking as Scott Walker’s (ok, The Walker Brothers’) 'The Electrician'."

Sounds great. The review is written by Chris Roberts though (I mean, he tends to be enthusiastic to say the least when it comes to Bowie).

He reckons Stars (Are Out Tonight) is "one of the weakest tracks, straining a little."

Thoroughly underwhelmed by both "Stars" and the video for it. This is pretty much exactly what I dreaded when I learned he was putting new stuff out.

I still really like "Where Are We Now" though, and I'm staying optimistic about the rest of the album.

Had a listen to the new track last night and found myself quite liking it... and that's all, really. Still looking forward to hearing the album.

Why can't big acts just release singles anymore? Why does it have to be teaser single, follow-up in tandem with album? No one's selling much, might as well have fun. Release a single now and then, let it hang around a little.

It's not releasing, it's sharing, bro.

I know it's a cliché easily used these days, but seriously: has no one mentioned yet how Lynchian this video is? For it is. The intro music ("Ghost of Love" echoes), Tilda Swinton (who is already David Bowie in many ways, in a parallel universe), characters flashing in and out of themselves, the panning of the camera (the shoddy filming of the balcony, the supermarket scene). I can't think of any other music video that is so Lynchian.

I like the song, but I think I like the song in combination with the video even better.

(forgot to mention the stop-motion like movement of the people in the video, too)

you can listen to it now streaming!

http://pitchfork.com/news/49744-listen-to-the-new-david-bowie-album-now/

i'm pretty impressed. did not have any expectations.

It's up. It's good.

i'm getting a Lodger vibe on some of this, which i did not expect

i think visconti talking about how it was "rockers" is a bit misleading, i mean it's not like these are all 4 on the floor power chord songs, lots of cool stuff in the mix and the songs go in odd directions

Whoa... I can't go to bed without listening to this! Better fix me that coffee...

man between this and strong MBV and Bad Seeds albums it's 2013: The Year Heritage Alternative Rock Acts Broke

Rockers compared to an album of Where Are We Nows

my response to the new record is nostalgia:
where are the times Bowie was "innovative"...

You are no fun

"Stars" sounds much better as an album cut. Works nicely in context.

i don't think the album is bad, but it's like the new Neil Young album: good for an aging rock star, but i can live without it

Cool insight

cynical?

Like no offense but every time I see you post you're just being a drag or killjoy about stuff, gets old

Good album on first listen! Some lovely moments. Especially like how concise the tunes are.

I think it's his best since Scary Monsters

Keeping in line with the album cover, i sort of which he had just taken his old songs and wrote new lyrics/melodies over the old tracks. Or maybe just take the old lyrics and write completely new music for them.

Haven't heard this yet, aside from the first OK single and 2nd single, which i can't remember at all.

give it a listen on iTunes. Worth your time.

is "Boss of Me" a cover of the Malcolm in the Middle theme song? (please say yes)

Not sure if this is just to do with me paying more attention to this release than the last few, but there's an energy and directness to the vocal melodies that reminds me of the way Ferry came with "Frantic" (though they don't sound anything like each other) after a handful of more muddled, mature and indirect propositions (Mamouna, Heathen, etc...). Either this record is more engaging... or I'm more engaged. Time will tell.

The 'hum along' factor seems as high as its been in a long time, yeah?
I dig it.

I'm listening to the stream, so can't see song titles. What's the one that starts "If you can see me, I can see you?" 'Cause it was good enough that I just went back to play it again.

Rest of the album all sounds at least ok, it'll take time to know. Nothing jumping out as *wrong* with it yet.

On first listen this is really solid. Only dud was "Dancing Out In Space".