David Bowie - The Next Day

Hagiography but a friend who worked as an assistant in the Montreux studio at the time swears up and down that NLMD was ruined in the mixing process and that there's a great album in there. I don't care? but I can believe it

ok let's stop talking about that shitty album. new one is better

Even if I want to believe "Shining Star" and "New York's in Love" are good songs, there's still the matter of Bowie singing them.

so, is now the right time to ask if anyone has a ripped copy of bowies version of 'love missile f1-11' that was featured on the dvd single of 'new killer star' ?

It's on the iTunes version of the New Killer Star single (in my part of the world - NL)

1) This album is a lot better than I expected.

2) This album is also exhausting, which doesn't exactly negate number one but makes listening in longer than short bursts tough.

so, is now the right time to ask if anyone has a ripped copy of bowies version of 'love missile f1-11' that was featured on the dvd single of 'new killer star'

...wait, what?

http://youtu.be/B6fudSHb0js

Apparently so, from a 2003 DVD single.

(The 2003 is superfluous there, did that phase last longer than the one year?)

* Warning: Drunken Post * If this album had been called "Sense Of Doubt"
I wouldnt've flinched. I have been coming back to it on a daily basis since I
bought it and l continue finding fascinating moments in its bitter, desperate
sounding form. It's a grumpy, bleak fucking record at the end and I love it more
and more for that.

Don't know what's surprising me more, seeing a celebratory review of the album at the National Review or discovering the author of that review has also written a book about Steve Kilbey.

He can get away with this because The Next Day is an honest-to-God album, meant to be listened to as one piece rather than as a scattered collection of iTunes downloads. In this sense it is both archaic and forward-looking — its very existence is a sign, or a hopeful prediction, of some kind of return to craftsmanship in popular music. We’ve already seen harbingers of this in the success of Adele’s album 21 and the resurgent popularity of “roots” music among younger listeners; people are once again responding to music that sounds real. The Next Day, even with its freaked-out guitars and fuzzy synths, feels similarly authentic: It is refreshingly free of any discernible loops or electronic drums; the vocals have not been strangled by Auto-Tune; none of the musicians e-mailed their parts in from distant locales.

Why...why it's almost...REAL.

Does Salaryman's drumming count as electronic?

I like this sentence: "The real David Bowie remains as hidden as ever; his obfuscation, once regarded as a drawback, now seems, in our age of overexposure, as enticing as an oasis in a desert." All those commas building up to the big simile: "an oasis in a desert"! As opposed to all those other oases elsewhere.

as opposed to the other commas

"....Hours" was not essential, but still better than anything he did between 1984 and 1993.

(In terms of albums - it was not better than "Absolute Beginners" or "Loving The Alien" obv. )

Geir, you mean Tonight?

Or those two songs were better than Hours?

Billboard:

Earlier this week we reported that Bon Jovi and David Bowie were vying for the No. 1 slot on next week's Billboard 200 albums chart. However, Bon Jovi has now pulled ahead, and it seems like the band's "What About Now" is a lock for a No. 1 bow on the chart.

Industry sources suggest the group's album might sell just under 90,000 copies by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, March 17. It will mark the band's fifth No. 1 set -- and third straight studio effort to hit the top.

Meanwhile, David Bowie's new "The Next Day" -- his first studio album since 2003 -- should arrive in the No. 2 position with perhaps 80,000.

While a No. 1 album will seemingly continue to elude Bowie (who has yet to notch a chart-topper), a No. 2 bow will give him his best ranking ever. Somewhat shockingly, his highest-charting album to date is 1976's "Station to Station," which peaked at No. 3.

"The Next Day" will also likely score Bowie his best sales week for an album in the Nielsen SoundScan era (1991-present). He's never sold more than 55,000 in a week for a single album, when 2002's "Heathen" debuted at No. 14.

Bon Jovi vs. David Bowie fite!

90,000 Bon Jovi fans can be wrong. (Tip your waitstaff.)

It's official:

LONDON – David Bowie's The Next Day -- the rock icon's first album in 10 years -- is the fastest-selling of the year in the U.K. so far, topping the British album chart in its first week of sales.

The chart was unveiled March 17.

The album is the 66-year-old's first No. 1 since his 1993 release, Black Tie White Noise.

The Next Day sold 94,000 copies this week, according to the Official Chart Co., outselling the No. 2 album, from Bon Jovi, by a ratio of 2-to-1.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/84/Bon_Jovi_100_Million_Bon_Jovi_Fans.jpg/220px-Bon_Jovi_100_Million_Bon_Jovi_Fans.jpg

Yuk

Drop tracks 9 through 11 and what've you got? You've got a piece of work as strong as any of the 70's stuff PLUS at least one must-have B-side.

nah, 11 is one of the best. drop 7 through 10 instead.

8 and 9 for me. I like the weirdo vibe of "If You Can See Me" and "Dancing..."

despite having a dumb name 'dancing out in space' is really great, wonderful guitar work. although this song, like a few more, make me wish Fripp really had been involved in the album.

Dancing also has a tamed down version of the Lust for Life beat.

Love the verses, the chorus not so much

"I just topped the iTunes charts in Vietnam! I am the future!"

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/579072_10151303118657665_562808879_n.jpg

Came here to post that exact picture :D
God I'm jealous of his hair...

yep...that's what I said on Ned's FB.

He is aging well.

*salutes*

NME Bowie Top 20 Readers Poll
Think it 's been done before, but somehow they've allowed it
http://www.nme.com/ratemy/297577/vote-for-the-greatest-david-bowie-album?recache=1&t=1231311&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wire

Still digging this. Much better than it has any right to be.
Not perfect (rhythm section could've been a bit more new/punchy/better/dynamic), but yeah... best Bowie in a dogs' age.

Shearwater guy reviews it.

New video forthcoming w/Gary Oldman, robes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2314042/Hes-Space-Oddity-David-Bowie-goes-religious-films-new-video-starring-old-pal-Gary-Oldman.html

Sounds a lot better at a slight remove from release hype.

Buddy of mine who knows someone who knows someone says there are 15 completed songs leftover from the sessions.

one of the "bonus" songs is among my favorites.

My only problem is that some of the production was a bit generic. I hear echoes of the past, I hear some of that Visconti harmonizer on the drums I love so much, but I'd like a little more character to the production.

New video forthcoming w/Gary Oldman, robes

Bowie Wan Kenobi

Still really liking this album.

"Valentine's Day" sounded good last weekend, skipped the rest.

New video for "The Next Day" with Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard:

http://www.vevo.com/watch/david-bowie/the-next-day/USRV31300003

Blood, whipping, Catholic saints, eyes, Gary looking grizzled, concluding luvviness. Of course.

Diminishing returns, as the messiah remarked to the centurion.

Gah, horrible vid.

'If You Can See Me' is fucking great.