― Kodanshi, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Bill
― Bill, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― beth, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jack Redelfs, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
obv he's he a v.textural music-maer — esp.since tangling with eno, but actually he already was — so uses the permutable specifix of his "backing band" to strong local identity effect: but again, HOW he does this changes a lot less than what he can do with it.
― mark s, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― del a robbo, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― florencesamouel, Thursday, 26 December 2002 17:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
that was "the gospel according to tony day." and it's the only listenable thing he did pre-"space oddity." (nb to momus: your post upthread about bowie's sixties stuff inspired me to get that deram anthology. but that stuff's just awful! i mean, "we are hungry men?" and the belches after it?)
― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:07 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 21 June 2003 16:21 (twenty years ago) link
PS New new digital revamp of "Ziggy: The Motion Picture" is Mick Ronson's finest hour and a half.
― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Sunday, 22 June 2003 13:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 27 June 2003 06:54 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 27 June 2003 07:02 (twenty years ago) link
Let's talk about Bowie. I want to talk about Bowie. Is the "David Live" album any good?
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 28 July 2008 00:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Not very, no.
― J0hn D., Monday, 28 July 2008 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry to sound all "rockist," but "over-rated or justifiably hated," without a "good-to-great" option? Seems wrong.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 July 2008 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
He's overrated by those who think he can sing, sure.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 28 July 2008 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link
'stage' is the live album to get. adrian belew!
― haitch, Monday, 28 July 2008 01:58 (fifteen years ago) link
belew 'em all off the stage, didn't he
― goole, Monday, 28 July 2008 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link
last interesting round of ilm bowie chat was here:
BOWIE VS STEELY
― goole, Monday, 28 July 2008 03:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Stage is rather bad. Live, Bowie is best seen rather than heard.
― Owen Pallett, Monday, 28 July 2008 08:32 (fifteen years ago) link
That is to say, it works better with the visuals. There was an amazing '77 concert at Muzikladen on the Youtube a while ago, but it got taken down once Matrixsynth picked up on it
― Owen Pallett, Monday, 28 July 2008 08:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I really like David Live. The total inhumanity and coldness of the record appeals to me and is ideal for him. In a way it's his Metal Machine Music if we're talking depersonalisation. It's as if he's stranded on Mars and all his songs are in a lay-by in Stanmore.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 28 July 2008 08:44 (fifteen years ago) link
eh it's alright. Stage is ten times better.
― stephen, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 03:03 (fifteen years ago) link
is that really great version of "Blackout" on Stage? Blackout Live is Bowie POV for sure
Is it safe to say that David Bowie is one of those artists with NO DISCERNABLE INDIVIDUAL SONGWRITING STYLE, from album to album? I don't know if this means he's very diverse, or just a corporate whore.
In my mind, I'd say, there's a very tangible sense of Bowiesque songwriting.. All of his songs have a sort of simplicity and, excluding his more abstract material, melodic verve. I'd say it's harder to reconcile "TV EYE" and "Candy" being written by the same man than it is "The Man Who Sold the World" and "Ashes to Ashes." I think Bowie's lyrical style is a dead giveaway, too. Did anyone ever notice that "Fantastic Voyage" and "Boys Keep Swinging" are the exact same chords and song structure with different songs on top? I always thought that was a remarkable feat of songwriting, and one he pulled off ina very unique way.
― people explosion, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 04:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Also Red Money/Sister Midnight
― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 05:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Thought I saw an ad for a new album today but it turns out it's just a release of that VH1 thing he did around when hours... came out. I guess he's just going to relax and do random backing vocals from here on in or something.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
The thought of someone hating David Bowie DOES NOT COMPUTE.
My mom told me a little bit ago the 'Ashes to Ashes' was playing on the hospital room TV while she was in labor & she was annoyed bcz my dad was paying attention to it and not her. I don't blame him!
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
While she was in labor...WITH ME!!!
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I miss his original choppers, tho.
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
My favorite site untouched by time.
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
More specifically: http://areaology.com/area.html
I listened to Reality for the first time in ages. A very good record – a lesser Lodger, of which it's a thematic and aura cousin.
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
(xxxpost)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtrjZRQ8TzU
― grocery groin (snoball), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
"Abbott to Abbott..."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
"My mama said to get me bornShe had to tell Dad to stop being torn..."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
<3
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
reality is alright, I liked it a lot at first, then really hated it, now I'm back to thinking "eh". it's no heathen. I hope that when he gets around to doing a new album it's at least that good.
― akm, Monday, 3 August 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Heathen had too many ballads. Then again, maybe that's all he can write and sing now.
― Anatomy of a Morbius (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 August 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
As found/shared by Tom E. on Twitter -- a new blog dedicated to reviewing Bowie's output song by song (currently in late 1966):
http://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 August 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
good use of "cat people" in the new tarantino movie. couldn't tell what song it was at first
― kamerad, Saturday, 29 August 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Just out for a stroll.
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/418843_253659648083931_1472298826_n.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Something tells me he knows he's being photographed.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
You don't say.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Something tells me he's trying to look like an "American".
― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
a young one at that.
RETURN OF THE THIN WHITE DAD
― da croupier, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
throwing darts in photog's eyes
― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
It's actually the prehensile tale of his trained pet devil pig.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
dude with camera filming while kid gets dismembered...
― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link