David Bowie R.I.P

hahaha!

lock thread

and making fun of scarjo! we may have reached the bottom...she's a national treasure!

She's fantastic! Her acting always makes me nervous though...

she's a coupla national treasures *ba-dum*

She wishes she was in National Treasure.

she's great. Bowie's acting is usually passable, sometimes amusing, rarely great, and he had p poor taste in projects. nonetheless I do generally get a kick out of his brief cameos in random things.

np: under pressure, and bowie + queen just sound like they're having SO MUCH FUN on this track that it made me cry

see? He can act!

lol

Bowie getting his own title in Zoolander is fantastic - his Tesla has a bit too much David Brent in him - I could also listen to Bowie talk Northern for hours, and watch that fantastic grin on "It'll really suit you" for a similar period.

Jagger finally speaks in detail

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/mick-jagger-remembers-david-bowie-he-would-share-so-much-with-me-20160126

And here's Trent

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/trent-reznor-recalls-how-david-bowie-helped-him-get-sober-20160126

Steve Kilbey writes about it, but there's a lot more to the story
http://thetimebeing.com/knowledge-comes-with-deaths-release/

does he use punctuation

This got posted two weeks ago. Worth watching again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVq-JWdyvGI

Trent piece is real good, as is accompanying video, thx for link

yeah Pontious scene is A1, ditto the first mega-creepy Into The Night scene.

Little hint of Michael Caine in the "you're more dangerous than the Zealots, do you know that?"

Looks like most of that joint set is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPKqigY09Dc

Huh, I've actually never seen this video! If this were released today it'd probably be banned and Bowie protested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPVrFIP0CMs

Well yes, but more for the gratuitous Resnor than anything else.

The Rolling Stone article that just posted implies that there will be a Blackstar expanded/deluxe edition, probably by year's end I'd imagine. The current version is so self-contained and perfect, though, that I'm not sure I even want that.

the NIN/Bowie tour was one of the best shows I've ever seen.

As a 90s baby, seeing the "I'm Afraid of Americans" music video was actually my first ever exposure to Bowie.

same. also to the song's credit, i only saw the video/heard the song once and didn't hear it again for at least 10 years, and i retained perfect memory of the chorus

Whereas I keep confusing it with 'I'm praying to the Aliens' Gary Numan.

did "I'm Afraid of Americans" get much MTV play? I have this sense that it was more known than played.

don't remember, this was around the time MTV kind of stopped showing videos so it't hard to tell.

i do remember being annoyed at all the credit NIN got for this track though when it was cowritten by Eno and out at least a year earlier on the showgirls soundtrack. although listening to that version now, it's actually quite weak compared to the earthling/NIN remake.

Yep. Never liked the single.

wait, the earthling version? wasn't that the single? are there 3 versions of this?

oh cripes there are a hundred versions

https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/im-afraid-of-americans/

lol yep. the album version is totally overprocessed by reeves, the single version is pretty clean and i think trent's harmonies add a lot. the showgirls version is a sketch

overprocessed by reeves

Should be his tagline/slogan. "If it sounds like digital bees, it's overprocessed by Reeves!" with a picture of Reeves in a circle giving a thumbs-up.

lol

can he smile?

did "I'm Afraid of Americans" get much MTV play? I have this sense that it was more known than played.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 21:21 (43 minutes ago) Permalink

I think it got some MTV play but my main memory of this video involves it showing on a big TV at the old Tower Records in Manhattan

Gotta listen to that "I'm Afraid of Americans" single now. Never liked the album version at all.

Just realized that Rob Sheffield's entry on Bowie in the Spin guide may be the best thing he's ever done.

rivaled only by the Roxy and Duran Duran entries.

Gotta listen to that "I'm Afraid of Americans" single now. Never liked the album version at all.

Think I may prefer the Tackhead version to either mix of this.

Makes me think it's a shame that Keith LeBlanc didn't play with Bowie during this period.

From last night: the Blackstar band (McCaslin etc.) performs "Warzsawa"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZj2if2vAcQ

No Ben, no credibility.

rad.. . . did they do anything else from blackstar itself? I'd be totally down for seeing them tour the album without bowie.

Ah, looks like he is in Paris, that's why he wasn't around on Tuesday, never mind.

Highly doubt they would do some kind of tour like that.

hahaha

http://www.alternativenation.net/david-bowie-turned-down-producing-red-hot-chili-peppers/

“We asked him to produce By the Way, as we were writing By the Way, and then we asked him again for our next record, which was Stadium Arcadium. He said no to us 2 or 3 times, but his mate [Brian] Eno, who we’ve also been asking our entire career to produce a record for us, has said no 8 times.”

Bowie and eno otm

You've got to have standards.

Nice Bono essay. Dude is great at eulogies and rock hall inducting: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/bono-remembers-david-bowie-he-is-my-idea-of-a-rock-star-20160127

I'd like to consider myself David's friend, but I'm more of a fan. He came and visited us when we were mixing Achtung Baby — and, of course, he had introduced us to Berlin and to Hansa Studios. We had a playful sort of banter — he would really go there in conversations, and we would even occasionally hurt each other's feelings. He took his daughter to a matinee to see Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and he sent me the reasons he didn't like it. And everything he said was really helpful, because it was in the early days of the show.