That haircut x 70
― pplains, Monday, 2 December 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
Interesting, in the beginning of part II he mentions that he's about to go to NY to work on Robert Fripp's album (which I can only assume is Exposure, an album that does not feature DB)... I wonder what the story was there.
― Davey D, Monday, 2 December 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
Sid c. 1973:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZKw9oTIYAAoalR.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 December 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
whoa that pic is awesome!
― fit and working again, Monday, 2 December 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link
I've heard the story a few different ways/times. Fripp was doing a series of records either with different vocalists, or one vocalist each. Peter Gabriel's second album, Daryl Hall's Sacred Songs and eventually the LPs Exposure and God Save The Queen/Under Heavy Manners. The latter had David Byrne on vocals but he replaced someone else. Or Exposure was supposed to be all Darryl Hall but Hall's label freaked and he was replaced with Peter Hammill? I don't know the story, but it's not hard to imagine Bowie getting mixed up with all that.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 00:49 (ten years ago) link
It underscores what a weird album Exposure is.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link
Just in case someone hasn't heard it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=089SH63fiSw
Iirc, Fripp wanted Hall to be King Crimson's singer!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 03:14 (ten years ago) link
this one is even more frippy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epLXwup4bpA
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 05:03 (ten years ago) link
Anyway, just saw a VERY expensive Louis Vuiton ad w/ Bowie performing "Id Rather Be High"
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 05:04 (ten years ago) link
Which features the Venetian Mix of said song.Thanks for the links to that '77 interview, I've seen a short clip of it before, the interviewer is embarrassing. And thanks a LOT for that fantastic Sid Vicious photo!
― willem, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 11:59 (ten years ago) link
Happy Birthday!
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
I always play this for the class on Jan. 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa6bI_95G9I
And then I try to come up with some kind of explanation of him. Even though I don't have one. (Also played Velvet Goldmine's opening credits this morning.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Nice choice, that. I'd REALLY love some sort of Criterion release of VG at this point.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
New Box Series Launch: http://www.davidbowie.com/news/five-years-1969-1973-box-set-due-september-54571
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 22 June 2015 23:45 (eight years ago) link
No Lightning Frightening or Sweet Head?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 01:16 (eight years ago) link
No cover of "Growing Up" either.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 02:42 (eight years ago) link
Or "London, Bye, Ta-Ta".
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 05:41 (eight years ago) link
So 25+ years later and nobody has bested the Ryko reissue program
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 05:49 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, his catalogue has passed over to Parlophone now
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 05:57 (eight years ago) link
Are these going to be remastered or will the Steve Hoffman forum members die in terror
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 09:53 (eight years ago) link
6 Original Studio Albums:David Bowie AKA Space Oddity*The Man Who Sold The World*Hunky Dory*The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From MarsAladdin SanePinUps* *New 2015 Remasters.
as lovely as these will be i think i am happy with my ryko editions and replica jap sleeve remasters.
― mark e, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 10:54 (eight years ago) link
this review seems a bit "old school":
Still, they cut loose on the album's most brilliant jewel, "Queen Bitch", a furiously rocking theatrical miniature (Bowie-the-character-actor has rarely chewed the scenery harder) that out-Velvet Undergrounds the Velvet Underground.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21066-five-years-1969-1973/
glad it's finally established - for a new generation - that Hunky and Ziggy are timeless classics
― niels, Friday, 2 October 2015 10:18 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/theater/a-visit-to-the-strange-secretive-world-of-david-bowies-lazarus.html?ref=music
― dow, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
Looking fwd to Blackstar in Jan. o course.
― dow, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 16:22 (eight years ago) link
I have no idea what to think tonight. Legit sources reporting his death and insisting it is not a hoax. (Fuck the internet.)
If so ...
― alpine static, Monday, 11 January 2016 06:53 (eight years ago) link
http://thr.cm/06iM8z
― longform Gordon thinkpiece (Eazy), Monday, 11 January 2016 06:56 (eight years ago) link
Its on gmtvnow, god!
― Mark G, Monday, 11 January 2016 06:58 (eight years ago) link
yeah don't know but seems to be legit? RIP
― salthigh, Monday, 11 January 2016 06:59 (eight years ago) link
certainly seems that way
― alpine static, Monday, 11 January 2016 07:00 (eight years ago) link
it's real
https://twitter.com/ManMadeMoon/status/686441083648212992
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 11 January 2016 07:00 (eight years ago) link
also, fuck
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 11 January 2016 07:01 (eight years ago) link
http://www.davidbowie.com/news/january-10-2016-55521
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 January 2016 07:08 (eight years ago) link
fucking hell :(
― seb mooczag (NickB), Monday, 11 January 2016 07:08 (eight years ago) link
this is hitting me hard. died two days after his birthday, lemmy died four days after his.
― nomar, Monday, 11 January 2016 07:09 (eight years ago) link
Fuck
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 11 January 2016 07:09 (eight years ago) link
"I heard a rumour from ground control.Oh no, don't say its true."
― meisenfek, Monday, 11 January 2016 07:28 (eight years ago) link
David Bowie R.I.P
― bored at work (snoball), Monday, 11 January 2016 07:56 (eight years ago) link
New Box Set on Tidal (I don't know if glenn has a copy yet): https://listen.tidal.com/album/64975950
Guardian on same: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/22/david-bowie-who-can-i-be-now-1974-1976-album-box-set-review
― dlp9001, Saturday, 24 September 2016 00:48 (seven years ago) link
The Bowiesongs blog has restarted:
https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/heat/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
Bowie: The Man Who Changed the World (2016)
Cannot Recommend. Uneven narrative, insufficient interviewees and terrible editing make for painful viewing.
David Bowie: A Life, the biography from Dylan Jones looks to be very well-reviewed, but i'm not interested in reading about such an visual and aural icon -- i want to see and hear it.
― bodacious ignoramus, Thursday, 28 September 2017 07:36 (six years ago) link
https://lifeonmagrs.blogspot.de/2017/10/fancy-believing-in-goblin-king-my.html
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 15 October 2017 07:27 (six years ago) link
David Bowie: A Life, the biography from Dylan Jones looks to be very well-reviewed, but i'm not interested in reading about such an visual and aural icon -- i want to see and hear it.― bodacious ignoramus, Thursday, September 28, 2017 3:36 AM
― bodacious ignoramus, Thursday, September 28, 2017 3:36 AM
― Eloi's Comin' (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 January 2018 00:26 (six years ago) link
Seems to have gotten a good review from Jon Savage.
― Eloi's Comin' (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 January 2018 00:52 (six years ago) link
still looking for a decent copy of this for less than 50 quid
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51A0MTWYFVL._SX360_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
gonna have to bite the bullet sooner or later.
― piscesx, Monday, 22 January 2018 02:01 (six years ago) link
the Bowie Is exhibit is shutting down apparently and having it's final run in Brooklyn this spring. I booked a trip out there to see it.
― akm, Monday, 22 January 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
Just got the Dylan Jones book 'David Bowie: A Life' which is a brand new oral history with *180* people interviewed. Chris O Leary (of Pushing Ahead blog fame) said nice things about it so that's good enough for me.
― piscesx, Monday, 29 January 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
So the new 5-yr box set, LOVING THE ALIEN, is out, with rejigged 'Never Let Me Down' album. The new production can't make this a masterpiece, but the new version of Glass Spiders is very nice.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 12 October 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
happy birthday bowie. glad u escaped the fate of less white, less gentile ppl who also liked to fuck 15 year olds :)
― (ADVANCE) (320k vbr) (--V2) (aps) (diVX) (2CD) OST - SB (2019) (esby), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
this is going to be a shame
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY8mXPQtvxU
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link