last thursday i was talking to tony viscounti
wtf
― lukevalentine, Thursday, 10 December 2009 02:43 (fourteen years ago) link
They even liked the single "Love You Till Tuesday".
― Worse Lieutenant (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 10 December 2009 03:24 (fourteen years ago) link
it was always somewhat irritating that Doomie couldn't write to save himself
― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Thursday, 10 December 2009 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
What the hell happened to Doomie anyway?
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Very nice!
― Cunga, Thursday, 10 December 2009 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i47.tinypic.com/ra56ky.gif
I don't think I've posted this wonderful gif yet.
― Cunga, Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
From the great "Bowie Meets the Fonz" tv moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1bRIwqv_tM&feature=player_embedded
― Cunga, Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nasa_launches_david_bowie_concept
― wall•egina (s1ocki), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/NASA-Launches-R.article_0.jpgLooks more like The Glitter Band
― might seem normal (snoball), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Mark Dery ('The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium') has written an interesting, "33 1/3" -esque piece:
Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie
Background here: http://www.markdery.com/archives/news/000119.html
(& apologies if this has already been posted elsewhere)
― Chooglin'alCarbon, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I always thought he (and P. Murphy) was saying "leopard messiah." I'd even do I *rowr rowr I'm a clawing leopard* gesture when i sang it.
― Walter Melon (Abbott), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I am truly annoyed now that this isn't the real lyric.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Viceory & I had a pretty spirited debate abt whether it was "leather messiah" or "leopard messiah," both of which are wrong (and superior?).
― Walter Melon (Abbott), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i know i suggest it everywhere, but the bowie blog where the author is writing essaylets on every song in chronological order of recording is astoundingly great...it's called "pushing ahead of the dame" he is up to soul love now
― iago g., Wednesday, 28 April 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Never realized there was confusion about "leper messiah." ZS has always been one of my go-to karaoke songs and it's always been "leper"
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Fantastic blog... His entry on "Life On Mars" is one of my fave bits of music writing.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
where is this
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
http://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Thank you, Ned. Yes, Elvis, the Life on Mars one is mindblowing...he also finds these great photographs to lead off each song entry, and links to streaming versions of the demos and live versions he is discussing...
― iago g., Wednesday, 28 April 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
wow that "life on mars" entry is amazing
― Shakey Ja Mocha (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Let's hear it for the author of the astonishing "Pushing Ahead of the Dame" who has just completed his epic song-by-song catalogue, with brilliantly incisive essaylets on every recording he could get his hands on, up until Pin-Ups...check it out! This is historic stuff
― iago g., Saturday, 10 July 2010 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
obviously he is just getting started...I cannot wait for the Diamond Dogs entries!
― iago g., Saturday, 10 July 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
bowiesongs.wordpress.com
― iago g., Saturday, 10 July 2010 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
jeez...http://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/
― iago g., Saturday, 10 July 2010 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Great blog.
Side two of "Heroes" sounded great walking to work in the sub-zero temperatures this morning.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/end-of-chapter-four-1973-1975/
He got a book deal!
― sofatruck, Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Very well deserved, that.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently finally a new album on its way too:Really surprised "Supper's Ready" made the list, but what the hell I vote that
Been strangely silent from the once so profilic act lately, but this is maybe finally some news.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.countdowncow.com/when/new-david-bowie-album-coming-out-first-half-2011(Sorry wrong link above)
I was all "wtf David Bowie's doing "Supper's Ready" on his new album?" for a moment there...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
"Hello i love david bowie is he coming on tour next year to holland? And how can i write him greatings tiziana"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Well he does have a habit of doing shit cover versions
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Here comes Geir to say "that would be great though, ;)" or some such...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess i'm way behind the curve, but i guess need to track down Toys then ?
http://www.planetrock.com/newscentre/rock-news/unreleased-bowie-album-leaked-online-1671
― mark e, Thursday, 24 March 2011 10:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Toy, singular
― Mark G, Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
65 today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB9RSG-56wU
― piscesx, Sunday, 8 January 2012 10:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/06/david-bowie-s-vanishing-act-and-looming-return.html
Busy being Dad
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
I was just about to post that, curmudgeon...the bit that grabbed me was the drug/alcohol bit. was he really addicted to coke for ten years? i would've thought maybe 73-77 were the coke years...followed by a "massive bout of alcoholism". so he had an alcohol problem STARTING in let's say 1982 (if he did coke for the previous ten years). not sure why i care but it would be nice to know what he was addicted to and when.
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
Awesome! Bowie will be making a rousing return with a ... coffee table book!
I'm glad I saw him on that Moby tour and later at MSG. He was great.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
according to Bowie in Berlin alcohol subbed for coke as early as '76. The other Bowie bios allude to a toot here and there (e.g. Kevin Armstrong, who played on "Absolute Beginners," bought a bag of coke for him for the sessions).
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
*a toot here and there after the seventies
yeah the story goes that he was often still 'bang at it' circa Let's Dance. just not as bad as in the 70s.
― piscesx, Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
In the name of my never-abated fandom, I would gladly pass the hat around if it would persuade him to stay retired.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
I'm still amused that the last new song he performed is that "funny little man" song for RGervais' "Extras"
I've still not actually heard it tho.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
he's not going to make any new records. there is no longer any cultural cache in making records, and what he likes is being able to make a splash.
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
He's going to dive into a swimming pool nude with Lexi?
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
who will love a dad insane
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
i assume given those stories that he won't ever tour again, huh? i saw him once, serious moonlight '81, hartford. was pretty good, but i'd rather have seen a show from the ill-fated diamond dogs tour (i was 6 then).
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
Btw, thanks Alfred et all for the responses
It would be great if he suddenly appeared starring in a great play, as he did with Elephant Man (did anyone see him in that on B'way? if so, how was he?)
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
The first album I remember buying was The Man Who Sold the World, the one with the "comic book" cover. I found it in the cutout bin at Radio Shack. It completely blew my mind; Pepper notwithstanding, I'd never heard anyone make music quite that weird. I've had great love for him ever since, despite a, to put it generously, uneven output.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
and thank god for the uneven output. It's probably Bowie who long ago reinforced the theory that poseurs need failed expeRiments.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
Following Scary Monsters, I think he had enough singles in the '80s that altogether add up to a respectable pop album. May be on the long side, but I'd enjoy these twelve programmed together:
Under PressureCat People (Putting Out Fire)Let's DanceChina GirlModern LoveBlue JeanThis Is Not AmericaLoving The AlienAbsolute BeginnersDay-In Day-OutTime Will CrawlNever Let Me Down
the solution :
https://www.discogs.com/master/97355-David-Bowie-The-Best-Of-David-Bowie-19801987
― mark e, Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
LOL, it even has a bonus DVD of the videos!
Too bad it's mastered by Peter Mew. I don't like the way he mastered Bowie's CD's - compressed, way too bright and NoNoised.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
Yeah I love that 8087 best of but I recreated it with versions from older CDs so that it’d sound good
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 16 October 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
I'm kind of charmed that Bowie (presumably) said to the compilers, "make sure you toss in 'Alabama Song' and something from Baal!"
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 17 October 2022 01:08 (one year ago) link
Bowie Alabama Song = duuuuuuud
― Cow_Art, Monday, 17 October 2022 01:10 (one year ago) link
I like it, but admittedly it doesn't add anything to the Doors version
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 17 October 2022 01:24 (one year ago) link
I just figured he was doing the collectors a solid - quite a few non-album songs on that compilation, so the more the merrier.
― birdistheword, Monday, 17 October 2022 03:14 (one year ago) link
Almost every one of my favorite 80s Bowie tracks is non-album
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Monday, 17 October 2022 04:06 (one year ago) link
"Come for 'Let's Dance' - stay for 'Drowned Girl'"!
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 17 October 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
I'm a big "Absolute Beginners" fan, I even bought the soundtrack just to have the song. (For $2 in a cutout bin in 1989 or something, but still.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 17 October 2022 14:47 (one year ago) link
my fav 80s bowie song by a mile
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 08:35 (one year ago) link
That whole soundtrack is great. Besides Bowie, Sade "Killer Blow" and Ray Davies "Quiet Life" are favorites.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 08:54 (one year ago) link
That movie was frustrating. There were sequences that worked well, but it was so uneven.
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 28 October 2022 05:38 (one year ago) link
I'll probably watch it again some day. But.
I believe it’s David Bowies fav song too.
― Mark G, Friday, 28 October 2022 10:12 (one year ago) link
Y’all heard this? Your man from the Pushing Ahead.. blog thinks it’s the best version (or ‘the most complete’ at least) and I think he’s right. Always loved the album mix but this is a bloody marvel; Lisa Germano and John Frusciante are both on it too;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8nuT1rDB7o
― piscesx, Friday, 28 October 2022 10:31 (one year ago) link
The ending, just ... Bowie records a masterpiece that touches on themes from throughout his career while suffering from advanced cancer that was killing him and really should have had him laid up in a hospital. Do you think the audience might be interested in that? No? Okay then.
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 28 October 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
I was skeptical but that is an excellent version of Bring Me...
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 28 October 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
So this...
https://deadline.com/2023/03/midnight-special-youtube-channel-david-bowie-tina-turner-elton-john-fleetwood-mac-1235280405
Means that this is now available via YT, namely actual formal clips from the 1984 Floor Show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2DTwK5xysg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 March 2023 22:38 (one year ago) link
new laughing gnome take outjoyfulhaha I love this shit
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 5 May 2023 08:29 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFdCI5i0EWo
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 5 May 2023 14:06 (eleven months ago) link
Funny, his voice on the talking bits was pretty much his 'personable/friendly' voice he had in his later (ie "Lets Dance" onwards) years!
Like, "The Laughing Gnome" was closer to the real David Jones than anything else.
― Mark G, Saturday, 6 May 2023 10:24 (eleven months ago) link
Did a doubletake when I saw the hype sticker and price on that little box set on record store day. £79.99, featuring 1 unreleased take of The Laughing Gnome. cost of living crisis going to new heights here.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Saturday, 6 May 2023 10:27 (eleven months ago) link
There are record collectors. And there are David Bowie etc
― Mark G, Saturday, 6 May 2023 10:30 (eleven months ago) link
This is so great. He did this the day the news broke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nKb2JC7Qn0
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 30 June 2023 07:41 (nine months ago) link
I've finally got round to listening to the Toy 10" box set that came out a while back. I had full absorbed the Toy album from the big album box and I didn't like it very much, so I wasn't expecting to get anything out of more versions of it. What can I say, I'll suffer through a lot of bad Bowie.
But there's an alternate version called Toy: Unplugged and Slightly Electric that is miles better than the proper album. There's more space in it, less gloppy, more focus on Bowie's singing which is actually pretty good. It's still not a great album because the songs just aren't there, but it's an enjoyable listen and the casual nature suits the songs much better. Every other version of "Baby Loves That Way" makes me wince and I can actually get through this.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 24 July 2023 17:09 (nine months ago) link
How do you feel about the original '60s versions?
(Speaking as someone who loves the Rhino Early On comp.)
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 24 July 2023 17:52 (nine months ago) link
Early On is pretty fun. I like that stuff more than a lot of the Deram material. The most difficult pre Space Oddity stuff for me is the stuff like "Sell Me A Coat" and "London Bye Ta Ta."
For the most part, the original versions are almost always better than the Toy versions but I'd have to spend more time with the Unplugged set because some of those tracks are really lovely. The full band Toy versions are so leaden and glopped up. "I Dig Everything" isn't a great song, but the original is sort of cute baby photo of Bowie. The Toy version is *cringe*.
"Silly Boy Blue" might be my favorite early Bowie track.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 24 July 2023 18:22 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0geQMFdt-90
― MaresNest, Monday, 18 September 2023 15:26 (seven months ago) link
Beautiful but it needs more reverb
― willem, Monday, 18 September 2023 22:45 (seven months ago) link
reading an interview with Donny McCaslin, he says they recorded 16 songs during the blackstar sessionsanyone know if they're... circulating?
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 21 March 2024 07:06 (one month ago) link
I guess ten are accounted for by Blackstar and No Plan?
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 21 March 2024 08:36 (one month ago) link