David Bowie - The Next Day

Are there/there must be other artists that have reused their own album cover artwork?

Good question, this is the only one I can think of off the top of my head:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Bluemask.jpg

XP - I'm not suggesting he do anything specifically and I don't mean to sound dramatic, but I sort of wonder if he is still ailing health-wise.

I'm not too impressed with the track on first listen (sounds like something from Hours...) but yeah, given some of the health rumours I'd heard I'm happy he's still been making music. Wouldn't begrudge him not doing any promo stuff whatsoever and it is really cool that he's managed to keep the veil of secrecy around the whole thing.

But, like, all these guys are always up to something.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 9:52 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah if you're Bowie or someone in his inner circle, i imagine it'd be pretty easy to go off to the studio regularly and just tell people around you that there's some new archival project in the works, nothing new or major

other artists that have reused their own album cover artwork?

Should this be its own thread? There's also this monstrosity:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7f/Facecover.jpg/220px-Facecover.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/83/Supermancover.jpg/220px-Supermancover.jpg

This song is pretty dreary. I was hoping for an experiment in post-dubstep or something.

As for that cover

http://virusfonts.com/news/2013/01/david-bowie-the-next-day-that-album-cover-design/

maybe a bit churlish to pick on it but he mispronounces 'straße', the video text doesn't bother with umlauts and misspells 'potsdamer'

I thought it was just an iTunes placeholder image. But really? It looks like something someone came up with in 30 seconds in MSPaint.

Bass on the new track is by Tony Levin. He was in King Crimson in the 80s.

He still is today, to the extent that KC actually exists.

https://twitter.com/TheBlackDog/status/288675073995460609

The title of the album The Next Day evokes numerous reference points, notably Macbeth’s speech ‘Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow ’ which deals with the relentless onward push that any unnatural position of power requires. It also has the existential element of Waiting for Godot with waiting for The Next Day – these all seem to question the nature of existence so a monochrome palette seemed most appropriate to this feeling.

*barf*

I actually think I would have liked the cover if they had done it irl - a handwritten note taped to the cover or something. But snoball is OTM with the 'mspaint' crack.

btw: Doctrine

i'm really hoping that actually is the cover

Are there/there must be other artists that have reused their own album cover artwork?

― willem, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 3:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Neu!

― 29 facepalms, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 3:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not sure this counts - it's more of a recurring motif, right? Otherwise you could say Henry Cow socks count.

Yeah i bet they just took the Microsoft Arial font and 'oh that is a new font we have been working on'. It really isn't particularly interesting.

The new song, yeah it's kind of a snore, but it's also nice to listen to. I don't need to be blown away by everything i hear. This was a really nice thing to hear this morning.

I do think Henry Cows socks count!

I like this well enough, it would have been one of the better songs on Hours... but thats damning with feint praise really.

Momus cover! Blimey, that didn't take long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF1QQW0LHNQ

Cool way to go Momus!

The new song is kinda boring, but it's also rather nice and I like it. It's plainly an album track though - it's like he's deliberately going for a low-impact comeback, and why not?

Bass on the new track is by Tony Levin. He was in King Crimson in the 80s.

Tony Levin has played with everyone. Paul Simon, John Lennon, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Seal, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Bryan Ferry, etc.. He also played on the last two Bowie records.

Quick ILX Presents...?

01. The Next Day 3:51
02. Dirty Boys 2:58
03. The Stars (Are Out Tonight) 3:56
04. Love Is Lost 3:57
05. Where Are We Now? 4:08
06. Valentine's Day 3:01
07. If You Can See Me 3:16
08. I'd Rather Be High 3:53
09. Boss Of Me 4:09
10. Dancing Out In Space 3:24
11. How Does The Grass Grow 4:33
12. (You Will) Set The World On Fire 3:30
13. You Feel So Lonely You Could Die 4:41
14. Heat 4:25

I actually think I would have liked the cover if they had done it irl - a handwritten note taped to the cover or something.

Kinda like...?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/AnotherMontyPythonRecordCDCover.jpg

The record should sound like that. Just Bowie shouting the title over his old songs: "Ziggy played guit-LOVE IS LOST LOVE IS LOST and the Spiders from Mars; he played it left LOVE IS LOST LOVE IS LOST"

https://twitter.com/TheBlackDog/status/288675073995460609

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:07 PM (1 hour ago)

This is going to become a meme, I think.

Given that I thought Bowie had retired from making music completely, I'm happy with what I can get at this stage!

Yeah, I'm hoping this is an 'album track that got released as a single due to a poor decision, rest of album rocks out a bit more' situation.

You know what to do.

ILX Pre-Covers Bowie's _The Next Day_

Given that I thought Bowie had retired from making music completely, I'm happy with what I can get at this stage!

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, January 8, 2013 6:39 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't understand this point of view - you really like an artist, so you're content with them putting out crap simply because it has their name on it?

you don't have to listen to the crap when you don't want to

I mutter a bit.

I like the song ok. That album cover is terrible.

I don't understand this point of view - you really like an artist, so you're content with them putting out crap simply because it has their name on it?

It's not too tough to understand, outside of some real garbage albums like Total Devo or hell even some of Bowie's post-Let's Dance junk, if you're a fanatic then theres almost always SOMETHING to like about a new album. As iatee says if you don't like it just throw it in the trash.

I don't understand this point of view - you really like an artist, so you're content with them putting out crap simply because it has their name on it?

― emil.y, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 7:12 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Of course not, and that's not what I'm saying at all (especially since I think that Tonight in particular is an awful album). More that I'm delighted that we're getting a new Bowie album at a time when I thought he would going to produce no more new music, and I'm not going to be all on a downer until I've given the album a fair hearing. I also have very reasonable expectations of this - it would be stupid to think that he could match Station To Station or Low in 2013... but if it's as good as Reality or Heathen then I'll be a very happy bunny.

*would=was.

This isn't crap though. It's just understated and subtle.

Besides, if the album isn't any good, I don't think it'll particularly matter. Bowie's discography is already so huge that there's plenty to keep coming back to, and the album at least exists for Bowie fanatics to get their teeth stuck into and cherry-pick from.

Ach, fair enough T. I will disagree with Adam, however, it's pretty bloody crap. It reminds me of Keane or something, ffs.

After thinking this is like a chopped-and-screwed "Absolute Beginners", I found this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSbxBTY4YTU

Lovely song. I'm happy he's back and Visconti producing (I'm a "Heathen" stan).

Word is at the moment, no tour, no promo or interviews, just the record.

the best part of the single is after the first minute if you kind of stipe the lyrics; listen to them sonically without intent to understand

Another new promo photo:

http://www.davidbowie.com/sites/davidbowie.wmg-gardens.com/files/styles/blog_image/public/2013_db_by_jimmy_king_v2_600sq.jpg

great video by tony oursler (and i love the song)

ugh. he looks like he's doing his marina abramovic impression.

This really does sound like one of the "stately" numbers from the numbing hours

Yeah I'm sticking with the "Fantastic Voyage" x hours... combination as the shorthand for this. I do enjoy it but it's skating close to the edge at points.

who is that with burroughs in the background photo?