David Bowie - The Next Day

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?

um...

Don't push me cuz I'm sleeping on the edge.

haha, sorry.

well burroughs always looks like burroughs and the other guy (thought it was a woman, actually) could have been any old hipster.

lest we forget

http://www.chartstats.com/images/artwork/36017.jpg

i don't hate this and is not bad. was expecting a lot worse after reading the thread first before listening.

I really like the song! Sounds a lot to me like one of Momus' melancholic tracks (no surprised he's covered it) but with good production.

Perhaps ironically, the Momus cover is awful.

David Bowie track 'not eligible' for UK singles chart

I kind of home the whole album is creepy and understated, it would be a good album for him to go out on, face it, it's unlikely we'll get another one after this. not too surprised he won't tour but too bad, he could do a focused and intense set around his more neglected material. he didn't really tour for heathen either, except for some isolated shows which I think were split between heathen and low material. something like that would be great.

try NOT hearing alan partridge's voice when you read this -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jan/08/david-bowie-shebang-jonathan-ross

in other news: "Where have my orgasms gone?"

The reference to Col Parker is o_O

His biggest musical hero releases a new single, and Wossy still manages to jaw on for ages about himself, his celeb mates ("I know a miserable bloke from Manchester, whose name begins with 'M'. Betcha can't guess who I'm talking about, eh?"), his kids, etc..

i like how he makes sure to blame his producer in print

"It was all Andy's fault. What am I expected to do, DJ and play the records as well?"

COnversely, the M bloke manages to do an interview in Uncut about Mick Ronson, and manages to admit things about himself in relation to Mr Ronson...

http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/ly5fwalNxmk/0.jpg
The M bloke: "I really like Mick Ronson. His stuff is real pop pop pop, pop music."

would love to see the instrumental credits on this single:

guessing matt chamberlain on drums?

god i hope he tours, otherwise this will all be for nothing

I'm guessing he's not real eager to get back out in front of audiences anytime soon...
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.spinner.com/media/2007/12/david-bowie-spinal-tap.jpg

Don't it make your brown eyes blue...

was that lollipop thing the same day he had a heart attack? and what's with this "alleged depression"?

The lollipop incident was at a different concert, a week before the heart attack.
Reports of "alleged depression" seems to be based on the Sherlock Holmes like deduction that someone who's had heart problems that require them to take it easy and more or less stop working might get a bit depressed.

He had been misreading a heart attack warning sign for weeks, thinking the pain in his neck/shoulder was a pinched nerve.

If the rest sounds like this song, it'll be a quiet show at Joe's Pub.

People who have heart problems/bypasses/pacemakers installed often experience changes to personality, which can manifest as depression.

The medicine you have to take for heart problems also tends to have depressive side effects.

This album is going to be his 'Double Fantasy', with this single his 'Starting Over'.

What a weird thing to say. Do you mean he's gonna be murdered? Iman will be singing half the tracks?

Competent pastiche type single leading everyone to hope the forthcoming comeback album's going to be good, followed by a big disappointment when the album actually appears.

What is this single a pastiche of?

"Fantastic Voyage" for sure.

Or if not pastiche, it's the template -- but what's great is what he does with it. It's not said song redux.

Yes, the Fantastic Voyage link is significant - the original is how it feels things might go and the fear of it, and this is looking back knowing how it did go.