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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wASIzajHs7o
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 02:06 (five years ago) link
teeelllllllllllll the truth
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 02:08 (five years ago) link
Nice, Outside era TV interview just come to light.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhVGZqpiZWY
― MaresNest, Thursday, 28 February 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
That looks fantastic, thanks! LOL at the intro of the show with the morphing heads, had totally forgotten about that.Bowie lighting a cigarette within a minute after sitting down :)
I attended the Utrecht gig where the opening clip was taken, one of the best Bowie shows that I've been to:
The Motel/Look Back in Anger/The Hearts Filthy Lesson/Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)/The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)/I Have Not Been to Oxford Town/Boys Keep Swinging/Outside/Andy Warhol/The Man Who Sold the World/A Small Plot of Land/Strangers When We Meet/Diamond Dogs/Hallo Spaceboy/Breaking Glass/We Prick You/Nite Flights (Scott Walker cover)/Teenage Wildlife/Under Pressure/Moonage Daydream
― willem, Friday, 1 March 2019 10:23 (five years ago) link
Visconti has mixed a new version of Space Oddity for the 50th anniversary, it's always been a bit wonky, the mix imho, so it's nice to hear a new interpretation -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptVbk7r4IcA&f=
― MaresNest, Sunday, 21 July 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
God DAMMIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptVbk7r4IcA
― MaresNest, Sunday, 21 July 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
Magnificent.
― Fried Egg Sandwich, Sunday, 21 July 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
Jesus ! It’s incredible. It might be the best remixing/remastering job I’ve ever heard...It almost deserves its own thread !
― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link