I hate it when statistics disprove my lazy assumptions.
Also when people are rong.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 7 June 2008 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
:)
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 8 June 2008 10:51 (fifteen years ago) link
second side of 'low' = WHY NOT WRITE SOME SONGS MATE EH? ambient more like crap.
― banriquit, Sunday, 8 June 2008 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ Talk that is real
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 8 June 2008 10:57 (fifteen years ago) link
WHY NOT WRITE SOME SONGS MATE EH? = ripped to the tits on drugs
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 8 June 2008 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
The result is just about fair except "Heroes" should have been closer to "Low" and more ahead of "Lodger".
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 9 June 2008 08:31 (fifteen years ago) link
They're not really ambient though, are they? They're structured pieces with melody lines etc. The "Heroes" pieces are more in the ambient vien.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 9 June 2008 08:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Why not write some lyrics mate then
― Tom D., Monday, 9 June 2008 08:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't vote in this poll but, yes, "Low" deserved to win. I definitely listen to "Lodger" more than either "Heroes" or "Low" but that doesn't mean it's the best album or nuffink.
― Tom D., Monday, 9 June 2008 08:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I wouldn't call the pieces in "Low" ambient, really. The melodies are strange and harmonically different at times, but not really ambient.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 9 June 2008 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Do you really want those from Bowie?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 June 2008 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
it appears that most of the voters here read Pitchfork faithfully
― J0hn D., Monday, 9 June 2008 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
which one did you vote for finally?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 June 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
"Listen to tracks by Sam Therapy and King Dice" - from Sons of the Silent Age.
Are Sam Therapy and King Dice real artists, or did Bowie just make the names up? I suspect the latter, as googling just leads to this song's lyrics.
― chap, Sunday, 15 June 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Bowie made the names up, and then bands borrowed the names later. A bit like A Clockwork Orange and Heaven 17. A quick Google search shows that there's a King Dice in New York, and one in the UK, and several Sam Therapys, including a recording studio in London.
― snoball, Sunday, 15 June 2008 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone read the recently published "Bowie In Berlin" by the picturesquely named Thomas Jerome Seabrook?
Just finished that book last night. Awesome details about the recording of these three records (he does kind of slip past Lodger a bit). But all the weird Bowie stuff when he was in L.A. is in there (living on a diet of cocaine and ice cream, scared to death of Jimmy Page) to all the musicians getting fed up with Eno because he pulls shit like not letting the band know which chord comes next until he points it out on a big piece of posterboard with a graph on it.
It'd make for a great movie. Love to see who they'd cast for Iggy Pop or Bing Crosby. Maybe Tim from "The Office" could play Robert Fripp.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Is this the only ILM thread about Low? I came here to post about that but have now put on Lodger and am about to read the Lodger thread instead.
― I am using your worlds, Sunday, 2 August 2009 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Was in Union Square for a little while this afternoon and Tony Visconti walked by. I'm glad i was with someone capable of recognizing Tony Visconti. There are not that many music ppl who I love so much that the mere sight of them fills my heart with joy but tony fucking Visconti aieeeee!
― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 28 July 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link
nice catch, jon. in terms of this poll, i think that Low is the best one but it's closer than many people assume. Lodger is a great album too. "i don't want to live with somebody's depression" is one of bowie's most insightful lyrics.
― fervently nice (Treeship), Sunday, 28 July 2013 23:22 (ten years ago) link
My favorite of all might be All Saints which collects all the instrumentals on one disc.
― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 28 July 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
*bump*
Anyone listening to the WNYC New Sounds broadcast of the 2018 live Berlin trilogy performances led by Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg?
https://www.newsounds.org/story/david-bowies-berlin-trilogy-new-sounds-live-2018-brookfield-place
― The thing from the popular "That Thing" song (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
Damn, they did a great job covering Lodger. Hearing Jamie Stewart sing "Repetition" is weird — it's obviously a very disturbing song but in an entirely different way from how Xiu Xiu songs are disturbing.
― The thing from the popular "That Thing" song (bernard snowy), Saturday, 12 January 2019 03:58 (five years ago) link
Posted about this on some other Lodger thread but there was little interest, unsurprisingly. FWIW I prefer the live-in-the-studio version Shearwater did a couple of years ago.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 14 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
the recording of the trilogy shows dropped on bandcamp. i had happened to listen to the original low this am- today has been much better for all this arriving. glad it's out, i was so sad to miss it.
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0324300289_16.jpg
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
sound + vision duet is infinite hot fires to me right now.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:51 (five years ago) link
also this secret life of arabia is the best mor rnb recall shit going, it is fucking beautiful amazing.
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 19 January 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link