david bowie

http://thr.cm/06iM8z

Its on gmtvnow, god!

yeah don't know but seems to be legit? RIP

certainly seems that way

it's real

https://twitter.com/ManMadeMoon/status/686441083648212992

also, fuck

http://www.davidbowie.com/news/january-10-2016-55521

fucking hell :(

this is hitting me hard. died two days after his birthday, lemmy died four days after his.

Fuck

"I heard a rumour from ground control.
Oh no, don't say its true."

David Bowie R.I.P

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

The Bowiesongs blog has restarted:

https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/heat/

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.

https://lifeonmagrs.blogspot.de/2017/10/fancy-believing-in-goblin-king-my.html

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

Seems to have gotten a good review from Jon Savage.

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.

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.

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.

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.

happy birthday bowie. glad u escaped the fate of less white, less gentile ppl who also liked to fuck 15 year olds :)

this is going to be a shame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY8mXPQtvxU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wASIzajHs7o

teeelllllllllllll the truth

Nice, Outside era TV interview just come to light.

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

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

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=

God DAMMIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptVbk7r4IcA

Magnificent.

Jesus ! It’s incredible. It might be the best remixing/remastering job I’ve ever heard...
It almost deserves its own thread !

There's a "2019 mix, single edit" version on Spotify that has a shitty volume drop at 1:01.

1:06 rather

Wow, is that an improvement.

Much of his material is timeless, but "Major Tom" in particular has always sounded stuck in 1970. More for the way it sounded than for its content.

The strings arrangements in particular are revelatory. With that new mix they create a whole new... universe !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDuxfo5AVTg

Wow, that’s beautiful. The original mix had that “newly stereo” quality of severe hard-panning that also is heard on Oddysee and Oracle. Centring things as is done on this mix glues everything together— superior treatment of the Mellotron, too. I heard the famous Stylophone on this song for the first time, having never before been able to identify it.

I want a remix of Oddysee and Oracle (sorry if I’m spelling it wrong)

Mono mix of Odessey is awesome btw

Is modern love a rewrite of young Americans?

It's in the same key, with similar tempo and harmonic movements, it's possible he conceived it as a rewrite.

Ascending chords as well. He got to the V chord in the verses a lot faster in 1974…seems to have slowed down on modern love and only gets to the IV

I'm so obsessed with 'Jump They Say', these days, even the ridiculous Robert Longo referencing video, the song is really heart-breaking in some undefinable way.

he said
JUMP

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

Damn you YouTube user 0tapir0

Lots of good Bowie talk over here too (incl. Tarfumes and Alfred getting me to finally check out the awes 2016 Parlophone[Rhino dist.] Young Americans) Christgau's Consumer Guide Grade List: A+

Bowie's global publishing catalog is now sold for $250 million:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/david-bowie-estate-sells-music-143220254.html

Whole lotta lawyer talk. But perfectly happy for Iman, Duncan and Alexandria, honestly.