Fuck this shit
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Monday, 11 January 2016 07:43 (eight years ago) link
Absolutely gutted. RIP
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 11 January 2016 07:43 (eight years ago) link
Oh god such shocking news :(
rip starman
― SurfaceKrystal, Monday, 11 January 2016 07:44 (eight years ago) link
Grimmy just played a live-at-maida-vale version of "Ziggy Stardust" from 2002, good choice it could have come from any year.
― Mark G, Monday, 11 January 2016 07:45 (eight years ago) link
Gambacini is now on gmtv, saying the same old
― Mark G, Monday, 11 January 2016 07:46 (eight years ago) link
"What was he like as a person?"
Gambo carries on, ignoring the question, he obviously doesn't know.
(tbf, who does?)
― Mark G, Monday, 11 January 2016 07:48 (eight years ago) link
RIP, eternal props for going all-out on the swansong, the guy loved to give his music no matter what
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a track (imago), Monday, 11 January 2016 07:49 (eight years ago) link
Yes, like Lou Reed in that respect.
― Mark G, Monday, 11 January 2016 07:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/images/medium/146-006-MIKE-ROCK.jpg
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 January 2016 07:54 (eight years ago) link
Keep going, Iggy!
(And Kenny)
― Mark G, Monday, 11 January 2016 08:04 (eight years ago) link
Ned's post got me right in the ducts.
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Monday, 11 January 2016 08:17 (eight years ago) link
wow
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 January 2016 08:20 (eight years ago) link
don't quite know what to say. RIP.
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 January 2016 08:24 (eight years ago) link
we build up a sense of invulnerability in these rock gods...if they survived the 70s they'll live forever.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Monday, 11 January 2016 08:34 (eight years ago) link
devastating especially since bowie was so vital until his very last moment
I feel like this was a very managed exit. Which is not surprising.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 11 January 2016 08:37 (eight years ago) link
From his final single, Lazarus:
Look up here, I’m in heaven I’ve got scars that can’t be seen I’ve got drama, can’t be stolen Everybody knows me now Look up here, man, I’m in danger I’ve got nothing left to lose I’m so high it makes my brain whirl Dropped my cell phone down below Ain’t that just like me
― mike t-diva, Monday, 11 January 2016 08:45 (eight years ago) link
jeeez
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 January 2016 08:48 (eight years ago) link
fuck this fucking news
watching 'lazarus' and 'blackstar' clips, the recurring motif is a blindfold. wondering whether the cancer affected his sight. regardless of that, at least the man got to work his death into his art in the most beautiful way.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 11 January 2016 08:54 (eight years ago) link
btw 'blackstar' is his best song in forever imo
Awfully sad, devastating news.
Listened to "Low" on the commute home, only thing I could do.
― Eric Banta (King Boy Pato), Monday, 11 January 2016 08:57 (eight years ago) link
I just listened to Blackstar for the first time apparently around his time of death. What a haunting way to be introduced to that record. And it is one of his best in decades. RIP
― octobeard, Monday, 11 January 2016 09:05 (eight years ago) link
......
― Turrican, Monday, 11 January 2016 09:10 (eight years ago) link
RIP. Fuck!
― Turrican, Monday, 11 January 2016 09:12 (eight years ago) link
Just woke up to this awful news. Coincidentally, "It's No Game" was in my head as I came across this in the paper. Painfully sad. What a huge loss.
― doug watson, Monday, 11 January 2016 09:12 (eight years ago) link
this is so sad :'(
rip
― niels, Monday, 11 January 2016 09:20 (eight years ago) link
When Michael Jackson died, news spread a lot slower. I remember seeing it on cable news. I remember texting friends who were going off to the shore for the weekend. People were shouting it from their cars well into the summer evening. The radio played all his hits. It was shocking, a media circus for days we all recall, and yet we all saw it coming. I never considered myself a fan, but he was the King of Pop, sure.
Bowie's death couldn't be more opposite. The news of Bowie's death swept across twitter so fast, too fast, this new album I didn't even get to listen to yet still in a cardboard box, in the middle of a nasty January night. No one is around. Everyone I'm talking to, we were the only ones in our homes awake. It is a painful delirium like the many sleepless nights I had when I was much younger, when the Ziggy Stardust record was the best company I had. RIP, David Bowie.
― comesayhey, Monday, 11 January 2016 09:27 (eight years ago) link
^ beautiful post
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 11 January 2016 09:30 (eight years ago) link
This one is really tough on me. I'll never understand how it feels to be that dedicated to one's art, to toil away with dignity up until the very end. What an amazing life he had.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 11 January 2016 09:45 (eight years ago) link
tony visconti has posted on facebook :
He always did what he wanted to do. And he wanted to do it his way and he wanted to do it the best way. His death was no different from his life - a work of Art. He made Blackstar for us, his parting gift. I knew for a year this was the way it would be. I wasn't, however, prepared for it. He was an extraordinary man, full of love and life. He will always be with us. For now, it is appropriate to cry.
― mark e, Monday, 11 January 2016 09:48 (eight years ago) link
the ending of BLACKSTAR, that final looking-into-the-abyss wash of guitar and keyboard, sounds even more 'staring death in the face' now
― maura, Monday, 11 January 2016 09:51 (eight years ago) link
This was the first thing to actually make me cry https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMichaelSkolnik/posts/903694659748939
They look so happy!
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 11 January 2016 10:07 (eight years ago) link
"David’s friendship was the light of my life. I never met such a brilliant person. He was the best there is."- Iggy Pop
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 January 2016 10:08 (eight years ago) link
What a way to say goodbye. The only comparison that comes to mind is "These Are The Days Of Our Lives."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8
― mike t-diva, Monday, 11 January 2016 10:10 (eight years ago) link
so sad for iggy :(
― seb mooczag (NickB), Monday, 11 January 2016 10:11 (eight years ago) link
https://youtu.be/pO2vkaQAdSw
― Less surprised by the total lack of surprises (stevie), Monday, 11 January 2016 10:19 (eight years ago) link
This is terribly sad.
Very hard to deal with this atm. Every social media channel seriously overflowing with touching tributes from all kinds of people (among them friends who got first in serious contact with Bowie through compilations of mine), a real heartbreaking sense of what he meant to people. On the other hand terribly idiotic jokes in the creative agency I'm hating to work today from pricks who couldn't care less... don't know what to say.
― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Monday, 11 January 2016 10:29 (eight years ago) link
great anecdote here involving the beat:
https://twitter.com/PhilipNByrne/status/686484733379887107
― seb mooczag (NickB), Monday, 11 January 2016 10:37 (eight years ago) link
^ was probably saxa i'm guessing?
― seb mooczag (NickB), Monday, 11 January 2016 10:38 (eight years ago) link
so many thoughts going through my head - listening to first Blackstar, then Hunky Dory, now Station2Station in the office. What a variety of emotions, ideas, creative thoughts he was able to communicate, so many great collaborations.
can't help but feel very sad that I never got to see him perform, a dream since I was a teen and I had made a promise to myself I would fly anywhere in the world with my little brother to see him
― niels, Monday, 11 January 2016 10:43 (eight years ago) link
Gosh, this was unexpected. He was a huge favourite when I was young and also my mom’s absolute favourite artist. Many happy memories of listening to Bowie with her, especially taking her to see him in 2004.
― jmm, Monday, 11 January 2016 10:54 (eight years ago) link
When I heard that Lemmy had died I was at work. But when I got home the first thing I did was play 'Ace of Spades', because it's so obvious, what else do you do?I was wondering earlier this morning which Bowie track to play and couldn't come to a decision. But I settled on the title/opening track of 'The Next Day', and it feels like a fitting send off to listen to that album and then 'Blackstar' all the way through.
― bored at work (snoball), Monday, 11 January 2016 11:17 (eight years ago) link
^^^ I put on Station to Station as it's my favourite DB album, but how can one record possibly sum up his career? Even his missteps (of which there were many) were at the very least interesting, and he has left such a wealth of material, a real embarrassment of riches.
― The Male Gaz Coombes (Neil S), Monday, 11 January 2016 11:19 (eight years ago) link
this news really sucks. am genuinely much sadder than i ever expected. and im not even a huge mega fan (though i own about 75% of his albums). never suspected cancer. so sad. never saw it coming at all.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 11 January 2016 11:25 (eight years ago) link
Listening to them in the order to which they came to me.
Which was a little odd, starting with Let's Dance (I was 13 when it came out, OK?) but adult ears are a lot kinder to that record.
― Liebe ist kälter als der Todmorden (Branwell with an N), Monday, 11 January 2016 11:27 (eight years ago) link
I have had much of "Blackstar" running through my head this past week. It's an album that's made a big impression on me. I think the melancholia of "Dollar Days" the most.
It's 6 am where I am. Too early to be up. Was having an intense dream and woke, picked up my phone to scan Twitter just to break the dream's grip when I came across all these Tweets referring to Bowie in the past tense. What a shock this is.
Goodbye, great and inspiring soul.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 11 January 2016 11:27 (eight years ago) link
Side 2 of Diamond Dogs :(
― weatheringdaleson, Monday, 11 January 2016 11:28 (eight years ago) link
waiting to see if morrissey says anything.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 11 January 2016 11:34 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, they were sort-of mates..
― Mark G, Monday, 11 January 2016 11:51 (eight years ago) link
I knew for a year this was the way it would be.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 11 January 2016 11:57 (eight years ago) link
i would like all 80K personal items in an online format please, with high resolution images for everything. and i would like to be paid to be the person to put that together over the next 5 to 10 years, please
― z_tbd, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
The V&A have a really great Youtube channel, so I'm certain some of the items will feature there, eventually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCmaflrfppK
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
Sorry, copied the wrong link somehow.
http://www.youtube.com/@vamuseum/
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
Blackstar was the record that made me dig into his back catalog beyond the hits.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 16 April 2023 03:17 (one year ago) link
Well, speaking of learning about Bowie in strange ways, I really first learned about him from the video game Omikron. Have some affection for the Hours songs because of that
― Vinnie, Sunday, 16 April 2023 03:26 (one year ago) link
Of course not, but I hadn't explored his albums until then, I was just a casual fan of his hits.
After he died, I got into his work with Eno, and from there the first two solo Iggy albums. And then Eno's work with Jon Hassell, Cluster and Byrne. And then I dug deeper into Bowie's late work. It's all a great tapestry.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 16 April 2023 03:29 (one year ago) link
quite enjoyed this https://easystarallstars.bandcamp.com/album/ziggy-stardub
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 31 July 2023 07:42 (eight months ago) link
Ah it’s fun indeed ! Particularly « Soul Love ».
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 31 July 2023 10:02 (eight months ago) link
No Ziggy Marley though?
― dan selzer, Monday, 31 July 2023 14:35 (eight months ago) link
Longtime fan of Big Bend Tribe's Heroes, but only recently discovered this italo-disco version of Starman, which is excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uo2rWp0Moc
― dan selzer, Monday, 31 July 2023 15:02 (eight months ago) link
Fun to see they incorporated the sleng teng casio thing into "Hang on to yourself". Full circle.
― /asarco (AcnalbasacNoom), Monday, 31 July 2023 15:29 (eight months ago) link
Full Midnight Special Edition of The 1980 Floor Show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjC7j8cNQ2k
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 10 February 2024 14:55 (two months ago) link
BTW, almost every week I hear of a new "jazz musicians interpret David Bowie" project or "dance troupe interprets David Bowie" event or "cocktail bar inspired by David Bowie." I know Bowie himself would probably approve, but part of me just thinks, come on, create your own ideas, stop letting this person's iconic work do the heavy lifting.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 10 February 2024 15:49 (two months ago) link
It’s impossible to get people to listen to jazz or frankly any new music so if that’s what it takes all power to them imo
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 10 February 2024 17:21 (two months ago) link
OTM
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 February 2024 17:33 (two months ago) link
Plus at least some of those cats genuinely dig Bowie.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 February 2024 17:34 (two months ago) link
At the calculated risk of being a namedropper, a few weeks after Bowie died I went to a gig I knew Ben Monder would be at and talked to him a quite a bit. He told me about how much he loved hanging out with Bowie and Tony Visconti while working on that last record, how smart they were, how much Bowie read and how much he retained of what he read.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 February 2024 17:39 (two months ago) link
When I scanned through that link, I thought - "wait, this doesn't look like 1980," then I got to the right music and I got the pun.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 10 February 2024 20:03 (two months ago) link
Which link?
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 February 2024 20:04 (two months ago) link
The YouTube embed of the 1980 Floor Show
― birdistheword, Saturday, 10 February 2024 20:04 (two months ago) link
I'm sure all of the people putting additions on the house that Bowie built love Bowie, but just about *every* creative person loves Bowie. I know inspiration is where you find it, but there's a lot of other stuff out there from which to draw, imo.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 10 February 2024 20:28 (two months ago) link
i remember being confused by that 1980 thing when i saw it on tv. i think i'm still confused. "floor" sounds like "4" and one of the songs in the set is 1984. and it's a floor show. ok i'm good now.
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 10 February 2024 20:35 (two months ago) link
Okay finally watched a bit and saw. Guess that’s Ava Cherry. Also hadn’t realized the theme song was actually Johnny Rivers singing “The Midnight Special.” D’oh!
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 February 2024 21:14 (two months ago) link
And Dooshenka … is Amanda Lear!
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 February 2024 21:17 (two months ago) link
Thread delivers.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 February 2024 21:29 (two months ago) link
Detailed writeup here, along with a link to dedicated FB group:https://madelinex.com/2018/09/01/ziggys-last-stand-bowie-the-1980-floor-show/
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 February 2024 21:54 (two months ago) link
Private group though.