I'm sorry but can someone please explain to me why Madonna's post is so objectionable in a way that other artists making fannish posts talking about meeting Bowie or being hugely influenced by him are somehow not?
Actually, on second thought, just don't.
― Liebe ist kälter als der Todmorden (Branwell with an N), Monday, 11 January 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
ILX wouldn't be ILX without someone being dickish on an RIP thread would it now.
― Liebe ist kälter als der Todmorden (Branwell with an N), Monday, 11 January 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link
RIP
Regarding Madonna, ending her tweet with a hashtag plug for her new album is in questionable teaste.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 11 January 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
I'm more having trouble because I'd much rather ignore work to focus on listening to all of Bowie's albums than try to work with all of Bowie's albums playing in the background.
― Reckless Recluse (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 January 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link
not sure what's "dickish" abt my post but ok
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 11 January 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
Finding myself having an odd reaction to this given that he's been so uncharacteristically low profile for the past decade. It's sort of a slow sadness sinking in rather than shock. And now Blackstar is sitting there to be poured through.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 11 January 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link
i figured it was a "rebel rebel" ref
― welltris (crüt), Monday, 11 January 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
I think Branwell explained it quite clearly, but in case you didn't get it, it's dickish to deride Madonna for reminiscing his acquaintance with Bowie and not the kazillion male musicians/celebrities who've done the same.
― Tuomas, Monday, 11 January 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
Madonna puts that hashtag on all her posts, it barely means anything anymore.
The one where she talks about Bowie being the first ever concert she went to is pretty sweet.
― Roz, Monday, 11 January 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link
tribute show at Carnegie Hall, 3/31
http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2016/3/31/0800/PM/The-Music-of-David-Bowie/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 January 2016 15:45 (eight years ago) link
I bet you it wasn't though. What's Bono been saying?
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Monday, 11 January 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link
This is completely ridiculous, I know, but I just got a little sad realizing that we'll never get another Nathan Adler album.
― Reckless Recluse (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 January 2016 15:49 (eight years ago) link
Thanks Tuomas! Didn't realize I was disrespecting the women of the world, will try harder next time.
moving on, daughter was pretty shook up this morning and wore her Aladdin Sane shirt to school. She's 13 and her obsession has been planing at a peak for the past year, makes this somehow sadder and weirder here for me....
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 11 January 2016 15:51 (eight years ago) link
also that's not even her in the picture, it's suzanne somers, American comic actress
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 11 January 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link
You're not alone, RR. Outside meant the world to me in college. Blackstar seems to have a lot of that record in it.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 11 January 2016 15:53 (eight years ago) link
chameleon is a weird compliment for bowie, he's much more a peacock
― niels, Monday, 11 January 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
It never ceases to amaze me, listening to Man Who Sold The World and Hunky Dory back to back, the astronomical leap that he made in a single year from a decent artist with some interesting ideas to something akin to a pop/rock deity. Everything gets tightened up and streamlined and perfected and then he just rides that train for ten years.
― Reckless Recluse (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 January 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link
Madonn has said often over the years that the Ziggy concert was her first, and she inducted him into the HOF. She's open about his influence on her.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 January 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
*Madonna
What the fuck? No. I refuse to believe it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 11 January 2016 16:02 (eight years ago) link
RIP... what a life.
― tylerw, Monday, 11 January 2016 16:05 (eight years ago) link
When I heard that James Brown died, I was not able to process it: how can someone like James Brown die? How is that physically possible?
Feeling the same way about Bowie right now. In a certain way, I don't think I really believe it (or I'm not allowing myself to believe it).
Yeah for real. Boulez died last week at 90 and I am still processing that, reading old interviews and articles and stuff, the force of his thought and aesthetic and just like the USEFULNESS of his WAY make it too hard to grasp that he could no longer be acting on earth.
This feels just like that minus the 'well but 90 years old' consolation. How could Bowie be gone at 69? How could Bowie be gone at all?
Same as Boulez though Bowie will not be gone, maybe not ever. The usefulness of his way will be there for everyone who needs it for their lives and art and people are always gonna need it.
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Monday, 11 January 2016 16:07 (eight years ago) link
Bowie seemed like someone who would have figured out how to will himself to live to 120, and would have managed to stay relevant and on point the entire time.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 11 January 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
visconti says that he knew for a year this was how it would be, and Blackstar was his final gift to us. i have no idea why but I've never felt better about my own mortality for some reason, just in the way that he left. and i genuinely appreciate that there was no warning, publicly at least. that there was no endless stream of photos of bowie, weakened, coming in and out of hospitals. that for the past decade he's just decided to make some music here and there and live privately after being such a public icon. and i also appreciate that, from all i know and i could be wrong of course (please wait to tell me contradictory stories later), he was a super decent and soft spoken and relatively (to his career choice) humble and kind man.
― nomar, Monday, 11 January 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
just found out, totally shocked by this tbh
― Οὖτις, Monday, 11 January 2016 16:25 (eight years ago) link
Very surreal and overwhelming to listen to Blackstar for the first time on my way to work this morning. Driving in total darkness, knowing he was gone, hearing a really beautiful and vibrant album from one of my all time favorite artists was too much. RIP.
― DavidLeeRoth, Monday, 11 January 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
honestly, with all the new material, I was expecting the next thing Bowie would do was announce a tour (or at least some kind of live performance).
― tylerw, Monday, 11 January 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
I wish I could say with a straight face that I'd seen him in concert, but it was a Secret Machines concert and I just saw him sitting up in the balcony at the high line. Still feel lucky though.
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Monday, 11 January 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
profoundly bummed by all of this. what a terrible loss
― if pizza is wrong, i don't want to be right (art), Monday, 11 January 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
First thing I ever stole in my life was a cassette of ziggy stardust from the record store in Rosedale. Not a tribute I'm proud of...
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Monday, 11 January 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
Love that he did this; he called out MTV's racist programming policies during an on-air interview in 1983:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYbtVYJWMAA6x7o.jpg:large
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 11 January 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link
xpost nomar absolutely right on the decent and kind front. He certainly projected that. All the shape-shifting genius stuff is inevitable and fair comment, but I was always amazed at what a thoroughly affable character he seemed. Don't know how he managed to be both the most far out and latterly the nicest and least affected of the old rock superstar dudes.
― wump, Monday, 11 January 2016 16:35 (eight years ago) link
Hilton Als obit:
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/postscript-david-bowie-1947-2016?mbid=social_twitter
Als mentions this performance, backing Iggy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7hzBEBXEC0
― longform Gordon thinkpiece (Eazy), Monday, 11 January 2016 16:37 (eight years ago) link
some surprises here and there
http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/david-bowie-s-official-top-40-biggest-selling-downloads-revealed-__2854/
― piscesx, Monday, 11 January 2016 16:40 (eight years ago) link
oddly "As the World Falls Down" is iTunes' fourth most viewed Bowie video.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 January 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
I can't even process this, it doesn't seem real
― Οὖτις, Monday, 11 January 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link
Playing "Fantastic Voyage" a lot, title seems apt.
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Monday, 11 January 2016 16:52 (eight years ago) link
so, i just want to make sure everyone is as surprised by this as i am. did anyone at all see this coming? or even know his health was failing?
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 11 January 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link
thought there was talk of him being pretty sick a year or so ago, but i kinda figured he had gotten better since he suddenly seemed so busy.
― tylerw, Monday, 11 January 2016 17:03 (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, January 11, 2016 4:48 AM
what does this mean? is he hinting that bowie timed the release to coincide with his ailing condition? or just that he intended it to be his final album?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 11 January 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
I fear conspiracy theorists will walk this around the park, I'm already seeing stuff about the line in Girl Loves Me “Where the fuck did Monday go?” and something about a Metal band called Lazarus Blackstar (or vice versa)
― MaresNest, Monday, 11 January 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link
Suspected for a long time he might be ill, didn't Flaming Lips do a track called "Is David Bowie Dying?", or something similar?
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Monday, 11 January 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link
i sang "happy birthday" into tony visconti's cell phone three days ago. this is truly disorienting.
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2016/01/tony_viscontis.html
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 11 January 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
Yassassin.
― Austin, Monday, 11 January 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
Suspected for a long time he might be ill, didn't Flaming Lips do a track called "Is David Bowie Dying?", or something similar?― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Monday, January 11, 2016 12:16 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Monday, January 11, 2016 12:16 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
When "Where Are We Now" came out, Dave Grohl was on WTF. I don't remember exactly what he said, but he was real hesitant: I think ... I think he might be dying.
― jamchiraquai (how's life), Monday, 11 January 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link
ugh i knew dave grohl would show up eventually
― nomar, Monday, 11 January 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
was extremely shocked when I heard this last night at exactly the time I was going to bed. though strangely i had less of an emotional reaction than i was expecting, such an exotic and glamorous figure that it's difficult for me to picture him as a regular joe. his demigod status didn't make me expect him to be immortal, but it makes it strange to think of him undergoing something as mundane as sickness and death. a huge, inescapable cultural juggernaut in the uk, ad an influence on pretty much every significant indie act in the first decades after punk. thankfully I was more than happy regarding this ubiquity. there are countless significant and non-significant moments of my life where bowie's music played a part. my wife cutting my hair with blunt scissors when we first started going out with diamond dogs on the turntable comes to mind immediately. we have a blown up print of him playing cello in the hunger on our living room wall that i started at as i ate my breakfast this morning. not sure there is any pop cultural figure whose passing will seem as significant as this.
― Cuombas (jim in glasgow), Monday, 11 January 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
How can a song like 'Life On Mars?', that's nearly 50 years old and that I and many others are super familiar with, still sound so goddamn fresh and amazing and modern?
(Probably going to be "live blogging" my journey through DB's discography throughout the day.)
― Reckless Recluse (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 January 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
You can play this game throughout his recorded works. I'm still waiting for the music world to catch up with 'It's No Game'.
― Reckless Recluse (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 January 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
out of respect to everyone i will withhold the Streisand cover of "Life on Mars"
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 January 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link