Anticipate David Bowie's BLACKSTAR

It's been in my head since the day it came out

"Blackstar" single reminds me of radiohead's "Pyramid Song". Not a ripoff, just kinda similar. I haven't heard the album yet.

I hear a bit of Radiohead in the record definitely, and certainly in the first part of the title track, though not so much the second section.

Are there any good "annotations" for the videos yet? I feel like there has to be a lot of allusion and allegory in them and my ignorant American ass is just not following them.

Well, there's this... which seems insane on its surface, especially given the author's previous posts on Jay-Z and Lady Gaga, but there's actually a lot in Bowie's previous work to support his assertions, so enjoy!

His voice on "Something happened on the day he died/spirit rose a meter and stepped aside" fuck, tears.

I think my second favorite thing on this record though is actually Girl Loves Me. Feel like he is aping a specific pop singer with his vocals but can't place it.

This album is great but I've been listening to it too much & it's not really good for my frame of mind.

There's really no analog to this, just the album and it's timing and Bowie's stature and how it's so obviously tied to his impending death. Just unreal. And the number one album in the country.

What a sense of theater the bastard had too, to do this, probably knowing full well how it would go down. I mean not just to make an album about dying while dying but to make THIS insane fucking album about dying while dying. And knowing people all over the world would be having this conversation about it.

There's a really odd "'blackstar' is satanist" video, if that's what you mean by annotated.

i wonder if the Lazarus theater piece will be revived in any sense now that this has happened.

Bought the CD today, at Target as predicted. I can't remember the last time I bought a #1 album.

"Blackstar" single reminds me of radiohead's "Pyramid Song". Not a ripoff, just kinda similar. I haven't heard the album yet.

― remove butt (abanana), Saturday, January 16, 2016 9:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just got it today; to dovetail with 誤訳侮辱's point, I think the last time I bought a #1 album was Amnesiac.

(and according to Thom Yorke, the inspiration for "Pyramid Song" was Charles Mingus' "Freedom")

Regardless of context this is a really fabulous record. Properly up there with his best.

Note: If he had died before "The Next Day", his last song would have been that "Sad Little Man" song for Ricky Gervais.

Also, he is not on the front cover of "The Next Day" either, is he?

His face is obscured, but he's there.

Properly just playing this over and over now.

Properly.

I think my second favorite thing on this record though is actually Girl Loves Me. Feel like he is aping a specific pop singer with his vocals but can't place it.

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Sunday, January 17, 2016 2:49 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Rihanna perhaps? Bitch Better Have My Money. Or even Young Thug or Future perhaps? Maybe not any of those specifically, but that rising cadence definitely suggests an affinity with the kind of vocal tics floating around contemporary hip-hop and r 'n b.

Guitars on Lazarus definitely remind me of In Rainbows era Radiohead - that clean, slightly fidgety yet fluid sound.

Someone should make a Velvet Goldmine companion drama where an aged ersatz Bowie and aged ersatz Scott Walker each see to capture dread of mortality in the recording studio though ever more eccentric working methods, each aware of the other, but never intersecting. Will rake in the ducats fer sure.

I think my second favorite thing on this record though is actually Girl Loves Me. Feel like he is aping a specific pop singer with his vocals but can't place it.

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Sunday, January 17, 2016 2:49 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Rihanna perhaps? Bitch Better Have My Money. Or even Young Thug or Future perhaps? Maybe not any of those specifically, but that rising cadence definitely suggests an affinity with the kind of vocal tics floating around contemporary hip-hop and r 'n b.

― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Tuesday, January 19, 2016 7:38 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think maybe also Adam Levine?

i wonder if the Lazarus theater piece will be revived in any sense now that this has happened.

a) it hasn't even finished its original run yet

b) GOSH I WONDER

"Gosh I Wonder!"

https://bowiesongs.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/damemeditation.jpg

for the record, the play is not good unfortunately.

the new yorker was pretty meh on it. bowiesongs guy liked it though.

My 11-year-old son, who afaik had never heard of Bowie until this week, is really interested in Blackstar -- both as a pop object that everybody's talking about and also as something made by a dying man. His favorite song is "I Can't Give Everything Away" -- we listened to it three times on the way home from school today.

That's a great song. Your son has good taste.

today i listened to that, straight into ashes to ashes, and the production felt of a piece, like they'd been recorded in the same session

Jonathan Barnbrook on designing the album cover:
http://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/20/david-bowie-blackstar-album-cover-designer-jonathan-barnbrook-facing-his-own-mortality/

Mostly like his work, especially the Heathen and Blackstar design. Reality sticks out negatively though.

I've been giving this a fair amount of deep listens today, and yeah, all the praise heaped on this album is completely justified. Wonderful record.

so hilarious,

so i ordered the vinyl from Soundstage Direct the day he died (they had a huge banner on the front page for Blackstar)...I'd tried Amazon, MusicDirect & some others, all indicated it was backordered

anyway, Soundstage Direct processed my order, took the money out and so I figured it was a go...nothing ever sent to me until today and I finally got fed up and called. I pointed out that I wouldn't have placed an order if I knew it was backordered and they did not indicate that and that had a huge ad for the vinyl on the website...and that they had been sitting on my $36 since then.

anyway they were like well we had no idea of the demand blah blah blah and sorry, so i was like fine could you just cancel my order and refund the money please I'll just buy it when it's readily available, all of a sudden she's like well i know my boss said we got a small shipment in today let me put you on hold and check to see if i can give you one of those...comes back and says my boss said you could have one of the shipment that just arrived what a CRAZY COINCIDENCE lmao

i'm still waiting on my amazon order which i expect to arrive sometime in 2017

xpost it's not a coincidence it's just you being a boss and making it happen

really glad I got my clear vinyl from barnes and noble last Monday.

yeah that's a score there aren't many of those left

Clear vinyl copies were selling for £500 on eBay last week, crazy.

how stupid jeez

$350-$400 on Discogs:

http://www.discogs.com/David-Bowie--Blackstar/release/7954685
http://www.discogs.com/David-Bowie--Blackstar/release/7944083

barf

Even the regular black vinyl has ballooned on Discogs, starting at $50:

http://www.discogs.com/David-Bowie--Blackstar/release/7932038
http://www.discogs.com/David-Bowie--Blackstar/release/7954216
http://www.discogs.com/David-Bowie--Blackstar/release/7989943

i know a lot of people wouldn't agree but i think this would have been a great cover

http://cdn.discogs.com/9bCaIiYSDSAZ-5FEGcyE8R2BXcw=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-7989943-1453037402-4931.jpeg.jpg

wow look at some of the closed auctions, i would sell that clear vinyl so fast

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=david%20bowie%20blackstar%20vinyl&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684

You can make that the cover on the vinyl if you put the record in the back pocket and move the book to the front.

Xpost

Like this
http://i.imgur.com/L5bbvCM.jpg

ah, that's pretty cool, but think i prefer the rectangle version

I kinda like how my rug fits the design.

Black vinyl price will drop to normal once the repress gets out properly over the next week. Clear vinyl is a different matter!

Bowie's button eye character reminds me of David cronenbergs mad psychiatrist in Nightbreed

The running time of this album is just under the length of my commute, which is surprisingly convenient.