It's all about those drums on 'Sue'
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 20 July 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
This secretly might've turned out to be my aoty of '17. About two years on the day of its release now, after Bowie dying soon after, it was this moloch I mostly avoided, in 2016. I dipped my toes in it, sure, but it wasn't until that I felt comfortable to really dive in, trod down the many dark alleys and stumble through the many dream/nightmare scenes hidden within. It's absurdly beautiful and brilliant.
And the 'New Career' harmonica part in 'I Can't Give Everything Away' gets to me every fucking time.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:29 (six years ago) link
When we heard it, those few days before he passed, my girlfriend said after "I Can't Give Everything Away" that she felt like it was a farewell message, a departure. She called it.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:45 (six years ago) link
As austere and coldly beautiful as a late Stevens poem, this album. I listened it to last week driving home from work.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:49 (six years ago) link
yeah I need to return to this
― gbx, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:50 (six years ago) link
love this lyric
"I know something's very wrongThe pulse returns the prodigal sonsThe blackout hearts, the flowered newsWith skull designs upon my shoes"
commmunicates the awareness of his own impending death so well it's heartbreaking
― kolakube (Ross), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:57 (six years ago) link
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, January 10, 2018 12:49 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's as beautiful as it is true, re Stevens. I need to spin this in the car, at night, too.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
Listening for the first time in a while now. Still so chilling and awe-inspiring. The final WOO!'s in Tis a Pity. Can't make it thru Lazarus.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 04:54 (six years ago) link
"lazarus" is fucking haunted, song and video
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 January 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
every time Bowie comes in with that baritone guitar, especially in the last minute (GA-RUNG) -- it's like bells in a churchyard.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 January 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
Listened to it yesterday, and it more than hold up. I love how the horns are like a distorted version of the Let's Dance ones.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 13 January 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
...yeah I dunno about this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05ss3sk
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
he's not a film star
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
that soundsawful
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
xp of course not, he's a black star
― sleeve, Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
waht
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
Culshaw's a reasonable mimic but idk if he's an actor
― MaresNest, Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
xp failed pun, sorry
― sleeve, Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
We got it. Well, I did.
― Mark G, Sunday, 14 January 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
https://www.avclub.com/a-psychic-apparently-told-david-bowie-exactly-when-he-w-1822784961
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
OK I’m flagging you for sharing that
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 02:19 (six years ago) link
i had a premonition you would
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 02:32 (six years ago) link
Garson's an interesting guy but...yeah.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:09 (six years ago) link
In the Jones oral bio, Garson's attitude is, "Well, I never did drugs, ever, and...well, David didn't call me for years. Then he acted weird when I'd say something."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:30 (six years ago) link
I'm not one for tributes or covers etc, but this (Dutch, soz) sounds promising: a live tribute and reinterpretation of Blackstar at the Holland Festival, with vocals by Laetitia Sadier, Anna Calvi and Anja Plaschg (Soap&Skin). The newly arranged music will be performed by stargaze, a classical ensemble that I only know because they performed with Owen Pallett at Berghain some years ago.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:36 (six years ago) link
with vocals by Laetitia Sadier,
!!!
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
I know right?!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
cause it's impossible to search for: ★
― Jeff the grown man (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
Came on my music player today after listening to another album and...wasn't prepared. I haven't listened to it in about two years but, God, what a great, elegiac yet defiant piece of work this album is. Bowie Forever.
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 8 July 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
how many times does an angel fall?
i can't answer why, just go with me.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
Came on my music player today
Boy did I misread that.
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
Got the cd in Chester le Street market two weeks ago. Nice to hear it again. It is so good.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
did a marathon run of this and no plan this morning. fucking top gear all the way. talk about masterful exits.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
It amazes me still this album is so good.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 January 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
i saw cellist maya beiser do her version of this the other night. haunting stuff.
https://www.mayabeiser.com/post/bowie-cello-symphonic-blackstar
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 12 January 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
I think this is Bowie's career masterpiece and I'm sure he was aware he was dying while recording it and maybe writing it as well; which begs the question of whether it's a better album with him knowing that; would it have happened if he hadn't known he was dying; what if he didn't know he was dying and made something god awful
― akm, Monday, 13 January 2020 03:36 (four years ago) link
god, the vagaries of shuffle play on my overstuffed old iPhone - the car served up "Dollar Days" as I pulled up at home, it crashed over me like a wave. I turned it up and cried.
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 09:20 (three years ago) link
I haven’t listened to it since he died - I bought it on the day it came out and listened to it that night in a good stereo in a darkened room in a quiet house - full reverent teenage-style listen
then two days later i listened to it on a sunny sunday morning drive and remember whooping with pleasure that David Bowie was still around and had made such a great new LP
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 09:46 (three years ago) link
I can guess at your pain, but don't deny yourself this astonishing gift.
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 10:04 (three years ago) link
it hasn't been a particularly conscious choice but has clearly become a bit of a Thing
my Bowie fandom really surged as a result of reading Chris O'Leary's blog, and had become a deep and sustained engagement and enjoyment of his work - but it was also really informed by the idea that Bowie was still out there making art - his presence in the world was just cool! I particularly found the long struggle to reclaim his powers post-80s slump a hugely compelling/inspiring creative journey
so when he died I just felt my brain needed some time to rewire itself into an appreciation of his music in a post-Bowie context, which feels a bit weird now I write it I guess, but that's how it is/was - and I've definitely been coming back to it ever more strongly - and at some point I will listen to Blackstar and it will definitely have a few emotions attached to it, but in a rewarding way rather than an overwhelming way - and I appreciate the encouragement/reminder that it is a thing worth doing
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 12:55 (three years ago) link
I'm not a film star!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 13:10 (three years ago) link
I'm going through Chris O'Leary's book and the Pegg book while listening to the songs in more or less chronological order. I've finally moved past the Early On cd and the Deram stuff. Some of those songs finally started clicking with me while others are just *shiver* "Love You Till Tuesday" in particular is vile, there are quite a few songs that remind me of swinging London via Austin Powers. But "Silly Boy Blue" is very good.
Last night I started making my way through the Conversation Piece box. Trying to get caught up so that when the Man Who Sold The World thing (Width of A Circle) comes out I'll be able to dive into it.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 18:12 (three years ago) link
finally listened to this for the first time. put it off because I wanted to catch up on the Bowie I missed...but fuck it. god damnit the final song is so perfect. can't believe he went out like this
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 May 2021 03:57 (two years ago) link
Every time I pull out this album I'm startled anew by its goodness.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 15:19 (two years ago) link
It amazes me still this album is so good.― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, January 12, 2020 12:15 PM
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, January 12, 2020 12:15 PM
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 15:29 (two years ago) link
highly good.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link
It really is one of his best. Not an astonishing return to form or anything, but something new and really that was he was working on.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
New and really good
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
yeah I'd maybe go as far as to argue it's his best album
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 15:40 (two years ago) link
otm -- nothing in his catalog sounds like this
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 15:40 (two years ago) link