https://lifeonmagrs.blogspot.de/2017/10/fancy-believing-in-goblin-king-my.html
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 15 October 2017 07:27 (six years ago) link
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
― bodacious ignoramus, Thursday, September 28, 2017 3:36 AM
― Eloi's Comin' (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 January 2018 00:26 (six years ago) link
Seems to have gotten a good review from Jon Savage.
― Eloi's Comin' (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 January 2018 00:52 (six years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Monday, 22 January 2018 02:01 (six years ago) link
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.
― akm, Monday, 22 January 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Monday, 29 January 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
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.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 12 October 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
happy birthday bowie. glad u escaped the fate of less white, less gentile ppl who also liked to fuck 15 year olds :)
― (ADVANCE) (320k vbr) (--V2) (aps) (diVX) (2CD) OST - SB (2019) (esby), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
this is going to be a shame
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY8mXPQtvxU
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wASIzajHs7o
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 02:06 (five years ago) link
teeelllllllllllll the truth
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 02:08 (five years ago) link
Nice, Outside era TV interview just come to light.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhVGZqpiZWY
― MaresNest, Thursday, 28 February 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
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
― willem, Friday, 1 March 2019 10:23 (five years ago) link
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=
― MaresNest, Sunday, 21 July 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
God DAMMIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptVbk7r4IcA
― MaresNest, Sunday, 21 July 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
Magnificent.
― Fried Egg Sandwich, Sunday, 21 July 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
Jesus ! It’s incredible. It might be the best remixing/remastering job I’ve ever heard...It almost deserves its own thread !
― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
There's a "2019 mix, single edit" version on Spotify that has a shitty volume drop at 1:01.
― mick signals, Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
1:06 rather
― mick signals, Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Monday, 22 July 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
The strings arrangements in particular are revelatory. With that new mix they create a whole new... universe !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 22 July 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDuxfo5AVTg
― MaresNest, Saturday, 27 July 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
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)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
Mono mix of Odessey is awesome btw
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 27 July 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
Is modern love a rewrite of young Americans?
― calstars, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
It's in the same key, with similar tempo and harmonic movements, it's possible he conceived it as a rewrite.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 23:25 (two years ago) link
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
― calstars, Thursday, 14 October 2021 00:06 (two years ago) link
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.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 15 October 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
he saidJUMP
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 October 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqKz_L_yUtg
― birdistheword, Friday, 15 October 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
Damn you YouTube user 0tapir0
― birdistheword, Friday, 15 October 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
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+
― dow, Saturday, 16 October 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
Bowie's global publishing catalog is now sold for $250 million:https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/david-bowie-estate-sells-music-143220254.html
― birdistheword, Monday, 3 January 2022 15:12 (two years ago) link
Whole lotta lawyer talk. But perfectly happy for Iman, Duncan and Alexandria, honestly.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 January 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
I love them both but I love Bowie's catalog twice as much as Bruce's, not the other way around, financially speaking.
― dan selzer, Monday, 3 January 2022 16:53 (two years ago) link
Beautiful track from Toy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1WLw9bNBas
The rest of the album doesn't do much for me, but at least Bowie recognized that this was too good to keep on the shelf - it was a B-side for some Heathen singles (as well as a bonus track on the deluxe edition), and he released it again on Nothing Has Changed.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 04:04 (two years ago) link
Gail Ann Dorsey did a lovely version of it this past Saturday on the Mike Garson-organized Bowie livestream tribute.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 05:10 (two years ago) link
Found a snippet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_OAe_ziiJk
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
Also on Toy it sounds a little different especially in the echo on Bowie's voice, so I guess they remixed it (or simply had different mixes at their disposal):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJWBstZDisI
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 15:42 (two years ago) link
can I just say I hate the sleeve
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 15:54 (two years ago) link
LOL, yes. It looks like a David Lynch parody.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
They should have put the Phillip Jeffries teapot on the cover
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 15:58 (two years ago) link
That would've better and awesome.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 16:07 (two years ago) link
*been better
I just heard the "Let's Dance" Demo for the first time and I love it.I like the "original" a lot but this stripped down version is more... funky.Such a monstruous groove and the guitar parts and bass/drums are fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFAgk61HiyI
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 16:43 (two years ago) link
That's great
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 19:59 (two years ago) link
You can hear what the original Bowie 12-string acoustic demo might've sounded like in that live BBC performance from 1999-2000.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link
I think I'd pick up Toy is there was just a 1xCD option of the album itself, I don't know that I need all the other versions (unless someone can convince me it's worth the whole set).
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 20:25 (two years ago) link
"Let's Dance" Demo
I seem to recall Nile saying in his book that the true original demo, or at least the song as David played it for him, was barely a song, and he had to be pressured into trusting Bowie's instincts and taking the gig.
I notice this a lot when demos are released officially, that they're already often pretty slick and far along in the process and probably a far cry from their origins. (That "demo" version of "Let's Dance," for example, is already slicker than most completed albums.) Exceptions include the riff tapes on those Metallica sets, and also the fascinating disc Peter Gabriel included with the "So" reissue.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 20:31 (two years ago) link