Bowie - Blackstar (2016) & RIP David Bowie :(

[Strat]

They could do a credible version of "Diamond Dogs," I think. Pretty straightforward rock tune, well in Eddie's register.

The question would be, why? I don't recall Bowie being mentioned as an influence. It would just be riding coattails (or following the hearse in this instance). Unfortunately, Pearl Jam has shown they are not above this.

Mike McCready
52 mins ·
Thank you, David Bowie, for making music interesting, flamboyant, important, redefining, rocking, preening, freeing, soul searching, exploratory and beautiful! You live on in your own "Space Odyssey" & forever in our hearts. You made the world a better place to live in and that is the highest honor!
RIP David Bowie.
-Mike McCready

[E.H. Ruddock]

They could do a credible version of "Diamond Dogs," I think. Pretty straightforward rock tune, well in Eddie's register.

Not quite a big enough hit tho.

I'm sure they'll pick a great Bowie tune and manage to ruin it for me.

See: The Real Me.

[Strat]

They could do a credible version of "Diamond Dogs," I think. Pretty straightforward rock tune, well in Eddie's register.

Not quite a big enough hit tho.

I'm sure they'll pick a great Bowie tune and manage to ruin it for me.

See: The Real Me.

Look, their performance of that at the honor show was fucking amazing.

[Mine]

It's odd. I'm a really big fan of his music from the 70s and 80s but I've never had a connection to him as a person. It's like I know the music but not the man. There always felt like a huge distance between artist and audience. Purposely I think. I feel bad for not being as affected as I should considering how much I've enjoyed his music.

Definitely purposely and i think this is why he released what turned out to be his final album when he had literally days to live, with no indication whatsoever that he was terminally ill. People even hoped he'd tour again.

I think the fact that he was able to sustain his career at a point when his new recordings are still highly anticipated and very well received up to his death (rather than being just a living legend aka nostalgia act) is mind blowing and i can't really picture anybody else but Bowie pulling something like this off.

I think the schism between the music and the man was intentional as well. It helped facilitate his moving from genre to genre. The focus was always on having the listener love the music and not the man.

Which is exactly what he did up to the very end. He managed to sustain the artist persona alive and well even releasing a video less than a week ago.

[E.H. Ruddock]

They could do a credible version of "Diamond Dogs," I think. Pretty straightforward rock tune, well in Eddie's register.

Not quite a big enough hit tho.

I'm sure they'll pick a great Bowie tune and manage to ruin it for me.

See: The Real Me.

Look, their performance of that at the honor show was fucking amazing.

Yes but then they played it at every other show from 2009 forward.

[southp]

I'm super sad about this. I've often thought about how I will feel when it will be Mick, Keith, Paul, Plant, Page... but I never thought about Bowie because he was just on the outside of that list. Apparently this hurt a lot more than I expected.

Rise and Fall of ZS is in my top-10 albums of all time.

Also, just heard Lazarus for the first time on the radio this weekend and I thought it was fantastic.

[darth_vedder]

They could do a credible version of "Diamond Dogs," I think. Pretty straightforward rock tune, well in Eddie's register.

The question would be, why? I don't recall Bowie being mentioned as an influence. It would just be riding coattails (or following the hearse in this instance). Unfortunately, Pearl Jam has shown they are not above this.

Mike McCready
52 mins ·
Thank you, David Bowie, for making music interesting, flamboyant, important, redefining, rocking, preening, freeing, soul searching, exploratory and beautiful! You live on in your own "Space Odyssey" & forever in our hearts. You made the world a better place to live in and that is the highest honor!
RIP David Bowie.
-Mike McCready

Green River used to cover Queen Bitch. I can see PJ pulling that one off.

[darth_vedder]

They could do a credible version of "Diamond Dogs," I think. Pretty straightforward rock tune, well in Eddie's register.

Not quite a big enough hit tho.

I'm sure they'll pick a great Bowie tune and manage to ruin it for me.

See: The Real Me.

Look, their performance of that at the honor show was fucking amazing.

Yes but then they played it at every other show from 2009 forward.

And the song is better with the brass section.

[@SkitchP]

I can't imagine it would be anything but Space Oddity.

[surfndestroy]

I'm super sad about this. I've often thought about how I will feel when it will be Mick, Keith, Paul, Plant, Page... but I never thought about Bowie because he was just on the outside of that list. Apparently this hurt a lot more than I expected.

Rise and Fall of ZS is in my top-10 albums of all time.

Also, just heard Lazarus for the first time on the radio this weekend and I thought it was fantastic.

It's going to kill me when Page dies.

[Mine]

They could do a credible version of "Diamond Dogs," I think. Pretty straightforward rock tune, well in Eddie's register.

I just hope he doesn't do something like Ziggy Stardust that would accommodate his warble register well.

Generally i'm sure there will be an abundance of awful Bowie covers performed by everybody in the next months.

[surfndestroy]

They could do a credible version of "Diamond Dogs," I think. Pretty straightforward rock tune, well in Eddie's register.

The question would be, why? I don't recall Bowie being mentioned as an influence. It would just be riding coattails (or following the hearse in this instance). Unfortunately, Pearl Jam has shown they are not above this.

Mike McCready
52 mins ·
Thank you, David Bowie, for making music interesting, flamboyant, important, redefining, rocking, preening, freeing, soul searching, exploratory and beautiful! You live on in your own "Space Odyssey" & forever in our hearts. You made the world a better place to live in and that is the highest honor!
RIP David Bowie.
-Mike McCready

Green River used to cover Queen Bitch. I can see PJ pulling that one off.

I think this would be great but Ed would fake having some sort of great affiliation and identification with the song. Let Stone sing it.

[epilogue]

They could do a credible version of "Diamond Dogs," I think. Pretty straightforward rock tune, well in Eddie's register.

I just hope he doesn't do something like Ziggy Stardust that would accommodate his warble register well.

Generally i'm sure there will be an abundance of awful Bowie covers performed by everybody in the next months.

But I predict the St. Vincent cover (which ever song she chooses) will be phenomenal.The best of the bunch.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I really dig the cover of Major Tom by Shiny Toy Guns

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[EJ]

Lazarus is a great tune.

[E.H. Ruddock]

FUCKKKKKKKKK this really sucks....

Oddity is one of my fav all time songs, possibly (edit 2nd besides dark side of the moon as a whole) favorite to listen to when I go on valley/woods rides in the jeep.. so many awesome tunes..

I wanna make a mix of unknown awesome bowie tunes.. any recommendations??

We Prick You is one of my favorites, most people don't know it.

that is a great one!

[epilogue]

Lazarus is a great tune.

Seriously. The new album is lights out. Not a dud on the thing.

[McParadigm]

They could do a credible version of "Diamond Dogs," I think. Pretty straightforward rock tune, well in Eddie's register.

The question would be, why? I don't recall Bowie being mentioned as an influence. It would just be riding coattails (or following the hearse in this instance). Unfortunately, Pearl Jam has shown they are not above this.

Mike McCready
52 mins ·
Thank you, David Bowie, for making music interesting, flamboyant, important, redefining, rocking, preening, freeing, soul searching, exploratory and beautiful! You live on in your own "Space Odyssey" & forever in our hearts. You made the world a better place to live in and that is the highest honor!
RIP David Bowie.
-Mike McCready

Green River used to cover Queen Bitch. I can see PJ pulling that one off.

I think this would be great but Ed would fake having some sort of great affiliation and identification with the song. Let Stone sing it.

I hope he kisses the tips of his fingers and then points them upwards, as the song wraps.

[darth_vedder]

Listening to Aladdin Sane now, loving "Panic In Detroit".