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

[tragabigzanda]

[Norah]

What song will Pearl Jam add to their set lists to try and attach themselves in some minor way to his legacy?

Will David Grohl get a new tattoo?

lol. had the same thought.

I bet they're really pissed that Nirvana already covered The Man Who Sold the World.

They covered "Fame" 9 times in 1996.

There you go. They'll break that out again, prolly. That makes sense.

Or they'll start doing Under Pressure with guest opening acts.

Ugh, I really don't need Pearl Jam ruining another of the all time greatest rock and roll songs.

[Strat]

[McParadigm]

There is something unintentionally funny about them trying to mimic those vocal affectations after a while.

[darth_vedder]

I kinda liked that

[Mine]

Oh i completely forgot about that and i even saw them perform it in Venice

[Strat]

Something in the air is fantastic.

[tragabigzanda]

[Strat]

Im afraid of death. There I said it.

[epilogue]

Eno's eulogy mentions the possibility of a followup to Outside, as was originally planned.

I received an email from him seven days ago. It was as funny as always, and as surreal, looping through word games and allusions and all the usual stuff we did. It ended with this sentence: ‘Thank you for our good times, brian. they will never rot’. And it was signed ‘Dawn’.

I realise now he was saying goodbye.

wow...

[epilogue]

Im afraid of death. There I said it.

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

[Strat]

Im afraid of death. There I said it.

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Beautiful.

[epilogue]

Or better yet:

[Strat]

The fear goes away

[tragabigzanda]

[Kevin Davis]

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.

I think EV is such a celebrity schmoozer that it becomes difficult to process that PJ's scope of influences is probably far wider than the list of usual suspects that EV knows personally and is occasionally photographed with at events for rich people. Granted, I don't know anything about Bowie's impact on the band, but I don't necessarily think the act of performing a cover song by a recently deceased artist is as insincere an activity as the cynicism surrounding it here suggests. I think death, in any capacity, causes people to reflect on the nature of their relationship with the individual in question, and when it's a public figure that usually causes them to zero in on the instances in which they did connect to their work, even if it wasn't a long-term thing, even if the musician in question isn't an easily identifiable on their own day-to-day work. It's hard to imagine the members of PJ not being conscious of Bowie's music, and it's hard to imagine any group of working musicians not having the utmost respect for how he handled his career.

We'll see what happens I guess.

[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

[Jorge]

Anyway, farewell Bowie. His work never connected for me like I wish it did or expected it to but his catalogue nonetheless contains a lot of very good music and I have a huge amount of respect for his ceaseless dedication to his craft.

I feel the same way, Spen. Though I remember watching the music video for "Little Wonder" as a kid and thinking for years that all his stuff probably sounded like scary otherworldly jungle music.

I later discovered Hunky Dory and it is an undeniably great album but I never explored much further beyond that.

[Norah]

Im afraid of death. There I said it.

Me too.

[DeLima]

I'm really hoping that most of us are around for this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity