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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 6:47 pm
by swan
Pretty sad day for us music freaks.

Fucking badass that he released a new album less than a week before checking out. Classic.

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 6:49 pm
by swan
Also, listening to Seu Jorge's "Life Aquatic Sessions" right now, great stuff & extra moving today. Looking forward to dropping the needle on some Hunky Dory at home tonight.

:peace:

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 8:00 pm
by zeb
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Re: Bowie - Blackstar (2016) & RIP David Bowie :(

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 8:24 pm
by darth_vedder
swan wrote:Also, listening to Seu Jorge's "Life Aquatic Sessions" right now, great stuff & extra moving today. Looking forward to dropping the needle on some Hunky Dory at home tonight.

:peace:
I :heartbeat: Hunky Dory. Aladdin Sane has been sounding good to me today.

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 8:35 pm
by Birds in Hell
theplatypus wrote:
Birds in Hell wrote: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.

:peace:
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.
I've tried many times to get into 70s Bowie but I've never had anything close to the kind 'aha!' moments I've had with the music of the people he often collaborated with, particularly Eno and Fripp.

I think I'll listen to Blackstar this week and I may also check out some of his 90s records as that's one part of his discography I've never explored further.

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 8:44 pm
by zeb
I spun Blackstar twice last night. An incredibly poignant record, given that we now live in a Bowie-less world.

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 8:49 pm
by tragabigzanda

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 9:01 pm
by McParadigm
zeb wrote:I spun Blackstar twice last night. An incredibly poignant record, given that we now live in a Bowie-less world.
Tis a Pity She Was a Whore is one of the best tracks I've heard in months. I haven't had time to really digest the rest.

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 9:09 pm
by epilogue
McParadigm wrote:
zeb wrote:I spun Blackstar twice last night. An incredibly poignant record, given that we now live in a Bowie-less world.
Tis a Pity She Was a Whore is one of the best tracks I've heard in months. I haven't had time to really digest the rest.
That was his Record Store Day single on Black Friday in '14. I managed to pick one up (the last one) at a record store in Brooklyn and I've been obsessed with that song since. First time I heard it I thought, "man if this is where he's at, I hope we get another record, but if this is the last "new" Bowie song I ever hear... worth it."

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 9:26 pm
by dimejinky99

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 9:57 pm
by dimejinky99
Go to David Bowies Twitter account.
Click on who he's following.
Look at the last person he followed.

Perfect.

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 10:03 pm
by zekethomas
It's sad to loose someone with such creative integerity

Hunky Dory was one of my first real music loves ... this day is a very, very sad day

I'm not a prophet or stone-aged man -- Just a mortal with the potential of a superman -- I'm living on

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 10:06 pm
by Sgt. Crackpot
dimejinky99 wrote:Go to David Bowies Twitter account.
Click on who he's following.
Look at the last person he followed.

Perfect.
I don't know how to twitter. Can you tell us who it is? :)

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 10:14 pm
by dimejinky99
Sgt. Crackpot wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Go to David Bowies Twitter account.
Click on who he's following.
Look at the last person he followed.

Perfect.
I don't know how to twitter. Can you tell us who it is? :)

the God account.

(Fun parody account)

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 10:19 pm
by Will
I was bummed about Weiland. That was expected. Lemmy made me sad. But on the way into work this morning before anyone else was out on the road and it was still dark I played Space Oddity. I teared up.

Like a few of you, I wasn't a huge fan, but knew his songs and how important he was to music, art, and culture. After work I went out to the used record store and picked up Nothing Has Changed and Ziggy Stardust.

I feel stupid that it takes the loss of a huge artist to force you to stop and remember why they were so special to begin with. It makes me feel like I've missed out on something that was always there had I been willing to seek it out. Its my own fault.

But it sure is hard to fathom the world without him now.

Rest In Peace.

:peace:

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 10:22 pm
by Birds in Hell
dimejinky99 wrote:the God account.

(Fun parody account)
Terrible, unfunny account.

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 10:27 pm
by BDB
dimejinky99 wrote:
Sgt. Crackpot wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Go to David Bowies Twitter account.
Click on who he's following.
Look at the last person he followed.

Perfect.
I don't know how to twitter. Can you tell us who it is? :)

the God account.

(Fun parody account)
That looks more like a twitter account manned by the marketer/manager not a personal account.

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 10:30 pm
by dimejinky99
Birds in Hell wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:the God account.

(Fun parody account)
Terrible, unfunny account.

Yet you still listen to mudhoney ;)

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 10:32 pm
by Will
Pictures taken just a few days ago.

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

Posted: Mon January 11, 2016 10:36 pm
by Strat
Fuck cancer