"Okay, could we try that again with even less urgency?"
― doug watson, Monday, 24 October 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
Random japanese because it "sounds/looks cool" is cringey in vaporwave and it was cringey when David Bowie did it too
― punksishippies, Monday, 24 October 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
Actually, it was cool when Bowie did it…
...until 5 minutes ago anyway when I heard the Lazarus version (short term memory wipe, please?).
Annoyingly, the only tracks from Lazarus you can't get on Spotify are the new Bowie ones on Disc 2.
― Jeff W, Monday, 24 October 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, the Japanese in It's No Game is a transliteration woven into the Eigo lyrics and Hirota's masculine delivery was for the time, very provocative, so I agree with Jeff, it's not anything close to cringey.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 11:31 (seven years ago) link
some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve)Posted: January 13, 2015 at 1:44:58 PM
1st side classic, 2nd side not so classic, but the first side is so great that it doesn't matter
OTM
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 11:49 (seven years ago) link
Whoa you can double post if your thumb spasms and hits the button twice fast
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 11:50 (seven years ago) link
Ore genjitsu kara shime dasare!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 12:01 (seven years ago) link
I fuckin adore this song...one of the greatest bridges ever
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 12:08 (seven years ago) link
It's so enjoyable to listen to bowies performance on this track and simultaneously 'hear' the enervated delivery he is going to use on the album closer. 'To be insulted by these fascists is SO degrading...'
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 12:15 (seven years ago) link
Jon, someone did a mashup of the two parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECTQ85glsvo
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 12:57 (seven years ago) link
Just picking up on the fact that this was written ten years prior to Scary Monsters. Glad he waited to officially release it, as the SM arrangement elevates the track to something magnificent.
― doug watson, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
Konna dokusaisha ni iyashime rareru nowa kanashii!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link
wow he wrote it way back then? Same lyrics and everything?
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
didn't know that
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
For what it's worth, I saw the Lazarus show (someone gave me tickets) and like a lot of Broadway-ish stuff, it was largely stupid and partly great, and I'm sure the cast album contains mostly stupid. I walked out of it reasonably happy to have seen it. Some visual bits that I won't forget, a bunch of bad versions of Bowie songs, a few good ones, etc.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
A/Bing the Lazarus and Bowie tracks, kind of crazy how dry the former sounds. it's a decent attempt, they are playing the same arrangement, even indulging in that "bad" singing, but it still sounds so clean and sterile compared to Bowie's.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link
more fair to say DB only wrote the bridge melody/lyric (mostly) in 1970; the rest of "Game" was new
― col, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
The Pushing Ahead of the Dame blog post about It's No Game is great
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link