David Bowie - The Next Day

then there are those of us who never thought much about "Rock and Roll Suicide."

i gaze in defeat at the stars at night

oh, ok. it's definitely better than the last 3. i'd actually listened to them all again this past week and was surprised at the enjoyment i got out of them. but this one has more good melodies and a lack of any tracks that are abominable.

the overt praise by reviewers is a little off-putting.

I like this a lot.

It's funny, like bowie just can't make an album of good david bowie songs?

but it's cool for a band like The XX to basically make the same album over & it's only their second record

listening to the stream atm -- there's something kind of nice about having Bowie just sound like himself? Like, it's nothing exciting, but the familiarity's not really a letdown for me so far. So far it's a rather nice Bowie hug :)

but yeah, I don't really understand the cartwheels & fireworks crazy ott reviews

I mean bowie being bowie is way better than like whatever 10 crappy modern indie bands are gonna ”buzz” and get great reviews this year

totally!

It's funny, like bowie just can't make an album of good david bowie songs?
It's shitty David Bowie songs, though.

I disagree

He should reunite Tin Machine.

Is this streaming somewhere other than iTunes?

^^^ let me qualify that a little: I mean a legal stream!

I kinda stump for Tin Machine

last song is some serious scott walker wannabe stuff. it's really good.

Yep on both counts

Listened to this for the first time today. First reaction: 14 songs in 54 minutes is too much. Should have been nine songs in 40. Also...it's been seven and a half hours since I heard the record, and I can't remember what a single song on it sounded like.

Yeah I agree with this. I listened to it last night and did enjoy some moments but can't really remember anything about it today. So baffled at all the amazing reviews it's been getting. It's probably better than Reality and about as good as Heathen.

still prefer Reality to Heathen, which had one too many ponderosities for me.

Meanwhile speaking of Alfred and Bowie opinions

http://www.spin.com/reviews/david-bowie-the-next-day-columbia-iso

Bowie's retirement is somewhat overrated imo

more overrated than Scary Monsters?

You rated it as highly as Station to Station!
Scary Monsters is overrated. But it has Bowie's 2nd-best ever A-side. And his best ever song "Ashes to Ashes" fuiud. Do people rate it any other way in saying it's the end of his classic period?
I like that Bowie, 66, is making records this late in life. I like that there's a photo in RS of Tony and David the nice young engineer at Magic Shop, I hope it gets him some cool gigs. I don't think "The Next Day" has any place in my life, "Heat" is a nice bit of Scott Walker pastiche but I've banned "Scott Walker pastiche". I'm glad I don't have to rate records for a living

Sounds boring

i wonder how this record would have sound like if someone else, lets say Eno, produced it.
cause it is boring partly because of the production imo.

Visconti may be a legend but he and Bowie are both old now. So I guess you have to expect a boring record. btw I did mean sounds boring from what you guys say I haven't heard it.
p.s. find a lot of songs hunky dory and mwstw boring and that was these two lol

Not sure that Eno is any better at producing non-boring records in 2013!

eno is a pretty boring producer these days, listen to that bowie/byrne album from a few years ago, or the paul simon record.

eno byrne I mean

exactly

It's kind of a vicious cycle - Eno makes boring records because boring musicians are attracted to the idea of working with Eno.

Producers who could have done something interesting with David Bowie:

Kevin Martin
Kurt Ballou
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

Pretty sure Eno is bored of producing, tbh.

Lots of people could have done something awesome with Bowie. Geoff Barrow!

he could've written some tunes with Shriekback and Max Martin tbh

DJ Rashad and Bowie ftw.

The results were often risible, but I miss the days when old ppl tried to be modern.

Tom Jones Reloaded

Drum'n'Bass Bowie!
Grace Slick "All the Machines"!

I'm not saying it's a good idea... just that I miss it. hahaha
More fun than getting T-Bone Rubin on board, anyway!

I particularly enjoyed the Tom Jones video where this dog was hanging from an overhead wire and moving at high speed and you could see it from directly above intercut with pictures of Tom's face

That was a cover of ... Rise Robots Rise?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRgj3hJr7cA

Is that a single from the lead and how to swing it? Doesn't feature on his wiki discography.

Oh the song is called if only I knew DOH!

Don't touch the sacred cows! Our man is getting tore up in the comments on that Spin review, something fierce.

Now go back to preening your sad little self in your cocaine mirror, you pot of toss.

It's not "the same old thing in brand new drag," it's a re-contextualization which allows us to see the old thing and the new thing in a different light. You tool.

That was a particular favorite.

oops. the first one i meant.

Did you know that for period between 1976 and 1987 none of Tom Jones' singles entered the UK charts WHATSOEVER! That's 25 bleeding singles

Last Eno record was not boring and was actually pretty good.

Which album do you consider his last album? "Another Day on Earth?" Or the most recent generative joint? Also, what was the last production job he did that you liked/felt made the album better? I admit I'm a fan of what he did for Coldplay on "Viva La Vida Locamotion"

He still seems to me more interested in generative music and installations and different sorts of creative endeavors than making music these days.