Also from the writer in question:
I have apologised to Bill and Lisa already. This was a case of drunken enthusiasm, mixed with a bit of anger over Bowie's Vuitton ad. My mistake was sending it to Bill in an altered state - he had no reason not to trust, as I had never done such a thing before. I have never 'worked for' God Is In The TV, though I have contributed many articles, and clearly won't again. Keep up the good work, and once again, all apologies
Of all things.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 December 2013 04:40 (ten years ago) link
lolcohol
― diffidently worth every cent!!! (WilliamC), Thursday, 12 December 2013 04:43 (ten years ago) link
"Why Vuitton? I ALWAYS PREFERRED COACH."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 December 2013 04:45 (ten years ago) link
RAGH THAT COMMERCIAL WAS 10 MINUTES LONG RAGH
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 December 2013 04:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lcct5
David Bowie has given Guy Garvey the World Exclusive of his new single Sue, how amazing - so, it's David Bowie Day on the Finest Hour.
According to Guy they are now best friends, we'll see eh?
If Guy can contain his excitement this week's theme will be tunes relating to the moon, including Moon by This Is The Kit, Canned Heats Poor Moon and Speck Mountain's Hey Moon.
Oh and don't forget it's David Bowie Day on Guy Garvey's Finest Hour, first play ever in the whole wide word of his new single - Sue, all a delicious 7 minutes and 27 seconds.
― wackness unlimited (snoball), Sunday, 12 October 2014 10:06 (nine years ago) link
Will not listen to Garvey's dreadful salt of the earth Northerner schtick under any circumstances
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 12 October 2014 12:07 (nine years ago) link
Oh wait that's the Elbow guy. Yeah...don't blame you.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 12 October 2014 12:20 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that's the one major blight in this - having to listen to an hour of Garvey's patented 'that guy down the pub who talks a lot and you try to avoid'. Although the track'll be posted somewhere soon enough this afternoon.
― wackness unlimited (snoball), Sunday, 12 October 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link
The new single is a collaboration with Maria Schneider, of all people ... looking forward to hearing it one of these days
― Brad C., Sunday, 12 October 2014 13:16 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GodUgnO7lY
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 12 October 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
That's a great song.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 12 October 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
― Bobby Ono Bland (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 October 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
yes, the Gil Evans protege ... this sounds great!
― Brad C., Sunday, 12 October 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
yep, this new song is excellent.
― borntohula, Monday, 13 October 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
Scott Walker 60's style melody
― nostormo, Monday, 13 October 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
will there be a new album?
― nostormo, Monday, 13 October 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
that is really great!
― sleeve, Monday, 13 October 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
xpost -- greatest hits comp in a month.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 October 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
bummer..
he should record a whole album of this "Scott walker Drum n Base Jazz Kraut" style
― nostormo, Monday, 13 October 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
as I posted on facebook...Scott Walker fronting the Soft Machine in 1969. Or 70. I can't remember which I said. Whatever.
― dan selzer, Monday, 13 October 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
that must be jazz -- i can't stand it
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 October 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
ha, definitely was not expecting live drum n' jazz but i'm not mad at all.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 13 October 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
hrmmmm, not sure about this. There's certainly some cool stuff going on in the orchestra, but there's something a little too plodding about the way his vocal moves over the band, and maybe the band is just a hair too busy for his vocal.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
Some neat little D&B loop quotes going on in the drums, and I like the sound of the whole thing.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
New song Tis A Pity She Was A Whore is actually really good fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o32okU676_Q
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 10 November 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
http://wp-images.emusic.com/assets/2014/11/david-bowie-tis-a-pity-she-was-a-whore-lyrics.jpg
I like it.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Monday, 10 November 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
Is there another thread discussing Nothing Has Changed? The first disc (on the 3 disc set) is the first time I've really unselfconsciously enjoyed a sustained side of post-Scary Monsters Bowie. The sequencing probably has a lot to do with it. And suddenly "Sue" has clicked, possibly due to being the kick-off track rather than a stand alone. I'm curious how this would do in a poll of Bowie best-ofs.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 22 November 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
I haven't listened to it but that is a pretty great track selection, limited though it is.
WTF is Dancing in the Street on this comp?
― akm, Saturday, 22 November 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
it just seriously ruins Disc 2
"Dancing in the St" was included either out of charity (do proceeds still go to some sort of relief fund?) or perversity. The real oddball missing track on disc 2 is "Cat People," which Tarantino made hip again
― col, Sunday, 23 November 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
iirc that track has always been hip, weird omission
― sleeve, Sunday, 23 November 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
It's really the first disc that I find most interesting, as it's so strong and also so unfamiliar if you haven't been paying attention. (I'd given cursory listens to the albums it pulls from, but never *loved* any of them). The other two discs just strike me as a grab bag...definitely feels like the most thought went into the first.
― dlp9001, Sunday, 23 November 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
agree, tho' 1st disc shortchanges Reality (a pretty strong record) in favor of Hours (a really not v. strong one). the opening 1-2-3 is a great sequence.
― col, Sunday, 23 November 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
on "Where Are We Now": https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2015/06/24/where-are-we-now/
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Reading that has reminded me I haven't listened to The Next Day for a long, long while... I'll have to give it another listen and see how it's held up. Looking at the tracklisting now, I can recall near enough every song on it, so that's a good start!
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, 26 June 2015 01:27 (nine years ago) link
I love this album.
― Heiress Too (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Friday, 26 June 2015 01:44 (nine years ago) link
Finally listened to this over the last week. It's quite good, isn't it? Has struck me more than Heathen, the other recent(ish) Bowie I've picked up since he died. Surprised at the lack of talk about the title track, which was my immediate favourite.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 12 February 2016 13:35 (eight years ago) link
otm
As already written in another thread: For me, the title track is putting everything from hours to Reality to shame in terms of sheer vitality, force and also fun. His voice is so strong, remarkable lyrics and generally it sounds like an unreleased b-side from Lodger, like an excellent mix of Repetition and Red Sails.
― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Friday, 12 February 2016 16:04 (eight years ago) link
I gave it another go before and after he died and it still sounds tentative and a couple of times actually embarrassing.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 February 2016 16:07 (eight years ago) link
Is there any collection / writing about Bowie b-sides anywhere? I assume PAOTD covers them but are they all listed together anywhere or something?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 12 February 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
Revisiting this again - 'Heat' is so fucking good.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 14 October 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
Weird to think this album is five years old now. THAT time passed strangely quickly.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
Yeah, agreed - one last, quick burst of creativity and then he was gone foe good.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
*for
There was this little record called BLACKSTAR that came before he was "gone for good", you cretin.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
Yeah, and I include Blackstar in as part of that one last, quick burst of creativity. It's a record that I like a lot, as the thread about the record will show. You dumb little fucking cunt.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Well this revive is all going swimmingly.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
The Next Day is a special case. I've wondered if Bowie at the time might have already thought it could have been his swan song? In any case Blackstar more or less obliterated it in its force. Which takes away some of The Next Day's appeal and shine, because it's probably underrated and really good.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
As for The Next Day, I still like the record a lot, although definitely not as much as Blackstar. Last time I listened to the record I really enjoyed it, particularly 'If You Can See Me', which always felt like it had a Scary Monsters vibe about it. It'd be great to hear what everyone thinks about the record now, preferably without Le Bateau Ivre turning up and acting like an utter weapon. I know Alfred in particular was cold on it.
(xxpost)
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
reality, the next day and blackstar is an extremely good run
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link