thoughts from dr dr3w, Stephin, Sondre Lerche, Rick Moody etc:
http://thetalkhouse.com/music/talks/talkhouse-contributors-remember-david-bowie/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 January 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link
Okay, 'Time' was the song that finally took the wind out of me. God damn.
― Reckless Recluse (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 January 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
Aside from the invention and the chops and the catchiness, his music works because he put so fucking much of himself into it.
― Reckless Recluse (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 January 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
heard "let's dance" just now -- still such an wonderful/odd sounding hit.
― tylerw, Monday, 11 January 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
from Jim'll Paint It
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/12439255_617455185074756_8430022611780275721_n.jpg?oh=47764bcf5c19013e205789281dc07116&oe=5745BDD2
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Monday, 11 January 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
I love David Bowie’s music deeply, and yet when I learned of his death last night I instantly flashed on a terrible, guilty memory whose repetition at present risks speaking ill of the dead: Sometime around the Earthling album in the late ’90s, I sat with a friend and my boyfriend and we started to take cheap, idiotic pot-shots at that album, which we regarded as a catalogue of typical uninspired aging rock star moves, a case in point of a vampire trying to draw sustenance from a then-thriving subculture (drum and bass).
I remember listening to that album played at a bookstore for a good half-hour (it was around 8pm which is why the staff could play jungle beats). It was such an odd experience, stayed with me for years but I could never go back and try the album proper, but I remember getting a kick out of this lol old guy trying it out..balls etc.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 January 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
oh wow i'm listening to Blackstar for the first time; "I Can't Give Everything Away" lifts the two-note harmonica line from "A New Career In A New Town," one of my favorites.
this is so sad.
― goole, Monday, 11 January 2016 20:54 (eight years ago) link
Basically unable to function as a real human today. Surprised by the level of grief.
― hardcore dilettante, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
The release of Blackstar two days before his death is probably one of the most brilliant artistic gestures in the history of pop music. Unreal
― flappy bird, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
Me as well, hardcore. And I also resigned from a shitty job today - sent out emails to all the pertinent folks last night before bed - so today is a perfect day to stay home and celebrate The Dame and forget all the bs.
flappy bird otm though the sense of "timing" for lack of a better word or phrase to describe it all is overwhelming.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
my kid rufus and his pals at the variety show last year. he's the one with the hair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WceXXacO1SU
― scott seward, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link
uh doing bowie. should have said that...
― scott seward, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
Bowie had been working on a book as well, right? Wonder how far he got.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:14 (eight years ago) link
full of despair, but he will live forever. after all he came from the future. can't imagine what music would be like now without his work.
― home organ, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
woke up this morning to the news and felt completely shattered. feels unexpected and painful in a way few other celebrity deaths have been for me. ended up writing a short tribute in like half an hour while sleepily listening to my co-workers chat.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link
i actually had "blackstar" stuck in my head when i woke up this morning and it was still there as i came across the news, v v surreal
nb i came very close to watching velvet goldmine last nite w/ a friend who;d never seen it, that would have been extra spooky
― gr8080, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
Will Sheff's blurb in the Talkhouse roundup is typically corny-but-canny.
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
listening to Earthling right now, what can you even say about it? so many good and really bad ideas chased after simultaneously
― goole, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link
on his history with NYC, in 2003:
Having performed a gig outside London on a Thursday in June 1972, I shot home to sleep, then caught an early-morning flight — getting me to Madison Square Garden about ten minutes after Elvis hit the stage. I had the humiliating experience of walking down the center aisle to my very good RCA-provided seat while Elvis performed “Proud Mary.” As I was in full Ziggy regalia by this time — brilliant red hair and Kabuki platform shoes — I’m sure many of the audience presumed Mary had just arrived....
People here are very decent about their interactions with well-knowns. I get the occasional “Yo, Bowie,” but that’s about it. My only rule is to avoid tourist areas. But if I weren’t known, I’d still avoid ’em. In London, the saying goes, life takes place behind doors. Here it’s on the street....
My three favorite places in New York are Washington Square (it’s the emotional history of New York in a quick walk), the Strand bookshop (it’s impossible to find the book you want, but you always find the book you didn’t know you wanted), and Julian Schnabel’s house (the most extraordinary interior and quite beautiful; no one else but Julian could carry it off).
http://www.vulture.com/2016/01/david-bowies-reflection-on-being-a-new-yorker.html
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:37 (eight years ago) link
I left work early and am gonna do some drinking before my radio show in 2 hours. the fuckin DMCA means that I can only play three Bowie songs in two hours (unless we turn the streaming off), so I'm gonna play "Heroes," "Station To Station," and "Blackstar"
― sleeve, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
do you guys remember like 10-15 years ago he had this contest where a lucky fan was going to write the words or melody to one of his songs? Whatever happened with that?― Poliopolice, Monday, 11 January 2016 19:45 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Poliopolice, Monday, 11 January 2016 19:45 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes, I do: I entered.
what happened was, you got an jnstrumental (mostly) with DBowie la-lai-ng a melody, and singing a chorus, and you had to write verses. Then you saved them onto the website Bowienet, and then you got a series of other contributions that you could rate out of five. I was quite pleased with my entry, and I have to say all the other entries (and there were huge amounts) were pretty awful.
Anyway, it was won by Alex Grant, and his entry was . OK. The only other decent lyric I ever saw was his when I sneaked a look at the finished product's booklet. I still think mine was better but it wouldn't upset me to think someone else favoured his over mine, it was comparable.
I had a thought about finishing the instrumental with my lyrics for the ILX version of "The Next Day" but I had mislaid the cassette a friend had sent me of the backing from back in the day, and didn't find it in time.
One day.
(some time later, Robbie Williams did something similar, and my lyrics for that were awful, so it goes to show, something or other)
― Mark G, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
I always loved this super funky version of "What in the World" from the STAGE live album. Fucking great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-IySjuTNfk
― flappy bird, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
My obit: http://www.spin.com/2016/01/david-bowie-tribute-eulogy/?utm_source=share-fb
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:03 (eight years ago) link
great piece alfred
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link
v nice. the chameleon bit is not something that had occurred to me tbh
― Οὖτις, Monday, 11 January 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link
one correction: i'm pretty sure the pumpkins never covered "quicksand"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:06 (eight years ago) link
That was Dinosaur Jr.
― Mark G, Monday, 11 January 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
The Pumpkins covered "Kooks" in 1993. Billy insults the band at the end. "MISERABLE!"
https://archive.org/details/tsp1993-06-29
― flappy bird, Monday, 11 January 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link
hmm I've a memory of a late summer '93 Pumpkins show during which they covered "Quicksand" and, I think, "Kooks."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link
xpost
ah, there you go!
oh ha! guess i'm not as deep a fan as i thought
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:12 (eight years ago) link
"The Secret Life of Araiiibia"
(Sorry, carry on, folks)
― Narayan Superman (Tom D.), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:13 (eight years ago) link
They did a pretty cool cover of "Fame" in 2014 around the release of the last record. They did a pretty lame cover of "Space Oddity" on the Oceania tour. And of course, at Bowie's 50th birthday party in 1997...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HD73LyWpcw
― flappy bird, Monday, 11 January 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
last SP post - Bill had this to say this morning:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYdZVDwUkAAtMVa.jpg
RIP David Bowie: 'When a true star blinks out, the sky looks different, and never feels the same' - Billy Corgan
― flappy bird, Monday, 11 January 2016 22:16 (eight years ago) link
lol @ Lou's head
― Narayan Superman (Tom D.), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:17 (eight years ago) link
robert smith kind of looks like mid 70s bolan there
― Karl Malone, Monday, 11 January 2016 22:20 (eight years ago) link
bowie weirdly channeling scott weiland in that pic
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
A++ photo
― tylerw, Monday, 11 January 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
realized i had a leaked version of the unreleased 01 album Toy, listening now...different, quirkier version of "Slip Away" called "Uncle Floyd"
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
In other things this illlustration by Helen Green of Bowie's different hairstyles throughout the years is awesome:
http://www.oldskull.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/All-Bowies-illustration-hele-green.png
and a gif (which is very fast in my opinion but it seems like this was the original intent of drawing the heads going from left to right)
http://payload342.cargocollective.com/1/16/514318/9158551/DB-Transformation-Colour.gif
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
And one of my favorite remixes of Bowie that some of you might not be familiar with - David Bowie - Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy for the DFA):
https://vimeo.com/79764317
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyGO0IxAr4A
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:29 (eight years ago) link
i'm revisiting the buddha of suburbia and man, what a wacky little record
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:31 (eight years ago) link
Toy was a good experiment. Some great versions (most of those wound up being released anyway) and some duff ones but it was nice to hear him revist that material. I particularly like Conversation Piece.
― akm, Monday, 11 January 2016 22:32 (eight years ago) link
really great piece Alfred!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:32 (eight years ago) link
I ran to a Coconuts store in November '95 to buy it and Tonight, the latter newly reissued. "Dead Against It" would easily make a Bowie 75 for me.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:32 (eight years ago) link
Just meekly asked my boss if I could leave at 3 for "bowie sadness" reasons :/
didn't expect to be so destroyed by this tbh
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:32 (eight years ago) link
Excellent article, Alfred.
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 11 January 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
aw VG, I left early too, hope you get it off
― sleeve, Monday, 11 January 2016 22:35 (eight years ago) link
thanks, crew
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link
I remember going to the store to pick up Outside since the "Bowie's back" hype machine was in full swing and saw the Buddha of Suburbia in the rack right next to it. I picked it up as well and played both of them in equal measure in the autumn of '95. I was surprised at its quality and have always felt it was a little ignored. Dead Against It is a great track.
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:40 (eight years ago) link