whoa natalie cole is also in that clip veronica posted
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:52 (eight years ago) link
and bowie presents her with a gold (?) record!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
I put this on FB but this Tina Turner/Bowie duet of "Tonight" from 85 is fucking beautiful, they look so happy and it made me tear up
http://youtu.be/7icGpchTH4c
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
Check the King Crimson video I posted above for Fripp's brief, touching (and Frippish) comment.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
I loathe the album version of that Bowie-Tina duet :(
the cod reggae
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
iggy nyt thing ;_;
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:01 (eight years ago) link
“He wrote the [ chord ] progression on ukulele, and he said, ‘Call it “Lust for Life,” write something up.’”
: o
― j., Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:06 (eight years ago) link
that whole piece is awesome
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
Tonight is his weakest album for me by miles.
― Turrican, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
I saw KC do that tune at the Town Hall in NYC that year and was thrilled…the video you posted appears on my end to only be the performance…do you mean that's the extent of Fripp's comment, TWUN?
― veronica moser, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:09 (eight years ago) link
The text accompanying the video on youtube (Fripp runs the DGM Crimson channel):
"During the interview with Robert Fripp for the BBC's "David Bowie: Five Years (2013)"… a question was asked, answered, and edited out of the documentary.
"Q: Why was Bowie so influential? (paraphrase).A: He spoke on behalf of what is highest in all of us."
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:27 (eight years ago) link
reeves…
http://www.npr.org/2016/01/11/462692110/a-guitarist-remembers-david-bowie-just-wanted-a-good-laugh
― veronica moser, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:28 (eight years ago) link
Tonight is a disgrace. I can't think of a major artist -- even Dylan! -- in that period who released such a shambles: two original songs, a couple of dumb cowrites, covers, untested producer. Marcello otm: "There isn’t really the sense, listening through Tonight, that Bowie is even bothering to listen to himself, let alone commit to making a good or merely listenable record."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:30 (eight years ago) link
lol:
In Padgham’s case this appears to have meant, in dramatic contrast to Nile Rodgers’ use of space and air, a blundering maximalist approach, filling up the treble-heavy spaces with everything he can find, including entirely inapposite gated drums and the migraine-inducing “Borneo Horns” (essentially the same horn section heard on Let’s Dance, but far more reined in, as though tied to its paddock). Padgham sounds afraid of silence, and in the case of songs like “Tumble And Twirl,” despite the efforts of uncredited bassist Mark King, we are really not far away from the slapstick cod-exotica of “Illegal Alien.”
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:31 (eight years ago) link
"He spoke on behalf of what is highest in all of us."
ok, mourning has jumped the shark
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
I've never been able to bring myself to listen to it
xp
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
Oh man, you should hear the stories behind Union by Yes
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:35 (eight years ago) link
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius),
jump they say!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:36 (eight years ago) link
gooood you guys idgaf about the album, the video duet is great u should watch it
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
you think Tonight is worse than NLMD, Alfred? and I don't know in what sense "untested" could mean w/r/t Hugh Padgham in 1984.
― veronica moser, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link
Yes. At least NLMD is entertaining and scowl-inducing: a freak like Bowie attempting a Springteen-ian AOR crossover with Peter Frampton -- and he tried! Tonight he didn't try at all.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:47 (eight years ago) link
For all of the split opinion about Never Let Me Down, Tin Machine and even some of Bowie's '90s works, it's rather telling that Tonight is one of the Bowie albums that gets talked about the least. At least Never Let Me Down, Tin Machine etc. still provoke a reaction... Tonight just sits there in his discography, gathering dust and being forgotten about. For good reason, too, it's a woeful record and undoubtedly one of his lesser works, if not his worst. To think it was the follow-up to Let's Dance, too, which may not have been to the tastes of those that loved the artist leanings of his 1976-1980 work and even before, but I could never consider it to be a bad record.
― Turrican, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
*artier
― Turrican, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:57 (eight years ago) link
(essentially the same horn section heard on Let’s Dance, but far more reined in, as though tied to its paddock)
This is why I adore Marcello right here
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 23:03 (eight years ago) link
Some Bowie 80s Movie Singles Poll
― longform Gordon thinkpiece (Eazy), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 23:20 (eight years ago) link
apologies if this was already linked, ctrl-f "Star Special" not found
https://youtu.be/ATSTjjEMmuk
― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 23:32 (eight years ago) link
In May 1979, David Bowie did a two hour radio show called Star Special in which he played some of his favourite records.
is Anthony Newley on it?
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 23:36 (eight years ago) link
I can't think of a major artist -- even Dylan! -- in that period who released such a shambles:
Ever heard Down In The Groove? If not, count yourself lucky.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 23:50 (eight years ago) link
Xpost Mekons are on it.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 23:51 (eight years ago) link
just realized that blackstar is the only album cover of his that doesn't feature his image (something which wikipedia confirmed, though i thought i was sooooo clever)
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:03 (eight years ago) link
I had three thoughts.
http://nedraggett.tumblr.com/post/137233893492/i-didnt-pitch-any-sort-of-general-appreciation
http://nedraggett.tumblr.com/post/137244312272/for-my-second-of-three-thoughts-today-i-move-into
http://nedraggett.tumblr.com/post/137248587797/my-final-extended-bowie-thought-at-least-for
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:12 (eight years ago) link
untested producer
wait, padgham was an "untested producer"?
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-bowie-planned-post-blackstar-album-thought-he-had-few-more-months-20160113
― polyphonic, Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:15 (eight years ago) link
but yeah bowie's movie singles in the late '80s were all unbelievably superior to the records. including single "when the wind blows," which is awesome and which i hadn't heard before this week
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:18 (eight years ago) link
actually:
absolute beginnerscat peopleundergroundas the world falls downwhen the wind blowsthis is not america
^^^ would've been a great bowie album
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:19 (eight years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat)
I have and it's marginally better.
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson),
I think he meant the aptly named Derek Bramble.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:22 (eight years ago) link
always have a soft spot for underground. a minor bowie single im sure but a pleasant, melancholy tune.
― Cuombas (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:23 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah i have no idea who that is
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:24 (eight years ago) link
he played bass in heatwave?
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:31 (eight years ago) link
belew part two: https://www.facebook.com/AdrianBelew/posts/10150589290144995
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:31 (eight years ago) link
xxpost What Mekons record did Bowie play?Fun facts, or quotes and snapshots anyway (keep scrolling past massive etc. for chunks of text)http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3397384/David-Bowie-kept-feet-ground-say-cousins-Yorkshire.html
― dow, Thursday, 14 January 2016 01:00 (eight years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/TheManWhoSoldtheWorld.jpg
i don't think this album has gotten enough attention (apart from the title track.) what a banger width of a circle is
― starkiller based god (Treeship), Thursday, 14 January 2016 01:06 (eight years ago) link
i used saviour machine on my college radio show to bridge a lumerians song with a neu! song. everyone went wild i imagine
― starkiller based god (Treeship), Thursday, 14 January 2016 01:07 (eight years ago) link
width of a circle though.... "So I cried for all the others till the day was nearly through, for I realized that God's a young man too"
― starkiller based god (Treeship), Thursday, 14 January 2016 01:08 (eight years ago) link
all the madmen might be kind of juvenile as a mission statement -- what was bowie the, 21? -- but those synth arpeggios, stately yet urgent, was there much that sounded like it in 1970?
― starkiller based god (Treeship), Thursday, 14 January 2016 01:12 (eight years ago) link
Anyone returned to Never Let Me Down? "Day In Day Out" remains a horror, and the second side is disgusting (anyone who claims Bowie didn't care should note he plays lead guitar on "New York's in Love" and "'87 and Cry"), but "Time Will Crawl" works despite the choice of vocal performance and "Beat of Your Drum" compensates for its wtf chord changes and hellish lines ("I like the smell of your FLESH") with enthusiasm; it's Bowie doing "Glory Days."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 January 2016 01:25 (eight years ago) link
not used to you piling on to critically maligned 80s albums by 60s/70s artists -- it and 'tonight' must be *really* bad
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 January 2016 01:27 (eight years ago) link
Ha. Have you heard Tonight?
a large part of the problem, as I wrote in my obit, is that Bowie can't lean on "craftsman" songwriting; he's no good at it.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 January 2016 01:28 (eight years ago) link
"Loving the Alien" is my fave Bowie single from the 80s and one of his greatest vocal performances imo.
― cock chirea, Thursday, 14 January 2016 01:33 (eight years ago) link