David Bowie R.I.P

Oh, the Onion.

You never saw anything by that cartoonist before? It's meta.
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Wondering if Dylan has had anything to see. Almost picturing him making a grumpy sideswipe like he did with Merle Haggard recently. "When I need to Bang A Gong, I know who is my goto guy."

Oh it's meta, silly me.

Only explanation I can think of for the Greil Marcus approach is the most obvious: at some level he wanted to champion the more obscure act, US-wise, at the expense of the more popular one.

The cartoonist is parodying a dumb cartoonist. Perhaps someone will provide a link with further examples from this guy.

Genuinely never seen the Onion cartoon guy before.

Believe there may be a dedicated thread.

goldmine http://www.theonion.com/features/editorial-cartoon

Someone here will know. Seeing as how navigating Google is a nightmare in the wake of his death, I am looking for both/either of the following: a) a complete list of Bowie's tv appearances, and b) a complete list of Bowie's interviews (print and/or filmed). I know some obsessive fans have compiled this info somewhere.

For TV appearances, go to his IMDB profile and look under "Self".

Last year I went to an outdoor guitar strum-along gathering, for guitarists of all skill levels. They held up tab charts for the chords as the band was playing so everyone could play along. It's usually a selection of classic rock tunes with easy chords. It always starts with "Knocking on Heaven's Door". The Bowie pick was "Five Years".

xpost I did that, pplains, but for some reason it didn't look particularly comprehensive.

That Five Years doc just popped up on Hulu, fyi.

David Bowie and books: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/david-bowie-the-man-who-loved-books/

We should repost that on the relevant ILB thread

Whenever I see the name Buxton here I think it must be about some kind of Bowie/Alice Cooper collabo. Anyway listened to a little of that, hope to listen to more when I get a chance.

Watched the video for "Jump They Say" the other night on VH1 Classics, in which he wears eye coverings somewhat similar to the latest two videos, but much more obviously the exact same eyemask the time-traveling prisoner wears in La Jetée. Is he saying, hinting, implying that he is going to witness his own death? Escape into the past? None of the above?

not suggesting bowie didn't come up with it but explicitly referencing la jetée seems like a romanek thing

The Criterion of La jetee has a little featurette on the Bowie video.

But is he now in the current two videos referring to that earlier video and La Jetée in a somewhat disguised fashion?

http://scallemang.ca/bowie25albums/

Bowie's 25 favourite albums!

That list shocks me. Honestly, Bowie is one of the people I would have expected to see repping for more female artists. I suppose it's good to be disillusioned.

Banana Moon!

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/jan/24/david-bowie-on-his-ipod

http://grantland.com/features/chuck-klosterman-alex-pappademas-david-bowie-career/

From a few years back when they heard from Sean Fennessey that Bowie was dying. It's sorta interesting in retrospect but maybe it better belongs in the worst music writing ever thread

The intro tho the '25 albums' thing is kinda funny in light of Bowie's interview on Letterman where he said he just downloads everything and doesn't care about records, CDs, etc

Another funny thing about the "25 albums" thing is what a great writer he is (was) - funny, snappy, ironic, generous, self-deprecating

Vinyls though ugh

i chalk that up to his time in berlin

thanks for buxton link camarade!

I did not know about that David Bowie's iPod article from 2010, did he do anything else even remotely resembling an 'interview' after iSelect in 2008?

Has Elton John made any kind of public statement yet? Apparently he and Bowie had a long-running feud.

Lou Reed's been awfully quiet.

Morrissey? Thought he would have rush-released a live Drive In Saturday 7" + download by now

I thought the tabloids were reporting some kind of Candle In The Wind 2016 from Reg

Facebook told me Elton played life on Mars at a show last week

In a question and answer session on fansite truetoyou.net, Morrissey addressed the truth behind the rivalry calling it simply "ribbing".

"When I made the (2006) record Ringleader of the Tormentors," writes Morrissey, "the producer (Tony Visconti), who is a very close friend of David Bowie, tried to get both Bowie and I together to do our version of You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', with David doing the deep Bill Medley parts, and me doing the Bobby Hatfield shrieks."

"I loved this idea, but David wouldn't budge. I know I've criticised David in the past, but it's all been snotnosed junior high ribbing on my part. I think he knows that."

You know DBowie's version of "God Only Knows", yeah....

was looking for something and went through my new arrivals and noticed that i still have a pristine copy of Tonight in there for five bucks that i put there pre-death. complete with a sticker! so, i'm listening to it now. but, sheesh, r.i.p. Tonight....

i'm enjoying it right now a lot though just cuz i like hearing his voice right now. even the reggae tune sounded poignant.

gonna put the sticker on the back of our mini-van...

man, I wish that Righteous Brothers cover had happened

for the lol's, possibly, otherwise no.

Morrissey forgot Bowie's cover of "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday," right

"Vinyls": Bowie knew how to keep up with the times.

way better album than Tonight and three years earlier:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Modern_Romance_-_Adventures_in_Clubland-cover.jpg

he had such good taste. it doesn't make sense. 1984 should have seen some synth/coldwave classic from bowie.

Someone needs to write a book that digs into the mystery of Tonight's existence. It's such a weird anomaly.

EMI needed an album and he had no inspiration. The band he assembled isn't much different from the pre-LD lineup.

he could have just paid some of his fans to help him make a dancefloor classic. heaven 17? new order with arthur baker? human league? they all would have helped.

Yeah, the weird part is he'd become a genius at making shit up in the studio.

his 80's should have sounded more like this. love this by the way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nKb2JC7Qn0