David Bowie R.I.P

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

that's fantastic

I went to see the Professional Bull Riders on Friday night at Madison Square Garden, and the first song the DJ played was "Let's Dance." (The DJ at PBR events plays a whole lot of music you'd never expect. I wrote about it for the Voice in 2010.)

xpost Would have been great if he just put on Let's Dance and danced to it.

Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp with Orchestra by Gavin Bryars; Hampton String Quartet, Michael Riesman and Orchestra

This will either drive you up the wall or you will produce some amazing drawings while listening to it. You could probably cook a fish to this as well.

Gathering Storm by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other. All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

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

pioneer really. that thing was from 2006.

http://www.bowiewonderworld.com/press/00/0611nokiarecommendp2.htm

it's weird that thing is apparently not from vanity fair or from 2013.

so confusing.

is vanity fair an aggregator now?

i do vaguely remember african-american record people in philly saying vinyls in the 90's. along with "rares". and "grip". and "twelves" for 12-inch singles. a japanese dealer was asking me for twelves last week.

i think someone just put that on their website and attributed it to vanity fair?

this guy. sam. he's from canada.

http://scallemang.ca/

hey that's the guy who posted Bowie's top 25!

It was in Vanity Fair. I remember when it was first published because it was around the time I released The Ascension.

lots of things being posted for a second (at least) time

Branwell, most of those albums date, at the latest, from when DB was much more interested in nailing 15-yo girls than repping for female artists.

ie

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/13/the_dark_side_of_david_bowie_as_the_mourning_goes_on_we_cant_ignore_his_history_with_underaged_groupies_in_70s/

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/13/david_bowie_rock_star_groupies_and_the_sexually_adventurous_70s_labeling_us_as_victims_in_retrospect_is_not_a_very_conscious_thing_to_do/

Just encountered the best Bowie lyric ever (from Tin Machine's 'Crack City'): "They're just a bunch of assholes/With buttholes for their brains"