It's The Station To Station for me too, but The Lodger would be in my top 5
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 9 October 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
The Dancing in the Streets
― Eazy, Monday, 9 October 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
Pretty much exactly right
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 02:28 (six years ago) link
Yep - that top 5 is pretty much my top 5
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 02:34 (six years ago) link
The Reality 0^^deservedly so
― niels, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 14:02 (six years ago) link
the Heathen deserved a vote
― akm, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
certainly deserved more than The The Hours
― akm, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
Of the ones that got 0 votes, I'll rep for The Heathen, The Earthling and The David Bowie
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
haha that would be a great title for a book
― niels, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
due to the chaos of the recent boxset i have decided to re-add the Ryko editions to my digital archive.i got a complete set of the EMI remasters (japanese mini editions) a few years back and so cleared out the digital rips of my Ryko collection as i thought the Ryko set sounded weak and ineffectual. however, according to the SF crew the Ryko editions are far better sonically. i have most of them (just Ziggy missing), so, time to dive in.
― mark e, Friday, 13 October 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
The ‘Mercury’ Demos is a compilation by David Bowie, released in May 2019. It features ten songs in mono, demo form performed by Bowie with his friend John Hutchinson in early 1969. In November 2019, all songs were released on CD on the Conversation Piece box set. Wikipedia
Just heard these folky Mercury demos from 68 & 69 for first time, on Spotify. Space Oddity version is nice as is a song called “An Occasional Dream”
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 January 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
Yeah I like all those. They released almost all of it in spurts last year in stupid variations (7" box, blah blah).
Aapparently there's supposed to be 6 unreleased tracks released weekly starting today on streaming which will wind up on an RSD release later this year called ChangesNowBowie, but I can't locate the song they released on apple music (a 1997 version of Man Who Sold the World).
― akm, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
Will look out for those
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 January 2020 05:33 (four years ago) link
4 years ago today
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 January 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
“Four years”
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 January 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
my brain does hurt a lot
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 January 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
Is it because it is like a warehouse, or is it the concrete all around?
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 January 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
It just occurred to me that while Bowie could be personal, funny or profound as a lyricist, sometimes accidentally so, he never really tries to be clever, does he?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
Which is a good thing, I hope
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
Now the workers have struck for fameBecause Lennon's on sale again
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I think that whole weird verse is trying to be clever.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/AtKx7nM.jpgKeep boxing clever.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
I totally think it's a good thing he never really tries to be clever. Jut surprising, given he's smart, pretentious, ambitious, etc. that he never really seemed tempted to show off lyrically. If anything he went the opposite direction. Automatic writing, cut-ups, stream of consciousness, etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
I don't know how you're defining 'trying to be clever' tbh.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
For instance...
"I'm closer to the Golden DawnImmersed in Crowley's uniformOf imageryI'm living in a silent filmPortraying Himmler's sacred realmOf dream reality"
... is that trying to be clever?
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
There's quite a lot of that sort of stuff pre-Ziggy!
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I don't think of that as clever, just evocative. I'm thinking more of the, yeah, Elvis Costello vein, of couplets and quips and tricky wordplay.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
Right, get you, no he did not, thank God!
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
he definitely did it sometimes, but i agree that it's good he largely avoided it and in any case the examples that come to mind (including the one i posted) rarely come off as smug or obnoxious
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
He doesn't go much for rhymes, which precludes a lot of opportunities cleverness.
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
Last two posts otm.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link