Let's talk about Bowie. I want to talk about Bowie. Is the "David Live" album any good?
eh it's alright. Stage is ten times better.
― stephen, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 03:03 (fifteen years ago) link
is that really great version of "Blackout" on Stage? Blackout Live is Bowie POV for sure
Is it safe to say that David Bowie is one of those artists with NO DISCERNABLE INDIVIDUAL SONGWRITING STYLE, from album to album? I don't know if this means he's very diverse, or just a corporate whore.
In my mind, I'd say, there's a very tangible sense of Bowiesque songwriting.. All of his songs have a sort of simplicity and, excluding his more abstract material, melodic verve. I'd say it's harder to reconcile "TV EYE" and "Candy" being written by the same man than it is "The Man Who Sold the World" and "Ashes to Ashes." I think Bowie's lyrical style is a dead giveaway, too. Did anyone ever notice that "Fantastic Voyage" and "Boys Keep Swinging" are the exact same chords and song structure with different songs on top? I always thought that was a remarkable feat of songwriting, and one he pulled off ina very unique way.
― people explosion, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 04:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Also Red Money/Sister Midnight
― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 05:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Thought I saw an ad for a new album today but it turns out it's just a release of that VH1 thing he did around when hours... came out. I guess he's just going to relax and do random backing vocals from here on in or something.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
The thought of someone hating David Bowie DOES NOT COMPUTE.
My mom told me a little bit ago the 'Ashes to Ashes' was playing on the hospital room TV while she was in labor & she was annoyed bcz my dad was paying attention to it and not her. I don't blame him!
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
While she was in labor...WITH ME!!!
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I miss his original choppers, tho.
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
My favorite site untouched by time.
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
More specifically: http://areaology.com/area.html
I listened to Reality for the first time in ages. A very good record – a lesser Lodger, of which it's a thematic and aura cousin.
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
(xxxpost)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtrjZRQ8TzU
― grocery groin (snoball), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
"Abbott to Abbott..."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
"My mama said to get me bornShe had to tell Dad to stop being torn..."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
<3
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
reality is alright, I liked it a lot at first, then really hated it, now I'm back to thinking "eh". it's no heathen. I hope that when he gets around to doing a new album it's at least that good.
― akm, Monday, 3 August 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Heathen had too many ballads. Then again, maybe that's all he can write and sing now.
― Anatomy of a Morbius (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 August 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
As found/shared by Tom E. on Twitter -- a new blog dedicated to reviewing Bowie's output song by song (currently in late 1966):
http://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 August 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
good use of "cat people" in the new tarantino movie. couldn't tell what song it was at first
― kamerad, Saturday, 29 August 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Just out for a stroll.
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/418843_253659648083931_1472298826_n.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Something tells me he knows he's being photographed.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
You don't say.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Something tells me he's trying to look like an "American".
― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
a young one at that.
RETURN OF THE THIN WHITE DAD
― da croupier, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
throwing darts in photog's eyes
― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
"You know, before I go to the reviews section to find out what exciting acts are coming up from the underground...let's just check where Uncut put me on this 100 icons thing."
― da croupier, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
might as well, right?
― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
The Top Ten 1. Dylan, Bob – Highway 61 Revisited2. Presley, Elvis – Heartbreak Hotel [7”]3. Beatles – She Loves You [7”]4. Rolling Stones – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction [7”]5. A Clockwork Orange (film)6. Godfather / Godfather Part 2 (films)7. Bowie, David – Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars8. Taxi Driver (film)9. Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the…10. Prisoner [TV series]
He's reasonable enough that I bet his only quibble with the six above him is A Clockwork Orange
― da croupier, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://images.thegauntlet.com/pics/manson-fuck.jpg
Hi, I'm Marilyn Manson, please don't take my picture! (But please do, because I am Marilyn Manson, boo!)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
What the shit, get that out of here.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
Looks like he and Jonathan Davis can go on the "Where's My Metabolism" tour.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
What's he doing to that little kid's hand?
― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
he tore the arm off at the socket
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
It's actually the prehensile tale of his trained pet devil pig.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
dude with camera filming while kid gets dismembered...
― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link