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Gnossiennes posted:I like Never Let Me Down. Never Let Me Down is a great album with bad production. Also, his first album has a few gems like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjHHIjBy6ag
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Low is great, great great. Bowie is underrated as a producer, and guitarist, and y'know, by producer I mean the art of arrangement, seqeuencing, and timing. Heroes, Low, is my favourite Bowie song. Let's Dance was number one on the day I was born!
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I got "Nothing has changed" and holy poo poo, those songs from Toy are great. Why the hell was that album never released?
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Absolute Beginners is a gem of a track that I'm not sure if all Bowie fans have heard.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4R8HTIgHUU
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Diet Poison posted:I got "Nothing has changed" and holy poo poo, those songs from Toy are great. Why the hell was that album never released? Your Turn to Drive is great. Shadow Man sounds like the ending credits song for a crummy generic drama film in the mid 90s that you catch on showtime mid Sunday afternoon and then promptly forget about.
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hallo spacedog posted:Your Turn to Drive is great. Shadow Man sounds like the ending credits song for a crummy generic drama film in the mid 90s that you catch on showtime mid Sunday afternoon and then promptly forget about. This is all I could think off while listening to Shadow Man.
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My vinyl of Blackstar finally came in. Really cool packaging.
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Lady Gaga just barfed all over the place at the Grammys. Yikes. Started off okay but just went spastic and terrible.
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It was fine. But it should have either been twice as long or had half as many songs. Nothing had room to breathe.
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Vintersorg posted:Lady Gaga just barfed all over the place at the Grammys. Yikes. Started off okay but just went spastic and terrible. That's a bit harsh
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I liked the costumes but I didn't think her voice fit with those songs much at all.
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Feb 16, 2016 05:50
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Gaga was fine, the arrangement was terrible and not a fair tribute.
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I love how the same year that Low came out Nick Lowe released an EP called Bowi And then he wrote a song that borrowed the title from Breaking Glass and sounded like Sound and Vision
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And it's a loving great song too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhvjTcPRYy4 Bowie fans would do well to check him (and of course E.C.) out if they haven't https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0l3QWUXVho
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Oh yeah dude, I love Nick Lowe and Jesus of Cool is one of my all-time favorite albums
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How do Bowie superfans regard Nirvana's cover of Man Who Sold The World? I'm curious.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:How do Bowie superfans regard Nirvana's cover of Man Who Sold The World? I'm curious. I think Bowie himself liked the cover but lamented the fact that he'd never know why Kurt chose to cover it.
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TOOT BOOT posted:I think Bowie himself liked the cover but lamented the fact that he'd never know why Kurt chose to cover it. I've wondered that myself, but then I've never really fully understood what the song is about, to be quite honest.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I've wondered that myself, but then I've never really fully understood what the song is about, to be quite honest. Short answer: Doppelgangers. Long answer: "I guess I wrote it because there was a part of myself that I was looking for. Maybe now that I feel more comfortable with the way that I live my life and my mental state (laughs) and my spiritual state whatever, maybe I feel there's some kind of unity now. That song for me always exemplified kind of how you feel when you're young, when you know that there's a piece of yourself that you haven't really put together yet. You have this great searching, this great need to find out who you really are."
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El Gallinero Gros posted:How do Bowie superfans regard Nirvana's cover of Man Who Sold The World? I'm curious. I don't know if I qualify as a "superfan" but I think it's a good cover.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:How do Bowie superfans regard Nirvana's cover of Man Who Sold The World? I'm curious. It's a pretty good cover but I much prefer the original The best version however is the 1979 SNL performance with Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias
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Pablo Gigante posted:The best version however is the 1979 SNL performance with Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias I had never seen this version until I went to the David Bowie Is exhibit in Chicago last year. Completely blew my mind.
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I'm a superfan of both Bowie and Nirvana and I think it's a good cover. Midge Ure's is the best though, but I'm not a Midge Ure superfan. Edit: Here's the SNL version Frankston fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Feb 18, 2016 |
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TOOT BOOT posted:I think Bowie himself liked the cover but lamented the fact that he'd never know why Kurt chose to cover it. The answer to this is sorta in the video attached to this article, which I figured should be posted in this thread anyway: http://pitchfork.com/news/63625-david-bowie-rejected-a-dave-grohl-collaboration-saying-im-not-made-for-these-times/
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El Gallinero Gros posted:How do Bowie superfans regard Nirvana's cover of Man Who Sold The World? I'm curious. Sad I come in here and it's Nirvana discussion.
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ZoDiAC_ posted:Sad I come in here and it's Nirvana discussion. Seriously. I thought we were getting the billy joel chat going.
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BigFactory posted:Seriously. I thought we were getting the billy joel chat going. one of Bowie's greater but unrecognized moments as Visionary and Prophet occurred on the fifth track of Low wherein he accurately predicted Billy Joel's later years
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Earwicker posted:one of Bowie's greater but unrecognized moments as Visionary and Prophet occurred on the fifth track of Low wherein he accurately predicted Billy Joel's later years
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Earwicker posted:one of Bowie's greater but unrecognized moments as Visionary and Prophet occurred on the fifth track of Low wherein he accurately predicted Billy Joel's later years To be fair the sixth track is also a good punchline for this joke, considering Billy Joel's biography.
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I think Bowie's mellow drum n bass version of "The Man Who Sold the World" that he and Eno cooked up for the 1995 tour is really good. There was a recording of it that came out as the b-side to "Strangers When We Meet" that claims to be live, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that it was actually a studio version. edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay42Z68ScUs chime_on fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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I've listened to the album a good dozen times and the song I come back to is Girl Loves Me because iunno what the gently caress. The narrator sounds so unhinged and hysterical, he uses a mix of that weird Russo-Anglic slang from Clockwork Orange and American urban patois. Is Cheena supposed to mean something? Then there's the whole "Bowie releases a song featuring 'Where the gently caress did Monday go?' On Friday and dies Sunday" thing. I guess it wouldn't be a Bowie album if everything made sense. Only thing that's obvious is drugs are part of the theme. Eifert Posting fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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Cheena means girl/woman in Nadsat. But a lot of the words in the song are Polari, 60s UK gay subculture slang. The lyrics are loving crazy and I love it. It's got to be one of his most deliberately obscure songs. From what I gather by reading various interpretations it's essentially a warped interpretation of A Clockwork Orange, about a group of punk kids doing drugs, getting girls, and evading police, with one standout character lamenting he has his heart set on someone but knows she's trouble and can't get mixed up with her. Then the repeated "where the gently caress did Monday go" along with the days of the week is either him getting hosed up all week so Monday isn't even on his mind anymore, or that Monday used to be a good day for his activities but now hasn't been since his love interest came along (I'm cold to this pig and pug show).
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sticklefifer posted:Cheena means girl/woman in Nadsat. Huh, wonder where that comes from? Nadsat's pretty much straight Russian but I can't think of any Russian slang for a woman that sounds anything like that.
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chime_on posted:I think Bowie's mellow drum n bass version of "The Man Who Sold the World" that he and Eno cooked up for the 1995 tour is really good. There was a recording of it that came out as the b-side to "Strangers When We Meet" that claims to be live, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that it was actually a studio version. I know it's been mentioned but this reminds me of my favorite live reworking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8cENJO39Rs
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I got my wife into David Bowie over the weekend (She grew up in Korea so she hadn't heard more than a couple songs) and now she's sang Fashion half the night the last two nights running. She's a terrible, awful, absolutely horrendous singer.
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According to Wikipedia: "Nadsat is basically English with some borrowed words from Russian. It also contains influences from Cockney rhyming slang, the King James Bible, the German language, some words of unclear origin, and some that Burgess invented. " I heard elsewhere that some Romany (gy[sy) words are used, which I didn't see noted in the Nadsat article on Wikipedia (worth looking up). Polari was originally Victorian slang: "Polari is a mixture of Romance (Italian[5] or Mediterranean Lingua Franca), Romani, London slang,[5] backslang, rhyming slang, sailor slang, and thieves' cant. Later it expanded to contain words from the Yiddish language and from 1960s drug users. It was a constantly developing form of language, with a small core lexicon of about 20 words (including bona (good [6]), ajax (nearby), eek (face), cod (naff, vile), naff (bad, drab), lattie (room, house, flat), nanti (not, no), omi (man), palone (woman), riah (hair), zhoosh (tjuz) (smarten up, stylize), TBH (To Be Had, sexually accessible), trade (sex), vada (see)), and over 500 other lesser-known words." ("Polari", Wikipedia) It was revived and popularised by Kenneth Williams in his 1960s radio performances.
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Leon Einstein posted:Absolute Beginners is a gem of a track that I'm not sure if all Bowie fans have heard. This track is on Bowie at the Beeb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowie_at_the_Beeb I'd absolutely recommend it. The first two discs are recorded at BBC studios from '68-'72 and the last is a live performance from 2000. The first disc contains a lot of songs that were covers or never made it onto albums. The second disc is basically a better version of Ziggy Stardust.
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at the brits they just did a very quick instrumental medley of a few songs with members of bowie's last touring band (including gail ann dorsey) and then a wonderful rendition of life on mars by lorde. rewind this stream to ~10 minutes before this post, when gary oldman was talking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5mFh39FAxc
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