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"Moonage Daydream" fascinates me in particular because the version that appears on Ziggy is a fix-up of a song he did while he was messing about with Arnold Corns. Writers do a disservice to artists like Bowie, and their listeners, when they act as if their influence came out of some ineffable void. He was interested in all kinds of stuff and a lot of his work is the result of a melange of influences that he tinkered with and adapted to different purposes.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFDj3shXvco This being of pure energy just phased into our reality for 40 years and just phased out.
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Fuckin hell, with Lemmy and now this it's turning into a really poo poo-tier year for my personal music heroes. When this happens to normal people they either shut down or try to mitigate, people like Freddie Mercury grab the mic and go to loving work  Leon Einstein posted:That's the best song on Rock Band, bar none. I used the rock band chart to mock up actual sheet music for the drums to Moonage Daydream. Think I'll bang out a quick video after work tonight just to upload something in meager tribute.
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I have to echo the comments that 6Music have done an excellent job of paying him tribute all day. If you looking for something to listen to, everything from the breakshow onwards is all Bowie. I only owned Ziggy but I happened to pop in to the supermarket on the way home and while they didn't have Blackstar, he was artist of the month and I picked up Low, Hunky Dory and Diamond Dogs.
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Halloween Jack posted:"Moonage Daydream" fascinates me in particular because the version that appears on Ziggy is a fix-up of a song he did while he was messing about with Arnold Corns. Writers do a disservice to artists like Bowie, and their listeners, when they act as if their influence came out of some ineffable void. He was interested in all kinds of stuff and a lot of his work is the result of a melange of influences that he tinkered with and adapted to different purposes.
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Currently wondering how long before news of a biopic hits.
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Leon Einstein posted:Arnold Corns was just a band he made up; a pseudonym. I don't really understand your point. Arnold Corns wasn't a person. You can also see these weird assumptions when it comes to the characters that Bowie supposedly played. Ziggy Stardust was definitely a character he invented with a pretty solid concept and a character arc. He wrote that character and then played him, he introduced songs in concert as having been written by Ziggy, etc. Now, when it comes to "The Thin White Duke," I'm 90% sure he did not sit down and write a narrative arc about who that guy was and what he was about, there were just some vague concepts about a fascist leader in an apocalyptic Europe going on in his head when he was touring for Station to Station. I've read stuff where people tried to say that Halloween Jack was a character he played, and Halloween Jack's traits are "well he styled his hair this way and wore sunglasses and played with a skull on stage." Articles are already identifying Lazarus as another Bowie "character," and I'm not sure that's really a thing. Steve2911 posted:Currently wondering how long before news of a biopic hits.
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I'm weird in that im REALLY into late era-Bowie, mostly Heathen and onwards. And the old stuff -- I can generally listen to everything hit wise and known - but the deeper stuff takes a few listens, always been that way. Unsure why this is. I adore the man tho.
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I see your point now. Many of his "characters" were actually just Bowie doing what he found exciting at the time.
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Man, I'm hearing new things in these songs that I didn't notice before, things that would later influence other songs. Like Gorillaz' Clint Eastwood uses almost the exact same melodica tune as Station To Station.
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One of my favorite things about Bowie is how I never listened to one of his albums, but yet still stumbled upon great song after song on a yearly basis. Beyond videos on MTV in the nineties there's stuff like Somebody Up There Loves Me in GTA: San Andreas, Cat People in Inglorious Basterds or Crystal Japan because Trent Reznor accidentally turned it into A Warm Place (or is Lost In Translation to blame?). I don't know what lead me to Warszawa, but that was a good day and there are dozens of examples of me discovering songs like that. I do own the DVD of the Reality tour, but I'm not sure I ever watched it. I guess I was just satisfied in the knowledge that there was always more out there and I could stumble on it when I'd least expect it. I changed that today with Blackstar. It's weird to start at the end, but that somehow was fitting. Also, I posted this in the GBS thread but it'll probably be more appreciated here: Radio Soulwax's "Dave" (it's an hour in length) https://vimeo.com/53207758 Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Jan 11, 2016 |
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There's a woman on my Facebook going on about Bowie being a rapist. From what I can see, that accusation isn't super substantiated. Is there anything real to the rumors?
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AGirlWonder posted:There's a woman on my Facebook going on about Bowie being a rapist. From what I can see, that accusation isn't super substantiated. Is there anything real to the rumors? It originates from here https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/i-lost-my-virginity-to-david-bowie Statutory rape, yes. It's nowhere near the levels of jimmy page or townsend.
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Man it is both heartening and sad to see Bowie take up fully half the top 30 albums on iTunes right now (and Scary Monsters coming in at 33)GonSmithe posted:More like The Man Who Fell to Earth. I luckily have this on Blu-ray and was already planning on re-watching tonight...
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ComradeCosmobot posted:(and Scary Monsters coming in at 33) This right here is the biggest crime of all
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triple sulk posted:This right here is the biggest crime of all Actually the biggest crime is that Station to Station is 43.
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incoherent posted:It originates from here https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/i-lost-my-virginity-to-david-bowie Statutory rape, yes. In that thrillist article it seems like she has no regrets for anything that happened with Bowie. I get the impression that others (facebook mob, activists, angry individuals) are insisting that she was raped despite her own claims. This was another rape accusation where he was actually accused, but he got that cleared: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1345&dat=19871119&id=xg8TAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6foDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6582%2C856145&hl=en
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Thank you. I'm being accused of discrediting rape survivors now, because I initially did not believe the rumors she was posting. (But no don't have sex with fifteen year olds.) Still totally inappropriate timing.
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Mierenneuker posted:Also, I posted this in the GBS thread but it'll probably be more appreciated here: Radio Soulwax's "Dave" (it's an hour in length) This is absolutely spectacular and I'm so glad that you linked it here Nile Rodgers: http://pitchfork.com/news/62847-nile-rodgers-reflects-on-david-bowie/
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Things were a lot different in the 70s. Multiple bands wrote songs about teenage groupies. Attitudes have changed considerably in the past few decades, for the better.
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With the liver cancer, I wonder if he had Hepatitis?abraham linksys posted:Nile Rodgers: http://pitchfork.com/news/62847-nile-rodgers-reflects-on-david-bowie/ He says Bowie looked sickly in the video he sent in for Nile's award ceremony - I just googled it and that ceremony was in 2011. EugeneJ fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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TOOT BOOT posted:Things were a lot different in the 70s. Multiple bands wrote songs about teenage groupies. Attitudes have changed considerably in the past few decades, for the better. Bowie was also coked out of his mind for a good deal of the 70s for what it's worth.
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Not that this excuses Bowie's behaviour, but I think either Steve Tyler or Jimmy Page adopted a groupie as a ward so they could travel together
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Not that this excuses Bowie's behaviour, but I think either Steve Tyler or Jimmy Page adopted a groupie as a ward so they could travel together That's Ted Nugent. quote:In 1978, Nugent began a relationship with seventeen-year-old Hawaii native Pele Massa. Due to the age difference they could not marry so Nugent joined Massa's parents in signing documents to make himself her legal guardian, an arrangement that Spin magazine ranked in October 2000 as #63 on their list of the "100 Sleaziest Moments in Rock".
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Stutes posted:That's Ted Nugent. I have a difficult time believing there were 62 moments sleazier than that, to be honest.
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TubeStank posted:I'm gonna kill god if he takes Springsteen or Byrne First song I heard today in the supermarket was Brand New Day by Sting, and I thought to myself "yeah he's probably next"
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EugeneJ posted:First song I heard today in the supermarket was Brand New Day by Sting, and I thought to myself "yeah he's probably next" Has anyone checked on Dylan recently? 
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Reverend Sub-Zero posted:Has anyone checked on Dylan recently? I saw him live a few years ago and can't be rightly convinced he wasn't being operated by an elaborate system of levers and pulleys at the time. And he didn't sound all that great either. It took him at least 4-5 songs just to warm up. Thunder on the Mountain fuckin' rocked though. And Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee. Pretty much any of his new material that's all in the same key the whole song was okay.
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EugeneJ posted:First song I heard today in the supermarket was Brand New Day by Sting, and I thought to myself "yeah he's probably next" Keith Richards is going to outlive all these guys (and also me), isn't he?
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Reverend Sub-Zero posted:Has anyone checked on Dylan recently? Dylan: 4 rows back on 5/15/15. He can actually still croon the unplugged stuff, but uptempo and trying to sing over the band gets embarrassing. He's another one that will never, ever stop. He'll go out busking if necessary. David: Everyone says hi.
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EugeneJ posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/12092385/David-Bowie-dies-from-cancer-latest.html#update-20160111-2240 Stay away from blow, kids
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Man, I'm hearing new things in these songs that I didn't notice before, things that would later influence other songs. Like Gorillaz' Clint Eastwood uses almost the exact same melodica tune as Station To Station. maybe my ears are broken but im really not hearing any similar melodies in Clint Eastwood and Station to Station? this is the song that made my 14 year old self dig deeper into post-Ziggy bowie, and indirectly led me to all sorts of amazing music. still one of my favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLl1MeOCeKI
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Have fun going down the rabbit hole - http://www.whosampled.com/David-Bowie/
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Hadn't had a chance to listen to Blackstar until just a little bit ago and drat is it something knowing what we know now. There's a Starman indeed..........
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Sharks Eat Bear posted:maybe my ears are broken but im really not hearing any similar melodies in Clint Eastwood and Station to Station? 
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Stay away from blow, kids And having cartons of Marlboros thrown at you (and then smoking all of them). Cigarettes are really loving bad, and I say that as a committed tobacco enthusiast 
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