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Holy poo poo, did anyone even know he was battling cancer? This really loving sucks. RIP to a legend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbxp1hC8vts Bowie wrote "Queen Bitch" as an homage to Lou Reed. gently caress it. He out-Lou-Reeded Lou Reed.
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Stupid Dick posted:Holy poo poo, did anyone even know he was battling cancer? This really loving sucks. RIP to a legend. No, I mean, he's basically been out of the public eye for a decade. I'm amazed they told us he died.
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Live for the next hour is Mark Radcliffe playing songs and talking about Bowie on BBC Radio 6: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_6music It will be listen again on the BBC website afterwards. E: This is very good. Songs, memories, clips of interviews, tributes. Really worth checking out. 
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Jan 11, 2016 12:58
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You and I just shuffle off this mortal coil with barely a whimper about our death. David Bowie creates an amazing album out of it. There's now no reason not to refer to David loving Bowie from now on.
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Jan 11, 2016 13:03
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Alan Smithee posted:Any good readups about his significance? I feel like with music it's a lot harder to just pick and play whille really getting a sense of their work's resonance without knowing the time and context of their releases I went to see the museum exhibit this book is based off of in Chicago, and it did a great job putting his life into the context of the surrounding time. Also, for album recommendations, if you want to hear songs you probably haven't heard try Hunky Dory (for the most part) and Lodger, then Heathen.
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Jan 11, 2016 13:10
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7nzkv_david-bowie-klaus-nomi-tvc15-boys-k_music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLAiUHcFBzM
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I know it's a pretty standard promotional tactic these days, but I can't help feeling like he previewed so many of the tracks from this album because he just really wanted to make sure he shared them with us before he died.
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In tribute to a musician who I've been listening to consistently since I was 15, and who's got me through happy times and tough times, I'm going to rank the something awful Bowie obit threads. UPDATED FOR ACCURACY 6. YOSPOS,  david bowie. I didn't read it but it's gotta be the worst.5. GBS, David Bowie has passed. It's really bad. Lots of useless posts or people just going gently caress. And one guy who says we should all see Billy Joel in concert before he dies lol 4. NMD, David Bowie is releasing another album 'Blackstar' on Jan. 8th. This one's tough because the first part where it's people talking about blackstar is pretty good, then it goes south after he died. 3. Phiz, david bowie died. Some pretty good jokes here, just not a lot of posts/nobody posts in phiz. 2. Phiz, r.i.p. david bowie, aryan fetishist/guy who banged mick jagger (1947-2016) Even less posts, but good tin machine song and better thread title. 1. Fyad, Legendary Artist David Bowie Dies at 69 Good jokes, china girl video on first page. BigFactory fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Jan 11, 2016 |
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Cheesus posted:You and I just shuffle off this mortal coil with barely a whimper about our death. Legends have declarations when their time is coming, they don't move silently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99KH0TR-J4 quote:Mercury was so ill when the band recorded the song in 1990, that May had concerns as to whether he was physically capable of singing it. Recalling Mercury's performance, May states; "I said, 'Fred, I don't know if this is going to be possible to sing.' And he went, 'I'll loving do it, darling' — vodka down — and went in and killed it, completely lacerated that vocal."
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I'm basically speechless this morning. It hasn't sunk in yet, I've been listening to the new album every day since it came out, so this doesn't even seem real yet.
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Well, I guess I picked a good time to finally start listening to Bowie. Really dug Blackstar, so now I guess it's time to go back through his catalog.
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Jan 11, 2016 13:50
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Jan 11, 2016 14:07
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One of my favorite Bowie songs is 'We Are the Dead' from Diamond Dogs. I was always hoping that maybe he'd get around to performing it live one of these days, but apparently he wasn't too fond of the tune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUflIrTSwK8
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Jan 11, 2016 14:14
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Rip creator of good music
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I wouldn't love music if it wasn't for Bowie. I'll miss ya, you fuckin kook
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Completely devastated by this news. I haven't stopped listening to Bowie or reading about Bowie since I woke up to a text from my band mate saying he passed this morning. One of, if not the biggest, influences for me. He will live on forever with what he has left behind. Bowie Forever.
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Jan 11, 2016 14:33
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Now he'll never get to see my contact juggling act . I learned to do that thing with the ball from Labyrinth so I could impress David Bowie some day, and now I never will.
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Jan 11, 2016 14:48
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Lemmy passed away and now Bowie... gently caress people dying
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I woke up to a text about it this morning and couldn't believe it then I put Low on, then listened to all of black star. What a loving legend. This is so sad honestly his music changed me and of course so many others.
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Jan 11, 2016 14:55
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I'm in shock. Occasionally I hover on the edge of crying but my mind keeps snapping back and forth between different places. I'm glad my best friend texted me when he heard the news, or I would have found out about it from the loving Republican primary thread in D&D.
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I have no words to express my gratitude for Bowie's creative generosity. The man gave the world over five decades of the best art it's ever seen, literally subsuming himself into his artistic personas for the sake of his work. And instead of quietly retreating to his family when faced with a fatal cancer diagnosis, he wrote some of the most exciting, complex music of his career as a parting gift to all of us. He is truly one of the greatest artists of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMitPOgHCLQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1MXonBG5NI
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Wasn't he gonna have a new album come it this month?
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Golem II posted:Wasn't he gonna have a new album come it this month? what? thread title, my man
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Jesus Christ  I'm listening to Space Oddity now and going forwards chronologically from there all day today.
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TheQat posted:what? thread title, my man Sorry gently caress face
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Golem II posted:Sorry gently caress face You're in no place to be throwing insults if you're not going to read the OP or the full thread title.
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Goddamn, The Man Who Sold The World is such a great album.
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I wondered if Blackstar was what had once been 2. Contamination. I suppose we'll never see it now.
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I was fanatically checking the news and twitter this morning hoping it had been mis-reported. Now the echoes of "A New Career in a New Town" at the beginning of "I Can't Give Everything Away" make so much more sense in a terribly painful way. It's amazing how strong the facade was up to the end - to the point that he got to see his last release through as he intended. "I’m dying to / Push their backs against the grain / And fool them all again and again". I think we were all sufficiently fooled. I thought he had another decade of music in him at least. drat.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Now the echoes of "A New Career in a New Town" at the beginning of "I Can't Give Everything Away" make so much more sense in a terribly painful way. gently caress. The man knew how to say goodbye with class.
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T Bowl posted:Labyrinth tonight, for sure. More like The Man Who Fell to Earth.
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GonSmithe posted:More like The Man Who Fell to Earth. I'd do that too but Labyrinth was a movie I loved when I was like 5 years old and was the way I first loved Bowie so it makes sense to watch it for me. Love the songs on it too, even if it's not his peak.
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