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Droopy Goines posted:New song released: I like this one a lot! I liked Blackstar a lot too, but this is great.
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HP Hovercraft posted:The new album is everything I ever wanted, as a massive Bowie fan. I can't help but be reminded of A New Career in a New Town when the harmonica comes in on the last track. If this is his last album it will be a fitting closer, but I hope it isn't. I completely agree, I think it must be intentional. Love it when I heard it first today. cptn_dr posted:Girl Loves Me seems to be the most divisive track on the album. I've seen a few reviews who were left cold by it, but I really enjoyed it. I like it quite a bit too. There's no track on the album I don't like. And I think this version of 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore is much better than the single version. Something about the instrumentation on that one irked me. Anyway I agree that this album is great and I'm enjoying it a lot. Love The Next Day for being a comeback after a long silence but there's only a few tracks I find myself coming back to a lot. This one is an excellent package.
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I can't sleep at all. I think like a lot of people it's impossible to summarize the effect his music had on my life but I feel just heartbroken that he died at a relatively young age, and was still making such good music. I just wish I could have thanked him.
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davebo posted:While certainly not my favorite Bowie work, I always had a special affection for Tin Machine's "If There is Something" because I remember him playing it on SNL when Macaulay Culkin hosted in '91. I was young and the episode had a bunch of recurring characters I liked. Hell I don't know that I even realized David Bowie was the singer until a few years later if they were only introduced as Tin Machine. I know I still have it on VHS somewhere but don't see it online. If anyone happens to have it somewhere I'd love a link, in the meantime here's a different live performance of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhjvWHeSWzI I agree! Seeing that episode was one of my first memories seeing him perform and I was blown away by his presence. I started then buying all the records/cassettes/CDs of Bowie I could find at garage sales for the next few years. I have said this a handful of times on these forums, but while Tin Machine is no where near my favorite of his output, they get dog piled on way more than deserved. I can find one thing to like about even the worst of his output usually and there's so much more quality on the TM albums than on some of his worse solo albums. More than a handful of the songs are in my opinion very excellent too. Personally, Shopping for Girls, Amlapura and Goodbye Mr. Ed are standouts for me. Also, Tin Machine directly set the stage for his work in 1. Outside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_x6JzOIRCA I won't claim it to be his very best but I think people still reject it mainly on principal or some knee-jerk reaction a lot of times. hallo spacedog fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:This isn't news but Hallo Spaceboy still rules, as does the video for it. The visuals are fitting for the chaotic nature of the song. I really love that song (obviously) and I like Pet Shop Boys but I don't really like this mix of it. Way prefer the album version, personally.
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DominoDancing posted:I think Never Let Me Down has one really fantastic song on it, and that's Time Will Crawl. Bowie thought so as well and included it on the iSelect compilation in a drastically remixed version. I know that many people prefer it to the NLMD version because it's a whole lot less 80s in its sound, but personally I actually think the reverb and bombastic approach added to the atmosphere of the original version. Totally agree with this. It's really lyrically evocative and completely out of place with the rest of this album. I'm with you though that I kinda prefer the original album version. Good Soldier Svejk posted:Hey, Loving the Alien is a great fuckin' track. It honestly is, check out the A Reality Tour version if you haven't already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8cENJO39Rs
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I like when covers aren't slavish imitations, especially when in the case of Bowie they won't really approach the original. Subsequently my favorite Bowie cover might this A Place to Bury Strangers cover of Suffragette City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynPoAlUJe-A On that same note I also really love that JG Thirlwell/Melvins cover of Station to Station.
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Trying to figure out if that constitutes an unironic recommendation for the self titled album. I definitely would not recommend starting with the first four albums. I third the notion of looking at a compilation like nothing has changed first and then figuring out what resonates with you. Other answer: heathen or scary monsters? I don't think I've met anyone in my life who hated either.
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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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Strangers is such an incredible song. It's really up there in top favourites.
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Earwicker posted:I've gotten really into Scott Walker lately after reading about him in the Low book. His creepy 60's pop is great but his 1984 album Climate of Hunter is really striking, not only because it's a great album in and of itself, but it clearly had a big impact on the 1.Outside -> Heathen -> Blackstar thread of Bowie's music Climate of Hunter IS really striking. There's not a lot else like it out there. I find myself coming back to it a lot.
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