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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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Sharks Eat Bear posted: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 not that anyone cares but here's a little reflection on this because gently caress it bowie was amazing and i just want to listen to and think about him tonight my sister is about 7 years older than me and was pretty hip when she was in HS and college. she liked a lot of great indie/alternative/underground music, spanning from late 60s era stuff to more "modern" (at the time i.e. mid to late 90s) stuff. when i was 12-13 years old i started realizing that there was a world of music outside of the Billboard Top 40 and my parents' favorite Oldies station, and my sister became an invaluable resource one of, if not THE, first albums she showed me was ziggy stardust. other of the bands she showed me early on were the VU and television. it sounds dramatic, but being turned onto bowie and his ilk was a definitive moment in my life. music was the great passion and obsession of my adolescence, and digging deeper into bowie was a catalyst to discovering so much more amazing music. bowie is as close to an "essence" of my music taste as you can get, and from reading the reactions in this thread and elsewhere i know i'm not the only one that feels this way. i'm bummed that he's gone, and that it was so unexpected (for me) -- but to be honest any real sadness is totally overwhelmed by just awe at the strength of his body of work and the extraordinary level of quality he was able to maintain right up until the end, without ever becoming repetitive, overly nostalgic or irrelevant. and even though i've been listening to his music pretty consistently for 15 years, i'd never really gotten into his albums from the 00s. now that i'm listening to them, i have no idea why it took me this long, because they're pretty fuckin rad too. i honestly can't think of any musician or group that has had a career trajectory quite like his, in terms of the combination of longevity and stylistic variety
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Takes No Damage posted:A bit rushed but I did get a decent take of Moonage Daydream done tonight. I'm still very much an amateur behind the kit, but this song is one of my old favorites from Rock Band and it's even more fun on a real drumset: Nice! The drum part from Soul Love is one of my favorites (actually the whole song is, but the drums are great on their own), and is also a ton of fun to play.
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il_cornuto posted:Having just listened to Reality for the first time, am I wrong for preferring the Lohner/Bowie/Fruiscante/Keenan version of Bring Me The Disco King? The original is still great and has its own merits, but the brooding music of the Lohner mix fits the vocal better IMO. IMO the original is more brooding, the Lohner mix is a little too dramatic and over-produced. not bad, but I prefer the original
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I do, just wasn't a personal favorite for me. The ones I listed are just the ones that had the most profound impact on me/stuck with me the most, some very recently and some for a long time now. it's interesting, because i see the list lacks Station To Station and my immediate reaction is total disbelief, but if anything it just speaks to the breadth of Bowie's material. Really incredible Also I've probably only listened to 4-5 Bowie albums consistently in the past 10 years, only touching on the others very briefly when I first got into him before that. Now I'm revisiting all the albums I've been neglecting, and holy poo poo have I been missing out.
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BigFactory posted:Phish did a too on the nose and not that good cover at the Clifford Ball 20 years ago holy poo poo that was a long time ago. of all the Bowie songs phish could have picked, *those* were the vocals they thought they should try?! yeesh
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Beck's "re-imagining" of Sound & Vision is kind of fun to watch once, but its about 3 mins too long and not at all something I'd want to listen to regularly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyO5MRTbL2s Also, this is probably too obvious to need mentioning, but if you haven't heard any of Seu Jorge's covers, you really should check them out. Here's my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spctmJo9BPg
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I finally got around to listening to the new album last night. Initial impression is that it's quite good, it's really impressive how good it is and how fresh it sounds. Title track and Lazarus were obvious standouts. Only track I don't really enjoy is Sue (or in a Season of Crime). Can't really imagine a more graceful end to an incredible career, and I'm still struggling to think of ANY other modern musician who's had a career that can rival Bowie's longevity and sustained creativity. I'm still not familiar enough with a lot of Bowie's output from the 90s/00s to say where I think Blackstar stacks up, but at least upon my first listen it strikes me as not immediately worse than anything I've heard of his post-BTWN. edit: Lazarus reminds me a lot of early Roxy Music, in a good way Sharks Eat Bear fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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Cemetry Gator posted:It's kind of like the Beatles. They were paying attention to what others did, and they pulled it all together in their music, but they weren't just coming up with all these ideas. Yep. I think a lot of people think that they care about innovation in music, when what they really care about is just solid songwriting. Newness is a more objective measure than goodness, which I think attracts people to it. But really, what makes Bowie -- and the Beatles, and others -- so impressive isn't the newness of their material, it's the fact that they can consistently make good music using so many different styles and pulling from so many influences while still maintaining their own essence.
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china girl is a great song and bowie's version is better 
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