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Count me in as another one who really enjoyed it. I only listened to it once over the weekend, but some of the tracks have been stuck in my head ever since.
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Wait, did he have cancer? I don't remember ever hearing about that. That's gotta be a hoax. Weird that it's on the official page, though.
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Jan 11, 2016 06:37
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His Wiki hasn't been updated and I'm not seeing any news stories about it anywhere besides that post, if that matters.
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Jan 11, 2016 06:44
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loving hell, this is legitimately really sad   At least he was making loving incredible music up until (literally) the very end.
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Jan 11, 2016 06:52
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Steve2911 posted:I was about to say that Duncan Jones has been tweeting normally, but he confirmed it too a few seconds ago. 
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Jan 11, 2016 06:56
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VodeAndreas posted:Celebrity deaths are normally meaningless to me but this really one hurts.
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Jan 11, 2016 07:32
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Droopy Goines posted:Where the gently caress did Monday go. Monday's coming up for me and I don't want to deal with it I just want to stay home and listen to Bowie all day.
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Jan 11, 2016 07:42
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Antti posted:I am not okay with being able to now listen to every David Bowie song that will ever be made. It sucks that we even have to consider that now though
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Jan 11, 2016 08:22
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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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Jan 11, 2016 15:31
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Goddamn, The Man Who Sold The World is such a great album.
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Jan 11, 2016 16:15
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What kind of synth is that used at the beginning of Andy Warhol? He must've been one of the early adopters of synthesizers since that song came out in 1971 then, huh? I know The Beatles used them on a few songs, but they didn't become widespread until later.
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Jan 11, 2016 18:26
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPdY9URPgVI I'm very close to bawling my eyes out at work
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Jan 11, 2016 18:44
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFDj3shXvco How was this man making music this rad 40+ years ago? How did this man even exist at all? How?
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Jan 11, 2016 19:11
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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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Jan 11, 2016 22:32
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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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Jan 12, 2016 03:16
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Conan pays tribute to all the times David Bowie was on his show 
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Jan 12, 2016 03:25
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It's almost midnight. Where the gently caress did Monday go? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDCk1X2S00A 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: 
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Jan 12, 2016 05:59
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Listening to his albums chronologically, it's rather astounding how genre-fluid he was. Like I'm listening to Heroes now and it transitions from flawlessly-polished pop-rock into ambient music in the same album. Eno produced this one, right? He had to. That wouldn't surprise me at all.
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Jan 12, 2016 16:15
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP4WoA7rBoU This loving song came out nearly 40 years ago 
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Jan 12, 2016 16:32
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Leon Einstein posted:I feel like Earthling doesn't get the credit it deserves. The jungle/drum and bass loops are all actual drumming and not him picking out sampled drum loops. There are many strong songs on it. It's not my favorite album by him, but I don't think it's judged fairly as many thought he was jumping onto a trend at the time.
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Jan 12, 2016 17:18
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I forget who said it, if it was in here or another thread, but whoever said his 80s albums kind of suck was actually right. Not all of his 80s albums, mind you, but Tonight and Never Let Me Down specifically. I'm a little over halfway through NLMD in my chronological journey through his discography and it seems like with these last couple albums, he kinda stagnated and just blended in with what other 80s pop artists were doing at the time, losing any unique qualities/creativity that would make them sound like Bowie albums. Although he blended into a musical landscape that he helped create with the much better albums he created years beforehand, so it's a weird situation.
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Jan 12, 2016 21:25
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Halloween Jack posted:He did once say that he put out Tonight "to keep my hand in" because he'd just gained a huge mainstream audience from the success of Let's Dance. He didn't really have new ideas, and it shows quite badly. IMO Tonight had "Blue Jean" and "Loving the Alien" and that's it, and by Bowie's standards they're both pretty forgettable. I may go back and give Never Let Me Down another listen, but nothing about it sticks with me except "Glass Spider," which comes across as a Diamond Dogs throwback.
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Jan 12, 2016 21:36
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...and from the very beginning of Black Tie White Noise, there's a dramatic improvement in quality. This album feels like he's back to being weird, unique Bowie again. Huh. I guess the mid-late 80s were just a slump for him.
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Jan 12, 2016 21:58
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ALFbrot posted:I hope this causes a bunch of re-evaluation, because I still feel like the only person who likes Black Tie White Noise.
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Jan 12, 2016 22:17
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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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjYHTCR0qBk
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Jan 12, 2016 23:35
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Oh poo poo, I had no idea I even posted an alternate mix. I was watching the video on mute while listening to the song in iTunes. Here's the album version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHSe4N1tRQU e: Also, another thing I may be imagining, but the way Trent Reznor sings "everything" in the NIN song Everything sounds just like Bowie singing "I am with name" in Ramona A. Stone. Could be coincidence, but Trent was friends with Bowie so it might not be. Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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Jan 13, 2016 00:00
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Listening to Earthling now and I'd definitely consider this his most aggressive album, but it's awesome. He managed to take genres like drum and bass and industrial, things that seem like they should be out of his wheelhouse, and make them work for him. It's easy to see how an artist like Trent Reznor was influenced by Bowie and then influenced Bowie right back. e: Am I a bad person if Earthling is legitimately one of my favorite Bowie albums? Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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Jan 13, 2016 15:44
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Jesus, I'm listening to Hours now and realizing that if Porcupine Tree lost their prog sensibilities, they'd essentially be a Bowie cover band 
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Jan 13, 2016 16:49
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Am I going crazy from overexposure to Bowie or does The Next Day legitimately have some of his best songs? Maybe not his most experimental, but some of his tightest, most concise pop-rock songs of his career.
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Jan 13, 2016 20:42
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Woah, I don't think I ever noticed those synth stabs in Blackstar before. This is my first time listening to it on headphones, so maybe that's why. Those are gnarly.
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Jan 13, 2016 21:36
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Got all caught up to the present and made a list of the 13 albums of his I enjoyed the most (just in alphabetical order):
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Jan 14, 2016 00:13
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Leon Einstein posted:You don't like Scary Monsters? That album is amazing. Blackstar has some of the same Fripp sounding guitar. It's hard for me to rank his albums. They all scratch different itches.
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Jan 14, 2016 03:18
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HorseRenoir posted:In case you want to feel even more bummed out, last week Bowie was writing songs for another album because he thought he had a few more months to live Well at least we might get a posthumous release out of that.
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Jan 14, 2016 03:55
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Sharks Eat Bear posted: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 It goes to show what an impressive, lengthy catalog he'd built up, and honestly, it made me more able to accept his passing, listening through his entire body of work like that. I'm still not totally okay with it or anything. It's still very sad, and stuff like that new Visconti post punched me right in the gut. But to hear the many albums he put out over the many years he was active...he just had a long, fulfilling career and he explored tons of different ideas, most of which were successful. You aren't able to say that about too many artists when they pass away. And also Blackstar has taken on a new meaning since he passed. It feels like he wrote his own eulogy, which the majority of artists cannot or will not do. He brought his long, storied career to a close on his own terms. I don't know, the circumstances of it are just rather amazing to think about. I'm real sad the guy's gone, but the way he went out was rather extraordinary and kind of beautiful, albeit heartbreaking. Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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Cheesus posted:The "problem" with Station To Station is the song Station To Station. It's such an amazing song that it's an opener and a closer.
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BigFactory posted:I don't think there's a bad song on it. I probably don't need to hear Golden Years again, but you can't say it's not a great single. They're all great songs, although I think I like what he did with Stay on the Hours tour better than the album version, if you can dig up a bootleg. I think it was Hours tour at least.
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Arcade Fire is putting on a Bowie tribute parade here in New Orleans in the French Quarter right now, and apparently so many people came out for it that it's shutting down the Quarter. I probably couldn't even get down there if I tried, but it's awesome that so many people showed up to pay respects I saw some pictures and there's like wall-to-wall people in the streets down there. e: Here's one from like an hour ago: 
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BigRed0427 posted:Sorry if this has been asked before but for someone who never heard Bowie's music before, what would you recommend? SO far I have Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust. 1) Blackstar 2) Diamond Dogs 3) Earthling 4) Heathen 5) Heroes 6) Hunky Dory 7) Let's Dance 8) Lodger 9) Low 10) The Next Day 11) Space Oddity 12) Young Americans 13) Ziggy Stardust Ziggy Stardust is a good start.
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Jan 17, 2016 03:17
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BigFactory posted:I probably like Man Who Sold The World better than Hunky Dory. They both have a couple of clunkers and a bunch of amazing songs but I think I prefer MWSTW's low-fi psychedelic thing to Hunky Dory's polish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDRi30GNFMc
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I forget if I read it here or in a different thread, but whoever said Labyrinth doesn't hold up is full of poo poo. I had the privilege of seeing it in a nearly sold out theater tonight and it still feels magic. It's surreal and creepy and funny as hell and there's whimsical evil all over the place. I don't know what about that doesn't hold up because I loving loved it. Also the theater where I saw it played Bowie's music and a slideshow of pictures of him while everyone was filing into the theater before the movie started, so that was real special
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