David Bowie Passed Away

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MoonsaultSlayer said:
If someone can glam up my Delta raptor with the lightning bolt, I'll press my space face close to you.
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Kind of tough to place this on a dinosaur, heh.

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After a couple of listens I think Blackstar is a really strong piece of work. Amazing he was able to create a work of art about his passing.
 
It's been 4 days (just flew from Korea to the US, so I'm all screwed up time wise), and it's still hasn't sunk in yet for me.

Throw Alan Rickman's death on top of it and it's a sucker punch to the gut.
 
I guess it's calm enough to post my favorite David Bowie song.

https://youtu.be/0nrMUBWdpTs

It's from his officially unreleased (yet still released) "Toy" sessions, and its a reimagining of his 1970 track sung in 2001. It's one of my favorite because its the only track (in my opinion) that reflects on his age and his life. He sang it for his first album, and here he sings it again some 30 years later. It's quite powerful and heartbreaking, and every time I'd hear it, it would remind me of David Bowie getting old and would always make me tearful.

I heard it again yesterday and I felt numb all over. The lyrics suit him now than it ever did in 1970, and I am so personally glad he revist this song, and made it from a jolly B-side pop song to one of the best David Bowie tracks ever.

I'll miss you a lot, Bowie. You are and will always be my 2nd favorite artist (1st is of course Reznor, who himself is overtly influenced by Bowie's music and presence, but thats another story for another day). I wish I could've seen him live, but his last live performance singing 'Comfortably Numb' really upset me because he definitely was aging and you could tell. It's weird not meeting someone and yet them impacting half of your life with his words and music.

I still love the fact that he named his son Zowie Bowie!! That's Rock N' Roll! I love the fact that he worked with every artist that matters and he loved experimenting, from Trent Reznor to Foo Fighters to TV on the Radio to John Lennon to Air to Moby. The man has done it all and he lived his life to the fullest till his last breath. I fell in love with his movies before I'd fell in love with his music. I fell in love with his music before I fell in love with his personality.

I love you, Bowie. Rest in Peace.
 
shagg_187 said:
I guess it's calm enough to post my favorite David Bowie song.

https://youtu.be/0nrMUBWdpTs

It's from his officially unreleased (yet still released) "Toy" sessions, and its a reimagining of his 1970 track sung in 2001.
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Luckily, it was among the handful of Toy tracks officially released as Heathen bonus tracks and single B-sides (man, oh man, I do not miss having to import region-exclusive singles in order to hear them). It's been one of my favorites as well.
 
My top Bowie songs (really an exercise in futility):
1. Teenage Wildlife
2. We Are The Dead
3. Bewley Brothers
4. Stay
5. Blackout
6. Heroes
7. Five Years
8. Lady Grinning Soul
9. Drift Away
10. Always Crashing In the Same Car
Honourable mention for Modern Love

I can't really order albums, changes based off mood but typically either Heroes, Station to Station, Scary Monsters, Diamond Dogs, or Hunky Dory

I imagine Blackstar tracks will end up on that list once I'm able to listen to the album again without breaking down.
 
Favourite Songs, eh?

So hard but from the top of my head (in no order!!!)

Sweet Thing
Station To Station
Heathen
Aladdin Sane
Moonage Daydream
1984/Dodo, the early "bigger" version
I'm Deranged
Word on a Wing

It also depends on the time of his career. Some songs really shine with different arrangements form different eras. The guy wasn't afraid to change up his own work as he saw fit.

I love them all (except maybe some of his mid-80s stuff) but my favourite albums overall should be Scary Monsters, Diamond Dongs and Station To Station. I also have a soft spot for Outside, Heathen and lately the surpisingly brilliant Blackstar...I just can't listen to that right now. My heart can't take it!
 
DieNgamers said:
Favourite Songs, eh?

So hard but from the top of my head (in no order!!!)

Sweet Thing
Station To Station
Heathen
Aladdin Sane
Moonage Daydream
1984/Dodo, the early "bigger" version
I'm Deranged
Word on a Wing

It also depends on the time of his career. Some songs really shine with different arrangements form different eras. The guy wasn't afraid to change up his own work as he saw fit.

I love them all (except maybe some of his mid-80s stuff) but my favourite albums overall should be Scary Monsters, Diamond Dongs and Station To Station. I also have a soft spot for Outside, Heathen and lately the surpisingly brilliant Blackstar...I just can't listen to that right now. My heart can't take it!
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I've been doing through my collection, just listening to random obscurities that I haven't listened to in far too long.

Dead Man Walking (This One's Not Dead Yet Remix)

Law (Earthings on Fire) Ft. Guest Vocals from Alan Partridge

The Heart's Filthy Lesson (Trent Reznor Remix)

Shadow Man

Fall Dog Bombs The Moon

She'll Drive The Big Car

The last two are from Reality. I never took to the album at first, but upon revisiting a few months or so later, it quietly grew on me. At the same it seemed like a disappointing follow-up to Heathen, which I instantly loved, but this one took a bit more work. Listening to all this is like revisiting an old friend after not seeing them for so long. You instantly just pick up where you left off. It's been too long, David, but it's good to hear all these wonderful songs I discovered so, so long ago again. Shadow Man is such a beautiful song.
 
SiriusXM put back on their limited engagement David Bowie channel. It's a very well done channel. They have so much material to pull from and they are doing a great job of playing songs from his whole discography. They actually played Station to Station. Not to often you hear 10 minute songs on the radio. And they played Black Tie White Noise. I really hope they make it permanent.
 
VistraNorrez said:
SiriusXM put back on their limited engagement David Bowie channel. It's a very well done channel. They have so much material to pull from and they are doing a great job of playing songs from his whole discography. They actually played Station to Station. Not to often you hear 10 minute songs on the radio. And they played Black Tie White Noise. I really hope they make it permanent.
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They have some really shitty stations. This needs to be permanent.

What's the channel number?
 
Flipyap said:
Dead Man Walking never did much for me until I heard the incredible acoustic version.

It made me like the album version a lot more, but I always go back to the version performed seemingly only on talk shows (which sounds kinda weird, but it's so good).
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Oddly enough, only 20 minutes ago I was listening to that acoustic version. First time I've ever heard it as well, and it just made me go back to Earthling to listen to some random tracks from there. There's a lovely acoustic version of Repetition, I believe it was performed at his 50th birthday concert. It has a similar, downbeat vibe to the acoustic version of Dead Man Walking. Though, Bowie gives the vocal a little more bite and anger than the slightly deadpan vocal of the album version.
 
NSFW http://thevillaoformen.tumblr.com/ Some very interesting images here, note the wardrobe and the skull on the desk like in the Lazarus video, the last post was in December.

Also, here's a widescreen version of the Lazarus video.

And a picture from the set:

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Edit: Damn, I wonder if this was always in the back of his mind.

When we were on the tour bus in 1996 or 1997, David said, “Somewhere in the late 70s I met this psychic, who told me I was gonna die around the age of 69 or 70,” and he said this with total certainty. It didn’t sound like the ramblings of one of these crazy people: it was something which he absolutely didn’t doubt at all. I never told anyone about it, but it never left my mind. It was my first thought when the news came in. At the same time as I was enveloped in shock, I was thinking, “He told me that”. Every year, as it’s been getting closer, that’s been on my mind, because we were friends and musical comrades.
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http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/jan/14/david-bowie-mike-garson-pianist-interview
 
Palculator said:
If we're posting favourites I'm gonna go ahead and post Low - Sound and Vision:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoDamvrfUbQ

I absolutely love the overall sound of Low and that's the track I find myself listening to the most often. It's amazing.
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I feel weird posting non-Bowie things in this thread, but if you haven't check out Beck's version. It really is incredible too, slow to start but let it play - although I agree, depending on the day Low is one of my favorite's of Bowie's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyO5MRTbL2s
 
rezn0r said:
I feel weird posting non-Bowie things in this thread, but if you haven't check out Beck's version. It really is incredible too, slow to start but let it play - although I agree, depending on the day Low is one of my favorite's of Bowie's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyO5MRTbL2s
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Hah I already had that ready to post up here. Lots of people are posting other people's tributes to Bowie, new or old and Beck's version says a lot about the track (and Low in general I guess).
 
Considering the classics have mostly been mentioned already, I'm going to make a plug for The Next Day, which really is a very good album imho – one that is probably going to go largely ignored in favor of Blackstar from now on. It really is a nice "retrospective Bowie" album though, nearly on par with Heathen.

Choice picks:

The Stars (Are Out Tonight) - One of these strange rocking Bowie songs that don't have a vocal melody to speak of, but still manage to kick some major ass. And the bridge is awesome.
Where Are We Now? - I was a bit underwhelmed when it first came out, to be honest. It really gets under your skin after a few spins though and the chorus now always brings a tear to my eye.
How Does the Grass Grow? - I really love how the song turns into a completely different song during the bridge. Awesome. And the Velvet Underground-style intro and outro are great as well.
Heat - Bowie goes Scott Walker. Haunting.
 
Very creepy images uploaded to that tumblr, but very consistent with the videos for Blackstar and Lazarus.

That one of the woman 'stretching' is a bit disturbing.

I'd like to think this was Bowie's doing, but I wonder if it was for any reason linked to the album or just a 'private' expression of his own macabre thoughts towards the end?
 
DataStream said:
My top Bowie songs (really an exercise in futility):
1. Teenage Wildlife
2. We Are The Dead
3. Bewley Brothers
4. Stay
5. Blackout
6. Heroes
7. Five Years
8. Lady Grinning Soul
9. Drift Away
10. Always Crashing In the Same Car
Honourable mention for Modern Love

I can't really order albums, changes based off mood but typically either Heroes, Station to Station, Scary Monsters, Diamond Dogs, or Hunky Dory

I imagine Blackstar tracks will end up on that list once I'm able to listen to the album again without breaking down.
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Great list, Teenage Wildlife has turned into one of my favorite Bowie tracks and yet it seems to be pretty under the radar with people I talk to. Such a great sprawling song, wonderful vocals and a blazing guitar track from Fripp, I really do just love that song (as well as the others lol).
 
Scythesurge said:
Great list, Teenage Wildlife has turned into one of my favorite Bowie tracks and yet it seems to be pretty under the radar with people I talk to. Such a great sprawling song, wonderful vocals and a blazing guitar track from Fripp, I really do just love that song (as well as the others lol).
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I think that Scary Monsters is a record that many people take a while to fully embrace. Its odd mix of noisy and often purposefully grating production combined with vocals that are either delivered apathetically distant or over the edge with theatrical drama is at odds with a set of songs that were a return to more straightforward pop songwriting after the berlin albums. I'd say that most days it's my favorite album of his for just those reasons.
 
DataStream said:
I think that Scary Monsters is a record that many people take a while to fully embrace. Its odd mix of noisy and often purposefully grating production combined with vocals that are either delivered apathetically distant or over the edge with theatrical drama is at odds with a set of songs that were a return to more straightforward pop songwriting after the berlin albums. I'd say that most days it's my favorite album of his for just those reasons.
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As I get older I find myself turning to that album more and more, for the reasons you mentioned. My favorite album changes depending on my mood/day, but Scary Monsters is often the album I turn to. I also feel it marks a notable maturity in his vocals, he expanded his range during the Berlin trilogy but I think he really mastered his vocals with Scary Monsters. I feel his re-recording of Panic in Detroit shows this contrast well.
 
Scary Monsters is my favorite Bowie album, so it's nice to see it get some love here. It feels like a culmination of everything Bowie had done to that point. Rock and roll filtered through the production of the Berlin Trilogy. Sort of a palette cleanser for the 80s pop he would soon dive headlong into. The guitar work throughout is amazing, but it goes insane on the title track. It has three of my favorite Bowie tracks, "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)", "Teenage Wildlife" and "Because You're Young".
 
Scary Monsters is one of my favourites. I love the aural dissonance of It's No Game. Ashes to Ashes sounds like it could have been released any time in the last 35 years and still fit. Teenage Wildlife is epic. And of course the title track was clearly something Andrew Eldritch and his ilk took some cues from.
 
There are so many amazing Bowie tracks, It's almost impossible to put a lit together. As an album, Heroes will always have a special place in my soul, it's the first musical memory I had thanks to my dad's love of the album. Scary Monster's, Low, Heathen and The Next Day are all favourites. Blackstar is immense, but it's very difficult to listen to right now.

What about live performances though? His performance of Heroes at Live Aid in 85 really hit home for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOx0ZpMrrU
 
My friend saw Dave Chapelle last night:

Dave: So... [pause] David Bowie died.

Audience: [awww, sigh, soft clap]

Dave: [wait for silence] That guy's always a surprise, I wonder what he'll do next?

:)
 
Fruitster said:
There are so many amazing Bowie tracks, It's almost impossible to put a lit together. As an album, Heroes will always have a special place in my soul, it's the first musical memory I had thanks to my dad's love of the album. Scary Monster's, Low, Heathen and The Next Day are all favourites. Blackstar is immense, but it's very difficult to listen to right now.

What about live performances though? His performance of Heroes at Live Aid in 85 really hit home for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOx0ZpMrrU
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His 78 shows are the top imo:
https://youtu.be/Y9pKUSTsxIU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01yD0Wy7jrY
 
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