David Bowie Passed Away

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I wish I'd listened to Blackstar before this happened. Those who did, that's going to completely transform the way they hear the album. Do things when you think of them, you don't know what the fuck is going to happen.

Obviously, one of the main points of this thread is to listen to some David Bowie music. It's impossible to pick a favorite song with a career that varied. His catalog is so wildly diverse that your absolute favorite could be different every day. One that I always come back to year after year is "I'm Deranged" from Outside and the Lost Highway soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnROqy8NyaE
 
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When I was younger my father would go play the guitar sometimes. He played this one song quite a bit that I eventually started noticing. I started to appreciate it more and more, it was a great track. I never asked him what it was, and he doesn't play guitar as much anymore.

A few months ago MGSV came out, there was a song by Midge Ure called "The Man Who Sold The World" which I really liked. As a guy turning 20 I wasn't familiar with Bowie (or a lot of 60's,70's,80's music), so when I saw Midge Ure's was a cover I decided to look up Bowie.

I then listened to the original by David Bowie and there it was, that song I enjoyed my father playing all those years ago...

Thank you Mr. Bowie, from that day I heard The Man Who Sold The World I learned more and more about your influence in society.

R.I.P.
 
Dee Dee said:
This thread moves fast as the world, one person at a time, wakes up to the horrible discovery that David Bowie is no more.

Yet, a message to all the posters here who have not really heard much of his music, or discovered his greatness - do not let this sad date make you rush to youtube or wherever to "check out this Bowie dude".
Great music will find you eventually. There is a lot to David Bowie. So much it can be intimidating. But your song will find you.

You will be drinking in a bar and it will hit you. It will play on the car radio. Or it will be in a movie. The best scene. You will ask "what's that song" and it's David Bowie, and you will just know.

Let it find you in a true moment, not this sad one though, stained with the knowledge that you just missed him, and that any possibility of ever shaking his hand has passed.

His incredible legacy will reach everyone eventually - his time was cut short, yet his music is eternal. And it will be there for you.
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As poetic as this is, it's also really silly. Let the people discover his music instead of waiting for it to happen.

Anyway, RIP. I know the hits, but now is a good excuse to listen to his other stuff.
 
The thing that gets me, well, there are two things that get me about this.

We lost David Bowie and Lemmy to cancer in the span of two weeks, and I realized that there are a lot of English rock-and-roll legends that are in their late-60s or early -70s in age.

Off the top of my head, there's Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Eric Clapton, the Davies Brothers, Ozzy Osbourne, Mick and Keith... they're all getting up there in age. And it makes me depressed that they may not be here for much longer.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't crying at this realization.
 
The first sentence from the pitchfork review to blackstar still holds true. "David Bowie has died many deaths yet he is still with us."
RIP you amazing human being. It's not gonna get easier.

twinturbo2 said:
The thing that gets me, well, there are two things that get me about this.

We lost David Bowie and Lemmy to cancer in the span of two weeks, and I realized that there are a lot of English rock-and-roll legends that are in their late-60s or early -70s in age.

Off the top of my head, there's Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Eric Clapton, the Davies Brothers, Ozzy Osbourne, Mick and Keith... they're all getting up there in age. And it makes me depressed that they may not be here for much longer.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't crying at this realization.
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Basically.
 
RIP David, you brilliant man...
But this is just freaky! Read a review for his latest album, Blackstar - The quote is now stuck in my head because of this -

"Bowie will live on long after the man has died. For now, though, he’s making the most of his latest reawakening, adding to the myth while the myth is his to hold."
 
Mr. Sam said:
The lyrics to Lazarus from his new album:


Look up here, I’m in heaven

I’ve got scars that can’t be seen

I’ve got drama, can’t be stolen

Everybody knows me now




More significantly, the director of Moon.
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Probably listened to it 6-8 times since I heard of his passing. When I first heard it a few weeks ago I took it far more metaphorically, A man at this point in his life who's pretty happy with his lot. It's not perfect, troubles under the surface, but just happy with his lot.

Now listening to it, it's all there in black and white, a last masterpiece that I imagine will become classic, a foretelling of his own end.

And the moment when he backs into the closet at the end, chills...
 
Like many, David Bowie means a lot to me. We are all a bit strange and weird and Bowie was an artist who never shied away from that. Him doing that made it easier to get through tough those times in life when I didn't feel like I fit in. Here's to this sad news bringing more people his music and helping them out.
 
Holy fucking shit. I couldn't believe when I heard this morning. I'm stunned. I was just listening to Heroes last night too.

An absolute legend. R.I.P.
 
As you get older in life, you steel yourself to the world and don't feel things as intensely as when you were young. If you work in my industry, you get cynical and hard, and kind of lose your soul.

But, fuck me, I am all teared up today.
 
I usually don't get that emotional when a celebrity passes, but the news of his passing made me tear up real hard.

Got into his stuff after seeing his cameo in Zoolander at eleven (yeah
...I'm young) and needed to research his stuff. Found out he was in Labyrinth, which was one of my most favourite films at that age. Got into his music and have been a fan ever since.

Blackstar is an awesome farewell gift and his music he made in all those years will never be forgotten.
 
Never really got into Bowie but that Lazarus video just kicked me in the chest. The lyrics... the way he symbolically backs into a cupboard at the end... he knew it was coming and dedicated himself to his art 'til the very end. I went out and bought a vinyl copy of the Ziggy Stardust album online to add to my collection too.

I swear we've lost too many legends in such a short period of time :(
 
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