Diamond Dogs was my favorite Bowie album long before it was attached to Metal Gear Solid.
It's a seriously solid fucking album.
"This ain't rock n' roll, this is genocide!" What a hell of a way to start an album.
Diamond Dogs is this perfect little sliver of time where you have the hard rocking, solid rocker Bowie that came out of The Man Who Sold the World and Aladdin Sane, but hasn't quite arrived at the out there weirdness and darkness of Station to Station and Low and Heroes. I mean, you can argue about what is the best Bowie or the most Bowie or whatever, but Diamond Dogs is solid fucking hits from start to finish and it doesn't sacrifice any of the fun, strange things that make something like Low so memorable.
BURR: David Bowie Breaks Adele's Vevo Record, the Bowie legacy is secure HAMILTON: Sure BURR: And all he had to do was die HAMILTON: Yeah, that's a lot less work BURR: We oughta give it a try HAMILTON: Ha!
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Diamond Dogs was my favorite Bowie album long before it was attached to Metal Gear Solid.
It's a seriously solid fucking album.
"This ain't rock n' roll, this is genocide!" What a hell of a way to start an album.
Diamond Dogs is this perfect little sliver of time where you have the hard rocking, solid rocker Bowie that came out of The Man Who Sold the World and Aladdin Sane, but hasn't quite arrived at the out there weirdness and darkness of Station to Station and Low and Heroes. I mean, you can argue about what is the best Bowie or the most Bowie or whatever, but Diamond Dogs is solid fucking hits from start to finish and it doesn't sacrifice any of the fun, strange things that make something like Low so memorable.
I have regularly started even my non-Diamond Dogs Bowie karaoke choices with that shit
I love it so much
That one sentence, and you understand everywhere you're going to be going on the album
For Omikron. Turns out I already owned it since 2014 on Steam. Oh god, my Steam backlog is insane.
Here is part of Cage's story.
I met David for the first time in 1998. It was in Wimbledon, in the offices of the publisher of my first video game, Omikron: The Nomad Soul. We were looking for a musical collaboration with a prestigious artist and I had been asked to make a short-list of artists that I would dream of working with. Bowie was, of course, number one on my list, although no one seriously thought we could even talk to him. We sent him a nice letter anyway … who knows? … and to our huge surprise, his manager answered that he could be interested and wanted to meet.
So here we are in this nice office waiting for David Bowie in a meeting room, not knowing what to expect. I will always remember the minute he came in the room. He had an incredible aura, something I had never seen before or since then. He was very nice and friendly, apologized for being ten minutes late because of the traffic, and introduced us to his “video game specialist”, his son Duncan Jones (he would later become a talented director).
I had been briefed that Mr. Bowie would only have 20 minutes, and that I would have to be very concise. I had been working on the game night and day for two years; I had hundreds of pieces of artwork, thousands of pages of script, some 3D sets running on a PC, and I had no clue how I could share all the ideas, and the passion and enthusiasm I had for this project, in 20 minutes. Fortunately, the meeting went on for two and a half hours. Bowie listened with a lot of attention, looked at everything we showed him, and asked some relevant questions.
At the end of the meeting, he asked me, “All this sounds very exciting, what do you expect from me?” All we wanted was the rights to use his song “Heroes”, which would have been a fantastic asset for the game and an immense honor for a young studio like Quantic Dream (or any studio, actually). Bowie stayed silent for a second and finally answered, “No, I am not going to give you an old song,” there was tremendous disappointment in the room, “I am going to write an album for you guys.” We were all looking at each other, not sure we understood him right and wondering if he was serious. “Tell me what else I could do for you,” he said. Well, we needed instrumental soundtracks for the game, and it would be amazing to have David Bowie be a character in the game. We shook hands and wondered if all this was true or if we had all dreamed it.
...huh. I never played Omikron and had no idea that Bowie was involved in the game's story/design, as well as a bunch of songs that were initially written for the game and then rewritten to appear on 'Hours...'
The opening is one of the charaters pleading with you, the player, to use your computer to help save their world
well it's a David Cage game so my initial assumption is "a few neat ideas bogged down by really poor execution"
Pretty much. Part of it isn't just David Cage, but the game being released in 1999. A lot of games from that era have no aged well in terms of controls and gameplay because of advancements since then. Most games back then didn't have the polish major games do now either.
Jeez, the day Bowie passed I looked up Omikron for Dreamcast on Amazon, since it's one of the few Dreamcast games I never got around to. It was $12 disc only and I figured I'd sleep on it.
Now the lowest price is $89.
I know it's supply and demand at all, but I get so grossed out over people profiting on other peoples death.
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This may have already been posted but seeing Reflektor reminded me another time Bowie (the Bowster) guested for some backing vocals for another acclaimed indie rock combo.
I'm slightly surprised that The Man Who Fell to Earth's Criterion Edition on Blu-ray isn't going for crazy expensive prices.
I'd seen it for like 90 years ago, but it seems like it's going for around 135 or so sealed. I'm guessing the availability of a non-Criterion edition probably lowered the price at some point.
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Oh shit I forgot about station to station you're right that's next
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It has very little tonally in common with Metal Gear! "Diamond Dogs" doesn't even sound like a good theme song for the Diamond Dogs!
http://www.audioentropy.com/
YES DO THAT DO THAT THING YOU JUST SAID
What a beast
yeah i feel you on this
in my exploration of Bowie's music I keep running into
"hey I know this song"
"hey I know this song"
"hey I know this song"
hey holy fuck Bowie made so many awesome songs that I didn't know were him. How could one man make all these awesome hits?!
and then learning it was by queen.
and when I learned what the entirety of Bohemian Rhapsody sounded like.
How did we learn this shit before youtube?
edit: and now the widow of the late Wayne Staitc, lead vocalist of Static X, has now been found dead.
Not on the same level as Bowie, but damn she was 33 had a lot of life left to live.
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Granted, Bowie's direct contribution to this song was only backing vocals, but the song itself just feels Bowie as hell.
Folks discovering Bowie is so so so so great, and I'm like vicariously re-expeiencing albums I've loved for literally decades
I wish the circumstances were better, but I also feel like this is the exact shit he would want.
It's a seriously solid fucking album.
"This ain't rock n' roll, this is genocide!" What a hell of a way to start an album.
Diamond Dogs is this perfect little sliver of time where you have the hard rocking, solid rocker Bowie that came out of The Man Who Sold the World and Aladdin Sane, but hasn't quite arrived at the out there weirdness and darkness of Station to Station and Low and Heroes. I mean, you can argue about what is the best Bowie or the most Bowie or whatever, but Diamond Dogs is solid fucking hits from start to finish and it doesn't sacrifice any of the fun, strange things that make something like Low so memorable.
I started with The Man Who Sold The World. Then went on to Ziggy. Followed that with Diamond Dogs.
Yeah, I've been missing out.
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HAMILTON: Sure
BURR: And all he had to do was die
HAMILTON: Yeah, that's a lot less work
BURR: We oughta give it a try
HAMILTON: Ha!
i'm gonna have to re listen to that album without the distractions of work
I hit it yesterday, and honestly it just kind of passed me by
edit: fixed the link.
I have regularly started even my non-Diamond Dogs Bowie karaoke choices with that shit
I love it so much
That one sentence, and you understand everywhere you're going to be going on the album
crazy -- wouldn't be surprised if this was yet another reference bowie intended with the title
but also, how god damned Danzig is this track? Jesus christ.
For Omikron. Turns out I already owned it since 2014 on Steam. Oh god, my Steam backlog is insane.
Here is part of Cage's story.
The full thing here:
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2016/01/14/quantic-dream_2700_s-david-cage-reflects-on-his-first-meeting-with-david-bowie-for-omikron.aspx?utm_content=buffercfb72&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
...huh. I never played Omikron and had no idea that Bowie was involved in the game's story/design, as well as a bunch of songs that were initially written for the game and then rewritten to appear on 'Hours...'
It's bonkers, but in a really endearing way
The opening is one of the charaters pleading with you, the player, to use your computer to help save their world
well it's a David Cage game so my initial assumption is "a few neat ideas bogged down by really poor execution"
And I just discovered a selection of extra tracks from The Next Day that I'd never listened to before
I'm really into this jam
So, Bowie & Elvis have the same birthday, which is also the date Blackstar (the album) was released.
That's a bit too much to be a coincidence.
Pretty much. Part of it isn't just David Cage, but the game being released in 1999. A lot of games from that era have no aged well in terms of controls and gameplay because of advancements since then. Most games back then didn't have the polish major games do now either.
Now the lowest price is $89.
I know it's supply and demand at all, but I get so grossed out over people profiting on other peoples death.
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or... you know... free if you use the code people linked in this thread
Thin white duke was probably mine
Damn you Squenix, fix your web store......*realizes half the planet is buying the game*
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Don't forget to listen to "Under Pressure" after Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
that story about Bowie straight up wanting to write a whole album is damn cool, but i have a literal pile of games i haven't even touched yet.
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omikron is a david cage game
I'd seen it for like 90 years ago, but it seems like it's going for around 135 or so sealed. I'm guessing the availability of a non-Criterion edition probably lowered the price at some point.
Lou Reed did did a Reading for this album as well, it's real good,