How wonderful if all of this actually represents an entirely new phase in Bowie's extraordinary career. How fantastic to have an album as rich and strange as Blackstar that refuses to yield in a few listens. It suggests that, like a modern-day Lazarus of pop, Bowie is well and truly back from beyond.
This is a new phase in his career, though.
The phase where parents show their kids a strange album from back in the day, and the kids say "ugh what is this, this is so weird and old"
And then the next day in the shower they find themselves humming
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I've never really actively sought out Bowie's music. I've always liked what I've heard, but I've never made a point to go "hey, I need to own this David Bowie album".
That said, even to a layperson like me who still gets surprised when they learn a song they heard years back and liked but never followed up is a Bowie song, he was legend. A wild, strange amorphous avatar of Rock And Roll, taking whatever form the music demanded at the time.
He, like Lemmy, was rock and roll shorthand. If an alien from space were to ask you "what is rock and roll", you play a couple Bowie songs and a couple Motorhead songs and show them pictures of Lemmy and David Bowie and they'll nod and understand what rock is.
This is pretty painful, Bowie was a just a majestic man and brilliant artist. He left this world only a little while after my own brother, who also suffered from cancer.
My brother had a degree in audio recording, but never really got to do what he wanted. But, he gets to record with Bowie now.
Changed my Tesla profile pic, everything Bowie is my playlist, and generally feeling sad Other than Pratchett, I can't remember being this bummed by a "famous" death, and at least with Pratchett we knew it was coming ...
Oh man, this one was a real fucking bummer to find out about...and I learned about it over fucking twitch chat of all things.
Well, here's to sound and vision. Here's to the bewlay brothers and diamond dogs. Here's to life on mars and suffragettes in the city. And here's to all the fat skinny people. We've got 5 years people.
I heard this news on the radio this morning in the way to the store. Took me a long time to do my mundane shopping thinking about this loss. When I got back to my car the radio was playing an interview from about 2002 where he was thinking about his influences from his teens and such and how he was part of revolutionizing artistic expression of his and future generations.
His music helped me through some terrible times. I recall listening to 5 Years and remembering people could be amazing and strong in the worst of circumstances. Same with Rock and Roll Suicide. There was a lot in his music about the pain of living but also the good and joy that could be found.
And so many good times too. My dads name is Tom, we used to listen to "Ground Control" and laugh about it, he loved that song. Watching him as Jareth the Goblin Kinh with my sister. Getting high and listening to Diamond Dogs on repeat (that album was trippy!) My first cellphone I set the ringtone to "Ziggy Stardust" Gah so much good stuff.
I'll miss him a lot. He left a lot behind, I guess I just always hoped he'd keep going
Bowie is in Idoru, which I totally missed when I read it. @Jacobkosh
Oh, that's fantastic. I remember when I read this wondering who it was but kind of figured it was someone Gibson knew, one of his buddies or something, maybe Brian Eno. In my defense I have no idea what Brian Eno looks like.
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I love David Bowie. I've had periods of my life when I listened to various albums on a loop. Low was hugely influential in me getting into synthesizers. Really saddened by the news, but I'd heard through the grapevine for a while now that he was sick.
Here's one of my favorite Bowie anecdotes that a buddy who has engineered for Bowie told me for a little cheer up
In the 70s when Bowie moved to NYC, he was having a little trouble adjusting to life in America. More people were coming up to him than in Britain saying "Hey, are you David Bowie?" So he turned to his fellow SoHo expat, John Lennon, asking for advice. Lennon told him to fool them with a joke: whenever anyone asked John Lennon if he was the famous Beatle, Lennon would just say "No, but I wish I had his money!" So Bowie starts doing this and it works most of t time, much to the relief of the thin white duke. Then one day a few years later, when he's just walking around the streets downtown, he hears someone yell across the street: "Hey, are you David Bowie?" He respond the usual way, politely, "No, but I wish I had his money." Then he hears the same person yell back "No, you bastard, you wish you had MY money!" Of course, it was John Lennon.
Lemmy and Bowie in the space of two weeks. This is too much.
Yeah, I'm still pretty bummed out about Lemmy too. Bowie was such a surprise. Man, even at 69 that man looked astoundingly good for his age so much so that his real age just never registered in my mind.
I'm not someone who generally takes celebrity deaths hard - it's a bummer when someone I like dies, but it's not like I knew these people on a personal level. But this one is hitting me hard.
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Not gonna lie. It's a bit of a rough day at work.
I feel like I'm being affected by this in a permanent way.
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Yes he did. But also did so many other people, and birds and bees and such too. I'd rather celebrate what he did while he was alive than cry because today he's away, wouldn't you?
I went a really long chunk of my life without giving David Bowie a serious listen. I heard things. I knew things. We owned albums. But I never really took them in. It wasn't until the day of my fathers funeral that I sat down and listened to a David Bowie album in its entirety. It was Station to Station. I listened to it on loop for days in my room after that loss. I dove into his other work. I did not come up for air. I just went deeper into this sublime connection that pulled me away from the unthinkable and into a world of grandeur and magic. Bowie holds a really special place in my heart. I had no idea that he was sick and the news of his death is tragic in a way that i'm not really smart enough to put into succinct words.
There's a bit of magic in that too.
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@tapeslinger is failed to post this, I'm going to assume that she is too overcome with emotion with the passing of our finely dressed English gentleman to have posted this:
My dad died in October of 2014, and January 11th would've been his 52nd birthday. I'm an atheist, but I've opted to take some solace in the idea that my dad got to meet David Bowie for his birthday this year. It's stupid, I know, but it's putting a smile on my face in the midst of listening to Hunky Dory and crying like a baby.
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Two dudes who passed before there time. If they ever really had a time.
There will never be another like him.
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Forget it...
This is a new phase in his career, though.
The phase where parents show their kids a strange album from back in the day, and the kids say "ugh what is this, this is so weird and old"
And then the next day in the shower they find themselves humming
"Ground control to Major Tom..."
So, thanks for that, and for making weird cool.
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That said, even to a layperson like me who still gets surprised when they learn a song they heard years back and liked but never followed up is a Bowie song, he was legend. A wild, strange amorphous avatar of Rock And Roll, taking whatever form the music demanded at the time.
He, like Lemmy, was rock and roll shorthand. If an alien from space were to ask you "what is rock and roll", you play a couple Bowie songs and a couple Motorhead songs and show them pictures of Lemmy and David Bowie and they'll nod and understand what rock is.
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My brother had a degree in audio recording, but never really got to do what he wanted. But, he gets to record with Bowie now.
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I'm with you. His influence on music throughout the decades is immeasurable and it's sad to see a titan like this pass away.
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Well, here's to sound and vision. Here's to the bewlay brothers and diamond dogs. Here's to life on mars and suffragettes in the city. And here's to all the fat skinny people. We've got 5 years people.
He truly made a mark in so many lives.
And so many good times too. My dads name is Tom, we used to listen to "Ground Control" and laugh about it, he loved that song. Watching him as Jareth the Goblin Kinh with my sister. Getting high and listening to Diamond Dogs on repeat (that album was trippy!) My first cellphone I set the ringtone to "Ziggy Stardust" Gah so much good stuff.
I'll miss him a lot. He left a lot behind, I guess I just always hoped he'd keep going
Bowie is in Idoru, which I totally missed when I read it. @Jacobkosh
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Oh, that's fantastic. I remember when I read this wondering who it was but kind of figured it was someone Gibson knew, one of his buddies or something, maybe Brian Eno. In my defense I have no idea what Brian Eno looks like.
I've seen this copied around a lot. The most common original attribution I've seen is that it was written by Simon Pegg.
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Here's one of my favorite Bowie anecdotes that a buddy who has engineered for Bowie told me for a little cheer up
In the 70s when Bowie moved to NYC, he was having a little trouble adjusting to life in America. More people were coming up to him than in Britain saying "Hey, are you David Bowie?" So he turned to his fellow SoHo expat, John Lennon, asking for advice. Lennon told him to fool them with a joke: whenever anyone asked John Lennon if he was the famous Beatle, Lennon would just say "No, but I wish I had his money!" So Bowie starts doing this and it works most of t time, much to the relief of the thin white duke. Then one day a few years later, when he's just walking around the streets downtown, he hears someone yell across the street: "Hey, are you David Bowie?" He respond the usual way, politely, "No, but I wish I had his money." Then he hears the same person yell back "No, you bastard, you wish you had MY money!" Of course, it was John Lennon.
Yeah, I'm still pretty bummed out about Lemmy too. Bowie was such a surprise. Man, even at 69 that man looked astoundingly good for his age so much so that his real age just never registered in my mind.
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I feel like I'm being affected by this in a permanent way.
(Song starts at 2 mins).
There's a bit of magic in that too.
@tapeslinger is failed to post this, I'm going to assume that she is too overcome with emotion with the passing of our finely dressed English gentleman to have posted this:
He fucking crushed it at 57.
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Ziggy Stardust and Modern Love are really fun on drums.
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
That is a weird fuckin' movie.
I want to say that Bowie's the best part of the film, but a lot of the puppetry is really good, too!
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