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David Bowie RIP
One thing I'm amazed by is how many different things the dude means to people. To me, it's his limitless capacity to give NO fucks about what anyone thinks while making pop art. To others, it's something completely different---I've been seeing an outpouring of support from people who struggled with gender identity issues and how much his example helped them through hard times. More than anything, he was always original. But he is gone, and the world is emptier.
Edit: damn you sub forum choice!
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Seriously bad news, so, so influential in music, fashion, sexuality, satire etc
So many fabulous songs and stellar albums. Grew up with this guy.
RIP
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I 'll be playing a lot of Bowie this week but I think I'll be skipping Space Oddity, it's just to sad.
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"Why?"
No other musician has ever touched me, moved me, inspired me, comforted me, and astonished me like David Bowie. I simply would not be who I am without him. His music has been a constant presence in my life.
It's just so shocking, just yesterday I was listening to Black Star, a record he released last week on his 69th birthday and thinking about how it was probably his best since the 1970s. And he just put out two incredible videos. And I was thinking about how I wanted to see his off-Broadway play...called "Lazarus".
I don't want to believe it. It feels impossible to grieve someone you never knew, really. But when it feels like a part of you has died, it's anything but impossible. He'll never know how much he enriched my life and any number of other people out there, big and small...but I hope he passed knowing that he changed so much about this world for the better.
"Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do"
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Such an outpouring of love from everyone today. People who normally are nothing but snark and jokes have their hearts on the floor.
Last night they loved you, opening doors and pulling some strings, angel
Come get up my baby
In walked luck and you looked in time
Never look back, walk tall, act fine
Come get up my baby
I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years
Nothing's gonna touch you in these golden years
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What are the top 3 albums I should dig into today?
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Sorry, Barnes, I gotta leave this here. Commander Chris Hadfield recorded and filmed this cover of Space Oddity while on board the ISS.
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Let's Dance is 80s Bowie at his best. The title track and "China Girl" were everywhere the summer of 1983 (and beyond).
The Trent Reznor remix of I'm Afraid of Americans is ridiculously fantastic.
The soundtrack of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou has a Brazilian singer named Seu Jorge doing acoustic covers of "Starman", "Rock & Roll Suicide", "Life on Mars?", and "Rebel Rebel" all in Portuguese.
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The eighties output is where he sort of lost his mooring, I think that mega-mainstream success sort of took him away from the transgressive artistry and exploration that characterized the 70s work. But the singles from this time are unimpeachable- "Let's Dance", "China Girl", "Modern Love", "Blue Jean", "Absolute Beginners". Great songs, although the albums find Bowie struggling to make popular music.
In the 1990s, "Black Tie White Noise" offers some odd jazz and hip hop influenced tracks- it's one of his least successful records, but it is also one that improves with deeper listening and time. "Outside" found him back in a very rock framework, obviously influenced by its era and more "industrial" rock like Nine Inch Nails. "Earthling" dabbles with jungle breaks and as a result probably sounds more dated than anything else in the catalog but there are some good tracks. "...Hours" closes out the 90s, a somewhat lukewarm selection of songs that find Bowie more comfortable than restlessly innovating.
"Heathen" and "Reality" are both good albums with some great cuts, but they also signaled a period of slowdown in the 2000s. There is an uncharacteristic ten year gap between "Reality" and "The Next Day", released in 2013. It is a tight, wiry collection of songs that hearten back to "Lodger" and it was quite a return to form.
"Blackstar" came out last week on his 69th and last birthday. I'm still processing it, but it is as aggressively avant garde as anything he has ever done. It's dark and full of saxophones, discordant and beautiful.
I can't believe there won't be another.
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