FUCK YEAH!!!!! I just finished the listing of my 70 Bowie songs that fans should hear as I'm breaking the list down in five parts for five different periods. '67-'73, '74-'82, '83-'91, '92-'04, & 2013-2016.
FUCK YEAH!!!!! I just finished the listing of my 70 Bowie songs that fans should hear as I'm breaking the list down in five parts for five different periods. '67-'73, '74-'82, '83-'91, '92-'04, & 2013-2016.
Some guy's 70th birthday is tomorrow....
There is a new documentary called David Bowie: The Last Five Years that has some great insight and new interviews and information regarding, well, Bowie's last five years.
It is great, and obviously a fucking tear jerker.
It's on my Plex for those of you who are connected, and can be found online if you know where to look
This documentary made me realise that Bowie's last record was released 8 days into 2016, and NIN latest EP was released 8 days before 2016 was over.
I know that some parallels between Bowie and NIN were already pointed out in the NTAE thread, but I think it's interesting how those records sort of mirror each other.
Its hard not to think of the Thin White Duke today, for me its almost everyday.
The Blackstar Outtakes have finally been released as an EP for what would have been David's 70th Birthday, he still delivers.
I'm gonna spend tonight with a couple of bottles of red, listening through to TND & Blackstar followed by The Last Five Years documentary, Happy Birthday David.
Never seen this before! Someone sync'd up the official Nassau '76 audio with . They did an unbelievably good job.
Who can tell me about this?
https://soundcloud.com/thisisthenumb...y-farewell-mix
I've also heard the second disc from that soundtrack as I too haven't heard the cast recording yet. I'm just putting links into the songs I've made for the list which I hopefully will unveil later tonight. I was watching Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars as I still get moved during "The Wild-Eyed Boy from Freecloud" and "My Death". Once I die, I want the latter to be played at my funeral.
in case anyone is curious, here's the songs i played in the LES this past friday in celebration. all vinyl, and i tried to represent all eras as best as possible!
memory of a free festival
v-2 schneider
fantastic voyage
sunday
when the wind blows
you’ve been around
up the hill backwards
crystal japan
moonage daydream (arnold corns)
the voyeur of utter destruction (as beauty)
ricochet
something in the air
love is lost
girl loves me
bring me the disco king
aladdin sane (1913-1938-197?)
fascination
beauty and the beast (extended 12’’)
battle for britain (the letter)
1984/dodo
let me sleep beside you (bbc)
the width of a circle
the man who sold the world (1995)
golden years
breaking glass
red sails
you belong in rock and roll
girls (japanese version)
sweet thing/candidate/sweet thing (reprise)
rebel rebel (single version)
sorrow
queen bitch
soul love
absolute beginners
this is not america
a new career in a new town
i can’t give everything away
the heart’s filthy lesson
it’s no game (part 1)
stay
look back in anger
i’m afraid of americans (v1)
telling lies
cactus
cat people (putting out fire)
station to station
panic in detroit
joe the lion
helden
teenage wildlife
loving the alien (7’’ mix)
thru’ these architects eyes
never let me down
within you
warszawa
the secret life of arabia
ashes to ashes
modern love
sound + vision
right
big brother/chant of the evercircling skeletal family
strangers when we meet
lady grinning soul
quicksand
lazarus
starman
janine
new killer star
drive in saturday
always crashing in the same car
wild is the wind
heathen (the rays)
life on mars
my death
we are the dead
all the madmen
subterraneans
rock ’n’ roll suicide
the bewlay brothers
some are
blue jean
Last edited by frankie teardrop; 01-08-2017 at 04:50 PM.
Fuck Yeah!
Remember how i kept insisting there would be another album at this time?
So do i KIND of win?
Yep. Oh, and here is my Bowie 70 list: http://thevoidgoround.blogspot.com/2.../bowie-70.html
Last edited by elevenism; 01-08-2017 at 08:38 PM.
i answered my own question. (via interwebs research)
There were 5 completed blackstar outtakes and 5 demos that we know of. So the new songs must be 3 of the outtakes, leaving SEVEN extant songs from the blackstar era that we haven't heard yet.
I sure hope there will be albums coming out for years!
And yes, calling the extra songs from the blackstar sessions. But i thought there would be more, released at once.
That's why i said "do i KIND of win."
But now i feel like a dick for talking about this at length. This is a sensitive fucking subject.
I'm just really really happy i was (somewhat) right.
Last edited by elevenism; 01-08-2017 at 08:49 PM.
There has to be, with nearly 50 years of recording sessions there has to be unreleased material but chances are, you are going to get one song per compilation album. I also suspect there will be live albums from nearly every tour. What I want more than anything else is a live DVD/Blu Ray from the 1978 tour.
Nah don't worry about that, we all miss Bowie and it has been a year on Tuesday since he passed we all need to grieve but also need to learn how to enjoy his music again. I never met him and didn't know him but I would be thrilled if millions of people would be enjoying my music long after my death. Somehow I think Bowie would want us to enjoy his music just like he was still with us. The times I saw him live he always had a sense of humor and seemed to enjoy what he was doing.
@Your Name Here , what i had expected was another album intended by the man himself to be released posthumously.
And i think that's what this ep is.
As for me, i never stopped enjoying Bowie's music as if he were still here, because through the music, it feels like he IS still here you know?
But it isn't the same for others i suppose.
So are these exactly the same as the ones that were released on the Lazarus soundtrack a few months back?
My favorite moment of the new doc was when bowie said “ that’s part and parcel of what I do for you. Part of my entertaining factor is lying to you."
Fucking hilarious and so endearing.