the bowie thread

Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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droid said:
Actually, according to SM, Bowie was a racist paedophile Nazi...
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Surely no-one who is intelligent enough to be allowed out of the house without a minder actually thinks Bowie was an actual Nazi because once acted like a prat while coked off his tits?

And I can't even be bothered to ask why he would be called a 'paedophile'. Did someone fundamentally misunderstand Labyrinth?
 
droid

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He allegedly deflowered famous 70's underage groupie Lori Maddox. Not sure he ever commented on it.
 
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rubberdingyrapids

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ive listened to some of his albums from the past 15 or so years, but have to admit, i did find some of his attempts at getting older, or rather, SOUNDING of his age, a bit mannered at times, or a bit too contrived. though the fact he had cancer has made me rethink that. or maybe him being diagnosed made him think he had to come up with a new vocal style to go with it (ordinarily i would say im being cynical, but no, this is bowie, im pretty sure thats what he thought!). but i do want to hear blackstar, though i still think he laid the weariness on a bit thick the first time i heard the single.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

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"There's a good case for Bowie as greatest solo artist of the 20th century and that's not just the grief talking."
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I'd go with that. Just for being so good for so long in so many different ways.
 
droid

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Whats really fascinating is the accretion of material, the layers and layers of still unseen stuff available - partly because he was around for so long, but also due to his consistently strong media and publicity profile. Im far from a Bowie obsessive, but Ive been digging around for years and Im still finding shit I haven't seen or heard before, most of it great. Mid-70's US TV appearances alone amount to days of material.
 
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Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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baboon2004 said:
Yeah, social media has redeemed itself a little this morning...
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Somebody well known to all of us was banging on about how Bowie totally ripped off this little-known African o.g. Thin Black Duke, I mean copied the guy's sound, look, persona, the lot.
 
Leo

Leo

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really respect the guy, have a bunch of his albums, "aladdin sane" album still rocks, "station to station" had a big impact on my tastes as a teen.

remember when he even dabbled in drum'n bass?

 
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rubberdingyrapids

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two great covers he did in the last 20 years -



the massive attack version of this is good but sounds a bit of its time now

i think id like to have heard him do a standards album
 
Woebot

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droid said:
Is there anyone left of his stature? Dylan?
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theoretically at least - yes - dylan, mccartney, jagger/richards. but i simply can't imagine getting upset at any of their passing.

blackstar is really extremely good isn't it. i heard it last week too. :eek:
 
Sectionfive

Sectionfive

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One of those guys that was such a constant and so prolific that you just assumed he would be around forever. A real icon

 
droid

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Peter, you beautiful magnificent bastard. Thank you. I read that interview and thought this would plague me till the end of my days - now you say it, it makes perfect sense. Cant believe I didnt think of it myself.

and...

From that article:

"For all the sonic experimentation on display, very few effects were employed during the recording, not even the Eventide Harmonizer which Visconti had applied to live drums on Low after memorably informing Bowie and Eno that "it fucks with the fabric of time". Visconti only used it when mixing some of the Heroes album, and not the title track itself."
From Goldie's Autobiography:

...Mark (Mac - 4 Hero) was really open minded and he suggested we try using an HF 3000, which is an analogue harmoniser. You could say, play one note on a guitar and it would be harmonised by five notes above and five notes below. So I said: I wonder what happens if you put breakbeats into it?...

...The break was from James Brown's 'Funky Drummer', which everyone used right? But not this way. I started to really play with it and take it to the limit, without it falling out. It was contained within the two extremes. And it sounded brilliant - the pitch was going up but the speed stayed the same...

Conclusion: Bowie invented Jungle.
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So he invented jungle AND digital dancehall.
 
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