RIP David Bowie

[Voley]

One of his best epics, for me. Just the right side of being overblown. A gem. Had a couple of drinks and really enjoyed that this evening.

 

[Voley]

Got it on again now.

I'm raising another glass.

 

[oryx]

Grit in the eye moment with this one tonight:



Fucking hell.

RIP David.

You were fucking amazing.

My partner was playing this last night when I got in from work. I think of it as one of 'our' songs and it has a lot of personal meaning for me.

This is one song of his I got into quite recently - I'm not that familiar with the Young Americans album but my partner has it. I love its use of backing vocals.

 

[killer b]

I've been dancing a lot to this lately.

 

[Red Cat]

Is no one else loving Blackstar? I can't stop listening to it.

 

[Cid]

Is no one else loving Blackstar? I can't stop listening to it.

I love the break to memory of pop about halfway through the titular track. The whole album seems to be a kind of 'fuck it, I'll do what I want' finale though... love it.

e2a: and McCaslin's sax is great.

 

[belboid]

Is no one else loving Blackstar? I can't stop listening to it.

I haven't been able to bring myself to listen to it again yet. I will, but I want to be huddled up in bed, going 'oh shit, I get it now' when I do

 

[editor]

Is no one else loving Blackstar? I can't stop listening to it.

It is a fantastic album, which makes his premature death all the poignant. How much great music are we never going to hear now?

 

[editor]

He really was a truly unique character.

Music legend David Bowie has been secretly cremated without any of his family or friends present.

The iconic singer told his loved ones he wanted to “go without any fuss” and not have a funeral service or public memorial.

A source in New York told the Mirror: “There is no public or private service or a public memorial. There is nothing.”

Since the singer's death on Sunday music lovers have been speculating about what plans the legendary showman had for his funeral.

But unbeknown to his millions of fans around the world, his body was quietly cremated shortly after he died.

David Bowie secretly cremated without any of his friends and family present

 

[Miss Caphat]

I've been dancing a lot to this lately.

ever seen the film Frances Ha? there's an excellent dancing to Modern Love scene in it, it always makes me smile

 

[Mation]

He has been cremated already. No one there friends or family, at all. I like that.

David Bowie secretly cremated without any of his friends and family present

(Missed ed's post)

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Funk to funky

 

[Red Cat]

It is a fantastic album, which makes his premature death all the poignant. How much great music are we never going to hear now?

I don't see it like that. I see it as the work of someone, an extraordinary someone, digging really deep in the face of death, looking over his life, imagining release, and giving hope and love for those left behind. I don't think he could have made this album at any other time, its the album he had to make as an artist coming to the end of his life, and an act of generosity, a gift.

 

[Red Cat]

I love the break to memory of pop about halfway through the titular track. The whole album seems to be a kind of 'fuck it, I'll do what I want' finale though... love it.

e2a: and McCaslin's sax is great.

Percussion is also brilliant.

 

[Smangus]

 

[Athos]

The bloke on the left must be shitting himself.

 

[killer b]

It's a photoshop, sorry.

 

[killer b]

ever seen the film Frances Ha? there's an excellent dancing to Modern Love scene in it, it always makes me smile

yeah, it was after seeing Frances Ha that I was reminded of it's excellence.

It's the only thing I did like about the film though...

 

[killer b]

Christ. There's loads of Bowie covers surfacing atm: My brother just alerted me to this - Bananarama's previously shelved SAW produced take on 'Changes'. It's fucking ace...

Bananarama’s Unreleased 1993 Cover Of David Bowie’s “Changes” Has Leaked, And It’s Guilty-Pleasure Gold | Idolator

 

[Red Cat]

I haven't been able to bring myself to listen to it again yet. I will, but I want to be huddled up in bed, going 'oh shit, I get it now' when I do

It is almost unbearably moving.

 

[krtek a houby]

Christ. There's loads of Bowie covers surfacing atm: My brother just alerted me to this - Bananarama's previously shelved SAW produced take on 'Changes'. It's fucking ace...

Bananarama’s Unreleased 1993 Cover Of David Bowie’s “Changes” Has Leaked, And It’s Guilty-Pleasure Gold | Idolator

I prefer the Seu Jorge album

 

[Mation]

I prefer the Seu Jorge album

Oh I love these so much. He totally made up his own lyrics bar a few from the choruses to make the songs recognisable (not that they weren't from the music etc). Bowie thought they were brilliant, too.

 

[Smangus]

It's a photoshop, sorry.

Oh well, never mind.

 

[killer b]

I prefer the Seu Jorge album

Sure it's great, but it's not bananarama banging out some pop perfection over a SAWmill backbeat.

(I have also enjoyed Philip Glass' two Bowie symphonies (Low and Heroes), and mrs B has been advocating the Dylan Howe album, if a more furrowed brow is necessary)

 

[billy_bob]

It's a photoshop, sorry.

Either that, or Lemmy's arm grew back remarkably well later on in his life.

 

[existentialist]

 

[editor]

Bowie was planning another album

About a week before his death, with Blackstar nearing release, David Bowie called his longtime friend and producer Tony Visconti via FaceTime, and told him he wanted to make one more album. In what turned out to have been the final weeks of his life, Bowie wrote and demo-ed five fresh songs, and was anxious to return to the studio one last time. Bowie had known since November that his cancer was terminal, according to Visconti, but if their final conversation was any indication, he had no idea he had so little time left. "At that late stage, he was planning the follow-up toBlackstar," says Visconti, that album's producer, in an interview conducted Wednesday for a Bowie memorial package in the next issue of Rolling Stone.

"And I was thrilled," Visconti continues, "and I thought, and hethought, that he'd have a few months, at least. Obviously, if he's excited about doing his next album, he must've thought he had a few more months. So the end must've been very rapid. I'm not privy to it. I don't know exactly, but he must've taken ill very quickly after that phone call."

David Bowie Planned Post-'Blackstar' Album, 'Thought He Had Few More Months'

 

[editor]

Love his bit from that article:

Bowie had already finished Blackstar by November. But even before then, Visconti noticed the tone of some of the lyrics and told him, "You canny bastard. You're writing a farewell album." Bowie simply laughed in response. "He was so brave and courageous," says Visconti. "And his energy was still incredible for a man who had cancer. He never showed any fear. He was just all business about making the album."

 

[ViolentPanda]

Either that, or Lemmy's arm grew back remarkably well later on in his life.

The Lemster blatantly had lizard genes!

 

[ouchmonkey]

It is a fantastic album, which makes his premature death all the poignant. How much great music are we never going to hear now?

knowing now that he was diagnosed 18 months ago I think explains his return after what? 10 years with the Next Day, I sort of feel the cancer spurred him to do more and if he hadn't got ill he migt not have bothered

just gave Blackstar a couple of listens today - it really is very good isn't it? and I wasn't even that big a fan