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Join Date: Nov 2013
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RIP David Bowie
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01-11-2016, 01:43 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
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01-11-2016, 02:58 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Cary, NC
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Wow - what a loss.
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01-11-2016, 02:59 AM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2013
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01-11-2016, 05:56 AM
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Join Date: May 2011
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Can you hear me Major Tom? RIP
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01-11-2016, 06:22 AM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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Ziggy played guitar...damn
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01-11-2016, 06:46 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Dayton, OH
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I didn't realize he was sick.
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01-11-2016, 07:04 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Edge of the Great Dismal Swamp
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Dammit.
His late-70s collaborations with Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, and Adrian Belew are masterpieces.
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01-11-2016, 07:25 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: ...down the gravity well
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A simply amazing body of work from an individual who has yet to be replicated.
I was listening to Blackstar yesterday remarking to the wife how creepy it was (the video is hypnotic), and now if seems easier to understand that this was his parting gift to the masses. I've read he was battling cancer for almost 18 months, and it seems this was the last burst of creativity. It seems very David Bowie-ish to force cancer to submit to your will so you could finish your last album which has ruminations of death and the beyond. Release it on your birthday and then pass 3 days later.
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01-11-2016, 08:10 AM
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College Prospect
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Bryson Shitty, NC
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That sums up my feelings.
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Recklessly enthused, stubbornly amused. FUCK EA
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01-11-2016, 08:21 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: North Carolina
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Last edited by albionmoonlight : 01-11-2016 at 08:21 AM. |
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01-11-2016, 08:32 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Annapolis, Md
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That's well put. Yeah, feeling robbed here, he likely had another reinvention or two in him.
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01-11-2016, 09:04 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Damn ... His last album was released only 2 days ago and it is pretty amazing ... Those 2 new (or "late"
) and stellar albums of 2013/2016 have hopefully introduced a whole new generation to his brilliance.Quote:
In retrospect, that song and video were very reminiscent of Cashs Hurt
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“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!” Last edited by whomario : 01-11-2016 at 09:36 AM. |
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01-11-2016, 09:32 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Edge of the Great Dismal Swamp
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Aye, Blackstar (and especially the song "Lazarus") is amazing--what a magnificent way to wrap up a career and a life.
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01-11-2016, 09:36 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Madison, WI
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Man, oh man.
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01-11-2016, 10:57 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Tampa, FL
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This doesnt bide well for the rest of us. RiP David Bowie. |
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01-11-2016, 03:53 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: North Carolina
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Was really bummed when I heard the news. The man was an absolute icon of music. I don't know that anyone actually embodied the idea of both a rock star and an artist like he did.
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01-11-2016, 04:24 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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This news shocked me, and I'm not even a huge Bowie fan. I like him in a 'classic rock icon' type of way - I'm familiar with a lot of his popular songs, but I've not really sought out his music. The age I am, the first thing that jumps to my mind when I see David Bowie is Labyrinth.
Been listening to Bowie on Spotify (like most of the world I would think) and beginning to appreciate his versatility. Really liking Blackstar after one listen, in particular.
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01-11-2016, 04:46 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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be sure to listen to the mid/late 70s albums ("Berlin Trilogy" --> Low/Heroes/Lodger, although the latter is actually more of a break than the Trilogy title makes it sound like) in full as well. While "Heroes" is obviously a ridiculously powerfull song on its own, listening to the whole album is something else. Those 3 records are, to me, the closest music can come to be comparable to the great "writer-novels" (say Infinite Jest for DFW f.e.). Artists/Big Time Stars just don´t do this anymore (or at least don´t get noticed), simply stop what they are doing and then go to a foreign country and reinvent themselves like he did there. Admittedly i am biased, but that part of his biography always really endeared me to him as a person. EDIT: Guess most have seen this already, but if not its really a brilliant work: 
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“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!” Last edited by whomario : 01-11-2016 at 04:50 PM. |
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02-12-2017, 08:03 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Dec 2009
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Bowie won the Grammy for Blackstar for Best ROck SOng...
don't think anyone will protest that. (maybe Kanye...) |
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02-12-2017, 09:19 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Dec 2009
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Best Rock Song
Best Rock Performance Best Alternative Music Album Best Recording Package BestEngineered Album (Non-Classical) Swept everything it was nominated for |
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