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Post by barny on Jan 26, 2016 13:26:06 GMT
Bowie impersonating Springsteen, Marc Bolan?, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Iggy and Neil Young? while recording Absolute Beginners
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Post by Fuzzy Dunlop on Feb 1, 2016 2:14:23 GMT
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Post by eddiemurphy on Feb 1, 2016 9:55:45 GMT
let's dance in there.  here's my 5. 1) queen bitch 2) five years 3) hang onto yourself 4) golden years 5) rock n roll suicide |
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Post by monkeytennis on Feb 2, 2016 11:57:01 GMT
let's dance is amazing you prick?
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Post by eddiemurphy on Feb 2, 2016 12:47:18 GMT
let's dance is amazing you prick? thought a lot of stuffies on here would hate that. yeah gr8 innit.  |
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Post by barny on Aug 3, 2016 9:36:01 GMT
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Post by para on Aug 3, 2016 17:55:35 GMT
did he die again?
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Post by Columbia_rocks_man on Aug 8, 2016 19:10:28 GMT
Blackstar is still a candidate for my best album of 2016, folks! But it's early days.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2016 5:41:05 GMT
Anyone bothered with that new box-set?
I've been listening to "unreleased" album The Gouster, which is basically an early version of Young Americans before Lennon turned up on set and Bowie changed his mind. No new songs as they were released as bonus tracks on the CD version years ago, but there is a couple of new unheard mixes.
It's interesting stuff. Young Americans has always been the classic era Bowie record that despite loving chunks of, I've not loved as a whole. But listening to what they've presented as The Gouster & going back to Young Americans has helped me appreciate the record a lot more.
The slowed down 7 minute funky version of Joun, I'm Only Dancing is so damn good. Surely would've been a better choice than the Beatles cover of Across The Universe.
The Gouster mixes of Somebody Up There Likes Me & Right have a somewhat darker feel & the drums make it sound like something that could've made Station To Station. Also lacks some of the backing vocals in places. Also prefer the more laid back gouster version of Can You Hear Me.
I think a lot of this arks back to me not being completely sold on YA, so to hear something that feels slightly darker & not quite as in your face as the YA has appealed to me a bit more. But strangely after all this going back and listening to Young Americans I think I'm beginning to love the record as a whole now.
Definitely worth a download.
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Post by krburg on Sept 26, 2016 12:22:49 GMT
Anyone bothered with that new box-set? I've been listening to "unreleased" album The Gouster, which is basically an early version of Young Americans before Lennon turned up on set and Bowie changed his mind. No new songs as they were released as bonus tracks on the CD version years ago, but there is a couple of new unheard mixes. It's interesting stuff. Young Americans has always been the classic era Bowie record that despite loving chunks of, I've not loved as a whole. But listening to what they've presented as The Gouster & going back to Young Americans has helped me appreciate the record a lot more. The slowed down 7 minute funky version of Joun, I'm Only Dancing is so damn good. Surely would've been a better choice than the Beatles cover of Across The Universe. The Gouster mixes of Somebody Up There Likes Me & Right have a somewhat darker feel & the drums make it sound like something that could've made Station To Station. Also lacks some of the backing vocals in places. Also prefer the more laid back gouster version of Can You Hear Me. I think a lot of this arks back to me not being completely sold on YA, so to hear something that feels slightly darker & not quite as in your face as the YA has appealed to me a bit more. But strangely after all this going back and listening to Young Americans I think I'm beginning to love the record as a whole now. Definitely worth a download. Ah nice one, I wasn't really sure about this Gouster release, it seemed like a bit of a cobbled together exploitation and I'd read that many of the songs fans were really intrigued about weren't on it and the ones that were, had been previously released on best of compilations. But glad to hear that some of the mixes are different enough. I do really love YA though, the title track and 'Right' have always been two of my favourite Bowie songs. I've always thought it was criminally overlooked and felt like the perfect transition from glam bowie to what he went on to do with Station to Station through to the Berlin trilogy. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2016 17:45:03 GMT
Billy reckons he isn't dead and it's all a cover up as Ziggy Stardust was spotted at his funeral. Also the original lyrics to Space Oddity mentioned the earth being flat but the government forced Bowie to change them. It's a major tomspiracy if you ask me guys.
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Post by eddiemurphy on Sept 26, 2016 22:55:30 GMT
Billy reckons he isn't dead and it's all a cover up as Ziggy Stardust was spotted at his funeral. Also the original lyrics to Space Oddity mentioned the earth being flat but the government forced Bowie to change them. It's a major tomspiracy if you ask me guys.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2016 13:16:04 GMT
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Post by barny on Jul 21, 2017 22:41:17 GMT
Fuck me, not sure if anybody talked about it back then but that "BBC last 5 years" doc is one of the finest things ever. It's obviously not THE defining Bowie doc, but the approach to those two last albums plus all the connections to his golden periods are perfectly assembled. What a man. Plus I could spend ages watching Visconti work and talk. I would have liked some appearence of the tracks from the second half of Blackstar, but anyway.
I'm going to listen to Where Are We Now on repeat for ten days.
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Post by Columbia_rocks_man on Jul 22, 2017 11:28:33 GMT
Agreed, it really is one of the best music documentaries I've seen. The perfect format.
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Post by sebasco on Jul 22, 2017 11:42:29 GMT
This can't be true.
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Post by monkeytennis on Jul 24, 2017 9:23:50 GMT
Fuck me, not sure if anybody talked about it back then but that "BBC last 5 years" doc is one of the finest things ever. It's obviously not THE defining Bowie doc, but the approach to those two last albums plus all the connections to his golden periods are perfectly assembled. What a man. Plus I could spend ages watching Visconti work and talk. I would have liked some appearence of the tracks from the second half of Blackstar, but anyway. I'm going to listen to Where Are We Now on repeat for ten days. yes it is really, really great. |
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Post by eddiemurphy on Jul 24, 2017 11:56:15 GMT
yeah good doc that. some class musicians on those records. gerry leonard is as tasteful as it gets.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 13:49:45 GMT
It was good, though very flawed. They basically didn't have anywhere enough footage or interviews to fill the 90 minute run-time so disappointingly resorted to showing the "classic" Bowie clips we've all seen a 1000 times before. It would've benefited from being just an hour long. Though considering how little we knew regarding the recording & creation of his final two records this doc delivered some great insight.
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Post by srk on Jul 25, 2017 19:58:57 GMT
Where could one find this doc if one didn't happen to live in the BBC's target market?
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