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David Bowie died.
« on: January 11, 2016, 06:10:31 AM »
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2016, 06:39:46 AM »
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2016, 07:14:39 AM »
RIP...I liked his music.
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2016, 07:19:48 AM »
All hail Jareth, the Goblin King.


I wasn't at all familiar with his music until I went to college in the early 1980s, and had a floormate who was a HUGE Bowie fan.

Then I saw him in Labyrinth, and got a much better feel for how incredibly talented he was. Labyrinth is still one of my favorite movies.
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2016, 09:12:57 AM »
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This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most the peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2016, 10:04:48 AM »
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2016, 10:38:11 AM »
That's a shock. I wasn't a huge fan, but my ex was. He had some great songs (Blue Jean, for example).

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« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2016, 10:52:59 AM »
If you like to rock, get the album/cd 'David Live'.

David Bowie at the Tower in Philadelphia in 1974. Earl Slick on lead guitar, David Sanborn on sax.

Absolutely smoking rock and roll. One of my top five albums.

And I'm not that big of fan of Bowie's studio albums, or later work.
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2016, 11:27:24 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on January 11, 2016, 07:19:48 AM
Then I saw him in Labyrinth, and got a much better feel for how incredibly talented he was. Labyrinth is still one of my favorite movies.

Must have been hard to act with Michael Moschen's head firmly planted between his shoulder blades for the coolest scenes.
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2016, 12:15:09 PM »
Quote from: roo_ster on January 11, 2016, 09:12:57 AM
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This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most the peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

Eeeeyup.

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"Major Tom" (Space Oddity) was the only Bowie song I liked (save for some elctronic music he did back in the 70s) but I don't for a second doubt his talent.  69 is too young  to step through that door.
R.I.P. Mr. Bowie.
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2016, 09:19:15 PM »
This might of been the "handy" work of The Revenge Society. :rofl:
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2016, 10:41:05 PM »
"Let's Dance" with SRV on guitar FTW
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2016, 11:03:18 PM »
I doubt I could identify a Bowie song.   Another gender confused, drug user dead.  Sorry, I just don't feel a thing for him.
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« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2016, 11:04:53 PM »
Quote from: Mannlicher on January 11, 2016, 11:03:18 PM
I doubt I could identify a Bowie song.   Another gender confused, drug user dead.  Sorry, I just don't feel a thing for him.


yes you have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF551z9KlA8&list=PLJ8y7DDcrI_p8LixOD4nVgrr9P6f4n2Lv

modern rock would not be what it is today without that "gender confused drug user" show some *expletive deleted*ing respect.
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2016, 12:41:02 AM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on January 11, 2016, 11:04:53 PM

modern rock would not be what it is today without that "gender confused drug user" show some *expletive deleted*ing respect.

Um... No? 

The man doesn't share your tastes,  kindly chill the *expletive deleted*ck out.


Can't say I've got much use for his stuff either,  gods rest his soul.  69 is still a good run for that lifestyle.  Almost matched Lemmy.
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2016, 01:22:42 AM »
Quote from: Mannlicher on January 11, 2016, 11:03:18 PM
I doubt I could identify a Bowie song.   Another gender confused, drug user dead.  Sorry, I just don't feel a thing for him.


Was he "gender confused"? Didn't seem like it to me.
You're telling me you have never heard Space Oddity, Rebel Rebel, Golden Years, or Suffragete City? ???
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2016, 07:32:31 AM »
Or Under Pressure, Let's Dance, China Doll, Fame, Heroes, Changes, or Dancing in the Streets.

Heroes was *expletive deleted*ing anthemic to East Berlin youth in the run up to the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

What a sad, sad, life you've led.
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2016, 07:39:38 AM »
Quote from: Andiron on January 12, 2016, 12:41:02 AM
Um... No? 

The man doesn't share your tastes,  kindly chill the *expletive deleted*ck out.


Can't say I've got much use for his stuff either,  gods rest his soul.  69 is still a good run for that lifestyle.  Almost matched Lemmy.

Doesn't share my tastes?

Um, no, by his own admission he knows nothing about Bowie or Bowie's music, yet "gender confused drug user"?

I don't say he has to love Bowie. I can outright say there is stuff in Bowie's (insanely prolific) career that I don't care for. However, because I actually know something about the man, I respect him, even when I don't want to listen to certain songs.
His influence on rock and roll and music in general is massive and that's why Bowie should be respected, even if you personally don't like him.

Furthermore, who the hell goes to someone's funeral and mouths off about how much the dead person sucks? Which would be the anolagy here.
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #18 on: January 12, 2016, 07:41:07 AM »
Seriously.  Under Pressure is one of my favorite songs.

He was a huge influence on rock.

RIP.
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #19 on: January 12, 2016, 07:44:41 AM »
There's a vocals isolation going around the internet right now of Freddie Mercury and David Bowie (and some background singers, probably the rest of Queen) doing Under Pressure.

Without the music smoothing things out you get a real feel for just how incredibly powerful and vibrant their voices were.
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #20 on: January 12, 2016, 08:39:05 AM »
Quote from: Mannlicher on January 11, 2016, 11:03:18 PM
I doubt I could identify a Bowie song.   Another gender confused, drug user dead.  Sorry, I just don't feel a thing for him.

I don't think he was gender confused; as David Bowie was a man, not grammar; and his first language was English (which dispensed with gender in its grammar roughly 1000 years ago).  And as far as I know he has always claimed to be a man.  OTOH, he pretty much a drug-hoovering hedonist for more than half his life, so you got that right.

He did claim to be homosexual for a while and then bisexual and then that that was all bunkum and he had always been a "closeted heterosexual."  I think he was, ah, pumping the bent niche and when that well was dry he broadened his appeal.  Kinda like a male Lady Gaga, but with actual talent.

You may not be able to ID any of his songs as David Bowie songs, but you are likely familiar with several.

I am not sure he was a "great" talent, be he sure was pretty damned good at what he did. 


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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #21 on: January 12, 2016, 09:01:53 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on January 12, 2016, 07:44:41 AM
There's a vocals isolation going around the internet right now of Freddie Mercury and David Bowie (and some background singers, probably the rest of Queen) doing Under Pressure.

Without the music smoothing things out you get a real feel for just how incredibly powerful and vibrant their voices were.

Search Youtube for "isolated vocals" to get more like that.
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« Reply #22 on: January 12, 2016, 09:10:24 AM »
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Re: David Bowie died.
« Reply #23 on: January 12, 2016, 09:21:52 AM »
Everyone is talking about his music.  No one is talking about the great knives. 
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« Reply #24 on: January 12, 2016, 09:24:43 AM »
Walton&Johnson played a parody song yesterday called "Gun Control to Major Tom" that was pretty funny.  A few people didn't seem to think the timing was good.  

I have heard a lot of Bowie's songs, but he was never one I bought albums for.  I might have to at least get a best of album as I do like some of them.  

I guess I would ask the fans here:  If I was to go buy a Bowie album, what would be the best one or two to get? 
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