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David Bowie Anybody out there on this forum who - besides Prince - also likes David Bowie?
To me, the 70s Bowie was what Prince was for the 80s: innovative, influential, one step ahead of all other artists. Bot are still great, talented, gifted musicians, even though Bowie "retired" after his heart problems in 2004. | |
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There are lots of big Bowie fans here, including me. And yes, you're right with 70s Bowie. Hope he comes back someway, somehow, sometime. Hey loudmouth, shut the fuck up, right? | |
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I doubt he'll ever make a comeback. Wish he would though.
You also collect Bowie live recordings? | |
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Oh, hell yes. He's one of the legends of the legends.
People be coming out of the woodwork if they can be harassed out of their stupor. | |
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Heroes is one of my favorite songs of all time. | |
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voyevoda said: Heroes is one of my favorite songs of all time.
A great song indeed, funny it was never a BIG hit in it's days - still it's one of Bowie's best ever songs. The live version sung during the Isolar2 tour even beats the studio version, imho. | |
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isolar2 said: Anybody out there on this forum who - besides Prince - also likes David Bowie?
To me, the 70s Bowie was what Prince was for the 80s: innovative, influential, one step ahead of all other artists. Bot are still great, talented, gifted musicians, even though Bowie "retired" after his heart problems in 2004. I have many of Bowie's CDs, and I got to see him on his last tour in 2004. I was too young to go see him in the 70s, and he didn't play near where I live in the 80s and 90s, except the time I got to see him with Nine Inch Nails...seeing both NIN and Bowie's band onstage together playing "Scary Monsters" was worth the ticket price alone!) Has David completely retired, or did he just stop touring? | |
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Bowie is an all time fave of mine. I have every single album Bowie has released. SynthiaRose said "I'm in love with blackguitaristz. Especially when he talks about Hendrix."
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looooove Bowie.
Aladdin Sane is my favorite album of all time. | |
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blackguitaristz said: Bowie is an all time fave of mine. I have every single album Bowie has released.
Bowie, Prince, and Hendrix are my all time favorite artists. With Bowie, he had such an eye towards merging sound and vision together in such a dynamic way that his music from the Glam era and the Berlin trilogy sound as fresh now as they did 30 or so years ago. "Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish." | |
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I cant begin to tell you how much i lurve Bowie!!!! He is right up there with the Purple Rock!
My favorite Bowie track - Moonage Daydream. Would love to hear P's take on that track! | |
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InsatiableCream said: looooove Bowie.
Aladdin Sane is my favorite album of all time. That's my favorite Bowie album COMPUTERBLUE1984 said: blackguitaristz said: Bowie is an all time fave of mine. I have every single album Bowie has released.
Bowie, Prince, and Hendrix are my all time favorite artists. Those are my all time favs too, well, after you include MJ | |
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DerekH said: I have many of Bowie's CDs, and I got to see him on his last tour in 2004. I was too young to go see him in the 70s, and he didn't play near where I live in the 80s and 90s, except the time I got to see him with Nine Inch Nails...seeing both NIN and Bowie's band onstage together playing "Scary Monsters" was worth the ticket price alone!)
Has David completely retired, or did he just stop touring? No one knows for sure if Bowie retired or just stopped touring. That's the thing about Bowie: it would not surprise me if he would decide to announce a new album or tour today (as an example), but neither would it surprise me if he wouldn't release anything new for years to come... The US/Canadian leg of the 1995 Outside tour. You lucky Americans/Canadians. From what I've heard on bootlegs, those were great concerts. Obscure, packed with lots of lesser known Bowie songs, new arrangements for a couple of older songs. What concert did you attend? This tour combined with the Outside CD meant the Great Comeback for Bowie after his 80s mainstream period. I am not saying he did nothing good in the 80s, but many Bowie fans I spoke somehow lost interest in him during the 80s but got back into Bowie after the release of Outside and the Outside tour. Not a coicidence I guess. [Edited 10/13/09 23:26pm] | |
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In an older Bowie-releated topic called "Leon (1994)" I've read about a 3cd set of Outside outtakes. Though I have approx. 1000 Bowie concerts etc. I've never ever come across a 3cd set of Outside outtakes. There are some compilations (with the same material) like "Something Fishy" and "9. Outsiders" though.
Do any of you guys know anything about this 3cd set? I hope users like "raveun2thejoyfantastic" or "Shapeshifter" are willing to supply some information on this - I could not reply to that topic myself. Thanks in advance! | |
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For sure. "Golden Years" probably plays about my skull everyday. | |
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isolar2 said: Anybody out there on this forum who - besides Prince - also likes David Bowie?
To me, the 70s Bowie was what Prince was for the 80s: pretentious, contrived, soporific. Bot are still washed up, talented, gifted musicians, even though Bowie "retired" after his heart problems in 2004. Did Prince ever deny he had sex with his sister? I believe not. So there U have it..
http://prince.org/msg/8/327790?&pg=2 | |
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Up to 1974 - Brilliant. Fantastic.
1975> 30+ years of perfecting a Bing Crosby impersonation. Not to my taste. ...Puberty clearly came late to David. | |
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TyphoonTip said: Up to 1974 - Brilliant. Fantastic.
1975> 30+ years of perfecting a Bing Crosby impersonation. Not to my taste. ...Puberty clearly came late to David. Tad harsh There's alot of quality stuff from Young Americans onwards. Sure you'll find alot of people here waxing lyrical about the Berlin Trilogy particularly... Station to Station's probably my personal fave - title track is one his greatest IMO. | |
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isolar2 said: DerekH said: I have many of Bowie's CDs, and I got to see him on his last tour in 2004. I was too young to go see him in the 70s, and he didn't play near where I live in the 80s and 90s, except the time I got to see him with Nine Inch Nails...seeing both NIN and Bowie's band onstage together playing "Scary Monsters" was worth the ticket price alone!)
Has David completely retired, or did he just stop touring? No one knows for sure if Bowie retired or just stopped touring. That's the thing about Bowie: it would not surprise me if he would decide to announce a new album or tour today (as an example), but neither would it surprise me if he wouldn't release anything new for years to come... The US/Canadian leg of the 1995 Outside tour. You lucky Americans/Canadians. From what I've heard on bootlegs, those were great concerts. Obscure, packed with lots of lesser known Bowie songs, new arrangements for a couple of older songs. What concert did you attend? This tour combined with the Outside CD meant the Great Comeback for Bowie after his 80s mainstream period. I am not saying he did nothing good in the 80s, but many Bowie fans I spoke somehow lost interest in him during the 80s but got back into Bowie after the release of Outside and the Outside tour. Not a coicidence I guess. [Edited 10/13/09 23:26pm] The concert I went to was in Columbus, Ohio in the US. I liked the Outside CD (and Earthling, too!). I thought Let's Dance was a good album that got very popular, and some Bowie fans didn't like it because it had turned into a "pop" album. When I saw Bowie in '04, he did play "Modern Love", but all he said to introduce it was "this song is from the 80s" (or something like that). I always thought he did Tin Machine to get his old fans back and to lose the 80s pop fans. | |
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DerekH said: The concert I went to was in Columbus, Ohio in the US.
I liked the Outside CD (and Earthling, too!). I thought Let's Dance was a good album that got very popular, and some Bowie fans didn't like it because it had turned into a "pop" album. When I saw Bowie in '04, he did play "Modern Love", but all he said to introduce it was "this song is from the 80s" (or something like that). I always thought he did Tin Machine to get his old fans back and to lose the 80s pop fans. Columbus was a pretty good concert, from what I've heard on bootleg. Plus a live version of "Nite Flights" - love that track though it's not a Bowie original. Eartling's a good album as well, also the Earthling tour. Let's Dance is not my favourite Bowie-era, to be honest. It has some very good moments and I can really appreciate the Serious Moonlight Tour. Seems Bowie himself was not very proud of his 80s output during the Reality Tour in 2003-04. He did a "new" version of Let's Dance as well as Loving the Alien. Those sounded very good. Maybe Tin Machine was indeed his way to get rid of the "mainstream" audience. | |
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TyphoonTip said: Up to 1974 - Brilliant. Fantastic.
1975> 30+ years of perfecting a Bing Crosby impersonation. Not to my taste. ...Puberty clearly came late to David. Would have loved to hear Tin Machine in Bing Crosby style. Serious now, maybe you appreciate some of the later albums like Heathen? To me that album reminds me of Hunky Dory somehow. | |
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r1ghteousone said: Station to Station's probably my personal fave - title track is one his greatest IMO.
Be prepared for the Station to Station special edition 4cd set somewhere early next year - as you may have already read on the internet. One disc with the original album, one 5.1 and two discs including the Uniondale 1976 live concert. | |
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If there is such a being as God, he has odd-coloured eyes.
"A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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isolar2 said: DerekH said: The concert I went to was in Columbus, Ohio in the US.
I liked the Outside CD (and Earthling, too!). I thought Let's Dance was a good album that got very popular, and some Bowie fans didn't like it because it had turned into a "pop" album. When I saw Bowie in '04, he did play "Modern Love", but all he said to introduce it was "this song is from the 80s" (or something like that). I always thought he did Tin Machine to get his old fans back and to lose the 80s pop fans. Columbus was a pretty good concert, from what I've heard on bootleg. Plus a live version of "Nite Flights" - love that track though it's not a Bowie original. Eartling's a good album as well, also the Earthling tour. Let's Dance is not my favourite Bowie-era, to be honest. It has some very good moments and I can really appreciate the Serious Moonlight Tour. Seems Bowie himself was not very proud of his 80s output during the Reality Tour in 2003-04. He did a "new" version of Let's Dance as well as Loving the Alien. Those sounded very good. Maybe Tin Machine was indeed his way to get rid of the "mainstream" audience. I wonder if there's a video of the Columbus show. I used to play the Earthling CD a lot when it was out. I would have gone to see him on that tour if he had played anywhere near me, but I did see him on the MTV "10 Spot" show that was on around the same time of that tour. Bowie does seem a little embarrassed by some of his 80s work. I saw his do the new version of Let's Dance on Youtube. When I saw him in '04, he did "Under Pressure" with Gail (his bass player) singing Freddie's parts of the song, and he did a new version of "Fame", too. I didn't get to see the Serious Moonlight tour in person, but I saw it on TV. I think it's out on DVD now. I already have the Reality Tour, Ziggy movie, and Best Of Bowie DVDs. | |
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His 70's output was incredible, there's something on all them records. Young Americans gets unfairly maligned by his fans, I'd put it among his best. | |
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I love Bowie and his last few albums were incredible. I'm disappointed he has been quite for a while. I know he had health problems and I hope he is alright. He's never been quite for even half this long, has he? | |
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Six quiet years later, I'm still holding out for one more project from Mr. Jones. Just one more. He was on a roll from Tin Machine on to Reality. Truth be told, it was his nineties material that drew me in. The journey through the 'classic' years was all the more eye-opening for it. | |
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isolar2 said: TyphoonTip said: Up to 1974 - Brilliant. Fantastic.
1975> 30+ years of perfecting a Bing Crosby impersonation. Not to my taste. ...Puberty clearly came late to David. Would have loved to hear Tin Machine in Bing Crosby style. Serious now, maybe you appreciate some of the later albums like Heathen? To me that album reminds me of Hunky Dory somehow. In that they both don't remind me of Pantera or Al Jolson. Sure! | |
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bowie is sex i love him
anyone seen the movie | |
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