prince.org's official David Bowie "The Next Day" album thread

ALBUM COVER:

RELEASE DATES:

TRACKLISTING:

1. The Next Day
2. Dirty Boys
3. The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
4. Love Is Lost
5. Where Are We Now?
6. Valentine's Day
7. If You Can See Me
8. I'd Rather Be High
9. Boss of Me
10. Dancing Out In Space
11. How Does the Grass Grow?
12. (You Will) Set the World on Fire
13. You Feel So Lonely You Could Die
14. Heat
    DELUX EDITION TRACKS:
15. So She (Bonus Track)
16. I'll Take You There (Bonus Track)
17. Plan (Bonus Track)

SINGLES:

WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE:

ALBUM PR:

New York, NY--January 8, 2013--In the early morning hours of Tuesday the 8th January, Iso/Columbia Records released a new single by David Bowie titled 'Where Are We Now?' exclusively launching in the iTunes Store in 119 countries. David Bowie's first new album in ten years and his 30th studio recording, THE NEXT DAY is also available as a pre-order on iTunes with a wide release scheduled for March. January the 8th is of course David Bowie's birthday, a timely moment for such a treasure to appear as if out of nowhere.

Throwing shadows and avoiding the industry treadmill is very David Bowie despite his extraordinary track record that includes album sales in excess of 130 million not to mention his massive contributions in the area of art, fashion, style, sexual exploration and social commentary. It goes without saying that he has sold out stadiums and broken ticket records throughout the world during this most influential of careers.

In recent years radio silence has been broken only by endless speculation, rumor and wishful thinking ....a new record...who would have ever thought it, who'd have ever dreamed it! After all David is the kind of artist who writes and performs what he wants when he wants...when he has something to say as opposed to something to sell. Today he definitely has something to say.

Produced by long term collaborator Tony Visconti, 'Where Are We Now?' was written by Bowie, and was recorded in New York. The single is accompanied by a haunting video directed by Tony Oursler which harks back to David's time in Berlin. He is seen looking in on footage of the auto repair shop beneath the apartment he lived in along with stark images of the city at the time and a lyric constantly raising the question Where Are We Now?

"The moment you know, you know you know" resonates from the new single's lyric. Now we all know...David Bowie has been in the recording studio...just when we least expected it!!

PRE-ORDER:

MISC PRESS:

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David Bowie: Is this the ... comeback? (telegraph editorial)

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DAVID BOWIE ON TRACK FOR ...SINCE 1983

Bowie producer Tony Visco... new album

Producer - Tony Visconti ...rock sound

David Bowie sees back cat...ales jump

LADY GAGA PRAISES NEW DAV...WIE SINGLE

PREVIEWS:

coming soon

REVIEWS:

coming soon-ish

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THIS IS FUCKING REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Edited 1/7/13 21:56pm]

I didn't expect him to make any new music. The new song and video are hypnotizing, couldn't stop watching.

Wha-w-wh-at?

Wow. You know, I'm a big Prince fan. I really enjoyed those goodies Mr. P gave us, and it brightened my day.

But this eclipses that. First new album in a decade, the Thin White Duke and leader of the Guild of Calamitous Intent in the VENTURE BROS. series is back people.

I really truely believed that when he retired, that was it from a pop master. So this coming out of the blue just made my week.

WOOOO so exciting!

PurpleSpirit319 said:

NEW MUSIC FROM PRINCE AND NOW THIS FROM DAVID BOWIE!!!!! 2013 IS GONNA BE ONE HELL OF A FUCKING YEAR!!!!

He's baaaaaaaaaccccck...

Seems like the late 20th century tradition of surprise still works.

I dig the new song/video as well...

Collapsed into tears...

Great song. I hope there will be a CD version too, not just an iTunes version.

[Edited 1/8/13 0:34am]

Loving the new single and video.

Whoa, this is TOTALLY unexpected! Just now I saw it was his 66th birthday and I was thinking "retired for good" and then I come here to see the news, yay!!!

The Duke has returned... long live the King!

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Fuck YEAH!!!!

Just when I finally came to terms with the fact that he retired...absolutely fucking unbelievable..this just made my day!!

Now he just needs to announce a tour and I can finally die a happy man

Seems like he is going to put out an art rock album. I'm expecting it to be quite mellow and show his age. I'm fine with that as "Reality" felt like such an odd "last statement" for his career as a recording artist.

I wonder how many people would have felt motivated to listen through the entire track had it not been by Bowie. It's not much of a song melody-wise.

RRA said:

Wow. You know, I'm a big Prince fan. I really enjoyed those goodies Mr. P gave us, and it brightened my day.

But this eclipses that. First new album in a decade, the Thin White Duke and leader of the Guild of Calamitous Intent in the VENTURE BROS. series is back people.

I really truely believed that when he retired, that was it from a pop master. So this coming out of the blue just made my week.

That's exactly what i was going to say.

unexpected but great news.
waiting for a new album.

wow... absolutely stunning news, and song. And how did they keep this secret?!?!?!

wow is all i can say. of all the things i did not expect to hear this morning!!!!!!!

Im loving this! The song and video are reflective in a way that reminds me of Johnny Cash's version of 'Hurt'. Im really looking forward to this album.

I can't even speak right now folks, , see you later

David Bowie Surprises Fans with New Single, Album Announcement

DavidBowie.com

David Bowie will release a brand new studio album, ‘The Next Day,’ this March. It will be the recently reclusive rocker’s first new record since 2003′s ‘Reality.’

Bowie wasted no time this morning (Jan. 8) kicking off his 66th birthday celebration, launching a new website mere minutes after midnight ET with the announcement and the release of a video for the record’s first single, ‘Where Are We Now?’

The video for the melancholy, restrained piano-based ballad features the faces of Bowie and a woman superimposed on the heads of a pair of mannequins dressed in fur bodysuits in an artist’s loft. Near the end we get our first non-paparazzi look at the always fashion-forward rock star in years, and it seems his new sartorial statement is… jeans and a t-shirt? Who cares, Bowie’s back! Maybe it was casual Friday.

As his site explains, ‘The Next Day’ will be released on March 8 in Australia, March 12 in the U.S.A. and March 11 everywhere else. A 14-track standard edition and a 17-track deluxe version of the album are currently available for pre-order on iTunes, and you can pick up the new single there as well.

Next: Top 10 David Bowie Songs

David Bowie ‘The Next Day’ Track List:

1. ‘The Next Day’
2. ‘Dirty Boys’
3. ‘The Stars (Are Out Tonight)’
4. ‘Love is Lost’
5. ‘Where Are We Now?’
6. ‘Valentine’s Day’
7. ‘If You Can See Me’
8. ‘I’d Rather Be High’
9. ‘Boss of Me’
10. ‘Dancing Out of Space’
11. ‘How Does the Grass Grow?’
12. ‘(You Will) Set the World on Fire’
13. ‘You Feel So Lonely You Could Die’
14. ‘Heat’

Deluxe Version Bonus Tracks:
15. ‘So She’
16. ‘I’ll Take You There’
17. ‘Plan’

Apparently that is Bjork with him in the video???

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/01/08/david-bowie-turns-66-releases-first-new-song-in-a-decade-album-to-follow-in-march/

It’s a sad song about defiantly facing death and memory made more poignant by the direction of installation artist Tony Oursler. Only at the end of the video do you realize that Bowie, and the silent Bjork, whose head he is sharing shoulders with, have had their faces smooshed by sheer stockings, the way bank robbers used to do. At one point Bjork licks her lips as if to begin singing with Bowie, but the song ends without her voice joining his. Their pinched and grimaced faces say a lot about age and regret.

Album cover:

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I think it will be a highly anticipated album in the world.

David added almost 200 positions in itunes today and now the 7th

Where Are We Now (single)
#1 United Kingdom
#1 Czech Republic
#1 Estonia
#1 Ireland
#1 Sweden
#2 Finland
#2 Israel
#2 Netherlands
#3 Denmark
#3 Greece
#3 Norway
#4 Chile
#4 Portugal
#5 Argentina
#5 Spain
#6 Belgium
#7 Bolivia
#9 Italy
#9 Poland
#10 France
#12 Romania
#14 Hong Kong
#15 Luxembourg
#16 Brazil
#20 Slovakia
#22 Sweden
#23 Russia
#24 Austria
#35 Switzerland
#37 Colombia
#38 Singapore
#38 Slovenia
#40 Germany
#44 Mexico
#45 South Africa
#47 New Zealand
#51 Lithuania
#57 Canada
#63 Netherlands
#71 Indonesia
#71 Japan
#72 United Kingdom
#81 Ireland
#82 Australia
#88 United States
#89 Turkey
#92 Norway
#95 Denmark
#95 Thailand

The Next Day (album)
#1 United Kingdom
#1 Austria
#1 Belgium
#1 Cyprus
#1 Czech Republic
#1 Estonia
#1 Greece
#1 Hungary
#1 Ireland
#1 Israel
#1 Italy
#1 Latvia
#1 Netherlands
#1 Portugal
#1 Slovakia
#1 Slovenia
#1 Sweden
#1 Switzerland
#2 Denmark
#2 Finland
#2 France
#2 Germany
#2 Luxembourg
#2 Poland
#3 New Zealand
#3 Norway
#4 Australia
#4 Brazil
#4 Spain
#5 Canada
#5 Mexico
#6 Argentina
#6 Chile
#7 Hong Kong
#7 Singapore
#9 Russia
#10 United States
#10 Bulgaria
#10 Japan
#16 Turkey
#19 South Africa

I doubt that's Björk.

That woman has two rather big moles on her face and I don't think Björk has those.

Not sure about what that guy's writing about the stockings on their faces either. At the end of the video they walk away from the "cut out" and there's nothing covering their faces.

MattyJam said:

Album cover:

[img:$uid]http://virusfonts.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/bowie_next.jpg[/img:$uid]

[Edited 1/8/13 9:32am]

Oh, man.