EroticDreamer said:

Bowie is sold out on Amazon.

He is missed but never forgotten.

Sold out? Of what? All physical copies of his music?

EroticDreamer said:

Bowie is sold out on Amazon.

He is missed but never forgotten.

You're right--looks like all of the albums are out of stock. I have 'em all though... Bought a long time ago...

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SeventeenDayze said:

EroticDreamer said:

Bowie is sold out on Amazon.

He is missed but never forgotten.

Sold out? Of what? All physical copies of his music?

Yes, everything is gone, sold out.

I already purchased everything long ago and the physical copy of Blackstar will be delivered Wednesday.

NoVideo said:

EroticDreamer said:

SeventeenDayze said:

Sold out? Of what? All physical copies of his music?

Yes, everything is gone, sold out.

I already purchased everything long ago and the physical copy of Blackstar will be delivered Wednesday.

That's amazing how when someone this huge passes away people scramble to get CDs and commemorative newspapers to have as keepsakes. I guess everything "digital" only goes so far.

SeventeenDayze said:

EroticDreamer said:

Yes, everything is gone, sold out.

I already purchased everything long ago and the physical copy of Blackstar will be delivered Wednesday.

That's amazing how when someone this huge passes away people scramble to get CDs and commemorative newspapers to have as keepsakes. I guess everything "digital" only goes so far.

Indeed and on a related note, one of my brothers called me the day of Michael Jackson's passing telling me he was ordering several copies of each of his albums just so that he could sell them and make money in the future.

That brother was under the influence, methinks.

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TOPIC- You'll always be my favorite artist, Mr. Bowie. RIP.

I heard the news this morning just a I was heading out the door to go to work, and I didn't have any opportunity to chime in on his passing untill now, but this is a shock to me. I wasn't even aware he was that seriously ill, but his "Lazarus" video looks incredibly foreboding in light of this tragic news.

He started out humbly but became Ziggy Stardust, the freaked out, androgynous, almost alien being who brought in the glam rock movement. But he did just about everything, from "Space Oddity," "Rebel Rebel," "Changes," "Young Americans" (which featured a young backup singer named Luther Vandross), "Heroes," "Fame" (considered one of the earliest funk/disco songs), "Fashion," "Ashes To Ashes" (which as the Thin White Duke was his way of putting Ziggy Strardust to rest), "Let's Dance," "China Girl," "Blue Jean," even his low points with Never Let Me Down and the Tin Machine albums, but bouncing back in a critically acclaimed way with "I'm Afraid of Americans." Just as you got used to one persona, he would suddenly change it to something else.

He was legendary in his own right, radically changing the face of pop and rock and roll, but he was literally a major influence in generations of artists, particularly Prince, Madonna, and even Michael Jackson, but his incfluence was found in artists like Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Elton John, new wave bands like Culture Club and Duran Duran, 90's acts like Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails, and even Lady GaGa.









RIP Mr. Bowie. You will be dearly missed, but I'm sure you found Major Tom by now.

this interesting.....very diverse read....

David Bowie's Top 100 Reads:

1. Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
2. Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
3. Room At The Top by John Braine
4. On Having No Head by Douglass Harding
5. Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard
6. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
7. City Of Night by John Rechy
8. The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
9. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
10. Iliad by Homer
11. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
12. Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo
13. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
14. Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell
15. Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
16. Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall
17. David Bomberg by Richard Cork
18. Blast by Wyndham Lewis
19. Passing by Nella Larson
20. Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto
21. The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
22. In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner
23. Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
24. The Divided Self by R. D. Laing
25. The Stranger by Albert Camus
26. Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman
27. The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf
28. The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
29. Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter
30. The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
31. The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
32. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
33. Herzog by Saul Bellow
34. Puckoon by Spike Milligan
35. Black Boy by Richard Wright
36. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
38. Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
39. The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot
40. McTeague by Frank Norris
41. Money by Martin Amis
42. The Outsider by Colin Wilson
43. Strange People by Frank Edwards
44. English Journey by J.B. Priestley
45. A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
46. The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West
47. 1984 by George Orwell
48. The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White
49. Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn
50. Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
51. Beano (comic, ’50s)
52. Raw (comic, ’80s)
53. White Noise by Don DeLillo
54. Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick
55. Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage
56. Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley
57. The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillete
58. Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky
59. The Street by Ann Petry
60. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
61. Last Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr.
62. A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn
63. The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
64. Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
65. The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
66. The Bridge by Hart Crane
67. All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd
68. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
69. Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
70. The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
71. Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders
72. The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
73. Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey
74. Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich
75. Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
76. The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford
77. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
78. Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
79. Teenage by Jon Savage
80. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
81. The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
82. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
83. Viz (comic, early ’80s)
84. Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s)
85. Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara
86. The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
87. Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
88. Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont
89. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
90. Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler
91. Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
92. Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi
93. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
94. The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa

RIP Mr. Bowie

And the stars look very different today!!!!!!

NoVideo said:

Didn't want to believe it when I heard it...FUCK!! Truly sad and devastated. Going on a Bowie CD listening binge this weekend. RIP DB. Org'ers...Tell your families and friends you love them..time is short and valuable.

David Bowie A Reality Tour (2004) with opening

http://www.tudou.com/prog...jLwOROCCM/

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NoVideo said:

Incredibly heartbreaking.

Here are a few of my thoughts about the passing of a legend.

There's a Starman Waiting in the Sky

Remembering David Bowie

In the "Remembering David Bowie piece there's an error:

"Bowie had a heart scare while on tour to support his 2013 album Reality..."

That should be corrected to 2003.

The world is missing him and every physical copy of his albums are sold out on Amazon, including the recently released 12 CD box set of his first 5 albums that was going for the low 100's.

I don't believe any artists legacy could be more revered than Mr. Bowie's and here's an example of his character:

https://www.youtube.com/w...ZGiVzIr8Qg

Unlike many of you, I haven't listened to Blackstar yet, even though I have it. I started on Friday night, but then had to stop to take care of some other matters. And I never got back to it this weekend... and now, I kind of dread it. I wish I'd gotten in at least one innocent listen before he died. I did play Changes for some reason Sunday--just an impulse, made my wife and daughter wait till it was done before we left the house. But I didn't have a Bowie weekend. I'd planned to get to the album tonight.

So today, my wife's looking at Facebook and says to me, "Did you hear anything about David Bowie?" I say, "Well, there's the new release" (she doesn't always pay attention when I'm talking about music, so I didn't know if she even knew anything about the album), and I walk over to the computer screen when she doesn't immediately say, "Oh, okay." And I see the beginning of a post her brother-in-law linked to starting out with something along the lines of "David Bowie knew he was dying for 18 months" and there was just this emptiness. It really is difficult to believe.

I found this on Twitter....it's a website where you can type in your age and see what David Bowie was up to when he was your age:

http://supbowie.com/

Interesting article here on MTV about Bowie's significant impact on hip-hop (yes, it also mentions Vanilla Ice but there are many others influenced)

http://www.mtv.com/news/2726615/david-bowie-rap-samples/?utm=share_twitter

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Paul Young, Iggy Pop, Rick James

He left like the boss that he was.

R.I.P.

I saw someone on social media call David Bowie "Sir David Bowie" and that seemed really out of place for some reason. Later, I saw this article here about how Bowie refused being knighted. This guy was really in a league of his own for saying no to the Queen.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/david-bowie-turned-down-chance-7161447#ICID=sharebar_twitter