New Killer Star
Pablo Picasso
Never Get Old
The Loneliest Guy
Looking For Water
She'll Drive The Big Car
Days
Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
Try Some By Some
Reality
Bring Me The Disco King

The album, Reality, will be out on September 15th.

BOWIE, BOWIE, BOWIE...

F*ckin' ACE!!!

If "Pablo Picasso" is a cover, and it's the cover I think it is, I will die a happy man.

Because, you know, Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole...

Anxiety said:

It is a cover, but i forgot from who.
it featured on the Repo-Man soundtrack.
i will be back later with details.
wait right here.

Anxiety said:

That song Pablo Picasso was originally recorded by Jonathan Richmond and the Modern Lovers produced by John Cale.

is Tron aware of this???

He must be wetting himself if so!

endorphin74 said:

I don't think he is, but he will find out in due time.

noepie said:

oh my god YES!!! YES!!! YESSS!!!

Um, I think I just had an orgasm, just from getting this news.

I think when I hear the actual song, I may spontaneously combust.

I LOVE THIS SONG.

I LOVE BOWIE.

BLISS!!!

This week just keeps getting better! if i have anymore things to look forward to i may just die from excitement!!! A bowie album and tour!!! oh man...

I kind of dig the CD cover, too...can't describe why...

KingSausage said:

It's fucking weird. Very Bowie, indeed. If the album name wasn't Reality, this cover would blow. But as such, it's very fitting.

I'm not thrilled with it. I think this may be his first album cover that's not a photo of him, or a photorealistic illustration. I don't think this was a good choice to break the tradition...

I remember seeing the cover of "Heathen" for first time and going into psychoerotic shock. THAT is a beautiful album cover. This? Eh. It's okay. Not into the whole Japanimation look, and the whole thing looks a bit too sparse. I'm sure it'll grow on me, but I hope it's not the final product.

Anxiety said:

Hey, if the cover's better than that for Never Let Me Down, then I'm all for it!

Heathen was one of my favorites, though!

I just heard it described as a Keane painting battling with Ditko-era Dr. Strange in a Salvador Dali landscape, with a cameo by Ayn Rand.

Works for me.

not crazy about the cover.


hell, i don't like a manga influence in the COMIC BOOKS i read (where it would seem tolerable). i'm not excited about rock stars adopting it (first madonna's drowned world tour, now bowie).

Well you just had to make the obvious contradiction between the cover and the album title, didn't you Mr. Jones? It would have been much more refreshing if the album would have been INDEED about reality as it is, not just some VR wordplay.

I got the tickets for the tour though.

I like the cover of his new album, although it's not his best.
The only thing i think should be taken out is the green lizzard (?) next to his arm.
What is that supposed to be?

is it me or are those song titles exciting and very Bowie.

07/08/03 NEWS: BOWIE'S NEW ALBUM IS NOW A REALITY


You fall for Reality...

We are immensely proud to be able to give you an exclusive peek at the
artwork for David Bowie's 26th studio album, Reality, and the final
tracklisting for the release which is due on September 15th.

The sleeve features the combined talents of Rex Ray (who you all
know and love for his work on many previous Bowie projects) and typographer
Jonathan Barnbrook, who also worked on Heathen.

Reality is the fourth Bowie studio album to feature a painted image of David
on the cover, (the first three being Diamond Dogs, Scary Monsters and, of
course, Outside ) and we hope to bring you some of the ideas behind the
construction of this sleeve in the very near future.

Here follows the definite final tracklisting for Reality:

01 New Killer Star
02 Pablo Picasso
03 Never Get Old
04 The Loneliest Guy
05 Looking for Water
06 She'll Drive the Big Car
07 Days
08 Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
09 Try Some, Buy Some
10 Reality
11 Bring Me The Disco King

Some of you may already be familiar with at least four of the titles on
Reality for various reasons.

There are two cover versions on the album, the first being Jonathan
Richman's Pablo Picasso, (Also covered by John Cale on his Helen Of Troy
album) and the second being the George Harrison song Try Some, Buy Some,
which was released on George's 1973 album Living In The Material World.
Ronnie Spector also released a version of the song as a single on the Apple
label.

The other two songs you may be aware of on Reality are both Bowie originals:
Never Get Old and Bring Me The Disco King. The former was used in the recent
Vittel advert, and the latter is a song that David has tackled before, but
hasn't been happy with until now.

We are hoping to bring BowieNet members exclusive snippets of some of the
tracks on Reality ahead of it's release in September, so stay tuned to
BowieNet.

fuck the cover,it's the music tthat counts right?

Dead right, though I love the artwork... so vey different to the tour posters


TheLodger.

Weird title.

Maybe I can get through this one without dozing off, but not likely... Atleast there are no Iggy Pop covers or Lester Bowie cameos...

Yay! Can't wait. How come I was the last to know about this?

TRON said:

you can't be first all the time Tron.

Great news.

I kind of 'got into' Bowie after the release of his last album 'Heathen'. His back catalouge is so vast, I don't even know where to start.

I'll be getting 'Reality' though.

Who else here thinks 'Cactus' and 'I would be your slave' from 'Heathen' are something else?

Mr7 said:

start with Hunky Dory I would say.

I like 5:15 the best of Heathen.

Mr7 said:

"Cactus" rocks the entire album, and the entire album is amazing!

And I cannot wait for this new album. I wonder if it will have any videos becuase I don't think "Heathen" did. Sounds exciting either way. I would just like to hear (and maybe see) the first single (I know radio won't touch it becuase they didn't last time).
[This message was edited Thu Jul 10 5:30:28 PDT 2003 by VinnyM27]