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jayem 
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Joined: June 21 2006 Location: Switzerland Status: Offline Points: 995 |
 Posted: January 11 2016 at 07:51 |
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His artistic life finishes very well is all I can say...Blackstar is an amazing song !
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Slartibartfast
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Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
Posted: January 11 2016 at 09:00 |
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David died, I am so sad
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Angelo
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Posted: January 11 2016 at 09:21 |
Make that an amazing album.
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DDPascalDD
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Joined: August 06 2015 Location: The Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 856 |
Posted: January 11 2016 at 10:39 |
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I just heard the sad news! Although I don't know him very well.
I'd like to hear an album of him, what do you think is his best one?
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someone_else
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VIP Member Joined: May 02 2008 Location: Going Bananas Status: Offline Points: 24348 |
Posted: January 11 2016 at 10:47 |
Hard to say. You have to judge by yourself because he changed quite often.. My personal favourite is Space Oddity.
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hellogoodbye
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VIP member Joined: August 29 2011 Location: Troy Status: Offline Points: 7251 |
Posted: January 11 2016 at 11:14 |
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I have around 12 favorite albums. I'm not sure I can say the same for Bach or Mahler.
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Cosmiclawnmower
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Joined: August 09 2010 Location: West Country,UK Status: Offline Points: 3738 |
Posted: January 11 2016 at 15:30 |
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My personal recommendations are Hunky Dory, Low and Heroes! Both 'The Next Day' and Blackstar are fairly astonishing.
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zravkapt
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Posted: January 11 2016 at 16:16 |
One? The Man Who Sold The World Low Outside Blackstar |
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Magma America Great Make Again
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siLLy puPPy
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PSIKE, JRF/Canterbury, P Metal, Eclectic Joined: October 05 2013 Location: SFcaUsA Status: Offline Points: 15267 |
Posted: January 11 2016 at 21:24 |
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^ Blackstar is one of the best songs EVER! Not just by Bowie
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Lewian
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Joined: August 09 2015 Location: Italy Status: Online Points: 14833 |
Posted: January 12 2016 at 09:27 |
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I'm not a big Bowie fan but listened to Blackstar yesterday evening on youtube. I think it's great and I'll buy it, and I also think it's Bowie's best, although after listening to it once on youtube, I can't yet know really.
It's very direct, personal and touching, and also very interesting musically with many good ideas. RIP! |
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dr wu23
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Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20631 |
Posted: January 12 2016 at 09:48 |
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To be honest I haven't been a Bowie fan for a long time....since Scary Monsters probably.
And even then his albums were always hit or miss for me. I listened to Blackstar last night and thought some of the tracks were interesting but ultimately most of the material didn't do anything for me. Most have this 'electronic' sounding straight ahead drum work and the melody lines are not real immediate. Some of the lyrics are interesting though and I did like Lazarus and I Cant Give Everything Away...which to me are the most traditional tracks on the album. I'm sure it will please the core Bowie fans but ,,,....
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someone_else
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Posted: January 12 2016 at 10:11 |
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He ended his musical career in a worthy way. This album is definitely good and the title track is superb.
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hellogoodbye
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VIP member Joined: August 29 2011 Location: Troy Status: Offline Points: 7251 |
Posted: January 12 2016 at 13:28 |
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What is (are) your interpretation (s) of the song Blackstar ?
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Barbu
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Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30850 |
Posted: January 12 2016 at 13:40 |
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A fantastic record!
Many, many thanks and 'bon voyage, mon ami'. |
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Warthur
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Joined: January 06 2008 Location: London, UK Status: Offline Points: 617 |
Posted: January 13 2016 at 05:43 |
Low is probably my personal favourite (and is the album of his which I suspect is of most interest to a prog listener). Though Blackstar is actually really good, and it's newly released so if you listen to it now you can have the shared experience of discovering it alongside everyone else, plus based on what Tony Visconti has said and the album's fixation on death and legacy and memory it seems to be a piece crafted specifically to mark this moment, so now is a really good time to dip into it. I'm sure as time goes on and people get through the mourning process and are able to approach the album as a piece in its own right rather than something connected so closely with Bowie's death it'll be regarded as one of his strongest works - I really loved it from the first listen, and that was days before the death was announced - but one of the things Bowie was really good at was reading the zeitgeist and putting out the perfect album to suit it, so there's something to be said for listening to Bowie albums when they are new in general and this one in the wake of the event it was built to commemorate in particular.
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: January 14 2016 at 16:24 |
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I've got to admit it's getting better
A little better ... every day  |
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AZF
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Posted: January 14 2016 at 17:39 |
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Just when I thought I'd become used to the album and disinterested in the album, it opens up more things like two songs near the end with a Fripp guitar pastiche.
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Warthur
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Joined: January 06 2008 Location: London, UK Status: Offline Points: 617 |
Posted: January 15 2016 at 05:14 |
I like to think of it more as a tribute than a pastiche... and in light of recent events, perhaps a final "thank you" for the magic Fripp added to "Heroes" and Scary Monsters.
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: January 15 2016 at 05:57 |
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During the Heroes sessions, Robert Fripp had made three takes of the song Heroes. They were quite so good that Tony Visconti was not able to choose and used them three.
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A_Flower
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Posted: January 15 2016 at 08:06 |
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Crazy reading a forum and in the middle suddenly, the mood completely changes. It took us all by surprise. He made his art part of his death
Rest In Peace, Bowie |
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