david bowie appreesh
JimBeam
Seattle. 2,012 Posts
seriously.whiskey + laundry folding + heroes = classic materialplaese to pontificate.
JimBeam
Seattle. 2,012 Posts
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*raises hand*
yes.
& Ashes to Ashes still manages to entice goosebumps....fo real, all up my legs!
And he was my 1st "man crush" as a youngster despite the blonde mullet & codpiece he was rocking in the labyrinth.....much prefered his look in into the night!!
Anyway- day or night he is the ish!!
I guess we have forgotten his nazi-salute. I think that was done as a dark joke rather than a Freudian insight.
Bowie is one of my mother's favorite musicians, so I grew up listening to him.
She thinks he is super dreamy and rides for almost all his catalogue from late the 60s to present day.
Dragged me to see the Ziggy movie when I was just a wee one.
While I'm not as big a fan as her, I definitely co-sign on GOAT status.
So many excellent songs and a big influence on many people, not just musically.
Re: Heroes - "Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo" is mandatory viewing in schools here (DON'T DO DRUGS, KIDS), so that song has a special connection to that movie for me. Made a big impact when I saw that as a 12-year old. And funnily enough, the Berlin period wasn't that well represented in my mother's D.Booey section.
"Fashion" is one of my favorite disco-rock tunes. Love Fripp's guitar on that.
Hell, I even ride for this late 80's cocaine rock stuff he did...2nd album is doodoo though...
Even though it's not a Bowie album, he's ALL over it. Every time I listen to that album I think about how damn ahead of his time dude was. And the shit he did with Lou Reed is mind blowing too!
Sadly I can't really think of a single song he's released in the last twenty five years that I really liked apart from perhaps the one over the Lost Highway credits which was similar to the Earthling album except for the crucial difference that it didn't make me want to smash the CD and then gouge out my ear drums with the broken fragments.
The man's a legend though not only for his own music but his production work as well.
I ride for Bowie.
even though it has been overused in movies, commercials and the like 'Heroes' still gives me goosebumps.
Legend. NO DOUBT.
Just within the last month I purged everything post-Aladdin Sane except for Low and Heroes.
Hunky Dory.
hunky Dory.
No Lodger?
I pissed my pants when they first aired that, pretty much sold me on the show.
It was tough cause there's a couple tracks I really like on 90% his records but ultimately I could not get through both sides of it.
I hear that. It's the weakest of the Berlin trilogy by a hair I'd say (although I know some people actually prefer it best of the three), but Eno ultimately keeps it on the right side of the fence for me.
I love Bowie, "Hunky Dory" is one of my all time fave LPs...
as far as Tin Machine related...Reeves Gabrels has been playing little bar gigs here in Memphis every once and awhile...and whoa son, serious jaw dropping guitar playin'...dude is just in sweat pants and some sandals with socks and shreddin the F*ck outta it. One of the greatest guitar players I have ever seen...
If you see Roeg's The Man Who Fell To Earth (couldn't finish the shit myself), you'll find out that Bowie with the codpiece should be much more to your liking.
Additionally, Bowie's Heathen has some strong moments. "Slow Burn" is a favorite late, late Bowie song.