David Bowie - RIP

[Mningasimisonda]

Very sad and shocked - was a music icon and produced some of the greatest music I've ever heard.

My Top 10:
1. Modern Love
2. Young Americans
3. Changes
4. The Man Who Sold The World
5. Ziggy Stardust
6. Rebel Rebel
7. Heroes
8. Suffragette City
9. Space Oddity
10. Ashes to Ashes

Mine would probably be something like this:

1. Heroes (album version not single)
2. Life on Mars
3. Space Oddity
4. Sound and Vision
5. Changes
6. Ashes to Ashes
7. Modern Love
8. Rock & Roll Suicide
9. Man Who Sold The World
10. Starman

Still to not feel like I was leaving anything I really like out it would need to be more like a top 40. RIP Bowie.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Yeah.............What do you say?
Not enough can be said for someone that left a true mark on the music industry.

Absolutely bowled me over with Low. I didn't expect that when it came out but I'm so glad I gave it the time.
So many wonderful experiences via a most wonderful album. Much appreciated.

Obviously we have shared the same music experiences in that other thread.

Didn't like the Berlin Trilogy, 'til 'Lodger', maybe in the few, reckon it's fabulous.

Carries on like an old poove..........

 

[HARKER]

Obviously we have shared the same music experiences in that other thread.

Didn't like the Berlin Trilogy, 'til 'Lodger', may be in the few, reckon it's fabulous.

Low was a time and place thing for me Stig.

I won't go into the experiences here but it was perfect for a strange time in my life..............and I wouldn't change a second of it. I'm so thankful.

 

[DT2000]

Not ashamed to say I shed a tear for him - he is my first musical idol (since I was 5, I'm 15 now) and can't imagine anyone else's music affecting me the way Bowie's has and will do.

Blackstar is a great album, if you only buy one CD this year - make it this one.

 

[Mningasimisonda]

Low was a time and place thing for me Stig.

I won't go into the experiences here but it was perfect for a strange time in my life..............and I wouldn't change a second of it. I'm so thankful.

My brain took a while to acknowledge that "What in the World" was actually music, but after more listens I like every song on Low. The fact some songs are pretty strange makes them more interesting in the long term.

 

[worbod]

Long before he teamed up with Mick Jagger for Dancing in the Street, Bowie recorded this Christmas tune in 1977 with another well known singer.

 

[DT2000]

From Bowie's producer Tony Visconti:

'He always did what he wanted to do. And he wanted to do it his way and he wanted to do it the best way. His death was no different from his life - a work of art. He made Blackstar for us, his parting gift. I knew for a year this was the way it would be.'

 

[nobbyiscool]

Double J are playing Bowie for the next 2 hours. I'd hoped it might be a J-Files type of thing, but it doesn't seem to be. Obviously too short a notice to do a comprehensive J-Files, but I kind of assumed they would've already done one before that they'd just replay or re-read.

 

[Nostradumbass]

From Bowie's producer Tony Visconti:

'He always did what he wanted to do. And he wanted to do it his way and he wanted to do it the best way. His death was no different from his life - a work of art. He made Blackstar for us, his parting gift. I knew for a year this was the way it would be.'

I read that earlier. Beautiful words. I still can't believe this....

 

[Roobs321]

Was utterly bowled over by the news. For someone in their late 60s and four and a half decades of fame, he was still as relevant as ever and we were never going to be ready. A world without him is an uncool world no one wants.

Low and Hunky Dory will always be the Bowie albums for me, the first ones I loved and the ones I always return to. They define winter 2013 for me, as despite digging a number of songs I'd heard from him over the years, that was the first time I really started to engage with his discography. Also very fond of "Heroes". This will give me the kick up the ass to finally spend more time with Ziggy Stardust and Station to Station, which I've been meaning to. In hindsight, his music tended to follow me from station to station, popping up at times in my life when one period was collapsing into another, like the friend you turn to when uncertainly heading into the unknown.

But at the end of the day he is much more than an album artist. In many ways, he was the artist, the influence, filtering all the way through modern culture.

 

[wally funk]

Simply devastating. Words like 'legend' and 'genius' get bandied about too often these days, but Bowie was that and more. One of a kind.

 

[George]

My favorite track of his;



Grew up listening to this bloke along with many others. So sad. RIP mate.

 

[SportsCentre]

Best.....Music.....Video.....Ever

 

[La Dispute]

Floored me as well.

My parents were both big David Bowie fans, so he was always one of those peripheral artists in our music vacuum. Although I never delved too far, I've certainly developed a bigger appreciation for him over the past 12 months; particularly after witnessing the Bowie exhibition.

It was fascinating to see the way he comprised and collaborated his music so deftly. Always looking to reinvent, find new avenues for sonic experimentation and uncover original recording techniques. There was the one machine he'd load up with paragraphs with different texts and then allow the device to reassemble the words into semi-cohesive sentences - from there he'd come up with lyrics. Just a true pioneer and innovator.

The bloke was just bold as **** as well; with his fashion, his ideas and philosophies. He embraced post-modernism wholeheartedly and that's probably why his music transcends time and audience. It just sits in its own cosmos. His appreciation for space and the infinite was always imbued in his music.

That's without even mentioning his impact on alternative music - which was massive. There's probably not too many alive today that don't recognise a few of his songs and not many less who don't resonate with at least one. "Heroes" is a universal, life-affirming anthem.

RIP Bowie.

 

[peternorth]

im gonna admit, im not a bowie fan per se. sure i knew his songs (popular ones), and respected him as an artist and human. but i cant lie and pretend im his biggest fan.

rip.

 

[Zuma]

RIP a guy who is on the same level as Dylan in terms of cultural and musical influence for a number of generations. The constant reinvention of himself throughout the years especially through various personas, the highest critical and commercial successes to the lows of drug addiction but always carried integrity and originality in every project he worked on. His contributions and views on Fashion, sexuality, politics and pop culture are indelibly etched into folklore. Many of yesterday and today's stars will pay homage to the man from the Laughing Gnombe to Blackstar what a recorded and visual legacy that will last a lifetime and many more. RIP David Bowie

 

[PP34]

Really wish I went to the Bowie exhibition now.

Never really got into his stuff, but his talent is simply amazing. They don't make artists like this now.

RIP.

 

[The_Eagles]

1. Young Americans
2. Little China Girl
3. Let's Dance
4. Golden Years
5.Ashes toAshes
Man who sold the world

 

[BACCS]

Very sad and shocked - was a music icon and produced some of the greatest music I've ever heard.

My Top 10:
1. Modern Love
2. Young Americans
3. Changes
4. The Man Who Sold The World
5. Ziggy Stardust
6. Rebel Rebel
7. Heroes
8. Suffragette City
9. Space Oddity
10. Ashes to Ashes

Was only just listening to Ashes to Ashes and Jean Genie at work today, can't believe he is gone so young. Had no idea about his illness, cancer is a real bitch.

 

[BACCS]

Long before he teamed up with Mick Jagger for Dancing in the Street, Bowie recorded this Christmas tune in 1977 with another well known singer.

I saw this playing over Christmas and had no idea he'd done something like it, just shows how varied he was.

 

[worbod]

I wonder whether Rage will stick with their retro theme this Saturday night or put on a full Bowie tribute.

 

[peternorth]

I wonder whether Rage will stick with their retro theme this Saturday night or put on a full Bowie tribute.

mmm are on the bowie playlist now. expecting others to follow

 

[worbod]

One possibility is that Rage will play a mixture of retro and then play Bowie clips. They did something similar last weekend with retro and Easybeats in honour of Stevie Wright. Only problem if you were an Easybeats fan was you had to wait until 4AM until they showed the Easybeats music.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Where were you when?

Well I was at work. I got a message from a friend and couldn't quite believe it. I told a regular about it and I felt the blood rush out of my face and though she said nothing, she saw it too. It was gutting.

It's so nice to see people feel sad and passionate to someone who mattered – someone who added to the world in a rare, special, creative way. All these hacks die and leave behind some franchised movie or something that made money but no hearts swell... David Bowie changed a landscape as special and unique as music. ****in music. That's like changing water or something. What a thing to do.

If a human spent that long on that many drugs, having that much fun, you'd say 69 was a great age. When someone has achieved something that will last so long... I don't feel too sad, I just feel awed, enamoured, and thankful. What a thing to bring the world: creativity, starkness, kookiness.

 

[Zarrix]

When I first found out the news today, I walked and sat in a daze for quite a while. Im not one normally affected by the passing of public figures too much, most are just doing a job in the public spotlight.

On the other hand, Bowie was a man who not only created great music, he changed the direction of culture, his influence reverberates throughout the arts today and will for a long time to come. I consider him the greatest cultural pioneer of our times and one of the greatest musicians of all. It is a sad day, and an eerie one as well; as his passing seemed all too sudden for most of us, even if he had been ill for some time.