Posted on 01/11/2016 11:53:11 AM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: It was a shocking, somewhat sad day for many in the music world today. And that's the surprise death of David Bowie, who succumbed to cancer after 18 months. Many did not know that he had cancer. I have to admit there are only a couple of David Bowie songs that I like.
I was not one of these dyed-in-the-wool David Bowie fans but he had a couple of tunes I really like, and the first one is this one, ChiCom Girl. And there's one other. No question, he was a supremely talented rock 'n' roll crooner. (playing China Girl) That wasn't nine seconds, I can tell you that. You see, remember the video to this? (song continues) I first even saw this on MTV. (song continues) David Bowie. How old was he? (interruption) Sixty-nine.
My generation. I just never... The Ziggy Stardust days? I never got into it. (interruption) No, I didn't see the movie The Man Who Fell to Earth. This is it. This and the other song. (Cut to Let's Dance) These are the only two David Bowie things that I know. That's it. This is Let's Dance. These are both from the 1980s, I believe, during my absence from radio. It's when I worked for the Kansas City Royals. (interruption) Yeah, I remember playing this. Oh, yeah. (song continues)
Anyway, what was he, about five nine and a hundred pounds? I mean, he was a string bean, but he had this amazing voice. And to people that were big in the music business, he was incredibly innovative and talented, and I wanted to acknowledge his passing. But those are the only two songs. Well, that and the Major Tom thing, "Ground control to Major Tom," which I guess is Space Oddity, which he was. There's no question about it.
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The (at least) third thread you gone on today to tell all freepers how little you care about Bowie.
Hilarious, you clearly care quite a bit. If only to let everyone here know what you think (as if that matters on an anonymous internet forum).
I guess there has been a dearth of Ukraine, Putin or Trump threads to keep you occupied today?
That’s unfortunate. He did a lot of interesting stuff. Prolific and talented of other people’s records too.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned his duet with Bing Crosby on that Christmas Special of “Little Drummer Boy”.
That's how I've felt since 2008.
Please send me an email address to which I can send links to Bowie’s music so that you’ll never embarrass yourself in public (we’re all anonymous here) with the comparison of Alice Cooper to David Bowie.
Not that you should favor one over the other, we all like what we like, but (IMHO) there is NOTHING comparable between those two.
And I’m not a big Bowie fan, for the record. Not enough banjos and mandolins.
If you like jazz (acoustic or electric) piano Listen to the title cut ALADDIN SANE; hear the improvisational jazz piano from Mick Ronson in the intro, bridge and the Coda. Exquisito! PANIC IN DETROIT; is another gem ensemble.
Who is he. Never heard of him.
I never got into his music - to outre for me too.
Well there was one link between them....
Hopefully some day some remembers you in kind.
“He also played Tesla in The Prestige.”
Indeed he did, and he was excellent. I had forgotten that.
Agreed. Its Raining Men?
Diamond Dogs
Sound + Vision
Ashes To Ashes
Life on Mars?
All The Young Dudes (yes he wrote that one though Mott the Hoople had the hit)
That's just off top of my head.
He was a showman and a huge talent. Always polite to his fans. How he conducted his personal life was his own business. He kept mostly to himself and never bothered anybody. Off stage he was a good citizen. I think he was more conservative than most people would think.
He played the British hit man Colin Morris in the Jeff Goldblum 1985 movie “Into The Night”. It was an offbeat character for him, but he did it well.
It is certainly worth noting that the song young East Berliner's sang in response to Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech was "Heroes."
Other than that, aside from once famously saying that he preferred fascism to liberalism, and turning down a knighthood because he "didn't see the point," Bowie was famously apolitical throughout his career:
"The more government systems I see, the less enticed I am to give my allegiance to any set of people, so it would be disastrous for me to adopt a definitive point of view, or to adopt a party of people and say 'these are my people'."
Sounds like a Trump supporter if there ever was one.
I think that was the Coke talking.
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