Category: Jam Session
who here is a fan of david bowie.
never was much a fan of him before, after he died- it was all in the news and everyone was talking about it.
so got his greatest hits to see what all the fuss was about.. and npw i'm a total convert.
bowie is cool- especially the song sufrigette city
Big fan here. I have (I think) all his stuff from the 1970s and a few of the 80s albums, plus the new one. All in all I probably listen to Diamond Dogs and Heroes most, but there is a huge stretch of superb albums from about 1974 through to 1982, in my opinion. I think it was great when he was working with Robert Frip and Brian Eno especially. Really, intensely forward thinking pop music with a lot of interesting sounds.
I didn't hear that new song "Lazarus" until the night he died. Someone told me to go listen to it and I was so haunted. Beautiful. Nice to hear some sax on it too; that was one of his original instruments but you don't hear him playing it much after the 70s. Kind of like Bowie was coming full circle, in a way.
I really started listening to him around 2010 or so, probably, but he was one of the very few rock artists my dad would still put on when I was born in the 80s, so he was a part of my childhood too. The song "Golden years" used to freak me out a little bit, but I kept wanting to listen to it anyway because that's the sort of dude I am.
Let's keep discussing Bowie in here. Cool thread idea.
hey,
is it just me or is bowie's voice really weak on the new album
still really good, but so sad you can hear it affect his vocals
He sounds like an old man. I find it rather effective. He almost, bizarrely, reminds me of Lemmy sometimes. And they died within a month of each other.
Yes he does remind me of lemmy as well. I'm glad I'm not alone in that one!
Oh yeah! Crazy. yeah I heard some fairly recent live recordings and also the first time I heard "Lazarus" I remember thinking "this sounds a bit like Lemmy singing mellow", like on "1916" or something.
Anybody listened to the band Bowie was in for a while in the 90s, Tin machine? Was thinking of snagging one or both of their albums.
Me.
I have always enjoyed his music. I owned a few of his albums until I sold them.
When I first began to have problems with my sight, I would blast Sound and Vision. Though I doubt this song has anything to do with going blind.
For years I had no idear that Heroes was related to the Berlin Wall. It was after his death that I realized what the lyrics actually said.
"heroes" is such a powerful song. But it's subtle enough that that didn't really hit me until I'd heard it many times already. I love that about certain music. It grows on you until you suddenly realize what it is you're listening to, which has in fact been a seed in you for a long time, has suddenly become something you are attached to and find glorious. no instant gratification.
Not that Bowie doesn't have his share of simple, catchy songs, of course.
He did a version of Heroes in German.
Never cared for his voice. Nirvana did a good cover of The Man Who Sold The World.
I think his voice is great. But I actually feel he improved when he changed his technique starting in 1975 or so. It seemed he was influenced by soul music to do this, but for whatever reason, even past his brief soul period (Station to Station etc), the deeper voice kind of stuck.
I love bowie's glam years. Rebel Rebel is probably one of my favorite songs.
Bowie was really quite the Renaissance man when it came to modern music. Really talented in a lot of areas with a lot of styles.
I've heard his visuals were outstanding, which would have impacted people who could see them at the time.
I always wondered what it would have been like for he and Prince to do something together.