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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostHappily, I have no idea of any moody set-lists
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Bowie at the BBC/David Bowie:Five Years (BBC4 - 13.1.17)
Watching these two films now and bumping this thread. I will add to this thread after seeing the second film.
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I bought Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars LP in 1972 after hearing it in a pizza restaurant in the King's Road (vivid memory!), and played it a lot. Then somehow lost touch with Bowie more or less until his death. I had detached myself in the later seventies and eighties onwards from the whole pop-rock-blues etc scene (for a variety of reasons) and missed out on a lot. I was vaguely aware of Bowie off in the distance somewhere repeatedly reinventing himself.
These two films (I have only seen the first 45 minutes, two years, of the Five Years film - hoping I can watch the rest on iPlayer) but the two films have brought Bowie and the years of him that I missed to vivid life. I strongly recommend them to anyone interested in Bowie. The reinventions are explained with his wonderful intelligence and articulacy.
What an extraordinary creature he was - I use the word advisedly - a remarkably beautiful man and yet somehow always on the edge of the androgenous, even in later years....Last edited by kernelbogey; 13-01-17, 23:56.
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I've recorded this and hope to see and hear it soon.... (but tonight my suppertime treat was... The Witch, which was slow-burn but also very - whoa! Look away now! Etc).
I was aware of Bowie's Ziggy albums, borrowed after they came out though... then Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, then.... a gap somewhere, then, very into Pop in the 80s I didn't buy Let's Dance but heard it everywhere... China Girl my favourite as for many on the dance floor or not....
Ashes to Ashes, Under Pressure.... classics always "somewhere in the back of my mind." Drifted away from Bowie, as from Pop and Rap, after that....Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 14-01-17, 02:58.
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Originally posted by MickyD View PostHere's a rather surprising duet - recorded at ATV Elstree studios in the 70s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXjbI3kRus
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For me the passage of a year has done little to diminish the sense of loss on the one hand, and admiration for the work on the other. I've found myself spending much more time with some albums than I did when they came out. It's such a shame that there's so little to listen to from the first decade of this century. Heathen in particular is a brilliant piece of work throughout, and one I've been returning to frequently, especially its dark and enigmatic first song "Sunday" which has been in my thoughts very often.
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostFor me the passage of a year has done little to diminish the sense of loss on the one hand, and admiration for the work on the other. I've found myself spending much more time with some albums than I did when they came out. It's such a shame that there's so little to listen to from the first decade of this century. Heathen in particular is a brilliant piece of work throughout, and one I've been returning to frequently, especially its dark and enigmatic first song "Sunday" which has been in my thoughts very often.
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostFor me the passage of a year has done little to diminish the sense of loss on the one hand, and admiration for the work on the other. I've found myself spending much more time with some albums than I did when they came out. It's such a shame that there's so little to listen to from the first decade of this century. Heathen in particular is a brilliant piece of work throughout, and one I've been returning to frequently, especially its dark and enigmatic first song "Sunday" which has been in my thoughts very often."Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."
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Originally posted by Radio64 View PostI'm also a fan of Heathen, which i discovered about three years ago (after The Next Day came out). It's a pity much of his 90's and 2000's album (pre-TND) don't get much attention.
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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostI’m in the Ziggy-Berlin-Monsters brigade, for whom Let’s Dance was the end of the journey, more or less.
Personal note for those who might be interested: my new piece for orchestra everything has changed/nothing has changed (title from the lyrics of the aforementioned "Sunday"), to be premiered early next month, is a memorial homage to Bowie. Originally I was intending that it should contain material from his work but ultimately that idea fell by the wayside, mainly because it felt too easy a way to do things.
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