ITT: Albums that are dark more because of the back story, rather than the music

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what's the story?

How Bowie was at the peak of his unfathomable cocaine addiction to the point of extreme paranoia and constant hallucinations. He didn't even remember making the album or being in The Man Who Fell to Earth.

The music becomes dark and eerie after knowing that, especially on Word on A Wing where he calls out for god. Or Station To Station

morning glory
(lol)

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He was heavily involved with cocaine and the occult at the time. Thematically the album is a battle between his dark impulses and his hope to change. The brilliance of the album is how the two opposites are mixed to varying affects musically and lyrically. For instance, Golden Years has the trappings of an up beat pop song, but lyrically a man is being coerced into signing a thousand year contract with the order of the golden dawn.

To wax for a moment, I think the album brilliantly demonstrates the cycle of addiction in its tracking. The album starts with the realization that he needs to start over, while in the final track he finds himself resigned to his habits. If you start the album over immediately it's terrifying.

He was on a coke binge in LA and allegedly doesn't remember recording it.

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didn't*
;_;

oh

I'm not a big Bowie fan and I don't know much about the guy, but I'm going to say he is most likely heavily exaggerating. I doubt you could just forget making and recording an album.

Plus he was living with Glenn Hughes from Deep Purple at the time of its recording, with his coke using even managing to scare Hughes, himself an ardent drug addict.

Apparently he'd spend quite literally 3-4 days at a time without sleeping just watching the same movie over and over again.

sounds like you've never done drugs, user

>56 Nights

Well, not cocaine anyway. I'll admit I'm ignorant on the side effects of cocaine but the idea of COMPLETELY forgetting recording an entire album is a bit hard to wrap my mind around, to say the least.

Drug addicts often have big gaping holes in their memory.

He was abusing it, when you are at the point of not eating and sleeping properly for days and having hallucinations and not thinking straight whilst consuming tons of literature and art (He supposedly read a crap ton of weird paranormal books and weird artworks which definetly did not help the paranoia) it makes sense to not remember it

haha you fucking moron

elaborate pls

>Apparently he'd spend quite literally 3-4 days at a time without sleeping just watching the same movie over and over again.
kek, this is hilarious, which movie was it?

explain

"Weird arthouse movies from Eastern Europe" according to Hughes.

sounds like it could be tarkovsky. maybe the mirror or solaris
where do you get all this info? a book?

haha nice

Hughes' autobiography dedicated a few pages to the period when Bowie was staying at his house, but most Bowie bios covering the mid-70s talk about the time when they lived together. They became friends around 1974, with Bowie wanting Hughes to sing on Young Americans (Bowie had been an admirer of Hughes' early band Trapeze), but Ritchie Blackmore vetoe'd it at the last minute, not wanting anyone in his band "associating themselves with that freak". A few years later, Bowie was gonna produce Hughes' first solo album, but it fell through at the last minute thanks to scheduling conflicts.

Band was haunted while making the album because they fucked around with a weegee board.

>Hughes' autobiography dedicated a few pages to the period
i will download the book only because of those pages, i'm always curious about bowie's crazy period. kek wasn't he a nazi at that time too?

do you know glenn hughes' new band california breed? their debut album was cool.

Yeah, shame they broke up after only one album. I think Black Country Communion are getting back together, though.

Well, it's not the side effects of the cocaine