Bowtie General Thread

Bowtie General Thread

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youtube.com/watch?v=u7APmRkatEU

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I don't know why this wasn't on the album because it's one of the catchiest songs I feel like he ever made. It would have been one of the best songs on the album, which already has two universally known hits on it.

youtube.com/watch?v=iyC0rXYSqd0

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doesn't really fit the whole Hunky Dory vibe but still a good song

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WHO DO YOU THINK THAT IS

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I'm new to Bowie. I started with Blackstar and liked it. Where do I go next?

hunky dory is magnum opus

I got into him with space oddity

Hunky Dory and Low

Ziggy Stardust->Station to Station->Heroes->Low->Lodger->Scary Monsters->1.Outside->Heathen->Reality->The Next Day

then go through the rest of the albums.

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Outside is closest thing to Blackstar

The complete lunatic.

philip jefferies

hunky dory is his best album

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Did you know bowie had a secret brother who was in a mental hospital and had severe schizophrenia

matter of taste, he has so many styles. i really dislike hunky dory. and ziggy. and heroes. but i love the last two and station to station, and some of low. lodger is my favorite.

this song is about him youtu.be/avJt0SQec0I

Yep. His half-brother was actually the inspiration for the lyrics of Bewlay Brothers

I think I agree if I pretend Bombers is on it. I've always been partial to Diamond Dogs.

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All The Madmen is also a song inspired by his brother

He wasn't much secret, it was actually sort of well known. He wrote a couple of songs inspired by him, as has already been mentioned. One in particular was Aladdin Sane; his brother did go to war, and it didn't treat him well.

I remember reading a Rolling Stone article back in like 2013, before I was really into Bowie at all, but I remember this odd detail. Apparently, if that reporter was right, he quoted the Blade Runner "tears in rain" speech in his eulogy. I always wondered if that was correct, can never find the article.

Is that his half-brother? That's a really kind of sad, sweet picture if it is.

oh no that's not his half brother

apparently five years too
bowiesongs.wordpress.com/tag/jump-they-say/

Who is it then because I don't recognize them and it doesn't come up in reverse image search

Blade Runner 2049 director reveals David Bowie was meant to star in the film

metro.co.uk/2017/07/23/blade-runner-2049-director-reveals-david-bowie-was-meant-to-star-in-the-film-6800450/

How can you dislike Heroes but like Station to Station and Low?

I don't remember. let me skim through my notes..I'll let you know if I find any information. Most likely it is a friend of Bowie during Ziggy-Angie period

i know, i've heard it's odd. but it just is that way. heroes has no songs i like on it. the other two are perfect to me.

>"forced to consider other talent with similar rock star qualities."
lol they'll never find one

I feel like Low is 10x better than either Heroes or Station to Station

Like every single track on Low is fucking great.

How do you not love sons of the silent age?
I bet you have autism

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I like bowtie

nah, just don't like it

personally I like just about every song on Heroes, but I love every song on Low so much more

>was going to be in the new blade runner
>was going to be in the new twin peaks
>Was even writing new music on his death bed

Bowie san come back :_:

high level wizard. Wonder where his occult library ended up

Earl Slick: regarding Stay (1976)

>“It started with a groove, and when I came up with the guitar bit at the front I could tell it would be a monster song. The funny thing about it is, I came up with that lick because we were messing around with an older song called John, I’m Only Dancing. This is kind of foggy, but I think we were working on a new arrangement of it, and David wanted me to come up with a lick, and so I came up with the lick that starts off Stay. So instead of using it on John, I’m Only Dancing, David just wrote something around that lick and groove.

>“The rhythm guitar was an early ‘70s black Les Paul through a late-‘60s 100-watt Marshall stack. The lead was on an early ‘60s Strat. I only owned one pedal, so there's no effects. Just straight through the amp, no master control. Old school. Just turn it up to 10 and blast away."

interesting

I love Stay, probably the song that hit me first from Station to Station and still one of his best. Love John, I'm Only Dancing too, I can sort of imagine where that came from.

Really interesting it was just straight up, always figured it was pretty engineered. Badass.

In Teenage Wildlife, Fripp packs so much badass into that 20 second solo from 1:30 to 1:50
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I love this song.

Me to. I love that David was always so playful and creative with the vocal timbres and accents he employed. He really hams it up in Teenage Wildlife and I love it. The lyrics are hilarious, too

>You'll take me aside, and say
>"Well, David, what shall I do?
>They wait for me in the hallway"
>I'll say "Don't ask me, I don't know any hallways"

this is what he had to say on this particular song:
> So it's late morning and I'm thinking: 'New song and a fresh approach. I know, I'm going to do a Ronnie Spector. Oh yes I am. Ersatz, just for one day.'
And I did and here it is. Bless. I'm still enamoured of this song and would give you two Modern Loves for it any time. It's also one that I find fulfilling to sing onstage. It has some nice interesting sections to it that can trip you up, always a good kind of obstacle to contend with live.
Ironically, the lyric is something about taking a short view of life, not looking too far ahead and not predicting the oncoming hard knocks. The lyric might have been a note to a younger brother or my own adolescent self.
The guitars on this track form a splintery little duel between the great Robert Fripp and my long-time friend Carlos Alomar.

also this particular take is pretty interesting:
>Is fame even worth it, though? A kid with “squeaky clean eyes” is desperate for fame but he becomes a toy of commerce, just another ugly teenage millionaire, “a broken nosed mogul,” with nothing new to say. The “same old thing in brand new drag comes sweeping into view.” After that, all that remains is the fall: it’s a world of pop stars as a succession of Jane Greys, queens crowned and dispatched in a week. It’s a lurid, violent lyric, with its “midwives to history” in bloody robes, or the teenage millionaire left to bleed out on the floor and howl “like a wolf in a trap,” while his friends scamper past him, whispering to each other “he was great, yeah, but it was time, you know?” Or take the song’s title, a play on healthy adolescent abandon and the image of teenagers as feral beasts.

thanks for posting that, I'd not seen those quotes before. That adds much more context to the assumed "David lampooning Gary Numan" lore.

Bowie threads are really the only reason I come to Sup Forums. Love you bastards.

David's personal Top 100 books reading list:
davidbowie.com/news/bowie-s-top-100-books-complete-list-52061

Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Room At The Top by John Braine
On Having No Head by Douglass Harding
Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
City Of Night by John Rechy
The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Iliad by Homer
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell
Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall
David Bomberg by Richard Cork
Blast by Wyndham Lewis
Passing by Nella Larson
Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto
The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
The Divided Self by R. D. Laing
The Stranger by Albert Camus

this is a really informative blog on Bowie songs. you'll find some very interesting things.
bowiesongs.wordpress.com

Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman
The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodieby Muriel Spark
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Puckoon by Spike Milligan
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot
McTeague by Frank Norris
Money by Martin Amis
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
Strange People by Frank Edwards
English Journey by J.B. Priestley
A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West
1984 by George Orwell
The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn
Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
Beano (comic, ’50s)
Raw (comic, ’80s)
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick
Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage
Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley
The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillete
Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky
The Street by Ann Petry
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Last Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr.
A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn
The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz

The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
The Bridge by Hart Crane
All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders
The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey
Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich
Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Teenage by Jon Savage
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Viz (comic, early ’80s)
Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s)
Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara
The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
Maldodor by Comte de Lautréamont
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler
Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Transcendental Magic, Its Doctine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno
The Insult by Rupert Thomson
In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan
A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes
Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

pretty sure he was way more patrician than that and had some weird books in his collection like said

Agreed. Literally the reason I come here, search his name every time I go to the index.

Had this for a while, need to read it really,

Here's another great one

bowiesongs.wordpress.com/

Really comprehensive.

And this is just a fun article.

dillsnapcogitation.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/david-bowies-cocaine-fueled-pool-exorcism/

clockwork orange in girl loves me off blackstar

thx

Bowie rehearsal from 1995:
1. Andy Warhol (plus reprise)
2. Nite Flights
3. Teenage Wildlife
4. Heart's Filthy Lesson
youtube.com/watch?v=kEr3t1FggFI

sweet

Dude the new season of Twin Peaks is fucking amazing. The last episode was in memory of Bowie

I've got to download that shiz pronto.

It's some of the best television that's been aired in years

it's Bowie with his tour manager Eric Barrett in 1973

>Ronald Reagan laughs at Thom York
heh

Wow, I just realized that the site was the same and I totally missed it because the URL is different from the title.

Still great, tons of information. Thanks for the picture.

Heart's Filthy Lesson is an underrated 10/10 song

heh that's why I posted that particular picture.
anyway do you have any other articles like the one you shared before?

Not many, but I remember this from forever ago and is relevant to that story. She got around in the odd rocker Occult bits of Hollywood at the time, apparently. Jimmy Page is a weird dude.

dangerousminds.net/comments/mysterious_white_witch_who_exorcised_david_bowie

This I found in this thread. It's a comfy, nice read. The title and that story sort of explains that lyric off of Low, and I wonder how intentional that reference was. Probably incredibly intentional, but eh.

theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/13/david-bowie-berlin-years-heroes-just-a-gigolo

in return some interesting articles:
->diffuser.fm/the-roots-of-indie-scott-walker/
->soundonsound.com/techniques/david-bowie-tony-visconti

Appreciated. I do love Scott Walker, I somehow fell into his work a bit more before I even really got into Bowie.

Appreciate the picture, too. Rare to find new Bowie pictures anymore. Apparently he might still show up in Twin Peaks so maybe be ready for that.

Scott Walker has become one of my very favorite artists over the past couple of years

Also, Tony V. doesn't get enough props for his bass compositions/playing

Listen to Low and then listen to Blackstar again.

This is another great 'essay' that I think you might enjoy.
bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/nite-flights/

thanks my mang! I've read quite a lot from "pushing ahead of the dame" (I need to buy his book, desu) but there's still a ton I haven't had a chance to read yet.

Scott's tracks on Nite Flights are just so damn good. They really are so catchy yet so dark. The way he uses such suggestive yet obscure/surreal lyrics is really something.

>Something attacked the earth last night with a "kick that man-habit" eye
>Glass traps open and close on nite flights
>the raw meat fist you choke

Just incredible.

You literally googled that

just got done reading that and wanted to say thanks again for pointing that entry out. Great read about two of the most interesting "popular" musical artists of all time.