David Bowie 75

LoveCurryPies · Post by **LoveCurryPies** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:33 pm

Probably the most innovative music artist this country has had. What a sad loss....way too young!

Your favourite Bowie track?

mill hill claret · Post by **mill hill claret** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:34 pm

My favourite ...life on Mars

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:35 pm

Too many to choose for me , but I do prefer his earlier stuff

PadihamThickNeck · Post by **PadihamThickNeck** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:36 pm

He’s over rated

mill hill claret · Post by **mill hill claret** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:39 pm

PadihamThickNeck wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:36 pm
He’s over rated

I've had this when I've mentioned my favourite band queen
...if you don't like a band / artist ...don't comment ...bloke is asking for favourite Bowie song ..not whether you like him or not

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:44 pm

Drive-in Saturday/Queen Bitch/Sound and Vision
would be personal favourites.

And many more.

boatshed bill · Post by **boatshed bill** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:47 pm

Life On Mars has to be one of the very best.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:48 pm

LoveCurryPies wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:33 pm
Probably the most innovative music artist this country has had. What a sad loss....way too young!

Your favourite Bowie track?

and of course it will be six years since he passed away in two days time.

Favourite track - so many I'm not sure but I still love Time from Aladdin Sane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDP9jLwzh0g

LoveCurryPies · Post by **LoveCurryPies** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:03 pm

PadihamThickNeck wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:36 pm
He’s over rated

That’s ok, you stick with the Bee Gees.

Enola Gay · Post by **Enola Gay** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:06 pm

https://youtu.be/yB-ztKj0cwg

Claret Till I Die · Post by **Claret Till I Die** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:14 pm

Genius & a legend. Life on Mars will always be my favourite but Wild is the Wind and Absolute beginners are very underated

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:30 pm

Claret Till I Die wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:14 pm
Genius & a legend. Life on Mars will always be my favourite but Wild is the Wind and Absolute beginners are very underated

That first word sums him up for me

boatshed bill · Post by **boatshed bill** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:32 pm

Claret Till I Die wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:14 pm
Genius & a legend. Life on Mars will always be my favourite but Wild is the Wind and Absolute beginners are very underated
[/quote

Written by Dimitri Tiomkin in thev 50s, great song.
Bowie's is one of several covers.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:34 pm

Life on Mars is worth a link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKcl4-tcuo

Claret Till I Die · Post by **Claret Till I Die** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:36 pm

boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:32 pm

Does a singer/band have to write a track to make it special ?

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:42 pm

Has to be a track from Hunky Dory.....the truly magnificent

'The Bewlay Brothers'

NorthIsCool · Post by **NorthIsCool** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:42 pm

Currently watching his Glastonbury performance from 2000 on BBC2 and he's singing Ashes to ashes.
I was 13 when
it came out and I remember it like it was yesterday.
That was the one that made me listen to everything else he had/has done.
Legend.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:47 pm

NorthIsCool wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:42 pm
Currently watching his Glastonbury performance from 2000 on BBC2 and he's singing Ashes to ashes.
I was 13 when
it came out and I remember it like it was yesterday.
That was the one that made me listen to everything else he had/has done.
Legend.

I watched that around a week before Christmas having recorded it last summer. I can confirm that I wasn't 13 when Ashes to Ashes came out though.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:53 pm

PadihamThickNeck wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:36 pm
He’s over rated

Keep your face out of the conversation if you think that then
,no one is intrested there's a good fella.

NorthIsCool · Post by **NorthIsCool** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:54 pm

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:47 pm
I watched that around a week before Christmas having recorded it last summer. I can confirm that I wasn't 13 when Ashes to Ashes came out though.

Age is nothing

Music is timeless

Cirrus_Minor · Post by **Cirrus_Minor** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:56 pm

The who sold the world

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 12:29 am

Changes, brilliant timeless piece of work. Also maybe bizarrely Sound and vision.

Ptangyangkipperbang · Post by **Ptangyangkipperbang** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 7:25 pm

For me every album from Space Oddity to Scary Monsters is a classic.I personally then thought he lost his way.But I picked up some of his later albums up when I saw them cheap on CD.I never really played them or if I did it was on in the background and I didn't take them in.A few weeks ago for some reason I played Heathen and was took aback how good it was and would say it stands against anything of his golden period

Stalbansclaret · Post by **Stalbansclaret** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 7:33 pm

Five Years/Drive In Saturday/Sound & Vision .....refuse to slim it down any more than that but I could probably pick another 20+tracks from throughout his career which are also absolute beauties. Did someone say over-rated ? Ha ha ha ha ha

Stalbansclaret · Post by **Stalbansclaret** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 7:34 pm

Ptangyangkipperbang wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 09, 2022 7:25 pm
For me every album from Space Oddity to Scary Monsters is a classic.I personally then thought he lost his way.But I picked up some of his later albums up when I saw them cheap on CD.I never really played them or if I did it was on in the background and I didn't take them in.A few weeks ago for some reason I played Heathen and was took aback how good it was and would say it stands against anything of his golden period

You're right about Heathen . The Next Day and Blackstar are also superb. He really did have a late career renaissance.

conyoviejo · Post by **conyoviejo** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 7:39 pm

Sorrow .

ashtonlongsider · Post by **ashtonlongsider** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:22 pm

Lady Grinning Soul from my favourite Bowie album Aladdin Sane is a stand out track, one of many I hasten to add.

ChrisG · Post by **ChrisG** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:25 pm

I've just listened to Let's Dance. First 3 tracks are great; Modern Love, China Girl, and Let's Dance. Produced by the brilliant Nile Rodgers.

So many different musical styles over the years, a real geniuis. Apart from Dancing in the Streets with Mick Jagger. That was absolutely bobbins.

Billy Balfour · Post by **Billy Balfour** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:34 pm

The Jean Genie

dougcollins · Post by **dougcollins** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:41 pm

3rd track from Ziggy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFDj3sh ... BrokenGrin

boatshed bill · Post by **boatshed bill** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:46 pm

ashtonlongsider wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:22 pm
Lady Grinning Soul from my favourite Bowie album Aladdin Sane is a stand out track, one of many I hasten to add.

Brilliant song

helmclaret · Post by **helmclaret** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:59 pm

So many top quality tunes.

Hard to beat Space Oddity though I reckon.

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:05 pm

heroes, Im afraid of americans, kooks, panic in detroit. blue jean.

RMutt · Post by **RMutt** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:08 pm

Five Years. Pretty pertinent right now I’ve been thinking.

Terry Cochrane · Post by **Terry Cochrane** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:09 pm

Excellent 2 hour programme on BBC Sounds : Bowie Dancing Out in Space
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000r4cj

Wuggawumphwumph · Post by **Wuggawumphwumph** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:29 pm

Ashes to ashes

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:34 pm

He was great at Live Aid with "Heroes". Great suit that day too!

Stalbansclaret · Post by **Stalbansclaret** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:35 pm

dougcollins wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:41 pm
3rd track from Ziggy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFDj3sh ... BrokenGrin

Nearly opted for Moorage Daydream myself.....Such a great tune and even today it still sounds kind of, well, sci-fi ! It's pretty easy to play to a passable standard on guitar too ! Also love Soul Love...in fact pretty much every song on Ziggy is superb.

XDS · Post by **XDS** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:41 pm

Torn between modern love, life on Mars and boys keep swinging, going boys keep swinging. As many have said absolute legend

Chobulous · Post by **Chobulous** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:43 pm

mill hill claret wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:39 pm

I've had this when I've mentioned my favourite band queen
...if you don't like a band / artist ...don't comment ...bloke is asking for favourite Bowie song ..not whether you like him or not

Steve1956 wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:53 pm

Keep your face out of the conversation if you think that then
,no one is intrested there's a good fella.

Sorry but the OP set the agenda with his opening statement

LoveCurryPies wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:33 pm
Probably the most innovative music artist this country has had. What a sad loss....way too young!

A comment like that is open to challenge.
He was behind the curve with the whole androgynous thing. He used that to get himself established. Nothing wrong with that, plenty of others did it, but he was by no means the first.
Some of his riffs were very reminiscent of others. Jean Genie and Blockbuster spring to mind, but both probably owed their opening riffs to the Yardbirds.
He also reputedly had a taste for young girls, again he was by no means the first

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 10:10 pm

Chobulous wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:43 pm
Sorry but the OP set the agenda with his opening statement

A comment like that is open to challenge.
He was behind the curve with the whole androgynous thing. He used that to get himself established. Nothing wrong with that, plenty of others did it, but he was by no means the first.
Some of his riffs were very reminiscent of others. Jean Genie and Blockbuster spring to mind, but both probably owed their opening riffs to the Yardbirds.
He also reputedly had a taste for young girls, again he was by no means the first

Rubbish

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:31 am

Dark Cloud wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:34 pm
He was great at Live Aid with "Heroes". Great suit that day too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFHC6t13hi0

Bowie was brilliant that day and for me it was one of the best days out ever.

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:54 am

great musician, lyricist, style guru, and a great wit. Bowie was phenomenal.

Vintage Claret · Post by **Vintage Claret** » Mon Jan 10, 2022 6:53 am

John, I'm only dancing or Man who sold the world.

ian · Post by **ian** » Mon Jan 10, 2022 8:08 am

Station to Station, live is even better

Chobulous · Post by **Chobulous** » Mon Jan 10, 2022 8:57 am

Steve1956 wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 09, 2022 10:10 pm
Rubbish

Devastatingly incisive argument that.

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Mon Jan 10, 2022 9:05 am

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:31 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFHC6t13hi0

Bowie was brilliant that day and for me it was one of the best days out ever.

Sounds like you were there and one of the lucky ones CT. I was simply part of the huge TV audience, but a mate of mine from Rawtenstall got a ticket and went and said it was the experience of a lifetime, although when he'd first bought the ticket he wasn't even sure what the event really was or if it would be any good. If memory serves me correctly, tickets were originally freely available and easy to get before the publicity suddenly took off and it was only in the last week or final few days that people realised it was probably going to be something extremely special. At which point tickets became as sought after as gold dust.

ŽižkovClaret · Post by **ŽižkovClaret** » Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:04 am

David Bowie 75

No he isn't

(I know it's a particularly weird bugbear of mine, but i never get why they come out with "X celebrity would have been Y years old today". Like when does it stop?)

Anyway, carry on

AlargeClaret · Post by **AlargeClaret** » Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:10 am

Suffragette city and Starman just 2 of many .While he’d done nothing for 30 yrs he was a suberb artist and I even forgave his “ glass spider tour”

Claret Till I Die · Post by **Claret Till I Die** » Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:28 am

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