His remains should be sent to Mars. If there's not Life on Mars, at least he is the first to be Dead on Mars.
David Bowie Has Died
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Re: David Bowie Has Died
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
As easy that joke was, I'm very often wondering about generations these days. I often feel this generation is really cheap. Now, surely most people feel this way about how the new one isn't worth their own, but really there were such iconic periods from the 50s to the 90s (in a westerner point of view) .. and this makes his leaving (among other peers who shaped the 70s) as powerful as hurting.
The "50s to the 90s"--which is so laughably general, that's four generations of music, if not more--had The Beatles and David Bowie and it also had The Monkees and Men Without Hats. We have the artists who it's funny to make fun of, like Bieber, and we have Jack White, we have Kanye West, we have Radiohead--and we had David Bowie, he's a modern artist today , have you listened to Blackstar, which openly tips its cap…
Isn't the situation reversed ? were men without hats big ? the good music today is in the shadow while the mainstream pours industrialized music overwhelmingly.
I don't understand how Kanye West is anything but an arrogant dude, but I'm biased against Hip Hop nowadays. Radiohead is very much a 90s in my eyes.
Re: David Bowie Has Died
#63Such sad news. Given the Golden Globes is just over, it might be timely to rewatch the classic Extras segment in which Bowie roasts Gervais - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv6mEv_rDdE
"This video contains content from BBC Worldwide, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." You just have to love modern copyright.
not great quality but at least can see it...
Re: David Bowie Has Died
#64I'll be listening to a lot Bowie today.
An artist in every sense of the word.
Re: David Bowie Has Died
#65If you listen to Bowie's new album "Blackstar" now, it has to rank as one of the greatest "going out with class" artistic moments in pop music.
The lead single is called "Lazarus" and the first line of the song is "Look up here, I'm in heaven."
Re: David Bowie Has Died
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
If anything labels are more important than ever and music sales are driven by the kind of marketing campaigns that only big records labels can afford. There's a ton of interesting music being made outside their domain but most people will never hear any of it.
One would think services like Spotify would help, but they only make the music more accessible, they don't help you find it. I don't have pro and only ads I hear (besides the spotify ones that are trying to annoy you into paying) are ones from Universal Music.
The internet continues to make human-curated content (college/community radio, in my opinion unmatched for discovery) more accessible. But very few people listen, and with changes to fee structure, very few stations can afford to continue online broadcasting. [0]
[0] http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2016/01/05/why-american-indepen...
Re: David Bowie Has Died
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
As easy that joke was, I'm very often wondering about generations these days. I often feel this generation is really cheap. Now, surely most people feel this way about how the new one isn't worth their own, but really there were such iconic periods from the 50s to the 90s (in a westerner point of view) .. and this makes his leaving (among other peers who shaped the 70s) as powerful as hurting.
There's a ton of interesting, adventurous music being made by young people right now but you will never hear it because the music labels still dominate pop music and they've become more conservative than ever. So don't judge the current generation by what you see in the top 40. Dig around on Bandcamp instead and be amazed.
It's funny, Bowie did speak about Labels disappearing. As I said above, the top before had more interesting stuff (if you consider The Police, or Dire Straits interesting that is).
I'll seek through bandcamp, I rarely hear things intersting these days but maybe I'm under a passeist phase.
Re: David Bowie Has Died
#68Such sad news. Given the Golden Globes is just over, it might be timely to rewatch the classic Extras segment in which Bowie roasts Gervais - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv6mEv_rDdE
"This video contains content from BBC Worldwide, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." You just have to love modern copyright.
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Re: David Bowie Has Died
#69Such sad news. Given the Golden Globes is just over, it might be timely to rewatch the classic Extras segment in which Bowie roasts Gervais - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv6mEv_rDdE
"This video contains content from BBC Worldwide, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." You just have to love modern copyright.
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Re: David Bowie Has Died
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
As easy that joke was, I'm very often wondering about generations these days. I often feel this generation is really cheap. Now, surely most people feel this way about how the new one isn't worth their own, but really there were such iconic periods from the 50s to the 90s (in a westerner point of view) .. and this makes his leaving (among other peers who shaped the 70s) as powerful as hurting.
They had the Monkees back then. We have real artists now. Have things changed so much?
So I only look at the past through what stood the test of time, while failing to see this about this era ...