David Bowie

[Jinsai]

I was actually watching this repeatedly in the days right before the news of his death...

[thevoid99]

I watched that cartoon as well. I love how Tony Visconti referred to himself as "Tony Visconti, co-producer who does more than people think"

[DF118]

I was actually watching this repeatedly in the days right before the news of his death...

I was not expecting a Derek and Clive gag there.

[Space Suicide]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...-bowie-7196837

No thanks.

[thevoid99]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...-bowie-7196837

No thanks.

So far, 94% has said "Fuck off". I would pull a JFK on that fucker if he did that.

[allegro]

So far, 94% has said "Fuck off". I would pull a JFK on that fucker if he did that.

I think some of this article is bullshit. Kanye tweeted a tribute to Bowie upon Bowie's death, but the rest of this sounds over-the-top considering Kanye is really busy putting out his own album right now. Certainly there have been a SHIT TON of Bowie covers out there, so this isn't new.

But then there's this. DUN dun dun ...

[thevoid99]

This is fucking stupid. Kanye doesn't belong in the same universe as Bowie as a personality nor as an artist.

[Jinsai]

haha.... oh... fuck you Kanye, you adorable smug motherfucker you

[Ryan]

Fucking fuck Kanye

[Your Name Here]

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[DF118]

I'd actually be okay with Kanye West album of Bowie covers, eventually. But yeah, he's a prick and this is a dick move so soon- tasteless and self-aggrandizing as all hell. Note- this the Mirror, so should largely be taken with a pinch of salt anyway.

[allegro]

Note- this the Mirror, so should largely be taken with a pinch of salt anyway.

Yeah, isn't that just above, like, the National Enquirer?

Anywayyyyy ...

Remembering how much Bowie loved the Arcade Fire ...

[elevenism]

Rhett Miller, lead singer and songwriter for alt country legends Old 97's wrote this moving article about Bowie.
It brought tears to my eyes.

edit: also, has anyone found a good blackstar hoodie?
i've only found one, and it looks kind of flimsy.

[elevenism]

sorry for double post, but i also found this really thought provoking article about Bowie and occult symbolism (and it's not the insane, satan runs the music industry stuff. this is actually pretty damn interesting and has quotes from the man himself on crowley, kabala, and the like)

http://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusi...ing-blackstar/

[allegro]

sorry for double post, but i also found this really thought provoking article about Bowie and occult symbolism (and it's not the insane, satan runs the music industry stuff. this is actually pretty damn interesting and has quotes from the man himself on crowley, kabala, and the like)

http://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusi...ing-blackstar/

Already posted (#935)

And I used to be really into Kabbalah, but that's not anything to do with satan; it's more like mystic Jewish string theory. See also this.

Crowley's interpretation strayed a LOT from the Zohar.

[WorzelG]

Apparently Bowie turned down the opportunity to sing on a Coldplay song

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...is-it-20160119

[thevoid99]

Apparently Bowie turned down the opportunity to sing on a Coldplay song

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...is-it-20160119

Even Bowie thinks Coldplay sucks.

[elevenism]

Already posted (#935)

And I used to be really into Kabbalah, but that's not anything to do with satan; it's more like mystic Jewish string theory. See also this.

Crowley's interpretation strayed a LOT from the Zohar.

@allegro , i'm familiar with Cabala. What i meant was that there are THOUSANDS of utterly ridiculous articles and videos floating around produced by p)eople who think that "lucifer runs the music industry," and ANYTHING other than evangelical christianity is satanism. i was saying that the article i linked wasn't one of those.

(sorry if i'm not expressing myself well here-i've got my 3 year old niece and a ninety pound bulldog vying for my attention )

i loved that article. i didn't know the meaning of Station to Station, for instance.

I certainly don't think bowie was any type of satanist, for the record. I just didn't realize how much mysticism had shaped his career.

[allegro]

i'm familiar with Cabala.

I studied the Kabbalah. Not the Christian or Crowley ripoff versions.

But that article is specific about Station to Station being written while Bowie was ingesting only cocaine, milk, red peppers and nicotine to survive, and he barely even remembered writing any of it.



If you listen to his song lyrics for most of his career, you'll find a lot of references to mysticism, but once he really started into the coke @elevenism his weird obsession --> it all got really bad, it was pretty common knowledge in the '70s (which you would not know since you did not yet exist of course, heh). He moved to Berlin to get away from the drugs and to clean himself up. He joked (??) that before "Low," every time he blew his nose, some of his brains came out.

[elevenism]

I studied the Kabbalah. Not the Christian or Crowley ripoff versions.

But that article is specific about Station to Station being written while Bowie was ingesting only cocaine, milk and red peppers to survive, and barely even remembered writing any of it.

Sure enough.
I wish i would have studied the Kabbalah, and came very close to doing so. I was at a spiritual crossroads. I was sixteen years old. I literally had a stack of books on the Kabbalah and a stack of books on Celtic Magick.
But i was intimidated by the Hebrew and already had a beginner's knowledge of sympathetic magic, so i bought the Celtic books.
And i threw myself head first into Celtic Ritual Magick, which wound up being a decision i regret to this day. I opened strange doors that would never close again. ;P

At any rate, i do need to listen to STS again.

Edit: @allegro , i first heard bowie as a child, through my parents.
Then it was best of bowie.
And then Outside came out. That's when my true bowie obsession began.
I had Low and TMWSTW in high school, so it was those two, Outside, Earthling, Heathen, and the 98 best of bowie that i listened to nonstop.
I have all of his studio albums now of course, but i've yet to listen to all of them obsessively (which is why i was so hooked on Life on Mars last year.)
This is why i don't know all of the lyrics.
(and now i MUST stop typing, because it's hard with my 3 year old niece trying to prevent it. )

[allegro]

At any rate, i do need to listen to STS again.

It's only referenced in the song, not the whole album.

And you can study English minimized versions of the Zohar. Like, for instance. It's more spiritual than mysticism.

[Nyx]

Apparently Bowie turned down the opportunity to sing on a Coldplay song

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...is-it-20160119

'It's not a very good song, is it?'
Haha, love it

[marodi]

Movie related but there was singing in it so there:

[elevenism]

It's only referenced in the song, not the whole album.

And you can study English minimized versions of the Zohar. Like, for instance. It's more spiritual than mysticism.

thank you. i will order it today, unless you have a better suggestion.

[allegro]

thank you. i will order it today, unless you have a better suggestion.

No, he is the most highly-recommended Rav (Hebrew for Rabbi) re the Zohar on Amazon. Actually, that one looks so good (and cheap, LOL) I ordered for myself. It's a great starting point.

[emptydesk]

Kanye is very talented, and little gives me douche-chills like watching rock purists shit on him.

[orestes]

Movie related but there was singing in it so there:

Glamdalf!!!

[orestes]

I studied the Kabbalah. Not the Christian or Crowley ripoff versions.

But that article is specific about Station to Station being written while Bowie was ingesting only cocaine, milk, red peppers and nicotine to survive, and he barely even remembered writing any of it.



If you listen to his song lyrics for most of his career, you'll find a lot of references to mysticism, but once he really started into the coke @elevenism his weird obsession --> it all got really bad, it was pretty common knowledge in the '70s (which you would not know since you did not yet exist of course, heh). He moved to Berlin to get away from the drugs and to clean himself up. He joked (??) that before "Low," every time he blew his nose, some of his brains came out.

Yeah, he moved to Berlin: the heroin capital.

[allegro]

Yeah, he moved to Berlin: the heroin capital.

Yeah, it seemed kinda weird for Bowie and Iggy to move to BERLIN of all places to "clean up" but, hey, whatever, heh.

He wasn't thinking very clearly at the time.

[jmtd]

Final version of Sue... reminds me a lot of "I'm Deranged"

EDIT: Gah I meant "Tis A Pity..."