Let’s have some more Bowie.
Hard to top that. Bowie says he wrote it because he could barely believe he had survived his drug-taking binges and come out on the other side.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Well, I’m going to try to top it anyway. Because nobody mentioned Adrian Belew in the last thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tWyIug2qP0
o/t News breaking that Robin Williams has died.
fuck.
I love a good YouTube thread. There’s always something new and totally different.
The Low/Heroes/Lodger trilogy rate among my favorite albums to this day. “Lodger” was the one I started with (I was in my early teens at the time), and once I realized what I had, it only made sense to get the others. Those albums also ended up serving as my intro to Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, and Adrian Belew. That was an incredible time for pop music – perhaps the last period when you could get away with avant-garde sensibilities and still land on the Top 40.
I love the legend of the “Low” recording, at least as I understand it. Many instrumentals, with a dissipated, strung-out Bowie doing the most he could, which was half an album, essentially, with Eno amply taking the space left by Bowie’s incapacities. If the truth varies from that a bit, too bad- I prefer the legend.
Both half-albums are great, an amazing accomplishment during such turmoil. Heroin- it’s a helluva drug.
OMG! Just last month, the Black guy who plays the Genie on Broadway won a Tony for his role!
RIP Robin Williams. My lil sister loves Alladdin. She’ll be so sad.
http://youtu.be/grVzHu-_LcU
I love the opening track off of this album, but my wife loves this one more:
Man, David and his myriad collaborators were really productive. A classic album nearly every year of a full decade.