Amph David Bowie Appreciation Thread

R.I.P. David Bowie.

 

Oh, I forgot about that one! Yes, absolutely lovely. It kind of makes me wish he'd done interpretations more often. Which reminds me that I love his version of Across the Universe from Young Americans. I have to be honest and say that Young Americans is an album that I feel misses the mark a lot, but that cover is one of the best things he ever did.

And Diamond Dogs just still holds up.

 

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-ca-ms-david-bowie-essay-20160110-story.html

 

Get in the queue, Lemmy.

 

At least that crap show Heroes is good for something: the soundtrack is on Amazon Prime Music, and includes the Bowie song.

Also

 

Not Pegg.

https://twitter.com/simonpegg/status/686656615924236288

 

Can I still like the quote?

 

I think it's a nice sentiment, regardless of whom it came from or whether meme creators can spell.

Also, I was already having an urge to rewatch The Prestige, but now it has become a need.

And wow, Bowie's close circle keeping secret both the fact that he had an album and the fact that he had cancer and was near death? Those are spectacular friends indeed. We do not actually need to know about the private health information of celebrities. I'm very glad he was able to go out the way he wanted to, in a thoughtful way while also gifting the world with one more album. That's a very admirable thing, and would not have been made one bit better by a press release 18 months ago.

 

Iggy Pop remembers David Bowie: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/arts/music/david-bowie-iggy-pop.html?smid=tw-share

 

I watched the Martian the other night and kinda got sad when Starman started to play.

 

Square Enix salute Major Tom. Free STEAM key for Omikron: The Nomad Soul game:

https://store.na.square-enix.com/product/281956/omikron-the-nomad-soul-pc-download

 

Wow, thank you!

 

Pleasure.

Found it purely by chance browsing. It's one of those "really wanted to play that back in the day but never had time" games for me. I'm nearly done with Mass Effect, i'll get stuck into this one next.

 

Battling the Square Enix checkout to try and get the Steam code at present. Might try again later.

 

It took me two attempts, with a new browser window. They must have an influx of traffic.

 

Forgot how good space oddity was. It's really good!

 

I just finished my David Bowie marathon. I made it through all the songs I could find (291!), and have to say my favourite songs are Lazarus, Space Oddity, After All, Red Sails, and Oh! You Pretty Things. My top albums have to be Lodger, Outside, Young Americans, and The Next Day.

I had trouble choosing 4-5 of each, though, because each one was its own work of art and had something I liked.

As an aside, I drew this as a tribute in the midst of my listening. Figured this was the place for it.

Spoiler

 

Lovely art, Volshe, people will miss it in the spoiler tags - more's the pity. I've listened to a few Bowie songs over the last week or so, and watched a bit of a concert, but I can't bring myself to listen to Blackstar yet.Too sad.

Anyway, this make for great reading. Thanks Clickhole.

http://www.clickhole.com/article/7-musicians-talk-about-how-david-bowie-impacted-th-3816

 

Apprentice it's going to enter the charts in the US and many other countries at no 1.

And get 0 radio airplay.

 

Yes, my Master.