David Bowie as Tilda Swinton, with Tilda Swinton as David Bowie

A still from “The Stars,” the second single off Bowie’s new album. The album, titled The Next Day, is, sans hyperbole, about all I’ve been listening to for the last three weeks. 

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Not sure what struck me to put together a playlist for no one in particular this Valentine’s afternoon, but hope YOU enjoy it! An amalgamation of artists I really admire and shamelessly tend to imitate in my own work, from David Byrne to David Bowie, Ben Folds to Ben Thornewill to Billy Joel to Bobby Short… but I guess I realized while putting this together that that’s sort of what we all do to some degree, and part of how we develop taste, no?

Let me know your thoughts on any of that, and moreso about the music.

Because it’s me, I tried to make it flow thematically and sonically, sometimes obviously with Greek mythology references, sometimes not so much…. what song similarities can you spot? 

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inspireextraordinaryperformance:

Beck is one of the most innnovative artists in the world today.  I have thought this ever since the release of Odelay in 1996. Beck’s latest musical concepts —  Record Club video series, (where he performs an entire classic album in one day with help from friends,)  and his recent Song Reader sheet music album (He released a full album of sheet music to be performed by YOU!.)

But now, he’s debuting something far grander: A nine-minute cover of David Bowie’s classic song “Sound and Vision” performed with 170 musicians and recorded with 360-degree microphones and camera equipment that lets viewers feel as though they’re actually there in person.

The fully-immersive project is a collaboration with music video director Chris Milk and all part of the Lincoln car company’s “Hello, Again” campaign, which is setting out to “transform classic works of art, fashion, film, and music into entirely new, fresh, original creations.”Beck’s inventive take on “Sound And Vision” is the first in the series.

Truly Inspiring.  Beck, keep on keeping us guessing!

Beck, like Regina Spektor, The Moldy Peaches (Adam Green/Kimya Dawson) and my [distant] relative Jeffrey Lewis among many more all started out at the SideWalk Cafe on the Lower East Side of New York, where I recently started frequenting and now even playing a hell of a lot now that I’m back in the city as of a few weeks ago.

This is a great post. Love Bowie. Love this cover. Love the Sidewalk; love New York. 

Me. 

jukeboxtheproblem:

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duderonymusbosch:

Say what you will about how slow it is, or even say that it’s a downer of a tune — it’s not, listen to the lyrics — but for now let me say no more than this is the first new work from David Bowie in a little over ten whole years. You should listen to it. And then we should talk about it. Ok? K.

Fixed some typed I made when posting this on mobile.

Thoughts? Thin White Duke discussions? Ziggy Stardust stipulations of stratospheric zeitgeist?

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Say what you will about how slow it is, or even say that it’s a downer of a tune — it’s not, listen to the lyrics — but for now let me say no more than this is the first new work from David Bowie in a little over ten whole years. You should listen to it. And then we should talk about it. Ok? K.

(Source: Spotify)

A playlist to help you make it through the winter… (featuring an NYU band, the new David Bowie single, one of Christopher O’Riley’s brilliant solo piano Radiohead covers and much more)

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David Bowie - I’m Afraid Of Americans 

Can we talk about the time Trent Reznor collaborated with David Bowie and it was really good? 

Only just recently did I hear all of Bowie’s 1997 album Earthling and man, sure a lot of people write off late period David Bowie but he had some good ideas and inventive uses of drum machines and vocal loops on that album. 

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Why yes, yes I did just douse my wasabi peas in parmesan cheese. 

— Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices, 1996. I saw part of this quotation and thought “that’s fantastic”; some judicious googling turned up both the source (hat tip to here) and more of the original thought.  (via radioheadofficial)

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I have a SoundCloud, guys. If you click on this ‘internet hotlink’ your browser’s graphical interface will be directed to my webpage. 

duderonymusbosch:

Here is a list of 101 things to compare Interpol to other than Joy Division.

John Cale
Warren Zevon
Pink Floyd’s Animals
your favorite animals
The Animals
The Anti-Nowhere League
Robert Fripp’s League of Gentlemen
Marilyn Monroe
Saccharine Trust with a different singer
a very…

Here is a list of 101 things to compare Interpol to other than Joy Division.

John Cale
Warren Zevon
Pink Floyd’s Animals
your favorite animals
The Animals
The Anti-Nowhere League
Robert Fripp’s League of Gentlemen
Marilyn Monroe
Saccharine Trust with a different singer
a very depressed Dire Straits
Nico’s The Marble Index
Nico in general
the first Cure album
the second Cure album
early Bauhaus
late Bauhaus
Peter Murphy’s “Cuts You Up” screwed & chopped
Van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters
the Strokes
“Rainy Days and Sundays”
the Sundays
“If I Was a Carpenter”
Graham Greene
a goth Aztec Camera
the Steve Miller Band
Sebadoh
the Wedding Present
weddings in general
Generalissimo Francisco Franco
the Lemon Pipers
a really obscure two-piece from southern California who nobody remembers called Supercollider, who were really good and screened old NASA footage while they played, and I really wanted to see them a bunch of times but I actually only saw them that one time and it was really great
the Beatles
Beat Happening
What’s Happening!!!
the remake of the What’s Happening!!! remake that’ll hit screens circa 2135 and will only be seen by androids
Christian Death’s Catastrophe Ballet
the Virgin Prunes
a really mellow Sex Gang Children
the cover of an album I have by a band called We Are Childhood Equals
Rothko if he’d lived to see fluoxetine
Jackson Pollock if he’d never been born
water
air
a late-morning alone in an old-growth forest
S.E. Hinton novels
the Andrea True Connection
the feeling you get from guys who are into conspiracy theory & pyrmaids & shit like that
the suspicion you have that some of these guys could have been you if you’d made just one wrong mental turn at just the wrong moment
“Suspicious Minds”
framed photographs of Elvis
framed photographs of Elvis in a dentist’s office
framed photographs of Elvis in a dentist’s office on a distant planet
Edward Elgar
Sonic Youth minus the noise fixation
an imaginary band named “Youth Sonique”
old-time hockey
breakfast in Paris
the sun setting after the monsoon rains
the Manic Street Preachers
Nirvana
the credits to a French movie playing in a theater in S.E. Portland on a rainy day
Sarah Records
Blanco y Negro
David Bowie’s early singles on Pye
“Downtown”
Susan Amway-era Magnetic Fields
lack of water
lack of air
fluorescent light
a balcony in Adelaide, Sunday, August17th, 2003, 7:00 a.m.
the modern sense of duty
the postmodern suspicion of same
the truth not lying somewhere in between, contrary to what you might expect, but squarely in one of the two camps
Lee Hazlewood’s Cowboy in Sweden
Roxy Music with an attitude problem
the Microphones
an old PSA for dental hygiene where the voiceover, a child, introduces the spot by saying “Happy Tooth discovers the real toothache!”
Radiohead
Criswell
the Stranglers
attempting to quit drinking without any help from anybody
shut up, fuck you, I can do it myself
thanks
Strawberry Switchblade’s “Since Yesterday”
Tanita Tikaram’s band’s secret practice tapes
bedrooms whose walls are covered in band fliers
a mountain of skulls in the jungle
Suede
Pulp
Spandau Ballet
This Kind of Punishment
Mighty Joe Young
the C.B. craze-related TV show Movin’ On, but not B.J. and the Bear
Sinead O’Connor if things had worked out differently
the band that Sinead’s third son will start in 2024
the year 2024 itself, faintly visible there on the horizon
the horizon itself
our own mysterious attraction toward horizons in general
mysterious attractions in general

Thank you for your time.