David Bowie has died

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **Floex** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 10:39 pm

Skippy wrote:

twitter.com/A_Nice_Chap/status/686662357351792640

Amazing scenes :wub:

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **floydfreak** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 10:46 pm

That is an amazing tribute and sight

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **Dowbocop** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 12:11 am

I often feel with David Bowie how people sometimes feel when they look at things like Star Trek or Doctor Who, and how I felt with Terry Pratchett until a few years ago: I know I'll like it, but it's difficult to get into such a large body of work without getting lost very quickly. I haven't listened to any of the classic Bowie albums all the way through, but everything I've heard of his I've liked (or loved in the case of Space Oddity), and there's so much stuff I want to listen to now just in this thread!

I had no idea he'd done a drum and bass album until I read the obituary on Arseblog, and after searching it out for one or two songs I've just listened to the entire album :lol:

. Moral of the story: just dive in and enjoy it! I also hope someone shows The Man Who Fell to Earth again as well, I think the Beeb have the rights...

RIP, and thank you in advance for all of your music I'm about to experience.

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **CitizenErased** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 12:31 am

Obviously nothing beats the original, but I love this version of The Man Who Sold the World:

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **1cmanny1** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 4:39 am

Terrible News

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **TigaSefi** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:01 am

Clapham Picturehouse is showing Labyrinth on the big screen on Sunday 12pm if you want to revisit this classic.

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **degoose** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:13 am

Dowbocop wrote:I often feel with David Bowie how people sometimes feel when they look at things like Star Trek or Doctor Who, and how I felt with Terry Pratchett until a few years ago: I know I'll like it, but it's difficult to get into such a large body of work without getting lost very quickly. I haven't listened to any of the classic Bowie albums all the way through, but everything I've heard of his I've liked (or loved in the case of Space Oddity), and there's so much stuff I want to listen to now just in this thread!

I had no idea he'd done a drum and bass album until I read the obituary on Arseblog, and after searching it out for one or two songs I've just listened to the entire album . Moral of the story: just dive in and enjoy it! I also hope someone shows The Man Who Fell to Earth again as well, I think the Beeb have the rights...

RIP, and thank you in advance for all of your music I'm about to experience.

quite indeed, just dive right in really. The thing with Bowie is that he changed his musical style so many times that it was always fresh and interesting. For his modern albums which still have a mix of sound to his older stuff try 'Hours and also 'Heathen'

These are from Hours

and this one actually became a bit of a popular goth/electronica anthem

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **TheTurnipKing** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 3:20 pm

What's really astonishing me is the volume of work posted in this thread so far, and we STILL haven't managed to hit just all the really catchy ones.

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **Ironhide** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 3:39 pm

Can't get the album version as apparently it's unavailable in the UK.

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **Alvin Flummux** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 3:43 pm

TigaSefi wrote:Clapham Picturehouse is showing Labyrinth on the big screen on Sunday 12pm if you want to revisit this classic.

I saw my baby, cryin hard as babes could cry
What could I do?
My baby's love had gone, and left my baby blue!
Nobody knew

Great film.

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **Cheeky Devlin** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 7:31 pm

My old work used to play this one in the shop quite regularly. Love it.

Memento Mori wrote:Shoutout to the intro he did for The Snowman.

I may have just watched that whole thing. :lol:

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **floydfreak** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:09 pm

Floex wrote:
Skippy wrote:

twitter.com/A_Nice_Chap/status/686662357351792640

Amazing scenes

That clip has been all over the news today :datass:

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **Cal** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 9:07 pm

I must admit I'm taking Bowie's death as badly as I took Freddie's. The world feels strange to me somehow, just knowing he's no longer in it.

Death. I'm not scared of it myself, but I detest what it does to the living. Watching the Bowie Reality Tour from 2003 in Dublin on Sky Arts tonight. One last great live tour from the man before he fell victim to a heart attack and massive heart operation which I believe set him down the path towards his inevitable end. Just 13 years ago. I could rage.

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **Turboman** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 10:08 pm

It wasn't a massive operation was it?

This every time.

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **Spindash** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 10:38 pm

Turboman wrote:This every time.

Preach

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **Turboman** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 10:51 pm

Spindash wrote:
Turboman wrote:This every time.

Preach

You introduced me to this one

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **Cal** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 10:58 pm

Turboman wrote:It wasn't a massive operation was it?

It was an emergency angioplasty. It inflates blocked ventricles leading into the heart. I don't know how extensive the operation is, but Bowie was clearly knocked for six and I don't think he ever recovered from it.

I always thought he looked changed physically from that moment on, like he was drifting away, really, over the succeeding years. Okay, I know he was going into his 60s, so hardly a spring chicken any more, but the comparison between how he looked in 2003 (during the aborted Reality Tour) prior to the heart attack and how he looked afterwards was quite marked.

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **Turboman** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:09 pm

Cal wrote:
Turboman wrote:It wasn't a massive operation was it?

It was an emergency angioplasty. It inflates blocked ventricles leading into the heart. I don't know how extensive the operation is, but Bowie was clearly knocked for six and I don't think he ever recovered from it.

I always thought he looked changed physically from that moment on, like he was drifting away, really, over the succeeding years. Okay, I know he was going into his 60s, so hardly a spring chicken any more, but the comparison between how he looked in 2003 (during the aborted Reality Tour) prior to the heart attack and how he looked afterwards was quite marked.

I guess it depends how well he was prior to needing the op, but at least nowadays it's not too risky.

Yeah you've got a point about his appearance. I imagine 40 odd shows a tour takes it's toll at that age and must be difficult

Still in shock at the news tbh

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **floydfreak** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 12:54 am

some live bowie

PostRe: David Bowie has died by **TheTurnipKing** » Mon Jan 18, 2016 8:14 am

Someone mentioned "the man who fell to earth". Seems like it's on the Horror Channel at 1am.

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