jimmmm
Refugee
MrBrau1 said:
Have you heard his cover of "White Light/White Heat"?
Tis on that "Bowie at the Beeb" album.
I can send.
He also did a great cover of WLWH on the Serious Moonlight tour, imo, his best version of the song.
MrBrau1 said:
Have you heard his cover of "White Light/White Heat"?
Tis on that "Bowie at the Beeb" album.
I can send.
U2democrat said:Y'all wouldn't believe the running around I did today (First to Borders, then FYE, then Target, then Circuit City, then Best Buy, finally back to FYE). I ended up buying both Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust because I couldn't decide which one I wanted
I'm enjoying them now
U2democrat said:Have any of y'all seen the movie "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" w/Bowie? Because I'm considering buying it off of eBay but I wanted to know if someone here had seen it and had an opinion of it.
jimmmm said:
What do you make of them, U2Democrat?
Originally posted by LJT
I quite liked this movie
Get the Labyrinth only movie you will ever need
Somewhere Over the Rainbow for the win?U2democrat said:I can't get Starman out of my head for the life of me. I think it's become my new favorite song.
There's a Starman - the first few notes of the chorus are the exact same as those from Somewhere Over the Rainbow. I don't think it's intentional, but when I realized it for the first time I thought it was awesomeU2democrat said:I don't think so
The song has its origins from an occurrence when Bowie was asked to write English lyrics to a French song ("Comme d'habitude"), the song he came up with was "Even a Fool Learns to Love". The Canadian songwriter Paul Anka bought the rights to the original French version, and rewrote it into an English song called "My Way," later made famous by Frank Sinatra. Bowie's version was never released. "Life on Mars?" was Bowie's riposte to losing out on a fortune; it has exactly the same chord progression as "My Way," and as Bowie explained in an interview with the BBC, it is a "modernistic take" on the Anka/Sinatra song.
Canadiens1160 said:There's a Starman - the first few notes of the chorus are the exact same as those from Somewhere Over the Rainbow. I don't think it's intentional, but when I realized it for the first time I thought it was awesome
Lancemc said:Low
Scary Monsters
Hunky Dory
If you don't yet own all three of those albums...head to your local CD store right this second and correct this great injustice.
It is my favourite tooLancemc said:Scary Monsters is probably my favorite Bowie album actually. Off the wall and rockin. Nearly perfect.
U2democrat said:So I'm guessing after buying Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust I should go for Scary Monsters next? Or Aladdin Sane?
Lancemc said:
You can't really go wrong with either. I definitely prefer Scary Monsters though. I feel it's a more satisfying album in the long run. Aladdin Sane is definitely more accessible though, and would definitely be a logical progression coming off Hunky Dory and Ziggy.
U2democrat said:So I'm guessing after buying Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust I should go for Scary Monsters next? Or Aladdin Sane?
XHendrix24 said:
Get Aladdin Sane if you're a big Ziggy fan.
Get Scary Monsters if you like the more "rock" side of Bowie (wasn't Robert Fripp on this album? I think he was).
Get Low if you want something a bit more experimental.
Get Heroes if you want something a little more experimental, but also somewhat grounded (aka THE AMAZING TITLE TRACK THAT IS POSSIBLY BOWIE'S BEST SONG EVER).
Get Station to Station if you like long Bowie songs (the title track, his longest song, is another easy contender for his very best).
And umm....get Outside if you're into serial killers.
U2democrat said:
So Aladdin Sane, Scary Monsters, or Heroes...
Someone convince me of 1 of the above