it took me a second listening before i got into it, but i love it now, it's very catchy
he looks like a character out of Pan's Labyrinth when he's got the cloth on his head with the buttons for eyes
[QUOTE=loopoo;49191498]it's just jarring and [B]not very rhythmic[/B], and it makes me feel like someone slipped a strong drug into my drink without me realising[/QUOTE]
I don't really get this part, though, it's actually very rhythmically driven - it's just not four on the floor. Fair game not to like the song.
[QUOTE=Marzipas;49191794]all of those are good songs and they sound like actual songs though.
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this kinda shit hurts to read tbh
Like, fuck, why is the margin for what counts as music have to be so fucking slim? Why is the music industry and its listeners so anti-experimentation? Especially when the act of making music itself is incredibly intimate and it's fucking awful to ask someone to [I]not[/I] do something they'd want to do, even if they're the only people who'd be into it. That not being the case here, because plenty of people are.
[QUOTE=loopoo;49191973]he looks like a character out of Pan's Labyrinth when he's got the cloth on his head with the buttons for eyes[/QUOTE]
Isn't that Caroline though?
[QUOTE=FlandersNed;49196088]Isn't that Caroline though?[/QUOTE]
yea Caroline had the button eyes but the cloth on his head is very reminiscent of The Pale Man IMO
I'm surprise no one has mentioned the rise and fall yet:
[video=youtube;VQH8LcAsEvA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muh1pk7xc2k[/video]
[QUOTE=Cam00;49201349]I'm surprise no one has mentioned the rise and fall yet:
[video=youtube;VQH8LcAsEvA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muh1pk7xc2k[/video][/QUOTE]
Ziggy Stardust was a pretty tame album. Bowie didn't really start getting weird Diamond Dogs.
[QUOTE=xalener;49195962]this kinda shit hurts to read tbh
Like, fuck, why is the margin for what counts as music have to be so fucking slim? Why is the music industry and its listeners so anti-experimentation? Especially when the act of making music itself is incredibly intimate and it's fucking awful to ask someone to [I]not[/I] do something they'd want to do, even if they're the only people who'd be into it. That not being the case here, because plenty of people are.[/QUOTE]
im not anti-experimentation. its just this particular experiment has failed in my eyes.
i listened to this a second time and i enjoy it more, the way he blends the live instruments with electronic instrumentation is really awesome and i like the discomforting intro and how it seamlessly transitions into a very beautiful song.
[QUOTE=Hakita;49191855]it took me a second listening before i got into it, but i love it now, it's very catchy[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I really wasn't keen on this on first listening, but listening to it again it really grew on me.
[QUOTE=BrickInHead;49170220]I honestly don't really get the obsession some people have with bowie. i've heard a couple songs I like here and there, but the vast majority of the stuff i've heard from him is weird as fuck on this level. i'm a pink floyd fan, so i can appreciate weird and people constantly tell me that i should listen to bowie.
i just don't get it, the music is jarring to listen to. the drum is off beat for the first four minutes of the song. its obviously intentional and probably to disorient the listener, but its just unpleasant to listen to really.
then the black star lines kick in right when you can start to get into the groove and sound just flat out weird
i can picture getting really stoned and digging this song, but sober its just ehhh for me.[/QUOTE]
David Bowie intentionally made a lot pop music too you know, A LOT of pop music. A fuckton of pop music.
Not all of his work pulls a fucking alladdin sane
His pop music is extremely accessible
The song is a critique on organized religion and how anything can be idolized like Major Tom's skull. Also hense how everyone moves as if they were possessed, cult symbolism, and Bowie's black star book which is a religous text. Also the scarecrows on the crosses who seem to be possessed.
David Bowie is writing ballads and epic poetry stories hidden within "weird" (because it has harmonically dissonant tones in it) pop music. He's a godly story teller, and everything about the rythym is masterwork. This isn't experimental, Bowie was experimental in the 80s. This album will be his magnum opus.
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;49189584]I love music that goes outside the norm. I just don't like this song because it sounds like he's doing it just to sound weird. That's an opinion, if I said "he's only doing it just to sound weird" that wouldn't be an opinion.[/QUOTE]
It's weird because its unrythmic and fucks with expectations, but I'd argue in music [I]that's a bad thing.[/I]
Music is all about rhythm and melody. Bowie has always tried to fuck with that concept but most of his work still sounded like [I]music.[/I] It was weird, but the weirdness has reason and construct too it.
Coming from someone who likes quite a lot of Bowie's work, even this is just too weird for me to casually listen too and I can't understand how anyone can truly call it music. Art? Maybe. Music? No.
[QUOTE=BananaFoam;49213303]I can't understand how anyone can truly call it music. Art? Maybe. Music? No.[/QUOTE]
what
out of all the styles of music like noise, drone or onkyo, blackstar isn't music because the drums are syncopated?
[QUOTE=BananaFoam;49213303]It's weird because its unrythmic and fucks with expectations, but I'd argue in music [I]that's a bad thing.[/I]
Music is all about rhythm and melody. Bowie has always tried to fuck with that concept but most of his work still sounded like [I]music.[/I] It was weird, but the weirdness has reason and construct too it.
Coming from someone who likes quite a lot of Bowie's work, even this is just too weird for me to casually listen too and I can't understand how anyone can truly call it music. Art? Maybe. Music? No.[/QUOTE]
You've gotta have a ridiculously narrow pallet for music if you consider this too weird to be music lmfao
[QUOTE=BananaFoam;49213303]It's weird because its unrythmic and fucks with expectations, but I'd argue in music [I]that's a bad thing.[/I]
Music is all about rhythm and melody. Bowie has always tried to fuck with that concept but most of his work still sounded like [I]music.[/I] It was weird, but the weirdness has reason and construct too it.
Coming from someone who likes quite a lot of Bowie's work, even this is just too weird for me to casually listen too and I can't understand how anyone can truly call it music. Art? Maybe. Music? No.[/QUOTE]
Did you sit in one time in the music theory class in high school, or something
How is this not music, lmfao
It has pitch and rhytm. Amongst many other concepts, mind you, but it fuffills the agreed requirements to be defined as "music"
[QUOTE=BananaFoam;49213303]It's weird because its unrythmic and fucks with expectations, but I'd argue in music [I]that's a bad thing.[/I]
Music is all about rhythm and melody. Bowie has always tried to fuck with that concept but most of his work still sounded like [I]music.[/I] It was weird, but the weirdness has reason and construct too it.
Coming from someone who likes quite a lot of Bowie's work, even this is just too weird for me to casually listen too and I can't understand how anyone can truly call it music. Art? Maybe. Music? No.[/QUOTE]
Man if you think this is weird, wait until you hear this.
[video=youtube;2Ih7KzKLLWA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ih7KzKLLWA[/video]
Is this also not music?
it's all fun and games until somebody posts industrial bluegrass
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tXGA3-6a80[/media]
god save you all
gon' bump this here old thread with the newest jam
[video=youtube;ZSt9RDIIa0k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSt9RDIIa0k[/video]
Also, here's a great track that I totally missed even got released:
[video=youtube;nFX1y62l9C4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFX1y62l9C4[/video]
Kinda weird to bump this thread, but I just want to enunciate how fucking great the whole album is - and I've really grown to love [I]'Tis a pity she was a whore[/I]:
[video=youtube;-zF2tsBJnpk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zF2tsBJnpk[/video]
Honestly I think it's up there with the best of the best he's made. Amazing musicians on the album as well, props to them.
[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;49170299]pink floyd isn't even remotely 'weird' lol, up your meme grips game
but on a serious note, there are real rhythms in the song and there are real specific reasons why it's somewhat disorienting. as someone who likes pink floyd, you should at least appreciate bowie using music as a tool to tell a story, which is like the vast majority of all progressive music.
also, i hardly find it disorienting. but perhaps that's because i listen to industrial a lot. music is all about personal tastes after all.[/QUOTE]
dude if you want a weirdly put together album, listen to The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails, that album is like my defacto 'fall asleep to' album and some of the imagery is just burned into my brain from the second half of that album
Downward Spiral is disorienting too in a way, but that's a lot more... i guess tame when it comes to Industrial standards. It's a very intimate and... organic album I guess, and that's enough to really put people off.
[editline]5th May 2016[/editline]
holey fuck dude i had no idea that comment was half a year old
either way listen to more NIN fam that's some real good shit
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;50261991]dude if you want a weirdly put together album, listen to The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails, that album is like my defacto 'fall asleep to' album and some of the imagery is just burned into my brain from the second half of that album
Downward Spiral is disorienting too in a way, but that's a lot more... i guess tame when it comes to Industrial standards. It's a very intimate and... organic album I guess, and that's enough to really put people off.
[editline]5th May 2016[/editline]
holey fuck dude i had no idea that comment was half a year old
either way listen to more NIN fam that's some real good shit[/QUOTE]
Bowie toured with them back in the nineties, think it was with "Outside".
that's fuckin amazing
miss u bowie <3
David Bowie's passing was the only celebrity death I've ever cried over, let alone bawl my eyes out. This album is exactly why. 'Haunting' barely describes the emotion in this album. It certainly left a permanant scar on my heart. The way the Blackstar title track lyrics flow and just barely hint at his own death [I]that hadn't even happened yet[/I] is beyond any artistry in modern times - if you ask me that's just downright out of this fucking world. Beyond my realm of comprehension. A true artist until his very last dying fucking breath - you have to ask - did the cancer really win this time?
Revived David Bowie thread?
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvyNOg4jSRg[/media]
[QUOTE=Silikone;50264254]Revived David Bowie thread?
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvyNOg4jSRg[/media][/QUOTE]
I'd rather take an actual, revived David Bowie, but sure, a thread will do.
Great performance from the Serious Moonlight tour:
[video=youtube;v2MdO0DQynU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2MdO0DQynU[/video]
Really shows off his amazing voice here.
[QUOTE=TheRealRudy;50263190][url]http://imgur.com/DWfh36J[/url]
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man i want the physical version of it now so badly[/QUOTE]
Too bad us CD collecting folks don't get this.
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