RIP David Bowie
- Started 9 years ago
- Last post 3 years ago
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- jaylarson3
This track/video is really tripping me the (d)uck out now:
- what a way to go out.Fax_Benson
- there are more ideas going on in that than most 'pop stars' manage in a lifetimeFax_Benson
- Amazing final effort. So glad he could get a bit more of his work out before he passed. He left a hell of a legacy...baseline_shift
- Ducking amazingpango
- Yeah pretty incredible.sea_sea
- face_melter3
Fucking Bowie, man. I honestly thought the crazy space alien was going to fucking live forever.
Beyond all the Japanese noise, transgender hardcore punk, Swedish doom metal, hip hop, and fuck knows what else it always comes back to Bowie. There has never been (and probably never will be again) an artist that has given me such incredible musical kicks.
Deeply upset by this.
- ronburgundy0
My brother introduced me to David Bowie's music when I was 8 or 9 years old with the amazing Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) album - Ashes to Ashes is still one of my favorite tracks. A couple years later I purchased Let's Dance (my very first LP) and as I've grown older, my appreciation of his music has too. Few artists have been able to transcend style and genres like he has.
Should you have the opportunity, I highly recommend watching the BBC documentary "David Bowie: 5 Years."
- baseline_shift0
Probably the hardest I've ever taken the passing of a musician / artist. Been listening through his catalogue today, and so many fond memories and feels have been popping up. Really gonna miss him...
- Ramanisky22
Fascinating 1983 interview about race & music
during MTV's early years.- Love how his face so visibly conveys so many different moods in such a short period of time.mg33
- Also strange to think now that Prince was considered "Scary"Ramanisky2
- fuck u mtvApeRobot
- good on MTV for posting the video though, yesterday and on their own channelernexbcn
- Wow. 1983 isn't that long ago. Different story today. Which is good.jagara
- Tirelessly comes after him and doesn't let go. Respectful and yet tenacious as fuck.Gucci
- CyBrainX0
God, I miss him so much. What a restless inspired mind.
- colin_s0
i got to see that bowie is exhibit in chicago last year and goddamn what a creative force
- d0mino2
If David Bowie had been allowed to carry a weapon he would have been able to defend himself. Another senseless tragedy.
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- pango2
I'm genuinely sad for the first time in my life over the death of a stranger. O_O Normally i would have started cracking jokes already. but really, i'm really shocked.
Still can't believe he's gone. Kept having this feeling that he's gonna pop out 3 days later. Or like Doctor who, regenerate and come back as someone els. Perhaps to me he's almost like a immortal figure. death was not his thing.No, he's not my favourite artist.
I like probably only 5 songs of his. but him as an artist is truly inspiring. it's almost like his entire life is a work of art. To the very last breath! I get chill to my spine every time i hear that line "look up here, i'm in heaven" NO SHIT! YOU JUST DIED YESTERDAY! WHAT THE FUCK??!?!?!?!? FOR REAL?!?!?!?!?!? (ಥДಥ)- first time i cried over the death of a person not related to me. music is my everything and Bowie is a huge part of that everything of mine.caterpus
- he is an immortal figure then the Blackstar album is his auto-obituarycaterpus
- same. i only really liked a handful of his songs. just respected the hell out of him as an artist. choked up all day. these tributes can be really touching.jaylarson
- caterpus2
After listening to the Blackstar album a few times, I was hoping he wasn't lyrically speaking in first person. Last night I waited in a short a line at 285 Lafayette with Lazarus on repeat in my headphones. I have many other favorite Bowie songs that have gotten me through rough times but Lazarus... on a cold walk through New York at night. It felt like the song was written for that moment.
- I'm not a big fan of the new album, perhaps it and or some of the songs will grow on me in time.utopian
- Yeah, it's not immediately accessible.jagara
- wow just wow. The only other time I felt this way about a song was hurt by Johnny Cash_niko
- @_niko, you mean Hurt, by Nine Inch Nails, covered (fucking terribly, btw) by Cashmonospaced
- I thought cash did a better version than Trent. And I'm a huge NIN fan...pango
- yeah I know, but it suited cash perfectly, loved it._niko
- Amicus0
I was too young to appreciate the loss of a genius when Freddie Mercury passed away, but David Bowie, OMG, I'm hurting.
- DaveO0
I know this guy Jimmy King who took those last photos. I met Jimmy in 2010 when he was meticulously cataloging all David's objects, everything from stage outfits to old drug paraphernalia. Apparently he had a storage unit in New Jersey that was full of everything he'd collected, like he knew that it was important to keep a record of everything for the posterity of culture, like he was building an archive that people could reference. Most of which came out in the exhibition but i can't help feel like he was getting his affairs in order for the time when he'd finally move on from this world.
