Nothing Has Been the Same Since David Bowie Died

[Spunky1]

I know my bladder sure ain't the same size.

And my liver seen better days!

 

[Robert Mugabe]

As do I however there is something missing from today's music in general, I admit there are glimmers of hope here and there for instance Black Pumas Colours but they are hard to come buy.

LJ

I don't miss this.

 

[Insidious Von]

David Bowie must have been battling cancer for a long time, he disappeared in 2003. Then started performing again at the end of the decade - in both instances, he never told anyone.

Music is relative, I never imagined that a song I learned as child in Italy would be popular again.

 

[Insidious Von]

The Esquire article on Bowie.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainme...ersary-essay-legacy/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Mr.Know-It-All]

I love new music and old music. Different aesthetic for different moods.

 

[y2kmark]

We still have Ray Stevens, though I do really miss Roger Miller....

 

[jerimander]

There's something pathetic about hanging on to pop music of the past, since its nature is to constantly change. Classical music is timeless by definition.

 

[Insidious Von]

There's something pathetic about hanging on to pop music of the past, since its nature is to constantly change. Classical music is timeless by definition.

So I can't hang on to Whiter Shade of Pale? The song haunted me for the longest time, I couldn't figure out where it came from. It was right under my nose.

 

[lessjamie7]

David Bowie must have been battling cancer for a long time, he disappeared in 2003. Then started performing again at the end of the decade - in both instances, he never told anyone.

Music is relative, I never imagined that a song I learned as child in Italy would be popular again.

Watched this whole series, was never more satisfied then when Arturo bit the dust.

LJ

 

[lessjamie7]

I don't miss this.

Bwahahaha omg

LJ

 

[jcpro]

Bwahahaha omg

LJ

Sausage making ain't never pretty.

 

[Insidious Von]

Watched this whole series, was never more satisfied then when Arturo bit the dust.

I haven't gotten that far. The song Bella Ciao was a protest song of Po Valley rice harvesters at the turn of the 20th Century. It became an anti-fascist anthem, cherished by both Italy and Spain.

 

[y2kmark]

So I can't hang on to Whiter Shade of Pale? The song haunted me for the longest time, I couldn't figure out where it came from. It was right under my nose.

Come on! Put together something like that and misspell Aire?

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Apart from a couple of hits, I always found him a fucking insufferable little prick. Shameless self indulgent self promoter all the way. Musically.... I don't come home from work and think to myself, "I must put on a David Bowie album and listen to it all the way through".

 

[james t kirk]

I was taken back to realize as of tomorrow it will be five years since David Bowie died, seems like yesterday.

Despite his iconic status, I wonder if the younger generation has been able to connect with his music as the older generation did.

I still remember peeling the wrapper off his Ziggy Stardust LP, we were snot-nosed kids in 1972 everyone I knew had a turntable and Bowie was some kind of magic music wizard from another planet, a music superhero.

As the giants of the British invasion slowly slip away, I realize I don't ( as an older gent ) really feel connected to today's music and I have to wonder if I have become my parents, they were listening to Conway Twitty and Englebert Humperdink and they would scoff at the sound of Zeppelins You Shook Me.

I think the British invasion by todays culture is tremendously under-appreciated, it was a musical cultural phenomenon never to be repeated. The music back then was analog, tactile, it gave you goosebumps, derived by dragging a needle across vinyl peaks and valleys instead of a laser scanning sequences of ones and zeros. The sheer delight of opening Houses of the Holy and marvelling at the artwork with your friends, dropping the needle down onto the record there would be a few clicks as the needle tracked down the outer ridge of the vinyl, then total silence as the needle headed for the first peak or valley, then? magic, as we all picked up our air guitars and started jamming with the band, good times.

I sincerely believe that the older generation has developed a hugely diversified taste in music because we are all looking for something, searching for that old familiar musical feeling or vibe, perhaps that feeling or vibe, just like Bowie, is just not there anymore.

LJ

Great Post.

I can relate to everything you said. I love a whole pile of music. From the Beatles to Dylan to Pink Floyd, to Led Zeppelin, to REM to U2 to Nirvana to Bowie. I love music from the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, etc. I keep waiting for the next Dylan or Neil Young or Lennon, or Waters, but it doesn't seem to be happening.

My collection also includes Sinatra, Elvis, Etta James, Glenn Gould, Edith Piaf, Roberta Flack, Shirley Bassey, and a pile of classical music.

I recently watched a documentary on CNN (believe it or not) about the death of John Lennon and I found myself just crying watching it. The utter senslessness and how young John was and how awful it was to lose a guy like that. Madness.

 

[Insidious Von]

Apart from a couple of hits, I always found him a fucking insufferable little prick. Shameless self indulgent self promoter all the way. Musically.... I don't come home from work and think to myself, "I must put on a David Bowie album and listen to it all the way through".

I don't agree but I know where you're coming from.

I can't stand musical melodrama, it's cheap and exhausting. I come home from work and think to myself, "how much sperm has Bon Jovi guzzled today".

 

[james t kirk]

I come home from work and think to myself, "how much sperm has Bon Jovi guzzled today".

What the be-jezuz are you talking about?

 

[Insidious Von]

What the be-jezuz are you talking about?

Tiberius I would think it's self explanatory. Anyway David Bowie and Axl Rose both took part in the Freddi Mercury tribute. They'd had an altercation in the past but the moment was greater than themselves. Bon Jovi got a massive market deal to promote their shit back in the mid 80's, how did they get that? At the same time Metallica got $0.00 money for marketing Master of Puppets.

Axl Rose said it himself, "Bon Jovi can suck my dick".

 

[lessjamie7]

Watched this whole series, was never more satisfied then when Arturo bit the dust.

LJ

I didn't know you are a world renowned musician! Please tell use who you are?

I am Less Jamie ah doo doo doo ah dah dah dah

LJ

 

[lessjamie7]

I don't agree but I know where you're coming from.

I can't stand musical melodrama, it's cheap and exhausting. I come home from work and think to myself, "how much sperm has Bon Jovi guzzled today".

I come home from work and think to myself, "how much sperm has Bon Jovi guzzled today".

Bwahahaha fucking hilarious, Pinot Noir all over my computer screen

LJ