January 12, 201610 yr Have also been doing a mix of David Bowie, got a 24/96 copy of Blackstar I need to bring to work. Took a break and now listening to some PiL
January 12, 201610 yr 21 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said: Blackstar is sublime, a masterpiece of a swansong... Apparently, this was all according to plan. He was a fucking artist to the end. He recorded it in the early months of 2015 and saved releasing it until his death was imminent. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12092542/Bowies-last-album-was-parting-gift-for-fans-in-carefully-planned-finale.html
January 13, 201610 yr It'll sound kind of creepy/corny, but it's like he martyred himself for the music & art....and he may be the only one to get away with it.
January 13, 201610 yr All I can say it that the album is amazing and the fact that he made it in his condition is fucking insane.
January 13, 201610 yr 3 hours ago, skullguise said: It'll sound kind of creepy/corny, but it's like he martyred himself for the music & art....and he may be the only one to get away with it. No, he's been battling cancer for 18 months, so he was already 6 months in when he recorded it, I think it's the other way around -- it was a -- very deliberate, admittedly -- swan song. A "going away gift", as it were.
January 13, 201610 yr Oh, we're in agreement.... I compare to someone like Johnny Cash. (My interpretation) As he got older and saw his mortality, he kept on and sang music of some great reflection, "accepting" his death. To me, Bowie saw it and USED it as part of his art. That's what I mean by martyr....not that he WANTED to die, but facing it was done in a way that only he could.
January 13, 201610 yr On 1/11/2016 at 8:37 AM, shellylh said: Weird ass double post... The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal followed by As I Lay Dying - Decas Edited January 13, 201610 yr by Aura
January 13, 201610 yr Some really funky modern African music! Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa Edited January 13, 201610 yr by skullguise
January 13, 201610 yr 1 hour ago, shellylh said: I'm very confused.... I quoted you in a draft post a few days ago, then never replied (for some other thread). Then today i went to post in this thread but your quote was still in my text box and I couldn't delete it. Had no choice, had to phantom quote you.
January 14, 201610 yr Yeah, that is a pain. You have to hover over the quoted post until you see a + with arrows box in the upper left corner. You click on that and then can hit delete.
January 14, 201610 yr 14 hours ago, skullguise said: Oh, we're in agreement.... I compare to someone like Johnny Cash. (My interpretation) As he got older and saw his mortality, he kept on and sang music of some great reflection, "accepting" his death. To me, Bowie saw it and USED it as part of his art. That's what I mean by martyr....not that he WANTED to die, but facing it was done in a way that only he could. Yeah, absolutely in agreement on the bolded section. Man, I couldn't do that. To me, it'd be more like a deadline, I'd have to wrap up whatever I was working on and make sure it was finished to the point I could turn the reigns over to someone else before I passed. I mean, without deadlines, I'd get nothing done, so if/when I finally release a recording, expect my imminent death to follow. Don't worry, that's not as morbid as it sounds, I haven't even started into pre-production.
January 14, 201610 yr this album shares my email handle. so i like it. Edited January 14, 201610 yr by aardvark baguette
January 15, 201610 yr mashup of nine inch nails, the Folgers coffee commercial, and many other things. not as good as girl talk, but funnier. i lost it at simba's dead dad (lion king) Edited January 15, 201610 yr by aardvark baguette
January 16, 201610 yr 12 hours ago, aardvark baguette said: mashup of nine inch nails, the Folgers coffee commercial, and many other things. You know, this may actually qualify as a guilty pleasure. On the one hand, it's how my brain works. When a song I'm not familiar with comes into my head, my mind will abhor the vacuum of the missing piece and put something else in its place, and then I'll have a medley/mashup playing in my head like that. On the other, it's less obscure stuff, so much easier to recognize the constituent pieces, and also -- more earwormy. I'll have to go back and listen to Girl Talk later, but I'm resuming this right after Knucks' show.
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