The David Bowie is God Thread

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Inder wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 1:41pm
Kory wrote:
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Listening to Bowie live is fascinating because the fact he taught himself how to sing listening to records played at wrong speeds really comes through.
Maybe that's my solution.
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The problem with celebrating the man's birthday is that you know what's coming up two days later. It puts a bit of a damper on the situation.
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Marky Dread wrote:
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Paul Weller for example now has 8 children to pay for and he has said he can't afford to give up making music.
Who the hell does he think he is? Leigh Griffiths?!

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Kory wrote:
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The problem with celebrating the man's birthday is that you know what's coming up two days later. It puts a bit of a damper on the situation.
Yes, he had a period when you didn't know what to expect next. Two day time reinforces that is no longer.

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Kory wrote:
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The problem with celebrating the man's birthday is that you know what's coming up two days later. It puts a bit of a damper on the situation.
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I just realized that Bowie and Elvis share a birthday.
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I just realized that Bowie and Elvis share a birthday.
I find it very strange that Presley was only 12 years older than Bowie.
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Silent Majority wrote:
08 Jan 2018, 6:56pm
WestwayKid wrote:
08 Jan 2018, 5:53pm
I just realized that Bowie and Elvis share a birthday.
I find it very strange that Presley was only 12 years older than Bowie.
Yeah. It’s another pop culture generation entirely, but those two were closer in age than you and I are.
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Wolter wrote:
08 Jan 2018, 7:52pm
Silent Majority wrote:
08 Jan 2018, 6:56pm
WestwayKid wrote:
08 Jan 2018, 5:53pm
I just realized that Bowie and Elvis share a birthday.
I find it very strange that Presley was only 12 years older than Bowie.
Yeah. It’s another pop culture generation entirely, but those two were closer in age than you and I are.
I can rest assured that I've made as good a use out of any talents I have as Bowie had by my age. And Elvis at your age... well, never mind.
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Wolter wrote:
08 Jan 2018, 7:52pm
Silent Majority wrote:
08 Jan 2018, 6:56pm
WestwayKid wrote:
08 Jan 2018, 5:53pm
I just realized that Bowie and Elvis share a birthday.
I find it very strange that Presley was only 12 years older than Bowie.
Yeah. It’s another pop culture generation entirely, but those two were closer in age than you and I are.
Your use of the word generation is quite insightful and appropriate, I think, in that it illustrates the importance of environment for shaping outlook, not something as a rigid as birth year. Going all Strauss and Howe, Elvis is Silent, Bowie is a Boomer (yet somehow he seems more X to me than Boomer? Maybe I'm being a generational snob and thinking he's too cool to be a Boomer). Twelve years would suggest commonality, but the mood of the world around them at key points in their upbringing changed things immensely. Whereas you and I are, what, nine years apart, but our location with regards to the greater world has generated more commonalities (I think) than differences.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Jan 2018, 8:15pm
Wolter wrote:
08 Jan 2018, 7:52pm
Silent Majority wrote:
08 Jan 2018, 6:56pm
WestwayKid wrote:
08 Jan 2018, 5:53pm
I just realized that Bowie and Elvis share a birthday.
I find it very strange that Presley was only 12 years older than Bowie.
Yeah. It’s another pop culture generation entirely, but those two were closer in age than you and I are.
Your use of the word generation is quite insightful and appropriate, I think, in that it illustrates the importance of environment for shaping outlook, not something as a rigid as birth year. Going all Strauss and Howe, Elvis is Silent, Bowie is a Boomer (yet somehow he seems more X to me than Boomer? Maybe I'm being a generational snob and thinking he's too cool to be a Boomer). Twelve years would suggest commonality, but the mood of the world around them at key points in their upbringing changed things immensely. Whereas you and I are, what, nine years apart, but our location with regards to the greater world has generated more commonalities (I think) than differences.
Totally. And I think someone once pointed out that Bowie was a Boomer, but he was one of the first rock stars to appeal primarily to the younger siblings of the Boomer kids.

And Maj, Elvis was...barely...alive when he was my age, thank you very much.
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Along the same lines as the initial wave of punks, New York and UK, all nominally being Boomers. The Ramones and Pistols and Joy Division are such Xer archetypes that it's weird to think they were all born in the 50s. Which, to me, makes them all the more significant, pointing the way to a different outlook for kids born in the next 15+ years.
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I like to sing this to myself and change the lyrics to 60's instead of 50's...

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"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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It's been a while since I last heard Bowie reduced to Endless Undulating Triads.
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