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.
Becoming David Bowie?
You got it, mister. There is a bit of a gap in the market...
Re: The David Bowie is God Thread
Posted: 08 Jan 2018, 5:00pm
by Kory
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.
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.
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.
Re: The David Bowie is God Thread
Posted: 08 Jan 2018, 9:59pm
by Dr. Medulla
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.
Re: The David Bowie is God Thread
Posted: 09 Jan 2018, 2:44pm
by coffeepotman
I like to sing this to myself and change the lyrics to 60's instead of 50's...