The World Loses David Bowie 1/10/2016

Bowie is one of those musical projects I should enjoy but just don't. I respect his innovation and all... but what I've heard just really does not connect with me at all.

For a good while even though I unabashedly loved his music, I never thought he was much beyond a Pop artist with an above-average gift for catchiness, but this song sort of sold me on his brilliance beyond the superficial.



I literally played this song so many times on my tape copy as a kid that it fucked the tape up, like when you'd rewind and pause a VHS so many times on that titty-flop scene in Tango & Cash or Commando until those parts of the VHS were faded as fuck.
 
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Bahaha I used to do that with the one scene in Striptease as a kid. Rewound and played a few scenes on that tape actually, a shit-ton of times. I think it's pretty much done now. I had a major boner for Demi Moore as a twelve year old.

I'ma check that song out now.
 
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I never had a Bowie phase (where does one start with his music?) but I respect that he was a musician that dared to be different. Rip

just my opinion. there is a 3cd set called NOTHING HAS CHANGED. get that. you can get it for less than $18 new on ebay if you look hard and long enough. good deal. you get pretty much every key bowie tune. you get a sampling of his entire career as it came out in 2014. if it satisfies you then its all you need. make sure you are getting the 3 cd version and not the 1 or 2 cd version. its the most comprehensive hits set he has out. yes it misses a few tunes. yes sometimes the single versions are annoying because the longer album versions groove a bit more on certain tunes but really this is the way to go if you have nothing by him
 
not sure what issue is here. person knows very little about david bowie. it has stuff starting in the mid 60's and goes until 2014 with a new song. hits every album he released except the tin machine stuff. has a few hard to find mixes. has every major bowie song i can think of, "changes", "space oddity" , "ziggy stardust", "jean genie", "rebel rebel, "fame", "young americans", "diamond dogs", "golden years", "heroes", "under pressure" , "ashes to ashes", "scary monsters", " lets dance", "china girl", "modern love", "blue jean", "jump they say", "i'm afraid of americans". contains a healthy sample of his 90's-present work. the only compilation that i know of contains so many pre "space oddity" tunes.

what songs do people think are missing from this thing? yes the shorter single versions of "golden years", "moden love", "china girl", "young americans", "scary monsters" , "heroes" and "ashes to ashes" is a bit annoying. yes i would have liked "never get old", "john i'm only dancing", "the prettiest star", "hang on to yourself", "1984", "station to station", "tvc15", "day in day out", "under the god", "real cool world" an a few others on there. only glaring messup though is "suffragette city" not on there.
 
1984 and Suffragette City are two of my favourites and earliest introductions to his music so maybe I'm just biased. It is kinda cool that it features some songs from Toy but that also feels like an unnecessary novelty move.
 
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1984 and Suffragette City are two of my favourites and earliest introductions to his music so maybe I'm just biased. It is kinda cool that it features some songs from Toy but that also feels like an unnecessary novelty move.


yes stuff from toy/ a few of the odd remixes are hard to get. i own every album he did from 1970-1984 and then 1990-present so to me i have it just for the rare mixes and the stuff from toy and the pre space oddity stuff as i have everything else on something. i also have the 3 cd platinum collection and the newer 4 cd version of the sound and vision boxset.
 
I'm not really in the mood to look it up again, but I know for a fact that "Life on Mars?" was mixed by Ken Scott that is exclusive to that compilation and is the only version of the song that appears on this compilation, rather than using the regular version of the song.
 
I'm not really in the mood to look it up again, but I know for a fact that "Life on Mars?" was mixed by Ken Scott that is exclusive to that compilation and is the only version of the song that appears on this compilation, rather than using the regular version of the song.


-the mix you are talking about is from 2003 and was previously released on 2 different things before this compilation came out including a 7" single in 2013. wikipedia "exculsive to this editon" refers to the fact its not on the 2 or 1 cd versions
-wild is the wind mix is from the 2010 station to station reissue
-time will crawl manson mix is from the 2008 iselect release
-young americans is from the 2007 young americans special edition
-all the young dudes is a stereo mix unreleased before this release
-sue this version is different from the version just released on blackstar
-love is lost is from the extra day special edition
-let me sleep beside you is an unreleased song from the unreleased toy album

anything else i can see is just radio/single edits or the 2 songs from toy that were already released and the pet shop boys mix of hallo spaceboy thats old
 
Okay, that would be an oversight on my part, but why would you want these newer remixes of classic songs rather than the actual versions that became classics in the first place?
 
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Okay, that would be an oversight on my part, but why would you want these newer remixes of classic songs rather than the actual versions that became classics in the first place?

well the 70's songs the differences are so minor its no big thing. i got the set just for the different mixes