19 May 10
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Originally posted by FMFI heard a car commercial using "Space Oddity" the other day and almost threw up.
Has there ever been a clearer example of consciously reducing the quality of one's music in order to make it more lucrative than David Bowie's artistic and financial direction of the 1980s and beyond?
[b]Space Oddity > Man Who Sold The World > Hunky Dory > Ziggy Stardust > Aladdin Sane > Pin Ups > Diamond Dogs > David Live > Young Americans > Station To Stati Wes Montgomery and George Benson come to mind. But what about in the world of rock/pop?[/b]
19 May 10
Originally posted by FMFYou know, I rather like Black Tie, White Noise. It's not -- Ziggy Stardust great; but ...
I thoroughly enjoyed a spin of Outside earlier today. That is a fine Bowie album in my book, the er... spoken word bits aside.
I like The Buddha of Suburbia soundtrack too, although the Kizilcay treatment sounds a bit odd -- very period production -- bit like 'Cry for Love' (Iggy Pop) -- same deliberately? cheap production that still succeeds -- to my ears -- in sounding glorious.
21 May 10
Originally posted by BadwaterIt was Space Oddity, just the first verse, apparently, but that was enough. I dunno who actually sang it. Don't care either, the mute button is coming into play if I see it again. Yet another rock sell-out is what I don't like about it.
Was it Space Oddity? I heard a car commercial that uses Peter Schilling's Major Tom but it's a new version by Shiny Toy Guns.
Ground control to Major Tom
Ground control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
(Ten) Ground control (Nine) to Major Tom (Eight)
(Seven, six) Commencing countdown (Five), engines on (Four)
(Three, two) Check ignition (One) and may god's (Blastoff) love be with you
This is ground control to Major Tom, you've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
This is Major Tom to ground control, I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
Here am I floatin' 'round my tin can far above the world
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows
Ground control to Major Tom, your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you...
Here am I sitting in my tin can far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do
21 May 10
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I don't mind up-and-coming artists or artists who are not well established lending their music to ads and whatnot, but established acts like Bowie, Zep, the Clash? That ruffles my feathers a bit. The worst is the current ads with U2 playing some CGI concert and the line splashes across the screen in the end "BLACKBERRY LOVES U2".
Now that's nauseating.
21 May 10
Originally posted by darvlay"Anything for a buck" seems to be the American way.
I don't mind up-and-coming artists or artists who are not well established lending their music to ads and whatnot, but established acts like Bowie, Zep, the Clash? That ruffles my feathers a bit. The worst is the current ads with U2 playing some CGI concert and the line splashes across the screen in the end "BLACKBERRY LOVES U2".
Now that's nauseating.