Just listened to this for the first time. Amazing setlist, all-time tour band and that rendition of The Man Who Sold the World is just so good.

https://open.spotify.com/album/7B4qOISwglvyQKodBynWBd?si=OdjA9aI1S06nlbLmvHbJYQ

I consider David Bowie's final 3 studio albums to be his opus and in a sense a second 'Berlin' esque trilogy in his discography, wether officially or not. We start with Reality, whose whole purpose with its album cover and the title track to convey that reality is becoming an abstract concept much like time and space themselves. Songs like 'Never Get Old' and 'Days' convey Bowie's awareness of his inevitable mortality while songs like 'Looking For Water' 'New Killer Star' and 'The Lonliest Guy' among others on the album give a great example of a variety of emotions present at the time of him writing it. 'Fall Dog Bombs The Moon' and 'Bring Me The Disco King' also help describe Bowie's own disillusioned perspective at this point in his life and career. It's the 'best of times the worst of times' as a Bowie album. Some of the songs quickly lost their literal meaning like 'Never Get Old' especially, knowing Bowie went on to have a heart attack during 'Reality Tour' just a year after the album released. Then comes the hiatus after the aforementioned heart attack. 'The Next Day' is released 10 years after 'Reality' to much more acclaim than 'Reality' on release. It's clearly a Warhol- esque celebration of his past musical personas, in many ways it feels like the culmination of all of his work since love you till Tuesday and it has many lyrical and sonic references to his past albums. 'Where Are We Now?' Being the surprise first single makes it a stand out as it's clearly intended to in some ways at least be a letter to fans explaining reasons of his recent long absence. "If You Can See Me" feels like the truest return to Bowie form in its experimental instrumental and its seemingly critical note that he can no longer be perceived as he once was, before his retirement from live performances. The rest of the songs all feel like they're ridden with thoughts and feelings that have been bleeding to get out. "(You Will) Set The World On Fire" being a proclamation of sorts to those who have always looked to Bowie for inspiration and musical motivation of sorts. He is telling us it's not up to him anymore, WE WILL SET THE WORLD ON FIRE. As we are the next to hold the supreme opinion over what is to be popular art, as well as we are to be the creators, ourselves. Blackstar is the final event. The Star is dead and will soon collapse in and cease to be matter itself. 'Lazarus' a clear final mask for Bowie to wear before it is all stripped away in the remaining tracks "Ain't that just like me." Seeming lie almost a subtitle to the whole album itself as a whole. 'Dollar Days' is finally it, David Jones as himself for the first time since the 1969 album he chose to first use his stage name. It is his truest most open song of his entire career other than "Bring Me The Disco King" and "Ashes to Ashes," at least in my view. "I cant give everything away" his final letter to any observer of this Star, this Space Oddity, Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust who is Aladdin Sane The Man Who Sold The World to escape the fabric of Reality and collapse into itself becoming Blackstar. Becoming a singularity and becoming nothing all at once. "Seeing more but feeling less, saying no but meaning yes, this was all I ever meant. THATS THE MESSAGE THAT I SENT." I miss you Starman, Goodbye.

I just can’t get over how great sweet thing is as a whole.

I tried watching the David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream on Amazon Prime but when I clicked on it Delta Force started playing. I don't know how it mixed up Moonage Daydream and a Chuck Norris movie but does anyone know how to fix this.

I’m just watching season 4, Episode 16, Special 2009: The Waters of Mars. In this episode there is a recently built Mars community and when they put an instrument outside its name is—BOWIE BASE ONE. So there IS life on Mars!⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

I'm surprised that people genuinely like the persona. Everything I've read about him has scared me, it's literally the worst moment of his life.

https://www.reddit.com/user/DreamingOfHope3489/comments/1gobi29/a_year_of_heroes_david_bowies_transformations/

Hello, everyone. I'm working on a Quora blog post regarding Bowie's stunning ability to reinterpret his songs. Like a master musical chef, I feel Bowie had the capacity to reimagine his works, adjusting their ingredients and altering their temperature and technique to bring out new flavors, textures, and presentations with each performance. Bowie's genius was vast, a kind of musical multilingualism, as if he spoke fluently, according to my count, in over 100 different musical languages—genres and their dialects.

I linked my Quora article regarding the music genres and subgenres I attribute to Bowie at the top of my Reddit profile.

Thus far, in regards to "Heroes", I’ve examined Bowie’s five 1977 TV performances of the song. Eventually, I'd like to expand the article to include other television and live performances. So, I'm hoping you all might offer suggestions as to which renditions and performances I could focus on next. Other feedback is also welcome.

Not everyone may agree with the observations, insights, and perspectives I offer, and that's okay. Mostly, I just wanted to acknowledge and speak to how amazing it is that Bowie could refract one song through five different lenses and have it seem almost like a new song each time. It occurs to me that Bowie didn't just sing his songs; he wholly manifested and embodied them.

I have posted the "Heroes" blog post on my profile, rather than in full here, because it's lengthy, giving you all an option as to whether you view it or not. Thank you!

Even though David is such an acclaimed artist, certain parts of his work, his beliefs, and his actions get more attention than others. I figure we could get the ball rolling on this type of discussion. Aspects of his artistry, his beliefs, and actions that don't get enough attention among fans or the general public.

• I have an older thread on this but I really appreciate his internationalism/cosmopolitanism. He had this close relationship with several different countries and he would often make commentary on racism and imperialism (towards Asian people, Black people, Turkish people, Māori people, as some examples). He was never pigeonholed as a "worldbeat" or "world music" artist but you could certainly tell how the cultures of the world inspired him: Japanese kabuki inspiring Ziggy Stardust, Moss Garden having Japanese influence, the influences on Lodger, doing multiple language versions of songs (Indonesian, German, Mandairn, Japanese, Māori).
• The uniqueness of his point-of-view: We often focus so much on "How many genres Bowie covered" that it's easy to lose track of his fundamental worldviews and approaches. He precisely wanted to bridge the gap between all of his disparate interests. He didn't want to be a pop artist forever nor remain only avant-garde or underground. He wanted to test things out by putting things together that may not be immediately predictable. One commenter mentioned how The Berlin Trilogy was a great example of "Avant-Funk" (combining Black American music and European musical influences) but everyone only focused on the Kraftwerk/Electronic/European influences.

What are some other examples you can think of?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC_lLK1ghlM

I recall reading that he thought the Pixies made "the most compelling music of the entire 80s", and also Jeff Buckley's "Grace" was in his Top 10 desert island disks.

Actually, on a side note, I'd also love to know what Bowie's Top 10 desert island disks were.

Hello David Bowie fans!! I’m requesting your help!

I’ve got a friend who absolutely adores David Bowie. A few of our mutual friends want to make her a “Bowie gift basket” for Christmas… except none of us know anything about David Bowie.

That’s where we need your help!

What stuff would an AVID David Bowie fan (she knows next to every damn thing about the man), like to have as memorabilia? She’s said before that her favorite Bowie persona is the “Thin White Duke”, if that helps, but she will be overjoyed about just about anything. We want to keep it relatively inexpensive stuff, maybe 40> per item.

Thanks for your help!

Do you think it's to congratulate the artist on his particular Space Oddity or to send it right there?

Might add a bit more layers, but the vision is realized.

https://preview.redd.it/tusay7fqkvzd1.jpg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee08a9ff00a3245c0862274a17d5221c194ba717

I've been obsessing over fx's The Bear for about 2 years now and this is like 4 months late but I haven't seen anyone talk about the fact that Can Anyone Hear Me plays in the season 3 finale? Istg I feel like my whole body did a double take when I realized, also made that episode almost impossible to get through cause I couldn't for the life of me focus on what was actually happening in the scene.

Anyways, I thought I should mention it. Feels like quite the deep cut too, no? I checked spotify and CAHM seems to be the least played song from Young Americans. So salutations to whoever it was, working behind the scenes, who made that happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHPIAFaKd1I