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Post by aubrey on Sept 24, 2016 18:15:31 GMT
Just finished The Gouster by David Bowie. It was a kind of dry run for Young Americans, and has several of the same tracks (performed in a slightly less soul-ey manner than on the released album). He was astonishingly productive during those years: who says drugs destroy creativity? All his own records (and all the stuff that was never released at the time), plus everything he wrote and produced for other people. Amazing stuff. Very little of it was below standard - one or two songs or arrangements, maybe; the Arnold Korns versions of songs that appeared on Ziggy aren't much cop, for instance. Anyway, The Gouster: Telegraph Review
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Post by aubrey on Sept 28, 2016 9:21:04 GMT
The Gouster, again (with a few extra tracks from the same era on the end, as I can't abide wasted cd space).
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Post by aubrey on Oct 2, 2016 12:59:40 GMT
The first disc of a double CD of Bowie's early recordings, called 1967. I used to dislike this stuff, but now I love it: yes, even The Laughing Gnome.
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Post by marispiper on Oct 2, 2016 13:43:39 GMT
I saw Bowie in the Paris Studios in 67...kaftan etc and hippy...simple stuff with acoustic guitar. Saw him again a year later and it was like another performer altogether. He was the consummate master of reinvention, or should I say, experimentation.
I have been listening to a secondhand CD I bought for 50p...KD Lang. It's b....brilliant😄
I have also listened to Classic FM this morning and I did their on-line 'Let Us Guess Your Age' (from your music choices)
Result: 'We believe you are around 28' 😁 !!! That's near enough, I thought!!!!
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Post by aubrey on Oct 13, 2016 14:27:43 GMT
I was too young even for Ziggy (my mate went to see him then though - he's about 5 years older than me). I'd never have managed 67 - maybe, if he'd toured, though there'd have been little or no chance even then. Anyway, now: I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought...
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Post by althea on Oct 13, 2016 15:37:42 GMT
Blondie,Hangin on the telephone.
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Post by lana on Oct 13, 2016 16:39:15 GMT
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Post by aubrey on Oct 26, 2016 17:00:21 GMT
I still get a shiver from looking at this cover, and thinking of the rainy night in January 1972 when the photo was taken. Oddly, though I've passed the street hundreds of times, I've never thought to get off the bus and have a look. More recently:
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Post by lana on Nov 11, 2016 7:57:57 GMT
Leonard Cohen - 21 September 1934 – 7 November 2016 R.I.P
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Post by aubrey on Nov 11, 2016 17:28:54 GMT
I have played things other than Bowie over the past few weeks, but not much really.
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Post by aubrey on Nov 13, 2016 11:35:52 GMT
Japanese Girl by Akiko Yani, her first LP from 1976, and the one that has Little Feat playing on half of it (she had played on their first LP a few years earlier). Sample:
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Post by aubrey on Nov 14, 2016 11:59:42 GMT
This amazing music from the original Ghost in the Shell soundtrack:
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Post by lana on Nov 14, 2016 14:08:36 GMT
Exquisite.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 14, 2016 15:27:27 GMT
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Post by hild1066 on Nov 15, 2016 13:07:39 GMT
From Later with Jools.. Weight in Gold ~ Gallant The workmen building a new bridge, non-stop all day. Can't hear myself think, sometimes the room shakes.
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