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http://www.davidbowie.com/news/january-10-2016-55521
FUUUUCKKK
BLACKSTAR WAS SO GOOD I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE WEIRD BOWIE
NONONONONONONONONO
>>61667651
holy fuck
are you me
i was just about to post something about Cygnet Comittee, the ending got to me
David Bowie has just made me realize, there are no more actual big prolific rock stars with strong mainstream presence anymore.
Can you think of any rock artists that produced music in various genres and collaborated with various artists and participated in various art spheres? As much as it hurts me to say it, Thom Yorke is quite possibly the last prolific, "big" mainstream rock star.
>>61667196
>mfw that smile
>wake up
>eat breakfast
>turn on TV
>news is on
>Bowie has died
>can't wake up
>>61667651
>When Cygnet Committee started playing and he started singing about wanting to live I teared up.
Jesus Christ anon.
>>61661609
This honestly redeems him a bit in my eyes.
>>61667737
The superstars of their time reflect the cultural status of the west
>>61667534
you're an asshole but a funny asshole
>>61667670
>He even made his impending death a performance
What a guy
>>61655604
can you tell me in which lp find this song ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPVrFIP0CMs
>>61667737
Tom yorke is comparable not the same the though
One of kind
>>61667726
I think this is the first time i've cried in years
This hit me harder than Lou Reed's.
In both cases I didn't cry, not even teared up. I was just left speechless, and felt very numb the entire day.
This is a shit year and can only get worse from here.
>>61661582
As much as I don't like him we share that much in common.
>>61667737
>>Can you think of any rock artists
*any recent rock artists
>>61667748
Woke up
Fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and had a cup
>Bowie is dead
>>61661911
what the fuck
Bowie was a protagonist of his times, although a poor musician: to say that Bowie is a musician is like saying that Nero was a harp player (a fact that is technically true, but misleading). Bowie embodies the quintessence of artificial art, raises futulity to paradigm, focuses on the phenomenon rather than the content, makes irrelevant the relevant, and, thus, is the epitome of everything that went wrong with rock music.
Each element of his art is the emblem of a true artistic movement; however, the ensemble of those emblems constitutes no more than a puzzle, no matter how intriguing, of symbols, a roll of incoherent images projected against the wall at twice the speed, a dictionary of terms rather than a poem, and, in the best of hypotheses, a documentary of the cultural fads of his era.
le reply 1000
so mods gonna do this everytime someone dies?
>>61667737
Thom would probably throw a fucking fit if he was remembered as a rock star
>>61667856
Probably not when you die
>>61667856
You know what, I'm just gonna give you the benefit of the doubt
>>61667707
Fucking weebs man :(
>>61655604
Really hoping those Gorillaz collaboration rumors are real. I'm not ready to let go yet.
>>61667799
>I cried over Jeff Hanneman dying even tho I'm not a big Slayer fan but not Lemmy or Bowie
I've become so numb.
>>61667792
google, literately the second hit
So what do you drink when Bowie dies?
David Bowie turned marketing into the essence of his art. All great phenomena of popular music, from Elvis Presley to the Beatles, had been, first and foremost, marketing phenomena (just like Coca Cola and Barbie before them); however, Bowie turned that into an art of its own. With Bowie the science of marketing becomes art; art and marketing become one. There were intellectuals who had proclaimed this theory in rebellious terms. Bowie was, in many ways, the heir, no matter how perverted, of Andy Warhol's pop art and of the underground culture of the 1960s. He adopted some of the most blaspheme issues and turned them upside down to make them precisely what they had been designed to fight: a commodity.
>>61667883
>>61667885
zach here,
thanks man :')
Bowie isn't mortal and you all know it.
>>61667833
This generalized garbage eradicates any individual elements from Bowie and reduces him to the cliché of the artist as a phenomenon. The lack of intricate knowledge on Bowies music and what makes it unique pours out of every single sentence of this try-hard baitpost.
>>61667921
I drank a homemade latte.
>Neutral Milk Hotel get back together and release a new album
>Jeff Mangum dies a few days later
How would /mu/ react to this?
>>61667868
who cares
>>61667893
I'm hoping he gets sampled on Bottomless Pit, like Bjork on Niggas on the Moon. He said that the Death Grips were an influence on the sound of Blackstar, it would be cool if he did some secret studio work with Death Grips before he passed.
I wonder if he recorded any other shit during the Blackstar sessions that'll be released at some point in the future?
>>61667954
NMH and Jeff are memes.
I don't cry over the death of memes.
>>61667921
anything i find . listening to black star again, makes so much sense now... oh god.
and now his watch has ended
>>61664140
Are you me anon ?
>>61667954
NMH is a meme and nobody cares nearly as much about them as they do about Bowie
>>61667954
mass suicide
>>61665948
Are we really going to fucking do this Anon? Are we really going to fucking JOKE right NOW? Do you know who the fuck just died? David fucking bowie. He was crafting masterpieces when you weren't even a thought yet. He was traveling to distant lands and fucking exotic women before your parents even met. For every great thing you've done, Davids done a thousand more. He'll be illuminating peoples ears with his magic for centuries to come, you'll be dead at best. You need to watch your fucking tongue and realize who you're talking about. A square inch of his nutsack is worth more than your entire family you fucking fool. You'll be dust underneath the earth while David's changing peoples life from his grave, you filthy fuck. Most of the genres of music you listen to probably wouldn't even exist without david bowie. We probably wouldn't exist without david bowie. You or me, pal. Ever heard of the butterfly effect? Who's to know if the human race would even exist without him? Who's to know what kind of place this world would've been without bowies light illuminating the path for us? Get your fucking head straight bro. Listen to the berlin trilogy and then try and question a thing I just said. You can't.
>>61667977
>>61667997
Memes can kill - and the death of memes even more so
>>61662563
>it is not a good look at all, to so undividingly mourn a man yall don't even know, masking up the actual face/persona of a monster
So that's what Scary Monsters was about.
>>61668015
Reading the chronicles of his times, it is clear that what caused sensation was the show, not the music. The show that Bowie set up was undoubtedly in sync with the avantgarde, as it fused theater, mime, cinema, visual art, literature and music. However, Bowie merely recycled what had been going on for years in the British underground, in particular what had been popularized by the psychedelic bands of 1967. And he turned it into a commodity: whichever way you look at his oeuvre, this is the real merit of it.
>get a text from a girl i used to hang out with a lot
>"hey, did you know bowie died?"
>"yeah"
>well why didnt you post anything on facebook?"
Can't handle this shit right now.
>>61667964
I would cum so hard
>>61668033
you'll be fine
>>61668015
get a grip
>>61668015
stale pasta is stale
Come on.
>>61667931
It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's/Lenin's on sale again
>>61660750
We'll only find out they've died 4 months after the fact
>>61660454
its amazing though. I cant wait to purchase this album. its his farewell to his fans. its so strange and such a beautiful way to leave this world
>>61666826
so hell be fine?
post yfw ozzie is next
if dubs kanye
>>61668110
>one away
wew
>>61668067
faux art trash desu
there's a pornstar who takes after bowie. his name is david blowie
>>61668110
Ozzie was dead to the industry a long time ago
>>61661495
kek
So, who knew about his cancer? Are we sure he didn't take any pills to just die before it gets him and let go?
I am 100% sure Blackstar (LP) had to do with his death.
Sad, this shit, I learn new shit about Bowie everyday. When Jackson died, I cried, because I was young and went with the mainstream, got non-contemporary music for the first time.
This time, man. It's fucking BOWIE.
Okay.
So who else noticed the apparent the rapid change of his looks (health)?
>>61668144
Whatever you say, Adorno.
>>61668110
>post yfw ozzie is next
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeVhdHjFflE
Anyone have the Labyrinth OST? Though is was a corny movie, that final battle where he's singing in the Escher painting was baller.
>Rolling Stone names 2015 the year radical black music and politics returned to centre stage, with albums like Black Messiah and To Pimp a Butterfly. Kendrick Lamar’s song Alright becomes a protest song for the campaign Black Lives Matter.
In comes Bowie with Blackstar: in the centre of it all your eyes. You may not be a popstar or a filmstar but you matter, you’re a blackstar.
Every man and every woman is a star. (Aleister Crowley)
The Star Sapphire by Crowley: “Let him return to the centre, and so the centre of all.” Also: 69 is the holy hexagram (Blackstar being released on Bowie’s 69th birthday).
Wikipedia calls Blackstar “jazztronica”
“Many consider free jazz to be a musical reaction to the oppression and experience of black Americans.” (Wikipedia on ‘free jazz’) Black stars and stripes.
Kendrick Lamar didn’t just make a hip-hop album, he played with rap conventions and idioms. Lamar is to rap what free jazz is to jazz.
And white America thinks this is about the devil…
Fucking hell I'm actually mad right now.
>>61668015
kek
that cracked me up.
>>61668144
fuck off cunt
bye, david.
Ehh How the fuck do I mute 4chin sound, I wanna listen life on mars
>>61662003
my favorite singer won't be on the news lol
>>61668187
So what are you saying? This album and Bowie's death is some Thelemic ritual? What does that have to do with all the BLM/Kendrick shit?
>>61668187
go to bed /x/ pls
>>61668173
Modern Bowie always looks pretty good/healthy in professional photos. He looks older, more haggard, when he's caught on the street.
Even though I'd noticed in the Lazarus video how thin and frail his hands were looking, I'd assumed that was just because, well, he was getting old. Never even clicked that it might be due to illness.
reply 1000 :^)
>>61668275
>>61668280
Quoted from someone else, only thing I actually said was that I'm fucking mad.
but is he really dead though
>>61668298
no god we same´s :-DD
>>61660761
nobody's getting off this rock alive, anon
>>61668328
this
>>61668255
post :stop music:
>>61668284
The professional photo thing is true, but man. He either gave up the perfect guy image for a fitting old man image
or
he was ill, which he was. Or both, whis is probable.
>>61668255
>4chan sound
what?
>>61663062
I THOUGHT YOU DIED
>>61668371
Mostly the "fitting old man" image, but also some chronic illness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1p8cx3dtzw
>>61668437
was Bowie the most /fa/ musician of note? I have never seen an unattractive image of the man.
FUCK THIS GAY EARTH
I replaced a lot of the songs on Ziggy Stardust with the Bowie at the Beeb versions because I think the studio versions are flat and lifeless.
I can't be the only one who did this right?
this is ridiculous
>>61655604
He's up in the stars now... R.I.P Ziggy....
>>61667964
when he said that?
>>61668469
He was a good looking man.
>All those fucking callout posts saying he raped an underage girl
Who didn't want to fuck Bowie? Hell, I'm a straight guy and I'd have fucked a young David Bowie.
>First song on Bowie's discography is Uncle Arthur
>Last is Can't Give Everything Away
>Uncle Arthur Can't Give Everything Away
R.I.P.
>>61655604
>>61667856
idk man why don't you kill yourself and we'll find out and keep you posted
:stop music:
1,000th post bitches
>>61660877
FUCK.
A nice calm, dignified exit. With parting gifts. With two days to hear thanks. And then off he went.
>>61668514
I was worried this kind of shit would happen. I hope they made enough pressings to go around.
>>61668589
damn
>>61668555
you don't get it:
would you have left Bowie fucked a 13yo young you?
>>61668546
Just google David Bowie Death Grips.
>>61668605
>>61668469
Bowie has sex appeal in spades. Anyone whose ever met him and been interviewed about it has mentioned how incredibly pretty he was.
And if he wasn't being pretty, he was being cool as fuck. He's the closest thing to the perfect human.
>>61668599
>not knowing about mute tab
JUST
DANCE
>>61668656
>this picture
o_o damn
>>61668664
>tfw safari
>>61668656
w2c that everything
/tv/'s sticky is up to 2000. Shame on you all
>>61668786
>he didnt see the sticky last night
Also the sticky only goes to 1000, it gets rid of any posts from before
>>61668786
Last one here got north of 4k before it was deleted.
>>61668786
it's because /tv/ has more redditors, and thus more people on it
Anyone need a ride to David's funeral? I'll get my car.
>>61668044
>Pinups, 1973
I agree that his recycling of psychedelia was a smart move. Of course, most of the rock stars of the 60’s and 70’s were/are highly overrated because of their infuential fucking boomer audience . . . ..
>>61668849
I don't know how it will look. Hopefully, a great hommage, and not an obnoxious elogy full of awful people saying they knew him.
>>61662384
no
tfw i've never done acid
>>61661582
pure unbridled rage
>>61668901
Mick Jagger hunched over the casket sobbing as they lower it into the ground
https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/17109247/#q17109247
>yfw
>>61668820
lolno - the mods have capped the thread at 1000 posts max and are deleting all the older posts:
https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/mu/thread/S61655604
>>61665998
The song had just reached this point as I started reading your post.
>>61661055
underrated post
>>61662713
fucking insane, im listening to lazarus and its just staggering levels of genius
JUST
https://archive.is/lUFHa
>>61668631
consent yes or no
literally all that fucking matters
RIP David Bowie from /a/
>>61655604
FOREVER BOWIE
>>61669057
>what is statutory rape
>>61668576
I'm sorry, Dave... I can't front you anymore.
>>61669072
>statutory rape
this shitty law didn't even existed 20 years ago in most countries kek
>>61669072
Isn't this whole thing blown up from what one women claimed on a talk show that she had sex with Bowie while she was 15 and that she is very happy and proud of it?
>>61662031
Kill yourself.
>>61669122
pedophiles should be burned at the stake
not even memeing
exactly what the shit is the element playing music on this tab
I was already listening to Bowie thank you I don't need your shitty mashup of Space Oddity and whatever else I'm listening to
Sleep tight, Ziggy Stardust
>>61660961
I'm 50 years old.
>I just ordered Blackstar from Amazon.
>It's delayed due to huge demand.
>I'm ok with that and I'm happy not to use the streaming on the Amazon cloud
I'm not actually ready to read a tombstone yet.
>>61669154
not hearing anything over here
>>61667947
this is Scaruffi, you know
NO.
>>61661096
lol ur such a fag
Find out this morning in class. Since the new album just came out it was a pretty big shock. Was just listening to and talking about him last night, like many others.
>Find out in class this morning.
>"Holy shit"
>Listen to his music in between classes as it starts to set in, watch the music videos with a whole new meaning applied to them.
>Fall asleep in bed listening to Low.
>Have a dream where I'm hanging out with a young David Bowie.
>He has a fuck ton of prescription bottles everywhere.
>He hands me one, which says "Cocaine" on it which was kind of funny.
>I tell him i've never done Coke before.
>He says, "Jay, I think you'll really enjoy it."
>Bowie and I snort cocaine together for a while.
>Every time I look over he gets progressively older.
>I suddenly remember. I grab his shoulders and tell him, "Holy shit, you're fucking dead."
>He disappears, I wake up.
What did it mean, /mu/?
>>61669154
Yeah, /mu/ cracks me up.
But his passing got me down to the vinyl store to pickup a new cartridge . . …
>Been into Bowie since 2011 or so
>Decide to buy some band t-shirts during the weekend 'cause I got some extra cash.
>Bowie shirt amongst them
>He dies next day.
I'm not buying band t-shirts anymore.
does anyone have the heroes album cover pic with the dudes pushing him
>>61669352
It means you need to fuck the boipussy, Jay.
>>61666934
and lemmy
>>61669352
Are you still on your HS's library=
>Check the David Bowie hashtag on twitter
>Mostly nice tributes
>See 2 posts from women calling him a homophobic, racist paedo and how one wants to find his grave and piss
I'm screaming inside
>>61669352
If you're telling the truth, you've got one hell of a mind and should be training it. I hope you're doing something in STEM.
>>61661290
SHUT THE FUCK UP
>>61669447
>raging over b8
Stick around. We're a good training ground for ignoring that crap.
he'll be fine
Blackstar is now officially the most haunting record to listen to.
Lazarus is just chilling.
>open Soulseek
>dozens of David Bowie uploads for no apparent reason
>oh, fuck.
>>61667254
I WANT TO FUCK THAT SO HARD
>>61665319
^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>61669430
>>61669430
>>61665319
Enjoy.
>>61661290
rolling for either one
>>61669479
hope your mom dies
>>61661294
>tfw an actual eloquent response on /mu/
I never got into Bowie, but my favorite musician is dead as well.
I know this feel, bros.
My condolences.
You're all wrong. He didn't die, he just returned home
>listen to "Lazarus" on YT
>open this thread, not knowing "Space Oddity" would start playing
>lyrics somehow timed up perfectly
>"Look up here, I'm in heaven (Ground Control to major Tom)"
what the fuck, this actually worked quite well for the first minute
CAN YOU HEAR ME MAJOR TOM
CAN YOU HEAR ME MAJOR TOM
[spoiler]CAN YOU HEAR ME MAJOR TOM[/spoiler]
>>61669447
>calling him a homophobic
Literally what?
>>61669449
Why do you say that?
I play music and study film production.
>>61661812
we're all over paul's death, that was a long time ago
>>61668656
this picture is proof that shoulder pads need to make a comeback
>tfw this is your only chance you get to listen to this on the Monday
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDCk1X2S00A
>>61667196
>WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?
>>61669482
19 more albums to go... I'm not ready for the feels
>blackstars on rym reviews
nice
>>61669447
>racist
How though? Didn't he shit on MTV in the 80's for not playing any black artists?
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0TcuktNYM05
sing a tribute to david bowie with me /mu/
>>61669688
There was that era when he said Britain would be better with a fascist dictator.
>>61669688
probably his 70s pro natsoc stuff
>finally done with Hunky Dory
Fuckin' A, that was a chore to get through. Not nearly as good as people make it out to be.
>>61669447
I saw a very similar one that said all that, and called him a fucking Nazi.
Thanks Thin White Duke era.
>>61669727
let me guess, you didn't listen to the lyrics?
>>61669688
Yes, but then there was also the Thin White Duke Fascist stuff.
Which do I watch first? Labyrinth or The Man Who Fell to Earth?
>>61669727
>having shit taste
>>61669717
>>61669721
Didn't he say it in sort of a tongue-in-cheek manner though? He has also said some pretty leftist stuff regarding the working class, consumerism, etc.
>>61661705
>>>61661194
I'm far left but i'll swing by in my jeep. You bring a gun and I'll bring a shovel and some hefty bags. We'll blast Blackstar on the way and cry and ice that fucker.
>>61661449
From space.
>>61669727
It flows really well but a few of the songs are a chore. I really like Life on Mars and Bewlay Brothers though.
I'm sad /mu/. He contributed so much.
Heroes and Low are the GOAT
>>61661705
That's a liberal, not a leftist.
Only really familiar with Rise And Fall and Aladdin Sane
What's his quietest album?
>>61669727
i mean, there are a couple weak songs, but a chore?
this better be bait.
>>61669437
Sauce pls
>>61669888
>Implying amerifats know the difference
>>61669697
>autism
LEGEND
>Find out last night that he died
>Talk about it with friends, too young, probably my favourite figure in music, etc.
>Don't cry
>Today, walking through a snowy plain on my way back home
>Be my wife shuffles on my phone
>Can't keep the tears back
Fucking christ, why did it have to happen. When Lou died I joked that everything would be okay as long as Bowie was alive. Music isn't going to be the same anymore.
>RIP in peace
>Rest In Peace in peace
Retards everywhere. Point and laugh, kids.
>>61669988
>>>/r/eddit
I think this is more your speed
didn't he invent the bowie knife
Rock 'N' Roll Suicide just came on and I might finally cry
>>61669988
>>61669843
I don't know the context, but he claims he made the statements when he was strung out on coke. He made Pin Machine to cover it up, I think.
>>61669898
Try Low, which gets pretty ambient for its second half, or Space Oddity.
>>61655604
I really wasnt prepared at all for this.
>>61669963
>Lou died on a sunday morning
>Bowie dies 2 days after his album release on his birthday
>>61669898
the B-sides of Low and "Heroes" probably
maybe im just being auts (im totally autistic btw :^)
but why is it making me angry that people that never listened to bowie are all of a sudden saying what big fans they are and how torn up they are
i know for a fact they never listened to anything but the hits
>>61669408
you killed him anon :C
>>61669437
how this trap has never been posted in those trap threads?! wtf
>dies on a sunday
>where the fuck did monday go
>>61664069
hell be fine
>>61664438
Kanye West
>>61670055
leave
>>61669583
He renounced his gayity, that is probably why.
>>61670055
Normie shit. They say whatever will get them the most real life upvotes, aka attention from their peers. It's common to go to a bunch of people and say "OH MAH GAWD "insert celeb here" IS DEAD!!!111"
>>61669583
according to some (lesbian) feminists, if you're str8, you're automatically homophobic :|
http://www.scaruffi.com/vol3/bowie.html
>>61661582
>Bowie is dead, yet this faggot is still walking the Earth.
I hate him, and I hate that there's nothing I can do.
>>61670055
I don't have his Discography (only Ziggy, space Oddity and some others, was going to buy blackstar today) and I don't consider myself a true from hell fan, but he represents an age of my life where I was pretty happy. His songs where in my everyday life back then, thats why it hits me kind of hard.
>gf sends me a message at 1 in the morning
>think nothing of it and go back to sleep
>wake up and check it
>bowie's dead
worst way to start a year
Fuck. And here I was hoping for him to appear in the twin peaks revival.
:stop music:
>>61670168
>Station to Station (1976) , 6/10
>So long space cowboy
one thousand
ITTTT AIN'TTTT EAAASSSYYYY
>>61666612
It's entirely reasonable to have never come across a rolling sticky no matter how long you've been here.
>>61670159
leave
>>61661721
>he makes money from this
fuck me
>>61669447
I still find this shit hilarious
>Celebrity dies
>Twats on tumblr run to their computers to post a list of why said celebrity was a horrible person and that you should be glad that they're dead.
They're an embarrassment
the king is dead
Im going to sleep, this shit better be fixed when i wake up
Hes going to be alive when i wake up god damn it
two thousand
>>61670243
Fuck off you cunt. You're probably love sucking normie cock you faggot.
Imagine what it would feel like to be mentioned as influence for Blackstar
Death Grips, Lamar, Boards of Canada
Anyone else notice how different Space Oddity sounds all of a sudden? Especially the vocals.
RIP. The Greatest.
>>61670286
Not even you know what normie means.
>>61669842
Labyrinth is one of my favorite movies of all time, I love the soundtrack and certainly recommend it.
>>61661582
>This sad thing is worse than that sad thing
I fucking hate it when people do this. My dad does the same thing
>>61662713
>Deathstar
<Blackstar
:(
three THOUSAND
See you in space, major tom
>tfw bowie will never be an african american
this fucking sucks.
>>61670343
Apparently you don't actually. I know what I said. I had to deal with this shit all day, including to my dumb bitch of a coworker who listens to Foo Faggots even make a remark like she gave a fuck of Bowie.
So kindly fuck off you nigger.
>>61662160
OH LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THEREAPER MAN?
>>61668514
I was about to order it the day before yesterday, but €30 seemed a bit too much
>>61670432
You're so pathetic
