Is this one of the greatest concept albums of all time?
Yes imo
Yes.
i think so too not even memeing
>>61662952
>Where the fuck did Monday go
>died on Monday
>>61663025
damn...
m-m-maybe
Give it a year, it'll be at the same level as Donuts.
>>61663025
hearing these lines now feels so abstract, like youre an alive human and suddenly days stop occuring
>tfw was listening to Lazarus right when they announced it
>>61662952
I think it has to be. Simply the fact that we've never seen any piece of art use it's creators death as a central force and drive for narrative, makes it truly visionary.
>>61663247
fuck
>>61663269
>>61662952
The only thing close to this I can think of is Mozart's unfinished requiem
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5rjNY8dMzc
Bowie confirmed modern mozart.
>>61662952
yeah no one can ever top this
johnny cash did it too tho remember
>Something happened on the day he died
>Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside
>Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried
>(I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar)
Who took his place, /mu/?
>>61663025
He actually died on Sunday. That's why he was asking about the next Monday on his life. It wasn't there
>>61663453
I bet he told his family to pull his plug on Sunday just to complete his ruse.
What a hack.
>>61663269
Donuts, son
>>61663269
what the fuck are you talking about
do you even know who j dilla is?
i mean, i also like david bowie but holy shit guys the circlejerk is getting a bit out of hand
>>61663378
Kendrick Lamar
>If I never see the English evergreens I'm running to
>It's nothing to me
>It's nothing to see
>>61663378
MC Ride
David Bowie's death has completely and undeniably affirmed /mu/'s position at the bottomest of the bottom on the pleb-patrician ladder.
This is awesome to witness.
>>61662952
My initial reaction was that it was good. Now after his death, I realize that the entire album was about him preparing to die. So in a fucked up way, yah him dying right after its release makes it kind of amazing. Its like David Bowie's goodbye album. He knew this was probably the last thing hed ever record
>>61663353
He got an MTV Video Music award before his passing in 2002-03 but damn Hurt video had me in tears
>>61663378
I think he meant Major Tom since it was using that character to represent his dead. When so Bowie took its place and cried he was a Blackstar, which is a star with a velocity that exceeds the speed of light. He was talking about leaving this world
>>61663500
>>61663491
>doughnuts was recorded just before he died so its about him dying
Yah, if you listen to that album without knowing he died shortly after you'd never make the connection with death. I don't think j dilla really wanted the album to be about dying
>>61663703
he made 90% of the album on the hospital bed where he died
>>61663378
Diiv
>>61663703
Are you fucking retarded?
>>61663378
It says right there on the cover.
>>61663836
>>61663982
and again, almost none of the songs are about dying. Maybe like 3 or 4 tracks refer to him dying
>>61664130
All of the songs are extensions of himself as a human being.
One of the many themes of the album is his death and his acceptance.
What the fuck are you saying? The album is everything J Dilla, including his death.
>>61663378
Me.
>>61664241
Weird so few of them are about death then huh?
Black Star is literally a concept album about death. Death is just a subject on donuts, Id hardly call it a concept album
>>61664276
did we listen to the same album?
did you even listen to the album?
donuts has death all over it
It has a great concept, but I think its silly to let the 'story' behind the album mean more than the music.
Like this clearly isn't his best album, or the best this year, but it is still good, and it's good that he was able to make a definitive statement before his death to give people actual closure. Could you imagine if 'the next day' was his last album... fuck that.
also as a side note my dad read some reviews of the album and ordered scott walkers bisch bosch. He only knows scott walker from the walker bros. Not sure if he'll like it.
>>61664312
No it doesnt.
>>61662952
No. Pink Floyd takes that spot with Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall.
>>61664501
>Not mentioning their best album Animals
But other than that, I agree with this
>>61663269
Nah, look at Yukio Mishima. He finished his final book the morning that he killed himself, and it was part of a tetralogy that basically spelled out "I'M GOING TO FUCKING COMMIT SEPPUKU."
>>61664312
It actually doesn't. Except for like 3 songz
>>61662952
Gorgeous tbqh
>>61664079
10/10
>>61664895
to be fair, Kanye is the only person who comes close to bowie today.
>mfw people only like this album because Bowie died
>>61664915
LOL
>>61664921
>mfw Bowie is dead and I still think Blackstar is some of his worst work
>>61664921
/mu/ agreed that it was a great album before he died dude
>>61663521
Just made the link to Secret Life of Arabia:
The secret life of Arabia
Never here never seen
Secret life ever green
>>61664921
nope everyone was loving it yesterday
>>61664931
i'm not saying he's a genius or anything, but no other artist has started as many trends by ripping off mainstream stuff.
>College Dropout- Late Registration
>Graduation
>808s
all influenced the direction of mainstream hip hop in a big way
still think MBDTF is a mediocre effort, but to be commended for being so kanye-ish, and Yeezus is at least a fun listen and is also very kanye, but has too much filler.
>>61664915
That's why I said 10/10
>>61663500
Donuts isn't even about death. It was still a great album to go out on though
>>61664329
I played my dad Scott 3 and then the drift and it didn't go well
>>61663025
Holy fucking shit
>>61663574
>TOO SEE IF I STILL FEEL
>>61664079
wew
>>61664079
>Greatest musician of all time
>Dead
Fuck
>>61664079
>"Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" is released in June of 1972
>First Track is titled "Five Years"
>Kanye West is born in June of 1977
DO YOU SEE, /MU/?
DO YOU SEE?
>>61664501
>Pink Floyd
Go back to /v/, kid
>>61666648
i guess music its over
>>61666815
No.
>>61666764
What the fuck
>>61664501
But they're deathly dull and bland.
>>61666784
>>61666919
nice samefag
>>>/out/
6/10
>>61666784
>wah my momrock is better that your dadrock
Go back to reddit, kid.
>>61666945
>samefag
No, cry more sprout
>>61666951
>momrock
You kids sure hate being told off, brats
>>61666764
damn....
>>61666945
lol fucking moron go kill yourself you worthless cocksucker, no-one will miss you
>>61663269
Brother's Karamozov
>>61663562
More like it has confirmed the reddit falseflags from edgelords like you who clearly have not been here for the years of Bowie appreciation threads
>>61663244
holy shit david bowie was /fa/
>>61666764
And there's even a pile of trash in the cover! It all makes sense now.
>>61664079
K.WEST
spooky as fuck
>>61663269
Yeah, I was gonna say J Dilla, too. Guess people beat me to it.
>>61667498
top kek
WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO WHERE THE FUCK DID MONDAY GO
>>61664079
WEW
>>61663269
Biggie Small's "Life After Death"
>>61662952
Queen did almost the same thing back in 1991 with Innuendo
>>61663269
Queen - Innuendo
Kids these days..
>>61667754
music magic
>>61663491
>looped samples from other ppls music over a generic beat
>narrative
i want tumblr to leave
>>61662952
Obviously.
>>61663378
Honestly I think it's talking about what people are going to turn Bowie into now that he's dead.
The Blackstar is the what the icon will become without the man.
>>61664959
Crocodile tears?
>>61663562
I'll be sure to sticky a thread when some avant-garde dipshit who puts distortion on a guitar and throws bricks at a wall dies
>>61663378
>>61663378
>>(I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar)
The title track repeatedly refers to a "solitary candle." "He told me it was about ISIS," says McCaslin. "It's just an unbelievable tune." (McCaslin's ISIS assertion is news to Guiliana and Visconti, who say they have no idea what the song is about.)
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-inside-story-of-david-bowies-stunning-new-album-blackstar-20151123?page=2
>>61668145
>"hey bowie what's this song about?"
>ohshit cant say it's about my death
>look at the television
>"oh it's... about ISIS"
>>61668617
heh
>>61667212
how so? it was planned for him to have written more, continued the life of aloshya
>>61667440
This
>>61663500
J knew he was gonna die for a longer time, he'd been sick for years and people knew about it. it's different with bowie.
>>61664241
how are you pretentious mothafuckas pretending you know SHIT about an album with no lyrics? I swear people only like J Dilla because he died.
>>61663378
Watch out for a release next year by "Blackstar", it's Bowie's new stage name for his dive into grunge metal.
>>61662952
Only album of his in which he doesn't appear on the cover, used to think it was just a cool fact, but now, damn
Also, bet p4k is regretting that 8.5
>>61670267
He's on the cover. He is the Blackstar.
Also, the symbols below the star are supposed to spell out "Bowie."
>>61664577
Mishima's story makes me profoundly upset.
>>61670301
Yeah I heard that before, and while it's a really cool explanation, it had to be on purpose that he chose not to put an actual picture of himself on the cover like he always does
>>61664915
>being this retarded
>>61663269
4:48 Psychosis
If "Girl Loves Me" is the worst on the album, why can't I get it out of my head?
Did Pitchfork kill David Bowie?
>>61670457
My fucking nigga
>>61670367
>>61668096
>>61670540
>If "Girl Loves Me" is the worst on the album
But 'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore and Blackstar are the worst songs on the album.
>>61668617
lmao
>>61670540
That's the best song.
>>61670621
>Blackstar
Get that pleb taste outta here.
>>61663269
You've never heard of Queen - Innuendo? Faggot.
>>61670540
>"How do you award aesthetic points to a 75 minute suicide note?"
How do you award aesthetic points to a 40 minute 'suicide note'?
>>61664501
>The Wall
spicy meme, friend
Does anyone else hear a hint of talk talk? a little more poppy.
>>61670891
It's an album that hits too close to home friend, that's why I hold it dearly. Please, no bully.
RIP music 1910-2016
>>61666764
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>61670921
Were you also persecuted by communists?
>>61670887
Meant to quote >>61670457
Picture is Sylvia Plath, her poem 'Edge' is another example of a visceral confrontation with death. Tichbourne's elegy too. Fuck I want to write a paper on the confrontation of death through aesthetic forms.
Heidegger would be so fucking proud of Bowie.
>>61671008
No, nor was my dad killed in a war, infact my family is pretty much "perfect" by today's standards.
But the feelings of isolation and change that Pink goes through is something that I identify with.
>>61664079
>>61666764
Kanye West is confirmed for being the next David Bowie.
Get ready faggots, a new era of Bowie is upon us.
The whole album is filled with an atmosphere of death and references to it. Bowie basically knew he was going to die soon. Shit is creepy.
>>61671035
But there are better, more cohesive, and albums with MUCH less filler that convey that same message.
>>61671132
Care to show me some?
1) I dont like rap or hip hop or electronic music
2) no metal scream shit
thanks
>>61670915
Yes! Talk talk but satanic.
Seriously now that video for black star was fucking satanism at its best.
>>61663491
>David Bowie has made music spanning across six decades
>J Dilla lived half that span
>"LOL there teh saem guise"
You should hang yourself.
>>61671018
Please do anon and make sure to publish it here. I will surely read it. The circumstances of Bowie's death and the connection between death and art here really feel like a life changing experience.
>>61663269
7 Day Theory
>>61671161
>feelings of isolation and change
Brand New - Devil and God
Turnover - Peripheral Vision
Touché Amoré - Is Survived By
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
Pianos Become the Teeth - Keep You
The National - Alligator
>>61671097
Well no shit he had cancer.
I still cant fucking believe it
its like watching a man carve his own epitaph in front of everybody whilst they're obliviously cheering him
and then he bows gracefully and just falls dead on the spot
what the fuck happened
>>61671460
If you post a way of contacting you I'll send it when I get it done. I'm snowed under with other commitments until Friday so I'll probably do it over the weekend, I'm not typically on /mu/.
>>61670378
Yes, because he is the Blackstar. That's the reason.
>>61670267
Even before he passed it was a 9. With his passing, it's easily a 9.5.
One of his strongest records, and a great way to go out.
>>61664079
>>61666764
>>61671074
>K.West on cover
>the date fits
>he's literally a black star
Is this real life?
>>61671097
Well he did have cancer, and he was really old.
>>61671621
"How many times does an angel fall?
How many people lie instead of talking tall?
He trod on sacred ground he laughed into the crowd"
"Saying no, but meaning yes, this is all I ever meant, thats the message that I sent, i cant give everything away"
after all the pressing by news reporters about his health, he's finally admitting he never told us the truth, he was dying
>>61663269
hi
>>61671074
Shit meme. Kanye couldn't reinvent a paperclip.
>>61671740
Also in the blackstar vid, the little girl with the black hair who calls out "im a blackstar" and the one it keeps switching between bowie and her eyes
shes become overgrown in the Lazarus video and is lurching under his bed
>>61671669
[email protected]
Looking forward :)
>>61671559
>Pitchfork: The Greatest Hits
I've listened to Blackstar since it leaked on 1 janari and it never even occurred to me it could be about his death
Who /stupid/ here?
>>61663269
He wasn't the first, but I still think that wat David did was phenomenal. It really takes balls to confront death like that IMO.
>>61672049
Are you some sort of retard? Pitchfork doesn't like any of this shit lmao
>>61672096
Sorry I was giving you too much credit, should have said
>/mu/ - The Greatest Hits
:^)
Also
>PItchfork doesn't like interpol, grizzly bear
LOL
You gotta admit, this is the best marketing strategy for an album ever.
>>61672225
Fuck off, asshole. The Wall is a piece of shit album and I wish you were persecuted by communists.
>>61672312
There are things that transcend marketing, especially the death of the one being marketed.
>>61664130
All poetry is subjective. You cant say that objectively it isnt about hom dying.
>>61672367
>Fuck off
Make me :^)
>>61672393
You asked for recs, I gave them to you. Why unnecessarily act like a cunt?
>>61672420
Because your taste is shit :^)
>>61672312
Bowie probably passed on the royalties to his family so they can live happily after he passed. His timely album release and death is to get quick money for funeral costs.
>>61672420
I'm not even the guy you were talking to lol
>Being this mad
>2016
>David Bowie is dead
:^)
>>61670267
Can't wait to watch those hipsters squirm and try to explain themselves, when they inevitably re-rate it.
>>61672469
>implying he wasn't rich as fuck already
>implying his son isn't rich as fuck from his own work
>>61672448
>Liking The Wall
consider ending your life
>>61663247
Same here, feels weird man.
>>61672554
Patrician confirmed BTW.
>>61670887
that smile says all is not well here.
>>61672589
>>61672565
I don't like The Wall, I'm a completely different person. What kind of fucking retard are you? :^)
This is the digital single cover for Blackstar
The flaw in the perfectly aligned grid is cancer
>>61672658
you should still look into suicide
>>61672075
me ;;(
whats more i didn't really get why lazarus vid was supposed to be unsettling, and realized that just now
captcha:defects
>>61672686
>>61672705
Not worth it, your tears are too delicious
>>61672686
also worthy of note that the more that tiny irregularity plummets further, the more distorted it would get
it consumes everything around it
>switching the collors
The fucking album has one fucking name, man.
>>61672613
I mean, no shit.
>>61671974
Grand, I'm sure I'll post it somewhere when I'm done but I'll make sure to forward it to you.
>>61672686
- zoom in with your browser until pic is close to fullscreen
- scroll up and down
- watch cancer move
>>61672781
Thanks man
>>61663269
roberto bolano 2666
>>61664079
holy fucking shit, senpai
>>61672812
>save picture to computer
>delete it
>bam cured cancer good job fuck susan G komen
>>61662952
>Look up here, I'm in Heaven.
FUUUUCK WHAT THE HELL. This is too god damned eerie David.
:'(
>>61672907
There's this problem about removing cancer postmortem. The patient is already dead.
Calling it now: Another artist will come up in a few days and reveal that Bowie asked them to carry on his legacy
>Somebody else took his place and bravely cried
>"I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar"
>>61672965
fuck, Bowie is actually gone
>>61672996
Not gonna happen
>>61664921
A convenient thing to say, but you obviously weren't on here the previous few days with tons of unironic praise for it (though a generous amount of masked Bowie memes).
>>61672686
Ok, I am an idiot.
I just realized that the parts of the stars are letters and they means BOWIE.
Tell me stupid, came on.
>>61673122
u smart
>makes central theme of his album his own death
>mentions how he is used to fooling everyone by being irreverent and how he will do it again with this album
absolute fucking madman. i was never a very big fan of bowie but this is tubular as shit, i must re-listen to his older stuff. hardcore as fuck
>>61664565
Animals is worse than all of those albums except The Wall
Not a single non-kickass song on this record imo. Some are better than other but all of them are really good. Throughout my entire first listen I just kept on thinking "damn it sounds like kendrick lamar produced this". I was not at all suprised when the producer said they were heavily inspired by tpab. I read some where else on this board that he was inspired by death grips, is this true?
>>61672506
I think it's justifiable. With this being such a calculated release, it's obviously something to consider. It's a straight up death concept album and the whole situation should be taken into account when reviewing the atmosphere and introspection going on throughout the album. But whatever, I'll let you get some good boy points from yourself for trying to be "above" others' ratings.
>>61673227
die
>>61673227
Yeah, just search "bowie death grips" or something, there are quotes out there about them listening to Death Grips from Sacramento or something. It's thematically relatable because of the death theme and whatnot.
>>61673260
> person on /mu/ is positive
FUCKING KILL HIM ONLY ANGER IS ALLOWED
Like really dude just calm down
>>61671853
Sia is the replacement for Bowie. What if its his daughter.
>>61672686
fuck
It's definitely one of the best concept albums there are. The subject matter and presentation of it was powerful and left a huge impact. The music is still not good as pic related which also had a subject matter presented in an emotionally heavy way.
>>61673448
caring about music when david bowie just introduced post-post modernism
>>61672686
It really does resemble something thats going to get worse and worse doesnt it?
Reminds me of this episode
>dollar days into i can't give everything away
holy shit saddest back to back tracks
>>61673538
well, it the same concept.
The representation of black hole (a black star) idea
>>61664994
I think he's accepting the nothingness he will experience if there's no afterlife
Hold me, anon
Don’t believe for just one second I’m forgetting you
>>61673139
U loyal
>>61672686
It's gravity you dingleberry. Take your post-modernist shit outta here.
>>61673818
Its a black hole you fucking dip like >>61673631
shows
Something that slowly swallows everything around it, easily comparable to cancer..
>>61673482
Post modernism? More like post mortem
>>61673886
Don't /sci/ with me when you don't know shit. A dip that shallow can't be a blackhole.
>>61673936
modernism post-mortemism
>>61663025
still not as many feels as Lou Reed's death occurring on a Sunday morning
>>61673978
a black hole is a dead star with a lot of gravity that even sucks light
>>61673978
>>61673886
>>61672686
Close.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_horizon
>In layman's terms, it is defined as "the point of no return"
Bowie was terminal.
>>61674054
this is probably the most logical reason
>>61674002
let's agree on post-mortemism
I would normally say that we have to let the dust settle, but given the subject matter and his death days later, i think it's okay to say that yes this is one of the greatest albums of all time.
>>61674030
Has Iggy any song with saturday or tuesday?
>>61668145
>"I don't think he's ever going to play live again," says Visconti. "If he does, it will be a total surprise."
HOLY SHIT THAT FORESHADOWING
>>61663378
>>61664079
>>61666764
>>61671732
>Kanye is a black star
DEEPEST LORE
In retrospect: yes.
This album will be forever implanted for what it stood for.
http://www.strawpoll.me/6514632
>>61664079
>predicted his own heir
>>61674413
i hate to sound edgy but after this i dont think i can cry
this hurt me more than any other death besides my dads and i still didnt
>>61674548
i know what you mean, crying is hard for me too
>>61674441
>predicted
>implying bowie didn't grow kanye in a vat
So the blackstar is basically cancer/death right?
>Just go with me
>You're a flash in the pan
>I'm the great I am
>>61663378
You.
>>61663491
>>61671786
Came to post this. Also, i respect bowie but this album blew
>>61674705
HOLY FUCK
>>61673732
u gr8ful
>>61672686
I'VE GOT SCARS THAT CANNOT BE SEEN
>>61674705
it can be a lot of things
A black star in the poetry sense is a dead star, a star without light. He was a star, now is dead. His light is out.
But cancer turn of the light.
It is a conceptual album about dead and life after dead.
Look at the videos.
Why Lazarus?
Check the other songs, I think that he is telling us something more, what? I don't have idea.
>>61662952
Angry Kid is better but its good.
I prefer psychedelic music to stuff like this.
>I can't give everything away
>I can't outright tell my fans that I'm dying/The meaning of the album is up to my fans
>>61675780
Will you ever stop shilling your shitty album, johnathan?
>>61674705
The blackstar is Bowie. When a star turns into a black hole, its light goes out, but its gravity remains. David Bowie is dead and now the weight of his legacy is all that's left.
>>61674352
Add this post to it
>>61667498
>>61664079
I've actually always thought Kanye West was similar to David Bowie for a couple of reasons.
>Constantly reinventing self
>Consistent in quality of work
>Have knack for being ahead of the times
>>61675984
No the Blackstar is him>>61676164
>>61676164
I'd love it if he covered African night flight.
>>61672075
I assumed from the start it was Bowie reflecting on his approaching death.
I never guessed he was literally about to die though, I thought he had another decade in him.
>>61676783
>I never guessed he was literally about to die though, I thought he had another decade in him.
i was thinking the same thing.
>>61672075
He played the world like a damn fiddle.
>>61674102
This.
Post-Mortemism
>>61676593
I never knew I needed this until right now.
>>61663269
Kojima intentionally gimped the ending to MGSV to make us all feel the phantom pain he felt when his career at Konami died preventing him from making the masterpiece he intended to make.
>>61667953
>>61670867
Hello reddit!
>>61666764
Holy shit
>>61664079
>>61663247
>tfw listening to Lazarus right now
>>61666764
>>61671732
Lazarus resurrected by Yeezus
>>61663269
camu tao
>>61672888
He didn't know he was going to die when he started
So was it public knowledge he had cancer? Or was this album sort of his way of announcing it? I consider myself a pretty big Bowie fan and I had no clue at all he was terminal
>>61681226
There was absolutely no public knowledge about his cancer until his death announcement came out. I honestly don't know how he managed to keep it a secret for 18 months.
>>61681226
A complete cover up. Only family and people who needed to know for the project knew. That is some grade A loyalty to have no one spill the beans.
>>61670558
yes
>>61681226
Not even Brian Eno knew.
