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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, 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. 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. 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.
You can be a hero, OP, but only for one day.
I like him anyway. He had good taste in collaborators if nothing else.
At least he gave Low and "Heroes" good scores. But really, who actually gives a shit about Scaruffi.
favorite yeezy track ?
>>60407894
deez nuts
>>60407894
seriously KILL YOURSELF
>>60408366
You first though
>>60407683
Great album, my favorite of his. I'm bummed that he's probably never going to make another song like Beach Life-in-Death.
How about you OP?
>>60407730
completely agree. Def fav of all his albums. I'm hoping with his new record contract he will make Teens of denial something closer to this but probably not.
Also agreed Beach Life-in-Death is amazing song, but fav is probably Sober to Death
Why is everyone on /mu/ such elitist assholes? Does pretending to enjoy Merzbow really make you feel better than other people? Whats the point of putting down someone else based off their musical taste?
>Does pretending to enjoy Merzbow really make you feel better than other people?
very few pretend this
>Whats the point of putting down someone else based off their musical taste?
bantz
>>60407541
>Whats the point of putting down someone else based off their musical taste?
It's fun.
also
>implying we pretend to like things.
>Whats the point of putting down someone else based off their musical taste?
>attacks people for liking Merzbow
tiptopkek
Anyone have their new song they posted today?
Fortress>Scurrilous>Kezia>Volition.
>>60407503
wew lad
Volition=Kezia=Fortress>Scurrilous
>>60407503
just buy it faggot it's good shit
>>60408007
Never understood why people hate Scurrilous. That's a sick album.
>meet girl at deafheaven concert
>qt girl
>too much of a sperg to ask her number or anything like that
>that was my chance
I want to dream...
Music for this feel?
>>60407497
yes! music for that feel
AJJ t b h OP
>>60407497
Story of my life bruh, check some of You Blew It! they're pretty good.
Which genre has the worst album covers? I vote prog or jazz
I mean, what the fuck is this even supposed to be?
Vaporwave
References to songs off that album
"6:00"
"Caught in a Web"
"The Mirror"
hip hop or prog/metal. jazz can have good cover
where can i dl this in flac?
deez nuts
>>60407423
>you will cowards don't even smoke crack
>>60407495
this is what i thought at first too, but apparently it's short for you all, which still doesn't sound completely right
the meadowlark and the chim-choo-ree and the sparrow edition
it's 10:51 PM on a Sunday
rate/rec/guess
tapmusic.net
>>60407399
+Leonard Cohen, Charles Mingus, Stan Getz, Bjork, Joanna Newsom
-Beach House
~Aber Jay, Otis Redding
>>60407399
It's 2 am tho
Sambrasa Trio - Em Som Maior
>>60407522
I forgot to post my chart but for some reason my computer won't let me choose a file
>final track is significantly longer than other tracks
>>60407326
dumb spongefroge poster
>The End by Los Doors
>When The Music's Over by Los Doors
>leave the AOTY to me
>>60407254
>>60407278
young Bowie is so hot, would fuck/10
>leave being the best artist of all time to me
Whats a better alternative to Windows Media Player?
F2K.
https://www.foobar2000.org/
If you like the playlist view of WMP, try foobar2000 + esplaylist. Pic related. Same style, more customizability.
>>60407250
Literally anything
For me, it's at least 100 plays on one song, no song being below 30 plays (unless certain, VERY specific factors are in play, like
>it's a blank audio file
>it's over (some large number) minutes long
kind of thing), and I have to pretty much remember every song, how it sounds like…and it's gotta be an album that in general really stands out to me in regards to my life (and I still like).
I have other albums I like, but if they don't meet these particular criterion, I don't consider them my absolute, personal favorites. There are many records I respect, but don't listen to that often, so I don't consider my favorites.
So far, I only have 4 albums that fit the criteria I listed above. I think they're good, but more importantly, I like them to bits, and they're important to me.
On /mu/, people talk about favorite albums all the time, but I wanted to ask about how you guys choose which ones are your favorites. Are there actual numerical values you assign, like number of plays of songs or the whole album, or is it just your gut?
i like what i like
It has to be the album that I feel the most passionate about
Seriously why the fuck do you need a formal criteria for this
>>60407151
Honestly, in the case of mine I was just raised listening to it. My dad was a huge Clash fan, so I grew up listening to London Calling, and its kinda stuck with me my whole life. It's been one of the major musical constants no matter what else I'm into, and its a dope album to boot
Lets talk about this album.
>>60407129
I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. Pyramid really stood out I wish the rest of the album was more like that.
7/10
I can't decide whether this or GKMC is my AOTY 2012
Title track on pic related is the best song Bowie ever created
Prove me wrong
It's not Young Americans
QED
Blackout exists
>>60407043
Bowie is fucking awful, like one of the absolute worst artists of all time.
