David Bowie has died

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Like others I didn't like a lot of his output and thought a good deal of it was terrible.

But he had a decent amount of good ones, and they just happened to be some of the best pop songs of all time.

Not only that, he was a fantastic music idol and defined an era of pop music.
 
RoboCod said:
This clip is doing the rounds at the minute, his Paxman interview in 2000 where he is just absolutely on point predicting the impact the internet will have, not only on society as a whole, but to music in particular. I think it's brilliant.

Bowie: "I like to see what the new construction is between artist and audience. There is a breakdown, personified by the rave culture.... where the audience is at least as important as whoever is playing at the rave. It's almost like the artist is to accompany the audience and what the audience are doing, and that feeling is very much permeating music, and permeating the internet."

JUMP TO 6:18 FOR THE RELEVANT PART IF YOU DON'T WANT TO WATCH THE WHOLE THING.



I particularly liked one users comment:

"**** mate. seeing paxman frown dubiously as bowie is talking about how audience-content interaction will be super emphasised via the internet, whilst little does paxman know he's currently stuck inside a little box on the internet 15 years in the future, placed above a ******* audience rating system of 'likes', 'views', and 'shares'... that's priceless."
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A true intelligent artist and thinker right there...

Thanks for sharing :)
 
easyrider said:
Very much so...A true real artist of our time...A person that has shaped culture.
Fan or not you have to be pretty dumb not to at least be aware of Bowies influence.
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Always new i was a bit thick, but tbh i always found him quite a bit ****. I cant understand all the caffuffle about him, his music or dressing up as a space drag queen has only had the effect that space drag queens are prerry bad along with 99% of his music. The last remaining 1% goes to some tune he did which was quite good. (it wasnt star man)

As always sorry for his loved ones, its a cruel disease.
 
I can understand if you didn't like any of his hits, that's a matter of taste, it's purely subjective and you're quite entitled to not (although he had so many, of varying style, I find it hard to believe you would only tap your feet to 1%). However, to state that you don't understand all the cafuffle is just ignorant. It has already been said, Bowie was era and culture defining, up there with Presley and Sinatra. This can't be denied, it's laid out for you over the last 50 years in popular culture, he was a leading artist in defining all of that.

That is a big cafuffle.

If you're actually interested, there are some good documentaries about it. Particularly how he raised gender issues, represented minority, encouraged individualism, explored new audio and visual realms in art and music, etc. I think all that is harder to gauge impact when we didn't live at the time. For example, the early 70s when many main stream sneered at this weird drag guy singing about some made up alter ego character. None of it would be so shocking today, but you can thank him for that.
 
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R.I.P David Bowie.

I did not like all his music, but he produced some good stuff (as well as bad). Then again I think that was one of his major strengths, that he like to push the boundaries.
 
RoboCod said:
I can understand if you didn't like any of his hits, that's a matter of taste, it's purely subjective and you're quite entitled to not (although he had so many, of varying style, I find it hard to believe you would only tap your feet to 1%). However, to state that you don't understand all the cafuffle is just ignorant. It has already been said, Bowie was era and culture defining, up there with Presley and Sinatra. This can't be denied, it's laid out for you over the last 50 years in popular culture, he was a leading artist in defining all of that.

That is a big cafuffle.

If you're actually interested, there are some good documentaries about it. Particularly how he raised gender issues, represented minority, encouraged individualism, explored new audio and visual realms in art and music, etc. I think all that is harder to gauge impact when we didn't live at the time. For example, the early 70s when many main stream sneered at this weird drag guy singing about some made up alter ego character. None of it would be so shocking today, but you can thank him for that.
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fadetoblack said:
Yeah men wearing make up are a rare breed ;)

Never this fuss when poor lemmy died Rip
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fadetoblack You have ignored Robocods post...

What don't you get?

It's very simple why Bowie and his death have effected millions of people who grew up with him.

My 15 year old daughter gets it completely. I struggle why you don't tbh.
 
MookJong said:
I loved Lemmy, but I'm pretty sure he would have told you himself he wasn't in the same league as Bowie.
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Somewhat perspective but at the end of the day Lemmy tended to appeal to a more niche audience than Bowie who had wider appeal and Lemmy's lifestyle tended to alienate the broader public and while Bowie was no angel people tended to look kinder on him in that regard.
 
You have to laugh but Lemmy being mentioned in the same breath as Bowie:D
On the one hand you have an artist who has wrote a variety of hit records all in different styles that have appealed to millions all over the world or an artist who has wrote the same song over & over since the mid 70s (I know because I have them all).
Lemmy would acknowledge he isn't in the same league.
 
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