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Excellent post!
Also, who are these female performers being shut out of playing Coachella or anywhere for that matter? In fact, has this EVER been a problem in the history of music?
You are all wrong.
The Deram David Bowie album is awesome. Every song is a gem. Space Oddity is much more than the title track; Aladdin Sane is the album that isn’t much more than the title track (except for Jean Genie). Station to Station is wildly overrated; I can never fathom the love for it as it is one of his weakest of the seventies to my ears.
1. Ziggy
2. Low
3. Hunky Dory
4. Diamond Dogs
5. The Man Who Sold The World
6. David Bowie (Deram)
7. Space Oddity
8. Scary Monsters
9. Lodger
10. Let’s Dance
11. Heroes
12. Aladdin Sane
13. Station To Station
[Yes, I left out Young Americans because I only know the singles and everything after 1983 because, well...]
To hell with it, I’m going for it :
1. Ziggy
2. Low
3. Hunky Dory
4. Diamond Dogs
5. The Man Who Sold The World
6. Space Oddity
7. [The Decca Compilation]
8. Scary Monsters
9. Lodger
10. Let’s Dance
11. Heroes
12. Aladdin Sane
13. Station to Station
Note: I do not know Young Americans or Pin ups.
I will check it out. Seeing Helium live on the ‘Magic City’ tour inspired me to buy a vintage Jazzmaster, which was both a helluva guitar and a solid investment, so will check out Ms. Stern’s work more closely if she is in a league with Mary Timony.
Not to be that guy, but I have read much of Ms. Stern’s “super-technical, hyper-meticulous shreds that sound as if they are being zinged out into the universe at about a million miles an hour” but whenever I have sampled her music, I have never actually heard any playing that was terribly distinctive or impressive. Are there any particular tracks where her playing is truly awesome? Or is this some sort of unfortunate “…for a girl” thing, because I am pretty sure there have been awesome female guitarists for quite a while including Mary Timony and and about an incomprehensible number of classical guitarists throughout centuries.
The polite thing to do would be to put this mess behind them and put out a much better album soon so that we can all blissfully pretend that Centipede Hz never existed.
Oh, this awful woman.
Whether you love Diamond Dogs or hate Diamond Dogs, the one thing it is most definitely not is unremarkable!
“Already, reviews are circulating that call The Next Day one of Bowie’s best albums. That’s patently absurd. This is the guy who made Ziggy Stardust and Diamond Dogs and Young Americans and Low and Heroes, the cover of which suffers a bit of a subway-poster disfiguring to become the cover of this one.”
Plus the vastly underrated Decca material, plus Space Oddity, plus The Man Who Sold the World, plus Hunky Dory, plus Lodger, plus Scary Monsters and throw in the hits from Young Americans, Station to Station and Let’s Dance and how could Bowie (and Visconti) ever possibly top any of those things 30-45 later. Almost no one can even in their prime!
While this is slightly off topic, I think the media conglomerates have managed to put the toothpaste back into the tube and/or the genie back into the bottle. The music industry is as top-down and vapidly ‘star’-driven as it has been since the late 1990s. The fact that names like Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift regularly wash up on these here shores illustrates that.
Smush, it just takes time. Not 80 years, but time. There is also a s***load of jazz and classical to get to as well so don’t dally. Take it to the hole, big man!
1. Hyperballad
2. Venus as a Boy
3. Joga
4. Unravel
5. Hunter
5. I’ve Seen it All
6. Aurora
7. Possibly Maybe
8. Isobel
9. Cocoon
10. The Dull Flame of Desire
This just might be the first one these that I agree with entirely.
I was saying the exact opposite from what you think I said: I am put off by how SIMILAR Yorke’s solo material sounds to recent Radiohead (namely, TKOL).
I listen to and love a lot of electronic music, including Flying Lotus and especially Aphex Twin, but I do not understand the esteem that Burial is held in. To me it sounds like I am listening to late-1980s top 40 dance music from the bottom of a swimming pool (either I am at the bottom of said pool doing the listening or Expose or Stacy Q or whomever it is is at the bottom of the pool singing and I am standing at the foot of the deep end politely listening; either way I don’t hear what all the fuss is about).
I like this album, but I will certainly agree that ‘Side Effects’ is at the very least more surprising than AMOK.
I like this fine. It fits right in between ‘The Eraser’ and TKOL. However, I can’t help but be a little put off by how Yorke’s solo stuff has become indistinguishable from Radiohead proper. Those other guys are certainly top-flight musicians, particularly those Greenwood bros. Has Thom become the very kind of tyrant that he has valiantly been railing against for the past 20 years?
I don’t know about that. ‘sex, lies and videotape’ was very much the template for 90s American indie film. ‘Traffic’ might be the platonic ideal of a wide scope omnibus ‘issue’ movie; ‘Erin Brockovich’ is one of the great ‘based on a true story’ procedurals . ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ could be the most enjoyable heist movie ever made that is actually about the heist itself. And ‘Solaris’ has to be the most far-out studio picture made since Stanley Kubrick died. Interestingly, all of those (other than s,l & v) more or less coincide with Radiohead’s 1997-2001 heyday.
Nice write up. Yorke and Soderbergh is an interesting comparison that works well.
You (sort of) asked for it:
1. Animals
2. The Wall
3. Wish You Were Here
4. Dark Side of the Moon
5. Meddle
6. Ummagumma
7. Piper at the Gates of Dawn
8-11. Saucerful of Secrets, Atom Heart Mother, Obscured By Clouds, More (unfortunately having trouble recalling them distinctly in my head at the moment)
12. The Final Cut
13. Momentary Lapse of Reason
14. The Division Bell
This is a pointless list.
New Order’s 12 best songs are easily arrived at by taking disc one of Substance, subtracting ‘State of the Nation’, adding ‘Age of Consent.’ Blam-o. Prune 2 more (let’s say ‘Shellshock’ and ‘Subculture’) and -bing, bang, boom- there are your 10.
“Print media adapted to it quite well.”
Adapted how? By ceasing to exist?
It is amazingly coincidental that, of the tens of thousands of albums released each year, the same twenty or so end up on just about every list.
I don’t know that “Firebird Finale Berceuse” song by Erich Leinsdorf. I have heard his “7th Symphony Andante con Moto” song and it is major sadsballs, LOL! Is he on 4AD?