I love how Bowie dismisses this record ("I was barely involved, I gave it away") when in contemporaneous interviews like this he's very proud of demoing every track and being involved playing guitar and keyboards with the studio band. See: 4:15.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhaRvqI0nHk
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 December 2022 20:35 (one year ago) link
Yes, the pathos around the record is that, unlike on Tonight, he was really trying, and crashed so hard. This is the only Bowie record where I enjoy zero songs (except Pin-Ups, which was an obvious throwaway).
I may try the re-recorded album on the Loving the Alien package, though it's hilariously petty how, in 9 hours and 54 minutes of material, they wouldn't find a place for "Too Dizzy". WE REMEMBER
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 24 December 2022 03:19 (one year ago) link
probably said above but this was the first of the 'bowie back to what he does best' press-on-release narratives that were then repeated for almost every single album after
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 24 December 2022 03:26 (one year ago) link
I have a probably unpopular thesis that “Young Americans” is a precedent to the more concerted and effective sell-out that would be “Let’s Dance”
― french testicle (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 24 December 2022 04:22 (one year ago) link
I dunno -- I thought that when I bought Changesbowie a long time ago?
"Young Americans" isn't a sell-out, though, unless I read your claim wrong.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 December 2022 10:25 (one year ago) link
That is kinda my claim… more of an attempt at it than an actual sell-out
― french testicle (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 24 December 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
lol watching that clip again I see Bowie stressing how the songs are "not too dissimilar" from the demos he recorded himself.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 December 2022 14:47 (one year ago) link
wow ... this album really is an example for me of things that sound very much "of its time" ... I was in my early teens and bought it when it came out on cassette. I had never associated "Too Dizzy" with theme music for tv sitcoms before now. But it totally sounds like 1980s tv sitcom theme music.
― sarahell, Saturday, 24 December 2022 15:28 (one year ago) link
As in I just went back and listened to that song because it was mentioned upthread and I had lol forgotten about it
― sarahell, Saturday, 24 December 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
The use of “Time Will Crawl” in Leos Carax’s Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (released as The Lovers on the Bridge in Anglophone countries) never fails to stun me. He also used “Modern Love” to incredible effect in his 1986 film Mauvais Sang
― beamish13, Sunday, 25 December 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
"Time Will Crawl" played loudly and prominently in Luca Guadagnino's excellent Challengers in a party sequence after "Hot in Herre," the most wtf segue in movie history.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 April 2024 23:31 (one month ago) link
I was wondering yesterday if there is a thread of filthy rich out-of-touch late 80s boomer rockers TELLING IT LIKE IT IS about life on the streets (and/or amongst the povvos)
The question was raised by listening to Neil Young's Crime in the City - which is probably not the most egregious example - but the first supporting example I thought of was Day In Day Out... tbh I was probably thinking of the clip more than the lyrics, but the lyrics definitely fit
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 00:03 (one month ago) link
In Bowie's case: filthy rich out-of-touch late 80s tax exile boomer rockers.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 06:22 (one month ago) link
The notorious mean streets of Lausanne...
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 07:35 (one month ago) link
Or the mean streets of Madrid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYQ0Xd0nybQ
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 09:13 (one month ago) link