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H O A X

Dumb that it's on all his official stuff though.

>>60793

Its not a hoax

Goddammit man. ;_;

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/686439784613593088

https://twitter.com/ManMadeMoon

if its hoax its a really fucking complex hoax like the moon landing and 9/11

rip sweet prince

hahaaaaa

first lemmy

now this

fuck

RIP in Peace. Doesn't feel real.

good his new album was satanic shit. I'm glad he's in hell.

Damn it, his new album was looking interesting.

I still can't believe it. There's no damn way.

Anyways, seeing how this is a Bowie thread, favorite song?

>>60811

>>60811

>>60811

>>60816

You beat me to it

>>60811

Rest in Peace, you wonderful human being.

man I wasn't a huge fan of him, but there's no doubting his huge influence. I can't believe I'm going to have to live through all the musical greats of that era dying…

>>60811

Very diffucult question but I'm gonna go for Ashes to Ashes…

>>60811

>>60812

Now it sounds like Blackstar is about Bowie's coming onto the music scene and having somebody take his place after he dies, almost.

I wonder if any other songs have newer meaning.

>>60828

Last song from his last album,

I know something is very wrong

The pulse returns for prodigal sons

The blackout's hearts with flowered news

With skull designs upon my shoes

I can't give everything

I can't give everything

Away

I can't give everything

Away

Seeing more and feeling less

Saying no but meaning yes

This is all I ever meant

That's the message that I sent

I can't give everything

I can't give everything

Away

I can't give everything

Away

I can't give everything

I can't give everything

Away

I can't give everything

Away

I know something is very wrong

The pulse returns for prodigal sons

The blackout's hearts with flowered news

With skull designs upon my shoes

I can't give everything

I can't give everything

Away

I can't give everything

Away

I can't give everything

I can't give everything

Away

I can't give everything

Away

This year fucking sucks

He knew it was coming.

>>60792

God damn it. He was making music till he died.

Now that I think of it, this was his song I liked the most.

The Overlord of the Guild of Calamitous Intent is dead?

Sad.

>>60837

Not even the best track in the album.

>>60841

that's not the secret life of arabia.

>>60843

>>60841

Does anyone else have a soft spot for Blackout? Doesn't seem to get much love.

>>60843

Not as ripping as Joe The Lion or as catchy as Panic in Detroit, but I like that song too. The album was a mixed bag overall, but there are some gold tracks to be found.

Low is best bowie.

I am actually crying my fucking eyes out

also Blackstar is a masterpiece

>>60848

>>60850

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12092542/Bowies-last-album-was-parting-gift-for-fans-in-carefully-planned-finale.html

>Tony Visconti, the producer who worked with Bowie to complete his final album, has released a statement saying it was deliberately created and timed as a "parting gift" for his fans.

>In a statement on his Facebook page, he said: "He always did what he wanted to do. And he wanted to do it his way and he wanted to do it the best way. His death was no different from his life - a work of Art. He made Blackstar for us, his parting gift. I knew for a year this was the way it would be. I wasn't, however, prepared for it.

>>60829

This is the last song I heard before Bowie passed. I had convinced myself it was about him not going on tour, and I was trying mental gymnastics to make it fit, but it never quite did.

It does now. It must have hurt so much writing this album, but thank you David for giving the world one last masterpiece.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-inside-story-of-david-bowies-stunning-new-album-blackstar-20151123

>Bowie hasn't sung a note publicly since performing "Changes" with Alicia Keys at a New York charity event in 2006, and he hasn't given an interview in more than a decade. That has led to rumors that Bowie, who underwent emergency heart surgery for a blocked artery after a show in Germany, is in failing health, but everyone involved with Blackstar insists that's not the case. "He's in fine health," says Visconti. "He's just made a very rigorous album."

>The album ends with the soaring "I Can't Give Everything Away," featuring amazing guitar work by Ben Monder. "I don't know what the song is referring to," says Visconti. "But what he gives away is what he writes about. I think a lot of writers feel like, 'If you want to know about me, just study my lyrics.' That's why he doesn't give interviews. He's has revealed plenty in past interviews, but I think his life now is about his art. It's totally about what he's doing now."

>"I don't think he's ever going to play live again," says Visconti. "If he does, it will be a total surprise."

that awkward period in your life where you're waiting for the artist to die so you can stop lying about the album.

Lemmy, Bowie, who's next?

God damn, this was a massive shock, I've listened to Bowie literally all my life.

Fuck..

>>60862

Iggy Pop

And yet Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are still alive. Fucking shit, why Bowie??

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 (just like Coca Cola and Barbie before them); 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.

REST IN RIP

>>60869

sure

Blackstar reviews are so fucking weird now.

http://www.avclub.com/review/david-bowie-goes-noir-intoxicating-blackstar-230272

>A lot of the songs are sung from the point of view of the dead or the dying. Having gotten his comeback record—the very inconsistent, sometimes underwhelming The Next Day—out of the way, Bowie is now back to making music as art, and Blackstar is a concept album in everything but name.

>Bavid Dowie are dead

Fugk bub, that's the bad news.

>>60874

>can't tell if she's joking or not

this is the world we live in

I didn't expect we'd lose him this soon, or maybe I didn't want to believe it. Either way, I'm not too sad. 69 isn't a bad age to live to at all, especially after living a life like his. He was even making some decent tunes right to the end of it.

On a cynical note, how much is the Blackstar LP going to be worth in a couple decades?

>>60881

I would be more worried at the chance of posthumous material appearing later.

don't know if it's been posted, but this is a pretty good one too

>>60891

I'm dreading all of the albums of half-finished material we're going to get. That and the inevitable biopic starring some hack fraud.

They're still doing that for Hendrix and he's been dead for decades.

>>60891

>>60896

Toy lives!

>>60898

And then she goes and covers Heroes, lel.

>>60898

Fuck those hipsters

>>60897

Toy's online if you look around, Has some good tracks on it.

>>60802

This just made me realize something: Rule of Threes always happens without fail. A third musician is going to go kill soon to complete the trio.

Taking all bets now on who croaks before the month ends.

>>60902

Beatles are due for another.

>>60874

>She thinks his androgynous bullshit had anything to do with her retarded post Y2K transgender, dick-in-eye-socket, >muh pronouns bullshit.

I'm glad he died happily. You know why? Fuck 2016. Fuck this era. He had his time and we will always have it in us, forever a part of us, as it was when it was. He will never die, but he shall never have to suffer this social justice bullshit ever again.

>>60871

I really like the song "Five Years" on that album

>>60865

they don't have cancer m8.

>>60811

>>60862

paul mccartney

>>60926

Nah, he's immortal. He drains the life out of his wives and then divorces them when their life force runs out.

Cried all day

did I say RIP in this thread yet?

any way, going out by making an album with a song like "lazarus" which is literally about dying and a music video for it sure is going out with great style.

>>60902

If we're going by the 2 week timespan in between them having a birthday and then dying a few days later both Dave Grohl and Paul Stanley have birthdays this week and next week respectively.

To me he's been dead for awhile, at least artistically Though Blackstar gave me hope he was making a legitimately good return, I guess that was sort of the point

Still sad I won't see him making little cameos in movies like the Prestige or Zoolander anymore

RIP Major Tom

Do we know what type of cancer killed him?

>>60958

I've seen liver cancer from different sources.

>>60959

anything that could have contributed to that or is it just "lol fuck you, you have cancer now" type situation?

>>60960

His decades of smoking and drinking probably contributed, although he kicked the habit in the 90's from what I understand. He also had six goddamn heart attacks in the last few years that seemed to preoccupy the attention of his doctors.

>>60962

>6 heart attacks

WHAT?

He survived 6 fucking heart attacks?

https://mega.nz/#F!TkEmUZBQ!UrO8m3UhEfvuVpXFBr-fJg

Mega with all his albums, grab any you missed.

>>60906

That kind of shit is why Freddie never came out proper. He didn't want to be associated with the stonewall crowd, or any of that here-queer Marxist bullshit that would only prove to hurt him, in the end. That sort of silent vow made it to his loving fanbase, which basically saw to their promise when he passed away. The same could effectively be said for Dave.

At least, for now. You don't know if they're gonna prop up his legacy, his corpse as some symbol for their idea.

>>60972

Got one for Blackstar?

>>60976

Nah, I grabbed a copy of it and TND when they came out. Can probably find one by browsing the 4chan /mu/ archives.

>>60973

We can hope for the best anon, but he'll always be to us, what he is now.

>>60902

>Rule of Threes always happens without fail. A third musician is going to go kill soon to complete the trio.

Otis Clay just died. Never listened to him, but we lost another one.

dear drawfags:

>David goes to hell or heaven

>Freddy is waiting at the entrance

>"What took you so long, old friend"

rip david you glorious faggot

>>60811

Criminally underrated album overall.

>>60972

mp3? you filthy *casual*, where is my flac master race I can play on my playstation because it totally has the best sound system?

It's a conspiracy brah, just like Eazy.

RIP BOWMAN

>>61006

on rutracker, you filthy pleb.

>>60841

>guitar by robert fripp

When fripp dies I will have nothing left in the musical world.

god killed david bowie for being a degenerate

>>60983

They hated each other though

>>60862

>>60902

Tony Iommi.

>>60811

RIP :_;7

>>60874

Also wrote this: https://archive.is/Gtx8m

>>60844

I do, fucking love the violin riff

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-bowie-planned-post-blackstar-album-thought-he-had-few-more-months-20160113

>"He just came fresh from a chemo session, and he had no eyebrows, and he had no hair on his head," says Visconti, "and there was no way he could keep it a secret from the band. But he told me privately, and I really got choked up when we sat face to face talking about it."

>>61091

>In what turned out to have been the final weeks of his life, Bowie wrote and demo-ed five fresh songs, and was anxious to return to the studio one last time.

who do I have to kill to get those demos

>>61091

>>61096

>Bowie wrote and demo-ed five fresh songs, and was anxious to return to the studio one last time

Fuck the psycho who made up the "Stages of Grief". Almost everyone dies at goddamned stage one, almost never "accepting it", but attempting to make due. Unfounded theory, is what it is. That kind of shit is just not in man's nature.

>>60926

>>60927

If the conspiracy theory is to believe, he died in 1966. So we're now expecting the death of William Campbell

>>60964

Yes, that's why since 2006 stopped to tour and it took for him ten years to release "The Next Day"

>>61096

Just wait for the Ultimate Bowie Boxset, which I suppose will include a Blackstar expanded edition with this unfinished demos.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/15/david-bowies-last-days-an-18-month-burst-of-creativity

>"Bowie didn’t know if he would have hair left by the time of the shoot,” said Renck.

>In fact he did, a splendid shock of silvery grey hair – though he had to be careful or it came out in tufts because of his cancer treatment.

>>61171

>implying it hasn't been dead since the late-90s/mid-00s

>>61207

>implying it hasn't been dead since the '60s

>>61205

ASHES TO ASHES, FUNK TO FUNKY

>>61214

>Young Americans

>Station to Station

>Heroes

>fucking Low

Basically, you're fucking stupid.

>>61254

WE KNOW MAJOR TOM'S A JUNKIE.

>>61266

STRUNG OUT IN HEAVEN'S HIGH

>>61266

>Scary Monsters

>★

>Ziggy Stardust

>Alladin Sane

>Diamond Dogs

>Hunky Dory

>The Man Who Sold The World

Really fucking stupid

>>61286

It's like he hears absolutely no obvious inspirations from Fats Domino, Elvis Presley and Little Richard, down to the gospel backup singers, rapping verses, and clear impressions he attempts of all the aforementioned artists in almost all of his songs.

So fucking stupid.

>>60811

>>60979

the /scurv/ Volafile has Blackstar in FLAC.

https://volafile.io/r/acH6c7

I find this distasteful.

lol 69

>>60880

These are the hands we're given.

david bowie dick suck rule 34 when?

Listened to Ziggy Stardust today. Still miss this guy.