Going to see David Bowie next week

[honest intellectual]

hhhhajuujaabowiebabyaaaaawooooooooooooooosjjjjjjoo oooooooooyeahbabyyeahoooooowoooowooowowoo-oowowwoowhhahahahahahfreakinstarmanahhahayyyayayyy ayyyyyyaywo-oooooowooooowoow Um yea so anyhows I got me an extremely scarce and valuable and good and pretty ticket to see the Reality tour Sunday week after monthsandmonths of wrangling. You have no idea how many people i has to fuck to get this ticket. One time this one guy tried to sell me a fake ticket and i'm all like what the fuck is this and so he says that's the bowie ticket and i said "Yeah? More like FAUX-IE ticket!" Well actually no that never happened i just made it up but who cares. So to re-iterate: hhhhajuujaabowiebabyaaaaawooooooooooooooosjjjjjjoo ooooooooo-yeahbabyyeahoooooowoooowooowowoooowowwoowhhahahaha hahfreakinstarmanahhahayyyaya-yyyayyyyyyaywooooooowooooowoow

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Damnit, I envy you.
I love David Bowie.
He is without a question one of the greatest musicians of our time.
He has never seized to impress me.

Ziggy Stardust is my favourite song.... and album by Bowie.

[honest intellectual]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2003, 02:47 AM
Ziggy Stardust is my favourite song.... and album by Bowie.
Hmmm... I half agree with you. Most people would agree it's his best album, but my favourite songs off it are Five Years and Starman. Starman is one of the few really, really great pop songs - the essence of pop. Five Years is brilliant; I reckon it's got the best climax in all of music -

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour
Drinking milkshakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
Don't think you knew you were in this song.
It was cold and it rained
So I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, you're ace, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful
i want you to walk
We got five years....

Man, I'm actually breathless just from typing it. Notice that only the first and last songs on Ziggy Stardust (Five Years and Rock 'n' Roll Suicide) have a climax; the ones in the middle just fade out or reach their natural conclusion (Suffragette City does it with the cool and famous 'sting in the tail'). Clever, eh?

[praxis1966]

I heard an interview with him and he said he absolutely despises Ziggy Stardust. Says that after a full year of touring he gets thouroughly sick of playing the same songs over and over, which is why he's so prolific when it comes to cutting new stuff.

[Rastafari]

I'll give it a listen.

on the other side, however,
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ah screw it. I was going to post a P-FUNK quote, but I decided against it

[honest intellectual]

[Disclaimer: I am fully aware that nobody cares about this any more, but I'm gonna post it anyway... coz it's special.]
Wowowowow. That was all kinds o' good.
He played 'Cactus' by Pixies, which is cool because it's a really understated yet intense song, and I've never come across anyone who appreciates it as much as I do, so the fact that he played it would be further proof (were such needed) of the metaphysical link between me and The Man. And he was wearing this rather good li'l black vest with the sleeves cut off, which very few 56 year olds would be seen in; mmmmmmm. Mike Garson was on keyboards; I didn't think he was still with him. Garson's a genius - dig the piano solo on the album cut of 'Aladdin Sane'.
Highlights were probably 'I'm Afraid Of Americans' (played real real loud and with cartoony dancing people going nuts on the big screen), 'All The Young Dudes', 'The Man Who Sold The World' (which he said he hasn't played on tour for years) and 'Hang On To Yourself'. He left all the 'Ziggy Stardust' material till the encore and then just loaded it on with three songs in a row. Oh wowowowow.

http://www.davidbowie.com/bin/images/html/lineup_480px_02702.jpg

01 Rebel Rebel
02 New Killer Star
03 Reality
04 Fame
05 Cactus
06 Sister Midnight
07 Afraid
08 All The Young Dudes
09 Days
10 Be My Wife
11 China Girl
12 The Loneliest Guy
13 The Man Who Sold The World
14 Fantastic Voyage
15 Hallo Spaceboy
16 Sunday
17 Under Pressure
18 Life On Mars?
19 Battle For Britain (The Letter)
20 Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
21 Ashes To Ashes
22 The Motel
23 Loving The Alien
24 Breaking Glass
25 5:15 The Angels Have Gone
26 Never Get OId
27 Changes
28 I'm Afraid Of Americans
29 "Heroes"

(Encore)
30 Bring Me The Disco King
31 Slip Away
32 Heathen (The Rays)
33 Five Years
34 Hang On To Yourself
35 Ziggy Stardust

[Le Libérer]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2003, 11:49 PM
I heard an interview with him and he said he absolutely despises Ziggy Stardust. Says that after a full year of touring he gets thouroughly sick of playing the same songs over and over, which is why he's so prolific when it comes to cutting new stuff.
Thats truly a shame. Cuz IMHO, Ziggy and before is his best work. Somewhere after Heros he lost me.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Sounds absolutely amazing... but what is this? No Space Odity? :huh:
But looks like it was awesome anyway.

[dirtyd6969]

i like 1984 or rock n roll suicide