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Not before time ~ an artist before, within and yet outside his time. I give you David Robert Jones. Share your own personal interpretation of the man and his work. There's a lot to talk about. Let's do it here to spare the What Music?~ians our obsession.
★ will be released officially in three days on Bowie's birthday. The critics who should know better have been pretty strong in their praise. Here's the Wiki's summary so far.
The arty, unsettling 'Blackstar' is Bowie's best anti-pop masterpiece since the Seventies
Sincerely, yay!~! Just what I need to kick off life 2.0! I've swept my mp3 player and my car clean of all detritus.
Only Bowie and The Dubliners for me this year. I've had ★ on rotate for a month now. I adore the music, I adore the lyric, I adore the film, and I adore the ambiguities most of all. With this work of art you get what you deserve, as it is with any work of poignancy and deeper magic in the expression.
Indulge me my brief essay, which is filled with ironies. Bowie's often been hectored about his impatience with journalists during interviews. He stopped suffering the fools ten years ago, and yet he can still work with vitality and create beauties like this without the need for any exposition whatsoever. That's what I mean by outside his time. All of these effete twee darlings of the popular Surface are slaves trapped inside the public consciousness of this 'smart'phone generation, this homo consumeriens. It seems to me he's more principled than punchy. Bowie only lets you in if you let yourself out. I love that. So I'm hoping ★ will be a clarion call that frees more minds and pushes those denser entities further from the source. I peddle a faith of sorts by saying this, but what the hell. He ain't the best around, but he's important.
★ will be released officially in three days on Bowie's birthday. The critics who should know better have been pretty strong in their praise. Here's the Wiki's summary so far.
Gotta love Fricke. The man has vocabulary. But from that adjectival pepper I do wonder a bit if that means he actually likes it. Critics do tend to throw their nails into the dartboard from a great distance sometimes. Fricke's a lot closer to the action, so I look forward to reading his full review (here link). Heading:★
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 83, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on 6 reviews.[11] Rolling Stone critic David Fricke described the album as "a ricochet of textural eccentricity and pictorial-shrapnel writing."[15] Andy Gill of The Independent regarded the record as "the most extreme album of his [Bowie's] entire career," stating: Blackstar is as far as he's strayed from pop."[12] Reviewing for Q magazine, Tom Doyle wrote: "Blackstar is a more concise statement than The Next Day and a far, far more intriguing one."[2]
The arty, unsettling 'Blackstar' is Bowie's best anti-pop masterpiece since the Seventies
Sincerely, yay!~! Just what I need to kick off life 2.0! I've swept my mp3 player and my car clean of all detritus.
Only Bowie and The Dubliners for me this year. I've had ★ on rotate for a month now. I adore the music, I adore the lyric, I adore the film, and I adore the ambiguities most of all. With this work of art you get what you deserve, as it is with any work of poignancy and deeper magic in the expression.
Indulge me my brief essay, which is filled with ironies. Bowie's often been hectored about his impatience with journalists during interviews. He stopped suffering the fools ten years ago, and yet he can still work with vitality and create beauties like this without the need for any exposition whatsoever. That's what I mean by outside his time. All of these effete twee darlings of the popular Surface are slaves trapped inside the public consciousness of this 'smart'phone generation, this homo consumeriens. It seems to me he's more principled than punchy. Bowie only lets you in if you let yourself out. I love that. So I'm hoping ★ will be a clarion call that frees more minds and pushes those denser entities further from the source. I peddle a faith of sorts by saying this, but what the hell. He ain't the best around, but he's important.