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  • buck502000buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    edited February 2016
    Life on Mars is the ultimate Bowie song IMHO
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  • sheckyshecky San Francisco Posts: 1,440
    I agree with you on Lorde's performance and I feel that she was a good choice.
    To me, she seemed to be very humbled by the honor and was more intent on the song being the star of the tribute, not herself..

  • May 30thMay 30th Posts: 1,643
    that was an amazing performance. lorde has such an interesting, cool voice.
  • bluegracebluegrace Posts: 2,357
    I cried when I watched the Brit Award one, didn't like lady Gaga's hommage at all.
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  • SuziemaySuziemay Posts: 11,164
    Lorde was great. I think what made the performance was the fact that it included people who were close to him. It was very heartfelt. While Gaga's theatrics was a nod to Bowie obviously, I just found her whole tribute tacky and over the top.
  • sheckyshecky San Francisco Posts: 1,440
    Suziemay said:

    Lorde was great. I think what made the performance was the fact that it included people who were close to him. It was very heartfelt. While Gaga's theatrics was a nod to Bowie obviously, I just found her whole tribute tacky and over the top.

    I couldn't have said it better.
  • sophiaeastmansophiaeastman Greater Seattle Posts: 9
    Lorde looked so humbled to be performing that song, too- I really felt that she understood that she wasn't there to replace Bowie, but to honor him.
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  • lexicondevillexicondevil Bay Area Posts: 1,874
    I think that I am one of the few people that felt like that Lorde performance was karaoke night before the drinks take effect. It was nowhere near as awful as the Gaga debacle, but her singing sounded flat and lifeless. I don't know why they didn't have Annie Lennox sing the song. She would have done an amazing job with her vocal skills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ildVYgYWPqc
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  • BIGDaddyWilBIGDaddyWil Michigan Posts: 3,027
    ^^^^^ Awesome performance, thanks!
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  • SuziemaySuziemay Posts: 11,164

    I think that I am one of the few people that felt like that Lorde performance was karaoke night before the drinks take effect. It was nowhere near as awful as the Gaga debacle, but her singing sounded flat and lifeless. I don't know why they didn't have Annie Lennox sing the song. She would have done an amazing job with her vocal skills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ildVYgYWPqc

    Now THAT would have been amazing!
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    -Jeff Ament

    i'm still in awe at how jeff seemed to capture exactly what i would have said but he said it with such insight and grace

    and this still freaks me out
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,120
    On MTV I'm watching DBs concert at Hammersmith Odeon in 1973. It's a cinema-verite footage of the rock singer alter ego
    Ziggy Stardust...Awesome show.

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  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 NYC Posts: 25,719
    Just getting into Blackstar the last few weeks. I absolutely love it.
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  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 40,714
    WXPN in philly played david bowie all day today (from 7am- 8pm) :smile:
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  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 NYC Posts: 25,719

    WXPN in philly played david bowie all day today (from 7am- 8pm) :smile:

    I had to listen to Blackstar again yesterday
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  • bluegracebluegrace Posts: 2,357
    A documentary on his 5 last years recently aired here. Will watch it as soon as I can.
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  • Tried watching Inglorious Bastards last night. Fell asleep. Woke up to Bowie's Puttin Out the Fire.

    A freakin great song.
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 49,474

    Tried watching Inglorious Bastards last night. Fell asleep. Woke up to Bowie's Puttin Out the Fire.

    A freakin great song.

    Awesome song. Isn't it called "Cat People" though?
    Did you fall asleep because of the movie?? Surely not - that's a really good film!
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  • PJ_Soul said:

    Tried watching Inglorious Bastards last night. Fell asleep. Woke up to Bowie's Puttin Out the Fire.

    A freakin great song.

    Awesome song. Isn't it called "Cat People" though?
    Did you fall asleep because of the movie?? Surely not - that's a really good film!
    I started it late when I was restless.

    The song was originally from the movie Cat People.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 49,474
    edited January 2017

    PJ_Soul said:

    Tried watching Inglorious Bastards last night. Fell asleep. Woke up to Bowie's Puttin Out the Fire.

    A freakin great song.

    Awesome song. Isn't it called "Cat People" though?
    Did you fall asleep because of the movie?? Surely not - that's a really good film!
    I started it late when I was restless.

    The song was originally from the movie Cat People.
    Yeah... Pretty sure the song is also called Cat People. The "putting out fire" part is in brackets after that. That's how I've always seen it listed, anyway.
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  • PJ_Soul said:

    PJ_Soul said:

    Tried watching Inglorious Bastards last night. Fell asleep. Woke up to Bowie's Puttin Out the Fire.

    A freakin great song.

    Awesome song. Isn't it called "Cat People" though?
    Did you fall asleep because of the movie?? Surely not - that's a really good film!
    I started it late when I was restless.

    The song was originally from the movie Cat People.
    Yeah... Pretty sure the song is also called Cat People. The "putting out fire" part is in brackets after that. That's how I've always seen it listed, anyway.
    Don't make me go to my Cat People soundtrack CD (when I bought it... it was the only way to get that song!).
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  • JH6056JH6056 Posts: 2,427
    The friend who brought me to this show just sent me this review and told me there's an audio link on youtube to 12 of the 17 songs on this AMAZING setlist.  Just search for "Bowie Kit Kat Klub"

    So grateful to have been at this show!

    https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2019/11/19/bowie-at-the-kit-kat-klub-20-years-ago-tonight?fbclid=IwAR33MjnM8oHUm5DZL9od_y4voimN3_k18VN5a1uiVojqIVBPLmVulprUQuw
  • helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,262
    edited October 2021
    when i first started collecting cassette bootlegs one of my fave tapes was bowie's last show with the spiders
    on the rise and fall tour. rock n roll suicide. july 3 1973
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 40,596
    I had a dream the other night that I was interviewing David Bowie. It was a very casual interview as we were standing outside in a field near a semi-rural road. Once in a while when a car would come in our directions and David put out his arm like he was hitch hiking only he kept his hand in a fist without his thumb showing. When the car got somewhat close, he put his arm down and turned away from the road. Sometimes, when I asked him about this music or that, or about a recording and such, he answered briefly and then asked what I thought. He was quite the gentleman, and a very enjoyable time it was!
     

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  • helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,262
    i love re-imagined, especially when it's this f'n cool.


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