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atalog was just too sprawling and borderline impossible to organize and this was years before the archives project started mind townshend with or without the who held promise but his work tapped out at the start of the nineties plus i d been too caught up in his music in my youth to be objective i thought townshend remains the only musician i ve heckled in my defense i was young very very drunk and he was performing psychoderelict in its entirety on a hot summer evening outdoors having actors in speaking roles and his backing tapes kept breaking down i believe i yelled play something else anything pete for fuck s sake in the midst of this this left bowie the more i considered him the more sense it made i liked his music but i didn t know a good deal of it my teenage listening consisted of the ryko cds the man who sold the world through the berlin albums though i never got pin ups i knew the big eighties hits of course as anyone who was 11 years old in 1983 would have i got outside when it came out but i lost touch with him by the late nineties so reviewing his songs wouldn t be so much interrogating memory but more learning about someone s work and hearing and assessing it for the first time that seemed a lot more interesting in june 2009 i was in a used record store in northampton ma turn it up still around and saw in the cd racks two early bowie compilations early on and the deram anthology i think i got each for 4 another sign that bowie was the one i d only known of his earliest songs via career surveys which described his sixties music as godawful weedy theater juvenilia i listened to the discs and yeah some of it was that but there was also lots of weird and intriguing music as well and i thought i could find something to say about it and the timing was good bowie in 2009 was as much of a private citizen as he ever would be he wasn t recording wasn t touring wasn t even being harassed much by the paparazzi he felt a bit neglected he was gone but still here and his fans had started to really miss him to wonder about what he was doing i gave them a place to talk about his music i m glad i was there especially on that january morning in 2016 my initial sources for the bowie blog as i recall were nicholas pegg s essential complete david bowie then in its fourth edition a few biographies david buckley the gillmans george tremlett christopher sandford kevin cann s chronology a collection of starzone interviews pimm jal de la parra s concert tapes and a few others the websites bowie wonderworld and the illustrated db guide and a few no longer in existence inc helden and teenage wildlife over the years came more guides in particular paul trynka s bio starman cann s magnum opus any day no w roger griffin s golden years leah kardos brilliant blackstar theory reeves gabrels maria schneider and many others helped set me straight on facts over the years one of the achievements of my life is to see my work listed in such company now thanks for being part of it meant to add just fyi 64 quartets is most of my work these days 46 comments uncategorized permalink posted by col1234 xmas time is here again december 21 2023 do they know it s christmas live aid 1985 bowie s 2013 christmas elvis message peace on earth the little drummer boy peter and the wolf the snowman feed the world has it been another year somehow it happened a very quiet year on the bowie front will there at last be a ziggy stardust aladdin sane archival box set in 2024 ah who knows though it was wonderful to attend the bowie world fan convention in nyc back in the summer where i got to meet nicholas pegg and nacho among many others i ve been slowly working on updating rebel rebel and even more slowly reviving my 64 quartets project with the longest entry yet it s about one third done and being serialized at present on the patreon hopefully it will be completed in a few months as for this old blog it will likely spark to a life a few times next year it s the 50th anniversary of diamond dogs the 60th of liza jane and a few other things merry christmas health and happiness to you all here s to the new year 16 comments uncategorized permalink posted by col1234 the buddha at 30 november 8 2023 thirty years ago today david bowie released the soundtrack of the buddha of suburbia a four part serial which was at the time being aired on wednesday nights on bbc2 more accurately this record was billed as the soundtrack complete with a cover photo of a seemingly crucified naveen andrews with bowie s name given as much prominence as that of his co producer david richards he did get the back cover however the record got little notice in the british press where it was mostly treated as an inconsequential bonus to the telefilm the concurrent release of the bowie singles collection got as much if not more attention it got close to zero notice in the united states where the film wasn t shown and the album wasn t released it wouldn t appear until 1995 but it was not quite a soundtrack buddha had prominently used time and fill your heart neither of which appeared on the record and the only thing that one might have recognized from the show was the title track it was in truth the erasure and deconstruction of a soundtrack a secret album that bowie slipped out at the end of 1993 bowie always said that it was one of his favorites and it remains one of mine it had started with hanif kureishi who wrote the buddha of suburbia novel and its tv adaptation he and bowie had gone to the same school bromley tech and both were bromleyites if of crucially distinct generational subsets bowie born early 1947 had grown up in a bromley which had changed little from when h g wells had lived there kureishi born late 1954 had grown up in a bromley whose most famous escapee was david bowie both however had the same arts teacher owen frampton father of peter the two met in early 1993 for interview a conversation that touched often upon bromley bowie was in a nostalgic mood having helped to compile an issue of arena that cataloged his past and giving a rolling stone interviewer a guided tour of london and its suburbs kureishi said he was adapting his novel for television and asked bowie for permission to use some songs bowie agreed working up the nerve kureishi then asked bowie if he felt like contributing any original material a few months later kureishi and his director co writer roger michell were in switzerland listening to bowie s score for the series his incidental music was greatly motifs combinations of guitar synthesizer trumpet percussion sitar kureishi found it surreal to watch his film a fictional document of his adolescence playing on a tv monitor while the idol of his adolescence worked the mixing desk he also found it daunting to tell his idol that the music wasn t quite right after revising the soundtrack bowie thought he could rework some of the pieces into a new album he said he wanted to write some songs for it because he wanted to make some money out of it kureishi recalled to dylan jones bowie was perpetually surprised to discover how poorly the bbc paid during his nostalgic turns in early 1993 bowie had mused whether he could make a fourth berlin album out of scattered pieces of his and eno s trilogy a falsified lost berlin tapes album that never existed not long before ryko had reissued the berlin albums on cd featuring allegedly lost outtake bonus tracks like i pray olé and abdulmajid these in truth were trial runs with bowie taking some bits from late seventies sessions and compositions and fashioning essentially new tracks out of them on buddha of suburbia he d do the same with his soundtrack motifs fusing them into new shapes relying on his usual jack of all trades the turkish musician erdal kızılçay bowie worked at mountain studios in montreux in the summer of 1993 to extend the buddha motifs into six or eight minute loops isolating their dangerous or attractive elements then recording vocals and instrumental lines over said elements after a week s recording and a fortnight of mixing he had a fifty minute album bowie had found in kureishi s novel an observation that he felt rang true a curse of being a suburban artist is a self conflicted ambition a need to feel you re bettering yourself while fearing being found out as a fraud it s a miracle bowie once told tin machine guitarist eric schermerhorn as their tour bus went through brixton i probably should have been an accountant i don t know how this all happened once asked why orwell s nineteen eighty four had been so influential on his work bowie said for those of us born in south london you always felt like you were in the novel that s the kind of gloom and immovable society that a lot of us felt we grew up in the buddha characters who thrive are those who transform themselves like the protagonist karim those who wither like karim s fundamentalist uncle anwar are those who can t shake free of the past yet in buddha this self transformation this multi ethnic suburban counterculture is ultimately twinned with thatcherism novel and series end on the night of the general election in 1979 the ferment generated by suburban hippies and punks parallels the economic liberation of thatcher the revolution when it comes will be a suburban one the buddha film had lovingly recreated early seventies bromley for bowie for his new songs he said that he drew from what he called a personal memory stock ranging from his teenage years through the late seventies in berlin his buddha would be impressionist autobiography as he wrote in his liner notes a major chief obstacle to the evolution of music has been the almost redundant narrative form to rely upon this old war horse can only continue the spiral into the british constraint of insularity maybe we could finally relegate the straightforward narrative to the past daily telegraph 13 november 1993 there was south horizon a join piece of trad and acid jazz featuring one of mike garson s loveliest piano solos devoting as much care to the spaces between notes as to the notes he plays garson closes with a fractured lullaby on his highest keys on his aladdin sane solo garson sounded like he d soaked up every speck of music he d ever heard and was able to reproduce it at will like god s player piano his work here is more concise conciliatory he often keeps silent or hints at some greater pattern the wonderfully odd sex and the church the cold beauties of the mysteries an instrumental worthy of the berlin years which brett morgen used well on his moonage daydream the only dud for me is bleed like a craze dad which sounds like the sort of thing you get when you ask a random rock trio using your studio to jam with you for an afternoon its finest tracks include the giddy dead against it which bowie considered revising for 1 outside and earthling it s the track that most sounds like its making bowie and kızılçay camped out in the studio eating hamburgers and listening to prince making odd little sketches three lengthy instrumental stretches bookend and break up verses and refrains an arpeggiated synthesizer line is answered by one on guitar bowie s larking vocal is full of ascending phrases sinking when reality sets in begins to sigh my words are worn his lyric is clotted with internal rhymes and consonance i couldn t c ope or d h ope el ope d a d ope she r ope d there s a barb in this spun sugar he stares at her while she sleeps she reads to avoid talking to him but talks to strangers on the phone but it s lost in the blissful waves of guitars that close out the track the melodic bounty of untitled no 1 and the intriguing severity of its sister ian fish u k heir where ian fish is an ebbing what s left when the tub s drained untitled no 1 is the waters rushing in the little melodies that bowie and kızılçay keep adding like spinning plates upon a table a rising scale figure answered by groaning bass like sunlight rousing a sleeper the stately entrance of the synthesizers the swirling synth figures in the breaks bowie s warm adhesive ooooohs the guitarist playing a line so entrancing that he won t let it go sounding its last notes again and again the jangling countermelody to the opening scale motif that becomes a barrelhouse piano line the saxophone line at the end of the first verse soon bestowed on piano and keyboards the breakdown into a quasi indian dance track until a guitar strums things to a close two verses and a refrain of blur words cut to fit the generous spread of music now we re swimming rock farther harder with the doll the gull by our sides an indecipherable chorus hook sleepy capo cynical fool shammi kapoor the first word in particular mutates throughout a prayer is buried in the second verse a bleating vocal suggests that bowie s again lovingly parodying his lost friend marc bolan a tribute that more honors the living the gracious hours that we have left to us its most distinctly phrased words are it s clear that some things never take and never never untitled no 1 burgeons there were a few times where bowie could have stood up and never recorded again eddies of finality in which everything reconciled for a moment this is one of them bowie bromley spheres 1993 ian fish i was too dismissive of the track when i first wrote about it a decade ago now and earned an incisive response at the time by magnus genioso whose ears were far better imagine for a moment that the guitar is not there then turn the backing tracks way way up there s a lot of information there the bells at the beginning of the track the rainy street white noise that adds the high frequency information not one but two layers of reversed vocals one of them with an actual harmony part several layers of keyboards two ambient drones in different octaves along with some slight shimmers what appears to be a harp like plucking part at the two minute mark you can hear best just how many instruments there are at the very end of the song as they all fall apart one by one most of all there s strangers when we meet a strong composition that bowie knew he d buried here and so remade it for 1 outside two years later i prefer this earlier version whose emotional charge comes in part from how it questions and undermines the elated mood of bowie s then recent wedding album black tie white noise it s what had to be buried before the wedding as a title strangers when we meet references a kirk douglas film about secret lovers who need to part to preserve their marriages they meet one last time in the empty house that douglas an architect has built and get mistaken as husband and wife bowie draws on this and on the broken couple of heroes a pair so consumed by passive aggressive emotional violence that they no longer recognize each other in heroes the act of being together is courageous here s the other side of it a relationship that survives out of habit the cowardice of someone knowing the match won t work but refusing to admit it a union never ...