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Old 01-11-2016, 05:21 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I think my first memory was hearing "Life on Mars?" blasting from my elder sister's room (she was the only one with a record player) and arguing over whether he was called Bowie as in crossbow or Bowie as in take a bow. I of course then saw him on TOTP and he was certainly someone who stood out. Later when I started work my boss was a huge Bowie fan and tried to get me into him. Sad to say, he didn't really succeed (I was more into prog and metal at the time, and not ready to give an album a chance --- unlike now ) and since then I've caught up with him over the years when he released singles, bought some albums of his but sad to say never really got that much into his discography, something I will address now in my journal obviously.

Albums of his I've heard/owned:
Ziggy Stardust
Heroes
Low
The Next Day

Never Let Me Down (it did)
Let's Dance
Heathen
Diamond Dogs


I feel like I knew him, but never really got to know him. Like everyone here, this will become something of a priority now.
Get Station to Station listened to! And Scary Monsters. And Blackstar! The whole album is incredibly chilling in the wake of his death.

Edit: Weirdly I was making some custom album covers for a few of his albums yesterday. If anyone is interested lemme know, got alternatives for The Man Who Sold the World, Ziggy, Station to Station, Outside, Earthling, and Reality. Here's one for Earthling, which I think is a really good album with a sucky cover:

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The overuse of babe/baby, the lack of any sort of discernible originality, the melodrama and the general sense of an especially heinous sort of hardcore vapid stupidity all make me want to jab my eyes out with a drill-press and then hang myself from the CN Tower with an electrified rope that sends shocks in excess of 10,000 volts through my body as I slowly die. While listening to Dream Theater.
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