C&L's Late Night Music Club with David Bowie
By driftglass Friday Jan 09, 2009 8:00pmAlso known as that “kinda odd, Turkish/reggae song off of 'The Lodger' with the title that sorta-but-not-quite means 'Long Life' that isn’t megastadium-tour-greatest-hits-popular, but still plenty good enough that you wish that someone on the damned radio machine would once in a while play something like this and not 'Cat People' or effing 'Golden Years' every damned time they have to drop in a Bowie, even though those are both pretty fine songs too and I don’t know of you remember but "Golden Years" was also the theme song to a weird little teevee series that starred a young Felicity Huffman, back in, damn, 1991? 18 years ago? Can that be right? That children conceived during that show's pilot (Plot: Old guard at a secret lab is doused with chemicals that make him age backwards.) are old enough to be out somewhere on a date tonight, watching ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ (Plot: Old Brad Pitt is doused with CGI that makes him age backwards.) and have never heard ‘Yassassin?’” song.
Well we can’t have that, now can we?
Bowie celebrated his 62nd birthday this week. h/t Mark Hoback.
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I sure hope you can pull off the Weblog win. Those of you who love it when Driftglass does the LNMC can repay him by voting early and often, Chicago-style.
And win or lose, DG, you're the best writer in blogworld. Thanks for all you do.
And Driftglass is running a close second, so get out there and do it folks!
Thanks a lot man, I’m a huge fan of long sentences and that one reminds me to put a Faulkner down on the list for the library raid tomorrow.
Or maybe Robert Penn Warren.
Holy crap...you would think with a larger volume of rants that there would be better ones but most ranting is mediocre at best. (Although I suppose the law of averages dictates that)
That there was a swell rant, I tells ya. Finely crafted to make me giggle.
I love Bowie.
Hey, that reminds me, I must go vote for you again right now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slKNd22GGaQ
Viva Las Vegas!
('cause, ya know, Elvis & Bowie share the same birthday)
They share the same birthday? Who knew! The LNMC educates as well as entertains.
Awesome!
With Hunter, Ronson, Queen doing the Bowie-penned "All the Young Dudes": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUUodQKJuhU
"Sorrow": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdsedY0foGc
Five Years
Little Fat Man (?)
From Extras
Flight of the Conchords' 'Bowie Song.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR2L98gobTQ
Jim Bowie , that is.
The Tempered Blade.
Don't say ya didn't learn nothin' today.
You always cut to the heart of the matter, Andy ...
:)
I must be over my Bowie addiction. I'd forgotten about his birthday. Not over it enough to keep from pointing out that the album is called "Lodger" and the song Yassassin means, at least according to the title "Turkish for 'Long Live.'" Sorry to be such a stickler. I'm working on it. A quick review of "Too Dizzy" and I'll want to forget him completely. "Lodger," Bowie's dada album. The cover alone was worth the price of admission. Thanks driftglass, and good luck. HB2U DB.
I still have tunes to listen to, but I'm saving them all for tomorrow.
Sweet dreams, everybody.
No, this isn't his Fernwood Tonight appearance -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pL3GnJFJys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U99I1CkpkIw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA8hdW8ySyI
Love his different coloured eyes.
David Bowie's an Alice Cooper wannabe.
I just listened to Lodger earlier this week after not listening to it in a long time, I am partial to Station To Station, Low and Heroes, but it was quite a good record and much more eclectic musically than other two in the Eno trilogy.
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