Due to having posted a more triumphantly heroic version of it on ninakat's (thankfully) not-quite-going-away thread, I'm listening to one of the most completely defeated and ostensibly ironic love songs in all pop music!
Oh, man. What a sad, sad song that is. Especially after 3:14 or so. It's pretty unambiguously an act of heroism for that guy even to have any feelings, I'd say.***
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***Meaning "the guy from whose POV it's being sung," not the sphinx-like Mr. Bowie himself. It probably really is ironically titled as far as he's concerned. That's just not the point. If it were, he wouldn't admit to it.
Re: What are you listening to right now?
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:15 pm
by Hammer of Los
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Sphinx?
That's an easy riddle to answer.
I love Bowie.
Gotta make way.
Although him an' Ozzy both mispronounce "Crowley."
Gaze into the Rock Pool of Galadriel;
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:40 pm
by compared2what?
I love that whole record***, but have an extra soft spot for this:
Such a blatant "I'm Waiting for the Man"/"White Light, White Heat" rip-off. And yet so delightful.
To be honest, though, I'm enough of a cliche for this REALLY to be my favorite early-ish era Bowie song:
And I don't even care how embarrassingly many millions of once and present-day angst-y kids who also knew he was talking to them the second they heard that song must be walking around out there by now. We're all right. And also not alone. I sincerely hope he lives forever.
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***Well. Except for maybe "The Bewlay Brothers."
Re: What are you listening to right now?
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:34 am
by Hammer of Los
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I be But a Laughing Gnome;
Closer to the Golden Dawn.
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:44 am
by justdrew
if you like the laughing gnome...
(that's OSCAR, but there's a demo version of that floating around too recorded by young Davie Jones)
Re: What are you listening to right now?
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:00 am
by Hammer of Los
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Nice one JD.
Actually, mostly I'm listening to myself playing the recorder.
I stole a child's recorder.*
Yes, I'm evil.
Patron of thieves?
Any Way.
I'm piping the themes from Kung Fu and The Water Margin.
'Cos Jose Arguelles don't have the fingers no more.
I still hear the tunes he plays, though.
* Don't worry. I give it back when asked. I mostly just borrow.