This… is a fantastic inventory.

Zercon's incredible. It zips by remarkably quickly for a 28-minute piece.

I was just thinking this today. Both seem to obliquely reference mortality with gallows humour using a star metaphor, so it makes sense.

I have converted more people to Bowie fandom with this album than with anything else in his catalogue.

2016 is really doubling down on the suck.

I never felt that close to him. I saw him more as a
STAAAAARMAAAAAAN
WAITING IN THE SKY

Fuck. I never met the guy, but I'm gonna miss him. I don't know if I'll ever stop missing him.

He was reportedly weeping in the booth as he recorded those last screams and you can really hear it.

The subsequent live versions were better too. There's a good album somewhere in "hours…", but it's not the one we got.

I think Lou Reed's Sally Can't Dance might have it beat in the cocaine psychosis sweepstakes.

Hey, I LIKE Counterparts!

Good call. Bowie's always been a The The fan AFAIK, so I wouldn't be surprised if that was an influence rattling around in his noggin somewhere.

Yeah, exactly. They're a lot better if you judge them on their own merits - they don't play to any of Bowie's strengths, and he often sounds almost incidental to the screaming racket going on behind him. For whatever else you can level at them, Bowie clearly took the full-band conceit seriously.

That's so weird. Out of all Bowie's sidemen, Reeves always struck me as the most… well… normal.

Cosigned. The lyrics are stupid and awful, but the band itself rocked like a motherfucker.

Yeah, agreed. I found those songs interesting for the new direction they pointed to, but I can't say I actually enjoyed them much.

Any of the four albums he released between 1977 and 1980 could potentially qualify as my favourite, depending on how I feel.

Jesus. :(

WHOA, I hadn't heard of tha-

You should check out Klaus Fluoride's solo work. It's really endearingly weird.