Some other great deep cuts…
1. Let Me Sleep Beside You
2. All the Madmen
3. tied: Eight-Line Poem and Queen Bitch
4. Time
5. Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise)
6. Subterraneans
7. Red Sails
8. Cat People
9. Seven Years in Tibet
10. (You Will) Set the World on Fire (I seriously never understood why this wasn’t…

Maybe the narrator of "Please Mr. Gravedigger" did something to him…

Bonus: the live version from Ziggy Stardust the Motion Picture (which I've been listening to obsessively today) starts with stagehands ripping his cape off, in a reverse James Brown move, to reveal him in his one-legged bodysuit, and it just gets better from there…. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Another one that just slays is "Time." Bowie as ultra-dramatic cabaret singer, waiting for his cue to go onstage, knowing that death is coming for us all… holy SHIT. "We should be on by now!"

Great list. Was just listening to the live medley of Wild-Eyed Boy from Freecloud/All the Young Dudes/Oh You Pretty Things from Ziggy Stardust the Motion Picture. Man, the way he sells it on "you'll lose me, though I'm always really… FREE" just slays me.

Oh yeah, then you'll love it. It provides a bit of solace to know he went out at the absolute top of his game artistically. When I can (briefly) put my grief aside, I am in awe of what he accomplished.

I'd bought it the day it came out, so I'd already given it a few listens before he died… I've listened to it once since then, and it was difficult — but god, it really is a beautiful album. I'm not sure I could face it just yet if I hadn't already listened to it before he died, myself. But when you feel ready for…

(Given the past week, I am officially withdrawing this statement)

Every track on Station to Station is hands-down brilliant (my fave after the title track is TVC 15), which is even more extraordinary given that Bowie always said that he was so out of his skull he had virtually no memory of having recorded it. The secret weapon is George Murray's bass lines, which somehow manage to…

No, no, it means there are only two weak episodes.

Confirmed by Tony Visconti, his producer — the entire final album was a planned goodbye:
http://rol.st/1SddOUy
"He always did what he wanted to do," Visconti wrote. "And he wanted to do it his way and he wanted to do it the best way. His death was not different from his life — a work of Art. He made Blackstar for us,…

Tony Visconti confirms that this was Bowie's planned farewell to his fans, and that it's been in the works for a year. Has any artist ever gone out on his own terms, so beautifully, like this? I can't think of anyone who ever did. But if anyone in the history of popular culture could pull it off, it would be David…

"I drew lightning bolts on my wanger!"

There's so much to say and yet so little that will capture it. All i know is that I wouldn't be living the life I lead without Bowie, it's that simple and yet that strange and complex. I'm consoled a little by the fact that he went out completely on his own terms, making a final artistic statement that was his gift…

Aw, I should have gone — I almost went down there myself. Good to hear, thanks.

I don't care what else happens, this makes 2016 the best year in the history of civilization.

YES! I started screaming "A New Career in a New Town!" right at that moment as I was listening to Blackstar in the car on the way to work. I'm pretty sure that the people in the next car thought I was just really excited about having recently moved to start my brand-new job.

If all it does is function as a sumptuous ten-episode dissertation on what a dick Prince Philip is, that'a good enough for me.

That's a pretty grizzly sentiment.

So you missed the part where I said that I think that Bill Clinton *is* a rapist?