Astronaut Chris Hadfield's "Space Oddity," in Space! STEAM
But why mess with perfection? LYRICS are "And I think my Spaceship
knows which way to go" & "Planet Earth is Blue and there's Nothing I
can Do"
"The famous parade of personae that
defined his astounding 1970s discography represented not just new sounds
and aesthetics; Bowie was essentially a human Internet, with each album
serving as a hyperlink into a vast network of underground music,
avant-garde art, art-house film, and left-field literature. Bowie was
the nexus through which many rock fans were first introduced to not just
the Velvet Underground and the Stooges and Kraftwerk and Neu!, but also
William S. Burroughs and Klaus Nomi and Nicolas Roeg and Ryuichi
Sakamoto and Nina Simone. By design, most pop music is a closed loop—a
rollercoaster that’s expertly designed for maximal thrills, to make you
go “wheee!” over and over again. Bowie envisioned pop as Grand Central
Station, the train tracks branching off into infinite new directions."
David Bowie’s Filthy Lesson
For Bowie, art was inauthenticity all the way down.
"Art’s filthy lesson is inauthenticity all the way down, a series of repetitions and reenactments: fakes that strip away the illusion of reality in which we live and confront us with the reality of illusion. Bowie’s world is like a dystopian version of The Truman Show, the sick place of the world that is forcefully expressed in the ruined, violent cityscapes of “Aladdin Sane” and “Diamond Dogs” and, more subtly, in the desolate soundscapes of “Warszawa” and “Neuköln.” To borrow Iggy Pop’s idiom from Lust for Life (itself borrowed from Antonioni’s 1975 movie, although Bowie might well be its implicit referent), Bowie is the passenger who rides through the city’s ripped backside, under a bright and hollow sky."
Read More... https://newrepublic.com/article/127430/david-bowies-filthy-lesson
How David Bowie Challenged MTV on Race
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/arts/music/how-david-bowie-used-his-stardom-and-race-to-challenge-mtv.html
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGiVzIr8Qg
Bowie’s nine minute epic “Cygnet Committee” remains the undiscovered inner-Space Oddity from David’s 1969 self-titled debut album
https://dontforgetthesongs365.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/bowies-nine-minute-epic-cygnet-committee-remains-the-undiscovered-inner-space-oddity-from-davids-1969-self-titled-debut-album/Cygnet Committee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKMSgZo9c8s
Space Oddity Live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXSGocWifAg
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