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Bowie has a new album out and

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beer, I want beer
it is killer! The Next Day!
 
Downloaded it, need to give the whole thing a listen beyond the first single.
 
I got the whole thing.
 
Are there any songs on the new album that are as good as "Blue Jean"?

"Blue Jean" sucks...LOL! :)
 
they're really good, kind of like a "Lets Dance" for the 21st century
 
Will he be in the Zoolander sequel?
 
Maybe. I know he was in the Star Trek TOS movie. Imari, the shape shifter, turned into him.
 
That...didn't happen.
 
CBC has been playing some of the other songs...much better than that single that was first released...thank the gods.
 
Soncially it reminds me a of latter-day Lou Reed album: kick-ass rock grooves, and he seems to care more about getting the words out than creating vocal melodies. Tony Visconti is back producing, but I don't know if he should be: Bowie's songwriting is finally ballsy again, but Visconti traps the songs in a sound that one critic accurately described as "stately".

The grooves are Eno-era, but Bowie needs Eno or Trent Reznor or some new punk to come in and take out the string sections, and make the sound intimidating again. It's too clean, too mature. This was the same problem with his last 3 albums.

I was fine with Bowie appropriating Reznor's schtick in the 90s with Outside and Earthling, because he was following his own moods to an artistic end. (Also the songs mostly kicked ass.) But with Hours, and Heathen, and Reality, he entombed himself in the same "old rocker guy making mature music" sound that is still fighting for its life on this new album. It's not as bad this time, but it's not completely killed yet either.

But as albums by old rockers go, this is the most interesting thing I've heard in years. He's still got it.
 
yeah. Seriously. That was pretty much my impression. The single is the weakest cut. The rest of the album was mind blowing.
 
When played as a part of the whole album, Where Are We Now sounds wonderful. (But I would have put it at the end of the album instead of the 5th track) But I agree, it was the worst choice for a first single.

I would have gone with If You Can See Me as the first single, or maybe Dancing Out In Space if he wanted to be cute/retro.
 
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Marion Cotillard! (And Gary Oldman and David Bowie.)
 
His videos are so DEEP! (And usually end up not meaning much, but HEY they look DEEP)
 
Try watching this when in a different tab, hulu's playing The Americans! Very disquieting. " I think he's setting us up!" as Bowie lifts his arms. " Who killed Vlad?"
 
" Now Lucifer tries in Darkness..."
 
" There's no way we can get a bug in Mirah's office..."
 
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