David Bowie semi-recently (been busy :P) posted his top 12 Bowie songs. I'm not actually too familiar with most of the list, which makes sense I suppose since he must get pretty sick of the bigger hits after playing them so many times. I'm glad to see that Life on Mars made the cut though.
The List:
For descriptions/explanations go here.
- Life on Mars
- Sweet Things/Candidate/Sweet Thing
- The Bewlay Brothers
- Lady Grinning Soul
- Win
- Some Are
- Teenage Wildlife
- Repetition
- Fantastic Voyage
- Loving The Alien
- Time Will Crawl
- Hang On To Yourself (live)
This video is awesome, featuring a ukulele orchestra playing "Life on Mars." On the second verse they start getting creative and overlaying the song with verses from other songs with similar chord structures.
Since I'm a nerd I looked up the songs:
They have a lot of other videos on youtube worth checking out.
- Frank Sinatra - My Way (which makes sense given the history of the song)
- Garth Brooks - For Once in My Life
- Andy Williams - Born Free
- The Who - Substitute
- Randy Crawford - Someday I'll Fly Away (better known from Moulin Rouge)
A new, electro-focused 12-track Bowie tribute Life Beyond Mars has been released, including Kelley Polar covering "Magic Dance" (in
Italian), Au Revoir Simone on "Oh! You
Pretty Things," Matthew Dear, on "Sound & Vision," and Joakim & The Disco on "A New Career In A
New Town," and Richard Walters & Faultline's "Be My Wife." You can hear them all here.
The full release is out in July on Rapster.
via stereogum
Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh is currently showing their biennial show, the Carnegie International. The show is titled for the first time, after the Bowie song, Life on Mars.
From Curator Douglas Fogle:
In David Bowie's song, "Life on Mars," he sings about a world spinning out of control. Bowie poses the question of whether Mars is a place to escape to, or whether we're on Mars already, because this world we live in has become so strange and unfamiliar to us.
Although every exhibition has an organizing principle, for the first time in its history, this installment of the Carnegie International has a title -- "Life on Mars." The title -- appropriated from the Bowie song -- doesn't apply only to artists dealing with aliens or even themes of alienation, but rather functions as a way of organizing the show and addressing the experience of living in the world today. "Life on Mars" poses a poetic question of longing, and of trying to connect. It relates not only to a literal search for extra-terrestrial life, but also to sending out signals in the dark, and hoping to get a response. (Source)
For more information check out the exhibition's website.
Un bonjour en direct des coulisses de Baltard où il fait (trop) chaud. Le pavillon m'a manqué, je n'étais pas là la semaine dernière pour cause de concert alsacien d'Etienne Daho. J'en profite pour dire qu'Etienne est sans doute le plus merveilleux chanteur français voire chanteur tout court, et qu'il peut venir manger à la maison quand il veut. Avant d'écouter son remix d'Obsession que l'on peut entendre à la fin de ses concerts, je voulais dire que là on est avec Sacha et qu'on écoute l'album de Scarlett Johansson, et que la chanson Fannin Street avec les choeurs de Bowie me fait un bien fou, parce qu'enfin j'entends Bowie dans un nouveau morceau, et que sa voix est toujours intense. Voilà quoi. Benjamin est au make up, Julien Doré a répété sa chanson, qui ressemble un peu au Livre de la Jungle mais il y a quelques secondes de fulgurance qui font que j'aime bien, Amandine est morte de rire, Cédric est un peu tendu, Jules est en visite. Belle ambiance pour l'avant dernière de la Nouvelle Star. Je me demande ce que je vais faire quand ce sera fini. Bref, voici le remix d'Obsession. Bonne soirée devant M6, je compte sur vous.
Bowie's in The Prestige!? Well now I feel like quite the inadequate Bowie fan :\ Although I do have the excuse of being secluded to the middle-of-nowhere Japan past two years...
He's makes a brilliant Nikola Tesla btw.
Technically Aladdin Sane, but w/e
Go buy at Threadless
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from here.
this song is about where I grew up and spent most of my childhood hanging a round and about missing the area, the people I knew and the atmosphere, the song has a melancholic and atmospheric feel to it, hope you like it.