Bowie Tribute Album at 7digital

BigD-Bluez

7digital has a 42 track David Bowie tribute album, with some contributors I freely admit I've never heard of, but it's only $5. The fact that it's reduced from only $6.99 kind of scares me, so any thoughts about this one? I won't be able to really sample it until tonight.link

BigD-Bluez

This is a very weird album thus far. FWIW it was either $17.98 or $15.98 at Amazon, can't remember, and it was a charity album for War Child, which makes me wonder why is it on sale?

Katrina

I am too lazy to look. Is it early Bowie, disco Bowie, or jaded Bowie covers that they are doing ?

BigD-Bluez

K, please define "jaded", is that like recent era? Seems to span the career since there are some titles I don't know, which would be recent probably, but mostly from the earlier half of his career I'd think, so would those be pre-"disco"? A couple of tunes are done more than once. And what's this lazy? It's right on the front page.

Katrina

And what's this lazy? It's right on the front page.
That would be LFS, Lazy Finger Syndrome, where you can't even click on the link that explains all, but require the person posting the link to explain themselves before you go that one last click, due to losing hours on the internet from clicking that interesting-looking link.
Theory being, it's a good link if they post back and explain themselves; silence means it's drivel.

I shall now click away on your link!

BigD-Bluez

Now that I know what LFS is, I am still curious how you define "Jaded" as applied to Mr. B. because I have several more hours to spare, since Amie has gone wonky again, EBFL, I think, that is Everybody's Back From Lunch.

Katrina

Ohmigod, you're going to call me out on the jaded phase of his life? How old are you, anyway?
I absolutely ADORE Bowie's catalog, and this isn't any scathing review of him, but rather the music industry

OK, you get 20 and do whatever the fuck you want with music. (prime Bowie, gets you on the billboard, gets you fame)
OK, You get 30 and you do what the 20-yr-olds are doing with popular of the day, still with a great twist and nod to your 20s. (disco Bowie)
OK, you get 40 and you do your 20s over with the jaded eye of being 40 and still looking OK.

This applies to about every solo musician I've followed, with the caveat of solo. Bands that have stayed together, like the Rolling Stones, have a different dynamic.
If they didn't get out of the band by 30, they're band, not solo.

BigD-Bluez

My first concert was the Stones at the Garden - the Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out shows. When the deluxe package came out last year I went, Wow - Ike & Tina? So that's who the other act I couldn't remember was, I knew there had been somebody else. That is all the age information I care to provide, thank you. I just wished for a fuller explanation of "jaded". NTW, I agree fully with your sentiments and grading system.

Katrina

You're quite the wise ass, old person. I got to know Tina Turner on her 2nd time around the block, which I didn't list -

OK, you get 50 and you're surprised to be alive and by God, you'll do as you damn well please, and all that hard work paid off as well as a bit of common sense. Drama and suggestion are my tools.

Am I right? Am I right on the 50s grading system? Bless your heart.

BigD-Bluez

Right? Hell yeah, you're right. I heard that! You got that right.

Katrina

Since you're sitting there all bored and whatnot, give us a stab at the 60s, old man!
I'm not that far behind you - I turned 50 this year.

BigD-Bluez

I know not of what you speak, but provided I were to get there, it might go like:

OK, you get 60 and you're good and damned well surprised to still be here, so maybe you'd better start taking better care of yourself in case you'll be around longer so you can stay the hell away from those doctors, but as far as anybody else's opinion is concerned, you will do exactly as you damn well please, because you've bloody well earned it. If you're making a record, that is an album whatever the F anyone else wants to call it, you're going to go back to your roots, because anything else would be just too friggin' pretentious, and if those kids don't like it, well, they can go take a flying French f**k. I need a nap.

Katrina

You've clearly not hit 60. That was a dismal write-up of 60. It sounded like your idea of what 60 might be like, for your magnificent self gone wild.
Rock on!

BigD-Bluez

Of course if the sales of that album tank, then you go and get a bunch of twenty-something hot stars and put out a forward looking collaboration relevant to the latest and greatest ideas in music proving the lasting importance of your roots.

At least Mr. B. hasn't sunk to that. I actually liked The Reality Tour album. As for 60 - what scares me the most is my ever growing understanding of why so many older folks are such cantankerous coots. I need to meditate more often.

Dr. Mutex

At 60 you release an album of "Standards", in the traditional style. By that time you've realized that those are fine damn songs, and you really ought to take a crack at them before the vocal cords give out. Besides, your voice has acquired a delightfully gravelly edge to it that makes every song you sing sound like you really have loved and lost, or searched the whole world, or whatever else the song may be about. Anyway, you're just not credible singing about cars and school, and if you sing about girls on the beach, you come off as a old letch. The album is well received by your fans, who are also now old enough to realize that those are damn good songs.

cafreema

At 70 you field a phone call from Rick Rubin who wants to introduce you to a whole new generation of fans through sparsely arranged/produced versions of new songs and covers.

Craig

BigD-Bluez

What happens when Rick Rubin is 70?

Katrina

At 80, you host Saturday Night Live.