![]() The video also features performances of “The Man Who Sold the World” and “Boys Keep Swinging.”įor a very positive re-assessment of the Young Americans album, check out this episode of the Heat Rocks podcast featuring Lynell George. ![]() We somehow got through a discussion of “TVC15” without mentioning his totally bonkers Saturday Night Live performance of the song, backed by Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias. Like, he actually listened to those Tin Machine albums. Even when Ben doesn’t like something, he’s always very thoughtful about it. Mike also wants to be clear that he really does think Ben’s book is very good, disagreements over the Berlin-era ambient material notwithstanding. ![]() Mike meant to mention in the episode that not only was Carlos Alomar the guitarist in Bowie’s rhythm section during this period, he was also Bowie’s musical director, and as such played a major role in what his albums from that time sounded like. And unlike your television set, there is no evidence that your podcatcher of choice will try to eat you! Miscellany There’s so much going on in this music that it could fill a movie or book (and Ben even wrote one about him), but for today, a really enthusiastic podcast episode will suffice. The only album from Bowie’s Thin White Duke persona is only six songs long, but they’re so colorful and dense that Producer Mike and co-hosts John, Rich, and Ben spend nearly two hours talking about them. Discord & Rhyme is here to fill in the blanks for you: He spent those two months recording Station to Station, a transitional album between his funk and experimental art rock periods that may be his all-time greatest work. ![]() One day in September 1976, fueled by cocaine, peppers, and milk, David Bowie entered a Los Angeles recording studio, and then emerged a couple months later remembering nothing about what had just happened. ![]()
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