This is the third of three posts in which I am proposing Bowie albums I’d have rather had released than the recently announced The Shel Talmy Recordings. The Shel Talmy Recordings promises to include ten previously unreleased tracks along with…
Yes, I’ve ordered the upcoming compilation of Bowie songs produced by the recently deceased Shel Talmy in 1965, which includes ten previously unreleased tracks. I can’t complain, but I’m not expecting this collection to have a lot of replay value…
When I started composing this post, my intent was to articulate why I’m not overly excited about the pending release of The Shel Talmy Recordings, 21 tracks recorded by Bowie in 1965, including ten that have not previously been released…
I was recently reminded that Tin Machine II is absent from major streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music due to rights and masters issues originating from its original 1991 label, Victory Music, and its subsequent corporate acquisitions. In that…
One of the more original Bowie-related projects to come to my attention recently is And We’ll Travel On, which (perhaps ironically) is a mashup album by Lydia Valentino inspired by Bowie’s play, Lazarus. The album combines popular songs drawn from…
The idea of this exercise of listening to each Bowie album in order is not to analyze each album but just to record my reaction. I am writing about the albums in batches, but I am experiencing them as a…
Saturdays are the days I typically post featured interviews on my YouTube channel. These interviews usually take the form of me asking one or more guests questions, sometimes in person but usually via video. Often, these interviews take weeks or…
I have a theory that I’ve tried to articulate, to limited success, in a few interviews: that had Let’s Dance been followed by Black Tie White Noise, and everything that happened between the two albums never happened, Bowie’s reputation would…
Bowie contributed to many soundtrack albums, especially in the 1980s. In most cases he recorded one song for the album (as with, for instance, Cat People or The Falcon and the Snowman), but a few are different. The soundtrack for…
Starting with Hunky Dory, Bowie seems to have made a concerted effort to include at least one song on each album that hints at what the next album is going to sound like. That, for the most part, ends with…