9/16/2023 In recent days I commented on such songs as “Time Will Crawl,” “Sunday” and “If You Can See Me.” Each is an example of Bowie using evocative lyrics that are not necessarily meant to be taken literally. Between the…
“Oh God, I could do better than that… But it could have been me Yes, it could have been me“ On the surface, “Queen Bitch” is a lament about a flamboyant gay man, or possibly trans person, of whom the…
I typically don’t like to simply post somebody else’s story in this blog, but I came across a reference to this video in Nicholas Pegg’s The Complete David Bowie that in terms of facts I have nothing more to add.…
I delayed the weekly “cover of the week” for a day so to post “Sunday” and reflect on 9/11 but I have a winner today, Shane James Bordas’ cover of one of Bowie’s most underrated songs, “Time Will Crawl.” “Time…
It has often been written that Bowie’s 2002 album, Heathen, seemed to be a reaction to the September 11th terrorist attacks of 2001. Bowie himself talked about the coincidence, but it was a coincidence. Most of the songs, including the…
I’m reading a book about my favorite album, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). Its called Silhouettes and Shadows, by Adam Steiner and came out earlier this year. I’ll probably write more about it later, but I am blown away by…
Hurricane is one of those bands that has existed for a long time in various manifestations and has gone through a variety of lineups but is still around. I wasn’t previously familiar with Hurricane, which, despite this fairly faithful rendition…
Yesterday I mentioned this song as an example, along with “Rock’n Roll with Me” and “It Ain’t Easy” of songs that seemed out of place on their albums. Specifically, the nice, calm “Strangers When We Meet” is a really odd…
Yesterday I mentioned the footage of Bowie performing, “Rock’n Roll with Me” in Buffalo during a 1974 concert at Buffalo’s Memorial Auditorium that’s was featured in the documentary, Moonage Daydream. This is the clip from the sequence featuring that performance.…
I was recently listening to Arsalan Mohammad‘s excellent podcast, Album to Album in which the host was discussing The Next Day with Leah Kardos, the musical theorist who wrote Blackstar Theory. You can listen to that podcast here. Kardos has…