I don’t know how much overlap there is between Bowie fans and fans of Weird Al Yankovic. However big or small that group is, I’m part of it. Weird Al has been making me laugh since the 1970s, and in…
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…
Those who follow this blog know that I’m a fan of DoM, the French mashup artist who was the very first person I ever interviewed. His latest, which is embedded in this post, combines “Let’s Dance” with Coldplay’s “Clocks.” I…
The surprise release of Xandri, Lexi Jones’ debut album, has dominated the Bowie space in media over the past few weeks. So, first, yes, there is a Bowie space in media. As part of this blog project I do a…
Today, I’m posting EgoB’s version of Jacques Brel’s “My Death.” Roeland Verhaeren, who records under the name EgoB, is from Belgium—a country that also produced Brel. I’ve featured EgoB’s Bowie covers on my blog many times, and he created the…
I have seldom encountered commentary about Bowie’s use of animal imagery in his lyrics. Sure, there’s been plenty written about why he mentions specific animals in specific songs, but the less-noticed pattern is that a veritable Noah’s Ark of animals…
In what has become an annual tradition for this blog, I am featuring a cover of Bowie’s “Valentine’s Day” on, you guessed it, Valentine’s Day. And before you start writing a reply, yes, I know the song is not about…
Bowie made plenty of cultural references in his songs, including name-dropping specific famous people. What follows is a list of ten songs with the famous people mentioned therein; however, it is neither a ‘top-ten’ list nor is it exhaustive. I’m…