Three middle aged music lovers playing all their favourite stuff and waxing lyrical about it – why, that’s something I’m sure almost anyone here can imagine doing. I’ve mentioned this before, but fellow AWorder @Raymond and I are lucky enough to work at a community radio station in Glasgow, where we get to do just that.
We record with another guy, as the PList and are starting to branch out into podcasting our shows. We’ve just done a Bowie show and thought it might be of interest here.
And, there will be plenty more where that came from. Which may or may not be a good thing…
https://www.mixcloud.com/carlymck/the-p-list-david-bowie-podcast/
Ta.
Great! I’ll listen to this in the bath tonight.
Now there’s an image. Phew!
Will be listening.
All the available Bowie 1967-72 BBC Sessions NOT commercially available
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/irl5ulorr52chxc/AADKJIzHVQ7B3vrK8wuEju8oa?dl=0
Good for you! Nice work if you can get it. Will give it a listen, Thanks for posting.
‘Work’ is pushing it a bit, surely? I thought we volunteered.
Or is there something I’ve not been told? I may have to have a word with my agent.
Scottish accents are really funny!
Funny haha or funny peculiar @bricameron? Either way, thankyou ❤️
I thoroughly enjoyed that listen, thank you. You lot are so full of beans and talk so fast and know so much and are so enthusiastic. Loved the Reflektor track.
Strangers When We Meet was originally on Buddha Of Suburbia in 1993. It was conceived as a soundtrack to the dramatisation of Hanif Kareishi’s book set in the area where Bowie lived in the late sixties/early seventies. I think it inspired his creative Renaissance. There are some dreamy pop songs juxtaposed with freaky instrumentals, two of which feature Mike Garson’s piano at its most lugubrious. The whole thing was recorded in six days and mixed in fifteen (it would have been shorter if not for some equipment failures). It also features Bowie’s best liner notes. On release, the album was totally ignored, even by the critics. Shame. It’s a favourite of mine.
Here’s the Buddha Strangers When We Meet.
http://youtu.be/Bab8qD1Bhnc
Great album, at least half of it is totally unlike anything else he ever did. I prefer the more resigned take of Strangers on the end of Outside, mind.
He got paid like a thousand quid to do that score. Good old BBC, eh?
Gosh @tiggerlion, that sounds like a completely different song. I like it! The music is much busier and the overall vibe is much less smooth. And Bowie’s voice almost seems like a backdrop. I much prefer the strong, melancholy Bowie on the version from Outside. Thanks for posting!
And Thankyou for the lovely comments. We do indeed talk really fast. And that’s us trying to slow it down…. We always seem to have so much to say, whatever the theme. It’s a whole bunch of fun! ❤️
I do hope the Six Listen Rule was applied before you made up your mind, today. ?
Having just completed listening to all his (studio) albums, Buddha heads my top 5 of records that I now truly enjoy having previously given them relatively short shrift.
The others are Earthling. Heathen, and , yes, both Tin Machine albums.
I played TM1 tremendously loud on speakers on Saturday morning – in that context it makes 100% sense, especially’s Hunt’s sluggin’ kick-drum.
Earthling seems to me very unloved… I think it sounds a right rollicking good time. From Liza Jane to Sue, he never got tired of making BLOODY NOISY RECORDS.
Oh, and while I’m here, here he is from his aborted “Ol’ One Permanently Dilated Pupil Is Back” project.