33 Replies to “It Was Playing In My Head, All Day Long Yesterday”

  1. One of my favourites as well. A genius always experimenting. Low and Heros remain marvels to this day.

  2. When David Bowie dies, when Malcom Young can’t tour because of alzheimer’s… I don’t think, I realize, I’m getting older.

  4. my fav Bowie tune: heroes.
    can we have a moment of brilliant courage that carries us the rest of out lives?
    military, business, science . . . a victoria cross moment, a whistleblower whose career is destroyed by the bullies in gubbamint, conservatists and lieberals alike, but lives with a pristine clear conscience because the DID THE RIGHT THING, or an inventor whose ideas bring the entire human race towards health, safety and security.
    THESE are the heroes, not the shyts like conservatist brian mulruin and his fcuking ‘order of canuckistan’.
    that’s what the tune says to me.

  6. Saw him in like 2003 in Philly. So many great, distinctive songs. Just as fresh sounding today as the day they were first released. RIP Ziggy.

  7. Sorry folks but I’m too old to appreciate this guy’s efforts. What is really troubling is his death is rating headline news on the Commie Broadcasting network. This speaks volumes to the priorities of our culture.

  8. Beefaholic, you may be too old to appreciate his efforts, but Bowie was a legendary character in the music world.
    He merits the headlines.

  9. well beef, methinks the popularity ie ‘priorities’ regarding a brilliant artist like David Bowie is evidence that his work provides a respite, some refuge, in a WORLD full to overflowing with unmitigated crap and barefaced LIES from politishuns, business ‘leaders’ the likes of wall street banker types that steal steal steal, and the sadness and simmering contempt that it causes.
    etc.

  11. Kate, YOU rock girl!
    Moonage Daydream is my favorite track off my favorite Bowie album. A masterpiece through and through.
    Another lesser music legend passed away last week too. Lemmy Kilmister of the legendary band Motorhead (A three piece band) who were regarded by both the metal and punk scene. Just like ACDC. Motorhead were always true to their genre so never sold out or did a soft ballad. Ever.
    Lemmy was a true rocker and he was a Conservative all his life too. He was the only one who truly lived the rocker life to his death (Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin and Cobain don’t count because they overdosed at an early age). Everybody else, including the still living Ozzy and Keith Richards have retreated but never Motorhead’s Lemmy. He was 70. He drank Jack and Jim (Beam) and chained smoked to the end. An aggressive cancer got him by surprise and he was gone in a week.
    The hits were: Ace of Spades, Killed by Death, Orgasmatron and many others.

  12. Another important character died today as well. His name is George Jonas and he was a prolific political journalist. No mention of him on the CBC because he wasn’t a Leftie.
    To each his own however if I had a chance to spend an hour with Bowie or Jonas, Jonas would win-hands down.

  13. Beefaholic, beat you to it. I posted regarding the passing of Jonas on reader tips last night.
    It is possible to appreciate the passing of both. Who cares what the lefties think. They don’t own our minds, much as they would like to.

  14. I went to a Bowie concert in Paris. Sitting on the grass, drinking wine with friends and listening to him perform.
    About as good as it gets, and another one of those experiences that can not be repeated.

  16. CBC has got something up now about Jonas. Surprising that it took them this long. Jonas spent 34 years of his career at the CBC.

  17. Bowie – No loss here, don’t know a single tune of his. Quite possibly because I couldn’t stand to watch him perform – too sexually ambivalent for the average guy from his age. On the other hand, would buy a book of columns by George Jonas. Never read his poetry, but suspect it would put Bowie to shame – lyric-wise.

  18. OK don’t shoot me, I liked most of his music.
    And not to diminish some nice sing along tunes but the paradox here is a a bit of a conundrum. While I like some of his tunes, I don’t and didn’t like his lifestyle or his morals that by his own admission were main drivers in his music. We’ve all done stupid things and I’m no different, time and hopefully some wisdom has made me ashamed and regretful for some of the things I’ve done, don’t think Bowie ever expressed the same but he did revel in his hedonistic life both during and after the event.
    Beyond doubt his music and lifestyle did influence a great many, was that a good thing ? Did western society in general benefit ? We can’t change it. Decline and fall, cause and symptom, none of us are perfect but as I started by saying can be a bit of a paradox when it comes to praising the guy.

  19. I’ve never been musically inclined but there was something good about this guy that I could never put my finger on. Most of his stuff I don’t care for, but he has one or two good ones even though I could never understand the lyrics.
    For me he’s one of those fixtures in the landscape of your youth that you don’t really miss until he’s gone. I won’t mourn for him though – he had a good life and made good times for lots of others. Can’t ask for much more than that!
    Godspeed David!

  20. I liked a couple of songs off the Ziggy Stardust album, but the numerous remarks of Bowie’s “genius” all over the web are a good indicator of how overused that word is.
    Apart from Mozart,the only true musical geniuses in my lifetime are Latoya Jackson, Demi Lovato,Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears.
    Oh, yeah,maybe Donnie Osmond too.
    Damned saddened to hear of George Jonas passing,one of the few good columnists in this era,who wasn’t hidebound by political correctness.

  22. I admit to being (at best) a minor “tourista” fan of Bowie’s music. Call it Transophobia, Homophobia, or whatever, but his music just never had BROAD appeal to me. However, when exposed to his work via cover tunes such as Nirvana doing “The Man Who Sold the World” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fregObNcHC8 … I seemed to ALWAYS admire the structure of his music and lyrics. Recently, I have been re-discovering “Glam Rock”, that I had never previously given much consideration. I am currently wearing-out a nice Japanese lp pressing of T-Rex’s Electric Warrior. I have become a serious retro Mark Bolan fan. He might have become a great … if he hadn’t crashed his MG mini into a tree at 3:30A. RIP Bolan, and now David Bowie … I believe it is time that I gave your work a new listen … after all “The Man Who Sold the World” is considered by some to have marked the BIRTH of Glam Rock … time to spin some classic Bowie. And YES … analog RULES !! If you haven’t heard quality vinyl on a quality system … you are just hearing soulless bits and bytes … NOT MUSIC !

  23. worshipping entertainers, sports figures, movie stars, who often made millions for producing nothing, we our priorities are twisted backwards. But we will, in here, condemn the like of obungles and just-in for acting like a movie star, go figure…..

  24. Really sad to read the small minded comments here. Loved Bowie as an innovator and leader in modern music.
    The lifestyle choices he made don’t matter a wit and probably amount to nothing more than advertising. Mind your own bee’s wax or be destined to reside in the dustbin of relevance forever.

  25. You can’t explain your own tastes in music deeply enough to convince anyone else why yours are better, no matter what style or artist you like. It’s too personal. I don’t try anymore. I found much of Bowie’s music to be brilliant, innovative, unmatched and endlessly fascinating, and that probably says more about me than him. I shall miss him.

  26. Well he weren’t no Waylon, and he weren’t no Willie, definitely not a George (Strait)….maybe an Elton….liked him too. RIP DB.

  27. Off your meds … yet again?
    Since when is it bad to appreciate art and beauty in any form … unless you’re a hopeless loser. If you’re only looking at the money they make you are a socialist … period.
    Bowie doesn’t do anything for me … but who are you, you commie AH, to comment on others that appreciate his art form?
    Do you only come here because no one else, where ever you live, will listen to your delusions?

  29. I live in MN and the Bowie the Let’s Dance tour skipped MPLS. A local radio station sold tickets to the Winnipeg stop at Blue Bomber stadium. The tickets were for on the field. It was amazing. I got separated from my friends and wound up spending the evening with a tiny girl from Saskatoon sitting on my shoulders, listening to a “top 5” of my life concert. I believe her name was Anita Stamp. She invited me to an after party at her sisters which I very much wanted to go to but I had to work at noon the next day. After finding my friends (I drove) we went to a nearby McDonalds. The place was packed with semi-sober concert goers. In those days the drive through orders were heard over a speaker. Every single customer swore multiple times while placing their order. We were on the floor laughing our asses off listening to this. Good memories!
    RIP Mr. Bowie

  32. Apart from Mozart,the only true musical geniuses in my lifetime are Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears??
    –
    Out of respect for the Bowie and his three days hanging around the funeral,
    I will not comment on that frigging comment..

  33. Kate, I agree. It’s a very tough one to take. Harder than I’d ever imagine. Bowie’s music of the early seventies when I was 7 or 8 years old was the driving inspiration for me to learn to play (not all so well) guitar. I’m sure many artist have a similar impression on others, but he was mine. And it hurts.

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