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I hate this band as much as the next guy, but there's no way the lyric changes weren't deliberate and a joke.

Bluegum LaBloat wrote: Mon Aug 05, 2024 9:07 pm I hate this band as much as the next guy, but there's no way the lyric changes weren't deliberate and a joke.

The hands down worst thing about this band is allowing the drummer to do anything beyond keeping time.

Bluegum LaBloat wrote: Mon Aug 05, 2024 9:07 pm I hate this band as much as the next guy, but there's no way the lyric changes weren't deliberate and a joke.

Are we just getting revved up like a douche? Maybe, but if that was a joke it sucks, even worse.

I can't in all honesty vote NC on this one, although I'd admit to quite liking some of his drum'n'bass stuff on "Earthling", which is probably an equally niche opinion. To me the problem wasn't so much that he was trying to do metal, it's just that he'd already covered that territory so much more effectively on "The Man Who Sold the World".

Anthony Flack wrote: Mon Aug 05, 2024 3:05 pm

Gramsci wrote: Mon Aug 05, 2024 7:55 am The worst part is the drummer messing up the lyrics.

“I am a chump and a loser”

I would have thought Bowie would have schooled them on this. I had assumed the geeky art reference was the reason Bowie picked the song.

Funny thing about Bowie is he did seem a bit of a goof. Moonage Daydream kind of plays to the Serious Artist Bowie, but in plenty of interviews he seems very awkward and nerdy, especially after he got off the coke. There’s a lot of anecdotes I read around when he died with former band members etc that said he was very jokey and pretty decent guy. So on this it could be just him being dork.

Bowie was a horrendously unreliable narrator.

Bluegum LaBloat wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2024 12:17 am Reeves Gabrels is one of the hardest suckers of shit that ever picked up a guitar, so naturally this band sucks shit extremely hard, and Bowie at his most brain-dead can do nothing to mitigate it.

If your ears keep confirmation biasing that, then Costco has some excellent deals on hearing aids.

The Tin Machine records kind of just sound bad? Comparatively little of what makes Bowie great. Seems like it was psychologically useful for Bowie in moving forward artistically but I'm not sure why I'd want to listen to them. Crap.