Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)

The Maduro escapade was a disastrous precedent: convinced them they could do these mafia-style hits and nothing else would change

Happy birthday Ned!!!

no, that's good

oh yeah don't get me wrong---at least half of my high-school class were reactionary assholes who almost certainly voted for Bush and DT. but were they that much different from the class of 1980 or 2000? i dunno..

i mean, it's like "Boomers" includes Trump as well as my dad, who delivered sandwiches, voted Dem. his whole life, and listened to Jackson Browne records. the broad-brush is the broad brush. it's patina of "science" in this meme that's really grating

i know it's a gag but man i am kind of getting tired of this: i am of the age with the absolute most exposure to lead, according to this likely bullshit chart, and i don't think I am more brain damaged and irrational than people younger or older than me.

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"the new record is okay but a real territorial retreat from the daring of 'Original Wrapper'"

also cracking up at Pete going "where's your wine-bar sax, Lou Reed? get with the times, old man!"

"If you want to talk nostalgia & take one on the nose, go see Tom Petty...I thought [Lou Reed's] New York was a great album, but I would have liked to have heard a saxophone or maybe even a synth. I don't know who's living in the past & who's living in the future, really." Pete Townshend, 1990

Ron Carter :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Dig that.

yeah she has a Wiig and Jan Hooks quality to her--am hoping the show lets her thrive

"Neil Young was invited. He declined, then changed his mind too late, so he'll be in the audience."

a very Neil Young photo caption (Toronto Globe & Mail, July '69)

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano — The Bowie Book Club Podcast Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club , where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read The Savage Detective...

This month we read The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano - a far-ranging tome about poets who never seem to write any poetry, but do a lot of other crazy stuff. (No guarantee that this picture will make any more sense after listening, but you should tune in anyways!) #bowie #booksky

yeah, it's just baffling there's no Albany-Pittsfield-Springfield-Worcester-Boston connector. one would think you'd get some riders for it. Instead it's been vaguely talked about for the 20+ years I've lived here, and you still have to take a train to New haven if you want to go to Boston.

cracking up at a truly phoned-in Bowie concert review from '76. "one number led into another...the concert continued, without interruption, until its conclusion."

it drives me just bonkers that there is no train service between Boston and western MA; it's more convenient in some ways to go to New York City than the capital of my own damn state

yeah the frustrating thing is that he's very talented--the 1986 Live at Blues Alley is pretty great. He just should be ranked on the same level as, say, Don Pullen, and not as the Spokesman/Saviour of Jazz

yep! yeah, it would've been much different.

it's odd to say Townshend's a bit underrated as a guitarist but what he managed to do---essentially be the rhythm section while his bassist and drummer constantly soloed, while also playing memorable lead lines---is pretty amazing

never my favorite GBs record---it's often straining for something & not quite getting there---but man there are some beautiful songs on it, esp "Ghost & the Black Hat" and "Apology Accepted"

the Go-Betweens, Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express, released 3 March 1986 in Australia; a bit later in the UK

Side 1: Spring Rain, Ghost & Black Hat, The Wrong Road, To Reach Me, Twin Layers of Lightning

Side 2: in the Core of a Flame, Head full of Steam, Bow Down, Palm Sunday, Apology Accepted

40 now. Robert Forster, to the Sydney Morning Herald, 1986: "there's a theme of defiance to this record...the cover photo is us laughing at the fact that we're not successful and laughing at the fact we're going to be successful..it's time we were a household name in our own country."

You see a lot of Hegseth’s sort drinking on Stone St in New York. Walk down sometime & ask yourself if you’d trust the guy in a fleece vest slamming espresso martinis with nuclear weapons.

1983 David Bowie: Vintage Pop Stardom (with Chris Molanphy) by Greatest Pop Stars

Vintage Pop Stardom back! Looking at the 1983 start to David Bowie's "Phil Collins Years" with the great @cmolanphy.bsky.social.

-Bowie + '83 pop meeting in the middle
-"China Girl" karaoke memories (whoops!)
-What the hell was the US Festival?
-Poor Mark Goodman

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"The audiences are a tour behind me, but then they always are. I'd get worried if they turned up in outfits I'd never seen before." Bowie, 1976

an ad from 1990 that shows Pylon playing an early show at Peabody's Down Under in Cleveland, for $5 advance, $7 day of show. others on the venue ad include Buckwheat Zydeco, the Cro-Mags, Joey DeFrancesco, Steve Morse and Eric Johnson

an ad for the cleveland agora in 1994 that includes shows from they might be giants/frank black; sugar, velocity girl and magnapop; big mountain; lestat; bad religion, supersuckers and samiam; and widespread panic with freddy jones band

Eagerly anticipating the Michael Shannon/Jason Narducy et al R.E.M. extravaganza in a few weeks, so I wrote about some of the cool things happening on the tour to date. Found some vintage ads from Cleveland to underscore/hint at the coolness. anniezaleski.substack.com/p/we-are-hop...

is the Bob-Joni-Joan tour happening in heaven?

For Your Eyes Only. The bonkers sequence where they try to kill Bond with a few belligerent hockey players remains a favorite

Neil Sedaka: 14 Essential Songs

I selected 14 essential Neil Sedaka songs for the New York Times, balancing his effervescent early hits with his lush '70s comeback.

Neil Sedaka Dead At 86 Neil Sedaka, the singer and songwriter behind hits like “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do,” “Bad Blood,” “Laughter In The Rain,” and “Calendar Girl,” has died. “Our family is devastated by the sudden passing...

Neil Sedaka dead at 86