RIP Bowie

[monstah]

42 minutes ago, GDJ said:

And I'm buying his last album "BlackStar". I don't care if I have to spend $50 on a vinyl copy.

Been listening to it on the youtube Vevo channel. It's... heavy.

[GDJ]

16 minutes ago, monstah said:

Been listening to it on the youtube Vevo channel. It's... heavy.

Sounds like I will like it just fine then.

[monstah]

1 hour ago, GDJ said:

Sounds like I will like it just fine then.

I meant emotionally heavy, but maybe that's what you mean, too

Edited January 11, 2016 by monstah

[GoSlash27]

 I have never felt truly saddened by the passing of a celebrity until today. I loved David Bowie personally for the music he gave me. The world just won't be the same without him

 

[StrandedonEarth]

Can you hear me Major Tom?

RIP David.

[KerbMav]

Strange how we humans build connections.

I never was a Bowie fan, I actually never was a real fan of any group or singer and I am always quite bad at telling who made which song or even knowing the actual title of a song.

But with Cmdr Hadfield's ISS cover simultaneously reminding me of hearing the song in my kindergarden times (no, I am not that old, but it obviously was already a classic only 15 years later) and coinciding with my growing love for little green men in space, and with Starman so very well placed in The Martian, and of course the songs being really great to listen to - I felt sad. And since I got the news, whenever youtube presents me a video with any of these two songs, I have to click and listen.

Closing words from the obituary in Die Zeit (German newspaper):
"The cancer has shattered his fourth, sixth, x-th comeback. But he will not break down David Bowie's work for eternity. Never."

 

[benjee10]

David Bowie was an incredibly important musician and artist to me. Even though the majority of his work was released long before I was even born, it touched me and changed who I was as a person in a way that probably no other artist ever has. Last night, outside, I saw a particularly bright star twinkling in the sky. It was Venus, only, tonight, for one night only, it wasn't Venus at all; it was the Starman, Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust: David Bowie. That one point of light suspended in the inky night seemed to hold all the ethereal beauty and melancholic nostalgia of Bowie's music. Within those alien sounds and ecstatic melodies there was always a subtle feeling of loss, as though the music itself longed for a past yet to happen and a future already gone. He was, like his music, absolutely otherworldly, and it is to another world he has now returned. Goodbye, Starman. May you find peace in the great beyond.
David Bowie was science fiction through the very way he lived. This is a small tribute to him and the balletic visions of the cosmos that fit his music so very well.

 

Edited January 12, 2016 by benjee10

[WinkAllKerb'']

omikron and a big step for 3d moddeling and biometrics.

Edited January 13, 2016 by WinkAllKerb''

[Waxing_Kibbous]

It's a sad thing, but at the same time what a life the guy had. He was way more influential than most people know, writing songs for everybody back in the day. I have the Earthling CD in my car, it's part of the regular rotation still.

 Mr. Bowie you did good!

[Gojira1000]

On 2016-01-12 at 4:49 PM, GoSlash27 said:

 I have never felt truly saddened by the passing of a celebrity until today. I loved David Bowie personally for the music he gave me. The world just won't be the same without him

 

This. I hadn't realized how different than other celebs he was to me until he was gone.

[KerbMav]

Something to lighten the mood perhaps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4d8QrRJvsE

Edited January 13, 2016 by KerbMav