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This evening’s “live” selection on deck: I haven’t heard a rendition of this tune by David Bowie I haven’t liked. And he just had fun performing it.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID BOWIE + peter chauncey’s SONG OF THE WEEK: “Panic in Detroit (Remix)”
https://peterchauncey1.bandcamp.com/track/panic-in-detroit-alternate-mix
#detroit #davidbowie #aladdinsane #Ziggystardust #diamonddogs #panic #artrock #progrock #electronica #drumsnbass #danielberkman #johnnyjblair #peterchauncey #synthesizer #willmandell #keyboard #soul #revolution #civilunrest #july1967 #outside
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Working on gathering songs and scripting commentary for an upcoming #Bowie special on #WMPG. More details soon. I plan on talking a bit about #DavidBowie's influence on me as both a #genderfluid and #queer person. And also how Bowie wanted to make a musical version of #Orwell's #NineteenEightyFour , but #GeorgeOrwell's widow wouldn't give him permission. Some of the songs Bowie came up with appeared on 1974's #DiamondDogs. Yup. This is the type of stuff I plan on talking about on the air. #FuckAuthoritarianism!
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DAVID BOWIE
Diamond Dogs
1980 Canada reissue6:27 pm.
80 degrees outside (sorry, Celsius lovers).Windows wide open, and Bowie blasting at full volume.
In the words of John Steinbeck…
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter and David Bowie to give it sweetness?”
That may not be a direct quote.
Please don’t fact check that.#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollection #art #music #vinylcommunity #retro #vintage #davidbowie #diamonddogs #glam #1970s #70s #70smusic #artrock
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‘Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days’ Explores the Grimness of Revelation Space
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003) by Alastair Reynolds collects two novellas set in the Revelation Space universe. Each story is has its own identity, yet they share elements in common that bind them together well. Short, sharp, and at times brutal Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days captures the reader’s attention and never lets go.
When Richard Swift receives an offer from an old friend to explore an alien artefact on the edge of human space he knows he should turn it down. But Richard can never rejct such a challenge. On the barren planet of Golgotha the blood spire defies all attempts at understanding its mysteries. Or the reason it exists at all. As Richard and his team work their way through the spire the mystery not only deepens but becomes more dangerous.
On the isolated ocean world of Turquoise, Naqi works studying the Pattern Jugglers. Naqi hopes to become part of the Moat project when two things happen. A lighthugger is approaching and her sister Mina dies. For the two years it takes the lighthugger to arrive Naqi continues her work but always in her thoughts is the memory of her sister. When the lighthugger arrives Naqi is given the job of escorting around the Moat. Naqi has her suspicions about the Ultra crew but the truth is not what she expects.
The stories of Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days are not closely related in plot or characters. However, they share the unifying theme of deception and betrayal. Reynolds uses this theme to tell personal stories set against the background of greater events. And he tells them well.
Like all of Reynolds stories Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days is full of technical marvels and wonderful ideas. However, this isn’t what makes his stories great. It is the characters and their hold on the reader that makes Reynolds’ stories so good. This collection is no exception.
In Diamond Dogs the protagonist, Richard Swift, is portrayed as a bored dilettante, at first. First impressions can be decieving, though. It becomes quickly apparent that Richard has hidden depths and talents. Reynolds writes his characters with a level of reality that makes their actions, whether logical or illogical, feel real. It’s Reynolds grasp that people, no matter their motivations, cannot be fully understood that puts his stories on a level beyond the ordinary.
Alastair ReynoldsTurquoise Days is no different. Naqi is a character full of regret over the death of her sister. Like many people that blame themselves for such things her grief colours her actions in both obvious and subtle ways. Whether Naqi realises this or not.
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days has Reynolds’ trademark action. Intense and violent, often in surprising ways, each story uses this to drive the plot without wallowing. Reynolds’ action is vivid and engaing but used to colour events but is not the focus.
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days offers an excellent introduction into Reynold’s Revelation Space universe for the uninitiated and a deeper look for existing fans. These stories are dark and unsettling but entertain as well. Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days is a treat all readers whether an SF fan or not.
#AlastairReynolds #BookReview #DiamondDogs #SF #TurquoiseDays
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There are those songs that trigger the impulse to crank the fuckin car stereo as you’re driving along, minding your own business. This is one those songs for me.
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#ClassicRock
#DiamondDogs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJxCsVcZL2I&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD -
#DiamondDogs. My first introduction to #NineteenEightyFour! Thanks, Mom!
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The Bowie Bible describes #DavidBowie's #ChantOfTheEverCirclingSkeletalFamily as the "The climactic final track on David Bowie's 1974 album Diamond Dogs. 'Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family' is a two-minute piece which emerge from the final notes of 'Big Brother'." Personally, I think this is not only one of the first real #GothicRock songs, I suspect the band #SkeletalFamily (named after this song) agrees with me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAR-vuYXZB4
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David Bowie - Diamond Dogs - 1974
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Love this song. It just never will get old. Not for me, anyway. Hell, it’s one of those tunes that’ll be on the playlist for my funeral.
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So, years ago, I had toyed around with attempting to write Julia's story. My version was a bit far-fetched and involved elements of #DavidBowie's #DiamondDogs (Bowie's retelling of #NineteenEightyFour). Anyhow, I ended up working on other projects, but I'm glad to see someone wrote Julia's story. Curious to see how much it matches up with what I gleaned from fixating on #Orwell's version, as well as various retellings...
#Bookstodon #AutumnReading #DystopianNovels #GeorgeOrwell #SandraNewman #JuliaANovel
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Sirius XM’s Classic Vinyl earlier today was doing some Memorial Day weekend countdown of the 50 top albums that turned 50 this year and Bowie’s “Diamond Dogs” placed number 18 on that list. Of course, this was the number they then cranked. Just happens to be my favorite Bowie tune. Somewhat controversial (for 1974) album cover and all.
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Diamond Dogs 50th anniversary vinyl incoming apparently. Picture disc or half speed master. Twenty quid in the States, just sub £39 in the UK. Hey Ho. Love that album still but probs stick with my Ryko CD from the 90s & legacy vinyl. #Bowie #DavidBowie #Vinyl #DiamondDogs
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I finished reading Diamond Dogs by Alastair Reynolds. Now on to Turquoise Days.
Diamond Dogs turned out to be a bit more body horror than I had expected. Interesting read, but glad it wasn't expanded out into a full length novel.
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Fuck it - gotta share again ‘cause I believe this jam to have one of the cooler guitar riffs of the 70s if not of all time. And it just sounds GREAT in the Impala.
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I mentioned David Bowie in an earlier post and this evening’s “live” selection here on deck is different rendition of one my all-time favorite Bowie tunes originally released in 1974 and said to be his farewell to his “glam rock” thing that helped put him on the musical map worldwide.
#MusicOfMastodon
#ClassicRock
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I don't usually post videos this frequently but I just had to do this one, and it went much faster than I thought 👉 https://youtu.be/6UL1MA-xOqg
#maker #ApartmentWorkshop #DubyaMakes #ShowAndTell #model #toy #DiamondDogs
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Many called David Bowie a magpie, taking things -- aka, stealing -- from different genres and cultures and making them his own. This hilarious anecdote from Glenn Hendler's 33 1/3 history of DIAMOND DOGS describes how Bowie even stole from his friends -- in this case Mick Jagger -- if they weren't vigilant.
Read at Post: https://post.news/article/2Jq7liAbGOhmkl9bgurdYwC9aLH
#DavidBowie #Bowie #music #art #creativity #popculture #MickJagger #TheRollingStones #DiamondDogs #GeorgeOrwell #WilliamSBurroughs