OTD in 2016 David Bowie passed away and the world has been a pile of steaming shit ever since. 🖤 Bowie forever. - ThreadSky

karennotqaren.bsky.social•109 days ago

I cried for days💔

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•109 days ago

Me too. 🥹

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sarahsayshi.bsky.social•109 days ago

David, we miss you forever 😢

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malorianaravenwood.bsky.social•109 days ago

I, too, have made the remark with almost religious admiration ever since that day. Gods I miss you Starman!

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roookii.bsky.social•109 days ago

Wow, has it been that long?

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grandalfthegray.bsky.social•108 days ago

The alien returned home.

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mpls-seamonster.bsky.social•108 days ago

Wore this in his honor.

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riotongreenestreet.bsky.social•109 days ago

I still have a hard time listening to Blackstar.
I substituted Station to Station as my tribute.

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vilora.bsky.social•109 days ago

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sdk-resists.bsky.social•107 days ago

The best modern Christmas duet was by David Bowie and Bing Crosby. Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy was a beautiful match of old and new with voices that were perfect together!

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justrish1788.substack.com•107 days ago

I actually watched that somewhere in the past year or so. Yes, they were. I love collaborations.

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i-am-marcus-ellis.bsky.social•108 days ago

This pic looks to be from the Bing Crosby Christmas Special. Appears to be the same haircut and suit. Plus the garland on the grand staircase.
Just nerding out here. Don’t mind me. 😁

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sinatrajazz1962.bsky.social•108 days ago

Same time as Bowie, and Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Queen, and The Beatles. Thank you, Universe!

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cameo88.bsky.social•109 days ago

This…this is an excellent point.

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•109 days ago

A blessing. 🖤

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buckmcw.bsky.social•109 days ago

Brilliant final project and gift to us mortals

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•109 days ago

Agreed

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steveforthedeaf.bsky.social•109 days ago

Loved the No Plan EP that followed it too

https://steveforthedeaf.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/no-plan-david-bowie/

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graham62.bsky.social•109 days ago

Starman lives forever in our memories

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realluciferv.bsky.social•109 days ago

He's in a better place. What I mean by that is he's a 9 year old kid in a new body. I'm Buddhist.

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loureviewsblog.bsky.social•109 days ago

I didn't realise how much I liked Bowie until he wasn't there anymore.

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birdswing.bsky.social•109 days ago

As a comedian once said "David Bowie had a great ability to predict future trends and that is why this year he chose to die, he willed himself to die like a dolphin"

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•109 days ago

Sad but hilarious and very true 🤣

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whyitsjustmecj.bsky.social•109 days ago

I cannot buy anymore vinyl...goes and buys vinyl. Beautiful!

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•109 days ago

Hahaha my peer pressure is working! 🤣

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whyitsjustmecj.bsky.social•109 days ago

Yes, yes, I am giving in! 😂

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whyitsjustmecj.bsky.social•109 days ago

And the search is on. I cannot find it right now, and the ones that I do see are $200 plus.

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meshm.bsky.social•109 days ago

I've been saying this https://bsky.app/profile/meshm.bsky.social/post/3lasjw63yjk2j

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cognitivefungus.bsky.social•108 days ago

Many have said this

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olszewskijc1891.bsky.social•109 days ago

So true💙

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argentology.bsky.social•109 days ago

Absolutely true. About 15 minutes after I heard the news, my copy of Blackstar was delivered. I just sat holding it, crying.

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jazzrat2000.bsky.social•109 days ago

I'm only able to say I'm happy for him and every other one who's past that they don't have to see what's happening right now. In LA and the nation

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irishonfire.bsky.social•109 days ago

I still need to get a copy

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murderbot3.bsky.social•109 days ago

Great Album

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briguyatx.bsky.social•109 days ago

😢 I was haunted by this album. I listened to it incessantly when it was released. It was a dark time in my life. The album perfectly fit my mood.

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w1rral.bsky.social•109 days ago

OMG. I never linked those two events. I’m joining your movement. Go girl. 🤙🏼

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gregcarrhope.bsky.social•108 days ago

He made some great music glad I saw him at BC Place and great he got off cocaine great he stopped talking about the National Front and stopped being gay and married a stunning Black woman.

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arodphoto.bsky.social•103 days ago

BMan!

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birbeckb.bsky.social•109 days ago

⚡⚡⚡

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mkeelingitsoftly.bsky.social•109 days ago

Agreed

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steptothemic.bsky.social•109 days ago

Spot on. The world literally moved off its axis and hasn’t acted right since.

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tgr822.bsky.social•108 days ago

Totally agree that day marked the turning point, the initiation of the reign of shit.

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wahlosttiroler.bsky.social•108 days ago

Blackstar. Epic.

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wewasrobbed.bsky.social•109 days ago

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dbjjvv.bsky.social•108 days ago

Word!

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jonathanmlewis.bsky.social•109 days ago

Ashes to ashes.

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hippobaaa.bsky.social•109 days ago

wasnt he a pedo tho 😭😭

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sinatrajazz1962.bsky.social•108 days ago

No.

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dubrovnikdude.bsky.social•108 days ago

I am sure us true David Bowie fans will know that he didn't die, he "Just went to sleep one day"

@davidbowiereal.bsky.social

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shatter.bsky.social•109 days ago

Bowie, Prince, Lemmy.

*sigh*

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amber-sage79.bsky.social•108 days ago

Lemmy died in December 2015. But yes, the slow descent into Hell followed soon after...

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shatter.bsky.social•108 days ago

I also lost my two mentors early '16 within 6 weeks of each other. Both had terminal cancer.

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amber-sage79.bsky.social•108 days ago

I'm so sorry for your losses. :( x

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reneenicolegray.com•109 days ago

Blackstar is such an incredible album.

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emilyinthelibrary.bsky.social•109 days ago

It is but I can hardly bear to listen to it

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•109 days ago

It’s amazing. Such a range of emotions listening to it!

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steveforthedeaf.bsky.social•109 days ago

https://steveforthedeaf.wordpress.com/2021/10/21/blackstar-david-bowie/

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thewhiteribbit.bsky.social•108 days ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/oT207sYLCtQ?si=gR-JeI6T5ftltoQs

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thewhiteribbit.bsky.social•109 days ago

https://youtu.be/MOwqb3BylT0?si=Tq3RKLCObwBCb8Jb

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thewhiteribbit.bsky.social•109 days ago

https://youtu.be/na8xgu-KLAk?si=XKzYkq8P6uwaTYoB

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nocturnalbiking.bsky.social•109 days ago

Lemmy (Ace of Spades) , Michael Jackson (King of Pop), Aretha Franklin (Queen of Soul), Prince (music incarnate) , and David Bowie (The Thin Duke of Music) were the royal flush of music holding reality together.

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harrisdm.bsky.social•109 days ago

Still my favorite…

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niceandinnocent.bsky.social•109 days ago

Banger

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durowolff.bsky.social•109 days ago

A man that spoke his mind and never gave a flyin F how anyone felt about it...

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cabassa.bsky.social•109 days ago

TRUE! Also Blackstar is such a good album

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mintslice.bsky.social•109 days ago

Yep. 😢

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baxterheath.bsky.social•108 days ago

It does seem a little like Bowie was somehow holding reality together.

I guess the only way he could have been more of a hero if he actually was the watcher on the wall, he who binds our realm, the one who holds back the darkness 😢

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senseihollywood.bsky.social•109 days ago

Blackstar got me through a rough patch so I started recreating it as an act of tribute

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afittingrevenge.com•109 days ago

That record was off the chain 🖤

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arewedoneyet.bsky.social•108 days ago

And Prince 💜

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swenglishlady.bsky.social•108 days ago

Yes!

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oxoned.bsky.social•109 days ago

Ah, been looking for that one and can't find it. Probably for the best since I'll spend all my time weeping and gnashing my teeth. Gnashing is expensive in your 50's.

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sunraa.bsky.social•108 days ago

He did so many great song, but I was absolutely blown away by this.
It is live, it's almost acapella, just a few notes repeated like a calliope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afifZfUkU8I

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candide1984.bsky.social•107 days ago

One of a kind. The'll never be another.

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notjunecleaver.bsky.social•108 days ago

I heard this recently and could not stop listening to it and singing it in my head (and sometimes aloud to myself). It´s just so lovely and touching.

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linolenny.bsky.social•109 days ago

💙

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bodhi-love.bsky.social•109 days ago

Thank you for this post! I miss him so….

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•109 days ago

You’re welcome, I do too!

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swenglishlady.bsky.social•108 days ago

That’s certainly my theory.

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doomaflatchie.bsky.social•109 days ago

I was so happy when that album dropped. And then…

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dianesherlock.bsky.social•109 days ago

He (and a number of others) knew and got out before it all went to hell.

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lucilovecraft.bsky.social•109 days ago

His final masterpiece Black Star what a parting gift. RIP Bowie ⚡️💛
#BowieForever

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chrisjon.bsky.social•109 days ago

Amen, sister!

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blooms-ghost.bsky.social•108 days ago

And he ruined my birthday by dying on it.

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rroyh.bsky.social•108 days ago

Agree 🖤

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bentheboar.bsky.social•109 days ago

Blackstar was the first Bowie album I listened to, in the spring of 2k24 and I was amazed and touched
I found the vinyl in a popular cultural store in France but one of the points of the star was torn 🥲

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•109 days ago

How exciting for you to get to discover his music and listen for the first time!

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terifaarr.bsky.social•109 days ago

Nah, the world was a pile of steaming shit before Bowie passed away. He presence made it more tolerable.

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fed-up-then-stepup.bsky.social•109 days ago

It certainly has! He got out just in time, but i wish he was here!

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stnhng101.bsky.social•109 days ago

He recorded the albumknowning he was dying. One absolutely amazing artist who loved what he did.

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blairisbuffy.bsky.social•109 days ago

That album is so good too. I don’t know if I am ready for it yet today 😞

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i-am-marcus-ellis.bsky.social•108 days ago

What an incredible document of talent as one is leaving this mortal plain. What bravery & passion!

I was fortunate enough to catch Bowie on the “Sound & Vision” tour of ‘90. He had Adrian Belew on guitar and I was blown away. An experience of a lifetime. Sad that I wasn’t able to see him again.

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williammillennium.bsky.social•109 days ago

love this album

and the collabs with NYC musicians on it

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jondfreeman.bsky.social•109 days ago

Saw him live, right up front. He was so great I couldn't believe it was real

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•109 days ago

I saw the Glass Spider tour in 1987. I was almost 15 and it was the most amazing nights ever.

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winkenynod.bsky.social•109 days ago

Birthday JANUARY 8

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tcomms-nmj.bsky.social•108 days ago

Truth

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stevendedalus.bsky.social•109 days ago

I blame it on Radiohead haven’t released anything since May 2016.

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dmglampers.bsky.social•109 days ago

https://www.upworthy.com/a-viral-story-about-david-bowie-giving-a-boy-with-autism-his-invisible-mask-is-a-must-read

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daintist.bsky.social•109 days ago

I think about this a lot.

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4stringhollow.bsky.social•109 days ago

If you are in NYC, come to our Bowie show tomorrow (saturday jan 11) at 9PM at the Red Eye in NYC. West 41st Street!

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raywalden.bsky.social•109 days ago

The cause and effect are undeniable.

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barb-redgreen.bsky.social•109 days ago

I cried for one week straight when he went to the stars. I haven‘t been able to listen to his music since. It‘s ok, I hear it inside my head all the time, mostly the Diamond Dogs album.

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etrix.bsky.social•109 days ago

Exactly this. Forever.

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graxdon.bsky.social•109 days ago

Rest in Peace to the Goblin King

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happychappie.bsky.social•109 days ago

Blackstar is on of his top five albums imo. Maybe the best given the circumstances in which it was recorded. Hunky, Ziggy, Aladdin Sane and Low my other four. What a humble genius.

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sinatrajazz1962.bsky.social•108 days ago

Great choices - and there are so many great albums to choose from. Mine are Station to Station/Heroes/Black Star/Hunky Dory/Diamond Dogs. 🌟✨☄️

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•108 days ago

All excellent!!

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dhbrown808.bsky.social•109 days ago

My favorite Bowie song. Heroes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsYp9q3QNaQ

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bjts.bsky.social•108 days ago

Yup. Agreed.

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sinatrajazz1962.bsky.social•108 days ago

Black Star - he left us with his brilliant final music. Superb album. Bowie is greatly missed, like Lennon and Mercury.

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regenbeen.bsky.social•109 days ago

I hadn't made the connection, but now you mention it it's so obvious 🫡

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regenbeen.bsky.social•108 days ago

Brexit, Trump 1.0, Johnson, COVID, Truss, Climate Catastrophe, Trump 2.0...

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markjarmstrong.bsky.social•109 days ago

Bowie was all that was standing between us and the hell scape we live in now. RIP.

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miraleaps.bsky.social•109 days ago

Miss him all the time. And this final project was....so amazing!

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jintdev.bsky.social•109 days ago

Well, since then, like Bowie, I'm afraid of Americans more and more.

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junkzone.bsky.social•109 days ago

That's too broad of a net for a well adjusted person to feel comfortable casting IMO. If you're scared of people from a certain place, you're using the same logic a racist does whether you want to admit it or not. Adjust that a little bit maybe.

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jintdev.bsky.social•109 days ago

It is a comment on the rise of the oligarchy in my country and references this Bowie song https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Afraid_of_Americans

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junkzone.bsky.social•109 days ago

I mean.. I said what I said. It being a song doesn't really change anything, does it? The sentiment of the lyrics still hit ignorant and reductive. Unless it's supposed to be mocking those who have that viewpoint, but I'm guessing that's not the case, right?

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johnjclarke100.bsky.social•109 days ago

Agreed….Terrible year all round -lost Victoria Wood and Alan Rickman - disastrous
Brexit vote and Trump’s first victory……nothing’s gone right since.

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pblittneedscoffee.bsky.social•109 days ago

This hangs in my office.

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patriotboy2025.bsky.social•109 days ago

Wow. It's been 8 years already. Rock on David Bowie!

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jojo-bananas.bsky.social•109 days ago

You're right

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isitbedtimeyet.bsky.social•109 days ago

Lost my record player and most of my collection last year in a flood… hoping to get a new one and that glorious album to christen it 🖤

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•109 days ago

I want this for you too! 🖤

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mad-maxine.bsky.social•109 days ago

Amen.

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zerobore.bsky.social•109 days ago

I love Bowie's music and have respect for a lot of his later in life choices. I feel like Ren Gil (search 'Hi Ren' on YouTube) is a kind of spiritual successor. Genre non-conforming, music for the soul.

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dumbledoresprophet.bsky.social•109 days ago

So true

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tattewgirl.bsky.social•108 days ago

Watching Labyrinth with my kiddo in his honor tonight!!

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emilykwakmusic.bsky.social•109 days ago

And yesterday, a red panda at New Jersey's Cape May Zoo passed away. His name was also David Bowie.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcphiladelphia.com/critter-corner/red-panda-dies-cape-may-county-zoo-new-jersey/4073458/%3famp=1

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thesaanichdaily.bsky.social•109 days ago

Quite literally. I think we have found the inflection point.

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agoodcitizen.bsky.social•109 days ago

Amen

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wayseekerstation.bsky.social•109 days ago

The man who fell to earth had some serious mojo 🤩

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yuppers4now.bsky.social•109 days ago

I still have a hard time listening to Black Star just knowing he knew he was dying soon while composing that album.

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•109 days ago

There’s a documentary on Max called David Bowie The Last 5 Years and it’s heartbreaking. None of the musicians he worked with on Blackstar knew he was sick 🥹

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w1rral.bsky.social•109 days ago

He insisted on that because he wanted the true art to stand some and not have sympathetic yes-men agreeing with his ideas for the wrong reasons.

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crazylu.bsky.social•108 days ago

He did it for us, knowing we loved him and taking his last breath to tell us he loved us too.

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momaberlin.bsky.social•109 days ago

I listened once, after the release and didn't touch it ever since. It's just too much. ⚫

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graham62.bsky.social•109 days ago

Same

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winfamb.bsky.social•108 days ago

Exactly this.

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murderbot3.bsky.social•109 days ago

Same, but because of this post, Im going to put it on the platter today & give it a spin. David would want us to do that...

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•109 days ago

It’s very emotional for sure. I give it a listen about once a year, that’s all I can manage.

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yuppers4now.bsky.social•109 days ago

Yeah, and it's about that time of year. Hard time even listening to Changesonebowie. Not sure why its like that with him.

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shebert.bsky.social•109 days ago

He brought us out of our shells and offered misfit toys a safe space.His creativity inspired so many people. We were lucky to share the same place in time as he and Prince.

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momaberlin.bsky.social•109 days ago

I should give it another try. 🖤

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yuppers4now.bsky.social•109 days ago

Absolutely!!!

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weeirish.bsky.social•109 days ago

Blackstar makes me bawl😭 Sad world without Bowie.
A Red Panda named David Bowie at a NJ zoo passed last night🥹

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psmith857.bsky.social•109 days ago

Blackstar is an amazing gift to the world. Bowie lives on

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kesley90.bsky.social•109 days ago

Hello can we talk privately?

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toobanlad.bsky.social•109 days ago

So many greats died that year. Brexit, Trump...maybe they knew what was coming.

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petewhitty.bsky.social•108 days ago

Glass spider tour in Sydney is still one of the best concerts I have ever seen.

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•108 days ago

I saw it in Philadelphia!

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octavius-catto.bsky.social•108 days ago

I saw the Glass Spider tour in Hershey PA and East Rutherford NJ. But I really think the Serious Moonlight tour was better imo

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hiranr.bsky.social•108 days ago

The song Lazarus on that album is brilliant

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luckythetourist.bsky.social•109 days ago

Was David Bowie our Anchor Being?

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kemek.bsky.social•109 days ago

I'm not sure those two things are related

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funkconductor.bsky.social•109 days ago

i need this record

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•109 days ago

Yes you do. It sounds so amazing!

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lucysmom13.bsky.social•109 days ago

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anothermike100.bsky.social•109 days ago

Looking at the list of people who departed in 2016 I'm inclined to think that they knew this simulation was done and it was time to go somewhere else.

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/died-2016.php

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canhenha.bsky.social•109 days ago

Agreed. And love that album. And have it too.

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2goninwasteland.bsky.social•108 days ago

How can "We can be Heroes" not be the Dems song?

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jimftw.bsky.social•109 days ago

Enjoy this...I think it's spectacular...

https://youtu.be/w7HJZPlJn_U?si=d9uSYbb4BCESDTvm

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staceyhood.bsky.social•109 days ago

It really has

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nectar-vam77.bsky.social•109 days ago

He will always be the Goblin King to me

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steveforthedeaf.bsky.social•109 days ago

https://steveforthedeaf.wordpress.com/2021/08/13/the-glass-spider-david-bowie/

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whatyouneedtoknow.bsky.social•109 days ago

This where I highly recommend people watch the excellent film, The Man Who Sold The World, starring David Bowie

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forty-too.bsky.social•109 days ago

Do you mean, The man who fell to earth?

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whatyouneedtoknow.bsky.social•109 days ago

Yes. Thank you for the corrrection

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forty-too.bsky.social•109 days ago

They actually did a really great TV series a couple of years ago that continues the story. David Bowie’s character is in it, played by Bill Nighy. There is a lot of Bowie Easter eggs as well.

https://youtu.be/DBafeHPFJEM?si=_ir4RRZjMx3PsWha

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steveforthedeaf.bsky.social•109 days ago

https://steveforthedeaf.wordpress.com/2021/10/21/the-man-who-sold-the-world-david-bowie/

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contest-tyranny.bsky.social•108 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsYp9q3QNaQ

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boo123456.bsky.social•109 days ago

True

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hhm523.bsky.social•109 days ago

I agree wholeheartedly

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jkxz.bsky.social•109 days ago

He was 100% correct in being Afraid of Americans.

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zerocrossing.bsky.social•109 days ago

He died never telling us if he could or couldn’t help it.

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williammillennium.bsky.social•109 days ago

unreal that song was released 30 years ago.

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jkxz.bsky.social•109 days ago

Now go listen to DOGMA by KMFDM.

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heyyallfarm.bsky.social•109 days ago

I was afraid it would be like this the minute I heard the news

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andrewbrechin.bsky.social•109 days ago

Without a doubt, something did indeed happen on the day he died.

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shizaru.bsky.social•109 days ago

📸 snapped this at a tribute exhibition in London 🇬🇧 this fall.
🪦 🥀 🎶 “I’m happy, hope you’re happy too!” 🙇🏻‍♀️

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•109 days ago

How cool!

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victorfrompechanga.bsky.social•108 days ago

He passed on my birthday too. That sucked.

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themelwestbrook.bsky.social•109 days ago

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jamesreed.bsky.social•109 days ago

2016 was the year loads of special people died, I feel like their souls knew there was nothing worth hanging around for anymore, it really had been a steaming pile of shit since

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soupforthefamily.bsky.social•109 days ago

The pdf file? Pass. But I wouldn’t have to, I’m not a minor.

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steveforthedeaf.bsky.social•109 days ago

Tragically my LP of Blackstar has a torn sleeve from being slid back in clumsily. I’m so tempted to replace it.

But you can’t replace Bowie. The scars remain

https://steveforthedeaf.wordpress.com/2021/10/21/five-years-david-bowie/

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seasidelibrary.bsky.social•109 days ago

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delawarebob.bsky.social•109 days ago

He was a good human. Better than most, I think.

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wrendonovan.bsky.social•109 days ago

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sinatrajazz1962.bsky.social•108 days ago

And then, in 2016, The Dark One, DJTrump, was elected to Power...a hell-ride of evil manipulation of reality to darkness, by politicians and the media, ever since...

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senseidai.bsky.social•109 days ago

I honored him today by listening to his “Scary Monsters” album. 🎵🎶

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mt-dangler.bsky.social•109 days ago

Bowie and Prince were holding reality together

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mariablack.bsky.social•107 days ago

Truth

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andyclaughton.bsky.social•109 days ago

And Lemmy... ok maybe not Lemmy.

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marymcjane.bsky.social•109 days ago

Hi

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etrix.bsky.social•109 days ago

And George Michael.

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grace-x-luv.bsky.social•109 days ago

I bought it and I haven’t been able to listen to it. I was going through cancer treatments at the time 😭

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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social•109 days ago

I hope you’re doing well now!

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reverendlars.bsky.social•109 days ago

Well, another terrible thing happened in 2016 that is responsible for most of the piping hot shittiness. But yes, losing David certainly wasn't helpful.

Some comfort is readily available in the form of his incredible musical legacy. It's always with us.

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