David Bowie releases new single on his 66th birthday - Where Are We Now?

Youtube ^ | 01.08.13

[Perdogg]

Kind of weird video, but the song has a 70s retro sound.

[Joe 6-pack]

Yep. Debbie's voice remains as pristine as it was in her Blondie days.

Aimee Mann from 'Til Tuesday has also aged quite nicely. Pity she's such a flaming lib :-(

[radiohead]

Omg - Toni Basil will be 70??!

I’m a FB fan of Bowie’s and got to wish him a happy b’day. I consider him a genius of modern music.

It makes me sad to see pictures of people I think of as contemporaries and they are all bald and gray (while I am still cute). : ) I almost want to cry when I see Grace Slick. But, I guess time and tide...

[muir_redwoods]

For Grace I wasn’t just time and tide.there was a whole lot of solvents and alkaloids involved.

[a fool in paradise]

Senior Alert, apparently David Bowie does not know where he is. Could someone please help him home?

[a fool in paradise]

I tried to watch the video. Really, I did. I gave up half way through. Could’ve saved it with some monkeys, however...

Maybe they could dub that song over this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz7EGY-iHR8

[KGeorge]

I love David Bowie. His poetry *is* genius.
:shakes head: I’m not cute an-ymore. (lol At least I wear a caftan at the beach instead of a granny suit, though) I can still be elegant.

[KevinB]

Saw Patti Smith open for Neil Young a couple of weeks ago. Between her brain-dead liberal rants and hocking loogies on the stage it was kind of a turnoff.

[FatherofFive]

I gave up half way through.

I didn't like the video, but the music was classic Bowie. The video was very strange.

[FatherofFive]

I gave up half way through.

I didn't like the video, but the music was classic Bowie. The video was very strange.

[freedomlover]

Bowie has never been one for overdoing it on the video side . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcyuKUtgyZ8

[freedomlover]

I saw Karla Bonoff nine months ago in a 70 seat hall and she still has it. Carried a two hour set pretty much on her own. One of the cleanest pop voices I have ever heard.

[Partisan Gunslinger]

If I’m not mistaken, David Bowie once said Free Republic was on of the best sites on the internet. Around 2000,
I think.

[Hot Tabasco]

Had it not been for the video showing the words, nobody would have known what the hell he was saying........This was his first song in decades? Good thing he’s got his royalties to live on.........

[Dr. Sivana]

Loved this Bowie commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BasbwLRu_E4

[PUGACHEV]

Interesting lyrics, a lament for the empty past, filled with the dead, combined with the question "Where are we now?" It reminds me of The Word by the late Robert Creely. Here, click on this, and don't mind the goofy production, in fact, don't even look at the screen, but just listen to Creely's The Word. "I see our faces in old school pictures, where are we now?"

[warsaw44]

a lament for the empty past, filled with the dead, combined with the question “Where are we now?”

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Dead on, Pug. Such a mournful piece of music, terribly sad. Although only 66 Bowie sounds as if he is examining his life and saying goodbye.

I really can't put my finger on why his music never appealed to me. I recognize the man is a great talent but it never caught on with my musical interests. Which is odd as so many of my friends both past and present consider him one of their favorites.

I once worked with a group of baby boomers who would never listen to anything other than music produced in their youth. Music for its time was revolutionary and most of their parents generation frowned upon.

So how did they lose their interest in music? At what point did these so called open minded people just shut down their willingness to listen to new music. Their refusal to do so could be compared to their parents disdain for their children's generation of music.

it taught me a very valuable lesson about life and I have kept an open mind about every style of music I can find. Some new discoveries for me have been just wonderful - some require an aspirin or two but I'll always give it a chance.

[warsaw44]

PS thank you for the link to the Creely poem. Had not heard of him before. Haunting words.

[CowboyJay]

Sad song. Seems to jive with that disconnected feeling I notice more and more as age creeps in and wonder if time is passing me bye. Reminds me alot of a song called “Reflection” Prince put out a few years back.

I thought Bowie’s 70’s stuff was a little ‘out-there’ but thoroughly enjoyed the pop music he put out in the late 70’s into the 80’s. Still has a very listenable voice.

[dagoofyfoot]

Saw Patti Smith open for Neil Young


I saw that show years ago. I was asked if I wanted Neil Young, and had no idea that Patti Smith was the opener.

Can't understand why anyone would want to listen to her. Politics aside she was absolutely horrible as an entertainer. It couldn't end fast enough for me.

[FatherofFive]

I thought he did.. the man is 66. I thought he looked good for 66.. just my opinion.

That closeup in the video was strange and prompted my comment.