Danish frontman of Efterklang, Casper Clausen released this a couple of months ago as the lead track for the album which came out this week called Better Way. One of the best so far this year.
It takes 3 minutes before the vocals start btw
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@Jimmyscase its encouraging to hear new music defeating the cheapness of what popular music has become, but do you get a sense of musak to it all, like even the more considered and arty pieces seem to blur into one also, like a melding of styles creating this infinite reverb to music that has gone before. But altogether, lacking courage and character, and mostly, without parable.
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Would have been 74 today. Happy Birthday David
They released a couple of Bowie covers of Dylan and Lennon tracks today.
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I disagree @Barnestormer. Two completely convincing and courageous albums I’ve heard this year that break new ground and are concept albums:
November 2020’s Origins of the alimonies by Liturgy (New York) an opera of post-classical mixed with black metal and a debut album released this week by LICE (a Bristol post-industrial prog band) titled Wasteland: What ails our people is clear
It’s not ‘about’ life in post-Brexit Britain directly but it is distinctly satirical.
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Thanks I’ll have a listen later and come back to you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C39kQoprfP0
Does this sensationalise and mystify drug use? Please ignore the huge cock.
Yeah and he makes it sound wonderful, isn’t it great 
. Nostradamus is similar to that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9nfVrusSMg
one of my fav dio songs this one
In a similar vein, I guess this is kind of a list of historical events - a hell of a performance by Jagger - John and Yoko in the audience so you would want to be at the top of your game.
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I think I’ll be taking bite-sized chunks out of this programming on Bowie over the next weeks.
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Meanwhile, I’m rediscovering my love for Bee Gees
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Bee Gees documentary was REALLY well done. They were legitimate hit makers, relevant across multiple decades. Being synonymous with the disco thing was kind of an accident. They wrote hits prior to and after that entire movement, they just knew how to write pop hits. I always liked this song from my youth:
And always a good one:
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I am also a Rolling Stones fan, but I have to say regarding Sympathy For The Devil in particular…it’s not often a remake of a song is better than the original, but in 1987 Perry Farrell and Jane’s Addiction took Sympathy For The Devil to an entirely different level. Absolutely stunning rendition:
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Thanks mate; I think my point was in relation to the past 10 years, a descending show of quality in music, is probably about right. Whilst these two pieces are brave and technically very good, they dont really address the barren middle of music, not to my ear anyway. They will probably fail the core test of being accessible to a mass audience. I appreciate you are a connoisseur of a wide array of styles…but I still think music is wide open to some real Q stepping in and taking the center ground. I think its a symptom of the times, of Warholian soup and hyperreality, where everything is cheapened. And I do see these pieces seeking to enrich that problem, but they are a little too avant garde inside their own genres. Though LICE could so something, easily more accessible and they may have to ‘come in’ a little if they want to achieve that.
Not the best start to Bowie week…but thanks and please do keep posting stuff like this 
I dont have any expectation you’ll agree!
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I was lucky enough to see Bowie live on two occasions - An absolute musical/cultural genius. It still cuts deep that he is gone.
My favourite Bowie Track - Sound and Vision
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One song taken from a fantastic Bowie tribute concert in Saint Denis Cathedral in Paris three years ago. I don’t think the whole thing is up on YouTube anymore, unfortunately.
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https://youtu.be/oYVlJxyWCO4
Another sad song.
Very straight take by a group called Death cab for cutie on a very sad singer’s struggles with death. Vic Chesnutt killed himself soon after this was first released.
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