Moon’s David Bowie Webdream

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Mar 5

Heroes for Obama

Welcome to my Bowie blog. Hope you like it and visit more often!

Unlike a lot of rockers over the last fifty years or so, Bowie just doesn’t seem to go away. In fact, having been a Bowie fan since the early 70’s, I really can’t remember him being as popular as he is now. His stuff just seems to get more and more popular as time goes by. When Heroes was released in 1977, it didn’t do all that much in the charts. The album was panned as an inferior imitation of Low, which it really was. The song barely broke the top 100 and quickly faded. Thirty years later, it just seems to pop up everywhere. Today’s case in point, if you attended the Barack Obama rally featuring Arcade Fire, you would have been treated to this:

Now, that’s my idea of a political rally!

H/T to Goodnight to the rock and roll era.

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2 squawks so far

Cristin March 5th, 2008 3:17 pm

The whole Arcade Fire and David Bowie relationship is cool. But I still can’t get into them. Still stuck on David. I understand the Heroes to Low comparison but I still enjoy Heroes better… The Secret Life of Arabia is my jam-jam.
Moonage March 5th, 2008 3:27 pm

Same here with Arcade Fire. Good band, nothing great.

As far as Heroes to Low goes, I think a lot of it depends on perspective. When Low came out, the entire world wondered WTF he was thinking. It was just that bizarre at the time. It was panned so bad that everyone figured it was a shot in the dark. Then, he came out with Heroes, which was more of the same, only edgier. If you came across Bowie after the fact, then all you have to work with is comparing the songs on each album. Given Secret Life, Heroes, and for some, Beauty and the Beast, as compared to Be My Wife, Sound and Vision, or Breaking Glass, the pop songs are definitely more fun on Heroes. But the “alternativeness” of Warzawa, Neukoln, and Art Decade were absolutely mind-alerting at the time. I just don’t think entirity of Heroes matched that of Low and given Low was the first, it merited a special place.