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Stands a solitary candle, ah-ah, ah-ah
In the centre of it all, in the centre of it all
Your eyes
On the day of execution, on the day of execution
Only women kneel and smile, ah-ah, ah-ah
At the centre of it all, at the centre of it all
Your eyes, your eyes
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
In the villa of Ormen, in the villa of Ormen
Stands a solitary candle, ah-ah, ah-ah
In the centre of it all, in the centre of it all
Your eyes
Ah-ah-ah
Something happened on the day he died
Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside
Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried
(I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar)
How many times does an angel fall?
How many people lie instead of talking tall?
He trod on sacred ground, he cried loud into the crowd
(I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar, I'm not a gangster)
I can't answer why (I'm a blackstar)
Just go with me (I'm not a filmstar)
I'm-a take you home (I'm a blackstar)
Take your passport and shoes (I'm not a popstar)
And your sedatives, boo (I'm a blackstar)
You're a flash in the pan (I'm not a marvel star)
I'm the great I am (I'm a blackstar)
I'm a blackstar, way up, oh honey, I've got game
I see right so white, so open-heart it's pain
I want eagles in my daydreams, diamonds in my eyes
(I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar)
Something happened on the day he died
Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside
Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried
(I'm a blackstar, I'm a star star, I'm a blackstar)
I can't answer why (I'm not a gangster)
But I can tell you how (I'm not a flam star)
We were born upside-down (I'm a star star)
Born the wrong way 'round (I'm not a white star)
(I'm a blackstar, I'm not a gangster
I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar
I'm not a pornstar, I'm not a wandering star
I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar)
In the villa of Ormen stands a solitary candle
Ah-ah, ah-ah
At the centre of it all, your eyes
On the day of execution, only women kneel and smile
Ah-ah, ah-ah
At the centre of it all, your eyes, your eyes
Ah-ah-ah
About to date myself here but I'd say this is very 'trippy'. Bowie, surprising us all to the very end.
3rd listen and I reckon that this song just rocks.
Not a fan of this song at all. Wish the epilogue to his life was less dire/grim. Sure it is one of his last and we're supposed to appreciate and revere his final works, but I hear this and turn it down or turn it off.
He was not a black star. He was a big f**ng bright, amazing star. Don't feel sorry for him. He had a really amazing life.
I guess one could examine this record for signs that he was writing about mortality, death, etc. Maybe he was writing about a character. Perhaps the blackstar is cancer?
A far cry from the joy of "Let's Dance" but he was a chameleon who covered a lot of ground. And certainly a big f**king star as you said.
Not a fan of this song at all. Wish the epilogue to his life was less dire/grim. Sure it is one of his last and we're supposed to appreciate and revere his final works, but I hear this and turn it down or turn it off.
He was not a black star. He was a big f**ng bright, amazing star. Don't feel sorry for him. He had a really amazing life.
I agree with you, this song I have to switch, it's honestly hideous :-(
He was not a black star. He was a big f**ng bright, amazing star. Don't feel sorry for him. He had a really amazing life.
I really like this entire album and feel it is entirely in keeping with his career . but yeah, awesome life.
He's dying.
Many see the lyrics of this album as Bowie exorcising his demons (Especially the Thin White Duke) and saying goodbye.
He's dying.
https://www.msn.com/en-za/video/news/exlusive-interview-laurie-anderson-opens-up-about-david-bowies-death/vi-BBp1ehl
He's dying.
He was not a black star. He was a big f**ng bright, amazing star. Don't feel sorry for him. He had a really amazing life.
But I find it more and more brilliant with every listen. It's a three-act monolith of a song. The blend from the second-theme back to reprise the opening is just exquisite. It holds up, without every losing the original strangeness. I love it.
Nicely put.
From a solid 6 to an 8 right now.
But I find it more and more brilliant with every listen. It's a three-act monolith of a song. The blend from the second-theme back to reprise the opening is just exquisite. It holds up, without ever losing the original strangeness. I love it.
It's a nice offshoot of the mostly forgotten "Black Tie White Noise." Very jazzy, very open. Well worth tracking down. It's one of the ones of his that were quite better than average. (Admit it, there were some below average.)
I totally agree with you Steely_D :) I adore Black Tie White Noise, right from the start, hot off the press. ... for what ever reason; Outside took me some years before the enjoyment happened... I see the cross overs between the three albums. I definitely love Blackstar
123KYup, and I do like it ... now!
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jules44 wrote:
Never did care for much of Bowie's repertoire but this is pretty awful....IMHO
Quite a few of them, I assure you.
And Bowie was decently played in rotation before his untimely demise 
The other thing is that when great artist dies many new fans are born that maybe don't truly appreciate his/hers work....
Sounds like it's ending. keeping my fingers crossed that it's really over
I like it !!!
Yes, as all of his music does. Even the 70s work sounds fresh today. Ziggy played guitar...
My cuppa!
I know what you're saying, but I guess I like it for all the reasons you don't.
Cheers, kingart!
I like it !!!
It's a nice offshoot of the mostly forgotten "Black Tie White Noise." Very jazzy, very open. Well worth tracking down. It's one of the ones of his that were quite better than average. (Admit it, there were some below average.)
Now my chest all pulls together and my nose gets stuffy and I'm about to start embarrassing myself.
Damn.
The bad is the chorus repeats more than I have the tolerence for and the song just isn't that interesting lyrically. Oh well.
Not that interesting, lyrically? Really?
You can bring me flowers when I am dead too.
The bad is the chorus repeats more than I have the tolerence for and the song just isn't that interesting lyrically. Oh well.
jules44 wrote:
Never did care for much of Bowie's repertoire but this is pretty awful....IMHO
Never did care for much of Bowie's repertoire but this is pretty awful....IMHO
Just doesn't seem fuckin fair....Love this, need to hear the full CD. Lennon died, and I was sick about it...Bowie's dying is just as affecting. The passing of a great genius from my era growing up....
My first listen, and I will wait to rate it. But I am not getting this either, yet.
Saw this video on a laptop as my first awareness of DB's passing, and as his last creative outpouring. It reminded me a little of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" video. Otherworldly, and likewise, too worldly... intentionally crude as well as ultra sophisticated. In your face, and in your mind. They both struck me as visually and musically, at the cutting edge of their time.
Madonna broke boundaries and Bowie pushed beyond those broken barriers in this, his final, grand opus video. I see it as replete with images of his own artistic imagery, hallucinatory, funky, sci-fi and forward-pressing. As the narrator of his own impending death, it is a remarkable parable of a soul in the throes of a deeply personal and intense inspiration. Unparalleled.
SK:
I get what you're saying, and I mean no offense in what I'm about to say but.....Madonna!?
My opinion? The only thing she represents, to me, is a decade of excess and gluttony popularly known as the 1990's.
No offense to you or the 90's, of course. And dont' think I'm being critical. I don't exclude meself from that era. I was there. I lived it. As an adult. And I still have some brain cells to recollect it all, too! Heh!
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Saw this video on a laptop as my first awareness of DB's passing, and as his last creative outpouring. It reminded me a little of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" video. Otherworldly, and likewise, too worldly... intentionally crude as well as ultra sophisticated. In your face, and in your mind. They both struck me as visually and musically, at the cutting edge of their time.
Madonna broke boundaries and Bowie pushed beyond those broken barriers in this, his final, grand opus video. I see it as replete with images of his own artistic imagery, hallucinatory, funky, sci-fi and forward-pressing. As the narrator of his own impending death, it is a remarkable parable of a soul in the throes of a deeply personal and intense inspiration. Unparalleled.
The only thing Madonna's ever broken was her husband's bank account.
To put Madonna in one league with Bowie is not only sacrilegious, it is utterly ignorant of Bowies work. Bowie was a Genius, Madonna is a no body who can't sing and has to show her boobs to be successful. All she ever did was sexually "shocking" people. My, what an achievement.
Bowie on the other side has reinvented himself musically again and again. Madonna changed her clothes. yeah big achievement. Geez.
Saw this video on a laptop as my first awareness of DB's passing, and as his last creative outpouring. It reminded me a little of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" video. Otherworldly, and likewise, too worldly... intentionally crude as well as ultra sophisticated. In your face, and in your mind. They both struck me as visually and musically, at the cutting edge of their time.
Madonna broke boundaries and Bowie pushed beyond those broken barriers in this, his final, grand opus video. I see it as replete with images of his own artistic imagery, hallucinatory, funky, sci-fi and forward-pressing. As the narrator of his own impending death, it is a remarkable parable of a soul in the throes of a deeply personal and intense inspiration. Unparalleled.
The only thing Madonna's ever broken was her husband's bank account.
Saw this video on a laptop as my first awareness of DB's passing, and as his last creative outpouring. It reminded me a little of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" video. Otherworldly, and likewise, too worldly... intentionally crude as well as ultra sophisticated. In your face, and in your mind. They both struck me as visually and musically, at the cutting edge of their time.
Madonna broke boundaries and Bowie pushed beyond those broken barriers in this, his final, grand opus video. I see it as replete with images of his own artistic imagery, hallucinatory, funky, sci-fi and forward-pressing. As the narrator of his own impending death, it is a remarkable parable of a soul in the throes of a deeply personal and intense inspiration. Unparalleled.
Bowie lived beyong the boundries Madonna wishes she came close to pushing.
I'm with you. I so want to, especially in light of his recent passing, but I just can't.
Saw this video on a laptop as my first awareness of DB's passing, and as his last creative outpouring. It reminded me a little of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" video. Otherworldly, and likewise, too worldly... intentionally crude as well as ultra sophisticated. In your face, and in your mind. They both struck me as visually and musically, at the cutting edge of their time.
Madonna broke boundaries and Bowie pushed beyond those broken barriers in this, his final, grand opus video. I see it as replete with images of his own artistic imagery, hallucinatory, funky, sci-fi and forward-pressing. As the narrator of his own impending death, it is a remarkable parable of a soul in the throes of a deeply personal and intense inspiration. Unparalleled.
yes, yes he did. i'm all teary now, too.
3rd listen and I reckon that this song just rocks.
A black star is created when matter compresses at a rate significantly less than the freefall velocity of a hypothetical particle falling to the center of its star, because quantum processes create vacuum polarization, which creates a form of degeneracy pressure, preventing spacetime (and the particles held within it) from occupying the same space at the same time. This vacuum energy is theoretically unlimited, and if built up quickly enough, will stop gravitational collapse from creating a singularity. This may entail an ever-decreasing rate of collapse, leading to an infinite collapse time, or asymptotically approaching a radius less than zero.
Thank you. I've been wanting someone to simplify this for me.
Bowie does sound singular here.
Whacky journey! Instant Godlike. ♥
A black star is created when matter compresses at a rate significantly less than the freefall velocity of a hypothetical particle falling to the center of its star, because quantum processes create vacuum polarization, which creates a form of degeneracy pressure, preventing spacetime (and the particles held within it) from occupying the same space at the same time. This vacuum energy is theoretically unlimited, and if built up quickly enough, will stop gravitational collapse from creating a singularity. This may entail an ever-decreasing rate of collapse, leading to an infinite collapse time, or asymptotically approaching a radius less than zero.
Bowie was ever out of this planet, he was an android that cames to teach us music.
Bon Voyage....
...and maybe a little 'width of a circle'?
Fitting. I will now only see it as such.
I vote yes
Oh, wow - never saw that until you mentioned it.
Man, this song is an amazing composition...I can't ever just listen to it without the visuals of the video running through my head. And I don't think it would've had near the haunting impact it does, had he not left it as a farewell.
Bon Voyage....
Well done BillG
Regarding the song, it's a natural extension of the things he was doing during the Black Tie White Noise period, which got overlooked. That's a great album if you want more like this.
thank you Bill!
