Bowie died.

I absolutely love David Bowie (my band even started out as a Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars tribute band a decade ago) <3
I hope they circle back to that piece of concept art at some point in the future, like LFL frequently does.

I also like TRoS a bunch and would've loved to see "Ziggy" in that

The Outside album is one of my favorites (as my signature indicates), and it was the one db toured on the NIN tour. They also did some Low tracks, IIRC.

 

Yeah, the catalogue is huge!

It's hard to pick favorites, but if I had to, my top 5 would probably be:
STATIONTOSTATION
Blackstar
Diamond Dogs
Heathen
Hunky Dory

...but in truth, I love it all.

 

Yeah he did a good Breaking Glass at the show I went to but at the time I'd never even heard of Low but these days I love it. I think at the time my Bowie collection only consisted of the Ziggy Stardust album, Hunky Dory and a greatest hits and as a result I spent a lot of the show not knowing what I was listening to. And he did play I'm Deranged among other Outside songs at that show but I hadn't heard that album at the time either.

 

The reason he didn't do many hits on The Outside Tour because he was sort of in a battle for the rights of his back catalogue (i.e., he didn't feel like playing songs that earned money for people who owned his music), and because he had done a massive contractually obliged greatest hits tour (i.e. the Sound + Vision Tour) in 1990.

The selling point for the Sound + Vision Tour was that this would be the last time he played the old songs, but he went back on that promise once he won/bought back the rights to his music.

By the mid 90s, Bowie was intent on starting anew with new music to sustain his career, and it was a very creative period for him, but by the time of The Earthling Tour and his big 50th birthday party thing (1997), he was back to playing the old hits mixed with his newer stuff.

 

Man, this brings me back.

I feel like we lost so many great public figures in just a few month's window around this time in late 2015, early 2016. But Bowie's hit me the hardest.

I wasn't even all that big of a fan of his at the time, but Bowie dominated my playlists in 2016 after his passing.

And that July, we adopted a cat, naming her "Bowie" after him.

 

He died having just put out some of his best work, in my opinion. I like to think he felt so too. And that it gave him at least some sense of peace with the knowledge he was leaving.

 

Agreed. Blackstar is a monumental album! Hard to listen to because of the context of the album's release, but a fanastic one nonetheless.

<3