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Today: David Bowie released “Low” in 1977, 37 years ago

david-bowie-low The record company begged Bowie not to release Low, but it became a surprise hit and holds up today as one of his most intense and influential albums, inspiring two excellent Berlin trilogy sequels, Heroes (1977) and the insanely underrated Lodger (1979).
~Rob Sheffield (rollingstone.com)

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Following through with the avant-garde inclinations of Station to Station, yet explicitly breaking with David Bowie’s past, Low is a dense, challenging album that confirmed his place at rock’s cutting edge. Driven by dissonant synthesizers and electronics, Low is divided between brief, angular songs and atmospheric instrumentals.
~Stephen Thomas Erlewine (allmusic.com)

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Today: David Bowie is 67 Happy Birthday


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“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.”
– David Bowie

David Robert Jones (born 8 January 1947), known by his stage name David Bowie, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator. He is known for his distinctive voice as well as the intellectual depth and considerable eclecticism of his work.

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“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, “Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.” 
― David Bowie

Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in July 1969, when his song “Space Oddity” reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart. After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single “Starman” and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Bowie’s impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, “challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day” and “created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture.”

Ziggy Stardust:

The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona proved merely one facet of a career marked by continual reinvention, musical innovation and striking visual presentation.

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Best albums of 2013 number 25 to 16

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AS 2013 draws to a close, it’s time to look back on the last 12 months in music and as tradition goes, this involves the unveiling of our 25 Best Albums Of The Year – as always, it has been a struggle, we have fought and bled and finally agreed on the 25 best records of 2013.  There will be three posts, the excitement will be unbearable and the top 5 will be revealed in a couple of days..

What did we get wrong? What did we miss? Well, nothing of course, this is THE list.  No, just kidding, this is our view of the year in music, and as we have said many times before, we only write about the stuff we like and we can not reach everything.

Enjoy! …and use the comments to voice your opinions!

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25. Seven Doors Hotel – The Arcade

I need to know why you left
Was it the pills or just the loneliness
I miss your shaky voice
And I wanna know, where did you go
(Gone Again)

Lovely Norwegian country-rock.. close to “The Jayhawks” (Alexander Lindbäck was actually stand-in for The Jayhawks drummer Tim O´Reagan a short period in the summer of 2011). This is just a very catchy album, great music to be played loud in the car (and elsewhere). “Gone Again” is the album’s highlight for me, a song about the late artist “St. Thomas” (a close friend of Alexander Lindbäck). If you like vital & fresh Country-rock you need to check this one out!
-Egil

Highlights:
Egil: Gone Again, Dead Man’s Car, 225 Parsons Street
Hallgeir: Gone Again, Go With You, Dead Man’s Car

Gone Again (Official video):

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Best Albums of 2013 based on lists from 5 different Magazine’s

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 Check out:

The chosen magazine’s

  • Uncut
  • American Songwriter
  • MOJO
  • Rolling Stone
  • Paste

The Nomination process & rules

I enjoy Uncut & American Songwriter more than the other 3..thus

  • top 15 from Uncut & American Songwriter are nominated & top 10 from MOJO, Rolling Stone & Paste
  • albums rated lower than this are nominated only if they are present on any other list
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  • The score from Uncut & American Songwriter is multiplied by a factor of 1,5
  • No.1 gets 60 points, 2 – 58, …. 10 – 42, 11 – 40, 12 – 39….. & 50 gets 1 point.

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English “Best albums of 2013” lists (Uncut, MOJO & Q Magazine)

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We here @ JV love lists, and are always looking forward to the “end year lists” published by different magazines & websites.

Here are 3 English lists, my next post will be American end year lists, and in the final post I’ll pull it all together adding the numbers and land a “Critics list of 2013”.

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Uncut

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JV’s fav English music magazine (at least mine..)

UNCUT’s albums of the year 2013 
1. My Bloody Valentine – m b v
New You (Live at Hammerstein Ballroom):

2. David Bowie – The Next Day
3. Nick Cave – Push the Sky Away
4. John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
5. Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle

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