Post by Jester on Sept 20, 2012 8:40:07 GMT -5
Hey, hi, welcome. Come in, sit down, make yourself at home.
This booth is to celebrate the One and Only, David Bowie. Have you heard I'm a fan? Well, I am. So much so that I wrote an entire series around him and his wonderful music.
Little bit of trivia for ya- David Bowie's real name is David Jones.
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Mind blown, right?
Anyways, here is a short Playlist which features songs which were hugely influential to VOID.
1. Five Years
Album: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Year: 1972
Significance: The idea that the earth had five years left to live steams from this song. Also, this entire album tells a conceptual story about a man Ziggy. "Ziggy was in a rock-and-roll band and the kids no longer want rock-and-roll. There's no electricity to play it. Ziggy's adviser tells him to collect news and sing it."
2. Starman
Album: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Year: 1972
Significance: "Ziggy is advised in a dream by the infinites to write the coming of a Starman, so he writes 'Starman', which is the first news of hope that the people have heard. So they latch onto it immediately...The starmen that he is talking about are called the infinites, and they are black-hole jumpers. Ziggy has been talking about this amazing spaceman who will be coming down to save the earth. They arrive somewhere in Greenwich Village. They don't have a care in the world and are of no possible use to us. They just happened to stumble into our universe by black hole jumping. "
I took this idea further. I made Ziggy one of them and I made the Infinates this universal omnipotent cleaning machine who wipe out lesser life and keep the flow of time in check etc.
3.Glass Spider
Album: Never Let Me Down
Year: 1987
Significance: 80's Bowie! Fuck yeah! This entire story, including it's opening monologue, featured in VOID. I took it a step further by making the Glass Spiders this creature created from the last musician named Jagger. He shed tears as he died and in these tears the Anomaly of the Glass Spider was born. It was of course, these Glass Spiders which lead to the defeat of the Homo Superior.
4. All the Mad Men
Album: The Man Who Sold the World
Year: 1970
Significance: The Mad Men played a huge role in VOID. In this song, Bowie sings about an asylum where he feels at home because everyone is as sane as he is. Fantastic and layered song with hints at Nietzschism (which can also be found a lot in VOID).
Zane zane zane, ouvrez le chien (open the dog).
5. Oh you Pretty Things
Album: Honky Dory
Year: 1971
Significance: This song was the genesis for the Homo Superior. Here, Bowie cheerfully sings about the end of mankind, "homo sapiens have out grown their use" and the rise of this beautiful new race, the Homo Superior. The juxtaposition of the upbeat song against such a disturbing meaning lead me to paint the Homo Superior as this erotic destructive creature rather than something of beauty. I still hear this song as a prophecy. A warning.
6. The Bewlay Brothers
Album: Hunky Dory
Year: 1971
Significance: My favourite Bowie song by far. It's a musical and lyrical masterpiece. Even Bowie doesn't fully understand it. There is a melencholy beauty to be found here. The lyrics are so vivid and filled with imagery. Every person will hear this song differently. I took my own deeply metaphorical ideas from this song and transposed them into VOID. Ziggy and his brother were the Bewlay Brothers. Ziggy also listened to this record in episode 5 which lead him to remember his history. This song is oddly biographical.
7. Cygnet Committee
Album: Space Oddity
Year: 1968
Significance: All of VOID lead to this moment in the finale where Ziggy screamed a song in the heavens all across the world. This. was. the. song. (Minus a few lines). Listen to it, here's it's urgency. It's pain. It's message. It's oh so Ziggy.
8. After All
Album: The Man Who Sold the World
Year: 1970
Significance: Just listen to it. It's beautiful. It was also was used for the final bit of Ziggy dialogue before his human body died. "Oh by Jingo..."
This booth is to celebrate the One and Only, David Bowie. Have you heard I'm a fan? Well, I am. So much so that I wrote an entire series around him and his wonderful music.
Little bit of trivia for ya- David Bowie's real name is David Jones.
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Mind blown, right?
Anyways, here is a short Playlist which features songs which were hugely influential to VOID.
VOID (the Playlist of Inconceivable Greatness)
1. Five Years
Album: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Year: 1972
Significance: The idea that the earth had five years left to live steams from this song. Also, this entire album tells a conceptual story about a man Ziggy. "Ziggy was in a rock-and-roll band and the kids no longer want rock-and-roll. There's no electricity to play it. Ziggy's adviser tells him to collect news and sing it."
2. Starman
Album: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Year: 1972
Significance: "Ziggy is advised in a dream by the infinites to write the coming of a Starman, so he writes 'Starman', which is the first news of hope that the people have heard. So they latch onto it immediately...The starmen that he is talking about are called the infinites, and they are black-hole jumpers. Ziggy has been talking about this amazing spaceman who will be coming down to save the earth. They arrive somewhere in Greenwich Village. They don't have a care in the world and are of no possible use to us. They just happened to stumble into our universe by black hole jumping. "
I took this idea further. I made Ziggy one of them and I made the Infinates this universal omnipotent cleaning machine who wipe out lesser life and keep the flow of time in check etc.
3.Glass Spider
Album: Never Let Me Down
Year: 1987
Significance: 80's Bowie! Fuck yeah! This entire story, including it's opening monologue, featured in VOID. I took it a step further by making the Glass Spiders this creature created from the last musician named Jagger. He shed tears as he died and in these tears the Anomaly of the Glass Spider was born. It was of course, these Glass Spiders which lead to the defeat of the Homo Superior.
4. All the Mad Men
Album: The Man Who Sold the World
Year: 1970
Significance: The Mad Men played a huge role in VOID. In this song, Bowie sings about an asylum where he feels at home because everyone is as sane as he is. Fantastic and layered song with hints at Nietzschism (which can also be found a lot in VOID).
Zane zane zane, ouvrez le chien (open the dog).
5. Oh you Pretty Things
Album: Honky Dory
Year: 1971
Significance: This song was the genesis for the Homo Superior. Here, Bowie cheerfully sings about the end of mankind, "homo sapiens have out grown their use" and the rise of this beautiful new race, the Homo Superior. The juxtaposition of the upbeat song against such a disturbing meaning lead me to paint the Homo Superior as this erotic destructive creature rather than something of beauty. I still hear this song as a prophecy. A warning.
6. The Bewlay Brothers
Album: Hunky Dory
Year: 1971
Significance: My favourite Bowie song by far. It's a musical and lyrical masterpiece. Even Bowie doesn't fully understand it. There is a melencholy beauty to be found here. The lyrics are so vivid and filled with imagery. Every person will hear this song differently. I took my own deeply metaphorical ideas from this song and transposed them into VOID. Ziggy and his brother were the Bewlay Brothers. Ziggy also listened to this record in episode 5 which lead him to remember his history. This song is oddly biographical.
7. Cygnet Committee
Album: Space Oddity
Year: 1968
Significance: All of VOID lead to this moment in the finale where Ziggy screamed a song in the heavens all across the world. This. was. the. song. (Minus a few lines). Listen to it, here's it's urgency. It's pain. It's message. It's oh so Ziggy.
8. After All
Album: The Man Who Sold the World
Year: 1970
Significance: Just listen to it. It's beautiful. It was also was used for the final bit of Ziggy dialogue before his human body died. "Oh by Jingo..."
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